Garfield: His 9 Lives (1988 TV Movie)
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Quotes
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Garfield : I'd like to think I'll live forever, but hey, I'm only human. Here's a sneak preview of my ninth life.
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Garfield's Mom : [to the cook] No, you can't take him! He's too young.
Garfield : Aw, come on Mom, I'm a big boy; I'm five minutes old now. Besides, I'm getting tired of hanging around the house all the time.
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Garfield : In my seventh life, I was a laboratory animal. To this day, every time I see a test tube, I throw up.
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Garfield : My third life was my favorite. My body grew old, but I never, never, never grew up.
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Garfield : I learned to think on my feet in my fourth life. Thinking was all right, I guess, but now I avoid it whenever possible.
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Garfield : [as Cave Cat] Who Big Bob?
Caveman : Big Bob big! Big Bob bad! Big Bob go
[stomping]
Caveman : whoomp whoomp whoomp! *Fear* Big Bob!
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Garfield : [about Odie] That's not a dog! That's a tongue with eyeballs! Feet! It's as though I know Odie from a former life. A bad one.
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Garfield's Mother : Welcome to the world, little fella. I think I'll call you Garfield.
[Garfield emerges from the covers]
Garfield : I'm hungry. Where are we, Mom?
Garfield's Mother : In the kitchen of an Italian restaurant.
Garfield : Are Italians good to eat?
[crawls out of his box]
Garfield : Oomph!
Garfield's Mother : [chuckling] You have a lot to learn, Garfield.
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Garfield : Garfield the newborn kitten is getting ready to rub up against his first leg. On my mark, get set, rub up!
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Garfield : My survival sounds like a job for O. D. I. E., my Operations Data Index Element. It's the smartest machine in the galaxy.
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Garfield : 2,000 BC was a good year to be a cat in Egypt. We were revered, even worshipped. Ah, for the good ole days...
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Garfield : Six must be my lucky number, because that was the life when I fell in love with music. I also fell in love with the girl who played the piano just for me.
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Garfield : All that I ever was made me what I am in my eighth life. Somehow, it's fallen short of my expectations.
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Garfield : Giddy-up, you doggies! Time's wastin'!
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Garfield : Commander Mendelsen? Commander Mendelsen, are you there?
Mendelsen : You have three minutes.
Garfield : What happened to *four* minutes?
Mendelsen : Well, I uh...
Garfield : You *what*?
Mendelsen : I had to go to the little - boys' room.
Garfield : I have a surprise for you, Commander. Take this!
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Garfield : In my first life, I formulated many of my likes and dislikes. I disliked my rock bed. On the other hand, you wouldn't believe the size of the pterodon drumsticks.
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Garfield : The year is 1720. I'm the cat of the court musician to King George I. My owner's a fellow named George Frederich Handel. I sit around and watch Freddy write music for George's dinner parties. Freddy's putting the finishing touches on a fugue for a big bash tonight.
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Garfield : [gazing in amazement at a myriad of pasta dishes on the table] Pasta! Infinite mountains of pasta!
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Garfield : [after Handel's concerto performance] After that night, they never wrote any more music. Had I stuck with it, there would have been the recording contracts, the concerts, the agents, the managers, the roadies, the groupies, it sounded like a lot of work to me.
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Jon : [lamely] You called, master?
Garfield : Ain't life great?
Jon : I assume you would like to have lunch now.
Garfield : Yes, and I desire a picnic on the lawn.
Jon : You want what?
Garfield : [pointing to his lips] Read my lips, Jon, I wanna eat outside today.
Jon : [leaving] Very well, sir.
Garfield : It's hard to find good help.
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Garfield : [as the pyramid builders grovel before him] Did I ever tell you I love it when you grovel? Okay, okay, enough adoration. Back to work!
[cracks his whip as the builders rush back to building the pyramids]
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Garfield : Space. One thing to be said about space: sure is a lot of it out there. So what do you do with space? You can take part in grand intergalactic battles and encompass old solar systems. Or you can bravely forge new worlds of exploration by traveling through uncharted territory. Or you can get lost. Me? I'm lost. Finding out where the heck I am is still secondary, though. What I want to know is - why am I here?
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Garfield : [seeing a fleet of giant shark-like heads outside his spaceship] Uh-oh...
Mendelsen : Hey, you! Kitty cat!
Garfield : What? Who?
Mendelsen : I am Commander Mendelsen, leader of the Incredibly Huge Galactic War Fleet, the IHGWF for short. We do not like you being here! And to show you we mean business, we will atomize your craft in 5 minutes. Any questions? I said, any questions?
Garfield : Only answers, Mac. Here, take this!
[pushes a button to unleash a giant hand with detachable claws]
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Garfield : [after he and Junior are locked in the pyramid] All dressed up and no place to go, huh, Junior?
[chuckles briefly]
Garfield : What am I laughing about? I should be conserving oxygen. These crypts are airtight. I only have enough air to last about... let's see, this crypt is about 80 by 40, seems to be a 20 foot ceiling.
[hums as he does some calculations in his head]
Garfield : I'll run out of air in roughly 73 years.
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Garfield : [as Odie leads the other duplicate Odies to the line of Odie-looking drones] Okay Commander, brace yourself. This cat has a thing or two up his sleeve.
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Amenhotep III : [after Garfield saves his life] Hey. You shoved me!
Garfield : [gets up but is held back since he's ready to claw Junior] I'd like to do more than shove ya, I'd like to... ..
