A Garfield Christmas Special

<p><strong>Day 6:</strong> Let’s have a good, old-fashioned Christmas down on the farm in 1987’s “A Garfield Christmas Special,” featuring the voices of <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005581/">Squiggy</a> and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140946/">Ursula</a>.</p> <h4>On This Episode</h4> <ol> <li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), 2-time all-county gravy champion.</li> <li><strong>Jeff Somogyi</strong> (<a href="http://twitter.com/sommerjam">@sommerjam</a>) of <a href="http://talkinchopp.libsyn.com/">Talkin’ Chopp</a> and Nerd Lunch’s <a href="http://nerdlunch.net/podcast/down-the-rabbit-hole/">Down the Rabbit Hole</a>.</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>Topics and Tangents</h4> <ol> <li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0074185/">Gregg Berger</a>, the voice of Odie, talks about the Christmas special in an interview by friend of the podcast Joey O.</li> <li>On lasagna as a Christmas food and how including shrimp as one of the Seven Fishes is cheating, you cheaters.</li> <li>Dinosaur Dracula <a href="https://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/garfields-xmas-presents/">identifies all of Garfield’s Christmas presents</a> in the opening credits.</li> <li>Going long on the dinner prayer, plus the perfect gift for Grandma: an engraved grace-stoppin’ spoon.</li> <li>“Weird Al” Yankovic’s “The Night Santa Went Crazy” is better than “Christmas at Ground Zero.” Change my mind!</li> <li>The simultaneously best and worst line in the history of animated Christmas specials for children.</li> <li>How does Binky, the Clown who Saved Christmas, save Christmas?</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>After This Episode</h4> <ol> <li>Listen to Joey O.’s <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/ynotradio/words-with-nerds-gregg-berger-retrocon-2018-interview/">full interview with Gregg Berger</a>!</li> <li>Jeff wanted a ringtone of that blaring trumpet when Garfield looks down from the top of the Christmas tree, so <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z2QJWnCO0LciXui_gopvdgM1xz3O5HxB/view?u