Garfield in Paradise (1986) (TV)

Director:

Phil Roman

Writers:

Jim Davis (comic strip)
Jim Davis (writer)

Release Date:

27 May 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Comedy

Plot:

The Garfield gang is in Hawaii with a 1957 Chevy.

Plot Keywords:

Chevy | Hawaii | Volcano | Airplane | Parody

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy.

Cast

Lorenzo Music	...	Garfield (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gregg Berger	...	Pigeon / Odie (voice)
Desirée Goyette	...	Owooda (voice)
Thom Huge	...	Jon Arbuckle (voice)
Wolfman Jack	...	Chief (voice)
Frank Nelson	...	Hotel Clerk / Salesman (voice)
Julie Payne	...	Mai-Tai / Stewardess (voice)
Hal Smith	...	Off Camera Voice (voice)
Nino Tempo	...	Monkey (voice)

Directed by
Phil Roman

Writing credits
Jim Davis		(comic strip)
Jim Davis		(writer)

Produced by
Jay Poynor	....	executive producer
Phil Roman	....	producer

Original Music by
Ed Bogas
Desirée Goyette

Film Editing by
Timothy Borquez		(as Timothy J. Borquez)
Mark R. Crookston
Sam Horta

Art Department
Don Foster	....	graphics

Camera and Electrical Department
Ted T. Bemiller	....	camera operator
Gene Orozco	....	camera operator

Animation Department
Ellie Bogardus	....	color designer
Dave Burgess	....	key animator (as David Burgess)
Patricia Capozzi	....	ink and paint supervisor: Libby Simon Animation (as Pat Capozzi)
Bob Carlson	....	animator
Utit Choomuang	....	assistant animator
Ed Ghertner	....	layout designer (as Ed Gherther)
Edgar Gutierrez	....	xerox
Tricia Keener-Blaha	....	assistant background artist
Al Kirsten	....	ink and paint supervisor: C & D Ink and Paint
Fran Kirsten	....	ink and paint supervisor: C & D Ink and Paint (as Frances Kirsten)
Bill Littlejohn	....	animator
Shannon Meyer	....	ink and paint supervisor: C & D Ink and Paint
Barrie Nelson	....	animator
Sam Nicholson	....	animator
Al Pabian	....	assistant animator
Art Roman	....	key assistant animator
Robert Taylor	....	animator
Lloyd Vaughan	....	animator
Dick Williams	....	assistant animator
Bob Zamboni	....	animator

Other crew
Wendy Milici	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Film Roman Productions
• United Media Productions (in association with)

Distributors

• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• CBS/Fox Home Video (????-????) (USA) (VHS)
• CBS/Fox
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (original airing)

Other Companies

• Libby Simon Animation  ink and paint
• C & D Ink and Paint  ink and paint
• Hollywood Sound Recorders  recording
• Russian Hill Recording  music recording
• Glen Glenn Sound  dubbing (as Glen Glenn)

Runtime:

24 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

South Korea:All | UK:U

Company:

Film Roman Productions

Trivia:

The concierge's reference to "the Jack Benny suite" and the subsequent gag surrounding its third-world condition are tips of the hat to both Jack Benny and Frank Nelson. Benny's TV persona was that of a miser who would have gleefully jumped at a room that cheap (and on his radio show, often did), while Nelson (who plays the concierge) was a frequent comic foil of Benny's.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the tribe and their chief, Garfield, Jon, Mai-Tai, and Owooda are at the volcano mourning Odie and Monkey's death, Owooda takes off her lei and throws it into the volcano. However, when Odie and Monkey climb out and everyone cheers for them, Owooda has her lei back again.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Jon Arbuckle: [boarding the plane] Paradise World, here we come! Isn't this exciting, Garfield? C'mon, let's find our seats!
Garfield: I'm not going.
Jon Arbuckle: [impatiently] Will you come on?
[Garfield boards the plane, dressed as a human; he does not look happy]
Garfield: I've never been so humiliated in my life.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Garfield Goes Hollywood (1987) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Inversion Layer Airlines Jingle

The thinnest Garfield special

I was never too keen on Garfield in Paradise, there is just something about it that doesn't gel. Garfield TV specials are always great but there's a couple of annoying things in this one.

Jon has taken Garfield (and a stowaway Odie) to Hawaii for a vacation, staying in a lousy hotel after a third class plane ride. Everything about their trip reeks of sleaze. Soon they happen upon a native village (containing a very irritating, gibberish-talking short guy showing asscrack that belongs in something like The Simpons) and have to drive their 1957 vintage rentacar into a volcano to plug the hole.

There's not much more to it than that I'm afraid. Though seeing as how I'm trying to plan a sunny beach holiday it did kinda put me off booking a cheap hotel and flight.