Garfield's Halloween Adventure

"Garfield's Halloween Adventure" is the fourth episode out of the 12 Garfield specials based off the iconic Jim Davis comic strip. It aired on CBS on October 30, 1985.

Plot
Garfield wakes up early in the morning watching Binky the Clown on TV, and learns that it's actually Halloween, and he becomes very excited about trick-or-treating that day. Garfield tricks Odie into thinking dogs are required to trick-or-treat with cats and give almost all of their candy to them, save one piece of candy for the dog. Odie is tempted by the minimal reward, and Garfield and Odie head for the attic to find costumes in an old trunk. After considering a number of options, Garfield decides that Odie and him will be pirates.

Why It Deserves Halloween Candy

 * 1) The four songs Garfield sings in the special are all extremely catchy and great to listen/dance to.
 * 2) Garfield constantly changing his mind on what food he'll have for breakfast before getting the Halloween candy was pretty funny and very faithful, along with him and Odie acting like pirates and them getting scared by all the Halloween costumes.
 * 3) Good Moral: As Garfield says to Odie in the pumpkin head, "It's not nice to scare people, ya know".
 * 4) Seeing Garfield in many different costumes when figuring out what he wants to be for Halloween all look pretty cool, along with Odie's pirate costume and the ones the neighborhood kids have.
 * 5) Watching the montage of Garfield and Odie going trick-or-treating and getting lots and lots of candy was well-deserved.
 * 6) "Arrgh! Shiver me timbers, land ho!" - Garfield acting like a pirate.
 * 7) The "haunted" mansion looks pretty decent and scary enough (especially considering that it's over 100 years old), but the 100-year-old backstory the old man tells Garfield and Odie about a band pirates signing a blood oath to return 100 years later and burying their treasure is really scary, and even more so when actually seeing the pirates' ghost spirits.
 * 8) Good Ending: Although it was about to be bad with Garfield almost drowning due to his inability to swim, Odie and him at least escaped from the ghost spirits and find the boat they sailed to the mansion, Carolyn, along with their stashes of candy, and so they walk back to their house. Then, he rewards Odie with half of his candy for frequently rescuing him, turns on the television to find the old man he came across in the mansion and it ends with him turning the TV off and going to sleep.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) Binky the Clown saying on the TV that you'll become worthless when you grow up if you don't do exercise was a bit mean-spirited and completely false information, along with the old man of the "haunted" mansion taking Garfield and Odie's pirate ship for no reason.

Reception

 * It holds a rating of 8.3/10 on IMDB, 93% on Google Users & a 4.8 on Amazon.

Trivia

 * This special was originally called "Garfield in Disguise", but got changed to "Garfield's Halloween Adventure" (with a new title card) for subsequent re-airings.
 * Garfield sings a variation of the sea shanty, "Dead Man's Chest", "Over the Raging Sea We Go".
 * Garfield's pirate name, Orangebeard, is a parody of the name Blackbeard.
 * There's a book adaptation of the same name which came out the same year.
 * It marks the first ever appearance of Binky the Clown, with the next being "Garfield and Friends" in television & a 1986 comic strip altogether.

List of Songs

 * This is the Night
 * What Shall I Be?
 * Over the Raging Sea We Go
 * Scaredy Cat

Full Special
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