A Garfield Christmas

Jon and Garfield return for dinner, while Odie works on something secretive and then sneaks back into the house.

As the family sings Christmas songs, Grandma tells Garfield about her beloved and deceased husband, whom she especially misses at Christmastime because of his unspoken, but obvious, love for the holiday.

Garfield also finds out that Odie has been busy making his ultimate Christmas gift: a homemade back scratcher.

[3] However, he noted Grandma was an entirely fictional character, added for the emotional subplot of having time with loved ones at Christmas.

[3] Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge and Gregg Berger reprise their respective roles from past films as Garfield, Jon Arbuckle, and Odie.

[1] The home video version reanimates some scenes, including the part where Grandma talks to Garfield about her late husband.

In addition to using a different animation style, the altered scene shows a picture of the husband, which was not present in the broadcast.

[8] In 2014, Entertainment Weekly reported copies of the DVD "were selling on eBay like rare collector's items".

[11] In 2013, Scott Neumyer of Parade called it "a delightful little short featuring everyone's favorite cantankerous orange cat".

[12] That year, Jef Rouner of the Houston Press described the episode as "depressing" and mostly unfunny, remarking that since Grandma cannot hear Garfield's thoughts, "what we're watching is a sad old widow so desperately lonely without her late husband that she has begun talking out loud to a visiting cat".