U.S. Acres

U.S. Acres (known as Orson's Farm in all countries except the United States) is a comic strip created by Jim Davis, author of the popular comic-strip; Garfield. Its animated adaption was included in the TV show; Garfield and Friends. U.S. Acres featured various barnyard animals living on a farm.

Characters

Main Characters

• Orson Pig: A kindhearted but often naive bibliophile whose work ethic makes him the functional leader. His good humor being tested is one of the common gags in the cartoons. He tends to avoid conflicts. He sometimes becomes a costumed superhero named Power Pig, which more often than not causes his friends or adversaries to fall down laughing at him.
• Roy Rooster: A loud, greedy rooster who enjoys practical jokes. Except for a few instances, he is tolerated because his job (waking up everyone and 'tending' to chickens) is important, although he does his best to avoid labor whenever possible. He has a special delight in tormenting the easy target of Wade.
• Wade Duck: His good nature is sometimes shadowed by his overwhelming hypochondria and phobia of nearly everything, especially flying, and is so paranoid of drowning that he constantly wears a kiddie pool inner tube (which has a likeness of him on the front which, for careful eyed fans, sometimes changes expression depending on his own mood). He can be easy driven into an incoherent raving of fear.
• Bo Sheep: Lanolin's brother with a pleasant, "surfer" drone in his voice. Not particularly bright sometimes, but always cool, collected, and dependable.
• Lanolin Sheep: Equally hardworking but the polar opposite of her brother: Loud and disagreeable. Was often seen doing laundry despite the fact none of the animals wore clothes.
• Booker: A chick hatched by Orson after finding an abandoned egg, named for the pig's love of books. He is extremely adventerous and (over)confident despite his size. He often chases worms, but can never seem to catch them. In the comic, he often called Orson "Mom."
• Sheldon: Booker's brother, who refused to hatch completely and appears as a walking egg with chicken feet sticking out of him. A common gag is to portray his shell as the perfect living space within (complete with microwave oven), without ever showing it.

Secondary Characters

• Booker continually chases worms (unnamed), without success.
• The farm's resident chickens (unnamed) are often romanced by Roy, as he is usually rescuing them from the Weasel.
• The Fox wants to eat the chickens. He seems especially intent on eating Sheldon.
• Mort, Gort, & Wart are Orson's three ugly, mean older brothers, and the only things Orson fears. Usually, they show up to abuse Orson or steal the gang's crops.
• Fred Duck is Wade's geeky cousin, who isn't afraid of flying.
• The Weasel often tries to kidnap the chickens, but is usally stopped by Roy.
• Plato is a brown rooster who applied to be the farm's resident rooster once, and he could easily charm the chickens, much to Roy's chagrin. However, he is also afraid of weasels. After his experience there, he went on to raise a herd of giant bunnies.
• Newton, another cousin of Wade, can't remember anything.