A Garfield Christmas Special (1987 TV Short)

Julie Payne: Mom

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• Mom : [beaming]  Isn't this wonderful? The whole family together again for the holidays. We're going to have such a splendid Christmas. Oh, I'm so happy I could just burst!

  Grandma : Oh, put a sock in it, dearie.

  [carrying Garfield to the kitchen] 

  Grandma : Let's go finish dinner.

  Garfield : I can see Grandma and I going to get along just fine.

• Mom : And now, everyone, my little boy is going to favor us with a Christmas song.

  Doc Boy : [reluctantly]  I don't know about this, Mom.

  Dad : Boy, you doggone better well play. Those 24 years of py-ano lessons better be worth something.

• Mom : [as Doc Boy eagerly goes for a biscuit, Mom slaps his hand away]  Doc Boy, will you say grace, please?

  Doc Boy : [reluctantly]  Aw, Mom!

  Mom : [warningly]  Doc Boy!

  Doc Boy : I never know what to...

  [Grandma hits Doc Boy on the head with the gravy ladle, and Doc Boy goes into prayer] 

  Doc Boy : [praying hesitantly]  Lord, we just want to tell you - how grateful we are for this food. And, um... for letting us all be here together - on Christmas Eve.

  Mom : Amen!

  [Everyone starts to go for the food, but Doc Boy stands up and continues his prayer] 

  Doc Boy : And as surely, as the waters of the streams and the rivers find the sea, let each of us find happiness and wisdom in this hour...

  [Grandma hits Doc Boy with the ladle again] 

  Doc Boy : Thanks, Lord. Let's eat!

• Jon Arbuckle : Hey, Mom, pass the potatoes, please.

  Mom : Scalloped, whipped, fried, baked, or boiled?

  Jon Arbuckle : Mom! You always fix too much food.

  Mom : I know, honey, I know. Now what would you like?

  Jon Arbuckle : Why, I can't decide. Just give me a piece of pie.

  Mom : Apple, peach, pumpkin, blueberry, cherry, or banana cream?

• Jon Arbuckle : [as he tries to help Dad put the star on top of the tree, as he wobbles crazily atop Doc Boy]  Careful, Dad, don't hurt yourself.

  Dad : Why is it we always put the stupid star on last? Why don't we put the star on top of the tree, then put the tree up?

  Mom : Well, it just wouldn't be Christmas if we put the star on first, honey.

• Dad : [finishing "Binky: the Clown Who Saved Christmas"]  Now once again, Binky the Clown saved Christmas for children all over the world.

  [closes the book] 

  Dad : The end.

  Doc Boy : I don't know about you, Jon, but for a couple of minutes there, I was gettin' pretty worried.

  Jon Arbuckle : Ooh, me too!

  Mom : [chuckling]  All right, boys, it's time to get ready for bed.

  Jon Arbuckle : All right!

• Mom : By any chance, you're not thinking of putting chili powder in my sausage gravy, are you, Grandma?

  Grandma : Why, no!

  [laughs innocently] 

  Grandma : Heavens to Betsy, child, what would give you such a notion?

  [Mom leaves] 

  Grandma : Just because my chili gravy won a blue ribbon at the county fair and your gravy didn't even place. Who'm I to tell you how to make gravy? The Greene County Gravy champion, that's who!