A Garfield Christmas Special
S2 #6

A Garfield Christmas Special

🎄 Let’s have a good, old-fashioned Christmas down on the farm in 1987’s “A Garfield Christmas Special,” featuring the voices of Squiggy and Ursula

🎙️ The Advent Calendar House welcomes Jeff Somogyi as we contemplate lasagna as a Christmas food, go long on the dinner prayer, and wonder how Binky, “The Clown Who Saved Christmas,” saved Christmas. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

Joey O. interviews Gregg Berger, the voice of Odie. 

Dinosaur Dracula identifies all the presents in Garfield’s dream

Better “Weird Al” Yankovic Christmas song: “Christmas at Ground Zero” or “The Night Santa Went Crazy”? 

The simultaneously best and worst line in the history of animated Christmas specials for children: “Whoever invented Christmas trees should be drug out into the street and shot.” 

Jeff wanted a ringtone of that blaring trumpet when Garfield looks down from the top of the Christmas tree, so here it is

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“A Garfield Christmas Special” © 1987 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. 

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