List of Garfield characters

This is a list of characters in the Garfield comic strip, created by Jim Davis. It includes notable characters from the comic strip as well as cartoons, and movies centered on the Garfield character, and is organized by what medium they appeared in first.
Comic strip.
Garfield.
First Appearance: June 19, 1978
Garf is the strip's title character. He is a lazy, fat, and big orange tabby. He also appears to be more anthropomorphic and/or humanoid as the series develops. He is usually depicted eating or sleeping. His favorite food is lasang and tuna. He hates Mondays, spiders and raisins. He loves bullying Odie and mailing Nermal to Abu Dhabi for being annoying. Garfield also holds a rivalry with Nermal but sometimes shows a genuine fondness for him. His garfriend is Arlene, who does not appear at all in "Garfield and Friends", but "Garf and Friend" has some episodes and specials with female cats as his love interest from time to time.
Jon Arbuckle.
First Appearance: June 19, 1978
Jonathan Q. "Jon" Arbuckle is the owner of Garfield and Odie. It is said several times that he is a cartoonist. He has an eccentric, sometimes childish behavior, and he is frequently seen behaving unusually to alleviate boredom. When going out on dates, he dresses in loud, mismatched clothes. He has attempted to date several women, many of whom have turned him down. That was before it is revealed that Liz (see below), actually likes him; they now frequently go out on dates.
Odie.
First Appearance: August 8, 1978
Odie is a yellow beagle, Garfield's best friend and Jon's dog. Odie is often punted or pushed off the table by Garfield though Odie sometimes gets him back. He is almost always shown to be dumb, but in several strips he seems to be smart and clever.
Dr. Liz Wilson.
First Appearance: June 26, 1979
Dr. Elizabeth "Liz" Wilson is Garfield's veterinarian and a long-time crush of Jon Arbuckle. Although she has a deadpan, sardonic persona, she can find Jon's outlandish and goofball behavior endearing. Jon often attempts to ask her out on a date, but rarely succeeds; however, in an extended story arc from June 20 to July 29, 2006, Liz finally admitted her love for him, which led to her becoming established as the 4th main character. The two have since become a couple. In the film "", Jon asks Liz to marry him and she accepts; they become engaged; however, this is not mentioned in or connected to the strips. Even though Garfield rarely sees her at the veterinary clinic, Liz nags Garfield to lose weight and reject junk food; however, Liz sometimes brings food Garfield likes to the house, and Garfield happily benefits from this.
On "Garfield and Friends", Liz was voiced by Julie Payne, occasionally appearing in the first two seasons. In the live-action/animated movies, she is played by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Her first albeit brief television appearance was on the second TV special Garfield on the Town. In a few of the July 2007 strips, Garfield became jealous of Liz, until they became friends on July 24. In one strip, it is revealed that her mother's name is Betty.
In "The Garfield Show", she is once again voiced by Julie Payne, who is shown to be kinder and more sympathetic. Liz's parents have made a couple of appearances on "The Garfield Show" as well.
According to two Garfield Comic Strips, Liz's birthday is said to be January 13th. These are shown in January 13, 2017 and January 13, 2018.
Arlene.
First Appearance: December 17, 1980
Latest Appearance: May 9, 2021 (at Garfield title)
Arlene is the name of a beautiful, sweet-natured, loving pink stray cat who likes Garfield. The gap in her teeth is often the subject of her romantic interest's ridicule. In many strips, she is seen meeting with Garfield on a wooden fence silhouetted in the moonlight, although she still makes plenty of appearances during the daytime. Often she is depicted as being more moral than Garfield, particularly in more recent television or media adaptions of the comics; she serves as a conscientious voice of guidance for her love interest and will persuade him to choose the proper decisions. However, she still questions their relationship at times, due to her feminine side and his rudeness. She is aggravated by Garfield's teasing and gluttony, but still holds affection for him. Arlene and Garfield are the counterpart to Dr. Liz Wilson's relationship with Jon Arbuckle. In the "Garfield" film, she appears as a purple-ish Russian Blue cat, voiced by Debra Messing. She is also voiced by Grey DeLisle in Garfield Originals.
Pooky.
First Appearance: October 23, 1978
Latest Appearance: April 22, 2021
Pooky is Garfield's teddy bear and other best friend that Garfield discovered stuffed in a drawer. Garfield sometimes communicates with Pooky as if he were a living animal; he can also be over-protective of Pooky. Once, Garfield tried to "protect" Pooky from a present from Jon to Pooky, a miniature accordion. When Pooky lost an eye, Garfield requested a new eye for Pooky as his Christmas present. Garfield is not shy to show his love for Pooky, often grabbing it in hugs. This causes Jon to be a bit envious that the teddy bear is better-loved than him. He occasionally asks for hugs from Garfield, which Garfield refuses. In one comic strip in particular, Jon asks "Can I have a hug like that?" to which Garfield sighs, gives Pooky to Jon and leaves without saying a word. Certain strips have shown Pooky as sentient. In one instance we see Pooky rollerblade past Jon, who assumes Garfield is playing a prank. However, we then see Garfield at the other end of the room, implying that Pooky is skating under his own power. Either that or Garfield pushed Pooky on the skates, then ran to the other end of the room or Garfield had somebody else to do so and Garfield went to the other side of the room. In another strip, Jon wonders what Garfield dreams about when he sleeps with Pooky on his lap. The last panel shows Pooky dreaming that Garfield is sleeping in his lap. In yet another instance, Garfield gets amnesia, and when Jon shows him Pooky in an attempt to jog his memory, Garfield scoffs at a cat owning a teddy bear. Pooky, along with Jon and Odie, was shown shedding a tear, something that would be impossible for an inanimate object although this may have been done for comedic effect.
Nermal.
First Appearance: September 3, 1979
Latest Appearance: May 9, 2021 (at Garfield title)
Nermal is a small grey tabby cat whom Garfield is jealous of. Despite being an adult cat, he proclaims himself as "the world's cutest kitten". Nermal was first introduced as Jon's parents' kitten, but this idea was quickly dropped. He frequently made unannounced visits into Garfield's home, where he flaunted his cuteness and became the focus of Jon's attention for the entire duration of his visit, much to Garfield's exasperation. Nermal especially did this on Garfield's birthdays to remind him of his advancing age. In frustration, Garfield frequently expressed his desire to send Nermal to Abu Dhabi. He also frequently hurled Nermal through the door, leaving a hole in the shape of his body (sometimes repeatedly). This was never shown in either show, most likely because it was considered inappropriate for a children's show, but in one episode of "The Garfield Show", he threw Nermal out the dog door and over a fence into a trash can in another.
Although Garfield once ceased attacking Nermal after having a nightmare where a hulking cat introduces himself as a full-grown Nermal and proceeds to brutalize Garfield, this has not actually happened. Nermal once mentioned that he is going to stay cute and small forever because he is a midget; "I think small," he once quipped, "and the coffee and cigarettes don't hurt." On another occasion, whilst pondering how Nermal manages to stay so cute looking, Garfield inadvertently catches Nermal wearing hair rollers and applying a mud facial mask - which evidently confirms Garfield's long-held suspicions about his cute rival." His first television appearance was on the "Garfield and Friends" episode "School Daze", and his last was on "The Feline Philosopher"; on the show, he became a recurring cast member. Desirée Goyette regularly provided Nermal's voice on the series, which confused viewers to think that he was a female due to the feminine voice. A running gag on the show featured Garfield mailing (or trying to mail) Nermal to Abu Dhabi, which once resulted in himself getting mailed instead. Garfield even had his own song called "Abu Dhabi", which he uses to tell Nermal all about the United Arab Emirates and how he will love it there (or rather, how Garfield will love having Nermal on the other side of the world). When Garfield is spared a trip to Abu Dhabi himself (a stuffed cat was sent to the UAE instead), Jon demands Garfield stop threatening to send Nermal to Abu Dhabi. Garfield promises this, and then makes attempts to mail Nermal to the North Pole instead. In "Garfield: The Movie", Nermal is portrayed by an adult Siamese cat in the neighborhood, and is voiced by David Eigenberg. Unlike his portrayals in previous media, Nermal is Garfield's friend and Nermal makes no attempt whatsoever to brag about being cute and Garfield is only mildly annoyed with him. Nermal is voiced by Jason Marsden in "The Garfield Show", and the films "Garfield Gets Real", "Garfield's Fun Fest", and "Garfield's Pet Force". Brittany Ross voices Nermal in Garfield Originals.
Squeak.
First Appearance: October 30, 1984
"Squeak" is a little grey mouse who is a semi-regular character. Since Garfield is too lazy to be bothered with mousing, he and Squeak have become good friends. Squeak is part of a family of other mice. He first was in the comic strips in the late 1980s. On "Garfield and Friends", the same character was named "Floyd" and voiced by Gregg Berger; a common running gag in the cartoons is his continuous complaints over not appearing often. The character returned to the name Squeak for "The Garfield Show", with Berger reprising his role.
Lyman.
First Appearance: August 7, 1978Last Appearance: As a regular: April 24, 1983 (Cameo in the 10th anniversary strip: June 19, 1988) (Appearance as photograph on Jon's newspaper: April 2, 2013)
Lyman was Jon's friend, roommate, and Odie's original owner during the strip's early years. Lyman first appeared on August 7, 1978. His last appearance in the comic strip was on Garfield's 10th birthday, though he had stopped appearing regularly by the end of 1981. He was removed from the Sunday splash panel in March 1982. According to Davis, Lyman's original purpose was to be someone who Jon could talk to and express other ideas, since Garfield and Odie could not speak for themselves. However, Davis later discovered ways for Garfield and Odie to communicate with Jon nonverbally, and Lyman was no longer needed.
When asked about Lyman's disappearance, Davis once jokingly replied, "Don't look in Jon's basement!" But Lyman has nevertheless made a few modern appearances. He appears in the "Scary Scavenger Hunt" I and II games at Garfield.com, in which he both helps and scares the player throughout the game; he is also seen behind the front desk at the Book Nook at the same website. He also has a cameo on the front page of a newspaper that Jon is reading in the comic of April 2, 2013.
Lyman predated "Garfield"; a character with the same name and function, but in insect form, appeared in Davis's previous strip "Gnorm Gnat" as the title character's straight man.
In "The Garfield Show" episode "Long Lost Lyman" (season 3), an effort is made to explain what became of the character in-continuity. Lyman is said to have left Odie with Jon before moving away to work as a wildlife photographer in a distant jungle. When Jon learns that Lyman disappeared while searching for a mythical Bigfoot-like creature, Jon, Garfield, and Odie travel to the jungle to find him. The "Long Lost Lyman" version of Lyman has round eyes resembling Jon's rather than the dot-eyes of his traditional comics design and is voiced by Frank Ferrante.
Arbuckle Family.
Mom.
First Appearance: February 13, 1980
Latest Appearance: November 6, 2011 (at Garfield title) (mentioned December 10, 2011)
Mrs. Arbuckle is Jon's mother who lives on a farm and is known to be a great cook, offering a wide variety of food for Jon to eat when he visits, especially her ability to create dozens of potato-based dishes. Based on Jim Davis' mother, Jon's mother is also known for sending him and Garfield cooked meals in packages; Jon also reveals in one sketch that his mother was his date for his senior prom. Garfield seems to both love and hate her, enjoying the vast amounts of food she cooks but despising the homemade sweaters and winter clothes she sends him at Christmas. In September 1979, Jon's Mom and Dad left Nermal with him for the week while they went on vacation, yet in November 1984, Jon's Mom claimed that they had not been off the farm since 1953. In the "Garfield and Friends" episode "Feeling Feline", she appears in a speaking line along with Jon's dad (no speaking parts) in Jon's dream. In "A Garfield Christmas Special", she was voiced by Julie Payne, who now voices Liz in "The Garfield Show". She is Garfield's human mother. She often says "Eat, eat, eat." in an episode of the Garfield show, she comes for a wedding, after Garfield tries to get into Vito's pizzeria after he got banned from the pizzeria.
Dad.
First Appearance: February 13, 1980
Latest Appearance: December 10, 2011
Mr. Arbuckle is Jon's father who tends the family farm. In his sole animated appearance, "A Garfield Christmas Special", he was voiced by Pat Harrington, Jr. and as proved in one strip, has only very rarely been off the farm. He is based on Jim Davis' father, James William Davis. Also, every Christmas he reads the Christmas story "Binky, the Clown Who Saved Christmas" to everyone. In "The Garfield Show", he is voiced by Frank Welker.
Doc Boy.
First Appearance: May 17, 1983
Latest Appearance: November 6, 2011 (at Garfield title) ("mentioned" December 25, 2020)
Doc is Jon's brother who lives on a farm with his mother and father. It remains unknown if he is Jon's older, younger, or twin brother. Nicknamed "Doc Boy", he often insults Jon, calling him a "cappuccino sipping city slicker" and a "geek in bunny pajamas", and worse. One example of his name calling to Jon is when he sends Christmas cards and gifts to Jon that read the word "Sissy" on them. In one comic strip, Jon gets a letter from 'his brother' (Doc Boy) which is in secret code. Jon says that makes him remember his childhood, and solves the code. It reads, "Whoever reads this is a poo-poo head." (which Jon reads out to Garfield) and Garfield says "They've gone so far". But he is seen to sometimes get along with Jon well, since he plays games with Jon such as "Touch the Udder" and even sometimes helps out with Jon's projects, remodeling, and surprises for Garfield. He hates being called "Doc Boy" but puts up with it although he is sometimes seen being angered when his parents even call him "Doc Boy". Like Garfield, Jon, and Odie, Doc Boy believes in Santa Claus and is seen to either call Jon during Christmas or even stay up to see Santa Claus in excitement. He and Jon are known for competing with each other over who is uglier in their family memory photos to which they compete whenever they look at memory books with their mother. Although he is about the same age as Jon, he is already starting to go bald. He is very immature and has a bad sense of fashion. He was mentioned a few times to have a girlfriend, although it was noted that she is incredibly ugly, as when he showed her picture to Jon and Garfield, Jon looked at it in shock while Garfield commented "That is one shiny golden tooth". Another example is when Doc Boy was waiting for his girlfriend to show up while Jon was looking at the corral and Jon commented "Look at that ugly holstein over there", on which Doc Boy angrily said "That's my date."
This character is based on Jim Davis' real-life brother, David "Doc" Davis. In "A Garfield Christmas Special", he was voiced by David Lander. Doc Boy also appears in The Garfield Show, with Lander reprising his role, but only in six episodes.
Grandma.
First Appearance: January 25, 1982
Latest Appearance: November 6, 2011 (at Garfield title), April 24, 2005 (mentioned December 21, 2009)
Jon and Doc Boy's tough, eccentric but kind, caring and loving grandmother. She loves Jon, Garfield, and Odie, and occasionally makes appearances throughout the series. She clearly adores Garfield and loves it when he is in her lap and she is stroking him. Grandma is one of the few people that Garfield liked from the outset — she kicked Odie just like Garfield did. The most is revealed about her in A Garfield Christmas Special, where it is revealed that her husband has died and she talks about her life with him. In the strip, Grandma was originally depicted as an elderly woman, wearing a plain dark dress and her hair in a tight bun; her animated appearances outfit her as an energetic elderly lady in a sweater and jeans; sometimes, she is also seen riding a motorcycle. In "A Garfield Christmas Special" and "Garfield's Thanksgiving", she was voiced by Pat Carroll. Several of her lines from the Christmas special were taken directly from her first week in the newspaper strip. She is Garfield's human great-grandmother.
Aunt Gussie.
First Appearance: August 14, 1981
Aunt Gussie is Jon's aunt. She first appeared August 14 through August 15, 1981, baby-sitting Garfield while Jon took a vacation. She didn't know Garfield stowed away in Jon's suitcase. She later appeared on November 8 through November 12, 1983, when she became mean and had glasses. She was supposed to baby-sit Garfield on the week of April 25, 1988 while Jon was having his tonsils removed, but she did not show up. Garfield, as a result, has a disdain for Aunt Gussie, remarking that she "used to double-date with Lizzie Borden." She has a crush on John Travolta.
Garfield's mother.
Garfield's mother first made appearances in the animated specials "Garfield on the Town" and "", as well as a few cameos in the comic strip (including a December 1984 story which was a loose adaptation of "Garfield on the Town"). Sandi Huge provided her voice in the specials. She also appeared once on "Garfield and Friends" in an episode called "The Garfield Rap." She is sometimes given the name "Sonja", but is often omitted to avoid confusion with Heathcliff's girlfriend.
Garfield's grandpa.
First Appearance: November 10, 1980
Garfield's grandpa first appeared in the strip on November 10, 1980. Garfield was excited to see him, but Grandpa showed similar characteristics to Garfield, immediately asking "Where's the refrigerator?" Grandpa tells stories to Garfield, including how he weighed 5 pounds, 6 ounces at birth. Grandpa was not there for Garfield's birth, but "heard the scream." Grandpa has a very sarcastic personality which is very similar to Garfield's.
In "Garfield on the Town", a different-looking, rougher grandfather who lives with Garfield's mother (above) is seen, implying that the comic strip's grandfather is the paternal one and the TV series' is the maternal one.
Minor recurring characters.
Irma.
First Appearance: June 9, 1979 (first mention by name October 19, 1979)
Latest Appearance: March 11, 2021
Irma is the waitress and owner of "Irma's Diner", a diner occasionally visited by Jon and Garfield. Irma is a model waitress, when she isn't abusing her customers or shaving her legs at the counter. But then the food isn't much either. Irma is often shown to be behaving oddly, for instance, her idea of a "Chicken Surprise" is putting on a chicken mask and yelling "SURPRISE!!" Irma is not particularly intelligent either, for instance, in one strip, Jon is deciding what to eat and decides to have the same thing the man next to him is eating, "I'll have what he's having", Irma replies by sliding the man's meal directly in front of Jon. Another example is Jon tells Irma that his potato is bad and she begins "Spanking" it. In another strip, Jon asked Irma why there was a hair in his soup. Irma replies by asking him how he knows that it is not one of his. Jon pulls out the rest of the hair and it turns out that there is a red roller stuck to the hair. He says to Irma that he uses smaller rollers. Jim Davis revealed in Garfield at 25 that he borrowed Irma's name, but not her personality, from his aunt.
Herman Post.
First Appearance: July 19, 1978
Jon Arbuckle's mailman. Garfield constantly torments him by ripping off his pants and leaving him shredded and scratched, and he perpetually tries to find a way to deliver the mail safely, but rarely succeeds. He did, however, succeed in delivering the mail safely by folding the mail into paper airplanes and throwing them at the house, to which Garfield replied "NO FAIR!". Another, time in which the mail man succeeded was in a Splash screen which had him in a gi and a black belt and Garfield in a defeated position He also wore a knight's armor to discourage Garfield. He can be seen with either yellow, white, or brown colored hair. He was on Garfield and friends for the first four seasons. In "The Mail Animal" He was even fired because the postmaster thought he was being weak, only to have Garfield treat him worse, resulting in the postmaster begging Post to return to work.
In The Garfield Show episode "Mailman Blues", he goes on vacation in Hawaii while his replacement Stu does the job for him, but before Herman Post goes on vacation, he warns Stu about Garfield, describing him as a "monster". While Herman Post is on his vacation, Garfield torments Stu. However, Stu quits, and Herman returns early only after receiving a raise. He reveals that this happens "every" year. It is shown that this has been recurring for 13 years, so it can be presumed that the postmaster from "The Mail Animal" may have been the first occurrence, even though the two episodes aired roughly 20 years apart.
Jon usually refuses to acknowledge Garfield in tormenting Herman, excluding one instance. In one strip, Jon was the one who startled him, reasoning that a sick Garfield asked him to fill in for him in his place. In both series, however, Jon attempts to punish Garfield for his mischief.
In "Garfield and Friends", the mailman was voiced by Gregg Berger.
Binky the Clown.
First Appearance: September 17, 1986
A television personality noted for his extremely loud and piercing greetings, most notably "HEEEEEEEY, KIDS!". He appears to be a parody of Bozo the Clown, and in the cartoons shares an exaggerated raspy voice with the Bob Bell portrayal of Bozo (much in the same way Krusty the Clown from "The Simpsons" does; Krusty's voice was likewise based on Bell's). In "Garfield's Halloween Adventure", the character made his first appearance as well as animated appearance and was given a voice. He was first mentioned on March 13, 1985 in the comic strips, previously, other different clown characters were seen. Binky was first seen in the comics on September 15, 1986, then appeared in person on September 17, 1986. On "Garfield and Friends", Binky became more of a regular, and would modify his greeting to suit who it was he was greeting, such as "HEEEEEEEY, CAT!" He also had his own segment on the show during the second and third seasons, called "Screaming with Binky", in which he showed up in the midst of a certain activity and performed his trademark greeting, ruining said activity. Most of these segments were cut in syndication, but have been restored for the DVD releases. Like Jon, Binky was voiced by Thom Huge. His first television appearance was on "Peace & Quiet". His last was on "The Feline Philosopher". Binky apparently owns a small restaurant that Jon and Garfield occasionally eat at called "Binky Burger". In the Garfield show he was mentioned twice: First in season 2's "Blasteroid", Jon asks Garfield if he wants to watch Binky, but refuses saying it's in his contract that Binky's not allowed on this show. Then, in season 3's "Cupid Cat", Garfield states Doc Boy looked just like Binky, and breaks the Fourth Wall by asking the audience if anyone remembered Binky, which he doubts by saying "I didn't think so". Also Binky once mugged uncle roy, a cartoon character only mentioned in the strips.
The Big Vicious Dog.
First Appearance: September 12, 1995
A dog that often enjoys barking ferociously at Garfield, next to a "Beware of Dog" sign, hence the name he's been given by several fans. Then he calms down, and the strip continues in a normal way. His rear end is rarely seen. He is also known as Chain Dog.
Neighbors.
Mrs. Feeny.
Mrs. Feeny is an unseen character in the comic strip, tormented by Garfield. For this reason, she regularly calls Jon to complain about him. She also tends to get revenge on Jon for Garfield's pranks. She owns a small pet dog, a regular victim of Garfield's abuse. She also, at one point, had a Weimaraner dog that Garfield had epoxied to a cross-town bus; and she had a bird named Mr. Sweety Wings who was another victim of Garfield's. Mrs. Feeny (originally spelled Feeney) was one of several neighbors, which included a Mrs. Woonduck; a Mrs. Nostrum and a Mrs. Peebrik who had been calling and complaining to Jon about Garfield's abusive behavior of their dogs. She has a husband who is also a victim of Garfield's pranks and abuses. In one instance, Mrs. Feeny called Jon complaining over Garfield shipping him and her dog to Wisconsin to work as clowns.
Ellen.
Ellen (first mentioned in November 9, 1990) is a local woman whom Jon often tried to go out with. Originally, she was also an unseen character in the strip as well; most Ellen strips originally centered on Jon speaking to Ellen on the telephone, attempting to ask her out on a date. In a 2006 story, Ellen appeared in the strip after Jon convinced her to go on a date because she had amnesia and couldn't remember how much she despised him. She was persuaded to go on a date with him, and on July 20, 2006, the strip finally showed her as a blonde woman with a striped dress.
Others.
Guido and Fluffy.
Guido and Fluffy were 2 cats who help Garfield escape from the city pound in a comic strip of January 1981. In the TV special "Here Comes Garfield", Fluffy was a dog instead of a cat, and Guido's name is "Eddie".
Wheezer.
Wheezer is Jon's old school friend. He calls Jon "Carp Face". Wheezer visited Jon at his house April 23, 1990 through April 29, 1990. The two reminisce about their embarrassing high school memories. Later in the comic, Jon saw Wheezer at his high-school reunion.
Frank.
First Appearance: January 23, 1980
Frank is a Garfield character that only appears in one comic released on 23 January 1980. In it when Jon welcomes Frank to Garfield he attacks Frank as he says "some people rub me the wrong way." He returns as a waiter later in the comic strip.
Frank (spider).
First Appearance: September 27, 1997
Latest Appearance: January 5, 2021
Frank (spider) is a spider who appears twice by name. It is a generic black spider who appears with a buddy spider. In one of them Frank (spider) is with Estelle, another spider.
Stretch.
First Appearance: June 19, 1984
Stretch is Garfield's rubber chicken, who was given to Garfield on his 6th birthday. It only appeared for five days after, yet makes cameo appearances from time to time, mainly used as a weapon against Jon.
Cartoons.
"Garfield and Friends" characters.
Cactus Jake.
Cactus Jake is the foreman of the Polecat Flats ranch, and a friend of Jon. He was seen only in the TV series and had a habit of calling Garfield "Garfunkel". Whenever Garfield wore a cowboy outfit, Jake always believed that he really was a cowboy named "Shorty" (Jon would always recognize "Shorty" as Garfield, however). Jake's voice was provided by Pat Buttram. First appeared: "Polecat Flats". Last appeared: "The Multiple Choice Cartoon". Last appearance (mentioned): "Stairway to Stardom".
The Buddy Bears.
The Buddy Bears are a trio of singing bear cubs who encourage viewers to "always agree with the group" (similar to "The Get Along Gang"). Their names are Bobby (tallest), Billy, and Bertie (shortest). They were voiced by Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, and Gregg Berger with sped up voices. One of Garfield's goals and main way of defeating them when they interfered in his life was to make them disagree, thereby introducing strife into their affected harmony. One notable effort involved making them decide on which two toppings to put on pizza, for, as Garfield stated as the episode ended, "No two people can agree on which two toppings a pizza should have." Garfield disliked their mindless agreement, stressing that their love of harmony and cooperation was not right, and says that they should express their honest opinions and think independently and critically.
Mr. Burnside.
Mr. Irving Burnside is Jon's next-door neighbor, who is constantly annoyed by Garfield stealing his food and would take it out on Jon. Early on in the sixth season, he was pushed so far as to rent his house out. Shortly after moving, Burnside found out that without Garfield stealing his food, he and his wife Alice were getting overweight, so they agreed to move back. He is voiced by Gregg Berger.
Penelope Pussycat.
Penelope Pussycat served as another love interest for Garfield, appearing only in the show's last three seasons, quickly becoming a regular even with only three episodes being labeled by their titles as "Penelope episodes". She is a beige pussy cat with a cute mole on the right side of her face near her mouth. Penelope lives in an Italian restaurant, which is no doubt one of the main reason that Garfield goes out with her, since this wasn't revealed till the second "Penelope episode". The fact that Garfield enjoys eating more than being with her annoys Penelope, but she willingly goes out with him anyway, because as she says, "I don't care what we do as long as we do it together." She was replaced by Arlene in "The Garfield Show". She is voiced by Victoria Jackson.
"The Garfield Show" characters.
Eddie Gourmand.
A chef who's usually seen in a televised cooking show. His show nearly got canceled because most people find it tedious, though its ratings improved when a cake monster invaded the studio. He opened a theme park made of cheese which wasn't well-liked. He once became violent and used a rolling pin in an attempt to strike Garfield that tasted one of his dishes. He was fired from his job once by Mr. Station Manager Sir for showing the viewers what unhealthy foods to eat, but he was rehired after Mr. Station Manager Sir's new show got the least ratings. The reason for his morbid obesity comes from his horrible childhood years. He is voiced by Frank Welker.
Hercules.
A lonely Chihuahua who lives in Garfield's neighborhood. He, along with some other dogs, helped save Vito and the pizzeria from a blaze. He is voiced by Jason Marsden and Wally Wingert.
Catzilla.
Catzilla was a wild feline descended from saber-toothed cats. He lives at the zoo and he first appeared in "Orange and Black" and made a cameo appearance in "High Scale".
Rock Oil.
A large black Rottweiler. He used to bully Odie to giving him treats until Odie became a weredog. He also helped Odie in saving Vito from the fire. He's occasionally seen with an unnamed slender Doberman Pinscher which could be Luca.
Harvey.
A scatterbrained man residing in Garfield's suburbs. He, along with Nermal, got tied up for disrupting Garfield, Jon, and Odie's attempt to get a family photo. Harvey also has a wife named Sheila who shares the same birthday as Odie.
Harry.
A stray Black cat that lives in Garfield's neighborhood. He is very thin and has two different coloured eyes. He is voiced by Gregg Berger.
Vito Cappelletti.
The manager of Vito's Pizza and he serves pizza and other Italian foods, which is loved by Jon and Odie, and especially Garfield. In certain episodes, Vito's Pizza is sometimes in trouble, such as in "Love and Lasagna", where Brent Mogul tries to tear it down for a tanning salon until Garfield and Odie save the store. In other episodes, Garfield's love of Vito's food "causes" trouble. He also appears in the "Garfield" comic book as Jon and Garfield's preferred provider of pizza.
Al and Pete.
Two incompetent members of animal control. Al's eyes are never seen because they're always hidden behind his hat. Replaced in a one-off episode by a T3000 terminator animal controller until assisted in getting their jobs back by Garfield.
Anthony Allwork.
An egotistical lawyer & businessman who has the tendency to sue everybody for no reason and buy many companies to become a multi-billionaire. He has a son named Jack who he rarely spends time with until Jon convinced him to. He served as the main villain in the second full-length episode, "Unfair Weather". He is voiced by Jack Riley.
Professor Thaddeus Bonkers.
A mad scientist who loves to do experiments. His first appearance with his current name was in "Virtualodeon", where by watching Virtualodeon, Garfield gets sucked into the TV. Before this, he was called Harlow Cranfranz in "Curse of the Were-Dog". " He returns in "History of Dog", "Night of the Bunny Slippers", "Blasteroid", "Cyber Mailman", "Farm Fresh Feline", "Inside Eddie Gourmand", "Me, Garfield and I", "Furry Tales (Part 4)", "Kind to Kittens", "Prehistoric Pup", "It's About Time", "The Garfield-Only Show", "Little Trouble in Big China (Part 1)", "Bewitched: Bewitched and Bewildered", "The Mean Machine: Too Smart Smartphones", and "Double Vision".
Drusilla and Minerva.
Jon's annoying and twin nieces, they love to dress and give makeovers to animals particularly Garfield. Garfield and Odie once used the outfits they provided in order to track down thieves who took spare ribs. When Nermal kidnaps Pooky to blackmail the orange tabby into becoming a servant, Garfield summons Drusilla and Minerva to mess with Nermal. In one of their most recent appearances, it is revealed that they can't tell each other apart due to how single minded they are. They are voiced by Laura Summer.
Aunt Ivy.
Jon's bossy aunt, who expects her relatives to wait on her hand and foot. She stays with Jon twice, first after her power line is destroyed by a fallen tree branch then when her house is being rid of mice. While she expects any of her demands to be met, but refuses any request others ask of her no matter how reasonable. While Garfield hates her like everyone else, he likes having her visit because "Compared to Aunt Ivy, he actually seems easy to live with."
Jonah.
A pessimistic Black cat who appeared in the episode "Black Cat Blues". He constantly crosses character's paths, giving those bad luck, because he's upset about breaking up with his girlfriend. This stops when Garfield gets them back together.
He also appears at "Garfield's Party in The Big Sleep" as one of the characters who was kicked out of Nermal's "Eating and Sleeping for Hibernation" party.
Evil Space Lasagnas.
Living Lasagnas who want to conquer Earth but are afraid of Garfield after witnessing his prodigious appetite for lasagna as food. They appear in 3 episodes; "Pasta Wars, Blasteroid, and Cuter than Cute".
In " Pasta Wars", A group of these lasagnas attempt to assess the risks of conquering Earth, only to come across Garfield eating his birthday lasagna. In "Blasteroid" the lasagnas pluck a meatball asteroid from orbit of their planet, "Parma", and launch it toward Earth. And in "Cuter than Cute", They send a warrior named Spumoni, disguised as a cute kitten, to find the weakness of Garfield. This backfires majorly as they attempt to bring the wayward Spumoni, they also bring Garfield.
At the end of each of these episodes, one of the lasagnas swears, "There will be a sequel, and we will have our revenge".
Neferkitty.
Leader of an ancient tribe of cats that once tried to take over the world and were banished to another dimension. Garfield tricks her into entering the human world alone where she is forcibly adopted by Liz's annoying niece Heather who renames her "Fuzzbutton" much to her chagrin. Since then she swears vengeance on Garfield and Odie.
Mrs. Cauldron.
Mrs. Cauldron is Jon's next-door neighbor who is actually a witch, first seen in "Which Witch". Since season 2, Garfield has always suspected who she really was, claiming in "Bewitched - Familiar Familiar (Part 1)" that "No one can survive an entire episode with Drusilla and Minerva." Mrs. Cauldron has 2 nieces: her oldest, Winona who briefly had crushes on Jon and Doc Boy and Abigail, who is a witch-in-training. She is voiced by June Foray. This role is notable in that it won Foray her first Emmy.
Winona.
Mrs. Cauldron's oldest niece who appeared for the first time in "Every Witch Way". She's a half-witch who's often visit Mrs. Cauldron in human world and she's not a full witch yet (until episode Bewitched when she becomes a witch teacher). And she briefly had a crush on Jon ("Every Witch Way") and Doc Boy ("Bride or Broom") and willingly as far as kidnapping in order to marry them. But aside that she's actually a cute, friendly, and protective person as seen in episode "Bewitched." when she helped by guided Garfield, Odie, and Abigail to save both human world and witch realm by find the object that was able to stop her evil aunt Varicella and her plot by change all the humans into frogs. She is voiced by Laraine Newman.
Abigail.
Mrs. Cauldron's youngest niece who's still on training. She appeared only in 1-hour special episode "Bewitched". She's Mrs. Cauldron and Varicella's niece and also Winona's cousin. She was shown to be a mischievous young girl who dislikes Garfield at first. But later she was shown to be very friendly and trustful towards Garfield and Odie. She's also a willing person especially when she holds the biggest role stopping Varicella and her plot. She is voiced by Laraine Newman.
Varicella.
Evil witch who got sealed in the talking book for 1,000 years ago and she's also Mrs. Cauldron's sister. She appeared as main antagonist in 1-hour special episode called "Bewitched". And she's trying to take over the world by Forbidden Moon Spell by turning all the humans into frogs. But her plot was stopped by Garfield, Odie, Abigail, and Winona and she became good and no longer an evil witch anymore. She is voiced by Rose Marie.
Movies.
"Garfield Gets Real" and sequels characters.
"Garfield Gets Real" is a direct-to-video Garfield movie released in 2007 and produced by Paws Inc. The characters were made via CGI. It was written by Jim Davis and chronicles Garfield's adventure into the "real world" out of the comic strip. The first one was "Garfield Gets Real" and was followed up by "Garfield's Fun Fest" and "Garfield's Pet Force". Among the characters in these films are:


Newt (film)


Garfield in Paradise

Garfield in Paradise is a 1986 animated television special directed by Phil Roman, based on the "Garfield" comic strip by Jim Davis. It features Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield the house cat, other regulars Thom Huge and Gregg Berger, and guest star Wolfman Jack. It originally aired on CBS on May 27, 1986.
This was the fifth of twelve Garfield television specials made between 1982 and 1991. The story concerns the characters visiting a tropical vacation destination. The special was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program and has been released on DVD.
Plot.
Jon Arbuckle and Garfield take their third class airline trip to Paradise World, a cheapskate's version of Hawaii. When they arrived on the island, Jon and Garfield check in at a deserted motel and are soon disappointed to find out that there is no beach within sight of the motel, and only an empty swimming pool in the back. When Jon and Garfield enter their room, they find Odie hiding in their luggage. None of the trio has any fun until Jon, Garfield, and Odie plan to rent a car and search for a beach around the island. For a cheap price, they get a really nice and classic Chevrolet Bel Air to hit the beach and later begin to choose where to go when their car mysteriously speeds into a jungle on its own, stopping in the middle of a native village. Jon, Garfield, and Odie presume that they are in trouble until the natives begin kowtowing to their car. They meet the tribal chief (The High Ramma-Lamma) who explains that the villagers (The Ding-Dongs) learned English "from watching a lot of beach movies". In 1957, the Cruiser, a James Dean/Fonzie-styled legend, drove his car into the village and introduced the people to the 1950s pop culture. The Cruiser eventually saved the village by sacrificing himself and driving his car into a nearby volcano to prevent it from erupting. The village is now devoted to a 1950s lifestyle and believes that Jon's rental car is actually the same one the Cruiser owned.
In the village, Jon and Garfield find romance with the tribal princess, Owooda, and her cat, Mai-Tai. Meanwhile, the chief orders the village idiot, Monkey, to fix the car with Odie's assistance. Suddenly, the volcano begins to erupt and Owooda tells Jon that she and Mai-Tai must sacrifice themselves to save the village. However, the volcano rejects Owooda and Mai-Tai, and the village shaman, Pigeon, interprets that it wants the car instead, and if it does not have the car within thirty seconds, it will blow the island to pieces. Monkey and Odie make their last attempt to get the car fixed, which still does not work until Odie successfully taps the distributor cap with a hammer. The car finally starts and zooms through the village and up the volcano with Monkey driving and Odie hanging onto the hood. The car plummets into the crater, the volcano finally erupts, and the Cruiser's spirit and car's ghost drift out, speed off, and vanish into the night sky; the volcano is now at peace. Monkey and Odie are presumed dead until Garfield sees them climb out of the crater unharmed. Jon, Garfield, and the other villagers carry Monkey and Odie back to the village in a hero's fashion.
Production.
The special guest stars disc jockey Wolfman Jack as the tribal chief. Creator Jim Davis was excited to work with Jack on the special, explaining, "It was just way fun. We did it for silliness." This was the final credit for Frank Nelson, who, once again, portrayed a variation on his recurring character from "The Jack Benny Program".
Broadcast and release.
The special first aired on May 27, 1986, at prime time on CBS. It was aired again in subsequent years. An illustrated children's book adaptation was published by Ballantine Books in 1986.
In February 2005, the special was included on the DVD "Garfield Travel Adventures" along with the specials "Garfield in the Rough" (1984) and "Garfield Goes Hollywood" (1987). It was released on another DVD compilation, "The Garfield Holiday Collection", on November 4, 2014, sold only by Walmart, and was also made available for digital download on November 11 that year.
Reception.
The special was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in 1986. The only other nominee was another "Garfield" special, "Garfield's Halloween Adventure", which won.
In his 2005 DVD Talk review, Randy Miller III complimented the special on "memorable characters" specifically the James Dean doppelganger and Wolfman Jack's character, concluding, "Plus, Jon gets some action." In 2008, Dan Walsh, creator of the website "Garfield Minus Garfield" recalled watching the specials and claimed, "I can still do a perfect rendition of 'Hello Hawaii,' from "Garfield in Paradise."" In 2014, Jim Davis identified "Garfield in Paradise" as "absolutely one of my favorites. It’s bright, funny, [there’s] rock n’ roll in it."


Faithful Ruslan

Faithful Ruslan, subtitled The Story of a Guard Dog (), is a 1975 novel by Soviet dissident writer Georgi Vladimov. It is a story of a guard dog from a Gulag labor camp, told from the point of view of the dog itself.
According to the author, the purpose of the novel was "to see the hell through the eyes of a dog who assumes it is a paradise".
"Ruslan" is a Russian given name, acquired the gist of high style after the poem "Ruslan and Ludmila" by Alexander Pushkin.
Plot summary.
The story begins from the moment the labor camp is closed and demolished, and includes the dog's best reminiscences of its past.
After the labor camp is dismantled, Ruslan's handler chases the dog away, unable to shoot him. Many other guard dogs of the camp had the same luck. Over time most of them somehow found their ways in "civil" life, but Ruslan cannot forget his duty; he perceives the empty camp as one huge prisoners' escape and prefers to starve than to take food from stranger's hands. After some time Ruslan accidentally meets his master chatting with a former Gulag inmate nicknamed Potyorty (Потёртый, "Shabby"), but the master chases him away again, and Ruslan unexpectedly associates himself with Potyorty. The latter thinks he tamed the formerly vicious dog, but Ruslan sees Potyorty as a runaway inmate who returned voluntarily (he saw this happen many times) and decides to guard him until the "normal order of things" is restored.
Initially all dogs used to come to the railway station, waiting in vain for a train with a fresh party of inmates. Eventually all but Ruslan cease doing so. At last a train arrives, bringing a party of enthusiastic workers for a "great construction site of communism" to be launched at the site of the camp. Workers form a column and march forward with songs. Thinking that these are prisoners, the former guard dogs come out and take their usual posts around the column. The newcomers are puzzled, but the locals know what's going on and watch with morose expectation. A couple of workers step out of line and, perceiving this as an escape attempt, the dogs attack them. This causes the rest of the workers to panic, which causes more dogs to attack and soon the town is in chaos. The townspeople and workers fight the dogs and eventually kill all of them. Ruslan is mortally wounded, but manages to crawl back to the railway station, where he remembers his littermates being killed shortly after their birth and wonders if they were luckier than he, before finally dying himself.
Literary opinions.
As Andrey Gavrilov of "Radio Liberty" put it, it is a "portrayal of an inhuman system, which destroys in an animal something we would have liked to humanize."
Andrey Sinyavsky says that Ruslan is the picture of an ideal communist hero: his honesty, loyalty, heroism, discipline make him a true bearer of the Moral Code of the Builder of Communism. And at the same time it is a picture of how these ideal qualities become perverted in the communist society.
Adaptations.
In 1991 a film () was shot based on the novel.
In 2017 a play based on the novel, written by Helena Kaut-Howson based on Glenny's translation, was performed jointly by the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and KT Productions.


Sonic Battle

 is a fighting video game developed by Sonic Team for the Game Boy Advance. It was published by Sega in Japan and THQ in North America and Europe. It is the second fighting game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the first game being "Sonic the Fighters". It is the sequel to 2002's "Sonic Advance 2" and was released in Japan in December 2003 and in North America and Europe in early 2004.
Plot.
While studying the diary of his grandfather, Professor Gerald Robotnik, Dr. Eggman learns of an artifact Gerald had unearthed: a 4000-year-old sentient weapon called the Gizoid created by an ancient civilization. Eggman attempts to get the dormant Gizoid to work properly, but is unsuccessful and abandons it at Emerald Beach. Sonic the Hedgehog finds the Gizoid, which activates and develops a link with him after Sonic demonstrates his abilities.
The Gizoid, which Sonic names Emerl due to its ability to use the Chaos Emeralds, demonstrates an ability to perfectly replicate any moves it sees and quickly gets wrapped up in the affairs of Sonic's friends, allies and rivals. Through his encounters with Tails, Rouge, Knuckles, Amy, Cream, and Shadow, Emerl learns of the world and of concepts like friendship. As they train together, the group discovers that Emerl becomes stronger and develops more sentience with each Chaos Emerald that he obtains, and begin searching for the remaining Emeralds to help the robot develop. While searching, they are repeatedly attacked by the forces of Eggman, who now wants to retrieve the weapon, including a rebuilt E-102 Gamma and a series of imperfect Emerl duplicates under the name "E-121 Phi".
Eventually, all the Chaos Emeralds are obtained and Emerl achieves full sentience. In a last attempt, Eggman decides to lure Emerl onto his new Death Egg to capture him. The two battle, and Emerl emerges victorious, but Eggman uses his new Final Egg Blaster to force Emerl to override his link with Sonic with Eggman's own. However, this overloads Emerl, deleting his personality and causing him to go haywire. The rogue Gizoid then turns the blaster towards the planet, and Sonic is sent to stop him before the world is destroyed. Sonic defeats Emerl, who briefly reverts to his previous personality and bids his friends farewell before overloading with energy and exploding, leaving the shards of the Chaos Emeralds he acquired behind. Sonic returns home to his friends, who are saddened by the loss of Emerl. When asked if he believes Emerl is truly gone, Sonic reassures everyone that they will see him again someday.
Gameplay.
Battles are fought in 3D arenas with up to four players. Each character has a set of attacks and abilities. The majority of attacks are used with B, including the combo (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Attack), Air Attack, Upper Attack (used to knock opponents straight up), Heavy Attack (used to knock opponents away), and Aim Attack (used to pursue an opponent after the Heavy Attack). The A button is used to jump, and the L button lets the player block attacks, or heal damage if the button is held. The playable characters also have unique special moves, the three types being Shot, Power, and Set. Shot moves center around using a projectile to damage the opponent from a distance. Power moves focus on dealing damage quickly in a single move. Trap moves generally involve using a type of bomb to surprise-attack the enemy. However, only a limited number of special moves can be selected. Shot, Power, and Trap must be allocated to three slots: Ground, Air, and Defend. The special move you set to Ground will be used when you press R on the ground. The move you set to Air will be used when you press R in mid-air. The last slot, Defend, has a different function; When a player sets a certain type of special move to Defend, then every time an enemy uses the same type of special move set to Defend to attack, it will automatically be blocked.
Each player has two vital stats, a health bar and an Ichikoro Gauge. When health is completely depleted, the player is KO'd and loses one life (in a survival match) or the one who KO'd them gets a point (in a KO match). The Ground, Air, and Defend settings are chosen at the beginning of the match, and every time the player respawns. As a player takes damage, blocks attacks, or heals, the Ichikoro Gauge fills up. When it is full, the next special move the player does will instantly KO anyone it hits. However, if they chose to defend against that type of special, or successfully block, their Ichikoro Gauge will be filled instantly. Players healing damage will also slowly fill up their Ichikoro Gauge, but are still vulnerable to attacks.
Characters.
The main playable characters in the game are Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat, Cream the Rabbit, E-102 Gamma, and Chaos (E-102 Gamma and Chaos are not playable in Story Mode, but they are playable in Battle Mode and Challenge Mode when you unlock them in the Story Mode), as well as the original character Emerl, whose Skill Copy allows players to teach him different fighting abilities throughout the game.
Minigames.
The game includes five mini-games. The only mini-game available at the beginning of the game is "Soniclash", in which players try to knock their opponents off the fighting arena to gather points. In Tails' Fly and Get, players fly around and try to collect more rings than their opponents. Knuckles' Mine Hunt is a single-player game based on the computer game "Minesweeper". In Amy's Treasure Island, players move around and search for emeralds, and in Shadow's Speed Demon (which is relatively similar to the stage "Radical Highway" on "Sonic Adventure 2"), the players race against each other.
Reception.
The game received generally mixed reviews from critics, according to review aggregator site Metacritic. While some critics praised the game's "surprisingly deep arena-fighting gameplay", graphics, and multiplayer mode, others dismissed it for its "limited moveset" and use of 2D sprites on a 3D fighting arena.
IGN gave the game a positive review, saying "It does try hard to be what "Smash Bros." is, and even though the game doesn't quite reach the same status Nintendo and HAL created for the Nintendo consoles, "Sonic Battle" has enough stuff to make it one of the top original fighters on the Game Boy Advance system." GameSpy also gave a positive review, saying "A solid and pleasantly deep arena beat-'em-up with lots of longevity, and though the presence of the Hedgehog and his posse adds absolutely nothing to the game, it's nice to see them getting work in these tough economic times." Nintendo Power gave a more mixed review, saying the "moves are limited, but the overall experience is tons of fun." GamePro also gave a mixed review, criticizing the game's story mode, saying "The biggest problem with "Sonic Battle" is the poor game design in Story mode. Earning Skill Points, and thereby new abilities for Emerl the Robot, is a grueling ordeal."


One Million B.C.

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate and Tumak.
The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young caveman who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe. Chaney's billing differs from that of his home studio Universal Pictures in that Hal Roach elected to retain the "Jr." instead of billing him under his father's name, possibly because Roach was co-directing the film with his own son Hal Roach Jr..
The film was a popular success and was nominated for two Academy Awards for its special effects and musical score.
Plot.
In a modern-day prologue, a group of hikers caught in a storm seek shelter in a cave. They encounter an anthropologist (Conrad Nagel) who interprets prehistoric carvings that introduce the story of a young caveman.
Akhoba, head of the Rock Tribe, leads a hunting party. His son Tumak begs the right to his first kill, a small triceratops which he wrestles to death. An elderly man in the party falls from a cliff and is left to die. The party arrives at the Rock Tribe's cave with their prey. The beast is cooked on a fire. When it is done, the strongest feed first, next the women and children, then the few elderly pick the scraps. Tumak defends his portion from demands by Akhoba. They fight and Akhoba knocks Tumak over a cliff as his mother watches. Tumak recovers to find a mastodon attacking him. He runs and climbs a tree. The mastodon rams the tree and knocks it into a river.
Tumak floats downstream unconscious and is found by Loana of the Shell Tribe. Her tribesmen answer her shell horn call and take Tumak to their cave. The tribe gathers for a meal of vegetables, shared orderly with the children, women and elderly served first. Tumak awakes and Loana gives him food, which he guards as he eats, perplexing the tribe who share and do not fight. Tumak looks on, confused by the customs of the Shell Tribe.
Meanwhile, Akhoba leads a hunting party into the hills but is injured trying to take down a muskox. As Akhoba lies injured, a younger hunter asserts authority over the others and takes Akhoba's place as leader, leaving Akhoba to die. Later, Akhoba, crippled, shows up at the cave but is treated with contempt.
Tumak adjusts slowly to life with the Shell Tribe. He helps the children gather food by shaking fruit out of a tree and they teach him how to laugh. He tries to fish with Loana but grows frustrated, as spearfishing is not like land hunting. While he is fishing, an Allosaurus traps a child in a tree. Tumak uses a borrowed spear to kill the animal and save the child, but does not want to return the spear to its owner. Later that night, Tumak steals the spear and a hammer from their maker, and attacks him when he tries to reclaim them. The tribal leader, Loana's father, banishes Tumak.
As Tumak departs, Loana, who has fallen in love with him, leaves her tribe to follow him, much to his dismay. Tumak pulls apples from a tree for himself, ignoring Loana. Seeing that she has trouble reaching apples herself, he relents and helps her. Along the way, they spot an armored creature (similar to a glyptodont) which chases them up a tree. Later, as Tumak and Loana reach Rock Tribe territory, they are trapped in a fissure during a fight between a dimetrodon and a lizard-like dinosaur. Loana escapes, but is menaced by the leader who previously displaced Akhoba. She blows her shell horn, leading Tumak to her rescue. He saves her by defeating the leader and becomes the new leader.
Tumak has Loana handle the meals, which confuses the Rock Tribe, since she feeds the women and children first, then Akhoba whom she has sat on his former throne, and then the other elders. Lastly, Tumak and the able-bodied men are fed. The next day, Akhoba comes outside to see his tribe learning to gather fruits and vegetables, with Loana showing them which are good to eat and which are not. Loana and Tumak sit and talk, but Tumak is called away to help hunt a deer while Loana helps search for a missing child.
A nearby volcano erupts, scattering the Rock Tribe and destroying their cave. A child's mother is engulfed by a lava flow to death; Loana saves the child but is cut off from the others by the lava flow. She and the child head to the Shell Tribe. Many animals fall into the crevasses opened by the eruption. Tumak searches for Loana but finds only a scrap of her clothing near the lava flow and presumes her to be dead.
Later, a Shell tribesman seeks out Tumak and tells him that Loana is still alive, but the Shell Tribe is trapped in their cave by a large Monitor lizard-like dinosaur. Tumak leads his men to attack and kill the animal. Akohba and the women with the children follow. The Shell Tribe hold off the beast with torches. Tumak's direct spear attack is futile. Akhoba advises Tumak to distract the dinosaur while the rest of the men climb to higher ground. They start a rockslide that kills the beast. The formerly despised Akhoba becomes recognized for his experience and wisdom. The two tribes unite as one. Tumak, Loana, and the rescued child are framed in the dawn of a new day.
Production.
Producer Hal Roach hired D. W. Griffith to produce this film and "Of Mice and Men", writing to him, "I need help from the production side to select the proper writers, cast, etc. and to help me generally in the supervision of these pictures."
Griffith reportedly wrote a script based on a French novel by Eugene Roche.
Although Griffith eventually disagreed with Roach over the production and parted, Roach later insisted that some of the scenes in the completed film were directed by Griffith. This would make the film the final production in which Griffith was actively involved. But cast members recall Griffith directing only the screen tests and costume tests. When Roach advertised the film in late 1939 with Griffith listed as producer, Griffith asked that his name be removed.
Victor Mature had just made his film debut in Hal Roach's "The Housekeeper's Daughter". Roach had signed him to a seven-year contract.
"Griffith did all the tests", recalled Mature. "He tested for six months. I don't know what he was looking for. They'd have been better off letting the old man direct the picture. One day he just wasn't around any more."
Lon Chaney Jr. had just made "Of Mice and Men" for Roach.
"I had to 'ugh' my way through that picture", said Mature.
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Musical Score and Best Special Effects (Roy Seawright, Elmer Raguse). The "dinosaurs" and "prehistoric mammals" seen in the film include a pig in a rubber "Triceratops" suit, a man in an "Allosaurus" suit, a young elephant with fake tusks and fur made to look like a woolly mammoth, muskoxen, a nine-banded armadillo with glued-on horns, a baby alligator with a "Dimetrodon"-like sail glued on its back, a rhinoceros iguana, a snake, a coati, a monitor lizard, an "Anolis" lizard and an Argentine black and white tegu.
Reception.
The film drew mixed reviews from critics. B. R. Crisler of "The New York Times" called the film "a masterpiece of imaginative fiction...You are almost certain to like something about 'One Million, B. C.'" "Variety" called it "corny", adding, "There isn't much sense to the action nor much interest in the characters." "Harrison's Reports" praised the "good technical work" and called the volcanic eruption "most thrilling", but said the storyline and romance were "slightly silly, and only tend to bore one." "Film Daily" called the film a "decided novelty" that was "full of thrills" and had "excellent" direction. John Mosher of "The New Yorker" wrote, "Being skimpy with its dinosaurs, 'One Million B.C.' won't tickle the gizzards of paleontologists."
Legacy.
Footage from this film, as well as numerous unused scenes and outtakes, went into a stock footage library. This footage was then used by numerous companies through the years by producers who wanted to save money on costly special effects shots in films that featured dinosaurs. Even a few Westerns used footage of rockslides and volcanoes from this film. Because of this, footage from this film appeared in numerous films throughout the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. These films include "Tarzan's Desert Mystery" (1943), one of the chapters of the serial film "Superman" (1948), "Atom Man vs. Superman" (1950), "Two Lost Worlds" (1950), "The Lost Volcano" (1950; one of the films in the "Bomba, the Jungle Boy" series), the American version of "Godzilla Raids Again" (1955) known as "Gigantis the Fire Monster" (1959), "Jungle Manhunt" (1951; one of the films in the "Jungle Jim" series), "Smoky Canyon" (1952), the "Yesterday's World" episode of "The Schaefer Century Theatre" (1952), "Untamed Women" (1952), "Robot Monster" (1953), "The Lost Planet" (1953), "King Dinosaur" (1955), the Three Stooges short film "Space Ship Sappy" (1957), "Teenage Caveman" (1958), "She Demons" (1958), "Valley of the Dragons" (1961), "Journey to the Center of Time" (1967), "Horror of the Blood Monsters" (1970; the stock footage was tinted in color for this film), the Mexican films "Island of the Dinosaurs" ("La isla de los dinosaurios" 1967), "Adventure at the Center of the Earth" ("Aventura al centro de la tierra"; 1966) and "The Ghost Jesters" ("Los fantasmas burlones"; 1964), "One Million AC/DC" (1970), "TerrorVision" and "Attack of the B Movie Monster" (1989). The technique of using optically enlarged lizards and baby crocodilians to represent dinosaurs has been given the nickname of "slurpasaur" by fans.
The film was remade as "One Million Years B.C." (1966) starring John Richardson as Tumak and Raquel Welch as Loana. The external scenes were filmed in the Canary Islands.
The film features several scenes of animal cruelty, including a baby alligator with a "Dimetrodon"-like sail glued to its back made to fight against a tegu, which is severely injured. This film caused the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) to ban many of the treatments of animals that occurred during the production.
The film has been colorized.


Three Little Fishies

Three Little Fishies", also known as "Three Little Fishes", is a 1939 song with words by Josephine Carringer and Bernice Idins and music by Saxie Dowell. The song tells the story of three fishes, who defy their mother's command of swimming only in a meadow, by swimming over a dam and on out to sea, where they encounter a shark, which the fish describe as a whale. They flee for their lives and return to the meadow in safety.
The song was a US No. 1 hit for Kay Kyser and His Band in 1939. It was released in the UK as a 78 by British comedian Frankie Howerd, on the short-lived UK Harmony label, in 1949. It was revived in 2012 by Ray Stevens for inclusion in his 108-song box set, "The Encyclopedia of Recorded Comedy Music".
Other recordings.
Canadian children's singers Sharon Lois and Bram recorded the song for their 1984 LP "Mainly Mother Goose"


The Angry Beavers

The Angry Beavers is an American animated television series created by Mitch Schauer for Nickelodeon. The series revolves around Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two young beaver brothers who have moved out of their parents' home to become bachelors in the forest near the fictional Wayouttatown, Oregon. The show premiered in the United States on April 19, 1997, and ended on June 11, 2001. The series has also appeared in syndication on Nickelodeon Canada. The complete series has also been released on DVD in Region 1 by Shout! Factory.
There was often tension between Schauer and Nickelodeon, with the channel imposing seemingly arbitrary restrictions on the show's content, including bleeping out the words "Shut up!" in the premiere episode. The show was very popular and was renewed for four seasons, but Schauer continued to push against the network's Standards and Practices division. In the final episode, "Bye Bye Beavers", the Beavers are informed by mail that their show is cancelled, and they openly criticize the network for cancelling shows and re-running them for years. The final set of episodes were not aired in the original run, and only showed up when the show aired on the Nicktoons channel. "Bye Bye Beavers" has never been aired.
Production.
"The Angry Beavers" was the brainchild of Mitch Schauer, and was co-developed by Keith Kaczorek. Prior to the series, Schauer was originally an assistant storyboard artist for other Nickelodeon shows, such as "The Ren & Stimpy Show", "Rocko's Modern Life", and "Hey Arnold!". Schauer also storyboarded 8 episodes of the 1992 "Addams Family" television series. "The Angry Beavers" was inspired from Schauer's early years in Oklahoma when he was homeless and often spotted beavers in a nearby river.
Schauer also stated that cartoons such as "The Pink Panther", "The Flintstones", and "Rocky and Bullwinkle" were the primary influences for the show.
"The Angry Beavers" was the final (and most notable) animated series produced by Gunther-Wahl Productions Inc., which was later shut down in 2001, after the series ended its run.
Home media.
Nickelodeon and Amazon.com teamed up to release "The Angry Beavers" and other Nick shows on manufacture-on-demand DVD-R discs available exclusively through Amazon.com's CreateSpace arm.
"The Angry Beavers" sets, among others, were discontinued when Nick began releasing traditional DVDs of many of their series in association with Shout! Factory. The first DVD release for "Angry Beavers" was the Seasons 1 and 2 4-disc set on August 23, 2011. Season 3: Part 1 was released in a 2-disc set on February 28, 2012. Season 3: Part 2 was released in a 2-disc set on August 14, 2012. Season 4 (The Final Season) was released in a 2-disc set on February 4, 2014.
On July 30, 2013, Shout! Factory released the complete series set in Region 1.
In Australia, "The Angry Beavers" has been released on DVD by Viacom International Inc. and distributed by Beyond Home Entertainment.
Video games.
Though the series has no official video games, "The Angry Beavers" appeared in "Nicktoons Racing" for PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, PC, Game Boy Color, and Arcade, as playable characters. Norbert and Daggett had a cameo as a Trophy in "" and in "Nicktoons MLB" as well.


An Alligator Named Daisy

An Alligator Named Daisy is a 1955 British comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice, Diana Dors, Roland Culver and Stanley Holloway.
Plot.
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston (Sinden), an Englishman, is left with a pet alligator by another passenger who abandons it to him. Horrified, his first instinct is to get rid of it as soon as possible. However, he soon develops a bond with Moira (Carson), a young Irishwoman, which appears to be centred almost entirely around the animal. He soon discovers that Daisy is very tame and domesticated, and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
Once back in London, Weston struggles to keep Daisy under control – as she upsets his family, loses him his job at a department store and imperils his relationship with his fiancée Vanessa (Dors). He plans to get rid of Daisy, but the police and a pet shop refuse to take her so he abandons her in Regent's Park, later returning with a sense of guilt to rescue her. Owing to a mix-up, Daisy is packed along with the rest of his luggage and accompanies him to his prospective father-in-law's country house. There, Daisy escapes and causes mayhem, while the arrival of Moira's "husband" produces a surprising outcome for all of them.
Production.
The film was based on a novel published in 1954. Film rights were bought by Raymond Stross in November 1954. He wanted Diana Dors, Janette Scott and Kenneth Moore to star.
Filming took place at Pinewood Studios in May 1955. It was Dors' third movie with Thompson.
Critical reception.
The "TV Guide" wrote, "This very funny film has an excellent supporting cast." "The New York Times" found that despite "a curiously cute bit by Margaret Rutherford, as a pet-shop owner who talks to the animals in their own "language."...the joke wears thin."


I Am an Animal

I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA was a 2007 documentary about Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and her crusade for animal rights. It premiered on November 19, 2007 on HBO. Production credits include Matthew Galkin (director and producer), Sheila Nevins (executive producer), Steven Cantor (producer), and Mikaela Beardsley (producer).
In the film, Newkirk expresses her goal of "total animal liberation," her solidarity with Animal Liberation Front, and states that footage PETA obtains surreptitiously "has the potential to save the world". The film includes a personal perspective on the life of Ingrid Newkirk and her daily routine of balancing her own life and protecting the life of animals. It exposes her willingness to go to the extreme in her fight for animal rights. Due to her commitment and dedication to the fight for ethical treatment of animals, Ingrid Newkirk illustrates why PETA is one of the most successful animal rights organizations. Matthew Galkin was asked in an interview why he chose to film this documentary, and he claimed that it was a classic David and Goliath story of advocating on the behalf of animals. He wanted to raise awareness and encourage animal rights activism.


Smoked Hams

Smoked Hams is the 21st animated cartoon short subject in the "Woody Woodpecker" series. Released theatrically on April 28, 1947, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Plot.
Wally Walrus is, for some reason, sleeping in the day. He is a "quiet day sleeper," but then we pan to Woody's room that says he is a "quiet night sleeper." He is snoring, and has some problems waking up before the wooden boy on his cuckoo clock pours water on him, which he coughs on before waking up. He yawns very loudly, before he hears birds singing outside. He enjoys this, and declares that he is going to mow the lawn.
Just as he is going outside, he is stopped by Wally Walrus, who asks if the woodpecker could possibly make any more noise. Woody physically makes noise with a whole drum set before sounding his trademark laughter. He smooches Wally and leaves the area.
Woody is now mowing his lawn while comically singing "I've Been Working on the Railroad." Wally is frustrated at this noise, and puts on earmuffs, a white ribbon, and eventually goes under his blanket. He jumps out of bed and walks over to look outside his window. He pulls out a grenade, chews off the safety pin, and drops it off. Woody finds out about this, pulls out a slingshot, and fires it back to Wally's side. It spins in mid-air in plain sight, which Wally doesn't notice until he realizes it's back there and looks at it a second time. He grabs it and holds it to his ear to see if it's still idling. He shakes it impatiently before it starts to tick. The grenade eventually explodes, leaving Wally's face blackened in soot after he "disappears" for a while.
Woody doesn't have anything else to do, so he takes a rake out of the open shed and walks off. He then rapidly rakes up piles of leaves, dashing all over the backyard. He pops out of the finished pile and takes out a match. He uses his own neck to light the match, and intentionally burns all of the leaves. He runs away and throws a tire onto the pile. He throws all kinds of items onto the pile to intensify the heat.
The smoke from the burning pile of leaves goes through Wally's bedroom window. As soon as Wally snores, he ends up making smoke rings from this smoke. The second time he snores, he ends up violently coughing on the smoke. He angrily closes his window to keep the smoke out of his bedroom. Unfortunately, there is a hole in the side of the house which the smoke passes through to get into the bedroom. Wally coughs on the smoke again, and then puts a framed picture in the way of the hole. The picture, which has a train on a sunny area, starts puffing smoke and begins to run. Woody is on the last truck of this train, waving goodbye. Wally is confused and throws off the picture.
There is a vase lid which Wally shoves into the hole after this. Unfortunately, the lid pops off, and flies into Wally's mouth. He angrily hammers many wood planks all over the hole. He looks back vigilantly after walking a few steps away, but then his pajamas get filled with smoke coming out of a hole in the floor that bursts out from his chest. He tries to clear all the smoke with his bare hands, and then uses the back leg of his bed to plug the hole. He jumps on it and sleeps in.
The smoke is now able to pop off the knob of this leg and keep fuming out. Wally realizes this and tries to plug the hole with his hand many times. The knobs of other legs pop off from the force of the smoke, and then so do the holes on the front ribs of the bed, playing an organ rendition of Strauss' Dance of the Blue Danube. Wally now has to keep using his limbs, and then his entire head, to plug all the other holes, playing the rest of the song until the bed breaks into pieces.
Meanwhile, Woody has had the rest of the day to go on, and has to sleep in his bed. He suddenly falls through the floor and falls into a seat that turns out to be the centre of a "Tit for Tat Machine." Wally turns on the voltage, turning on the machine. All kinds of noisemakers are played in Woody's face and in his plain sight to torment him again and again. To end the cartoon, a wooden replica of a woodpecker plays his laugh and pecks him on his now-shaved head.


Just Ducky


Super Bowl LIII halftime show

The Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show, officially known as the Pepsi Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show, took place on February 3, 2019 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of Super Bowl LIII. It was headlined by American pop group Maroon 5, joined by rappers Big Boi and Travis Scott as guests.
Several musicians reportedly turned down offers to perform the show due to their support for Colin Kaepernick—who has accused the NFL and its franchises of colluding against him due to his national anthem protests against police brutality. As such, Maroon 5, Big Boi, and Scott, along with national anthem singer Gladys Knight, were criticized by fans and critics for accepting the invitation. In response to the controversy, Scott only agreed to participate if the NFL made a donation to a charity supporting social justice, and Maroon 5 later announced a similar donation to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
In response to an online petition, a brief clip featuring the cast of "SpongeBob SquarePants" (referencing an episode that, itself, centered around a halftime show) was shown as a tribute to the show's creator, Stephen Hillenburg, who had died in November 2018.
The show itself received largely negative reviews. Critics considered it to be boring and underwhelming, and argued that the choice of Maroon 5 was intended to be "safe" and uncontroversial in the wake of the Kaepernick controversy.
Background.
As early as September 2018, multiple sources had reported that Maroon 5 were to headline the Super Bowl LIII halftime show, but the NFL had not yet made an official announcement. In October 2018, it was reported that Pink and Rihanna had each declined an offer to headline, the former because the negotiation process was too lengthy for her taste and the latter due to her support of Colin Kaepernick. In December, "Billboard" reported that Houston-based rapper Travis Scott was expected to make a guest appearance.
On January 13, 2019, the NFL officially announced that Maroon 5 would headline the show, joined by Scott and Big Boi, an Atlanta native and member of the hip-hop duo Outkast. In an interview, Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine explained that the band wanted to bring the halftime show "back to a time when it was a little more simple, when the focus was the connection to the songs."
After the death of Stephen Hillenburg, creator of the Nickelodeon cartoon "SpongeBob SquarePants", on November 26, 2018, an online petition emerged requesting that David Glen Eisley's song "Sweet Victory"—featured in the episode "Band Geeks", which followed Squidward Tentacles as he organized an ensemble to perform the halftime show at the "Bubble Bowl"—be performed at the show. By December 24, 2018, the petition on Change.org had over one million signatures, and the Twitter account of Mercedes-Benz Stadium also acknowledged the campaign. During the halftime show, a short animation featuring Squidward, Mr. Krabs, Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob, and Patrick, as well as footage of the Bikini Bottom band from the episode, was used to introduce Scott for his performance of "Sicko Mode". According to animator Nico Colaleo, the animation was completed in a few days.
Controversy.
Maroon 5, Scott, and Big Boi faced criticism for their decision to perform at the halftime show, due to the alleged blacklisting of Colin Kaepernick by the NFL and its franchises for protesting police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem before games. Several artists—including Jay-Z, Cardi B, and Rihanna—reportedly turned down offers to headline the show as a display of solidarity. A petition was organized calling for Maroon 5 to drop out of the show and accusing them of "choosing to side with the NFL over its players."
In an interview, Kaepernick's attorney, Mark Geragos, compared Maroon 5's participation to strikebreaking, and argued that if the band wanted to cross the "intellectual picket line", they needed to "own it", explaining that "if anything, it's a cop out when you start talking about, 'I'm not a politician, I'm just doing the music.' Most of the musicians who have any kind of consciousness whatsoever understand what's going on here."
A week before the game, the halftime show's press conference was cancelled by the NFL. Although the league stated that Maroon 5 had wanted to focus on their preparations for the show, media outlets theorized that the band was trying to avoid the possibility of having to discuss the controversy. In an interview with "Entertainment Tonight", Levine discussed the band's decision to accept the gig and explained, "I silenced all the noise and listened to myself and made my decision based upon how I felt... I'm not in the right profession if I can't handle a little bit of controversy. It's what it is. We expected it. We'd like to move on from it and speak through the music".
In response to the controversy, Scott agreed to participate in the halftime show only if the NFL joined him in donating $500,000 to Dream Corps, an organization founded by Van Jones that supports social justice efforts. Maroon 5 subsequently announced that they had joined with the NFL and their label Interscope Records to donate the same amount to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
Reception.
Dominic Patten of "Deadline Hollywood" called the show "terrible" and stated it lacked "lift-off or soul." Writing for Yahoo! Entertainment, Lyndsey Parker called it the "dullest ... most underwhelming and instantly forgettable halftime show of all time." Alex Suskind of "Entertainment Weekly" called it "lackluster" and "boring". Greg Kot of "The Baltimore Sun" called it an "empty-calorie display of corporate-pop competence." Clémence Michallon of "The Independent" gave it two stars out of five and stated it "failed to impress."
Jon Caramanica of "The New York Times" felt that "in a performance that was dynamically flat, mushy at the edges, worthy of something much worse than derision: a shrug. It was an inessential performance from a band that might have lost some moral authority if it had any moral authority to lose." Rhian Daly of "NME" said it was "surprise-free, trite, and soulless" and "with Maroon 5's set, [Levine]'s given the world an easy target – one that's boring, trite, and saying absolutely nothing of any value whatsoever." Jake Nevins of "The Guardian" also gave the performance two out of five stars, writing "Adam Levine's torso can't save tedious affair." However, Kevin Coffey of the "Omaha World-Herald" said "it was exactly what it needed to be."
Maeve McDermott of "USA Today" observed that the performance felt "safe" and "dialed-in", with "zero surprises and nothing that could add to the headache the league has already endured", and noting that Maroon 5's portions of the show relied heavily on early hits from their debut album rather than newer material (aside from "Sugar" and "Moves Like Jagger"). Feeling that the guest artists were more exciting (although noting Scott's portion, due to the "SpongeBob SquarePants" introduction and crowd surfing exit, was the only "genuinely weird" moment of the show), she wrote that the choice of Maroon 5 as headliner was "misguided" for a Super Bowl held in Atlanta, the "nexus of hip-hop", and that the show was "distinctive only for how uncontroversial it was, how wholly a missed opportunity it represented, and how much of Levine's truly abysmal dance moves we were all forced to watch."
The short clip featuring the cast of "SpongeBob SquarePants" was noted as a highlight of the show by several news outlets. However, fans of the animated show had a mixed reaction, with many expressing disappointment on social media that Maroon 5 did not play the song "Sweet Victory" as requested by the online petition.
Fifty-five complaints were sent to the FCC over the halftime show, due to a sequence in which Levine removed his shirt. The complaints alleged that it was a double standard for CBS to be fined for briefly showing a female breast on-air during a previous halftime show, but not receive equal or greater punishment for showing male breasts on air.
In 2021, Patrick Ryan of "USA Today" retrospectively wrote that it ranks among the worst halftime shows of the 2010s.
Setlist.
Setlist adapted from "Sports Illustrated", CBS Sports, and Yahoo! News


Mary Gervaise


Mother Pluto

Mother Pluto is a Silly Symphonies cartoon released on November 14, 1936, directed by David Hand. The cartoon features Pluto.
Plot.
The cartoon starts out in a farmyard with a hen in Pluto's doghouse. She notices a butterfly and goes after it, after hiding all of the eggs under the hay in Pluto's doghouse so that no one will steal them. Once she leaves, Pluto returns and gnaws a bone to his doghouse.
He feels something underneath him and hears some noise. That's when a chick hatched and Pluto is very surprised. All of the other chicks hatch and follow Pluto outside. He tries to escape by going over the fence but the chicks go through the fence holes to follow him.
The chicks play with Pluto until they get distracted by a grasshopper and Pluto takes advantage of this to get away from the chick but
when he notices one of the chicks upset after swallowing the grasshopper he comforts it and starts to enjoy being a mother. The hen comes back into Pluto's doghouse only to notice that her chicks have hatched and are gone. After finding them with Pluto she and Pluto argue over the chicks. The hen goes to a rooster to help her get back her chicks. The rooster, and Pluto fight as the chicks go in his doghouse. Pluto tired after the battle returns to his doghouse. He reminisces about his time with the chicks until they appear.
Pluto embraces them and they live happily ever after.
Comic adaptations.
The "Silly Symphony" Sunday comic strip ran a two-month-long adaptation of "Mother Pluto" from August 14 to October 16, 1938.
Home media.
The short was released on December 4, 2001 on "".


Weasel While You Work

Weasel While You Work is a 1958 Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" animated short directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on September 6, 1958, and features Foghorn Leghorn and the Barnyard Dawg. The weasel seen in this short previously appeared in "Plop Goes the Weasel" (1953) and "Weasel Stop" (1956).
Unlike many Foghorn shorts, this one takes place during the winter. The title is a pun on the phrase "whistle while you work".
Plot.
At wintertime, Foghorn grabs Barnyard Dawg from his doghouse, coats him in snow, and puts snowman decorations on him. Dawg emerges from the snowman and says he'll "moidah da bum!". He sharpens one of Foghorn's ice skates, which causes Foghorn to fall through the ice when he skates a circle. In revenge, Foghorn rolls a snowball down the hill toward Dawg, who moves out of the way, doghouse and all, just before the now giant snowball hits a curve and flies back at Foghorn, burying him. Foghorn emerges, declaring "That dog's like taxes. He just don't know when to stop".
Suddenly, Foghorn is attacked by a ravenously hungry weasel who gnaws Foghorn's leg. Foghorn grabs the weasel and asks him if he wouldn't prefer some venison. Foghorn slips antlers onto Dawg's head and directs the weasel to him. The weasel attacks Dawg's leg. Dawg notices the antlers and removes them, and asks the weasel how he'd like some frozen chicken.
Foghorn is knocked unconscious when his sled hits a log Dawg has placed in his path. While Foghorn is down, Dawg covers him in water, which freezes him. Dawg tells weasel to eat hearty, so the weasel hits the frozen Foghorn with an axe. Foghorn says he's got a splitting headache and falls in half. To get revenge, Foghorn traps Dawg in a corset and gives him to the weasel to cook. While being peppered, Dawg sneezes, which causes an avalanche of snow to fall on him. A furious Dawg tells the weasel that he's a dog and that he should get a chicken instead ("What you want is a chicken! R-A-T. Chicken."). Later, the skiing Foghorn hits a tall pole and slides into a cooking pot, where the weasel is hungrily waiting. Foghorn bolts, but Dawg hands a club to the weasel, who chases Foghorn until he is distracted by a huge Foghorn ice statue, which he proceeds to gnaw on.
The real Foghorn, watching from behind a tree, thinks his troubles are over until at least the Fourth of July. In the final setpiece, Foghorn pulls on what he thinks is Barnyard Dawg's tail from his doghouse, but it's revealed to be a lit rocket that shoots Foghorn into the sky. As the cartoon ends, Dawg remarks: "The Fourth of July came a little "oily" this year! Heh heh heh...".
Cartoon Network region error.
In 2016, Cartoon Network USA accidentally used the Russian dubbed version of the short instead of the English version and ran it several times. The regional incident was a mistake to Cartoon Network.
Critical response.
According to Michael Samerdyke, "Weasel While You Work" is "a very strong late Foghorn Leghorn cartoon ... The only jarring note, as several writers have noted, is the music by John Seely", which Samerdyke says is ill-suited to the Warner Bros. style.
The short was reviewed in "Hollywood Classics", volume 23.
Notes.
This is one of six cartoons scored by using stock music by John Seely of Capitol Records from the Hi-Q library because of a musicians' strike in 1958. The others are "A Bird in a Bonnet", "Hook, Line and Stinker", "Pre-Hysterical Hare", "Gopher Broke", and "Hip Hip-Hurry!".
Mel Blanc supplied the voices of Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dawg, and the weasel.


One Pound Fish

"One Pound Fish", often stylised as "£1 Fish", is a novelty song performed by British-based Pakistani fish trader and recording artist Muhammad Shahid Nazir, credited as One Pound Fish Man. It was released on 7 December 2012 for download in the United Kingdom, reaching number 28 in the UK Singles Chart, number 4 in the UK Dance Chart, and number 1 in the UK Asian Chart.
Background.
Following brief employment at a pound shop, Muhammad Shahid Nazir, a Pakistani immigrant to UK, originating from the town of Pattoki in Punjab, who had settled in East London, began work on a fish stall at Queen's Market, Upton Park where his employer instructed him to use a trader's call to attract customers. He soon composed the song "One Pound Fish".
It became an internet smash and a viral video after passing customers uploaded videos of Nazir performing his song onto YouTube.
A music video to accompany the release of "One Pound Fish" was first released on 10 December 2012 at a total length of two minutes and thirty-six seconds. It featured Bollywood-style dancers and an appearance from former weather forecaster Michael Fish.
In 2012 it was rumoured that Nazir had been deported to Pakistan after his visa had expired, although this was not the case.
Covers and remixes.
The song has since been covered by many artists including Alesha Dixon. Mindless Behavior performed it live on the BBC Radio 1Xtra Breakfast Show, and
both Timbaland and Boy Better Know made remixes sampling from the song.


Zarafa (film)

Zarafa is a 2012 French-Belgian animated film directed by Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie. It was released on 8 February 2012 in France. The story was inspired by a historical giraffe known today as Zarafa.
Plot.
The film is framed by a village elder (Vernon Dobtcheff) telling a story to a group of eager children.
Set in the early 19th Century, the story tells of Maki (Max Renaudin), a ten-year-old orphaned Sudanese boy who has been sold into slavery with his friend Soula. He escapes the villainous slave trader Moreno (Thierry Frémont) and comes across a young giraffe and its mother. Moreno catches up to Maki and kills the mother giraffe. Maki promises the calf's mother that he'll protect and nurture her. Just as Moreno is about to take him to his slave camp, Hassan, a Bedouin nomad (Simon Abkarian), intervenes and saves his life. Maki follows Hassan as soon as he takes the giraffe with him. Hassan names the giraffe Zarafa (Arabic for "giraffe") and reluctantly agrees to take care of Maki and Zarafa. They come across a merchant, Mahmoud, who gives them two Tibetan cows, Mounh and Sounh. Maki discovers Soula being forced into slave labor by Moreno. When the evil man turns his attention on Maki, Soula hits him with a palm leaf, but before Moreno can beat her with his whip, Maki cries out for her and Hassan steps in. Maki thanks Hassan for saving him.
Hassan is on a mission to the Pasha of Egypt, Mehemet Ali, who wants to offer a young giraffe to the King of France, Charles X, to convince him to unite his country against the Turks besieging Alexandria. Maki and Hassan join together with the aeronaut Malaterre (François-Xavier Demaison), who agrees to take Zarafa to Paris via a hot air balloon. Hassan convinces Maki to leave Zarafa, but Malaterre thinks otherwise, seeing Maki's determination, and takes the boy with them. The basket gets heavy, so the cows jump overboard, and Hassan unwittingly tosses Maki after them, as Maki is hidden in a bale of hay. Maki and the two cows land on a pirate ship, where they come across the pirate queen Bouboulina and her ragtag crew. Maki explains that he is in pursuit of a treasure of great value aboard the balloon. Instead of taking him prisoner, Bouboulina welcomes Maki to her crew. Meanwhile, Moreno is determined to hunt down Maki and arrives on shore with Soula in tow. Bouboulina and her crew rescue Maki and scare off Moreno and his henchmen. The group continues on their journey. During a perilous crossing of the mountains where the balloon crashed, one of the cows is taken by a pack of wolves.
Hassan, Maki, Malaterre, and the surviving cow eventually reach Paris. The cynical King Charles accepts the gift but refuses to help the Pasha. Zarafa is shut away in the city zoo, and Maki stays firm about returning the giraffe to her home. Moreno kidnaps him and forces him to work in his household. Hassan is ashamed that he had failed his mission and mortified to have lost Maki, so he sinks into despair and alcohol. As several years pass, Zarafa's appearance causes "giraffe mania" and she grows up. Maki finds himself at zoo with Soula. King Charles is receiving a new hippopotamus, and, remembering an experience he had with one before meeting Hassan, Maki tells Soula to hold up her parasol. Maki does the same and the hippo squirts a colossal pile of dung onto King Charles and his subjects, giving the children enough time to make a getaway. They manage to find Malaterre and Maki plans to escape with Zarafa in the hot air balloon. The trio locate Hassan, but the nomad is unable to help them, since he has become an alcoholic. They rush to free Zarafa, but now she is too large to fit into the balloon. Maki realizes that he must give up Zarafa and escape with Soula. Moreno appears and prepares to kill Maki, but Hassan steps in to protect them and is shot. Aided by Malaterre, Maki and Soula escape in the balloon. Moreno gives chase, but the two friends bite him and he falls off the basket and into an enclosure where he is devoured by a polar bear. Maki and Soula return home, marry, and found a flourishing new village. Hassan, treated at the hospital, survives his wounds and falls in love with Bouboulina.
As it turns out, the storyteller is actually Maki himself.
Background and controversy.
The film was based on the historical event, of the Giraffe given to Charles X of France by Muhammad Ali of Egypt, and Rémi Bezançon wanted to make a film of it as soon as he heard about it, and was also keen to explore the issue of slavery in a film.
The film was accused of distorting the historical facts about how the giraffe was treated, and the Museum d'histoire naturelle created a temporary exhibition entitled "The True story of Zarafa" to present its own version of history. But mostly it received positive reviews from critics.


Ox Tales

Ox Tales, also known as , is an anime television series produced by Telecable Benelux B.V. and Cosmos Studio in association with Saban Entertainment. It was a co-production between Japan and the Netherlands based on a Dutch comic strip "Boes" created by Wil Raymakers and Thijs Wilms. The series ran on the Japanese network TV Tokyo from April 7, 1987–March 29, 1988. It consists of 102 15-minute episodes, that were regularly broadcast as 51 half-hour shows of two episodes each. The series currently has two English dubs. The 1989 dub produced by Saban and the 2010 dub produced by m4e, the current owner of the Telescreen library. "Ox Tales" is still remained to appear as a column strip in several Dutch daily and weekly newspapers.
Plot.
The series follows the adventures of Ollie the Ox as he runs the Funny Farm, containing possibly every animal known, with his best friend Jack, a turtle while told by a cynical toucan
Theme songs.
Japanese version.
"Kimi no freedom" (君のフリーダム）
"Joke DE mou dash" (ジョークDE猛ダッシュ)
Broadcast.
The series has been aired in several countries outside Japan and has been dubbed and subtitled in English and numerous other languages.
In the late 1990s, the series was planned to air on Fox Family in the United States. However this was scrapped for unknown reasons.
Regional releases.
A few episodes of the show were released on VHS in the early 1990s; the show was officially released on DVD in Portugal and Spain in 2006.