Orson's Farm Quickie / U.S. Acres Quickie

[MichaelBrookham]

I like how one cartoon segment leads into the other.

[kingdiamond69]

Great show lots of adult innuendo stuff mixed in i used to record this on my vcr in the 80s and watch it after work lol.

[drchedin]

The fishes are from Garfield , right ?

[TimoWikstrom]

Oh so that's where they went.You know, if I didn't know better, I'd think Garfield intentionally let the... mutants to leave through sewers.

[MrCrazyToad]

Am I the only person who thinks that the U.S. Acres series takes place in Jon's parent's farm, and it's sorta like as shown in the Back at the Barnyard intro, where they act a little more anthropomorphic when nobody's around?

[Patmancav66]

@MrCrazyToad thats because it does actually take place at Jon's old farm theres a Garfield strip where the orson's farm characters all apear with Garfield when Jon takes them to visit it's in one of the Garfield classic books

[MrCrazyToad]

@Patmancav66 Ah. I was right.

[Patmancav66]

@MrCrazyToad yes you are it was originally based on Jon's farm but in the Garfield show episode where Jon goes and visits his brother doc boy none of the U.S. Acres characters are present nor Jon's parents :(. But you are correct it is implied it's on Jon's old farm

[MrCrazyToad]

@Patmancav66 Perhaps it's just that Orson, Wade, Roy, Bo, Lanolin, Booker, and Sheldon were elsewhere in the happenings of the episode.

[Chambers4181]

Both: giant raido actative mutant guppies!

[CarlyAKACmara]

whatever happened to the Garfield and Friends episodes where they sing songs in one episode every time?

O_O I can't find those ones anymore. And some songs were catchy

[DoomMantia849]

Jim Henson's giant radioactive mutant guppy babies

[dynamite11]

Oh man, I remember watching this episode during G&F's original run on CBS (and I had to have been about 3 or 4 at the time this originally aired). Even back then I thought the joke was pretty funny, and I'm pretty sure I was in front of the television the following week to see if the guppies showed up on Muppet Babies.

[Chaos2ThaWorld1]

LOL

[08Hellboy]

Are you guys honestly swearing in comments about a kids T.V show? Are you guys honestly that low?!

[Dac719]

Where's the Quickie where (I forget the name of the rooster who insults everyone) makes a lemonade stand, stating all the lemonade you can drink for a dime. His trick is that you only get one small cup of lemonade for a dime...that's all you can drink for a dime. Then, when he ponders in making a fortune, Orson's three big brothers demand all the lemonade they can drink for a dime and they drink it all, but still want more lemonade. "From now on, truth in advertising" he says at the end.

[MattTheSaiyan]

WTF FTW!

[CalebTheDestroyer]

god i love garfield!!! i have some of these episodes on dvd, but sadly my friend has it right now.

[davestheman83]

:Nermal 0:03!

[Eragarev]

Jim Davis sucks.

-Bill Watterson

[saj8]

@Eragarev Bill Watterson is overrated

-saj8

[Eragarev]

@saj8 Then that would make Jim Davis about 700,000 times more overrated. At least Bill Watterson knew when to quit.

[saj8]

@Eragarev Watterson quit because he was scared of making any real money with Calvin and Hobbes.

Meanwhile, Garfield is still going strong.

Closed mouths don't get fed.

[Eragarev]

@saj8 Watterson had values. He was a true artist who cared more about the quality of his work than making a ton of money on it. Scared? It wasn't a matter of fear, it was a matter of honor. Jim Davis merchandised and exploited his work to a ridiculous point Just to make money. Just because something is popular, doesn't make it good. Garfield isn't even funny..

[saj8]

@Eragarev Charles Schultz merchandised Peanuts for years. Are you going to diss him?

Watterson had a chance to make Calvin and Hobbes bigger that it already is and he blew it.

[Eragarev]

@saj8 Watterson's take on the whole issue of merchandising his characters was that if he did, it would damage the integrity of the comic. Garfield was a gimmicky, cheap strip without any real substance. There was no image to ruin by merchandising. Calvin and Hobbes was a deep, emotionally resonant strip and was loved for that. Had it become some huge commercial hit it would have lost it's purity. What he had was a chance to ruin Calvin and Hobbes and he didn't take it.

[saj8]

@Eragarev I wouldn't think it would have been ruined. If anything, it would have been bigger than it already is. As I stated earlier.

[Eragarev]

@saj8 Well, I'm just glad I can only remember the comics and not the Calvin and Hobbes bathmat.

[soimpossible119]

haha I like how Orson the pig is the guy that did the pig's voice in charlotte's web.

[sega31098]

Just asking, but how can he communicate with Nermal if he never opens his mouth in the cartoon?

[sneskid]

Cats communicate with each other, using mainly body language

[sega31098]

In the newer ones, they open their mouths to communicate but humans don't still understand them.

[datank74]

@sega31098 Thought bubbles...

[sega31098]

@datank74

I know that, but you'd at least expect them to open their mouths to meow. And you can't say "Hmm where do you think they'll end up Garfield?" by just stretching out and opening your hand.

[datank74]

@sega31098 Lol.

[siskavard]

@sega31098 that's a good question. Well I've done some research with a dedicated team of scientists and after decades of debate they have all finally come to the conclusion THAT ITS A CARTOON

[LucienFati]

@sega31098 you know how many frames of animation that saved? about four per word...plus the amount of time matching to audio...good god...that probably cut off hundreds in costs per episode just to not have a mouth move...[not kidding] that said...why explain it? IT WORKS, DON'T FIX IT.

[kingdiamond69]

@sega31098 uh hes a cartoon he can do whatever he wants ...

[LightcycleChampion]

I remember regularly seeing Orson's Farm when it was on Nickelodeon...

[chetzalicious]

lmfaooo i hated wade hahahaha.. miss this show tho!

[SeVinKru3ger]

wow, i heart this shit man! lol

[ThePerfectCross]

So many memories

[JoeMudd123]

This was definitely in the UK version of an episode a couple of years ago.

[Kronvall87]

And I saw it in Swedish in 2008, I have it on a video tape.

BTW, does the UK version have different voice actors than the US version?

[JoeMudd123]

Nah, as far as I can tell the voices are the same.

[GrovyleThief]

Best Show 4ever.

[corjonbett]

So THAT'S where those fish went....

[soseztheleadr]

I was actually looking for this and stumbled upon it by accident. ^^

Good times, good times. ^^

[songojin]

I just came over from a Muppet babies video..... insane!!!!!!

[killamonkey]

umm, the guppies ended up being gay?

[xzervc]

I have this episode on dvd

[freakofevolution]

loved orson's farm! I loved wade because he was scared of everything and he was a duck who wore a intertube. and the chicks including the chick who was stuck in his shell. the best show of my childhood.

[rkoguy]

wade is awesome because he's a duck.

[thecheezycheez1996]

wade also gets the most fan mail

[punkman1293]

Wade is only a Coward

[rkoguy]

But he's a DUCK!

[wyecee]

Was Garfield thinking of Long John Silver's?

[Falcovsleon21]

A guest shot on the Muppet Babies? I doubt it. They'd be a dead ringer for a guest spot on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles though.

[cutebanter]

Muppet babies, LOL!

[theboombody]

I wonder if Wade's inner tube inspired that goat head thing from the bean cartoon video I made last.

[ShikamarutheWerehog]

I love this show! I wanna get it on DVD!

[lizziefan84]

Does anyone remember the episode where orson is a secret agent that uses pies or the one where roy goes power crazy and arrests everyone, are they on youtube?

[davidalpert]

That episiode is CornFinger. Orson's uses his 357 Magnum cream pie.

[theboombody]

I vaguely remember something like that. It sounds funny hearing somebody say 357 magnum cream pie again.

[VelgagsJoatmon]

Yep. He also does the spy/James Bond parody in another episode, "Double Oh Orson."

[soseztheleadr]

As for the episode where Roy arrests everyone, that's called "The Legal Eagle".

[OmegaXP]

Wow, an actual running gag from the cartoon into the quickie. Awesome.

[drsdino]

talk about a wish unfulfiled.

[Mroldays]

I hated how this cut into my garfield cartoon time lol.

Check out my page full of hundreds of old school videos and stuff like this. not spam, just trying to pass on my childhood in the 80s and 90s!!!

[sagacious03]

Man, Orson is such a stickler for rules, tradition, etc. Oh well, that's what makes him so darn funny! :D

[ThePointdexter23]

they suck for deleting so many episodes i love garfield and friends!!!

[Pikachuiscool]

@ThePointdexter23 I agree. Before the dvds came out, I was going out of my mind wondering when I'll see these scenes again. Syndication sucks ass!

[Hondo20132]

So lemme get this streight; without the quickie, the halarity is taken away!

[mightyPants]

i LOVED this show!

[Blackrhinoranger]

LOL the fishes dance away

[rikiyamashi]

who eats cod with mayonnaise?

[superdrum3]

Frank Welker you are the GREATEST!!!

[MrBertstown]

I'd like to see clip on a YouTube Poop segment.

[carlitosbug]

This episode is from which season? Is it Season 1 or Season 2?

[Vespiquen452]

Season 2

[TheRoomy]

You know, they weren't that high quality, but I wouldn't trade the cartoons of my childhood for any other. Of course everyone thinks the shows of their childhood were best, but I still like watching some of the stuff from late 80s to mid 90s on YouTube.

[allth3s4me]

the quality is actually outstanding compared to computer shit (im not talking about films here)

[TAGMOMG]

Amen. I may not have been born early enough to truly apreciate these kind of cartoons at the time, But I personaly like them more then the stuff I'm ment to be watching.

[sp19047]

I laugh at this one cause it has that guppies from attack of the mutant guppies!! LOL

[Aliciamaedee]

i love us acers :) i have the first 3 books i like sheldon

[nicknick41]

im with you

[Aliciamaedee]

yeah :) i just got the 4th book and it is GREAT!!

[halomaster0404]

lol, guest shot on Muppet babies, it was always funny when cartoons would mention another cartoon or make fun of it.

[Spieysgonnakickurass]

why is it called US acres?

[Furienna]

The radioactive mutant guppes! Classic!

And isn't Wade cute?

[potsdam28]

Funniest part was when Garfield said he couldn't find enough french fries to eat with the mutant guppies

[Karieshy]

AGH!

[Aniforce]

Haha, off course, it's from the same crappy cartoonperiod as the muppet babies ;D (Which suckes :|)

[Karieshy]

That was corny! (which means it's not so nice!)

[Invisib0]

Say, does anyone know the name of the Deja Vu episode of the US Acres?

[CDCB]

Deja Vu is the name.

[wackyman259]

I believe it's known as "Deja Vu".

[YoshiAngemon]

This Quickie is connected to the Garfield cartoon that aired! Neat!

[Hondo20132]

The same thing happened in Moo Cow Mutt.

[aLaMode298]

Yep!

"Roy is building a life-sized statue of Abraham Lincoln out of okra!"

"How educational! Plus, it has Vitamin D in it."

[ButtonsKitsune]

lol! That's one of my favorite moments on 'Garfield and Friends'. XD

[questionthemajority]

Ah-HAH! I knew the mutant guppy said something about the Muppet Babies in that episode! I actually recall the Orson's Farm/U.S.Acres quickies being intact when Garfield & Friends was running on Nickelodeon. I also recall this particular episode airing frequently on said network. But the Quicky always faded to black before the Muppet Babies reference.

[potsdam28]

Love the reference to Muppet Babies

[BebopTrotter]

I remember both sets of quickies as a British child of the late 80s. The stopped doing Orson ones bout halfway through the DVD sets.

[heine71]

I like the Nermal appearance in this Garfield clip.

Wade is voiced by the late Howard Morris (best known for voicing other cartoon characters like Atom Ant and Filmation's Jughead).

[ryanschroer]

There was also an Orson quickie in syndication about what a quickie was! Only Garfield!

[sneskid]

Really?  Wow..they must have added stuff recently then. Back when I used to watch it in syndication, none of that was present.

[ryanschroer]

There was one Orson quickie that was shown in syndication. I think it involved Odie showing up in the wrong cartoon.

[sneskid]

Yeah, you're right.. I did happen to see one of those eventually - like many years after the show went in syndication (I guess they more recently added it?). I can't remember which one it was though. Of course there were many others that never made it to syndication (along with Screaming With Binky, and the CORRECT closing credits for each episode). Pisses me off to see that happen to one of my favorite shows. Sadly though, such a thing is quite common in syndication.

[sneskid]

@COMPFUNK2

What was? I don't think I'm the one you meant to reply to, am I?

[COMPFUNK2]

@sneskid Oops, you're right.