Garfield and Friends was an American animated television series based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. The show was produced by Film Roman, in association with United Feature Syndicate and Paws, Inc., and ran on CBS Saturday mornings from 1988 to late 1994. Reruns continued until 1995.

The series featured segments based on Garfield and U.S. Acres, a lesser-known comic strip also created by Davis. The latter was retitled Orson's Farm for foreign syndication as well as the DVD releases. The original logo was retained in the 9 Story Media Group version.

242 Garfield segments and 121 U.S. Acres segments were produced. There were two "Garfield" segments on each show, two "quickie" shorts based on Sunday comic strips, and in between was a U.S. Acres segment.

Segments

Garfield

The "Garfield" segments focus on the adventures of Garfield, Jon and Odie in the suburban world. The only characters from the strip not to appear are Doc Boy Arbuckle, Grandma Arbuckle, Squeak and Irma. Jon's parents and Arlene make cameo appearances in "Feeling Feline" and "Remote Possibilities" respectively. While cartoons from earlier seasons focused more on Garfield's wacky antics, later seasons focused more on behind-the-scenes satire, parodies and breaking the fourth wall.

U.S. Acres

The "U.S. Acres" segments were based on Jim Davis' lesser-known comic strip, which was about Orson Pig and his barnyard friends; Roy Rooster, Lanolin Sheep, Bo Sheep, Wade Duck, Booker and Sheldon and the life they run together on their farm. The only characters from the original strip not to appear are Blue and Cody. Originally, the segments were focused on morals and social lessons; later segments focused more on comedy, breaking the fourth wall and slapstick.

When the show was originally broadcast on CBS, the episodes usually had three Quickies (30- to 45-second gags), usually two "Garfield Quickies" (the first one being played before the intro theme) and one "U.S. Acres Quickie," the latter of which was never shown in syndication.

As the show had been doing well enough in syndication, the production company found it unnecessary to produce more episodes. An agreement was made to end the show after the seventh season, despite garnering high ratings. CBS scrapped its Saturday morning cartoon line-up in September 1997. In the intro of the final episode, Garfield states "After seven seasons, we've pretty much said everything you can say in this spot".

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4 brothers, 3 sisters

To arrive at the answer:

  • Let the number of boys be B, let the number of girls be G.

  • From the first relation, we have B-1 = G as we take it from the point of view of one of the boys, we must remove that boy from the relation

  • From the second relation, we have G-1 = B/2 each sister has exactly half as many sisters as brothers.

  • With a little rearranging, we can get B = G+1 and 2G-2 = B => G+1 = 2G-2 => 3 +G= 2G => G=3

  • We just plug this into B-1 = G and get B-1 = 3 => B=4.

Therefore, there are 4 boys and 3 girls.

This should also be all possible solutions, but if anyone is a real stickler we can check by a 2x2 matrix to see if it's invertible. These linear equations correspond to matrix equations {{1, -1}, {-1/2, 1}} * {{B}, {G}} = {{1}, {1}} and as {{1, -1}, {-1/2, 1}} is invertible (relatively easy to see as we can row reduce it to an upper triangular matrix quickly or just use the 2x2 det formula) this equations has only one solution. There you go. In case anyone forgot why it equals {{1}, {1}} , that's just the constant matrix from the 2 linear equations.

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The butcher is twice as old as they were when the baker was half as old as was the candlestick maker. The candlestick maker is twice as old as the butcher was when the baker was half as old as the butcher is now. Twelve years ago the baker was half as old as the butcher will be twelve years from now.

How old is each of them now?

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