Garfield the cat daydreams that he's an old-time private detective.Garfield the cat daydreams that he's an old-time private detective.Garfield the cat daydreams that he's an old-time private detective.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win total
- Garfield
- (voice)
- Odie
- (voice)
- …
- Tanya
- (voice)
- Kitty
- (voice)
- Professor O'Felix
- (voice)
- (as Lindsay Workman)
- Lt. Washington
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn Spayed's office is a picture of a criminal wanted "Dead or Alive". It's the picture of Jon Arbuckle, Garfield's owner.
- Quotes
Garfield: [voiceover] My first stop was the city morgue. As I walked up the stairs I saw my old adversary at the top of the steps. It was Lt. Washington.
Lt. Washington: Shpayed, what brings you down here? Trying to find a client?
Garfield: Sure, lieutenant. He's the one your blue-boys shot out back for jaywalking.
Lt. Washington: Watch it, Shpayed. I've still got your license under investigation.
Garfield: Oh, really? Then I know its safe for a while.
Lt. Washington: Shpayed, don't push me!
Garfield: Wouldn't dream of it, lieutenant. Have a nishe day.
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An obsession with coffee is a running gag in this endearing, likeable Garfield adventure. Smartly written by Garfield creator Jim Davis (based on a story by Ron Tuthill), it's savvy enough to pay respectful tribute to the entire film noir / private eye genre, while also lightly parodying it. To that end, the special is mostly shot in black & white. While Garfield-as-Sam-Spayed has a typical good sense of humour, he does take his job seriously, and he is determined to have a motive and a suspect before too much time has passed.
Odie appears briefly, as a "man from maintenance", but he has a hysterical reaction to a flood of tears from one of the women. Jon only turns up at the end, to help set up the final gag. But the audience won't mind that much, as this is a good, entertaining story with some funny lines, and it's an inspired idea to have Garfield adopt a different sort of persona. Lorenzo Music is a delight as always as the voice of our heroic feline, with both Gregg Berger (voice of Odie) and Thom Huge (voice of Jon) getting to do double duty by also voicing the coroner and a thug, respectively.
The design of the supporting characters is right on the money; they all look like perfect animated representations of the kinds of characters we see in countless live-action versions of such material.
Solid entertainment in general.
Seven out of 10.
- Hey_Sweden
- Mar 20, 2021
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- Also known as
- Garfield és barátai: Garfield, a privát kopó
- Production companies
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- Runtime24 minutes
- Color