{"id":42535,"date":"2014-11-06T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42535"},"modified":"2024-02-03T10:23:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:23:34","slug":"garfield-holiday-collection-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/garfield-holiday-collection-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfield Holiday Collection (DVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For fans of Jim Davis\u2019 Lasagna loving feline, the \u201cGarfield Holiday Collection\u201d is now on DVD, bringing together group of some of the best holiday specials starring Garfield, Odie, and their owner Jon. I\u2019m not usually one to call boxed sets perfect these days, but hot damn is this compilation of Garfield TV specials perfect. I wish I\u2019d seen more of the Garfield Halloween Special when I was a kid but I don\u2019t remember it being on very often. That said, it\u2019s still a damn good special in which Jim Davis acknowledges he purposely tried to scared children.<\/p>\n

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Clocking in at two and a half hours combined, the \u201cGarfield Holiday Collection\u201d features the excellent \u201cA Garfield Christmas.\u201d I used to watch this every single year as a child on CBS here in America, and loved it. For a while it was paired with \u201cMickey\u2019s A Christmas Carol\u201d and then aired on its own night eventually. In it, Garfield has to celebrate his least favorite holiday: Christmas. Jon, though, is ecstatic to go back home to his old farm and bicker with his dad and brother. As the family engage in their typical battles, Odie looks for the perfect gift for Garfield, and Garfield finds a friend in the Arbuckle\u2019s grandmother, an often grumpy woman who feels excluded from festivities. When Garfield gives her a stack of old letters from the attic, we find out why she\u2019s so sour.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shockingly heartbreaking moment in a fantastic special. \u201cA Garfield Thanksgiving\u201d finds Garfield having to go on a diet as his favorite food related holiday, Thanksgiving approaches. Meanwhile, Jon asks his favorite veterinarian out for a date, and disaster strikes as Garfield tries to fight his hunger. \u201cGarfield Halloween Adventure\u201d sees Garfield celebrating his favorite holiday (and mine): Halloween. Preparing to trick or treat, he and Odie go out for the night and come across a spooky mansion, a creepy old storyteller, and ghost pirates! \u201cGarfield on the Town\u201d sees Garfield finding his actual family, when he escapes Jon\u2019s car during a trip to the vet.<\/p>\n

He meets his birth mother and extended family and decides to stay with them, but is surprised when his mother insists he go back home. It\u2019s a touching and sweet special perfect for Mother\u2019s Day. \u201cGarfield in Paradise\u201d sees Jon and Garfield on a trip to Hawaii that turns disastrous when Jon\u2019s attempts for discounts lead the pair in to a horrible motel, zero fun, and a run in with a tribe of Hawaiian natives obsessed with the 1950\u2019s who are convinced Jon and Garfield are meant to save the village by sacrificing themselves. It\u2019s one of the weaker specials from the Garfield library, but still and solid finisher for the compilation.<\/p>\n

Among the DVD Extras, there\u2019s \u201cThe House That Garfield Built\u201d is a twenty minute tour of Jim Davis\u2019 studio and home, as well as a look at the Garfield Legacy. He also discusses the character while teaching us how to draw him. Finally, there\u2019s an Image Gallery of old Jim Davis works, and pictures of him working on the comic.<\/p>\n

Available on DVD on November 4th<\/sup> and iTunes on November 11th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For fans of Jim Davis\u2019 Lasagna loving feline, the \u201cGarfield Holiday Collection\u201d is now on DVD, bringing together group of some of the best holiday specials starring Garfield, Odie, and their owner Jon. I\u2019m not usually one to call boxed sets perfect these days, but hot damn is this compilation of Garfield TV specials perfect. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,99,219,392,441,1130],"class_list":["post-42535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","tag-adaptation","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-garfield","tag-halloween","tag-tv-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42537,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42535\/revisions\/42537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}