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4273: A Strip From Jon's Perspective

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {standing at a filthy window}: You'd never know it was such a nice day outside
Garfield {wiping it}: Jon should clean these windows once in a while
Garfield {having wiped it clean}: Much better
Text: Worse
Jon {thinking the window is open}: Hey!
Jon {charging recklessly towards it}: Who left this window
Jon {crashing up against it}: Nyopen
Text: SEE!
Category:MarioGarfield
4274: Wring Odie's Neck, He Won't Care

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is a fusion of two comics, with a third thrown in the mix. I thought those episodes were pretty similar, with the Odie spinning and neck-twisting. I also edited the title panel, which is something I'm going to attempt to keep doing for Sundays.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Marmaduke is looking confused at Garfield, who wrote SRoMG on the nearby fence, where the word Garfield used to be}
Garfield {in a very thin font}: Square root of minus Garf...!
Garfield: ðŸ’¡
{Garfield walks towards Odie}
{Odie continues watching as Garfield walks past him... thrice}
{Garfield runs in a circle. Odie begins to spin}
{Garfield stops moving}
{Beat}
Garfield: That's driving me crazy!
Garfield {grabbing Odie}: STOPPIT, ODIE!
{Odie is still spinning, but after a beat, suddenly stops. His neck is twisted oddly}
{Odie begins to twist back again}
Garfield {still holding Odie} AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!
SFX: WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
{Enter Jon}
Jon: I think I came in late again
{Exit Jon}
Garfield {stomping down, stopping Odie in his tracks}: That's good enough!
SFX: SCREEE
{Odie's neck is now twisted the other way}
Garfield: (I thought so...)
Garfield: Thanks for the exercise! {He proceeds to punt Odie}
Odie {chasing Garfield away}: BARK! BARK! BARK!
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this. The strip itself implies the mojibake may not be directly fixable, as any singular lightbulb character would presumably be an emoji (such as 💡), which is not compatible with the current workings of the Square Root of Minus Garfield site, as 5301: Gౡrfiⵥld and 5302: Garfward Jonbles's original transcripts would prove.
Category:Theopold
4275: A Scarier Sign

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Sonic.exe is a creepypasta fan story based on the Sonic games (duh). It also spawned a game, and a TON of rip-offs (Mario.exe, Toy story.exe, etc). So I saw SRoMG #1176 and this image of Sonic and I KNEW I had to do this..... I_______Ã€M______GÃ”D_____DÃÃŠ________
Original Sonic art by deviantart user GBlastMan.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is walking}
{Garfield finds a sign with Sonic.exe dripping with blood}
Sonic.exe Sign: I AM GOD
{Garfield's pupils become very small}
Garfield: I think I'll walk this way
==Trivia==
This strip's author's notes were hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Marioman234
Category:Internet references
Category:Video game references
Category:Mojibake
4276: Spot-On Prediction

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2011-05-25.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield has huge feet}
Garfield: Sigh...
Garfield: I miss Arlene
Arlene: I'm right here
Garfield: Yeah, but I'd have to turn all the way around
Category:wye
4277: Yesterday, All My Troubles Seemed So Close To Today...

==Explanation==
The original Garfield strip had Jon freaking out over grasshoppers in his underwear drawer; this strip changes it to an apocalyptic scenario. The author's notes imply that Garfield may have found himself in a "Groundhog Day" Loop situation, which is what the author is implying by intentionally setting previous contribution 4253: Yesterday, All My Troubles Seemed So Close To Today... to rerun on Groundhog Day itself--the lone difference being the second setting of the author's notes linking back to the original run of the strip.
==The author writes:==
Now Jon's reaction matches his wild take. Note that Garfield may be in a The Day After Tomorrow or Groundhog Day situation.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Today is just like yesterday
Jon: ASTEROIDS ARE CRASHING INTO THE EARTH! HUMANITY IS DOOMED!
Garfield: Just exactly like yesterday
Category:Lubaf
Category:Film references
4278: Garfield-maniacs

==Explanation==
As the author's notes state, this strip takes the song Garfield was performing in the original Garfield strip and portrays it as if it were one of the "whiny protest songs from the 60s" referenced in the Animaniacs episode.
==The author writes:==
The little opening song Garfield sings in the original strip reminded of perhaps the best joke from the Animaniacs episode "Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled", as they have the same general cadence. For your recollection: "Oh I hate the government, more than you and me! The government stole my goldfish, and unplugged my TV!"
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Satan, Belial, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, the Devil, Lucifer, the Little Horn, what-have-you, holds captive Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner!}
SBBMtDLtLHw-h-y {gloating with wicked aplomb}: Beyond these doors is an agony worse than all others
SBBMtDLtLHw-h-y {savoring his evil victory over the forces of comedy and wackiness}: You'll remain here for an eternity listening to...
SBBMtDLtLHw-h-y {opening the door}: Whiny protest songs from the 60s!!!
Garfield {miraculously whistling despite having no lips}: â™© I hate dogs and dogs hate me. I chase the tiny ones, the big ones chase me â™« â™ª
Yakko & Wakko, the Warner Bros, and Dot, the adorable Warner Sis {screaming in abject horror}: AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Luke99
Category:Photo comics
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
Category:Mojibake
4279: Garfield in 2053: The new update edition

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
After I saw SRoMG #1494, I decided to edit this to do a new updated version of Garfield in 2053.
Garfield gets a new design which is now old and now a cyborg cat.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield has one red eye with a metal plate}
Garfield: Milk...
Garfield: Some people read the expiration dates
Garfield: And some don't
Category:MaisieMacKenzieFan2000
427: Clive

==Explanation==
In this strip, Clive is a real, albeit invisible cat who lives with an invisible owner. In this world, a visible friend -- Garfield, in this case -- is apparently as implausible as an invisible friend is in our world; here, as in the original strip, the believed-imaginary being burps. Whether or not this is proof enough for the invisible accuser is unknown.
==The author writes:==
This is some sort of alternate universe where Clive lives with his own owner, presuming Clive is a cat like Garfield.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Clive is invisible}</br>
Clive: I swear I didn't eat your hamburger!</br>
Clive: It was... Garfield!</br>
Invisible accuser: Do you really expect me to believe that "visible friend" stuff?!</br>
Garfield: Burp.
Category:Nottoostupid
4281: Garfield Sneezes

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Title panel}
Garfield: Ah
{Jon looks as Garfield's about to sneeze}
Garfield: AH
{Jon gets scared}
Garfield: AH!
{Jon panics and runs away from Garfield}
{Jon peeks to see if Garfield finished sneezing}
{Jon goes to walk back into the kitchen}
SFX: CHEW CHEW CHEW
{Jon is irritated as Garfield ate and drank his food}
Garfield: CHOO!!
{Jon is blasted from Garfield's sneeze}
Category:Bonnie Bay Smith
4282: Homophobic Garfield

==Explanation==
Contrary to what the title implies, Garfield does not appear to be displaying homophobia; his reaction to Jon's quip in the second panel, here given a homosexual interpretation, is the same as in the original Garfield strip to a very-much-straight Jon there.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: We're going to see your veterinarian today, Garfield
Jon: He's one cute chicky-boo. I'd marry him
Garfield: It's comforting to know the high values placed on the sacred institution of marriage are still with us today
Category:Mr B Natural
4283: Dispressed Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was playing around with a Dissociated Press implementation (this one), and thought it would be fun to take some Garfield strips and dispress them.
What I want to know is: was this idea the, or just plain stupid?
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are standing on a sidewalk}
Jon: That beautiful woman? She that beautiful woman?
Jon: Personality! He's got her me!
Garfield: Was that before Sarah! I don't have reading a coloring book.
{Jon and Garfield at the table. Jon is holding a book}
Jon: Up on classic literature. A personality!
Jon: He's got hey there, Chicky-Boo, Chicky-Boo-Boo-Boo.
{Jon opens the book and begins to read}
Jon: Tell me, are you he's got her there.
Garfield: You obnoxious, or just the man's reading a see that beautiful woman?
{Jon and Garfield are taking a walk. Jon stops to talk with a woman}
Jon: Care for my personality? Intellectual guys.
Woman: So I'm Sarah, you don't care that before or after boning up on classic me!
{Jon looks surprised}
{Jon recovers}
Jon: Up on classic literature.
Garfield: Pointed and laughed? Chicks.
{Jon is on the phone. Garfield is lying nearby.}
Jon: Hey there, Chicky-Boo, personality?
Jon: Well, the joke's visiting Miss Daisy....
Jon: The man's reading a literature.
Garfield: The or just plain stupid?
Category:Natty
4284: You're bound to be afraid

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
See also SRoMG #83.
The hardest line to write for Five-Minute Garfield, which presumably is already published or else I just spoiled something, was the punchline for Garfield's little Halloween adventure. I wanted to address the above xkcd. I wanted to highlight that something not Dadaist, but certainly artistic and far outside Garfield's usual line of commercial appeal, had already been done.
So Jon was originally going to say something like "Eat your heart out, Randall Munroe." But I couldn't come up with any line that quite felt right to me, and ended up instead commenting on the Internet articles and posts that pop up occasionally where someone freaks out about the week of Garfield's abandonment.
Garfield is an easy target these days, justly so, with as bland and repetitive as it's gotten. But I like to remember the '80s, when maybe the same basic jokes about laziness and bad temper were often still being told, but there were also lots of crazy people and window blinds and storylines and occasionally Garfield being genuinely nice to Jon. So this author's note maybe represents me being thwarted in my first defense of that era, and channelling it into this commentary.
Original xkcd: 2006-03-20.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield has a bad habit of
{Garfield pops into the extreme foreground, beaming}
Garfield: The world is burning. RUN.
Jon: interrupting me
Category:Sloublues
Category:Webcomic references
4286: Just Keep It, Then!

==Explanation==
In the original, the last pile of mail was instant millionaire giveaways. Here, it's charities sending money to send back to them.
One common practice of charities is to send coins in the mail, illustrating a small amount of money (usually per day) that one of their beneficiaries needs, saying it could change or save their lives. The problem is, this is real money. Every time a recipient doesn't send money back, the organization loses that money. Thus, if it's so important to their beneficiaries, the author seems to be posing the title's advice.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is dragging a bag of mail. How much is actually Jon's?}
Jon: Is that today's mail, Garfield?
Garfield: Yo
{Garfield withdraws some from the bag}
Garfield: Here are your personal letters, bills, and catalogs
{He then dumps the rest onto the table, to Jon's surprise}
Garfield: And charities sending you money to send
Category:Nyperold
4287: Emoticon

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The Basilisk from xkcd strikes in the Garfield world!
His Petrifying Emoticon is not merely restricted to the Internet. He can manifest it in the physical world and send it to people. And one of those people is our very own Jon Arbuckle!
Jon for some reason is immune to the gaze, but his cat isn't.
Why would the Basilisk target good old Jon? He must have been ordered to by someone.
But who?
Could it be...
Ophiuchus?
(Yes, I know that in the original xkcd strip, the emoticon kills you, but the effects of a Basilisk's sight vary depending on the medium it is sent through.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Take a look at this, Garfield
Jon: I've got this weird mail from some guy named BSLSK05.
Garfield: It's just a :), what's-
{Garfield is suddenly turned to stone}
Jon: Garfield?
Category:Mr Miscellaneous
Category:Webcomic references
4288: Garfield minus Jon being alive

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Alternate title: Garfield past Jon's death but before being a stray kicking Odie
[I'm not entirely sure I understand the relevance of the minimal edit to SRoMG #3934, but you can't deny the concept is intriguing. -Ed]
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon isn't around, so Garfield is free to kick Odie and even make Odie fly away on account of him thinking "kick"}
{Garfield thinks "Kick" and Odie jumps off the table, twice}
Garfield: Am I good or what?
Garfield: Pavlov was right
{Garfield then, gives up for a very short time...}
Category:Max Matt Moneys
428: Stripefield

==Explanation==
The original strips have been interleaved in vertical stripes of variable widths. It's just barely possible to make out the originals by looking. The two strips were chosen due to having stripes as an important aspect of their respective punchlines.
==The author writes:==
Original strips: and .
==Transcript==
{Two strips interleaved in stripes}.</br>
Garfield: Ah, here it is.</br>
Garfield: It took all week.</br>
Garfield: They say wearing vertical stripes make you look thinner.</br>
Garfield: But I finally got a birthday gift I like.</br>
Garfield: Or, in my case, like a watermelon.</br>
Garfield: Racing stripes on my bed!
Category:x
4290: Light Side of the Lasagne

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is such an obvious submission to me that I'm surprised nobody's done it before in the decade since the original Dark Side of the Lasagne was posted. Surely if there's a dark side of the lasagne, there must also be a light side? Thus, while in the original Garfield went from a simple jerk to a murderer, here he is transformed into a heroic figure protecting the world from whatever Jon was planning to do with that death ray.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, you make a lovely fire
Garfield: I do make a lovely fire
Jon: Well, I gotta get my death ray ready. You enjoy your lovely fire
Garfield: I'll enjoy my lovely fire
Jon: Hey! What happened to my death ray?!
Garfield: It made a lovely fire
Category:Twistedplant
4291: Where's Everything?

==Explanation==
In the original comic, Garfield merely eats just his and Jon's dinner. This edit adds to the list of things Garfield ate, including various Garfield characters, famous historical artifacts and events, the dreaded pudding pops, Jon's pipe, and his pet frog Herbie. R.I.P.
==The author writes:==
For maximum effect, please read this strip at maximum volume.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield gobbles up everything}
Jon: Where's your dinner?!! Where's my dinner?!! Where's Odie's dinner?!! Where's Nermal's dinner?!! Where's my fern? Where's Lyman?!! Where are the door hinges? Where's my goldfish?!! Where's my pet frog, Herbie?!! Where's the rest of the tree?!! Where's the wall?!! Where's my laundry?!! Where's the airplane ladder?!! Where's Odie's nose?!! Where's the lost colony of Roanoke?!! Where's my pizza?!! Where's my date?!! Where's the Mona Lisa?!! Where's Irma?!! Where's my suntan lotion?!! Where are my clubs?!! Where's the house?!! Where are frozen pudding pops?!! Where's my pipe?!! Where's the International Space Station?!!
Garfield: Once my eating gains momentum, it's hard to shut down
Category:Colin
Category:Real world references
4292: Tell, don't show

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: No mail again today
Jon: Garfield, have you been harassing the mailman again?
Garfield {standing casually with his hands behind his back}: Hey, relax
Garfield {standing casually with his hands behind his back}: He'll be back for his pants
Jon: You're an animal
Category:Conor
4294: Jon Plus an Oddly-sourced Mustache, with Bonus Recolor

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was just flipping through my physical Garfield books, when I came across this strip. Garfield's ears in the second panel entranced me. Has he ever done that before? Has he ever done that since? I just kept staring at them for awhile, and then decided that they looked like a mustache. So I made this rather silly strip.
Then, when I was trying to decide whether to cut out the title panel and establishing shot, I happened to notice that the pig's left foreleg is colored green in the original strip. So I fixed that, as a nod to #273, #355, #2298, and #3696.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A car drives down a country road, past a pig in a field, a pig whose left foreleg is a perfectly normal shade of pink}
{Jon, Garfield, and Odie are revealed to be in the car. Garfield has his ears folded very strangely. Jon has a hideous orange mustache}
Jon: Look, boys! Pigs! Let's all imitate a pig!
Garfield: Do we have to?
Jon, Garfield, Odie: Oink Oink
Jon: Very good. Ooo! Cows! Let's be a cow!
Jon, Garfield, Odie: Moo
{The car suddenly runs over an animal}
Jon: A possum!
SFX: Thump! Thump!
{Garfield and Odie lie on their backs, all four legs up in the air}
Jon: Very funny
Category:KelpTheGreat
4295: Stand-In Delivers plus corrected chronology

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
They put the panels in the wrong order!
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2016-04-09.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is with a baby that resembles him}
Garfield: I'm such a sentimental slob
{Time passes}
{Garfield is with Liz}
Liz: Where's Jon?
Garfield: I don't know
Garfield: I can stand in for him if you like...
Category:Destructible Watermelon
4296: DOOT

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
DOOT
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is looking at Garfield, who is standing on the table and smiling}
Jon: I hate it when you smile
{Garfield walks out of frame}
Jon {to Garfield}: Whenever you smile something bad happens
{Jon turns around and doesn't see Garfield walk back in with a tuba}
Jon: But, maybe I'm just paranoid
Category:TPTPWDotACoEMW
4297: Garfield Really Doesn't Care

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
While browsing through random SRoMG strips I saw this strip and immediately realized I could make it into a reference to my favorite Metallica song.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is seen at the table, with some coffee}
Jon: I'm going to be late for an appointment!
{With a blank face, Garfield takes a sip at his coffee}
Garfield: I'm your hate when you want love
Jon: Really late!
Garfield: Pay, pay the price, pay for nothing's fair
{Still not amused, Garfield takes another sip at his coffee}
Garfield: Hey I'm your life, I'm the one who took you there
Jon: Really, really, really late!!
Garfield: And I no longer care
Category:TheCleanerDragon
Category:Music references
4298: The True Story of the Half-a-Billion-Dollar Blunder

==Explanation==
This strip takes the news story linked to in the author's notes and makes it look like Jon was the Citibank employee responsible for the blunder. The bit about Citibank letting Jon work from home is likely in reference to work-from-home situations that arose due to the COVID-19 pandemic that increased the amount of the workforce doing their work from home.
The author's portrayl of Jon working for Citibank in the first place is likely to take advantage of recent audiences who may not think to take a look at and learn Jon's profession (be it through Garfield At Large: His First Book or online archives), and subsequently think Jon is canonically unemployed and thus in a position to take the Citibank job in the first place; the amount of money wired away in the news story and subsequently this strip, $500 million, is likely more money than Jon has ever seen in his life based on his canonical salary as a cartoonist.
Citibank and Revlon would eventually reach a settlement in December 2022.
==The author writes:==
Yes, this actually happened! So far, a judge has ruled that Citibank can't get its money back, but the appeals may last several more years: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/02/16/citi-cant-get-back-500-million-it-accidentally-wired-to-revlon-lenders-federal-judge-rules/
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I am so glad Citibank started letting me work from home
SFX: CLICK
Jon: Oops
Jon: I accidentally wired away $500,000,000
Garfield: Ehh, that sounds like a "fix it tomorrow" situation
Category:Jason Tank
Category:Real world references
4299: Enlightenfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2020-07-15.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is lying on a flat monochromatic surface}
{Beat}
{Garfield begins to astral project outside of his body}
{A trail of colorful Garfields begins to form}
{The Garfields burst from the confines of the comic panel, leaving behind emptiness}
{Time and space no longer hold sway over Garfield. His astral selves spin through reality, blurring together in a mass of shifting hues}
{Garfield's new form comes to rest on some otherworldly plane, which is also a flat monochromatic surface}
Garfield: I Transcend
Category:Marina Crustacean
429: Garfield at the Zoo

==Explanation==
This time, the base comic is a scan from a 1986 issue of Teen Titans Spotlight, in which Beast Boy visits a lioness called Elga. His dialogue is replaced with dialogue from a 1983 Garfield strip. This leads to a couple of oddities, such as talking about altering a sign in a panel where there is no sign present, or talking about pacing while not pacing. But it's a decent thematic match, all things considered.
==The author writes==
With all the Photoshops of President Garfield, I'm surprised that there haven't been any of the other Garfield, Beast Boy from Teen Titans. It would really be impressive if somebody could Photoshop all three Garfields into a single strip.
Image found at this link (which is the blog of this Square Root of Minus Garfield author).
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield "Beast Boy" Logan: I wonder what it would be like to be a wild animal.
Garfield "Beast Boy" Logan: First, I'd alter this stupid sign.
Garfield "Beast Boy" Logan: Then I'd pace around looking kinda fierce.
{Turns into a lion}
Garfield "Beast Boy" Logan: Then I'd scare the heck out of the crowd. Rroooarr!
{Turns into a monkey}
Garfield "Beast Boy" Logan: That was a pretty convincing performance, if I do say so myself.
Category:DanielBT
Category:Non-Garfield comics
Category:Comic book references