Boy, a lot's happened since I last updated this blog! People may know me as the Nickelodeon guy now, but there's still a little Garfield in me. Last night, I was thinking about Garfield's opening lines at the end of the show as a Garfield and Friends tape was digitizing, and I realized that Garfield's lines in the syndication package are inconsistent across the map and don't match up with the CBS broadcasts or international syndication.
As I discovered in 2022, some of Garfield's "teaser" lines didn't even make it to the international package but are retained in syndication.
As I've discovered, several of Garfield's opening lines in the syndication package were borrowed from later episodes that otherwise weren't syndicated. Some were shuffled around, while others were only aired once or never syndicated at all. It's a crazy mess, but I've tried to make sense of it all in this spreadsheet below. Opening lines that were not used in international prints/DVD/9Story's restorations are written in bold text.
I'll update it as new discoveries are made. And no, it won't take five years.
