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1109: Burgerfield

==Explanation==
Explained well enough in the author's note and Trivia section.
==The author writes:==
This strip borrows from a particular Berke Breathed work that cropped up in The Academina Waltz, and twice more in Bloom County. (I've read it even reappeared a few more times in Opus.) Basically, a customer tries to order a carbohydrate-free Whopper, arguing about rights when his order is challenged. He finally gets his order, is asked for anything else, and now he wants just milkshake sans cup, thus making the concept of the bunless Whopper silly.
Here, however, is a different approach. If you've read through the Garfield archives, you'd know that Irma the waitress, whom Jon and Garfield are known to visit occasionally when going out to eat, is pretty eccentric. , , , and even , just to name a few examples. By now, Garfield's probably so used to her antics, he'd be making a game out of the whole thing. So when Jon gets a burger without a bun, Garfield decides to take a page out of Breathed's book, only without the nonsense about liberals imposing upon our consumer rights (it's just not his comic's thing, and Irma probably wouldn't care about such concepts anyway).
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
Irma: Here's your burger.
SFX: plop {Irma flips the burger patty, without a bun, on to the counter}
Jon: Uh, don't I get a bun?
Irma: {writing on her order pad} What else would you like, hon?
Garfield: Milkshake, hold the cup.
==Trivia==
*The links in the first paragraph of the author's notes no longer work as originally intended. The strips in question can be read as follows: The Academina Waltz, Bloom County 1, Bloom County 2.
*Most of the credited strip dates in the line used by the current crediting system likely weren't intended to actually be credited strip dates; only 1988-11-09 was credited in the leftover coding of the older crediting system. The other four strips in question were linked to in the author's notes proper; the transition between crediting systems likely looked at the entire author's notes for Garfield strip links, not just the part corresponding to the old crediting system, and credited the strips in the author's notes proper accordingly.
Category:NES Boy
Category:Comic strip references
110: Garfield IN SPACE!

==Explanation==
This strip uses Garfield's repeated mention of "space" to turn his surroundings into space of the outer kind without any of the consequences of being there without the benefit of a working space suit. The obligatory TV Tropes link is to the article on the Recycled IN SPACE! trope, in which the cast of a work set mainly planetside are put in space, often (but not always) just for the sake of putting them there.
==The author writes:==
Strip from . Original dialogue.
Obligatory TV Tropes link.
==Transcript==
Garfield: {in space} It's nice to be back in the country with space to roam.
Garfield: Space to breathe, space to be me.
Garfield: Space to be bored!
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:Internet references
111: Why So Serious?

==Explanation==
In the original, a Sunday comic, Jon loses his dinner to Garfield and Odie eating it. Here, the strip has been edited to make a reference to The Dark Knight.
The Dark Knight is the second film in The Dark Knight Trilogy, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale as Batman. This particular film follows up from the last one, Batman Begins, which teased the arrival of The Joker, played by the late Heath Ledger.
The strip's title comes from this character. At certain points in the movie, The Joker asks someone if he/she'd like to know how he got the scars on his mouth. In one such story (of which there are almost as many as times he asks), he claims his father killed his mother and laughed about it, then turned to him and said, "Why so serious?"
The strip proper gives Odie, who is made up as the character, dialogue that is a paraphrase of dialogue from another scene in the movie.
==The author writes:==
Yep, a year out and I've managed to pull out a Dark Knight joke. But I bet you didn't see this twist coming, didja?
Did you?
Original images taken from .
==Transcript==
{Jon is eating a dinner, with Odie and Garfield looking on.}
Odie: {with face make-up like The Joker} How about a magic trick?
Odie: I'm going to make this dinner disappear.
Odie: Ta dah! It's... gone! {the dinner has vanished}
Category:Michael Stangeland
Category:Film references
1124: I Ain't Got Nobody

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield was just wondering what he would look like without his stomach. Then Garfield envisioned himself without a stomach. Garfield grabbed his stomach to Jon's disbelief.
In this Square Root of Minus Garfield strip, Garfield was just wondering he would look like without his whole body. Then Garfield envisioned himself without his entire body! Garfield grabs his stomach, and... Jon still looks disbelieved.
==The author writes:==
Original strips: ; .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I wonder how I'd look without this body.
{Garfield envisions himself without a body} 
{Garfield grabs his stomach to Jon's disbelief}
Category:Midnight Strike
1125: 3×2field

==Explanation==
This strip takes the idea to kind of an extreme by reducing a Sunday strip to six squares of color in two rows, each block being a color-average of parts of two different panels. Readers cannot tell what's happening or who's doing it.
==The author writes:==
I saw 36×10 Garfield 2 and thought, "Amateurs! I'll show you how a real man pixelates Garfield strips!"
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Six coloured squares}
Category:Colin Foster
112: Barfield

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield was claiming that somebody had eaten Odie's food, but forgot to eat the food before claiming so. This edit switches Garfield's face and Odie's food bowl in the first and third panels, so that Garfield now appears to be barfing into the bowl in the second panel.
==The author writes:==
It's strange what reversing the order of the panels can do to a comic... Hope my edit's not too disgusting!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {carrying empty bowl} Odie! Someone has eaten your...
Garfield: Oops. Hang on! {barfs into bowl}
Garfield: {presents now full bowl to Odie} Odie! Someone has eaten your food!
Category:Redhead64
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
Category:Joke reversal
1139: Sliding Doorsfield

==Explanation==
The original strip, typical of the lead-up to Garfield's birthday, showed the character lamenting the time gone and wishing to turn back time. This edit takes this idea and alters it so that he instead recites lyrics to "Turn Back Time" by the Europop group Aqua. The song was included on the soundtrack to the movie Sliding Doors, hence the strip's title.
==The author writes:==
HA HA NO JOKE HERE JUST EUROPOP.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: If only I could turn back time...
Garfield: If only I had said what I still hide...
Garfield: If only I could turn back time...
Garfield: I would stay for the night.
Category:Manyhills
Category:Film references
Category:Music references
113: Sunday Every Day

==Explanation==
As explained by the admin's notes, this comic is an inverse of 109: April of No Sundays Collection. Instead of condensing a Garfield Sunday comic to make the punchline come sooner, this edit adds several panels of padding to a Garfield weekday comic to draw out the punchline.
==The author writes:==
Original with help from .
Comment by site admin: And in contrast to the overly padded Sunday strips highlighted in April of No Sundays Collection, some of the regular 3-panel daily strips actually improve when they are stretched out to seven panels.
==Transcript==
{Garfield sits while Jon shuffles slowly into view, unshaven, wearing pyjamas and carrying a cup of coffee.}
SFX: THONK! {Garfield looks down at Jon's feet and Jon's eyes open wide in shock}
{Garfield and Jon look at each other silently.}
Jon: Excuse me for a moment.
{Jon slowly shuffles out of frame.}
Jon: {from out of frame} HYAAAGH!
Garfield: He prefers to do the "stubbed toe dance" in private.
Jon: {from out of frame} YEEE! YAHHHH! EEEESH!
Category:qvaak
Category:Improving humor
1144: Lipogrammatic Pumpkin-and-Black Cat

==Explanation==
This comic was rewritten in a more poetic fashion (presumably to fit with the literature references), and more importantly is now a lipogram -- a piece written without using a particular letter (usually "E", the most common letter in the English language). Because of this, Garfield is renamed "Pumpkin-and-Black Cat" (including in the title, which would normally be called "Lipogrammatic Garfield").
The author's notes reveal the inspiration -- a pair of famous lipogrammatic novels (Gadsby and A Void/La Disparition, neither of which use the letter "E"), which he mixed up in a pub quiz. (Incidentally, the Pac-Man ghosts' names are Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde.)
==The author writes:==
In a pub quiz not too long ago, I got a wrong mark for mixing up Wright's Gadsby (1939) and Adair's A Void (1995, from a Gallic book of 1969, La Disparition). Thankfully, our group still won. In part thanks to my knowing all four Pac-Man ghosts.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Look! Post from mom, kitty!
Jon: Naught so much as information from family to lift your spirits!
Jon: {looking at post} My son, our gallus is kaput.
Pumpkin-and-black Cat: Probably from lack of fun.
Category:Manyhills
Category:Painting the medium
Category:Print references
Category:Video game references
1147: Garfield's Crap Past the Radar Theatre

==Explanation==
The original 1995 strip was just the middle three panels. This edit sandwiches it between the first and last panels of the "Garfield's Horror Theater" strip, here edited to say "Crap Past the Radar Theater" instead. The phrase is explained in short in the author's note, and if you need more explanation for it, see the TV Tropes page, but as to what content...
As said, the original 1995 strip was just the middle three panels... unedited. So, in an actual strip published in many, many newspapers, Jon is implied to have inadvertently made himself effectively naked, after an entire car trip of not noticing that he was wearing a sandwich. However, because anything that would've been problematic was kept off-panel, the censors allowed it.
==The author writes:==
The strip shown here is a prime example of getting crap past the radar, where the creators or writers slip in offensive content that usually goes undetected by censors. For some strange reason, Garfield is no exception.
Original strip: ; .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Welcome to "Garfield's Crap Past the Radar Theater."</br>
Jon: Well, I guess I'll get undressed.</br>
SFX: ZIP</br>
Jon: I planned ahead and wore my swimming trunks under my pants.</br>
Garfield {pulling out Jon's swim trunks}*: Gee, nobody can wear a pastrami on rye the way you can, Jon.</br>
Woman 1: Eeek!</br>
Woman 2: Yaaahh!</br>
Woman 3: Shrieeek!</br>
Garfield: You have been watching "Garfield's Crap Past the Radar Theater."
Category:Midnight Strike
1148: Truth-Enhanced Garfield

==Explanation==
There are two possible explanations: 
* Jon has eaten his own doughnut, thereby making his face in the third panel one of "Sure, I ate that donut. You got a problem with that?""This post is what actually inspired me to make 1148" - Lubaf
* Garfield has eaten Jon's doughnut, and put up a sign claiming Jon ate it, thus making Jon's look in the third panel one of severe disappointment. 
The title is actually neutral between the two possibilities, as "Truth-Enhanced" usually means "Lying", but it could be being used unironically here (or, if using something usually used ironically straight can be called "ironically", this usage could be called "ironically unironic").
==The Author Writes==
After seeing 1106: D'oh, Nuts!, I looked at the original strip, and thought the joke could be made subtler. So, here we are. (I also wanted to do a spelling fix, but "donut" for "doughnut" is too common an error to be worth the trouble of figuring out what font this is.) 
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
{a lone doughnut sitting at the table}</br> 
Sign: Jon's donut.</br> 
{Garfield walks past the doughnut}</br> 
Sign: Jon's donut.</br> 
{Jon sits beside the empty plate where the doughnut was}</br> 
Sign: Jon ate Jon's donut.</br> 
==Later references==
1281: Donut Wars (the strip that declared "Jon's Donut" a meme) was directly inspired by seeing this strip; thus, if you want to blame somebody for the Donut Wars meme, you have your pick between Lubaf, MadDogBV and Cody.
==Footnote, included here because Lubaf wanted to provide what TVTropes calls "Word of God", and it is far too late at this point to post on the forums about it==
Category:Donut Wars
Category:Lubaf
114: Why So Serious? - Take 2

==Explanation==
See #111: Why So Serious?. Here, instead of fulfilling his promise of making the dinner disappear, he makes Garfield disappear.
==The author writes:==
That's right, I've got another one.
I was surprised at how easily Odie translated to the Joker. I wonder if that has anything to do with his in-comic mindset. After all, here we have this dog that, while we're told he's an idiot, manages to get enough moments to make a case for him obfuscating stupidity instead, yet he's taken so much abuse over the years you have to wonder how close he is to the breaking point. Though maybe he's just so good at it he fools even himself.
Or, alternatively, maybe it's just his physical features.
Original images taken from .
==Transcript==
{Jon is eating a dinner, with Odie and Garfield looking on.}
Odie: {with face make-up like The Joker} How about a magic trick?
Odie: I'm going to make this dinner disappear.
Odie: Ta dah! It's... gone! {the dinner is still there, but Garfield has vanished}
Category:Michael Stangeland
Category:Film references
Category:Callbacks
1152: It.

==Explanation==
This comic is a reference to the surreal concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by the British rock band Genesis. It concerns a boy named Rael trying to save his brother John from an underground land inhabited by bizarre creatures and other hazards. Garfield takes on the role of Rael here, and his lines are taken verbatim from the penultimate song, "In the Rapids". At the end of said song, Rael finds out that John has his own face ("Something's changed! That's not your face/It's mine! It's mine!"), implying that they were the same person (or, according to Phil Collins, a split personality), which is illustrated literally here. As for the title, "It." is the last song on the album.
==The author writes:==
This probably doesn't spoil anything that makes sense. Wonderful album though.
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript== 
Garfield: Hang on, Jon! We're out of this at last.</br> 
{Garfield holds Jon's hand across panels}</br> 
Garfield: {to Jon} Something's changed! That's not your face!</br> 
{Jon's face is revealed to be the same as Garfield's as Garfield is shocked}
==Notes==
The comic's title originally lacked its ending punctuation.
Category:Music references
Category:DEIDATVM
1153: Square Root of (Literal) Minus Garfield

==Explanation==
This strip is an easy pun - a square root sign over a Garfield Minus Garfield strip. In other words, the literal square root of Minus Garfield.
==The author writes:==
Get it? Square Root of (Literal) Minus Garfield?
Original Garfield Minus Garfield strip: 2008-02-13.
Original Garfield strip: .
==Transcript==
{a square root symbol is shown in front of a strip} 
Jon: I've done things in my life that I regret. 
Jon: {pauses} 
Jon: {aside glance}
Category:Cody
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Visual puns
1156: Game Boy Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I took a strip from 1989 (the year the original Game Boy was released) and indexed the colour palette to the Game Boy's four shades of green.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, have you seen my striped tie? I can't find it anywhere!
{Jon pulls out a polka-dot tie}
Jon: Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wear my polka dot tie instead.
Garfield: Now he's a dip coming and going.
Category:Midnight Strike
Category:Video game references
115: Trichromatic Garfield

==Explanation==
The idea is sufficiently explained in the author's note; however, the strip itself demonstrates why this isn't done: it's very hard to read, only in part because a reader might not realize what order to read the colors in, even though the order follows the list in the CMYK color model used in printing.
==The author writes:==
Like many other "funny" newspaper strips, the colour in Garfield seldom really adds value to the joke. It seems that colour is just added as an afterthought, because surely the newspapers did not invest in full-colour-on-every-page capable offset machines just to run monochrome line art!
However, for a strip that does not really need colour for its artistic message, we could put the colour process to better use, to wit, saving paper by printing three panels of line art in the space of one.
In this strip from , the first panel is in cyan ink, the second in magenta and the third in yellow.
==Transcript==
Garfield: I could go for a 57-course meal.
Jon: You need to go on a diet.
Garfield: 56?
Category:Henning Makholm
1166: Jon Forgot Lasagna Thursday Twice

==Explanation==
Here, we see one of the earlier instances of recycled strips in Garfield; both of these follow almost the exact same pattern (Garfield is excited for lasagna day -- Thursday -- and when he receives cat food he throws it back at Jon in anger). Nothing more to it.
==The author writes:==
Jim Davis has been recycling strips since 1983.
Original strips: and .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Oh boy, oh boy. Today is Thursday, and that's lasagna day.</br>
Jon: Here's your cat food, Garfield. Will there be anything else?</br>
{Garfield throws the foot at Jon}</br>
Garfield: Today is Thursday, and that's lasagna day.</br>
Garfield: Cat food!</br>
Garfield: Let me jog your memory. {throws the food into Jon's face}
Category:Spot the Difference
Category:tardis2334
116: Spacious Garfield

==Explanation==
This remix edits the original to show more of the negative space around Jon and Garfield. The original strip was presumably chosen for its inclusion of the word "space". 
==The author writes:==
Original .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks in wearing a goldfish bowl on his head.}
Jon: Nice space helmet, Garfield.
Garfield: Thank you.
Jon: Where's my goldfish?
Garfield: Exploring (burp) new frontiers.
Category:qvaak
1170: Updates

==Explanation==
This strip edits Garfield's tattoo into an operating system bubble icon, then rewords Garfield's dialogue into telling Jon that his computer needs an update. The author's notes sufficiently explains the reasoning for these edits. Jon still sees that icon as a tattoo and tells Garfield off accordingly.
The word "tattoo" looks unusual and may imply that it was edited into this remix; that unusual-looking wording was, ironically, part of the original strip itself. It is unknown why the lettering there looks a bit unusual, but it could imply a very late change to the strip before it originally ran.
4372: updates would edit this strip to further the premise.
==The author writes:==
I hate to do a joke based on an operating system because it means a significant amount of the audience won't get it. For that matter, I'm not sure if this icon or its message were changed in Vista/7 or not, so this joke may be even more obscure than I had originally thought.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks in with a yellow shield icon on his chest}
Jon: {reading} "Updates are available for your computer."
Jon: That had better be a temporary tattoo!
Category:Sir Bacon
Category:Real world references
1171: Lunafield

==Explanation==
The author's edit adds a screenshot from the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode "Luna Eclipsed". For context, Luna (the depicted pony) is feared throughout the land for a number of reasons, one of which being her total lack of social skills. The event pictured is specifically from when she plays a carnival game involving tossing a spider onto a web from a distance. She enjoys it despite her unfamiliarity with the concept (shortly beforehand she remarks "What is this fun thou speakest of?"), and after playing a different game famously declares "Ha ha! The fun has been doubled!" (Do note that the line comes some time after the moment shown in the screenshot.)
In the comic, this earnest exclamation follows Garfield's dry sarcasm; he was having no fun with one ball of yarn, so now he can have twice as much with two.
Also worth noting: the description is just "Joke explanation", with no actual explanation included. Things like this are why this wiki was formed.
==The author writes:==
Joke explanation.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Here's another ball of yarn!</br>
{Garfield stares at the two balls of yarn}</br>
Garfield: Twice the fun.</br>
Princess Luna: HA-HA! THE FUN HAS BEEN DOUBLED!
Category:Garfunkel
Category:My Little Pony references
1175: Una traducción al español de la primera tira de Garfield cómic, que data del 19 de junio 1978

==Explanation==
Sufficiently explained in the author's note.
==The author writes:==
This is a Spanish translation of the first Garfield comic strip, of course. I did this a few months back. I decided that instead of deleting it from my computer forever, I'd submit to SRoMG as a strip. Now, the name of the strip is a Spanish translation of "A Spanish translation of the very first Garfield comic strip, dating from June 19, 1978". Yes, it's an "Long Title", I know, but it was just begging to be used. It was either send it here, or have it be deleted forever.
It's probably not a great Spanish translation of the first strip, so forgive the bad Spanish.
Edit: This is a little bit better Spanish translation of the strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hola. Soy Jon Arbuckle. Soy un dibujante. Y este es mi gato, Garfield.
Garfield: Hola. Soy Garfield Yo soy un gato, y este es mi dibujante, Jon.
Jon: Nuestro unico pensamiento el para su entretenimiento.
Garfield: Dame de comer.
Category:Cody
Category:Long titles
Category:Foreign language
117: Why So Serious? - Take 3

==Explanation==
See #111 and #114. This one is closest to how the scene played out in The Dark Knight, as Odie makes Jon disappear this time.
==The author writes:==
Ta-dah! It's the joke played straight!
This was the initial concept I had when this idea came to me, but then A) I realised that everyone would be expecting the joke to turn out that way and B) I considered other ideas of how the comic could turn out. So I decided to do them all and, hopefully, give this turnout back a bit of its surprise.
Original images taken from .
==Transcript==
{Jon is eating a dinner, with Odie and Garfield looking on.}
Odie: {with face make-up like The Joker} How about a magic trick?
Odie: I'm going to make this dinner disappear.
Odie: Ta dah! It's... gone! {the dinner and Jon have vanished}
Category:Michael Stangeland
Category:Film references
Category:Callbacks
118: Cold-Warm Involution Garfield

==Explanation==
Sufficiently explained in the author's note.
==The author writes:==
Words are from and pictures are from (slightly edited to fit) with a "Cold-Warm Involution" filter applied to the image. This is a colour transformation which maps the cold colours (e.g. blue, green) onto to warm ones (e.g. red, orange), and vice versa. Either way, no matter whether the colours and the weather are cold or warm, it looks like Garfield is happiest indoors and in bed.
==Transcript==
Garfield: Spring is here.
Garfield: The warm spring sum is coaxing trees to bud and flowers to bloom. Fledgling songbirds are testing their lilting voices. Soft spring zephyrs are wafting the sweet scent of lilacs. Spring is here.
Garfield: Big, fat hairy deal.
Category:Andrew Collier