nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
2769: Garfield in Denial

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
...you see why I had to do this, right? There's a nice correlation between this strip and (from the infamous "Halloween" arc); so I guess SRoMG #1929 takes this idea full circle.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: It's hard to keep up with all the changes in the world.
Garfield: I hear you.
Garfield: You should do what I do...
{Garfield is holding two pudding pops}
Garfield: Pretend they never happened.
==Trivia==
1989-10-28 was presumably not intended to be given a full strip credit; the remnants of the old crediting system (not listed in this recreation for brevity) do not list that strip as a credit, and the current crediting system likely credits it due to the entire author's notes, which included a link to that strip, being looked over in transition instead of just the coding for the old crediting system.
Category:Natty
276: Small Talk

==Explanation==
Simply put, the author made their talk literally small, while retaining the usual meaning of "Idle conversation, typically on innocuous or unimportant subjects, usually engaged in at social gatherings out of politeness." This could have been, and probably was, achieved by selecting the area around each bit of dialogue and resizing it. 
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Odie: {in tiny, illegible font} Woof woof.</br>
Garfield: {in tiny, illegible font} Meow meow.</br>
Jon: {in tiny, illegible font} Blah-dee-blah-dee-dah.</br>
All: Hee hee hee hee hee.</br>
Jon: Small talk.
Category:Nottoostupid
Category:Visual puns
2770: Longer - Up to Eleven

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A sequel to my last comic.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: This year I feel younger than ever!
Garfield: No little birthday is going to get me down, no sir...
Garfield: Is it my imagination, or is this strip getting longer?
{The strip is much, much, a lot, very, very much longer.}
Category:Lasagna Man
2771: Potty Sunday

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: My name is Stephano. I am very rich and macho.
Arlene: Call our lawyer.
Garfield: Unngh!
Garfield: Aaaaak!
Garfield: I ate too much! I'm going to explode!!
SFX: Sploosh
Garfield: Thank goodness no one was harmed.
Jon: You can all go back to your homes now. There's nothing more to see.
Toilet bowl: I hate sundays.
Category:Teemu Hautala
2772: McCloudfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
"So, let's see: each panel of a comic shows a single moment in time. And between these frozen moments - between the panels - our minds fill in the intervening moments, creating the illusion of time and motion." - Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (1993).
He then goes on to write about how this is an overly simplistic interpretation and it misses a lot of the details encapsulated by his notion of closure but whatever, I'm not going to listen to some dude who wasn't even drawn with eyes.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Ha ha! You look like an Eskimo, Garfield
Caption: TIME PASSES
{Jon has a moment of realisation}
Caption: TIME PASSES
Jon: {off-panel} GET OUT OF THE FREEZER!
Category:Manyhills
Category:Print references
2773: End of the Worldfield II

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Just to celebrate the world not ending in 2012.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2010-12-21.
Image from the AstronoMind wiki.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, if you ever got out of bed...
Jon: The world would probably end.
{Garfield walks out of bed.}
Garfield: Yeah right.
{The earth explodes/tears in pieces.}
Category:Nicholas Crawford
2774: Ratings War Corrected

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The original 1992-02-04 strip really bugged me, because Garfield was thinking the dialogue to himself, while presumably it was the television that was saying it. Wouldn't it have made more sense to have the TV say it outright? Ergo, this strip, which fixes that. (I also fixed what I thought was a minor text error.)
I really wanted to edit the TV dialogue bubble into the 1992-02-04 strip, so that it would REALLY be fixed, but this proved impossible for my meager MS Paint skills. I instead elected to just take the dialogue and the essence of the joke and put that into another strip whose artwork seemed to fit well enough.
Happily, I think this version is even funnier because of the way the dialogue and art end up flowing. Win-win!
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is watching TV.}
TV: This is the all-pet network.
TV: Don't change the channel.
TV: We know where you live!
Garfield: The ratings war escalates.
Category:KelpTheGreat
2775: Chicken Man Rises

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Source of the Chicken Man is the wacky host of the 3DO game Plumbers Don't Wear Ties.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield covered in bananas looks sadly at Jon}
Jon: Garfield! I'm sick of your stupid "Banana Man" routine! Now find something else to do!
{Garfield's gone, so Jon takes a sip of coffee}
Chicken Man: Hi! I'm the Chicken Man, here to entertain you!
{Jon nearly spits out his coffee as he gawks at the man in a business suit and chicken mask}
Category:JLH
Category:Visual novel references
2776: Wishmas

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Good old sappy, sentimental Christmas fare. However, like all true cats Garfield thinks only of himself at all times, even Christmas. And all cats want to rule over all of us. You know it's true.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Odie, Jon, Liz, and Garfield sitting on the couch by the Christmas Tree.}
Jon: My Christmas wish is for Peace on Earth.
Liz: That's really beautiful, Jon.
Jon: I wonder what Garfield's wish would be.
{Garfield looking upwards in joy.}
Garfield: I want to rule over the entire world!
Category:Michael C. Fortner
2778: Super Garfield Advance 2: Super Garfield Land

==Explanation==
The Mekabon is a robotic enemy from Super Mario Land, first found in World 2: Muda. It is capable of detaching its head and sending it out as an attack. It has to return after a short distance, however. A single stomp defeats it, earning the player 400 points. Tatanga, the Big Bad of the game, might be miffed at his forces being diminished, but he could also fall into the trope of damaging his own units if upset at them.
The Mekabon replaces Odie in this strip; the last thought balloon has been altered to reflect this.
The image has been incorrectly referred to as a "sprite", though it doesn't appear in the game this way. It is likely that the author wanted to use a sprite, but had a hard time finding one.
The title is a reference to the Super Mario Advance series. The first entry in the series was a Game Boy Advance port of Super Mario Bros 2. Number 2 was Super Mario World, followed by Yoshi's Island and Super Mario Bros 3.
==The author writes:==
Stomping a Mekabon should make anyone's day better. Except the Mekabon. And possibly Tatanga, if he's not doing the stomping.
Original strip: .
Mekabon sprite from the Mario Wiki and used only as a vehicle for parody.
==Transcript==
{Garfield approaches a Mekabon.}</br>
Garfield: Boy, am I in a bad mood.</br>
{Garfield jumps on it repeatedly.}</br>
SFX: STOMP! STOMP STOMP! STOMP!</br>
{Garfield picks up its flattened form, feeling better. He also gets 400 points.}</br>
Garfield: Thank you, Mekabon.
Category:Nyperold
Category:Video game references
2779: The Garfield Circus

==Explanation==
The author's notes tend to explain this strip's premise, essentially presenting a Garfield scenario in the style of another comic strip. The strip's title is a mashup of Garfield and The Family Circus.
==The author writes:==
If you ever wondered what Garfield might look like if it were presented in the format of The Family Circus (and you weren't willing to accept Heathcliff as an answer for being too aggressively whimsical), well, now you know.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield presents a slice of cake between two loaves of bread}
Garfield: I call it the Dessertwich!
Category:Lubaf
Category:Comic strip references
277: Many-Worlds Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In layman's terms the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics states that instead of one possible outcome happening, all possible outcomes happen in different universes. For a more thorough explanation, see Wikipedia. One such event, for example a radioactive atom decaying or not, would not at all be noticeable without an instrument, that's why most panels appear almost exactly the same.
However, on a microscopic level, matter behaves in really bizarre ways. It is theoretically possible for all your particles to "jump" to the other side of a closed door at the same time. On the other hand, this would be considerably less fun than it sounds, as there is no guarantee that you would be reassembled the right way.
Combining the two ideas, the result is that these theoretically possible, one-in-a-gazillion chance events indeed do occur in some alternate universe, so some of you reading this strip have surely woken up this morning with a Cthulhu-head. (Look on the bright side, you can make some nice "It's a trap!" impressions.)
Quantum immortality is basically based on this line of thought. It states that in some universes you just can't die, no matter how hard you try. Becoming an Old One is surely an elegant way to achieve this.
Originals: Garfield Irregular Webcomic No. 635
==Transcript==
Garfield: {asleep} Z</br>
{The universe bifurcates}</br>
Garfield: {asleep in universe 1} Z</br>
Garfield: {asleep in universe 2} Z</br>
{Both universes bifurcate again}</br>
Garfield: {asleep in universe 1} Z</br>
Garfield: {asleep in universe 2} Z</br>
Garfield: {asleep in universe 3} Z</br>
Garfield: {awake in universe 4, with his head replaced by that of Cthulhu} Quantum immortality is funny as hell! 
Category:Quaternion
==Trivia==
The "Cthulhu" in the last panel appears to actually be a LEGO octopus with bright green studs for eyes.
2780: Cyanide and Garfieldness

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
HAHAHA, I'm sick.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{We see Jon laughing, as Garfield walks up}
Jon: Hee hee hee...
Garfield: What's so funny?
Jon: You know that donut you ate this morning...?
Garfield: Yes?
Jon: I hid a cyanide pill in it!
{Garfield holds it up, revealing he never ate the pill}
Garfield: This one?
Category:Camwoodstock & Tori
Category:Webcomic references
2781: Reverse Image Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I figured Google's reverse image search would be a neat way to make a strip. So I grabbed a Garfield strip, saved each frame to a separate file, and uploaded them to see what Google would return. I planned to choose one of the "visually similar" images to use as each panel of the new strip.
Well, it returned the original strip, and all of the "visually similar" hits were other Garfield strips. That was boring. So to force Google not to recognise that I was uploading panels from Garfield, I applied a Gaussian blur to each panel and tried again. Success!
For each panel, I chose the most interesting looking result from the first line of "visually similar" image hits. (I didn't choose the very first hits, because they were more boring.) It's interesting to see how well Google matched the colours of each panel. (And how well the kid in the middle matches Lyman's expression...)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{an image of characters from Space Racers}
{a stock photo of a young boy wearing a vest and a red bow tie, looking angry}
{a frame from the children's cartoon Aisha & Ismail, showing them on a flying carpet}
Category:David Morgan-Mar
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2782: Make like a leaf and tweet

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
We spotted this in what has become a routine daily trawl of the comics section in the newspapers provided in our work lunch room, and were so underwhelmed by the "joke" that we thought it could be improved by adding some dialogue from the leaf in panel 2. So I used a handy pen and added this, then DMM took a photo of it and said he'd submit it to SRoMG
I see this as a commentary on the modern phenomenon of fleeting Internet notoriety achieved through use of mass-market social media, and the ultimate futility of the whole enterprise in the face of the greater realities of actually having a life worth living. Or something like that.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield stands by a tree in autumn foliage}
{A leaf falls}
Leaf: Check out my Instagram!
{the leaf is on the grass}
Leaf: Now what?
Garfield: Get a job.
Category:Andrew Coker
2783: Boring New Year

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
â€‹Consider this a follow-up to #831.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Odie, Jon and Garfield sit around, bored}
{Odie, Jon and Garfield sit around, bored}
Jon: You know, I once had a dream where I could fly...
Garfield: {annoyed} Has the ball dropped yet?
==Trivia==
At least one character in the author's notes got affected by a mojibake error in a later site recoding effort; the original version of the author's notes without the mojibake are currently unavailable to the public as a result.
Category:Cdudeiscool
Category:Mojibake
2784: 2017 Will Be Better

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Jon: {wearing a party hat} Ready for the new year?!
{Jon blows a horn in Garfield's face}
SFX: TOOOOOOOT!
Garfield: It hasn't even started yet, and it's still better than last year.
==Transcript==
As soon as I saw this strip, I knew what I had to do.
I think I speak for everyone when I say "I hate 2016".
Original strip: .
Category:dayaman
2785: Low expectations

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Either Jon's a pathetic cheapskate, or he really likes toaster crumbs.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is talking on a phone}
Jon: So, Bernadette, how about toaster crumbs and a knock-knock joke?
Jon: A cookie and a crossword puzzle?
Jon: {panicked} ...Lunch and a bike ride?!
Garfield: Dinner and a movie?
Category:RedBlupi
2787: Milli Garfilli

==Explanation==
As the author's notes imply, this strip essentially inserts lyrics from "Girl You Know It's True, the song that eventually exposed the frontmen of Milli Vanilli as lip-synchers, into a Garfield strip originally about Garfield lip-synching to a record. Unlike the original Garfield strip, the skipping medium that resulted in Milli Vanilli's downfall in real life was a computer hard drive, which was not replicated in this strip which displayed the original record.
==The author writes:==
TV Tropes commented on the original strip's similarity to the Milli Vanilli incident years later, and I started to wonder why we didn't figure out this obvious joke after over 2,400 strips.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield pretends to play a guitar}
Garfield {singing}: I'm in love girl, I'm in so love girl, I'm just in love girl, and this is true...
Garfield {still singing}: Girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you...
Garfield {still "singing"}: ...know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you...
{Garfield looks at the record player playing the song}
Record Player: ...know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you...
{Garfield bangs on the record player}
SFX: KA-CHUNK
Record Player: ...know it's...
Garfield {singing}: ...true...
Category:pookypal
Category:Music references
2788: The Dead Past

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Huh. Henning was wrong. Predicting the past is easy...
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are sitting at the table with coffee mugs}
Jon: What if we could see into the past, Garfield?
{Jon glances upward in thought}
Jon: Even just five years into the past... what would we see?
{cut to five years ago, with Garfield standing on a digital scale and looking towards the reader}
Scale: Same
Garfield: Ol'
Scale: Same
Garfield: Ol'
Category:Crazy56U
2789: Garfearth

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I find the dialogue in its original context to be a bit strange. I've fixed it by making everything else stranger!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield, now the size of a continent, is floating in space, observing the Earth.}
Garfield: This seems like a good place to relax... Planet Earth.
Category:yetanotherjohn
Category:Photo comics
278: Garfield Dream

==Explanation==
It is possible that even cappy cannot explain this one, even down to what the rest of the word starting with "pre-" might have been. And so, this explanation will be of the context of the art assets used.
The image of Garfield is a vertical flip of the Garfield in the fourth non-title panel in the 1984 strip. Upon closer inspection, one can see where the glue, used to stick Garfield to the ceiling, used to be. The ladder is from the previous panel. The trap door is a recolored pet door from the 1992 strip, rotated left 90 degrees.
Another thing we may never know: How faithfully this reproduces what cappy saw.
==The author writes:==
I woke up today with this image in my head. I don't know what it means. In my dream the ladder was in a grocery store and there were dogs around. I don't know which is scarier, the fact that this makes no sense or that I woke with a Garfield strip in my head.
Art from and .
==Transcript==
{Garfield standing on a ladder, under an open trap door in the ceiling.}</br>
Garfield: This is an unconventional pre-
Category:cappy
2790: Days Of Rotated Punchlines Seven

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
That fourth strip got creepy.
Bonus round: Replace the punchline to every strip with "I ate your dinner". Whether this means every strip presented above, or every comic strip you encounter for the rest of your life, is left to your judgment.
Original strips: , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm always looking for ways to improve my brain
Garfield: Hmmm...
Garfield: No more jalapeÃ±o poppers before bed
{Odie and Garfield are on a desert island. They desperately pull a crate out of the ocean. It's full of "1000 dingle balls". Odie is pleased; Garfield is not.}
Jon: Nightmare?
Garfield: Or start me
Garfield: Nothing can stop me!
{Garfield just lies there.}
Garfield: And now, slightly less me
Garfield: Stay tuned for more me
{Garfield stares at the audience as he slowly sinks behind the table.}
Garfield: I ate your dinner
{Garfield sits behind the fence. Arlene arrives.}
Arlene: How do you like it when I'M late for a date?
Garfield: Is winter over?
Jon: Check it out, Garfield
Jon: My collection is almost complete!
Jon: Just one more fingernail!
Garfield: WE could do better
Jon: You're the best girlfriend ever!
Jon: And you're the best pet ever!
Garfield: {to Liz} Have you considered a fresh coat of paint?
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Sloublues
Category:Mojibake
2791: Screen Capture, Screen Captured, Screen Captured

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2015-12-28, 2012-10-04.
[Ed: All four authors listed submitted similar strips independently; I have chosen Abomagoonios's image as the one to run because their submission was earliest.]
==Transcript==
{A screenshot of SRoMG #2414}
Category:Abomagoonios
Category:twinec
Category:snowyangel
Category:pdpops
Category:No original strip
2793: Garfield Made Cuter

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Last time I thought about Garfield Made Slightly Less Cute. Now it's time for Garfield Made Cuter! This actually turned out much better than I thought it would.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: It's been a perfect evening.
Arlene: Yes, it has.
Garfield: Good night, Arlene.
Arlene: Good night, Garfield.
{Garfield and Arlene kiss goodbye}
SFX: Smack!
Category:PartyEscortBotBeans
2795: Garfshifter

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield pushes a flowerpot off a shelf}
SFX: CRASH!
Garfield: Uh-oh! Here comes Jon.
{Jon stares suspiciously at two flowerpots, one of which is shaking and sweating profusely}
Category:Densetsu Bros
2796: Could Be An Attorney

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Your Honor, I plea for clemency, for my counsel is remarkably incompetent.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2016-09-09.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I could be an attorney.
{Cut to a courtroom scene where the prosecution is currently giving an opening statement to the jury. Hot-shot attorney Jon struts in nonchalantly, fixing his bowtie}
Jon: I present... exhibit A!
Category:MadDogBV
Category:Photo comics
Category:Reference unknown
2797: Garfield mute mode

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I noticed the final thought-bubble of Garfield was thoroughly redundant and thought that the strip would actually be better without it. Then realized that also Jon's question to Garfield wasn't really needed, so removed that one as well. The strip works well in "muted mode".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is staring puzzled at a bowl of water}
{Jon is (angrily) talking to someone out of picture}
{Garfield smiles wickedly contented}
Category:Dolf (a.k.a. Anders Ericsson)
2798: Stagnant Camera

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield is sleeping on a tree, and Jon sees Garfield sleeping on a tree. The camera angle now turns to Jon and he says to the reader, "Only Garfield." 
In this strip, the camera angle is still on turned on Garfield's point of view.
==Transcript==
Garfield: {asleep against a tree} Z
{Jon sees Garfield asleep}
{The camera angle is still on turned on Garfield's point of view}
Jon: Only Garfield.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
Category:DERichTechman
2799: Original, Original Strip

==Explanation==
This submission is essentially the original version of the 2002-10-20 strip as printed in the newspapers. As the author's notes state, digital archives and book reprints alter the strip's dialogue due to the original lines being from the Robert Frost poem Nothing Gold Can Stay; the poem in question, first published in 1923, was indeed still copyrighted in the United States (Frost's country of origin) at the time of both the strip's original newspaper run and its submission to Square Root of Minus Garfield, but entered the United States public domain on January 1, 2019.
The presentation of the version of the strip with the replacement dialogue on GoComics, as linked to in the author's notes, was subject to coloring errors; the Garfield wiki on Fandom has a copy of the strip with the replacement dialogue and correct coloring, drawn from the former garfield.com site, here.
==The author writes:==
This is the original unedited strip as it appeared in my local newspaper. The strip as it appears in the Garfield archive, and in the "Garfield's Sunday Finest" book, is completely different. The poem is changed, and Garfield just says poets, instead of Robert Frost, in the last panel. I wonder why it was changed? Are Robert Frost's poems copyrighted?
Now that it's fall, I thought it was a good time to send this in.
Faux original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield's walking along contentedly; surrounded by blowing leaves}
Garfield: "Nature's first green is gold her hardest hue to hold."
Garfield: "Her early leaf's a flower; but only so an hour."
Garfield: "Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief."
{Garfield has now stopped, and is looking down on the leaves}
Garfield: "So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."
{A large VOOOO sound effect}
{Jon is shown holding a leaf blower. Garfield's fur has been blown off. The leaves are gone}
Garfield: I doubt Robert Frost would have penned any loving odes to leaf blowers.
Category:Mr. Skullhead