Garfield and Friends reruns have returned to Boomerang... albeit using the same cropped remasters as the app. There's not much noteworthy to discuss beyond that -- more U.S. Acres title cards are continuing to resurface in their original form, and Retrovision plastering continues to take place in light of non-extant master elements.
This particular instance seen below is unique. Delgado reports on Discord that when Show 49 ran today, the first 2/3 were remastered, but the final segment "Beddy Buy" got Retrovisioned. Real shame the master for this one has ceased to exist. Always was one of my favorite episodes.On the flip side, it appears a long-standing title card mystery has been resolved. A copy of "The Farmyard Feline Philosopher" I obtained a few years ago suggested that the U.S. Acres characters were officially removed from their logo a second time, but I had no further originals to confirm it. Fast forward to a recent rerun of Show 120, and there's no trace whatsoever of Orson and the gang on "Newsworthy Wade"... (well, except for Wade himself obviously). Show 121's logo is still up in the air, but I think it's fair to assume for now that this change was permanent the second time around.
A lot of other things have been going on in the world of Garfield lately besides these Boomerang reruns. Season DVDs are coming out (with the remastered episodes), and Viacom has acquired Paws Inc. My motivation to keep the blog going has started dwindling again though, but maybe I've got another post in me to talk about this deal. We'll just have to see.
Screenshots courtesy of Delgado and Platypus Comix.
Maybe Viacom has a chance to restore Garfield and Friends back to its original uncropped format.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Viacom knows how to take care of IP properties well, so they might restore it back to its DVD version
ReplyDeleteThere's at least one more episode that has the Retrovision treatment, according to ToonZone, and that is episode 106 having one segment done in Retrovision. Given they're using the broadcast order, and the opening uses clips from this episode's US Acres segments, the final episode to use this will either be "The Legend of Johnny Ragweedseed" or "Catch As Cats Can't".
ReplyDeleteAnd on the topic of that episode 120 rerun. That airing was actually a mistake: a Care Bears marathon pre-empted Garfield's slot the day before, and they forgot which episode was going to come next in that order.
DeleteSomeone has made a season 7 intro remaster https://youtu.be/OG9EobfbtAg
ReplyDeleteI've heard that the newly released season one DVDs actually contain the original broadcast versions of the episodes including the missing quickies, i'll be buying the set to check myself.
ReplyDeleteOk, here's a little mystery that's been bugging me for years. In the DVD version of the episode where the talking car falls in live with Jon, she says "you're cat is overweight" when Garfield sits in her. I am absolutely 100% certain that in the original CBS broadcast she instead said "your cat is too fat."
ReplyDeleteThere's another mystery surrounding the episode about Garfield's poem about Jon being a fat king who gets paid his weight in gold - the DVD version surprisingly uses the word "jackass" when the bad guy gets turned into a donkey at the end - I am absolutely certain that I would have remembered if they said that in the syndicated version of the episode I saw multiple times as a kid, so can anyone confirm whether or not something was changed from the international version here?
Garfield and Friends is now on Pluto TV
ReplyDelete...same crappy remasters however.
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