GARFIELD LIKE TO SAID BAD JOKES

The fence in the alley is an area where Garfield often tells bad jokes or caterwauls, in an homage to vaudeville with the background moon providing his spotlight. Odie joins the act from time to time, once as a ventriloquist’s dummy, once as “Mr. Skins,” who accompanied Garfield on the drums, and once as a cue card boy. Garfield is frequently the target of disgusted fans (usually unseen), who throw shoes, pie, vegetables, and houseplants, and other things that would hurt, at him, and once burned down his fence with flaming arrows (Garfield’s temporary replacement, a plastic flamingo, just “didn’t feel the same”).Garfield, however, loves the attention he receives, and once complained that he thought a joke deserved more than a single shoe. He does sometimes get applause from his audience (once Odie held the applause sign upside down and the fans clapped upside down) though one time the audience consisted solely of his mother, another time the custodian. He apparently has to be booked onto the fence by an agent (in one strip, his agent booked him a gig on a chain link fence). Everyone thinks Odie makes better entertainment. When asked how Garfield could stand on the fence without falling, it was revealed the fence was apparently very wide.