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5518: Not *A* Dress, *The* Dress

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
While browsing the archives, I came across a SRoMG strip with a very familiar dress.
There have been a few The Dress-related strips around already, but I wanted to make a strip based on the fact that The Dress was blue and black, and the color confusion really just came down to the way the photo was taken (for more info on "that stupid lighting", see this video by Captain Disillusion). Thus, Jon's remark seems to be caused by his house's lighting, his perception of color, and/or his general cloudcuckoolanderishness [try saying that 5 times fast].
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2022-01-05.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Whoa!
Jon: Garfield! Check it out!
Jon {wearing The Dress}: This dress is white and gold!
Garfield: It's not even under that stupid lighting
Category:Super Nerd
Category:Real world references
5519: Lyman Flew Over the Lasagna's Nest

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Yes, all I did was combine the first panel of #5318 with the last two panels of #1534. But the result speaks for itself.
(And for the sake of maintaining a pattern: the original strip is in book #60, Garfield Cleans His Plate.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is reading a newspaper. The front page features a photograph of Lyman}
Jon: Today inmates at the mental institution escaped using Italian food
{beat}
Jon {seeing a photo of Lyman on the front page}: Is that Lyman?
Garfield: He was one of them
Category:SonicLover
5520: Take It To The Limit One More Time

==Explanation==
This strip is part of an effort of intentional lazy edits designed to lampoon lazy edits; either unsatisfied with or, due to the nature of the Square Root of Minus Garfield strip queue, possibly unaware (as of submission whenever that was; the author has been a frequent contributor throughout much of the running gag) of other branches of the running gag unwittingly started by 2193: All You Need is Me (and previously contributed to by the same author in 2553: Tener Cuidado Con Lo Que Deseas), taking the file from 4160: One Even Better/Worse--yet another branch of the gag deriving inspiration from that step of the running gag--and horizontally slicing Garfield and most of Jon out of it.
==The author writes:==
"I've come to hate my own creation. Now I know how God feels." - Homer Simpson
And for the record? Three seconds, with the Snipping Tool.
I win. (but at what cost...)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Lazy edit
==Trivia==
*The day's iToons strip, 826: You know what the world needs more of?, is an allusion to the running gag that this strip is part of.
Category:Crazy56U
Category:Intentional lazy edits
5521: Taking Laziness Further

==Explanation==
This "strip", if you can even call it that, is a clear attempt at a trend of one-upping in a trend of intentional lazy edits designed to lampoon lazy edits. Deriving inspiration from 4704: One-downsmanship and the second content-free "strip" presumably inspired through that branch of the running gag (after 4898: nothing), this "strip" manages to make usage of the smallest possible file size that Square Root of Minus Garfield can actually run (anything less and there wouldn't even be a file to deploy). Also like strip #4898, this "strip" one-ups the strip from the day prior, in this case 5520: Take It To The Limit One More Time, by dispensing with a strip altogether; despite this "strip" not including a transcript, it only fails to one-up #4898 itself by its detailed set of author's notes.
==The author writes:==
After seeing SRoMG #4704, this was inevitable. Apparently I'm too lazy to send in an actual strip* (but not lazy enough to actually write an annotation, so evidently there's still room to improve).
I eagerly await the edit of this strip that forgoes the annotation, title, comic, transcript, and, indeed, sending a submission email altogether.
[*for technical reasons the Editor supplied a single transparent pixel -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
In line with the "strip" being content-free, this "strip" does not have a transcript.
Category:edderiofer
Category:Intentional lazy edits
Category:Content-free strips
5522: Variations On A Theme

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I recently encountered 2014-03-01 and it made me think of #4708. So I made this.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I seek truth!
Jon: They stopped making frozen pudding pops
Garfield {facepalming}: I could have sought a pizza!
SFX: SMACK!
Category:TPTPWDotACoEMW
5523: Freakyfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Inspired by SRoMG #5460.
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield applies aftershave}
Garfield: Jon says this after shave is supposed to attract women
SFX: GALLOP GALLOP GALLOP GALLOP
{Garfield turns his head in alarm at the sound}
{Garfield is nuzzled by Arlene and another female cat, while a third walks happily towards him}
Garfield: Darn... wrong species
Category:Manyhills
5524: Jonathan Q. Arbuckle VS Orson The Pig

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Reading today's SRoMG strip (#4660), this strip where Jon and Orson have a fight came to mind, and I think it would be obvious who would be the winner; since Orson learned those pretty dirty fighting techniques by suffering them with Lanolin (Whew!).
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2022-02-20.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon {quite angry}: You disgusting pig!
Orson {drinking his coffee and smearing his mouth, an arm, and the table with it}: Oh, yeah?!
{In the last panel we see Jon crashed unconscious against the window - even with the blinds closed - and soaked in his coffee, indicating that this was done - obviously - by Orson himself}
Category:IQ-ranger
5525: Sit Down, Jon

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Good God consider yourselves fortunate you have Jon Arbuckle to abuse, for no sane man would tolerate it!
Original film: 1776.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I have come to the conclusion that ONE useless man is called a disgrace, that TWO are called a lawfirm, and that three or more become a congress! And by God I have had this congress! For ten years, King George and his parliament have gull, cullied and diddled these colonies with the illegal taxes! Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Sugar Acts, TEA Acts! And when we dared stand up like men, they have stopped our trade, seized our ships, blockaded our ports, burned our towns and spilled our blood! And still this congress refuses to grant any of my proposals on independence, even so much as the courtesy of open debate! Good God, what in the hell are you waiting for?!
The delegates of Pennsylvania, South Carolina and North Carolina (respectfully yielding to South Carolina): Sit down, Jon! Sit down, Jon! For God's sake, Jon, SIT DOWN!!!
Someone off panel, probably Maryland: Will somebody open up a window?
Category:Luke99
Category:Photo comics
Category:Film references
5526: Maybe you shouldn't pick on someone who can learn Body Slam

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Personally I always preferred Hitmoncliff to Hitmonfield, not only for better accuracy, but for a wider variety of type attacks.
Thanks to Bulbapedia for the sprite.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I have this nagging feeling I'm forgetting something
{A Slowpoke falls on Garfield}
SFX: WHUMP!
Garfield: Oh yes, I forgot I kicked Slowpoke into next week, last year
Category:Sloublues
Category:Video game references
5527: Condensed Sunday 1

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 5527: Condensed Sunday #1.
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I am terribly sorry about the controversy that was caused in the previous edit of this strip. Here's a condensed Sunday version of the original strip. And hey, have I seen this before?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {to Jon (who is carrying a burger, a bunch of fries, and (presumably) a milkshake), holding a sprig of kale by its stalk(?)}: No thank you, Jon Arbuckle! I'll just have a sprig of kale!
Scale {to an excited Garfield}: Congratulations! You've lost another ten pounds!
{cut to a scared Garfield in bed}
Garfield: Whoa! Worst nightmare ever!
Category:Darkbross
5528: Azurafield

== Explanation ==
The author begins his notes by revealing he would have warned the fans of Azura, the songstress character from Fire Emblem Fates, not to look at the strip due to the fact that this strip would disturb such fans; the way Square Root of Minus Garfield is set up, however, means Azura's fans would see the strip before such a warning.
The author's notes tend to mostly adequately explain this strip's premise; Ax Battler comes from a different video game series, Golden Axe, and can be considered an example of a non-indicative name in that he's named for one offensive implement but uses another.
The usage of 600-pixel wide original strip material in this strip presented after the author had used higher-quality material in the two strips of his that ran prior to this one can be explained by this strip being made and submitted before 5362: Pooffield (as well as 5294: Party Like It's 2008-11-14!, the author's prior strip before #5362).
== The author writes ==
Normally I'd warn Azura's fans not to look at the strip before they read this, but the way Square Root of Minus Garfield strips are presented, her fans have already been scarred for life seeing a fat, orange cat lip-synching her beautiful ballad...
Anyway, we've seen Garfield's thwacking skipping record players, skipping CD players, skipping iPods, skipping thin air...strangely, he hasn't yet thwacked any skipping radios or cassette players (unless there's some still in the buffer as I submit this)...But how about the most old-fashioned of them all—a skipping live singer! Just grab a singer character (in this case Azura originally from Fire Emblem Fates), an implement, set up the implement in Garfield's hands, and THWACK! Naturally he didn't use lethal force even with a weapon triangle advantage (Garfield's axe beats Azura's lance, but he'd lose to Ax Battler's sword), lest there not be a source of the rest of the song for him to lip-synch to after stopping the skipping...
Emerald Axe and Azura imagery courtesy of Fire Emblem Heroes
Original strip: 
== Transcript ==
Garfield {lip-synching, while Jon faces away drinking out of coffee cup}: You are the ocean's gray waves
Garfield {lip-synching, as Jon turns toward Garfield: Destined to seek life beyond the shore just out of reach
Garfield {lip-synching}: Yet the waters ever change
Garfield {lip-synching}: Flowing like time Flowing like time
{Garfield turns toward a voice coming from off-panel}
Voice from off-panel {singing}: Flowing like time Flowing like time Flowing like time
{Garfield approaches Azura and thwacks her with an Emerald Axe}
Azura {singing}: Flowing like time
Garfield {lip-synching, having returned to his original position}: The path is yours to climb
Category:shiningpikablu252
Category:Video game references
5529: Fluffy Cheese Cat.

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Made by using Cookie Run Comic Studio on Comic Studio. Sprites are ripped from Cookie Run: OvenBreak.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Cheesecake Cookie: Hi! I'm Cheesecake, I'm a Cookie, and this is my cat, Fluffy Cheese Cat!
Fluffy Cheese Cat: Hi, I'm Fluffy Cheese Cat, I'm a cat, and this is my Cookie Cheesecake.
Cheesecake Cookie: Our only goal is to entertain you!
Fluffy Cheese Cat: Feed me...
Category:IceYoshi
Category:Video game references
5530: We're Gonna Clock Around the Donut Tonight!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Note the implication that Garfield pasted that "2" on the clock, and that the hour of 11 PM (or maybe AM, since we can't see the AM/PM dot) instead repeated itself, hidden in the art.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {in front of a digital clock reading 11:58}: I've reached my donut limit for today
{Beat panel. The digital clock now reads 11:59}
Garfield {in front of a digital clock reading 12:00}: I will now eat the first donut of tomorrow
Category:Lubaf
Category:Music references
5531: Look Liz, It's Liz

==Explanation==
This strip references the higher than normal turnover rate in the position of prime minister of the United Kingdom in the years leading up to the date this strip first ran; between the start of 2022 and the strip's run date, the United Kingdom had seen four prime ministers in the post: Boris Johnson (July 2019-September 2022), Liz Truss (September 2022-October 2022), Rishi Sunak (October 2022-July 2024), and Keir Starmer (July 2024-present as of this writing). Johnson, Truss, and Sunak each first took the post upon their predecessor resigning (as did Johnson's predecessor Theresa May).
The author, as stated in their notes, made this strip in November 2022, shortly after Sunak took office. This strip, however, wasn't sent until July 2024, either during the leadup to the UK general election that month or shortly after it, and fast-tracked through the queue while still topical. Despite the short ten-day timeframe, it is difficult to analyze exactly when it was sent in; the exit polling during the campaign phase leading up to the election had suggested Sunak's party would take heavy losses in the election, and indeed Sunak's party lost 251 notional seats in comparison to the 2019 general election (the seat change being notional due to boundary changes between general elections)--the worst result ever for Sunak's party and the second-best result ever for Starmer's, although percentage-wise not quite the wipeout compared to the 1993 Canadian election that had seen some comparisons in the leadup to election day.
This strip's title is taken from a line from 4901: Little Gemfield, which itself referenced the early part of the political turbulence that ultimately resulted in the change in government this strip was submitted to reference.
==The author writes:==
I made this back in November 2022, but the July 2024 General Election inspired me to send it in. Better late than never, I guess.
Title from SRoMG #4901 "Little Gemfield".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon reads a newspaper while Garfield looks bored}
Jon: The UK Prime Minister is constantly changing
Category:GravityEmblem
Category:Real world references
5532: Rainbow Garfield

==Explanation==
The author's notes explains the premise of this strip, one where Garfield progresses through every color of the rainbow as presented in the mnemonic "Roy G. Biv". To this effect, Garfield's color is changed in every panel except the second (the second was unchanged as Garfield himself normally represents the second color in the mnemonic), and the usage of a Sunday strip indeed allows Garfield to go through every color in the seven-color "Roy G. Biv" spectrum.
==The author writes:==
I had to do a comic where Garfield changes from red to violet.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {coloured red}: Hmmm
Garfield {coloured his normal orange}: I haven't purred in a long time
Garfield {coloured yellow}: Cats only purr when they're happy and content...
Garfield {coloured green}: Does this mean I'm not happy anymore? This is awful!
Garfield {coloured blue}: I'm so depressed
{Garfield, coloured indigo, kicks Odie off the table}
SFX: Boot!
Garfield {coloured violet}: Purrrrrrrrr
Category:Captain Lhurgoyf
5533: Garfield Minus Incriminating Evidence

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
If Garfield wanted Jon to think that the fish ran away, he really shouldn't have left the tartar sauce and lemon by the fishbowl.
But then again, considering how often Garfield has eaten Jon's pet fish, maybe the letter still wouldn't have fooled him.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is staring at Jon's laptop and then starts typing a message on it}
Text: Dear Jon, Life here with you has become unbearable.
SFX: Tic tic tic
Text: I can't stand it in this house another day, so I am running away to join the French Foreign Legion.
SFX: Tikka tikka tic tic tic
Text: Please don't try to find me. Just know that this is what I want, and that it's the best thing for both of us. Goodbye.
SFX: Tikkity tikkity tic tic tic
{Garfield then prints out the letter...}
SFX: Print print print print
{...and then walks to the right with it. Later, Jon comes upon the letter, placed in the fishbowl, which is now minus one fish. However, Jon has a good suspicion as to why the fish is gone}
Jon: GARFIELD!!
Category:FroggoFan64
5534: I firedd that guy after the fifth grade!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Well, I guess "I stand" is better than "I stinky".
Just an idea I had after seeing SRoMG #5435 and its original.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Liz look at Garfield, who is lying down}
{Jon and Liz continue looking, as Garfield continues lying}
Garfield: I stand
{Despite Garfield getting up on his own two feet just as he announced, Jon is surprised. Liz smirks}
Category:DEIDATVM
5536: Garfield Plus Meta

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Alternate transcript:
{Poor Garfield, he isn't real. He lives in a comic series; everything he loves, he hates, he thought is true, is fake. All the colorful world is just the entertainment of those existing above, a very toy of gods that could be abandoned anytime. Whatever, it's time Jon breaks this to him} Jon: This isn't real {Jon said the words calmly and smiled. As if what he said is not meta, is as normal as "I'm home" or "Dinner is served". Garfield, sure, he certainly can't believe this. How could someone who feeds him lasagna be unreal? He stares at Jon's face: big eyeballs takes up half his face, nose and mouth are one fold line, hair is unnaturally curly, not to mention the speech bubble that just disappeared. A standard comic character, explanationlessly} {Among the shock, one sentence appears in his brain, "Our only thought is to entertain you". Whoever "you" is? Who is above the screen? What do gods look like? The answers are on his left, outside the panel borders and out of the screen. Turn his head right and ignore, the story ends, he will wake up in his bed and believe whatever he wants to believe: Pooky, lasagnas, his mom... Turn his head left, he stays in Garfield, and he will be shown how deep the comic strip goes. After this, there is NO turning back} {After fierce tussling with himself, curiosity about real life beats all he believes. Garfield turns his head to the left, looks beyond the screen which separates real and fake, and sees...} {H E S E E S A N O T H E R S C R E E N}
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: This isn't real
{Garfield stares at Jon, shocked}
{Garfield looks out of the fourth wall}
{Over the eight wall, we see Garfield watching out from the screen of a mobile phone, which is displaying the comic strip}
Category:Reisen U. Inaba
5537: Caughtfield

==Explanation==
In this comic, Garfield thinks that he's been captured by Jon and wants to be freed. Jon's dialogue doesn't change in this one.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hi, there... I'm Jon Arbuckle. I'm a cartoonist, and this is my cat, Garfield.
Garfield: Hi, there. I'm Garfield. I'm a cat, and this is my captor, Jon.
Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you.
Garfield: Free me.
Category:spider
5538: Well, That's Awkward, Jon

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I have nothing for this one; I saw SRoMG #5287, and my brain seized on the phrase 'New Orleans'. This is the result. What's the punch line supposed to be?
The punch line is a part of a comedic exchange, routine, or performance; I couldn't find the origins of the phrase, but after searching online, it appears that the earliest attested usages of the phrase to denote a humorous landing or quip date to around the 1920s. Thus, it's possible that it derives from the then-popular magazine Punch, which frequently derived its particular brand of humour from such one-liners being attached to caricatures and short articles - though of course there's no direct evid
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2023-11-09.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {agitated}: What am I going to do, Garfield? My Bobby McGee is visiting from New Orleans
Jon {vexed}: He thinks I live where I think it was
Garfield: "In between dental and regret" is more like it
Jon {defeated}: I don't know what he got my wife
Garfield {holding up an admonishing finger}: You told him you had a brother
{The backgrounds of the panels are a variety of garish colours, and filled with small flying geometric shapes}
Category:Linguanaut
5539: Garfield Gets Swatted

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I read SRoMG #5298 and thought the joke would be Garfield getting swatted. Instead, it was a government surveillance joke. So I decided to turn it into the swatting I imagined, with Garfield as a boring, run-of-the-mill Fortnite streamer.
Original Garfield comic: Issue 6 (October 2012) published by Kaboom!.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sitting at a computer, typing}
SFX: tic tic tic
Computer input: >ban katzsuck42069
Computer response: katzsuck42069 has been banned
{Garfield is now using the mouse}
Garfield: No racist spamming in my Twitch stream, thanks. Now, watch me get this victory royale!
{Garfield is startled by a loud noise behind him}
SFX: WHAM!
{Two police officers have entered the house, guns drawn}
Officer 1: POLICE!
Officer 2: Release the puppy hostages!
Category:Jason Tank
Category:Non-strip Garfield material
Category:Video game references
5540: Garfield's Color Theater

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I'm surprised nobody's done this, and I know because I've been looking at every strip up until this point because I have nothing better to do. Full credit goes to NES Boy for the strip. I just took 2 minutes to slap some grayscale on it.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2014-03-21.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{The panel is in grayscale}
Garfield: You are watching Garfield's Color Theater
{The color returns to the strip for this panel; Garfield looks alarmed}
{The strip is now back to grayscale}
Garfield: You have been watching Garfield's Color Theater
Category:CanadianShark26
5541: UB40Field

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon told Garfield that there was a mouse in the kitchen and Garfield told Jon that he needed a sandwich from the mouse. Jon then started firing Garfield, and the cat told him to hold the mayo.
In this remix, Garfield and Jon are singing the lyrics to UB40's Rat in the Kitchen song. Garfield smiles in the 3rd panel and the author put in his own thought bubble for Garfield in the second. This was based off of #3823, except that strip was done the first time.
==The author writes:==
For some reason, the original comic made me think of a UB40 song*.
[*Not for the first time. -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {to Garfield}: There's a rat in me kitchen, what imma gonna do?
Garfield: There's a rat in me kitchen, what imma gonna do?
Jon: I'm gonna fix that rat, that's what imma do!
Garfield: Fix that rat!
Jon: Whoa whoa whoooa yeaaah
Garfield {smiling}: Oh yeaaah yeaaah
==Trivia==
*This strip marked the debut of the 900th credited author of Square Root of Minus Garfield strips.
Category:Dfroggy20
Category:Music references
5542: Garfield for the Modern Age (A Retrospective on the Cartoon Life of a Thinking Housecat): Act I

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
For those unfamiliar, Garfield is a daily comic strip that started in June 1978 and, at time of writing (January 2023), is still ongoing to this very day. Wow!
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2022-12-13.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {a looming ominous threat known only by his voice}: GARFIELD!
{Jon comes into view; he is a man with comically exaggerated proportions}
Jon: Did you eat my licorice?
{Garfield does not respond}
{Garfield does not respond}
{Jon turns around and leaves}
{Garfield sits in place}
{Garfield sits in place}
{Garfield sits in place}
Garfield: Who are you
Category:Wibi