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876: My Little Garfield

==Explanation==
This strip is part of a meme in which a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic character (or a fanmade character) is watching television, and then we see what's on the screen. In this case, the pony is Fluttershy, and what's on television is the last panel of the original strip, in which Jon asks Garfield and Odie if they're going to go to bed, or wait up half the night for Santa... then looks out the window himself. Fluttershy seems to find the gag funny.
==The author writes:==
I don't think anyone's done a My Little Pony based strip, so I cropped out the final panel of the December 24, 1991 strip and pasted it onto an exploitable at Ponibooru (site now closed, forked at Derpibooru). Unfortunately, the base I used for this strip is gone. 
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A little pony watches a TV}</br>
{On the TV are Jon, Garfield, and Odie, looking out a window at the snow}
Category:SonicFan28
Category:My Little Pony references
87: Square Root of ((Minus Garfield) Squared)

==Explanation==
The first strip. We're all familiar with it. This edit removes Garfield, but moves the source of Garfield's thoughts to Jon.
==The author writes:==
If we take the square root of -[Garfield^2] we get Imaginary Garfield [(Garfield)i]. It's like Garfield Minus Garfield, but different.
Here is the imaginary version of the first Garfield .
==Transcript==
{Jon sitting alone in an artist's office}</br>
Jon: Hi, there... I'm Jon Arbuckle. I'm a cartoonist, and this is my cat, Garfield.</br>
Jon: {thinking to himself} Hi, there. I'm Garfield. I'm a cat, and this is my cartoonist, Jon.</br>
Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you. 
Jon: {thinking to himself} Feed me.
==Later references==
* #91, #95, #97, #483, #509, #535, #555, and #572 all do the same with various strips.
Category:Richard L. Dodson
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
88: Mezzacotta Garfield

==Explanation==
mezzacotta, aside from being the site that hosts Square Root of Minus Garfield, is also the name of an automatically-generated comic. The original mezzacotta strip, one in its Best Baked Hall of Fame (inducted a day after its original release), is a dialogue-free strip featuring Eliza, the snarky psychotherapist, becoming shocked and looking at the fourth wall. This strip edits a Garfield strip into a similar situation.
Lightning Made of Owls is another user-submitted comic on the mezzacotta site.
==The author writes:==
The next trick will be turning Jon and Garfield into Lightning Made of Owls characters.
Original mezzacotta strip: 2009-02-01.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield looking bored}
{Garfield looking shocked}
{Garfield looking shocked, eyes looking in a slightly different direction}
==Later references==
*1693: Web Affair is a crossover with Lightning Made of Owls.
*There's also a Crossover with Square Root of Minus Garfield 604: The Problem with Webcomic Buffers.
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Mezzacotta references
892: Transplanted Sight Gag Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel (Fun With Penultimate Beat Panel 2)

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 892: Transplanted Sight Gag Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel (Fun With Penultimate Beat Panel #2).
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
(See the first in this series, #855.) I considered submitted this on its own, without the beat panel, but I was on a roll.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: There's nothing happening.
Jon: I glued a blender to my face.
{beat}
Garfield: Out of the ordinary, I mean.
Category:Lubaf
899: Garfa-Shave

==Explanation==
Burma-Shave is a brand of brushless shaving cream famous for its humorous rhyming roadside signs.
The original second sign didn't rhyme with the third; the author changed the text ("THRILLS GALORE!") to do so, and put the first sign and it in cadence with the third.
The third panel reuses the Garfield from the first panel, and the fourth panel -- with a Burma-Shave sign and real-life chihuahua -- uses the Garfield originally put there.
The author was unable to find a chihuahua in the actual strip, but a dog that might be one is in this strip, notably used for No. 152.
==The author writes:==
The Burma-Shave gag works on its own but I couldn't resist putting a little hairless chihuahua in there as well. (I couldn't find a Davis-drawn one, though.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks past a sign reading "BEWARE OF DOG"}</br>
{Garfield walks past a sign reading "HE'LL EAT YOUR KITTEN!"}</br>
{Garfield walks past a sign reading "YOU MUST BE THIS TALL TO BE BITTEN"}</br>
{Garfield stops at sign reading "Burma-Shave" with a tiny, hairless dog sitting next to it.}
Category:Andrew Kepple
89: Garfield Minus More Garfield Than Ever

==Explanation==
In the final panel of the Garfield Minus Garfield strip, presumably, Jon turned and spoke to an empty space where he imagined a cat named Garfield to be. This edit removes the imagined cat by having Jon not even bother to speak aloud.
==The author writes:==
This is based on the strip, of which there was also a Garfield Minus Garfield strip, but, oh the woe, so long ago that I can't read it any more.
==Transcript==
{Jon surrounded by flies}
[SFX]: Sniff Sniff {Jon sniffs under his arm}
Jon: {thinking to himself} Laundry day.
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:qvaak
8: Mix-n-Match Recaption Garfield

==Explanation==
There's not much to say about this one. David took three panels from three random strips (the first from the first, second from the second, and third from the third), stitched them together, and changed their dialogue. The result becomes a story about Garfield trying to eat a sycamore nut (which is infamous for its inedible status).
==The author writes:==
The idea here was to grab three Garfield strips at random, one after the other. Take the first panel from the fist one, the second from the second, and the third from the third. Then recaption them to make a comic. These are the three strips that were chosen at random:
* 
* 
* 
And there was no cheating.
==Transcript==
SFX: BURRRRR {Jon is startled by a loud sound} 
Jon: Good lord, Garfield, I thought that was a chainsaw ripping through a tree! But it's just you eating. 
SFX: Slorp! Slup! {Garfield is eating with his face buried in his bowl.} 
SFX: Poo {Garfield spits out something} 
Garfield: Sycamore nut.
Category:David Morgan-Mar
Category:Completely rewritten dialogue
901: Memes are Constantly Changing

==Explanation==
Speaking of blending, the author put the dialogue from the first and last panels of "Constantly Changing" into the first and last panels of the "Blender" strip without changing the middle panel any.
==The author writes:==
I saw David's comment about the blender strip becoming the new pudding pops, and I was inspired. I wouldn't be too surprised if this was already submitted by someone else.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon has a blender glued to his face}</br>
Jon: The world is constantly changing.</br>
{Jon walks off}</br>
Garfield: Whoa!</br>
Garfield: They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Blender
904: Garfield's Error Theatre 2

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 904: Garfield's Error Theatre #2.
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Error is from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Welcome to "Garfield's Error Theater".
Error: I am Error.
Garfield: You have been watching "Garfield's Error Theater".
Category:Grant Fikes
Category:Video game references
908: Garfield's Orrery Theater

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
An orrery is "an apparatus showing the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by balls moved by a clockwork" [Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Eleventh Edition]. Special thanks to Curious Expeditions for the Creative Commons licensed photograph of an orrery.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Welcome to "Garfield's Orrery Theater".
{picture of an orrery}
Garfield: You have been watching "Garfield's Orrery Theater".
Category:Grant Fikes
90: Garfield Meets "Happiness is a Warm Puppy"

==Explanation==
"Happiness is a Warm Puppy" is a book from 1962 by the late Charles Schulz, cartoonist of the Peanuts comic strip. The book contained pages of various single colors, the left page having some sort of assertion about what happiness is, and the right page having a black illustrative image. Here, the author has taken the last panel of an early Garfield strip and simulated it being put in the same kind of book. The word "television" is abbreviated to "TV" in this edit.
==The author writes:==
I remembered this comic from a while back, so I thought why not mash it up with the Peanuts "Happiness Is A..." books?
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Caption: Happiness is a warm TV set.
{Picture of Garfield sitting on top of a TV, smiling contentedly.}
Category:Comic strip references
Category:Print references
Category:Redhead64
910: Making Garfield Slightly Worse Via Penultimate Beat Panel (Fun With Penultimate Beat Panel 3)

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 910: Making Garfield Slightly Worse Via Penultimate Beat Panel (Fun With Penultimate Beat Panel #3).
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
(See #1 and #2 in this series). And this one is why I called this series "Fun With Penultimate Beat Panel". Now I just need to find another dead horse to flog.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: There's nothing happening.
{beat}
Garfield: Out of the ordinary, I mean.
Category:Lubaf
91: Imaginary Garfield: Mousey

==Explanation==
Another one building off of the idea behind #87; in this one, Jon gives his imaginary pet a rubber mouse and imagines he promptly shoves it into his mouth and comments on the lack of salt.
==The author writes:==
As is so often the case in Garfield Minus Garfield, Jon in Imaginary Garfield (sqrt of [-(Garfield^2)] comes off as a sad, lonely man. Only this time, his loneliness manifests as an imaginary cat saying and doing funny but imaginary things.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Happy birthday, Garfield. I have a surprise for you.</br>
Jon: A rubber mousey!</br>
Jon: {thinking to himself} Could've used a little salt...
Category:Richard L. Dodson
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
92: The Guy Who Can't Draw Garfield

==Explanation==
As mentioned in the author's notes, the strip is a reference to The Guy Who Can't Draw Comics, a web-comic consisting almost exclusively of dialogue balloons. The dialogue often implies scenarios which should be visually interesting but aren't due to the lack of artwork.
The format is recreated here by removing all of the visuals except for the background and dialogue balloons.
==The author writes:==
I made this years ago, and I got my inspiration from a webcomic called The Guy Who Can't Draw Comics, which consists entirely of dialogue and almost no artwork. I had figured that the strip I altered could work perfectly for this simple concept.
 
The original strip was from .
==Transcript==
Disembodied thought bubble: All is well with my world.</br>
Disembodied speech bubble: We were out of shampoo, so I used floor wax!</br>
Disembodied thought bubble: Fortunately, Jon is not in my world.
Category:Webcomic references
Category:NES Boy
931: Garfield Plus Garfield Plus Garfield

==Explanation==
In the original, the three sections of sandwich were all the same section, separated by panel borders. Here, they're made into the same sandwich, turning the Garfields in the other two panels into separate characters. The middle Garfield now seems to be reacting to the right Garfield, whom the middle Garfield originally became.
==The author writes:==
Based on Garfield Plus Garfield, the second strip published in this very webcomic.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield 1: We're making a little sandwich.
{Garfield 2 stares at Garfield 3}
Garfield 3: Hey, you! Yeah, you across the street! Get away from my pastrami!
Category:tardis2334
932: Garfield plus Updated Palaeontology

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Since it was the theropods that evolved into birds, I decided to replace "pterodactyl" with a well-known theropod genus.
While I was at it, I fixed the ornithological error in the second panel.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Yep, I've eaten a lot of birds in my time.
Nermal: Really?
Garfield: Went to the south pole once and ate a penguin.
Nermal: Wow!
Garfield: Went back in time and ate a velociraptor, too.
Nermal: Hey! Wait a minute!
Category:unstattedCommoner
939: Garfield's Hoarder Theatre

==Explanation==
This edit changes "Horror" to "Hoarder", indicating that it's a theater showcasing the excessive collection of items. The author used the searchable archive that existed at the time to find six different cookie jars:
* The red one was one that Jon attempted to catch Garfield in the act of stealing (or stealing from) by installing a security camera. Garfield stole and sold the camera, used the money to buy more cookies, and ate the ones from the jar, as well.
* The pink one was one that Garfield trapped his hand inside of by holding a cookie; he solved the problem by breaking the jar on Jon's head.
* The green one was one that Jon prohibited Garfield to take the lid off of; he instead took the jar off the lid.
* The tan one was one that he sought satiety from, as he felt he had a skinny cat inside him.
* The yellow one with the red stripe was one that he decided to remove the stripe from and put on himself so that Jon would know to skip a step and put the cookies directly into their inevitable destination: Garfield himself.
* The other yellow one was one that Garfield burped inside, giving away his location to the nearby Jon; Garfield claimed to be only crumbs.
His dialogue, originally "We're out of cookies!" was changed to "Cookies!"
==The author writes:==
I am so glad there's a searchable archive of Garfield strips.
Original strips: , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Welcome to "Garfield's Hoarder Theater".
{six cookie jars appear in front of Garfield, filling the panel}
Garfield: COOKIES!
Garfield: You have been watching "Garfield's Hoarder Theater".
Category:Grant Fikes
93: Garfield Top Twenty

==Explanation==
Said twenty words were arranged in a way that could be mistaken for coherent. No explanation is provided for why Jon is suddenly shrunken and dressed like a jester.
==The author writes:==
This is the first twenty most used words in Garfield comics up to 2007 in a strip made using this tool.
==Transcript==
Garfield: For I, a Garfield (me that is).
Garfield: And you.
Jon: I'm in on this? My!
Garfield: To have of it!
Jon: {shrunk and dressed as a jester} What the?
Category:tudza
Category:No original strip
943: Spoot!

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon's shirt had a picture of Snoopy on it. This edit replaces Snoopy's picture with that of Daggett Beaver from the Nickelodeon animated series Angry Beavers, who tended to use the word "spoot".
==The author writes:==
When I saw that the sound effect was "spoot", I figured it was just begging for a shout-out to The Angry Beavers, one of my all-time favourite cartoons.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hey, here's a clean shirt!
Jon: I don't know why I've never worn this one...
SFX: Spoot! {Garfield sees the shirt, which has Angry Beavers on it, and spits his coffee}
==Later references==
Category:Anonymous Contributor
94: Garfield Minus Everybody Else

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield only mentioned Jon -- here, the entire supporting cast is (not) shown. The author's note implies this was an attempt to get the inevitable "Garfield Minus X" strips out of the way.
==The author writes:==
Let's do everyone in one go, shall we?
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Garfield: If the entire cast was any less colorful, they'd be invisible. 
{beat} 
Garfield: Right, the entire cast?
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:John Callaghan
956: Social Learning Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
As a criminology major, I dabble in social sciences more than the average person should. Social learning theory was brought to the forefront by psychologist Albert Bandura. He essentially claimed that environmental and psychological factors influence behaviours of individuals. One of my professors, Donald Akers, suggested that, within in the scope of the criminological theory, these may also potentially influence people to engage in criminal activity if the environment they are brought up in encourages this.
When composing this mashup, I was surprised at the number of Garfield strips that had the word "kill" in it, many of them being uttered by Jon, whether with regards to mice or with Jon threatening immediate retribution for Garfield's gluttony. It should stand to reason that his creation of a hostile environment for his pets would eventually come back to bite him (no pun intended).
You may come to your own conclusion whether social learning theory is valid. Perhaps we can all agree, though, that Jon ought to tone down the rhetoric of violence that exists in his household. It certainly wouldn't do him any harm.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Kill the mouse, Garfield!
Jon: Kill!
Jon: Kill the mouse!
Jon: Kill!
Jon: If you eat this pie, I'm going to kill you.
Mouse: Then let's kill him.
Jon: My last green jellybean! I'm going to kill you, Odie!
Garfield: The plot thickens.
Garfield: I don't know whether to thank Jon, or kill him.
Garfield: This time you die!
Jon: Help!
Category:MadDogBV
957: What the Spider Saw

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
One last cheap shot at the blender meme, because it's fun.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is encouraging a spider to go in a blender}
Garfield: C'mon down, spider.
Garfield: Looky, Looky, Looky!...
{We see the blender is glued to Jon's face}
Garfield: Do you like overused running gags?
Category:Garfunkel
95: Imaginary Garfield: Mouser

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon calls on his cat to catch a mouse, and scolds him for not trying, whereupon Garfield gives us one of his reasons for not doing so.
The author's edit removes Garfield, but instead of also removing his thoughts it has them coming from a different source: Jon himself.
==The author writes:==
Once again, we see Jon imagining witticisms from his imaginary cat.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: A mouse! Get it!</br>
Jon: Garfield! You didn't ever try!</br> 
Jon: {thinking to himself} Show me a good mouser, and I'll show you a cat with bad breath.
Category:Richard L. Dodson
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
960: Gluefield 443

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 960: Gluefield #443.
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==Explanation==
The author's notes reference the fact that, at the time, the GoComics archive did not colorize the original Garfield strip; GoComics has since colorized the strip, albeit in a vastly different fashion from how the former garfield.com site did. A more detailed explanation about the colorization differences can be seen in the explanation for 5399: Color me Garfield.
==The author writes:==
Based on the blender, plunger and paper incidents, Jon should not be allowed near glue. By now Garfield is truly use to these antics.
Oh, and why is the comic in black and white? I can only guess because the automated program to colourise daily Garfield strips doesn't know about Leap Days.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon has a telephone receiver attached to his ear. Garfield looks on in boredom}
{No change}
{Jon is about to speak as Garfield interrupts}
Garfield: Hold it, don't tell me, let me guess what you did.
Category:Joe Mucchiello
965: Hospital Hallucination

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Nurse: Good boy, Mr Arbuckle! I see we cleaned our plate.
Jon: She's mistaken. Nobody can stomach hospital food with the possible exception of...
{Panel devolves into incomprehensible mess, with Garfield's pixelated
face discernible}
==Trivia==
*This strip marked the debut of the 200th credited author of Square Root of Minus Garfield strips.
Category:Denspof
967: Loud Commercial

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Only thing I have to say about this one: No "Garfield Linus Garfield" jokes, please.
Original Peanuts: 1970-01-23.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
TV: IT'S A BLANKET! IT'S A ROBE! IT'S A GIANT HANKY! ALL IN ONE!!
TV: RED INK?! SPAGHETTI SAUCE?! TELLTALE TURNIP STAINS?!... NO PROBLEM!!
TV: IT SLICES! IT DICES! IT CHOPS! IT CONJUGATES VERBS!!
TV: MY TEETH ARE SO WHITE NOW, I BLIND ONCOMING TRAFFIC!!!
Linus: Help!
Category:Garfunkel
Category:Non-Garfield comics
96: Garfield Minus Everything Else

==Explanation==
This comic is the inverse of Garfield Minus Garfield -- while that strip deleted Garfield from the strip, this one deletes everything but him.
==The author writes:==
Original strip is .
The background "colour" is transparent, of course.
==Transcript==
{Garfield looks around a completely blank, featureless world.}
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Joe Mucchiello
975: Garfield's Poetry Theatre

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I decided to get in on the "Garfield's x Theatre" meme while it's still relatively fresh, which is something I've never done before. The middle panel was taken from a strip chosen at random.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Welcome to "Garfield's Poetry Theater".
Garfield: I just tore up a poem.
SFX: rip rip rip rip
Garfield: You have been watching "Garfield's Poetry Theater".
Category:Sir Bacon
978: Penultimate Beat Panel ×2 (Fun With Penultimate Beat Panel 4)

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 978: Penultimate Beat Panel ×2 (Fun With Penultimate Beat Panel #4).
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==Explanation==
This edit removes Garfield's reason for considering eating mice, then moves the first panel from the throwaway row, making it integral to the story. Two copies of the former first panel are added to the spots between Garfield's question of why he wouldn't want to do that and the mouse pointing out the other mice in the house, making them two penultimate beat panels.
==The author writes:==
Upon reading #910, this strip immediately flashed to me (recently read it).
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Maybe I should start eating mice
Mouse 1: You don't want to do that
Garfield: Why not?
{beat}
{beat}
Mouse 1: Have you seen the mice in this house?
Category:YumYumOfTheYum
97: Imaginary Garfield: Coffee Party

==Explanation==
Another comic in the vein of #87. Here, Jon has poured coffee for a cat who exists only in his mind. (In the original, it could be guessed that Garfield poured it, or that Jon intended it for Lyman.) Jon decides his objection is silly, although whether or not it's because he's realized he's talking to his imagination or he figures "Garfield" is about the size of a standard housecat and thus doesn't need to grow is left as an exercise for the reader.
==The author writes:==
Original Strip: .
Jon has a tea party with his imaginary cat, much as young girls stereotypically do. Except this time it's coffee and apparently (by the splashing) real coffee.
==Transcript==
Jon: You can't drink coffee, Garfield. You'll stunt your, uh, your...</br>
Jon: One lump or two?
Category:Richard L. Dodson
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
980: Garfield Plus Even Better Updated Palaeontology

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This strip is a response to Garfield Plus Updated Palaeontology. As long as we're removing the pterodactyl, why not go the whole hog and use an actual prehistoric bird? I did follow unstattedCommoner's lead in relocating the penguin, as well.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Yep, I've eaten a lot of birds in my time.
Nermal: Really?
Garfield: Went to the south pole once and ate a penguin.
Nermal: Wow!
Garfield: Went back in time and ate an archaeopteryx.
Nermal: Wait a minute...
Category:Lunatic Person