Talk:Garfield
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An event mentioned in this article is a June 19 selected anniversary
I wonder if it's a bizarre coincidence or intentional....
The late Lorenzo Music not only performed the voice of Garfield the cat in the cartoon, but also of Peter on the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters.... the character who Bill Murray portrayed in the film Ghostbusters (and Ghostbusters II). Now, Bill Murray will be voicing Garfield in the live action movie... weird. --Dante Alighieri 08:23 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- I believe the answer is that Music was CHOSEN to be the voice of Bill Murray's character in the cartoon due to the similarity in their voices; and now, the reverse is true. 66.157.94.151 16:29, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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Interesting article about Garfield in Slate a little while back: Why we hate the Mouse but not the cartoon copycat (http://slate.msn.com/id/2102299/). Purports that Davis' success was due in part to his deliberate attempts to make a bland, inoffensive, marketable character. Too NPOV to really include, but interesting anyway. --Fastfission 01:36, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Maybe the blandness is POV, but a frank explanation of the committee set-up that creates it would be welcome. People will come to their own conclusion when they realize that Davis is a joyless miser, brooding in his cavernous mansion, grasping a glass of brandy with his thin, clawlike fingers, and a superior smirk on his greedy, soulless face... while some group of artists and writers churns out his cash-cow.
I remember a number of years ago I looked at some autobiography-styled anthology. He says point-blank that he wants it to be as inoffensive and as "global" as possible by avoiding any sort of cultural issues/editorializing, which, imho, makes it bland and boring. I remember that he showed one comic saying, basically "why can't we all get along", saying that was as political as he ever got.
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Does anyone know what strips Strech was in?
- Stretch? The rubber chicken? I just added that guy to the artical! Oh how I loved him...anyway, he appeared throughout the week of that fat cat's 7th b-day, and has made a few cameo appearences. --Wack'd About Wiki 00:32, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
And is anyone starting a Garfield's Pet Force entry?--Teh Bomb Sophist 08:32, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)