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- In the two live-action movies and Garfield Gets Real, Garfield's Fun Fest and Garfield's Pet Force, Garfield was created using CGI animation, though the Garfield Gets Real version is closer to his original form than his live-action movie form, when he looked and moved very much like a real cat.
- In the animated series and prime-time specials, he was voiced by the late Lorenzo Music. In the live-action movies, he is voiced by Bill Murray. An interesting side note is that the two actors also shared the role of Dr. Peter Venkman. In Garfield Gets Real and the CGI series The Garfield Show, he is voiced by Frank Welker who played Bo, Booker, and Sheldon in Garfield and Friend's U.S. Acres Episodes, and also worked with Lorenzo Music as Dr. Ray Stanz in The Real Ghostbusters. In Garfield and Friends, when Lorenzo was ill, Frank would occasionally voice Garfield.
- Garfield is a plush animal licenced to the Dakin Company for manufacture circa 1988.
- Garfield has been a mascot of Kennywood, a traditional amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh since the 1990s. Furthermore, a popular ride at Kennywood; "Garfield's Nightmare" was created with the exclusive input of Garfield creator, Jim Davis.
- Garfield appears as a guest in a 1996 video called "Kids for Character".
- Garfield has made many cameo appearances in episodes of MAD. The first being on "Groan Wars" (a parody of Star Wars: The Clone Wars), in which he parodied the character of Ahsoka Tano. He appeared again in a fake commercial that can make any show a musical. He played a bigger part in the sketch, "Garfield of Dreams". He appeared in his own fake commercial, "The Garfield No-Monday Calendar".
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