Here it is, the second installment of our retro Halloween specials! This time it’s 1985’s Garfield’s Halloween Adventure, which was originally called Garfield in Disguise. Garfield’s Halloween Adventure first aired October 30, 1985 CBS.

Garfield’s Halloween Adventure aired on CBS regularly during the Halloween season until it’s last airing on October 28, 1999. While it might be a favorite of baby Gen X, Elder Millennials, and ALL Xennials, it also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.

Garfield is just finding out about Halloween for the first time thanks to a throbbing television program starring Binky the Clown. It’s not so much the holiday he’s into, it’s the free candy. Naturally.

Well you know two sacks have got to be better than one… so he gives Odie some story about dogs helping cats and since Odie’s dumb, he’s completely on board. Odie signs up to get a single piece of candy because them’s the breaks.

I enjoy going through my Halloween stuff this much, too. I would like to know why Jon Arbuckle has all this nonsense in the attic. A bat costume that fits the cat perfectly? Ok.

Garfield (a classic pick-me girl) decides he and Odie will be pirates. During this scene, the classic line is delivered succinctly, “Here be me first mate, Odie the Stupid.” It’s just ART. Anyway, out they go!

Trick or treating is going pretty well, Garfield threatens a nice lady into giving them more candy, and everyone under their costumes is really a terrifying ghoul. You know, pretty normal.

So they decide they aren’t getting a good enough loot collection and see some houses across the way. They take a boat, find a house, Odie throws the oars in the water, and well, let the real terror begin!

SIR THIS IS A CHILDREN’S SPECIAL.