nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
585: It's the Thought That Counts

==Explanation==
The infamous "Go back to bed" strip is edited to replace the heads of Garfield and Jon with presents, befitting for a strip on Christmas Day, as well as the original strip (which was a few days before said holiday). The dialogue is removed as well. (The title is a common phrase tossed around when talking about presents.)
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield has a gift-wrapped box on his head.} 
{Garfield goes and wakes Jon.} 
{Jon also has a gift-wrapped box on his head.}
Category:Go back to bed
Category:Holiday-themed edits
Category:x
58: 867-5309/Jonny

==Explanation==
"867-5309/Jenny" is a song from the 1980s performed by Tommy Tutone. In it, the person from whose perspective the song was written was a guy "who saw [her] name and number on the wall" and, like Jon here, implores her: "Jenny, don't change your number". (In real life, there has been at least one household who's changed their number because it was 867-5309, and people were calling and asking for Jenny.)
There is perhaps a pun in that one of the genres of the song is "pop rock", while the author asks if the hypothetical reader who lives in the United States of America without knowing this song has been living "under a rock".
==The author writes:==
If you don't know the song and you live in the USA, where have you been living? Under a rock?
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Jon: {on phone} Hello, is this Jenny?</br>
Jon: I got it in the wall, why?</br>
Jon: Jenny, don't change your number!</br>
Garfield: 867-5309!
Category:Bruce Jackson IV
Category:Music references
590: Townshend Garfield Townshend

==Explanation==
In this version of the pudding pops strip, Garfield is the one that replaces another figure in the middle panel (instead of vice versa, as per the norm). (The normal title format - "Garfield [blank] Garfield" - is reversed appropriately.) In this case, said figure is Pete Townshend, guitar and songwriter for the Who. 
The pun Colin alludes to in the author's note refers to the fact that Townshend suffers from hearing loss and tinnitus (which, obviously, rhymes with "minus"). 
==The author writes:==
Felt like mixing the format up a little. And yes, there is a pun in here, I'm just not explaining it. Mwahahahaha.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is next to Pete Townshend.}</br>
Jon: The world is constantly changing.</br>
{Pete Townshend is replaced by Garfield.}</br>
Pete Townshend: They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Music references
591: f-1(Jon)

==Explanation==
This edit takes the Jon in the 1981 strip and vertically inverts him. It also replaces the shame-feigning Garfield from that strip -- removing his thought bubbles -- with the shocked one from the 1999 strip, originally shocked that a woman wanted to go out, until Jon wanted it confirmed that she wanted to go out with him.
==The author writes:==
The inverse function of Jon.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon (standing on the ceiling): Garfield, Garfield. You ate my fern.
Jon (standing on the ceiling): Now I'll have to go buy another one.
{Garfield looks shocked.}
Category:Michael Halila
592: Gustaf som Gustaf: Something Fishy

==Explanation==
As in the mentioned SRoMG strip, Gustaf is Garfield's Swedish name. In the second panel of this edit, Gustaf turns into a tin of King Gustaf brand smoked sprat in tomato sauce. Sprat is a herring-like species of fish, and pickling involves brine, which means Jon's guess isn't quite correct on either front, but not terribly far off on one.
==The author writes:==
Another episode of "Gustaf som Gustaf". Yes, there actually are cans of herring that look like that. That's how this strip makes... well... not sense... but... you know...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon closes his eyes while Gustaf V turns into a can of King Gustaf smoked sprat in tomato sauce.}
Gustaf V: MEYOW.
{The tin can turns into Gustaf V again.}
Jon: Let me guess. You were in the pickled herring again.
Category:Morbror Oa
59: CAD + Garfield

==Explanation==
Ctrl-Alt-Del is a controversial webcomic created by Tim Buckley, which centered on two friends playing and talking about video games. It was controversial (at least, at first) for its cliché concept and humor.
In the first strip of the original run (parodied here), Ethan (the brunette) tries to convince his roommate Lucas their comic is original because it has a third character. He then pulls out a watermelon with a face drawn on it. Lucas glares at him, less than impressed.
In this strip, Garfield takes the place of Lucas, and Jon appears in place of the watermelon.
==The author writes:==
This is the first Ctrl+Alt+Del strip, by Tim Buckley. I changed two of the characters to Garfield and Jon.
Ed.: Original Ctrl+Alt+Del strip is copyright by Tim Buckley and is used here only as a vehicle for parody.
==Transcript==
Garfield: So, it's a strip about two guys who sit around and play video games? Seems a tad cliche, doesn't it?
Ethan: Nah, it's tried and true. Besides, we have a hook.
Garfield: Oh really? What?
Ethan: We've got a third character.
{Jon appears from behind the couch}
{Garfield just stares at Ethan}
Ethan: What?
Category:Martin Nixon
Category:No original strip
Category:Webcomic references
5: Qwantzfield

==Explanation==
As the author's note explains, this is a reference to Dinosaur Comics, which uses the exact same panel layout for every strip, with only the dialogue changed. The font is also changed to Lucida Console, the font used by Dinosaur Comics.
The strip Jon and Garfield are talking about is the April 1st, 2005 one.
==The author writes:==
This is based upon the basic concept of Dinosaur Comics, where the same art is used in every strip and only the dialogue changes. I got to wondering: what if Garfield only ever used the art of its first strip and only changed the dialogue? Note that I used the traditional Dinosaur Comics dialogue font, Lucida Console.
The art is taken from the , and the dialogue is a retelling of the events of the .
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I have a funny story about a pizza I ordered last week.
Garfield: I'll tell you what was funny about it: no anchovies.
Jon: My cat somehow ate it before it arrived!
Garfield: I have friends in high places.
Category:John Wallace
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
Category:Webcomic references
60: Garfish

==Explanation==
A fish-related strip was edited to replace Garfield with the similarly named garfish (or sea needle). That's all there is to it.
==The author writes:==
Original strip from .
Sorry, but I just couldn't help myself.
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, how many fish have I owned over the years?</br>
Garfield: {a gar fish} Three hundred twenty-one?</br>
Jon: Three hundred twenty-three!</br> 
Garfield: Oh, yeah, two died of natural causes.
Category:Andrew Bird
Category:Real world references
Category:Visual puns
Category: Titles permuting "Garfield"
612: Jon's Punishment

==Explanation==
This strip replaces Garfield with The Punisher, and judging by the gunfire, he is already doling out punishment in the form of headshots... which Jon is surprisingly resilient against.
The Punisher's pose here is taken from the cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #129, where he debuted.
The author mentions nearly making this a crossover with Heathcliff before changing his(?) mind.
Finally, "Riverdale" is a reference to the Archie comics, specifically to the crossover Archie Meets the Punisher.
==The author writes:==
This almost became a Square Root of Minus Heathcliff strip. But it seems it eventually became a Garfield Minus Heathcliff Plus The Punisher strip... or something. Good thing he didn't stay too long in Riverdale.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I firmly believe you were put here to punish me.
The Punisher: Not only that.
{Odie's tongue sticks out from a coffee pot.}
The Punisher: I was put here to punish dogs, too.
Jon: Odie?
Category:Morbror Oa
Category:Comic book references
613: Constantly Changing

==Explanation==
Instead of changing Garfield into something else, and only on the second panel, the author replaced Garfield as he was drawn in 2001 with Garfield as he was drawn in the late 1970s for the first two panels. Indeed, the first two source strips are almost a year apart.
==The author writes:==
The initial idea was just to replace Garfield in the second panel with Garfield from the first Garfield strip and call it Garfield Garfield Garfield. But then I read the dialogue and this became obvious. Even though Garfield seems to be constantly changing, the change seems to be asymptotic. The Garfields in the two first panels are a year apart, the third panel is 22 years later.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing.</br>
{Garfield looks shocked}</br>
Garfield: They haven't stopped making frozen Pudding Pops, have they?
==Later references==
The very next strip is called Garfield Garfield Garfield.
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Peter Makholm
614: Garfield Garfield Garfield

==Explanation==
This is a variant on the infamous pudding pops strip where the last two panels are exactly the same as the first. As the author remarks, it conveys more or less the opposite of the original meme (nothing is changing).
Also worth noting is that the previous day's strip was originally named "Garfield Garfield Garfield".
==The author writes:==
This actually went through several revisions. Once with Jon saying "The world is always constant". Twice with Jon's bubble repeated in all three panels (using the current text and the "constant" text). Once with Garfield sighing in the third panel. I finally picked this version as it is closest to the original meme and somewhat opposite in meaning.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing.</br>
{Followed by two panels identical to the first panel without the dialogue.}
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Joe Mucchiello
616: A New Punchline

==Explanation==
By this time, there had come to be a deluge of strips using this strip as a base and giving us the familiar "Garfield is replaced with something that sounds at least vaguely similar to 'minus'" edit with no other changes. This isn't even the first strip to play with the strip in a different way, but at least it is different; here, Garfield merely gives us an Aside Glance before comparing the world's propensity for change to that of leftover meatloaf.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing.</br> 
{Silent beat}</br>
Garfield: Like our leftover meatloaf.
Category:IkeTheGeneric
Category:Constantly changing
617: Orange Cat Exchange Program

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It appears that orange cats have an exchange program. So when Heathcliff appears in a Garfield comic, Garfield obviously appears in a Heathcliff comic. For a while I thought the answer to the question about what happened to Garfield during this exchange would conclude this theme. But considering how many orange cats there are, I start suspecting this might be the very opposite of a conclusion.
Original strips: Garfield and Heathcliff unknown.
==Transcript==
{Mr Nutmeg is hanging up a bug zapper. Garfield enters holding a dogswatter.}
Mr Nutmeg: The bug zapper will take care of the bugs.
==Trivia==
*The text "how many orange cats there are" originally had a link attached to it; that link was removed after it was reported in the Square Root of Minus Garfield bug reports thread on the Irregular Webcomic forums to be leading to an adult website (content obviously NSFW). The content the link originally led to has been archived here.
*The link to the original Heathcliff strip also no longer works as intended, now leading to a "page not found" page; no known archives of the page as was originally linked to are known to exist. The link implies the original Heathcliff strip came from the 1990s, in which case the original strip would not be found on GoComics, whose Heathcliff archives only go back as far as 2002.
Category:Morbror Oa
Category:Non-Garfield comics
628: Garfield on Cable TV

==Explanation==
This strip satirizes two particularly annoying television practices, the first of which being the frequency of commercial breaks on cable TV. The original strip, three panels long and easily read in less than 30 seconds, is now broken up by two ad breaks between each one. Not helping this is the presence of both a "coming up on..." sequence and a more traditional recap sequence, which are unnecessary given the brevity of the strip and only serve to utterly ruin the pacing and flow of the joke. Making this even more evident is the author's note, which remarks that in reality there would likely be another commercial break right before the end credits.
==The author writes:==
I am being slightly facetious, of course - there would normally be an ad break just before the end credits too.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Title card: Garfield</br>
Jon: We need some action around here!</br>
Title card: Coming up on Garfield</br>
{Garfield wiggles his ears}</br>
[ad break]</br>
Title card: Previously on Garfield</br>
Jon: We need some action around here!</br>
{Garfield wiggles his ears}</br>
Title card: Coming up on Garfield</br>
Jon: Wiggling your ears doesn't count.</br>
Garfield: Then you think of something.</br>
[ad break]</br>
Title card: Previously on Garfield</br>
{Garfield wiggles his ears}</br>
Jon: Wiggling your ears doesn't count.</br>
Garfield: Then you think of something.</br>
{end titles}</br>
Garfield</br>
Series creator: Jim Davis</br>
Writer: Jim Davis
Category:Jabs
Category:Manyhills
62: Flea Grid

==Explanation==
The title of this strip is an anagram (a rearrangement of the letters of a word or phrase to create a new word or phrase) of Garfield itself, while the dialogue of this strip is an anagram of that of the original strip. In the new dialogue, Jon seems to be reading a commentary on the state of the cartoon, while Garfield seems to have called for -- and succeeded in getting -- a hose turned on Jon.
==The author writes:==
Made by taking the text of the original strip (), putting it through an anagram generator, and then picking something amusing that would fit the drawing.
==Transcript==
Jon: {reading a book} Cartoon agonizes, incites fiasco.</br>
Garfield: Hose.</br>
Garfield: Fail!
==Later References==
* The final Garfloraled strip was indirectly inspired by this comic (it lead the author to read the original, which was the direct inspiration).
Category:Bill Gilliland
Category:Completely rewritten dialogue
638: Racine carrée de Garfield moins

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield was dressed -- or rather, undressed -- as he usually is, and spoke as he usually does. Here, he's wearing a beret, a marinière (a shirt characteristically worn by quartermasters and seamen in the French Navy, but adopted by many civilians), and a string of onions around his neck, and speaks in a stereotypical French accent. These and the behavioral evidence provided by the author in the note are stereotypes of French people, the attire in particular coming from the "Onion Johnny", a Breton itinerant onion-seller who would often be the only French people that British people would come in contact with in the 20th century.
Garfield's original complaint was that Odie's attitude was too dog-like, and, with this corrected, instructed him to try a "meow". Here, his complaint is that Odie is too eager, with is uncouth. His instruction here is to say "bof", a bit of French that, in slang terms, is an expression of indifference.
The title means "Square Root of Minus Garfield" in French, though Google Translate comes up with "Garfield minus square root", and DeepL says "Square root of Garfield minus". (Both put the "moins" before Garfield if "Square Root of Minus Garfield" is translated into French.)
==The author writes:==
Obsessed with food? Thinks he's superior to everyone he meets? Spends most of his time not doing any work? All I'm saying is that the evidence is there.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is wearing a beret and a stripey blue-and-white shirt. He has a string
of onions around his neck.}
Garfield: Monsieur Odie, ah do not like your attitude.
Garfield: You are far too eager. Eet ees, 'ow you say, uncouth.
Garfield: Zat is much better. Now, repeat after me: "bof".
Category:Manyhills
639: Modes of Garfield: 1978-2010

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
For each year in which Garfield comics were ever published, I took all the weekday strips and created a new one by giving each pixel the colour that was used the most times in that particular position during the year, i.e., the mode of that pixel's colour distribution (in a 4+4+4 bit RGB colour space).
This strip consists of the first panels of each of the resulting modal strips. There is interesting variability between the years, much more than is evident in similar line-ups of mean or median pixel values. In contrast, the three panels within a year do not usually differ appreciably – I've left in the entire mode of 2010 in to show a typical inter-panel variation.
The most obvious historical trend is that black seems to be much more prevalent in the early years. This may indicate that the colouring was less standardised back then, such that it didn't take so many instances of black to dominate over other colours for a pixel position. Heavy blacks return again in in 2006 and 2007, probably connected to the standard colours becoming duller (new scanner settings? new colourist?) from 2006-02-25 and recovering partially after 2007-03-11. There may have been a similar adjustment during 2008, but I have not been able to pinpoint it.
We can also see that during the early years it was fairly common to have a human face opposite Jon (usually Lyman), a trait that returned in 2007 after Liz was promoted from occasional extra to core cast.
(Most of December 2010 was not included in the computation, due to Square Root of Minus Garfield's production lead times.)
==Transcript==
{A series of panels showing the modal colour distribution of pixels in Garfield panels over the years.}
==Trivia==
It is impractical to categorize this very article in every Garfield original strip date category (excluding Sundays) corresponding to every single weekday strip prior to December 2010. As such, and as this strip does not list any credited Garfield strips whatsoever, this article is not categorized in any Garfield original strip date categories.
Category:Henning Makholm
63: John, Paul, George, and Ringo (and Garfield and Odie)

==Explanation==
"A Hard Day's Night" is a song written and sung by John Lennon of The Beatles (whose members are all namedropped in the title). The idea behind this strip was to come up with panels that seem to go well with the lines of the chorus:
* The "working like a dog" caption goes with a panel featuring Odie.
* The "sleeping like a log" caption goes with a panel wherein Garfield is sleeping, or trying to sleep.
* The "make me feel all right" caption goes with a panel in which Garfield is happily holding Pookie.
==The author writes:==
First panel: Second panel: Third panel: 
==Transcript==
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog.</br>
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log.</br>
But when I get home to you, I find the things that you do,</br>
Will make me feel all right.
Category:Bruce Jackson IV
Category:Music references
644: Garfield Minus Controversy

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This should be less offensive to some people than the "National Stupid Day" strip that ran on Remembrance Day/American Veteran's Day in 2010.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Spider {addressing Garfield holding rolled-up newspaper}: If you squish me, I shall become famous!
Spider: They will hold an annual day of remembrance in my honor, you fat slob!
Spider Teacher to Class: Does anyone here know why we celebrate "National One-Shot Characters Day"?
Category:Craig Wittler
646: Cold Call

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield provides the punchline in the last panel - "Nobody owns a cat." Here, he is absent, giving the strip as Jon bluntly tells someone he doesn't own a cat. Not much more to it than that.
A cold call is a call made to someone whom the caller has not met, usually by a business -- or scam artist. In this case, the caller asks if Jon owns a cat, a question which is likely enough to be answered "yes" by the average person, given the frequency of pet ownership and how often at least one of these pets is a cat. As such, the caller is usually able to find someone who might be interested in his or her good or service involving cats. However, this technique also fails occasionally.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: {answering phone} Hello?</br>
Jon: Do I own a cat?</br> 
Jon: No.
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Joke removal
Category:tudza
647: Garfield Plus High Art Minus Good Taste

==Explanation==
Vincent Van Gogh, a famous painter, also famously cut off his own ear. Since Garfield, in the original strip, made reference to Jon imitating Van Gogh in his self-destructive behavior, this strip replaces Jon with Van Gogh.
==The author writes:==
To those who say, "Dude, not funny", I must plead Refuge In Audacity and that I'm merely taking the joke to its logical conclusion. See also Wikipedia's page on Vincent van Gogh for an explanation of the joke.
Original Strip: Script from ; art from Van Gogh's "Self-portrait as an artist", found on Wikimedia commons, and Garfield taken from , as the 1998 strip was too "busy" to be cut from cleanly.
==Transcript==
Van Gogh: I'm feeling artistic! I'm going to paint a painting!</br>
Van Gogh: Where to start?</br>
Garfield: Cut off an ear.
Category:Art references
Category:Lubaf
64: Garfield ∩ Garfield

==Explanation==
In set theory, the intersection of one set with another results in a set of all the elements that are in both sets. So, for example, the set {Jon, Garfield, Odie} intersected with {Garfield, Nermal} results in just {Garfield}. Thus, the intersection of the contents of the strip Garfield with the cat Garfield results in just the cat Garfield. The author evidently considers Garfield's thought balloon to be part of Garfield.
==The author writes:==
Since Garfield Minus Garfield removes all evidence of the cartoon cat, I thought I would try a version that gets rid of everything else instead.
The original name for this idea was Garfield minus (Garfield minus Garfield) but on reflection I thought a more accurate title would be Garfield ∩ Garfield (Garfield intersect Garfield).
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{Garfield sits in a blank white background}
{Garfield sits in a blank white background}
Garfield: So, what are you trying to say?
Category:Bill Gilliland
Category:Math-based comics
653: Googley-eyed Garfield, Extended Version

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Just a little extension of a previously added anonymous strip. Don't stare at this for too long, you might go cross-eyed.
Original strip: SRoMG #557 .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is in his bed, with his eyeballs skewed.}
{Garfield sits on Jon's bed.}
Jon: Garfield, go back to bed.
{Garfield merely sits there with eyes skewed.}
{Jon's eyes go skewy too.}
{Garfield turns to look at the audience.}
{Hugely enlarged view of Garfield's face.}
Category:GlassesPerson
Category:Go back to bed