Lasagnacat

lasagnacat, stylized as Lasagna Cat, is an American YouTube channel created by Zach Johnson and Jeffery Max from Fatal Farm that parodies the popular comic strip and media series, Garfield, created by American cartoonist Jim Davis. It mainly consists of live-action recreations of Garfield comics, alongside music videos and surreal skits relating to the chosen strip. The series ran from 2008 to 2017 and gained notable popularity.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6632320/
==History==
On January 14, 2008 on the Fatal Farm YouTube channel, they announced the upcoming Lasagna Cat series as a way of tributing the creator of Garfield, Jim Davis.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NghmSD5p5RI The Lasagna Cat channel was originally created on October 30, 2007, but didn't start uploading after their announcement video. That same day, they uploaded 26 videos which were parody videos of Garfield comics.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF54E9FFC80199CFB
Afterwards, the channel became inactive for 9 years until they announced a comeback on February 6, 2017.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADM2WG1PsRs Three days later, they uploaded a video saying fans that wanted the series back could call a number answering their name and number of sexual partners they were engaged in.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN7LQNDkobA Soon, on February 23, Fatal Farm uploaded 11 new videos onto the channel.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHVvuDoOQZBso9poLUPew-7e2EvwmLuX5 Like before, they were parody videos of Garfield, except for the final video. After that, the channel became inactive once again.
==Content==
Each video's title shows the date in which the original comic was aired. The first portion of each episode is a live action recreation of the comics with actors portraying them in costume and suits. Afterwards, they play a laugh track as well as showing the original comic. The second portion are heavily edited clips from the recreation made into music videos and memes. At the end, they show a picture of Garfield's creator, Jim Davis.
The 2017 videos are similar to the originals, except the second portion of the episodes are much more higher in production and use new scenes instead of splicing clips. Two exceptions are "07/27/1978" in which the second portion is about an hour of a man extensively talking about a comic where Garfield smokes a pipe.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw
The other is "Sex Survey Results" which show Jon Arbuckle, Garfield, and Odie answering the door for mannequins who play audio from people who called in about the number of sexual partners they engaged in.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgmoMO66uPg The final section of the video shows Jon going through a series of disturbing events, such as encountering a cat carcase and a naked shaman painted like Garfield, and being birthed by a young Polish student.
==Episode list==
===Phase 1 (2008)===
#Lasagna Cat
#08/18/1978
#05/14/1979
#02/24/1979
#05/16/1987
#05/16/1985
#12/03/1991
#01/24/1994
#01/26/1995
#03/08/1997
#01/19/1987
#03/24/1979
#04/04/2001
#10/25/2004
#01/05/2005
#02/24/2006
#06/01/1982
#08/15/2006
#09/15/2006
#04/16/2007
#04/20/2007
#06/15/2007
#10/26/2007
#11/01/2007
#04/08/1998
===Phase 2 (2017)===
#07/27/1978
#10/20/1984
#02/26/2003
#12/04/1980
#06/08/2001
#12/20/1996
#06/19/2002
#02/18/2009
#03/28/1992
#07/30/2000
#Sex Survey Results
==Trivia==
*Every episode in the series stars Garfield, Odie, and Jon, with the exception of "06/15/2007" and "06/19/2002", which instead has Lizhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wFnNB6ra3o and a mouse.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MMKB6zYbrc
*Three videos were deleted from the channel: "05/20/2005" (due to copyright), "11/19/1979" (due to containing personal information belonging to a Paws, Inc. employee) and "8/14/1986" (again, due to copyright). However, all of them have been reuploaded by other people.https://vimeo.com/209742142https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxcpicWI95ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubqpPtPGK3g
*The Lasagna Cat video, "10/20/1984" parodies the TV series, , specifically the episode, "".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GXh0ig_HNk
*In November 2008, the cast performed the parody comics live at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The performance was recorded and then uploaded to YouTube by one audience member, VonRankinstein, in 4 separate videos.https://www.youtube.com/@VonRankinstein/videos
*The production for the second phase of Lasagna Cat began shortly after doing the first series, but it went through production hell and heavy revising. Fatal Farm only ended up released 12 of the 22 episodes they shot.https://consequence.net/2017/07/celebrating-jim-davis-with-lasagna-cat-an-interview-with-fatal-farm/#:~:text=So%20what%20prompted%20a%20Lasagna%20Cat%20revival%3F
*Two YouTube channels associated with Lasagna Cat were found called lazycat619 and darthmauldog1125 as both of their names can be seen in the episode, "12/04/1980".
*A secret website can be seen called Garfcom.Biz which was previously seen in the episode, "07/30/2000". Going to the website will give you fake download tabs and will pretend that your device is downloading files.
==References==
Category:YouTubers
Category:Comedy YouTubers
Category:Film YouTubers
Category:Meme YouTubers
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2007