Showing posts with label Screaming With Binky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Screaming With Binky. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Scripting With Binky

 

Oooh, man. Here's a cool treat for you guys.

Thanks to someone who requested to remain anonymous, I now have scripts (mostly the recording scripts) for every episode of Garfield and Friends. This includes every segment in the international package, along with production codes for most of the segments, and perhaps most interestingly of all... early dialogue!

The scripts I have for the first two seasons often have lines or entire gags crossed out that didn't make it to the final episode. Usually, this is just incidental stuff that was almost certainly cut for time. But sometimes we get more insight into a scene, or a funny one-liner that wasn't meant to be.

And the best part is... I can share excerpts from them with you!

I thought it'd be cool to start off with the dialogue script for one of Binky's famous screams. First, here's the original segment so you can follow along.


And now, here's the dialogue script, which reveals a great deal of dialogue that I'm assuming was shaved off of the final segment to tighten the timing. I really like the reveal of the park's name where the segment takes place -- Krebblemyer National Park. 




Did they make the right call? Scream out your opinion in the comments! But please, go easy on the stereo equipment.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

I'd Like it to Go, Please!

The Screaming With Binky "Pizza" segment has remained at the top of my Garfield "wants" list since I began this blog. A copy eventually turned up on YouTube, but the quality was poor and the last several seconds were missing. This was also the only Binky quickie I couldn't find any other trace of. I'd given up all hope...

Then, a fan unexpectedly reached out on a Patreon I've started for an unrelated project, and lo and behold... there it was, sitting among a trove of several dozen Garfield and Friends recordings, almost entirely from the CBS broadcasts. It's not the entire series, but it's given me a lot to write about!

The long lost "Pizza" segment is easily among Binky's best screams. The real highlight is the impressive tongue twister in Garfield's narration:

"Here at Portofino Pizzacato's Pepperoni Pizza Parlor, Portofino Pizzacato prepares pepperoni pizza. Practicing pepperoni pizza pitching requires almost as much skill as reading this page of script."

I can't tell who's showing off more -- Mark Evanier or Lorenzo Music? Probably both.

Enjoy this relic from Garfield's past, and please, whatever you do... don't put anchovies on your pizza. Even if Portofino has that as an option. That's just wrong, man.


Saturday, December 20, 2014

Screaming With Binky: Baseball

HEEEEEEEY BLOG READER! I've just obtained CBS premieres for episodes 26 and 27, so feast your eyes upon this clip as Binky the Clown screams at a baseball player for the first time since 1989!

Check it out at the official Garfield Restored page on Facebook, or take a look at the screenshots below!