Garfield plays multiple roles including ancient Egyptian royalty, a fairyland kitten, a movie 'stunt cat" and more! This one-hour-long television adaptation features ten separate segments, just like the book upon which it's based. Six of these were adapted from the book, and an additional four were newly written for the show. "Babes and Bullets" was adapted into a television special of its own, "Garfield's Babes and Bullets," the following year, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program of 1989. "The Vikings", the "Exterminators," and "Primal Self" have never been adapted for television.
Binky has been brought to court on the charges of grand theft and robbery! Garfield decides to prove his innocence. He discovers there was a man who really hated Binky, and that he had disguised himself as Binky to get Binky in trouble. Garfield brings Binky's evil twin into court, but will he be able to prove which is the real Binky?
Garfield is anxious to see ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", but the TV is broken. Jon can't find Odie anywhere and tells Garfield to read Sherlock Holmes so his imagination can create the pictures. Garfield dozes off and finds himself playing Watson in a dream sequence entitled ""The Hound of the Arbuckles"".
Garfield and his owner, Jon Arbuckle, are in a rut. Life for them is a complete bore. They both need a life. Jon tries several unsuccessful times to get a date. Then he attends a class for the personality impaired where he meets a young woman and all seems to be great for Jon, but Garfield starts to feel neglected and left out.
Garfield, Jon, and Odie travel to an out-of-the-way Italian restaurant which serves, in Garfield's recollection, the best Italian food he has ever eaten. He also finds that a large chain of pizzerias, Papa Plastique, whose food is so bad even Garfield wouldn't eat them, wants to buy Mama Manicotti's recipes.
The local museum has just acquired an actual saber-toothed tiger for their new exibit. The tiger, not wanting to be caged up, devises a plan of escape. He takes tusks from another exibit and some industrial-strength adhesive and glues them into Garfield's mouth. Now the museum curators are after Garfield while the saber-toothed tiger is lounging in Garfield's house! Jon and Odie notice the difference, and call the police and the zoo to help rid them of the menace, but the tiger won't come out. Can Garfield catch the prehistoric predator and get his normal life back?
In a parody of Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours", Jon forces Garfield to go on yet another diet. Going without breakfast, Garfield tries to get Odie's bone. When that fails, Garfield decides the best way to get food is to appeal to Ann McPherson, the chairwoman of "a group that makes sure pets are not mistreated."
The ants from season 5's ""The Picnic Panic"" return in this episode, which reprises the musical theme from that show. This time, the ants leave the forest and come to the Arbuckle house, announcing that they're taking over (and taking all the food, of course).
Garfield creator Jim Davis presents a behind-the-scenes 10th-anniversary celebration of the pasta-eating cat.
Follow Garfield behind the scenes in Cartoon World where he grows bored with his life as a comic strip star.
Welcome to FunFest ? the annual talent competition for the funniest comic strip in Cartoon World. As you can probably guess, a certain lasagna-loving, tubby tabby wins it every year. So why should this year be any different? Well, there?s a new contender, that?s why.
When Vetvix comes to Comic Strip World to go after Garzooka. Garzooka enlists Garfield, Nermal, Arlene, and Odie to help him stop Vetvix by becoming the Pet Force. However, Garfield would rather eat and sleep than help save the world. When Vetvix starts threatening Garfield's world, Garfield realizes what's really at stake. Will Garfield stop being lazy and help the Pet Force, and save the world?