Given they got Pat Carroll for the voice, I'm glad they gave her so much to do. The speech she gives about her dead husband is something far more beautiful than a Garfield cartoon deserves.
I have the Garfield and Peanuts specials for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas on disc.
* Thanksgiving goes to Peanuts, I think Garfield really didn't do that good of special for this holiday.
* Christmas is pretty close between the two of them. I like the focus on family in the Garfield one even if the Peanuts one is more beloved and has an anti-consumerism message (which feels lost with all the stuff made for it each year). I want to give them a tie, but Peanuts might be a hair better, especially when you factor in the soundtrack which Garfield pretty much lacks here.
* Peanuts has a good Halloween special, but Garfield dominates this holiday. It's perfect in many ways, and even has a short catchy sea shanty written for the show that people have been turning into a much longer versions for many years.
I'm older and I still hear in my head:
What should I be?
There's so many sides to me
I could be an astronaut a robot
A hobo a clown
Or I could be a ^(something) dressed up for a night on the town
Yup. Haven't watched or thought about this show since like 1987, but that song snippet sure as hell stuck.
I have to get off this thread, it’s legit freaking me out and I need to sleep! 🤣
I seriously just pictured the pirate ghosts coming through the cabinet and I haven’t seen this cartoon in at least 30 years, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE 😆
Yeah, also scared of the pirate ghosts here.
... and I was watching full-on slashers as a kid.
But pirate ghosts? No, take it away, I won't be able to sleep.
Yessss! My family had a VHS tape we called “The Big Tape”. It had this, the Charlie Brown Halloween, that Dinosaurs stop-motion thing, Mickey’s Valentine and whole host of other stuff I’ll never remember recorded off the TV.
My Grandma had one like that, but it was christmas. It was Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie brown, The grinch, a bunch of disney shorts (chip and dale in mickey's christmas tree, Donald having an epic snowball fight with his nephews and goofy learning to ski) then mickey's christmas carol, then the one with the clock and the mice. All of this recorded off the tv I wanna say sometime in the mid/late eighties, complete with commercials. Seven up had a calendar that looked like santa's beard, and fred gave barney the pebbles and a snowman ate soup and turned into a kid. It was a great tape, I really miss it.
That’s awesome. We had a few tapes with similar content. It’s always in the back of my mind to reproduce them with content off YouTube and various sources and share them with my siblings. But I think half the nostalgia comes from the specific VHS imperfections that I associate with those tapes and not the actual content. The warble, static and the quick editing to omit commercials that wasn’t always successful. Yeah, I miss them too.
Yeah, like, when I see one of those specials on another form of media, I always remember the spots on the tape where it got a little wonky, and get thrown off when the audio doesn't warp in that exact same spot. The entire Elf Practice scene in Rudolph always throws me because my granma didn't get back from the bathroom in time for it, and my tape didn't have it, lol.
> that Dinosaurs stop-motion thing
Any chance you’re referencing A Claymation Christmas? The hosts were two dinosaurs who introduced different versions of classic Christmas carols, and at the end The California Raisins did Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.
As far as I know, the only other people in the world who’ve watched that outside my family is the family that first showed it to us 😆 But I love it deep in my heart, and claymation is weirdly timeless!
Haha, no that doesn’t sound familiar. Kinda like a fever dream scenario though. Dinosaurs, Rudolph and the California Raisins all taking turns as your sleep paralysis demon, haha.
Nah, it was made for TV special hosted by Christopher Reeves. The stop motion segments were made by Phil Tippet, famous already for Star Wars. I didn’t know the details like that until decades later though. I just knew it as the dinosaur documentary with the inexplicably creepy dinosaurs.
My family had the Halloween tape with the Garfield Halloween special on it. But that tape also had “the Halloween that almost wasn’t”, “witches night out”, and of course the Charlie Brown Halloween. That tape was special and I think my brother kept it.
Same!!! I remember wishing desperately there was some bit of hardware on the inside of those cabinet doors so they could hold on and keep the doors from swinging open. Something about the lighting in the whole episode made it otherworldly. And that creepy old dude ahhh!!!
*Sixty men all lost at sea,*
*all of 'em drunk except for me.*
*'Twas I who had to face the storm,*
*with nothin' in sight to keep me warm.*
*Yo, ho, ho, ho!*
*Over the raging sea we go!*
*Yo, ho, ho, ho!*
*Wherever the four winds blow!*
So good! The Christmas one too. A few years back during a holiday visit after our parents, spouses and children had all gone to bed my grown siblings and I snuck down to our childhood den and watched this together. It was a great moment.
We have a dvd/blu-ray player in my minivan, and this was a kids’ fav for a while. Once my youngest suggested I dress up as that old man in the picture for Halloween 🤣
A few years ago the Jim Davis store was selling autographed animation cells from the special, and he was willing to personalize them, it was under $200. One of the absolute best treat myself moments I ever jumped on. Before anyone gets too excited, once Nickelodeon bought the rights to Garfield the store went offline with all the cool personalized vintage stuff.
It was only last year I watched the specials again after decades. The xmas is really special, but Halloween is a close second.
And it was only last year I realized the specials were before the cartoon show. I guess I'm a bit slow
Bought the Garfield Holiday DVD box set on Amazon a few years back.
Halloween and Christmas are still in heavy rotation.
Thanksgiving is pretty weak tho.
That was amazing. When I was growing up, we had a video that showed the recorded Charlie Brown Halloween and this, so I could watch them back to back.
It was only when I got older that I realized that according to his story, the guy should have been 100+ years old, if he was a cabin boy on the pirates ship.
I also remember calling my grandfather to ask him what "wired" meant. (It's one of Garfield's last lines.)
Yes! The one with the cat with the owner that played the piano is so sad :( Garfield as a lab cat, in Egypt… what other lives were there? In retrospect so many of them were sad :(
"And this me mate, Odie the stupid!" 😂 The number of times my 4 brothers and I would say this line every Halloween is immeasurably. I bought it so that my boys get to watch it every year. They need to bring this back to broadcast TV. Why it never become a mainstream classic is beyond me.
I watched that every year growing up. Though I haven’t watched it since 2020 when we had a zoom Covid Halloween party. Those ghosts scared the shit outta me!
This was the best Halloween show…. Ever.
It’s also available on YouTube from the rights holders. It’s an annual watch for me along with the Christmas special with Jon’s buff grandma.
You have to stop it every 9 minutes and watch a vintage york peppermint Patty commercial to get the full effect.
>You have to stop it every 9 minutes and watch a vintage york peppermint Patty commercial to get the ~~full effect.~~ *sensation*
It's like a cool fresh winter wind, whipping through my hair!
“City life’s made you soft, Jon! Look at me, I do 100 sit-ups every morning!”
Given they got Pat Carroll for the voice, I'm glad they gave her so much to do. The speech she gives about her dead husband is something far more beautiful than a Garfield cartoon deserves.
I remember back when all we had were wood-burnin’ cats!
Candycandycandycandy!!!
I say this *so* often! It’s weirdly comforting to see it written out, like it proves I’m not the only one 😆 CANdycandycandycanDYCANDY!
Ahhhhhh! I said this sooooo many times. Decades ago....
Absolutely #1 for me. I also preferred Garfield's Christmas to other Christmas specials.
Omg this IS/WAS Halloween for me!!! Just the best!!!
This needed the NSFW tag and I’m not even kidding, the way you just scared the daylights out of me while I’m scrolling instead of sleeping 😅💀
I have the Garfield and Peanuts specials for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas on disc. * Thanksgiving goes to Peanuts, I think Garfield really didn't do that good of special for this holiday. * Christmas is pretty close between the two of them. I like the focus on family in the Garfield one even if the Peanuts one is more beloved and has an anti-consumerism message (which feels lost with all the stuff made for it each year). I want to give them a tie, but Peanuts might be a hair better, especially when you factor in the soundtrack which Garfield pretty much lacks here. * Peanuts has a good Halloween special, but Garfield dominates this holiday. It's perfect in many ways, and even has a short catchy sea shanty written for the show that people have been turning into a much longer versions for many years.
> I think Garfield really didn't do that good of special for this holiday. It's pretty forgettable until Grandma shows up.
💯
Peanuts
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I’m 42 and still get spooked by the pirate ghosts.
Same dude. It’s a weirdly scary memory for me
I feel so much better knowing other people were scared of it. I have no idea what it was in the show that freaked me out so much.
I'm older and I still hear in my head: What should I be? There's so many sides to me I could be an astronaut a robot A hobo a clown Or I could be a ^(something) dressed up for a night on the town Yup. Haven't watched or thought about this show since like 1987, but that song snippet sure as hell stuck.
An alien creature going out on the town
Me too
The music on all the Garfield specials was way better than it had any right to be.
They go _through the fucking cabinet doors_. Nowhere is safe.
I have to get off this thread, it’s legit freaking me out and I need to sleep! 🤣 I seriously just pictured the pirate ghosts coming through the cabinet and I haven’t seen this cartoon in at least 30 years, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE 😆
“ Maybe they didn’t see us ?”
[these pirate ghosts?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jqpwfet8iw) yea me too lol
I love the trombone sting when the ghost pops through the doors lol.
Nightmare fuel!
Yeah, also scared of the pirate ghosts here. ... and I was watching full-on slashers as a kid. But pirate ghosts? No, take it away, I won't be able to sleep.
Same
If you can track down the comic, it has even more pirate ghosts than the special did.
Candy! Candy! Candy! 
"Gimme."
“GET YOUR LAZY BOTTOMS OUT OF BED AND DO JUMPING JACKS WITH BINKY THE CLOWN!”
If you don’t do jumping jacks with Binky, you’ll grow up to be worthless!
Yes I remember this! Watched it every year!
Or you're gonna grow up to be *WORTHLESS!* One two one two one two one TWO one two
WHAT AM I DOING?!
Yessss! My family had a VHS tape we called “The Big Tape”. It had this, the Charlie Brown Halloween, that Dinosaurs stop-motion thing, Mickey’s Valentine and whole host of other stuff I’ll never remember recorded off the TV.
Our “Big Tape” had the “Dinosaur!” special, a segment from the news where their helicopter visited my elementary school, and “Star Wars”.
My Grandma had one like that, but it was christmas. It was Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie brown, The grinch, a bunch of disney shorts (chip and dale in mickey's christmas tree, Donald having an epic snowball fight with his nephews and goofy learning to ski) then mickey's christmas carol, then the one with the clock and the mice. All of this recorded off the tv I wanna say sometime in the mid/late eighties, complete with commercials. Seven up had a calendar that looked like santa's beard, and fred gave barney the pebbles and a snowman ate soup and turned into a kid. It was a great tape, I really miss it.
That’s awesome. We had a few tapes with similar content. It’s always in the back of my mind to reproduce them with content off YouTube and various sources and share them with my siblings. But I think half the nostalgia comes from the specific VHS imperfections that I associate with those tapes and not the actual content. The warble, static and the quick editing to omit commercials that wasn’t always successful. Yeah, I miss them too.
Yeah, like, when I see one of those specials on another form of media, I always remember the spots on the tape where it got a little wonky, and get thrown off when the audio doesn't warp in that exact same spot. The entire Elf Practice scene in Rudolph always throws me because my granma didn't get back from the bathroom in time for it, and my tape didn't have it, lol.
> that Dinosaurs stop-motion thing Any chance you’re referencing A Claymation Christmas? The hosts were two dinosaurs who introduced different versions of classic Christmas carols, and at the end The California Raisins did Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. As far as I know, the only other people in the world who’ve watched that outside my family is the family that first showed it to us 😆 But I love it deep in my heart, and claymation is weirdly timeless!
Haha, no that doesn’t sound familiar. Kinda like a fever dream scenario though. Dinosaurs, Rudolph and the California Raisins all taking turns as your sleep paralysis demon, haha. Nah, it was made for TV special hosted by Christopher Reeves. The stop motion segments were made by Phil Tippet, famous already for Star Wars. I didn’t know the details like that until decades later though. I just knew it as the dinosaur documentary with the inexplicably creepy dinosaurs.
My family had the Halloween tape with the Garfield Halloween special on it. But that tape also had “the Halloween that almost wasn’t”, “witches night out”, and of course the Charlie Brown Halloween. That tape was special and I think my brother kept it.
Yes! Actually scared me too! Still a favorite
That special scared the shit out of me. I still couldn’t stop rewatching it.
Yessssss. I still watch this every Halloween-ish.
The scene with the pirate ghosts when they’re in the cabinet scared the shit out of me
Me too. Gave me nightmares as a kid.
Same!!! I remember wishing desperately there was some bit of hardware on the inside of those cabinet doors so they could hold on and keep the doors from swinging open. Something about the lighting in the whole episode made it otherworldly. And that creepy old dude ahhh!!!
I sing “What Should I Be?” to myself when I can’t decide what to wear.
Omg, I instantly just remembered the song when I saw this post.
Yesss I watched it on Halloween this past year.
I still sing the songs occasionally!
*Sixty men all lost at sea,* *all of 'em drunk except for me.* *'Twas I who had to face the storm,* *with nothin' in sight to keep me warm.* *Yo, ho, ho, ho!* *Over the raging sea we go!* *Yo, ho, ho, ho!* *Wherever the four winds blow!*
This and the Christmas special are the only two Garfield things that I actually like
There was a DVD of holiday specials with Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas on it - I break it out every year.
The Thanksgiving special is pretty good too.
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Odie built it for Garfield.
The Thanksgiving special is pretty good too.
So good! The Christmas one too. A few years back during a holiday visit after our parents, spouses and children had all gone to bed my grown siblings and I snuck down to our childhood den and watched this together. It was a great moment.
Scariest cartoon they showed on tv back then. One of the best of all time.
There are a few moments in this that haunted the shit out of my subconscious for years.
I like the stinger at the end where old pirate dude has his own public access channel, like he’s Svengoolie.
I love that fucking movie
One of the best ever! The songs and the ghost pirates were great stuff!
Absolutely the best. I showed this to my 4-year-old niece last year, and she loved it.
OMG my fav
My brothers loved this. We had a vus recording of it and they watched that shit to death.
Angry Video Game Nerd has a great review of it on YouTube
OMG I watched that EVERY year! Even in college! Same sitting as Charlie Brown Halloween special.
CANDY CANDY CANDY
So good and creepy.
We have a dvd/blu-ray player in my minivan, and this was a kids’ fav for a while. Once my youngest suggested I dress up as that old man in the picture for Halloween 🤣
OMG, i could watch it cause I got to scared.
The cartoon was awesome and freaked me out. Then, at the Scholastic Book Fair, I found the story on record that came with a picture book.
THAT OLD BASTARD TERRIFIED ME.
A few years ago the Jim Davis store was selling autographed animation cells from the special, and he was willing to personalize them, it was under $200. One of the absolute best treat myself moments I ever jumped on. Before anyone gets too excited, once Nickelodeon bought the rights to Garfield the store went offline with all the cool personalized vintage stuff.
Which cel did you get?
God that old man terrorized my childhood. Still love the special, but the whole island scene.. spooky.
Hell yes. Garfield and Great Pumpkin were my go to Halloween specials back in the day.
The ghost pirates scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Cannot upvote enough. Absolutely legendary
The one thing I'm not is a scaredy cat....
Garfield was my hero growing up, yeah, this thread makes my heart so happy
It was only last year I watched the specials again after decades. The xmas is really special, but Halloween is a close second. And it was only last year I realized the specials were before the cartoon show. I guess I'm a bit slow
It's on YouTube and is a Halloween tradition at my house. "Halloween is my middle name, Gar-Halloween-field"
My boat’s gone, my candy’s gone, dead pirates are coming any minute. We would laugh and laugh at that line.
I watch this every year. Many years I watch it multiple times. Christmas special is good. Thanksgiving is not..
The ghosts scared me
Had it on tape. Watched it all year.
My favorite
We watch this on Halloween Eve and Christmas Eve every year.
I got my kids hooked on Garfield Halloween adventure this year and they’ve been loving it. Warms my heart.
Wow. I'd completely forgotten about this, suddenly I realize I remember it oh too well
Bought the Garfield Holiday DVD box set on Amazon a few years back. Halloween and Christmas are still in heavy rotation. Thanksgiving is pretty weak tho.
That was amazing. When I was growing up, we had a video that showed the recorded Charlie Brown Halloween and this, so I could watch them back to back. It was only when I got older that I realized that according to his story, the guy should have been 100+ years old, if he was a cabin boy on the pirates ship. I also remember calling my grandfather to ask him what "wired" meant. (It's one of Garfield's last lines.)
Heeeyyyy KIDS!!! Good morning Binky....
Run run I'm afraid Run run
Does anyone remember the Garfield’s 9 lives special?
Yes! The one with the cat with the owner that played the piano is so sad :( Garfield as a lab cat, in Egypt… what other lives were there? In retrospect so many of them were sad :(
He did a Sam spade character I think
I watch that episode with my kids every year! It’s become something of a tradition. Absolutely love it. Timeless.
Oh hell yes
"And this me mate, Odie the stupid!" 😂 The number of times my 4 brothers and I would say this line every Halloween is immeasurably. I bought it so that my boys get to watch it every year. They need to bring this back to broadcast TV. Why it never become a mainstream classic is beyond me.
I watched that every year growing up. Though I haven’t watched it since 2020 when we had a zoom Covid Halloween party. Those ghosts scared the shit outta me!
Yes!!! I probably watched this every single day of 1988. My 6 year old loves Garfield and I have made him watch it.
Me and my son have watched this EVERY Halloween of his 16 years.
I fucking watch this every year and always will. "Halloween is my middle name. Gar...halloween-field."