Odie
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| Odie | |
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 A strip featuring Odie |
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| First appearance | Garfield comic strip (August 8, 1978) |
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| Species | Beagle |
| Gender | Male |
| Portrayed by | Gregg Berger (providing his barks and other dog sound effects in animated appearances) Unnamed real dog(s) in the live-action films |
| Created by | Jim Davis |
Odie is a fictional character in the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield.
He is a lovable but dumb yellow-furred, brown-eared beagle. In the Garfield movies he is played by a dachshund. He usually slobbers in his appearances. Recently, as of 2000, he is seen walking on two feet instead of all fours, just like Garfield.
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[edit] History
Odie first appeared in the comic strips on August 8, 1978, which is considered his birthday. He was originally a pet to Jon Arbuckle's roommate Lyman, but Lyman disappeared after a year or so. Odie eventually becomes a pet to Jon. There were some strips stating he was a pet to Jon originally. In the motion picture Odie was adopted by Jon at a veterinarian center.
[edit] Speaking
Odie is the only animal character in the strip without a recurring voice bubble, as he is portrayed as a "normal" house dog. However, he was once shown to be thinking "I'm hungry" [1]. Odie has also said "Hi to the people, dummy." when Garfield was using him as a dummy. [2] He also says "I don't know, I'm kinda scared," as a "mistake" in the cartoon episode "Mistakes Will Happen". More recently, he was seen actually speaking in one of Garfield's dream sequences. [3] He also sometimes thinks like Garfield. [4]; he sometimes says minor things in episodes such as "Ta-da!", "Huh?", or more commonly, panting "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Whenever he talks in the show, he actually does speak by moving his mouth (and has said things as intelligible as "No horsey?" (from the episode Dessert in the Desert)), which is notable, although other dogs have actually spoken in other episodes.
[edit] Odie and Garfield
Odie is, to Garfield, a complete slobbering idiot. One strip shows him enjoying classical music on the TV with the novel, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, nearby after Jon and Garfield leave the house. Another has him lock the others out of the car on a camping trip, were he enjoys the chicken, radio, and chips, while the others just get wet. Odie has managed to take revenge on Garfield occasionally, and Garfield sometimes cannot notice it. Garfield acknowledges this by saying "He's not as dumb as he looks, but then again who could be?"; however, Garfield on numerous occasions actually does care a great deal for Odie, most notably in the first Garfield special Here Comes Garfield, in which Odie is briefly captured by the dogcatcher and Garfield realizes how boring his life is without him.
Odie all too often gets kicked off the table by Garfield; once Odie tried to push Garfield off the table, but Garfield was too heavy[5]. In addition to getting kicked off the table, Odie is often the victim of Garfield's pranks. Curiously, Garfield has taken offense to others treating Odie in this manner. Possibly because he believes that he should beat up Odie and no one else should. In fact, in Garfield: The Movie after seeing Happy Chapman use a shock collar on Odie, he says, "Hey, nobody gets to mistreat my dog like that except me!"
Odie does manage to get a little revenge on Garfield. Once, when Garfield ridiculously has his upper lip stuck on a low tree branch, Odie tries to help out by lowering the branch so Garfield can simply remove his lip. But Odie, donning a smirk, flings the branch upward, sending Garfield flying high to the sky and crashing onto the ground. It is unknown if he was congratulating himself for doing something right and let go unknowingly. Another time, Jon accuses Garfield of clearing out his closet except for the T-shirt saying "I love cats." While Garfield confesses his innocence, he is hurled out of the house. Comically Odie steps out to laugh at Garfield, wearing a plaid shirt, indicating he was indeed who framed Garfield.
[edit] External links
[6]Garfield and Friends official site
| Garfield |
|---|
| Characters |
| Garfield | Jon Arbuckle | Odie | List of Garfield characters |
| Television specials |
| Here Comes Garfield | Garfield on the Town | Garfield in the Rough | Garfield's Halloween Adventure | Garfield in Paradise | A Garfield Christmas | Garfield Goes Hollywood | Garfield: His 9 Lives | Garfield's Babes and Bullets | Garfield's Thanksgiving | Garfield's Feline Fantasies | Garfield Gets a Life |
| Video games |
| Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal | Garfield: A Winter's Tail | Garfield: A Week of Garfield | Garfield Labyrinth | Garfield: Caught in the Act | Garfield: The Search for Pooky | Garfield & His Nine Lives | Garfield Bound for Home |
| Films |
| Garfield | Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties |
| Other media |
| Am I Cool or What? | Garfield As Himself | Garfield and Friends | List of Garfield and Friends episodes | Garfield's Holiday Celebrations |
| Other |
| Jim Davis | U.S. Acres | Gnorm Gnat |
