Garfield's Babes and Bullets is a half-hour animated television special based on a segment from the book Garfield: His 9 Lives

Garfield: His 9 Lives

Garfield: His 9 Lives is a 1984 book of illustrated short stories showing the "nine lives" of comic strip character Garfield...

. It once again featured Lorenzo Music

Lorenzo Music

Lorenzo Music was an American actor, voice actor, writer, television producer and musician. His best-known roles include voicing the animated cartoon cat Garfield, and Carlton the doorman on the CBS sitcom Rhoda...

 as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast May 23, 1989 on CBS

CBS

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. It has been released on both VHS

VHS

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 and DVD

DVD

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 home video.

Storyline

On a rainy day, Garfield goes to a closet and opens it out of boredom, only to hear saxophone music burst out of it. He shuts it quickly, then opens it again; the music starts up again, and Garfield finds a trenchcoat and fedora

Fedora (hat)

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.

He then enters a fantasy world in which he is Sam Spayed

Sam Spade

Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser known short stories by Hammett....

, a private investigator in a film noir

Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...

 atmosphere. He investigates the alleged murder of a university professor who fell asleep at the wheel of his car and drove over a cliff. The late man's wife, however, believes it to be murder. It is revealed that the late professor was a frequent coffee drinker, to the point that he required heavy sleeping pills to fall asleep. Some of these same sleeping pills were dissolved in his coffee on the fateful night by a colleague, and these led to him falling asleep while driving. The special ends with Garfield turning out the lights.

Cast

• Lorenzo Music
  Lorenzo Music
  Lorenzo Music was an American actor, voice actor, writer, television producer and musician. His best-known roles include voicing the animated cartoon cat Garfield, and Carlton the doorman on the CBS sitcom Rhoda...
  
   - Garfield / Sam Spayed
• Thom Huge - Jon Arbuckle / Landlord
• Gregg Berger
  Gregg Berger
  Greggory "Gregg" Berger is an American voice actor, who is known for his longtime role as Odie the dog from the Garfield franchise...
  
   - Odie / Burt Fleebish
• Desiree Goyette
  Desirée Goyette
  Desirée Goyette is a singer, composer, lyricist and voice-over artist. She has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and has voiced such characters as Betty Boop, Barbie, Nermal, Petunia Pig, Honey Bunny and numerous others for radio, television and toys...
  
   - Tanya
• Julie Payne - Kitty
• Nino Tempo
  Nino Tempo
  Nino Tempo is an American musician, singer, and actor.A musical prodigy, Nino Tempo learned to play the clarinet and the tenor saxophone as a child. He was a talent show winner at four years of age and appeared on television with Benny Goodman at seven...
  
   - Lt. Washington
• C. Lindsay Workman - O'Felix
• Lou Rawls
  Lou Rawls
  Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls was an American soul, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game"...
  
   - Singing voice

Awards

• 1989 Primetime Emmy Award
  Primetime Emmy Award
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   for Outstanding Animated Program
  Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour)
  The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program is a Creative Arts Emmy Award which is given annually to an animated series which is judged to have been the best...