Odie is a fictitious dog that appears on Jim Davis's strip of comic strips by Garfield . He has also appeared in the animated television series Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show, two live action/animated-computer movies, and three CGI movies entirely.
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Appearance
Odie is a yellow, brown hairy dog. In live-action/animated films based on Garfield's franchise, he is described as a wire-haired dachshund/terrier mix.
He has great tongues and slobbers in his appearance. After October 1997, he started walking regularly on two legs instead of fours, like Garfield. In the film adaptation feature Garfield: The Movie, Odie's ability to walk, and more importantly dancing on two legs has earned her a lot of attention, and is a major plot point throughout the movie.
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History
The name came from a car dealer advertisement written by Jim Davis, featuring Odie the Village Idiot. Davis liked Odie's name and decided to use it again. When Garfield was first delivered, Davis called Odie "Spot". He then visits the Mort Walker cartoonist to show him his strip, and Walker tells Davis "I have a dog named Spot". When Davis asked "Really?", Walker replied "Yes, in Boner's Ark , one of my comics". Davis changed the name of Odie.
Odie first appeared on the strip on August 8, 1978; the date is considered a birthday. She was originally a pet for Jon Arbuckle's roommate, Lyman, but Lyman disappeared from the series after about five years.
Speaking
Odie is the only animal character in the Garfield series with no recurring mind balloons, as she is described as a "normal" house dog. However, he was shown thinking "I'm hungry" on June 15, 1980, and once said? Hi guys, stupid? on the strip of March 3, 1989 and has had some minor "speaking roles" since then. In a cartoon, he speaks little words like "Ta-da!", "Huh?", Or, more generally, panting "Yes, yes, yes!" He has said more sensible sentences, such as "No horsey?" in the episode of Dessert in the Desert , and in the first episode she even says "Right!" while agreeing with Jon. When he speaks on the show, he speaks by actually moving his mouth, though other dogs have also been shown to do so.
Odie's intelligence and tongue
A joke along the strip is Odie's folly. Garfield used to call him a fool, to the point where Odie was really surprised one day when Garfield did not insult her. He is mostly seen as an idiot, but in rare cases, it shows that he is hiding his high intelligence. For example, when he, Garfield, and Jon camped, he locked himself in the car. Garfield and Jon then become suspicious when Odie turns on the radio and lights and starts eating crisps, smiling while Jon and Garfield are trapped outside without food or shelter during a thunderstorm. Another time, when Garfield and Jon get out, Odie is reading War and Peace, smoking pipes, and watching a special television about Mozart. Another running joke is Odie's long tongue. In one strip, when Garfield taunts Odie for not being able to write with his claws, he's really confused when Odie's tongue grabs a pen and writes, "Hi." On the other lane, Odie is walking in the living room, and Garfield grabs her tongue to see how long. The next panel shows Odie right next to Garfield, but with her tongue really wrapped around all the furniture, going through the hall, wrapping Odie herself and Garfield, and with the empty space, much to Garfield's surprise. Another strip shows Garfield theorize how he could have a long tongue, and keep it in his mouth. He then guesses that he has the rest of his tongue kept where his brain should be, also declares how many idiots he is. Also, in a winter-themed Sunday strip, Odie's tongue clung to a lamppost stretching from two blocks to Jon's dining room, prompting Garfield to tell Jon: "We need a very long hair dryer and extension cord." Another comic shows Jon, Garfield, and Odie are painting the wall, and Jon yells at Garfield because he uses the tip of her tongue as a brush.
In the The Garfield Show , Odie's tongue once again proved to be very long and stretchy. In the episode "Out of a Limb", Odie used her long tongue in an attempt to lower Garfield down a very tall tree.
Relationship with Garfield
Although Garfield often imposed Odie's intelligence, a strip showed him enjoying classical music on TV with the novel, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, close after Jon and Garfield left home. (According to Davis's comments in the 20th anniversary book, "I can not help myself.") Others told him to lock the other of the car on a camping trip, where he enjoyed sandwiches, radios and chips, while others just wet. Elsewhere, he is seen organizing the bait, solving the sudoku puzzle, completing the crossword puzzle (for Jon's amazement), writing poetry, and while playing as a super hero with Garfield, finds a complete outfit for one-up Garfield robes. One theory is that there are two Odies, the more intelligent and the more common idiots. Maybe Odie is actually smarter than he looks, and just uses a ridiculous front as a means to gain advantage over Garfield. In two strips, Garfield goes to see what's on the tip of Odie's tongue, and turns out to be the second Odie (which Garfield dismissed as a result of a bad tuna can from the night before). Odie has managed to take revenge on Garfield occasionally, and Garfield can not sometimes avoid it. Garfield admits this by saying "He's not as stupid as his appearance, but who else can?" In the first episode of The Garfield Show, an alien species resembling a lasagna scans Odie with a light that shows brain power - the result is zero.
Garfield on many occasions actually cares very much for Odie, especially at Garfield's first special Here Comes Garfield, where Odie is briefly captured by dogcatcher and Garfield whose teary eyes realize through flashbacks of him and Odie playing together and how sad his life was without him (in a flashback series by Garfield, the song "So Long Old Friend" played in the background). In one strip, Garfield states that Odie is made of rubber. The next time Garfield tries to blame Odie for some of the accidents she has done. Jim Davis has stated, when asked why Garfield played so many jokes on Odie, that it was because "Odie is so easily kicked in. She's a bit unconcerned, but Garfield will never hurt Odie for real, she just gives her a pinch now and again."
Odie was too often kicked off the table by Garfield; once Odie tried to push Garfield off the table, but Garfield was too heavy. Besides being kicked off the table, Odie is often a victim of Garfield prank. (Though, on a much earlier strip, Odie has kicked Garfield off the table when he was wearing Garfield's mask and Garfield was wearing a mask of Odie.) Oddly, Garfield has been offended by others treating Odie in this way. In one strip, she hit another cat that beats Odie, insisting, "Nobody can beat Odie except me!" Similarly, at Garfield: The Movie after seeing Happy Chapman using Odie's surprise collar, he said, "Hey, nobody's molesting my dog ​​like that except me!" The attitude was shown in an episode of Garfield and Friends when Odie was tricked out of shopping by a gang cat. Garfield looks angry at what's going on and tries hard to remove Odie's name.
Odie managed to get a little revenge in Garfield. Jim Davis stated in his 30th anniversary book that Odie returns to Garfield every few months. The first example occurs when Jon accuses Garfield of emptying his closet unless his T-shirt says "I like cats." While Garfield pleaded not guilty, he was expelled from home. Comic Odie, wearing a checkered shirt, stepped out to grin at Garfield, showing him trapping her. In one strip, while Garfield admits how good a friend, Odie, like Odie who never thought about Garfield was playing with her, Odie cunningly inserted a note on Garfield's back that read "KICK ME". Once, he managed to give Garfield his own sense of the drug on the strip where Garfield was trying to have fun with Odie's mask. Odie is not at the end of the table, and when Garfield wonders where Odie is, she shows up (wearing Garfield's mask) and kicks the tabby off the table. At least on one occasion, Odie also prepared for Garfield to try to kick him off the table, preparing a pillow on the floor to land after Garfield jerked him. Yet another example involved Garfield being trapped in a tree and asking Odie (who saw her from the window) to ask for help. Odie threw bowling ball Garfield Jon, and when Garfield cursed Odie for his stupidity, the extra weight added by the bowling ball caused a broken tree branch and sent Garfield to the ground. The last panel ends with Odie smiling cruelly at the reader while Garfield notes how much she hates dogs. In another example, Garfield approached Odie on the edge of the table, who was holding a large rock in his paw. Garfield wondered why he held it, just getting the answer when he kicked the dog. Odie does not move from where she stands, and Garfield injures her legs, ending with Odie smiling with satisfaction as Garfield jumps up and down, saying, "That's why." In one storyline, Garfield was beaten by a bulldog after kicking him and had to wear a player for almost a week. The cast includes Garfield's entire body but his face. Odie tortured Garfield for the duration of the day. In the last strip of the storyline, though, Garfield tells Jon that he wants to keep his cast after being asked what he wants to do with it, and Odie strikes with it.
References
External links
- Garfield and Friends official site
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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