A Garfield Christmas becoming increasingly popular in voice work. After the 1970s, she was working on "Legends of the Superheroes" and "Pound Puppies". The episode first aired on December 21, 1987. According to "Bustle", the special was rebroadcast every year until 2000. It often played along with the 1965 "Peanuts" special "A Charlie Brown Christmas." In 2004, "A Garfield Christmas" was released on the DVD "Garfield Holiday Celebrations", along with "Garfield's Halloween Adventure" and "Garfield's Thanksgiving". It appeared 23rd in TV DVD sales for the week of November 10, 2007. In 2014, "Entertainment Weekly" reported copies of the DVD "were selling on eBay
What a Cartoon! company to pay for the whole program. In addition to the eventual spin-offs, the "What a Cartoon!" short "Larry and Steve" by Seth MacFarlane featured prototypes of characters that would later go on to become MacFarlane's massively successful "Family Guy". The "What a Cartoon!" project and its assorted spin-offs brought Cartoon Network more commercial and critical success, and the network became an animation industry leader as the 1990s drew to a close. In 2001, coinciding with the death of William Hanna, Hanna-Barbera Productions merged with Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network opened its own production arm, Cartoon Network Studios, in