Garfield's Babes and Bullets is a half-hour animated special based on the Garfield comic strip. It is is inspired in a segment of the book Garfield: His 9 Lives, features the voice of Lorenzo Music as Garfield, and premiered in 1989. Garfield (right) and Odie Garfield is the worlds most widely read comic strip, created by Jim Davis featuring the cat Garfield, the less-than-brilliant pet dog Odie, and their socially inept owner Jon Arbuckle. ... Lorenzo Music, (May 2, 1937–August 4, 2001) was an American actor, voice actor, writer, television producer and musician. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Storyline

On a rainy day, Garfield enters a fantasy world in which he is Sam Spayed (pun to Sam Spade), a private investigator in a film noir atmosphere. He investigates the murder of a university professor who allegedly 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. Poster of the 1941 Warner Brothers film version of The Maltese Falcon, directed by John Huston Sam Spade was the leading character in the novel and movie The Maltese Falcon (1931). ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... A sedative is a drug that depresses the central nervous system (CNS), which causes calmness, relaxation, reduction of anxiety, sleepiness, slowed breathing, slurred speech, staggering gait, poor judgment, and slow, uncertain reflexes. ...