u/Ornery-Wolf4932

I was just curious looking on local58.tv and found a glitching rectangle in 2025. What the hell is this vintage book collection? And who is T. Galbraith?

I would love some feedback or any particular questions about my screenplay. I will be open to answering any questions you have about the entire script.

Link: T H E D E V I L T R A I N

If you’ve been on the internet for a while, you are probably aware of Garfield, the fat orange tabby cat who lives with his cartoonist owner Jon Arbuckle, an adorable yellow beagle dog named Odie, and a small gray tabby cat named Nermal. The Garfield comics began back in 1978 by cartoonist Jim Davis, who after the success of his comic developed a secondary comic strip called U.S. Acres in March of 1986 which followed a pig named Orson and his misadventures on a lonely farmside alongside other characters, Roy Rooster, Wade Duck, Booker, Sheldon, Bo and Lanolin. The strip ended in 1989 after it’s lack of popularity, although these two strips were combined into three separate seven-minute segments for a children’s cartoon called Garfield and Friends. The show ran for approximately seven seasons before being cancelled due to the Saturday Morning phase being reduced and mostly because of budgetary restrictions. 

Since then, the show has been gaining more traction especially the U.S. Acres segments and their comics too. But no one knows about a hijacking that took place on Nickelodeon’s Channel in the 1990s when the Garfield and Friends show was being reran on their broadcasting channels. It was around summertime of 1999 before the show’s final airing on April 28th, 2000, the rerun for the Garfield and Friends episode Polecat Flats, Hogcules, and Brain Boy was going as planned that was until an unidentified intruder hijacked the broadcast station heavily editing the U.S. Acres segment, for majority of the Hogcules segment was very normal. Up until a certain portion where Orson’s Brothers suddenly appears near the ending.  After a few interviews there were exactly five viewers whose stories mismatched the actual hijacking event, but were fortunate enough to provide what occurred during their version of the hijacked broadcast, these interviewess wanted to go by their reddit users as to protect their privacy. 

The First user was WolfMan1243: I vividly remembered the ending, and... it scared me shitless. Now my memory is a bit fuzzy so forgive me if I miss any details, but if I remember correctly, I saw how Orson was threatening his brother to leave which made them laugh, but instead of the shed falling before the segment’s end, Orson opened his eyes, which looked incredibly bloodshot, like so bloodshot I swore his eyes looked very red. His brothers instantly stopped laughing staring at Orson with shocked faces, then out of nowhere Orson held up a hammer, and swung it into I believe Wart’s head, I saw how the force litterally smashed his skull open, blood and brain matter splattered. Before the screen went to black and Nickelodeon’s Broadcasting Service was halted for approximately 40 minutes before the final segment began airing. 

The second user was BananaPeanutJelly4238: I really remembered how it went, it wasn’t some hammer Orson used, it was a random Kitchen Knife he had in his hand, he thrusted the blade into Gort’s stomach, slicing a vertical gash on his body, which then made his bloody internal organs slide from the gash and fall onto the green grass, just before Orson was about to Slash Gort’s throat, Nickelodeon’s Broadcasting Service cut the broadcast, leaving it’s space empty for the rest of the day.

The third user was GarfieldFan1974: Orson didn’t use any sort of weapons, instead he lured his brothers into the red barn, trapping them into three separate rooms, above the main barn room was a pig feeding tank, he then forcfully stuffed one hose into each of their mouths, and forcing them to be on all fours like actual pigs, Orson then switched on the feeding tank, which then force-fed his brothers mud, when it got to a certain point where the brothers were so stuffed that they’re inflated bodies were squeezed into the rooms they were captive in before the broadcast ended. 

The fourth user was OdietheCat1988 his was similar to BananaPeanutJelly4238’s and GarfieldFan1974’s account but vividly different: Now I am no expert on broadcast hijackings, but this was nothing I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t just the ending that was hijacked, it was the entire segment itself, the title card was just white text against a black background, after it faded out, the beginning portion between Orson and Wade was very much the same up until the part where Wade closed the Shed door, as predicted, the entire shed fell on top of Wade although he screamed in pain, when he rose from the wreckage, his eyes seemed to have been torn out with blood spurting from it. After which it cut to Orson reading the book of Myths to Booker and Sheldon and after the normal conversation and minor lesson about Myths, instead of Booker pointing out Roy’s arrival it seemed to cut to black. Before it got to the portion of Orson fantasizing himself as Hercules, the typical title character Hogcules, instead of it being an upbeat, colorfully animated sequence, it was just this hyper realistic CGI render of Orson’s Hogcules. He seemed to posses human eyes in this image. And that’s how the entire broadcast went for the remainder of the seven-minute long cartoon. 

The fifth user is me the OP which I have withheld my User ID for privacy reasons so I am not harrased on the depth of the internet: From what I have experienced and what I have heard from other reports both on the News and both kids and teenagers who happened to see the hijacked or come across the hijacked broadcast, this is what I was able to compile and most of what I am about to reiterate may include some if not all of what the other interviewees remember. Like with  OdietheCat1988’s interview, there was a different title card although it was identical to the episode and not a generic black background with white text, but the title card itself seemed black and white with some sort of high contrast. Afterwards, majority of the episode remained consistent aside from minor glitches that resulted in the audio of the episode misaligning before snapping back to normal, it was mostly the ending similar to the earlier three interviewees that discussed them. The following is a combination of both Wolfman1243 and GarfieldFan1974’s memorization of the ending plus details I remember; after the whole fantasy sequence, and the arrival of Orson’s Brothers, Orson threatened his brothers like in the original episode, but it had more emphasis on the seering rage building in his voice. And like in the original segment, Orson’s Brothers laughed at him, and Orson closed his eyes, Orson’s Brothers and their laughter slowed before an uncomfortable silence surrounded them. Then Orson spoke, calm but still with rage “You think this is funny?” another moment of silence, then he continued “Treating me like I’m some outsider? I am your flesh and blood, and some how I get the short end of the stick. If you guys think I am funny, come to the barn with me.” It then cut to sometime later that night, Roy, Wade, Booker, Sheldon and Bo were calling out for Orson before finding the doors to the barn on the hill open. They ran over to find him. “Orson? Where are you?” Roy called out, worried. “Orson, are you okay? Did your brothers hurt you?” Booker asked. The light flashed on inside the barn to show the inflated, cut up corpses of Orson’s Brothers, blood was everywhere, organs thrown out and gore everywhere. Everyone screamed in horror, Bo throat-yelling “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, MAN?!” Orson then had his eyes glow from the dark. He then began to speak. “Every day I woke up, and Every Day I was reminded that I am an outsider, you’re fat, an ugly fat pig, your fantasies, your ‘imagination’ good luck trying to preserve your images, it will be hard to continue living here while also being an insult on to you. You want to know what I’ve done? I think you know...” Orson emerged from the darkness, blood all over his entire torso, even his hands. In his right hand, he held a pistol. “I am now free...No one will come looking for my brothers and now no one will come looking for us.” He aimed the hand gun towards the screen as the screams resumed. Then five gunshots rang out, which stopped the screaming, it is presumed he shot Roy, Wade, Booker, Sheldon and Bo with bullets to the head.  Just before the broadcast was cut off, Orson raised the barrel of the gun to the side of his head and pulled the trigger, brain matter splattered onto the wall before he collapsed dying instantly. Then Nickelodeon halted broadcasting for 40 minutes just as user WolfMan1243 said. While I do remember the event I sadly do not have any screenshots/images or any sort of found footage I can provide. All you have is mine and the other four interviewee descriptions to go off on. 

Authorities were not able to capture the culprit responsible for this immensley horrific event, with news coverage being swept under the rug. As of now there is only one person a middle-aged-man in Salt Lake City, Utah whom managed to record the entirety of the hijacked broadcast when he was a teenager. He has called himself John Doe to keep his identity anonymous, but has outright said that he will share the footage to anyone willing to upload it, in fact he’s had a whole VHS tape for this specific Hijacked recording. According to Doe, he was recording broadcasts of Garfield and Friends for his cousin in Canada as a Birthday Present until the disturbing Hijacking immediately made him stop recording, and he unfortunately had to break that news to his cousin who was very understanding of the entire incident. He shared copies of the footage onto DVD discs for his immediate family just in case the entire tape itself was unusable after some decades. As of now, no one has uploaded or will ever upload the ‘cursed’ broadcast as it seems too...disturbing for viewers even for adults. So if you ever come across news or any lost media footage, preserve it, we need to know who caused the broadcast and why they did what they did. 

This submission is to show off progress made on the script so far, including some parts in the script that are completely original to me. But I will always take more feedback constructively. And I will be able to answer any questions about the script itself.

Page Count: 12

Logline: An American Screenwriter hops on a departing train towards Los Angeles to a film pitch meeting, unaware of the train’s supernatural capabilities. 

THE DEVIL TRAIN SCREENPLAY

If you’ve been on the internet for a while, you are probably aware of Garfield, the fat orange tabby cat who lives with his cartoonist owner Jon Arbuckle, an adorable yellow beagle dog named Odie, and a small gray tabby cat named Nermal. The Garfield comics began back in 1978 by cartoonist Jim Davis, who after the success of his comic developed a secondary comic strip called U.S. Acres in March of 1986 which followed a pig named Orson and his misadventures on a lonely farmside alongside other characters, Roy Rooster, Wade Duck, Booker, Sheldon, Bo and Lanolin. The strip ended in 1989 after it’s lack of popularity, although these two strips were combined into three separate seven-minute segments for a children’s cartoon called Garfield and Friends. The show ran for approximately seven seasons before being cancelled due to the Saturday Morning phase being reduced and mostly because of budgetary restrictions. 

Since then, the show has been gaining more traction especially the U.S. Acres segments and their comics too. But no one knows about a hijacking that took place on Nickelodeon’s Channel in the 1990s when the Garfield and Friends show was being reran on their broadcasting channels. It was around summertime of 1999 before the show’s final airing on April 28th, 2000, the rerun for the Garfield and Friends episode Polecat Flats, Hogcules, and Brain Boy was going as planned that was until an unidentified intruder hijacked the broadcast station heavily editing the U.S. Acres segment, for majority of the Hogcules segment was very normal. Up until a certain portion where Orson’s Brothers suddenly appears near the ending.  After a few interviews there were exactly five viewers whose stories mismatched the actual hijacking event, but were fortunate enough to provide what occurred during their version of the hijacked broadcast, these interviewess wanted to go by their reddit users as to protect their privacy. 

The First user was WolfMan1243: I vividly remembered the ending, and... it scared me shitless. Now my memory is a bit fuzzy so forgive me if I miss any details, but if I remember correctly, I saw how Orson was threatening his brother to leave which made them laugh, but instead of the shed falling before the segment’s end, Orson opened his eyes, which looked incredibly bloodshot, like so bloodshot I swore his eyes looked very red. His brothers instantly stopped laughing staring at Orson with shocked faces, then out of nowhere Orson held up a hammer, and swung it into I believe Wart’s head, I saw how the force litterally smashed his skull open, blood and brain matter splattered. Before the screen went to black and Nickelodeon’s Broadcasting Service was halted for approximately 40 minutes before the final segment began airing. 

The second user was BananaPeanutJelly4238: I really remembered how it went, it wasn’t some hammer Orson used, it was a random Kitchen Knife he had in his hand, he thrusted the blade into Gort’s stomach, slicing a vertical gash on his body, which then made his bloody internal organs slide from the gash and fall onto the green grass, just before Orson was about to Slash Gort’s throat, Nickelodeon’s Broadcasting Service cut the broadcast, leaving it’s space empty for the rest of the day.

The third user was GarfieldFan1974: Orson didn’t use any sort of weapons, instead he lured his brothers into the red barn, trapping them into three separate rooms, above the main barn room was a pig feeding tank, he then forcfully stuffed one hose into each of their mouths, and forcing them to be on all fours like actual pigs, Orson then switched on the feeding tank, which then force-fed his brothers mud, when it got to a certain point where the brothers were so stuffed that they’re inflated bodies were squeezed into the rooms they were captive in before the broadcast ended. 

The fourth user was OdietheCat1988 his was similar to BananaPeanutJelly4238’s and GarfieldFan1974’s account but vividly different: Now I am no expert on broadcast hijackings, but this was nothing I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t just the ending that was hijacked, it was the entire segment itself, the title card was just white text against a black background, after it faded out, the beginning portion between Orson and Wade was very much the same up until the part where Wade closed the Shed door, as predicted, the entire shed fell on top of Wade although he screamed in pain, when he rose from the wreckage, his eyes seemed to have been torn out with blood spurting from it. After which it cut to Orson reading the book of Myths to Booker and Sheldon and after the normal conversation and minor lesson about Myths, instead of Booker pointing out Roy’s arrival it seemed to cut to black. Before it got to the portion of Orson fantasizing himself as Hercules, the typical title character Hogcules, instead of it being an upbeat, colorfully animated sequence, it was just this hyper realistic CGI render of Orson’s Hogcules. He seemed to posses human eyes in this image. And that’s how the entire broadcast went for the remainder of the seven-minute long cartoon. 

The fifth user is me the OP which I have withheld my User ID for privacy reasons so I am not harrased on the depth of the internet: From what I have experienced and what I have heard from other reports both on the News and both kids and teenagers who happened to see the hijacked or come across the hijacked broadcast, this is what I was able to compile and most of what I am about to reiterate may include some if not all of what the other interviewees remember. Like with  OdietheCat1988’s interview, there was a different title card although it was identical to the episode and not a generic black background with white text, but the title card itself seemed black and white with some sort of high contrast. Afterwards, majority of the episode remained consistent aside from minor glitches that resulted in the audio of the episode misaligning before snapping back to normal, it was mostly the ending similar to the earlier three interviewees that discussed them. The following is a combination of both Wolfman1243 and GarfieldFan1974’s memorization of the ending plus details I remember; after the whole fantasy sequence, and the arrival of Orson’s Brothers, Orson threatened his brothers like in the original episode, but it had more emphasis on the seering rage building in his voice. And like in the original segment, Orson’s Brothers laughed at him, and Orson closed his eyes, Orson’s Brothers and their laughter slowed before an uncomfortable silence surrounded them. Then Orson spoke, calm but still with rage “You think this is funny?” another moment of silence, then he continued “Treating me like I’m some outsider? I am your flesh and blood, and some how I get the short end of the stick. If you guys think I am funny, come to the barn with me.” It then cut to sometime later that night, Roy, Wade, Booker, Sheldon and Bo were calling out for Orson before finding the doors to the barn on the hill open. They ran over to find him. “Orson? Where are you?” Roy called out, worried. “Orson, are you okay? Did your brothers hurt you?” Booker asked. The light flashed on inside the barn to show the inflated, cut up corpses of Orson’s Brothers, blood was everywhere, organs thrown out and gore everywhere. Everyone screamed in horror, Bo throat-yelling “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, MAN?!” Orson then had his eyes glow from the dark. He then began to speak. “Every day I woke up, and Every Day I was reminded that I am an outsider, you’re fat, an ugly fat pig, your fantasies, your ‘imagination’ good luck trying to preserve your images, it will be hard to continue living here while also being an insult on to you. You want to know what I’ve done? I think you know...” Orson emerged from the darkness, blood all over his entire torso, even his hands. In his right hand, he held a pistol. “I am now free...No one will come looking for my brothers and now no one will come looking for us.” He aimed the hand gun towards the screen as the screams resumed. Then five gunshots rang out, which stopped the screaming, it is presumed he shot Roy, Wade, Booker, Sheldon and Bo with bullets to the head.  Just before the broadcast was cut off, Orson raised the barrel of the gun to the side of his head and pulled the trigger, brain matter splattered onto the wall before he collapsed dying instantly. Then Nickelodeon halted broadcasting for 40 minutes just as user WolfMan1243 said. While I do remember the event I sadly do not have any screenshots/images or any sort of found footage I can provide. All you have is mine and the other four interviewee descriptions to go off on. 

Authorities were not able to capture the culprit responsible for this immensley horrific event, with news coverage being swept under the rug. As of now there is only one person a middle-aged-man in Salt Lake City, Utah whom managed to record the entirety of the hijacked broadcast when he was a teenager. He has called himself John Doe to keep his identity anonymous, but has outright said that he will share the footage to anyone willing to upload it, in fact he’s had a whole VHS tape for this specific Hijacked recording. According to Doe, he was recording broadcasts of Garfield and Friends for his cousin in Canada as a Birthday Present until the disturbing Hijacking immediately made him stop recording, and he unfortunately had to break that news to his cousin who was very understanding of the entire incident. He shared copies of the footage onto DVD discs for his immediate family just in case the entire tape itself was unusable after some decades. As of now, no one has uploaded or will ever upload the ‘cursed’ broadcast as it seems too...disturbing for viewers even for adults. So if you ever come across news or any lost media footage, preserve it, we need to know who caused the broadcast and why they did what they did. 

This submission is to show off progress made on the script so far, including some parts in the script that are completely original to me. But I will always take more feedback constructively. And I will be able to answer any questions about the script itself.

Page Count: 12

Logline: An American Screenwriter hops on a departing train towards Los Angeles to a film pitch meeting, unaware of the train’s supernatural capabilities. 

THE DEVIL TRAIN SCREENPLAY

Feedback is accepted and will be taken into account. There has been an extensive amount of refinements made and adjusted to the filmscript. But I will always take more feedback constructively. And I will be able to answer any questions about the script itself.

Page Count: 10

Logline: An American Screenwriter hops on a departing train towards Los Angeles to a film pitch meeting, unaware of the train’s supernatural capabilities. 

THE DEVIL TRAIN SCREENPLAY

Does anyone know what date this specific comic strip released?

It's a Sunday Comic that featured Garfield using a block of cheese with multiple holes and a bellow in the other hand, when he hears something munching from the mouse hole, he placed it in front of he uses the bellow and pumps something up, before reaching into the hole and pulls out an inflated mouse by the tail like a balloon, presumably he inflated the muse using the cheese as a distraction.

This was animated into one of the Quickie Segments for Garfield and Friends as well.