Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)

Garfield's Halloween Adventure (originally titled Garfield in Disguise) is a 1985 American animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It is directed by Phil Roman and written by Garfield creator Jim Davis, and features the voices of Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, Gregg Berger and C. Lindsay Workman. It originally aired on CBS on October 30, 1985.

The special, a ghost story with a pirate theme, originally aired near Halloween and afterwards often played around the time of the holiday. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program and was also the subject of an illustrated children's book adaptation.

This is the fourth of twelve Garfield television specials made between 1982 and 1991.

Storyline[]

Garfield is woken up early one morning by Binky the Clown on TV, and learns that it is actually Halloween, causing him to become very excited about getting candy going 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, saving one piece of candy for the dog. Odie is tempted by the minimal reward, and he and Garfield head for the attic to find costumes in an old trunk. After considering a number of options, Garfield decides that he and Odie will be pirates.

Garfield and Odie head out trick-or-treating amongst young children around the neighborhood that evening. When Odie expresses fear, Garfield assures him the scary characters they see are only children in costumes, only to lift some of the costumes and discover the characters are actually supernatural. By nightfall, Garfield and Odie arrive on a dock and Garfield decides to cross the river on a row boat to visit more houses. When Garfield tells him to put out the oars, Odie misinterprets the command and accidentally throws the oars overboard, leaving the boat adrift as the current takes Garfield and Odie down the river.

Soon, the boat arrives at an abandoned dock near a run-down mansion. They venture inside the home, thinking it is deserted, but are startled to find an old man sitting in an armchair. The man relates a story that exactly a hundred years ago, pirates, pursued by government troops, buried their treasure in the floor of the mansion and signed a blood oath to return for the treasure at midnight a hundred years later, even if it meant rising from the grave. The old man says he was the ten-year-old cabin boy whom the pirates had long ago. Garfield and Odie start to leave and Garfield asks the man if he wants to come too, but he has disappeared. The man steals their boat and leaves Garfield and Odie behind.

The longcase clock chimes midnight, and Garfield and Odie watch as a ghostly ship materializes on the river and pirate ghosts emerge from the water. Garfield and Odie hide in an empty cupboard as the ghosts reclaim their buried treasure from the floorboards of the house. As he and Garfield stay where they are, Odie sneezes and alerts the ghosts to their whereabouts. Making a run for it, Garfield and Odie jump into the river to escape, where Odie has to rescue Garfield as he cannot swim. Garfield and Odie are wash ashore and finds their boat with the candy still inside and untouched. They go home happy, and Garfield repays Odie's rescue by reluctantly giving him his rightful share of the candy. Afterwards, Garfield decides to watch TV, only to see the old man wearing his pirate hat and hosting an all-night pirate movie festival. Instead, Garfield turns off the TV and decides to go to bed for the rest of the night.

Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)

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