page_title: Garfield's Babes and Bullets
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Garfield's Babes and Bullets / Reception
caption_attribution_description: Frame from the 1941 public domain trailer for the Warner Bros. film The Maltese Falcon showing Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade.
context_page_description: Garfield's Babes and Bullets is a 1989 animated television special directed by Phil Roman, based on a short story of the same name by Ron Tuthill in the book Garfield: His 9 Lives. It features Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield, the house cat, re-imagined as a private detective named Sam Spayed attempting to solve a murder mystery.
  The special won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. It has since been released on DVD.
  This was the ninth of twelve Garfield television specials made between 1982 and 1991.
context_section_description: The special won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (One Hour or Less) in 1989. The animated version of Garfield: His 9 Lives was also nominated that year.
  In his DVD Talk review, Randy Miller III called Garfield Fantasies the most unusual of the Garfield DVD collections, adding Babes and Bullets "ain't exactly Sin City here, but this amusing caper is one of the best of the bunch." Author Mitzi M. Brunsdale described Sam Spayed as one of the "strange spinoffs" of the Sam Spade character, created by Dashiell Hammett in the novel The Maltese Falcon. Turner Classic Movies identified Sam Spayed particularly as a parody of 1940s film detectives and Humphrey Bogart, who starred as Spade in the 1941 film version of The Maltese Falcon.
caption: Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, the inspiration for the Garfield character.
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