Jim Davis

Odie is a fictional character in the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield. He has also appeared in Garfield and Friends, The Garfield Show, two live-action feature films, and 3 CGI films. He is a kind but unintelligent yellow-furred, brown-eared beagle . In the live-action films based on the Garfield... franchise, he is played by a dachshund though an actual beagle was seen at the talent show scene as one of the dogs barking at Garfield. In the comic of August 26, 2007, Garfield describes Odie's species as "purebred clown" after trying to find out what kind of dog Odie is with the help of a book. Odie usually has a large tongue and slobbers in his appearances. After October 1997, he began walking on two feet, instead of all fours, just like Garfield, though this was demonstrated as early as 1989 . Also by this time his whiskers disappeared, and he was no longer depicted as a puppy, even if he hasn't become officially as a full-grown dog.
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Jonathan "Jon" Quentin Arbuckle is a fictional character from the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis. He has also appeared in the animated television series Garfield and Friends, the computer-animated The Garfield Show, and two live-action feature films. A nerdy and clumsy man, Jon is the owner of... Garfield and Odie. He converses with Garfield and is often the butt of his jokes. In the animated Garfield and Friends, he was frequently portrayed as being incredibly gullible when faced with unscrupulous salesmen and rather dumb in general. On The Garfield Show, however, he's portrayed as being smarter, but still a little gullible. Jon's birthday is July 28, 1950 as Jon tells Garfield that he is 29 years old in a December 23, 1980 strip. However, in the episode "T3000" he is described as 23. In the animated show Garfield and Friends, we learn that Jon has an Italian ancestor whose name was Tony Arbuccli. Some episodes of the show suggested that Jon and his pets live in Muncie, Indiana. Jon wears contact lenses, his eyes are green, and his favorite music style is polka. His personal will states that he wishes to be cremated and have his ashes spread over his accordion.
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