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Mar 29, 2023 · Garfield: His 9 Lives — Life No. 7 (4K Remaster)Upscaled with:ESRGAN, 2x_BIGOLDIES_415000_G.pth modelTopaz Video AI, Gaia modelSpecial thanks to @OldClassicG...
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Jan 6, 2013 · From the 1988 tv special Garfield: his 9 lives, garfield's 7th life has him as a lab animal where he is transformed by an injection into a dog.
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Sorry about the atrocious interlacing. I tried to fix it, but it's beyond my knowledge.If you would like to request a character for me to make a Complete Ani...
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14 hours ago · September 05, 2024 at 8:16 am PDT. + Caption. (James Lynch, KIRO Newsradio) SEATTLE — Seattle Public Schools students returned to class Wednesday, including those at Garfield High School ...
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is the eighth animated and ninth total Garfield television special.
Each of the nine stories has a short preface of Garfield in his modern incarnation, explaining how these various lives shaped aspects of Garfield's personality, such as the origin of his fear of the veterinarian, his love of destructive behavior, his proclivity for a slothful lifestyle, and his extremely playful side.
In The Beginning
God wants to create cats. He gives his staff instructions on the physical appearance of the cat. He suggests that its eyes should glow in the dark and that it should land on its feet. God plans to give cats six eyes, but the crew tell him that only two eyes are available. God's staff talk about different features on the cat's face. God congratulates them for creating "the perfect animal". His staff become surprised as God then tells them to give the cat nine lives. After the staff ask why (since everyone else gets only one), God tells them that it would make a good story, as the screen fades to black.
Cave Cat
Garfield comes onto the screen, holding a bone in his hand, and tells the viewer that he formed many of his likes and dislikes in his first life. He says he disliked his rock bed while he enjoyed the size of the Pteranodon drumsticks. A narrator tells the viewer that ten million years ago, the first cat crawled out of the sea. He also says that everything crawled out of the sea such as the first snake, chicken, crabgrass, and real estate agent. A female cave cat crawls out of the sea and attracts Cave Cat who chases her and bumps into a caveman's leg, who then grips it in pain and hops off, whilst saying "Cat!" (apparently caveman talk for "Darn it!"). In another scenario, a volcano makes the sound "Foom!". Cave Cat says it twice but after thinking more, he thinks of "Meyw" and repeats the sound as he walks away; this scenario being described how Cave Cat first learned to vocalize. Later, the caveman from earlier approaches Cave Cat and puts a collar with a leash on him. Cave Cat starts fighting and is bashed on the head while the caveman shouts "Good Cat"; the narrator describes this as the first domestication of cats. The narrator then says that Cave Cat learned to live with the cavemen and spend his time as modern day cats do; the viewer sees him chasing a mouse who goes into a hole in a rock. Cave Cat sticks his hand in and is burned when the mouse was revealed to be a fire breathing mouse. Later, another caveman is showing the main caveman a simple trick using his thumb, the narrator saying that it was a simple time when people had to entrtain themselves. Suddenly a tremor occurs and the two cavemen are crushed by the rocks they are sitting on; they emerge and tell Cave Cat that "Big Bob" is coming. The cavemen run before "Big Bob" (who resembles Odie) appears. Big Bob slobbers onto Cave Cat and runs away. Cave Cat shouts and threatens Big Bob saying that he will beat him up. Big Bob returns with a tree, wanting to play fetch and drops the tree unto Cave Cat, crushing him. The life ends there.
King Cat
Garfield, with a Pharaoh's crook in hand, explains that in ancient Egypt, cats were considered to be gods (due to their relationship with the cat goddess Bastet) and worshipped as such. The story focuses on King Cat, the favored feline pet of dimwitted King Amenhotep III (or "Junior" as King Cat called him). King Cat begins the day by having his slave dogs, led by Odie, carry him on his throne to pyramids as they are being built. When the slaves see King Cat, they immediately stop to bow in reverence, forgetting the stone block they are lifting and one of them gets crushed by it as they do so. As the slaves carry their stone block over (with King Cat sitting on it), one of them falls to the ground in exhaustion. King Cat demands he get back to work, but the slave tells him that he should be more worried about himself. He points to hieroglyphics on the pyramid which show King Cat that should Junior die, he will be buried in the pyramid with all his worldly possessions, including his cat. Between Junior's lack of smarts and his evil brother Black Bart plotting to take the throne for himself, King Cat fears for his own life and swears to protect Junior. Riding Odie like a horse, King Cat returns in time to see Bart tricking Junior into walking through a fake door at the edge of his raised throne, which will send him falling to his death. King Cat manages to break Junior's fall, getting him crushed. A block then falls out of the throne and nearly crushes Junior until King Cat shoves him out of the way, getting crushed again. Junior berates King Cat for shoving him, which gets him angry until Odie holds him back. As Junior heads into his personal chamber, Bart drops a lit stick of dynamite in front of it. King Cat sees it and, not knowing what it is, but also not knowing Junior is in the chamber, unwittingly throws it inside where it blows and kills Junior, sealing his own fate. Junior's body is sealed into a sarcophagus and placed inside the completed pyramid, and King Cat is thrown in with him before Bart seals the door shut. Fortunately, Odie finds a loose block that allows him to get inside and rescue King Cat, and King Cat tells Odie that he will do anything to repay the favor. The story ends with Odie being worshipped as Bart's new favorite pet, and slave cats led by King Cat are pulling his throne as they head off to the pyramids.
•"Blues Cat" (performed by Lou Rawls)
•In Garfield: The Movie, the way Jon acquires Odie is similar to how he does in Garfield's eighth life.
•In the ninth life, the number on Space Cat's ship is 6/19, an allusion to the date of Garfield's birthday.
•Five lives from the book appear in this special.
•The book's fourth life was made into its own television special.
•Commander Mendelson is named after Lee Mendelson.
•The shot of young Garfield eating uncooked spaghetti is later used in the second theme song of Garfield and Friends.
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Nov 12, 1984 · Jim Davis puts some odd, strange and surreal spins on everybody's favorite orange cat. Learn about the creation of cat, Garfield's previous 7 lives, the current one and even a peek into his future! A must-have for Garfield fans!
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