Editing Garfield and Friends (section)

==Reception and legacy==
At the time of the series' release, critical reviews on it were generally negative. Charles Solomon of ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' wrote in 1988, "Garfield has lost all his feline qualities and become a crabby little man in a cat suit. With more than 3,500 ''Garfield'' products on the market, does anyone really need to see more of the character?"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Solomon |first=Charles |date=September 20, 1988 |title=TV Review: New Kidvid Season: Send in the Clones |work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/280513981 |url-status=live |access-date=2022-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301181352/https://www.proquest.com/docview/280513981 |archive-date=2023-03-01 |id={{ProQuest|280513981}}}}</ref> Gene Seymour of ''[[The Pittsburgh Press]]'' rated the show "D−", saying that the show "tries too hard to be hip" and "the jokes are flat."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Seymour |first=Gene |date=October 8, 1988 |title=Saturday Morning Shows Lack Pizzazz |pages=B7 |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/145710026/ |url-status=live |access-date=May 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529212454/https://www.newspapers.com/image/145710026/ |archive-date=2022-05-29 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

However, retrospective reviews of the series have been much more favorable. The quality of ''Garfield and Friends'' when compared with other animated television series from the 1980s is considered by animation historian [[Jerry Beck]] to "foreshadow the higher quality animation boom coming in the next decade."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Beck |first=Jerry |author-link=Jerry Beck |date=June 23, 2018 |title=New Book Reviews |url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/new-book-reviews/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709041530/http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/new-book-reviews/ |archive-date=2019-07-09 |access-date=2019-07-09 |website=Cartoon Research |publisher=Cartoon Research Co.}}</ref> Hal Erickson says that "''Garfield and Friends'' rapidly became the hub around which the rest of CBS' morning lineup was built," and it "seemed to get better with each passing season."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Erickson |first=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |edition=2nd |pages=358–360}}</ref>