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179: Garfield Minas Garfield

==Explanation==
An easy pun on Garfield Minus Garfield -- just swap out the middle word for the traditional Brazilian cheese Minas! (Incidentially, said food got its name from its state of origin: Minas Gerais.)
The author's note provides an opportunity for a similar pun on Minas Tirith, a location from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth novels. 
==The author writes:==
It's 2am as I write this, and I don't think I'm going to get away with this. But here I am anyway.
Original strip from ; picture from Wikipedia, File:Queijo Minas Frescal.JPG.
I don't want to talk about it, except to note that I eagerly anticipate Garfield Minas Tirith.
==Transcript==
Mouse: Cheese! {running away from Garfield, carrying a block of minas cheese}
==Later references==
* "Garfield Minas Tirith" became a reality two months later.
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Manyhills
Category:Print references
Category:Real world references
17: The Garfield Code

==Explanation==
This strip is a reference to the novel (and subsequent film) The Da Vinci Code, a thriller primarily concerned with cryptic hints in European arts. It is notorious for being highly inaccurate, which the description makes fun of; The Garfield Code is apparently a book published 521 years in the future (from this strip's publication date) which paints Einstein as communicating with the Boston Red Sox (here a secret organization) via messages in Garfield comics.
There is, in fact, a message for the reader coded into the above comic: "I'M SORRY IT WAS NOT WORTH YOUR EFFORT TO DECODE THIS BUT YOU HAVE THE SATISFACTION OF KNOWING SOMETHING THAT OTHERS DO NOT TAKE PRIDE IN THAT SIGNED THE GOON". This is a running key cipher, made by adding the letter values of the message to the letter values of the dialogue in the original strip, then converting to the letters seen in the strip above.
==The author writes:==
An excerpt from The Garfield Code, first published 2529:
"Aha!" exclaimed Farrel, "I knew this ancient cartoonograph was more than it seemed at first. See how the letters don't form words? A message is hidden inside! This must be The Garfield Code!"
"But vat ees ze Garfield Cod?" enquired Farrel's nubile foreign assistant.
"Well, as we all know, Einstein had to communicate with the rest of his secret organisation, the Boston Red Socks, in a way that would not draw attention to their activities. So they would telepost each other these cartoons, altering the text. It's a simple cipher, just taking the numerical value of the letter and adding it to the corresponding letter in the original comic."
"But zat zeems too eezy to break."
"Not at all. There were literally thousands of Garfields produced. Only a hypermind like Einstein or Reagan could remember all of them."
"But today eet ees a simple matter to look them up, nonoui?"
"I'm afraid not. All records of specific Garfields were destroyed in the Great Dross Purge of the 24th century. Only one man I know will have a book collection dating this far back. We must talk to Lord Foxx."
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: WBMXUW ZWSQIBBV XFUXYZDCO SGUAI EY, APVKLTPI?
Garfield: BUVFO?
Garfield: XITAY QU XJ NPJ VMIFG LBFY R EII UY MDR FVPET LTO ENFL UAMYTJ?
Jon: Q LGM E CSL MBJCY!
Garfield: Y YDIXB W'G VPN ONYM TFMMWCPCH.
Category:Alexander Rodgers
Category:Puzzles
Category:Print references
1801: Good Housekeeping

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon asked Garfield if he found his list of ways to keep the house cleaner. Garfield told Jon that he did, and he also told him that he wiped his feet on it. 
Here, Garfield tells Jon that he used it to line up his litter box.
==Transcript==
Jon: Did you see my list of ways to keep the house cleaner?
Garfield: Yes, I did, Jon.
Garfield: I used it to line my litter box.
==The author writes:==
Obvious variation on "I used it as toilet paper" is obvious. 
Original strip: .
Category:unstattedCommoner
1805: Garfield plus Labour Retention

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield admitted in the last panel that he had wiped his feet on the list Jon was asking about.
==The author writes:==
Having submitted an earlier modification of this strip it then occured to me that "ways to keep the house cleaner" is ambiguous. 
Thus here Jon and Garfield are discussing ways in which they might retain the services of the cleaning lady. 
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Did you see my list of ways to keep the house cleaner?
Garfield: Yes, I did, Jon.
Garfield: Try increasing her wages.
Category:unstattedCommoner
180: Garfield Cross Section A

==Explanation==
This comic is a parody of 109: April of No Sundays Collection. Instead of condensing a Garfield Sunday comic to make the punchline come sooner, the edit omits a significant chunk of the comic, including the punchline.
==The author writes:==
Of course, the comic strip you're reading exists because Jim Davis just does some outlandish and unintentionally hilarious strips. Any three panels of any Sunday strip could probably be removed from context and be just as hilarious, but the human farce going on before Garfield's hard-to-please eyes is a lot funnier than the rest of the strip.
(I will tell you this: if I ever get rear-ended by someone who turns out to be longer than their car, I'll never pick a fight with him.)
This strip is unedited, except to remove the top and bottom rows of panels. It makes the real surreal humour of Sqrt(-Garf) shine through all the more.
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
SFX: SCREEE {a man in a car rear-ends another car as Garfield watches from inside a window}
SFX: CRUNCH!
Man: Yabba! Yabba! Yabba!
SFX: SOCK! {second man punches first man}
==Later references==
The series is continued with 184: Garfield Cross Section B and 186: Garfield Cross Section C.
Category:David Atwell
1812: Jon plus epicfail

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 1812: Jon plus #epicfail.
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==Explanation== 
In the 2014-01-07 strip, Jon asked Garfield if he found his list of ways to keep the house cleaner. Garfield told Jon that he did, and that he had wiped his feet on it.
Here, Jon has papers stapled to his face, edited in from the 2006-11-04 strip, which are apparently his list of ways to make the house safer. Garfield doesn't seem amused by this like he was about admitting he ruined Jon's list in the original strip.
==The Author Writes:==
You'd think that common sense would be sufficient to prevent such incidents as blenders being glued to, or papers being stapled to, one's face. Not so in Jon's house.
Original Strip: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: {with papers stapled to his face} Did you see my list of ways to make the house safer?
Garfield: Yes, I did, Jon. 
Garfield: You've stapled them to your face.
Category:unstattedCommoner
1819: Meta Mid-Point

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is a reaction to No. 1704: Shifting Mid-Point 2, only here, instead of taking the mid-points of Garfield strips, I did the same for SRoMG strips.
You may point out that the SRoMG the second panel is from, No. 852: Tulip Tiptoe, only has two panels and thus no middle panel to contribute, but I will counter-point-out that one of those panels is not from a Garfield strip, but from U.S. Acres instead, and further the Garfield panel is the middle panel from its original strip (assuming you count the title as part of the strip).
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Flea: Hello, I'm a flea.
Garfield: I love to tiptoe through tulips.
Garfield: Shortly before discovering the lawsuit!
Category:Sir Bacon
181: Jon Roughs It

==Explanation==
For this strip, Jon's words are edited to point to Garfield and vice versa. 
But, the original Garfield font is replaced by this font and now Jon is saying with Garfield says, and Garfield is saying what Jon says as well.
==The author writes:==
Original comic from .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {watching TV} Oh boy, at last. College football season.
Garfield: I would have played college football had it not been for my beliefs.
Jon: How would you like to be unnecessarily roughed?
Garfield: I don't believe in bleeding on Saturday!
Category:Michael Stangeland
Category:Completely rewritten dialogue
1821: Shifting Mid-Point 3

==Explanation==
Lubaf's decision to wait for 1705: Invisible Cat to first run is likely the reason why this strip ran in the first place, as Lubaf sought to avoid using an outcome that involved 852: Tulip Tiptoe; had Lubaf gone ahead and went with the 1-852-1704 combination, the result would've been identical or near-identical to what became 1819: Meta Mid-Point.
==The author writes:==
Yes, Square Root of Minus Garfield's shifting mid-point (see SRoMGs 313 and 1704). I would've used SRoMG #1704, but that would have implied 852, which lacks a middle panel, so I waited a day (since 1703 would return the same midpoint).
Original SRoMGs: 1, 853, 1705.
Admin note: I received this about 12 hours after 1819, and decided to accept both since this was a different take on the concept.
==Transcript==
Panel 1: Flea: {To Garfield} Hello, I'm a flea.
Panel 2: {Garfield, sitting, alone}
Panel 3: Jon: Cats are so strange.
Category:Lubaf
182: Boomtown Cats

==Explanation==
This is based on the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats, fitting with Garfield's usual hatred of Mondays. 
The song is based on a shooting committed by Brenda Ann Spencer, who shot at an elementary school playground from her home; thus, Garfield is seen here firing a gun from his window.
==The author writes:==
I Don't Like Mondays.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
SFX: Pew pew {Garfield firing a gun out the window}
SFX: Pew pew
Garfield: I don't like Mondays.
Category:Manyhills
Category:Music references
Category:Real world references‏‎
1832: Depressed

==Explanation==
Originally, the last panel had Garfield end his statements with "but I'm still doing my job!" (some sort of jab at his lonely, possibly clinically depressed owner Jon, who is unsurprisingly not amused). Here, it's replaced with the punchline of a semi-notorious strip from 1989 where Garfield attempts to commit suicide by snapping his neck with a recliner, thus making his jovial behavior in the first two panels seem like an empty facade (or manic depression).
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I'm depressed!
Garfield: Really down in the dumps!
SFX: TOOT
{Jon looks on in horror as Garfield attempts suicide by sticking his head in the mechanism of a recliner armchair}
Category:Manyhills
1835: Garfield Is Unfunny

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon placed a bowl of soup on a table, then called Garfield to dinner, Garfield came to dinner and noticed a bowl of soup, he looked shocked, then he looked angry, and started yelling soup. Jon told Garfield it's cream of lasagna. Garfield took out a spoon while thinking of soup.
The author mixed these strips together to make this strip. Jon notices a bowl of soup on a table, and called Garfield to dinner. Jon asked Garfield if it was soup. Garfield then yelled, "NO SOUP FOR YOU!"
This was based on this famous Seinfield episode called "The Soup Nazi" where Yev Kassem asked for soup and George yelled "No soup for you!"
==The author writes:== 
Based on the famous Seinfield scene.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: {noticing a bowl of soup} Dinner!
Jon: {asking Garfield} Soup?
Garfield: {angrily} No soup for you!
Category:Negative N
Category:Television references
1838: Garfield in LA

==Explanation==
The city of Los Angeles, California, the second most populous one in America, is infamous for having an air pollution problem, often manifesting as smog. This comic references this - while the original strip was simply a joke about Garfield not being able to stand the outdoors, the modified version is a straighter joke at the expense of LA (though the author's note softens it a little). The newly-added quotes around the word "fresh" only cement this.
==The author writes:==
To be fair, the air's not quite that bad in LA... usually. There's probably a large wildfire going on.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is at the door. Smog filters through} 
Other side of door: Cough! Gasp! Wheeze! HACK! 
{Jon opens the door, letting both Garfield and the smog that's thick enough to obstruct visibility} 
Jon: Okay, come in! 
Garfield: Enough with the "fresh" air.
Category:Real world references
Category:Jabs
Category:Lubaf
1839: Garfield Plus Grammar Nazi

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon says "Your not a sailplane, you know." This is obviously a grammatical error, which this strip duly fixes.
==The author writes:==
It had to be done. Not even Jim Davis is immune to these types of mistakes.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Come and get it, Garfield.
{Garfield tries to jump across the room to his food bowl, but falls on the floor.} 
SFX: Crash! 
Jon: You're not a sailplane, you know. 
Garfield: Oh, shut up.
Category:Riley
Category:Corrections
183: Little Garfield Lost

==Explanation==
As is mentioned in the notes, this strip replaces the dialogue from the original Garfield strip with that of another newspaper comic that ran that same day. Jon and Liz have also been edited to reflect the new dialogue.
==The author writes:==
Sometimes the dialogue from a different comic can improve the other comic.
Garfield strip from .
Little Dog Lost strip from 2009-01-16.
==Transcript==
{Jon and Liz are in a restaurant}
Jon: Sigh.. There are no perks for scavengers..
Liz: Aw, c'mon! You're always sayin' how it's noble work!
Jon: I suppose I should be glad I'm not starving.
Liz: Yeah, what more do you want?
Jon: A hot meal in January!
Category:Jan G.
1840: Garfield Minus Jon's Mother

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon's mother was the one who knit the sweater seen here, and thus Garfield's hatred was directed towards her. Without her, his anger goes to Jon instead. Not a lot to say about this one.
==The author writes:==
Without Jon's mother, things get a lot more personal between Jon and Garfield.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Look, Garfield, I made a sweater for you.
{Jon puts the sweater on Garfield}
Garfield: I've never liked you.
Category:KoopaKid17
1843: 30 Garf

==Explanation==
This strip is a recreation of a segment from the 30 Rock episode "Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land". In said episode, Tracy Jordan (an erratic character) applies for the role of Garfield in the fictitious movie Garfield 3: Feline Groovy, and his performance is typically over-dramatic. Garfield's lines here are taken directly from the episode.
==The author writes:==
I took the scene in the TV show 30 Rock in which Tracy Jordan shoots a scene in a new Garfield movie (and of he course acts up) and turned it into an actual Garfield strip.
Dialogue from 30 Rock: Season 4: Episode 21: "Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land" (Episode 79 overall)
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Nermal, I hate you Nermal!
Garfield: Almost as much as I hate Mondays!
{Garfield holds Nermal up threateningly.}
Garfield: This is my lasagna. You hear me, Nermal?! My lasagnaaa!!
{Garfield points to a pan of lasagna behind him dramatically.}
Category:Sullathron
Category:Television references
CAtegory:Titles permuting "Garfield"
1844: Grammy-Winning Garfield

==Explanation==
The singer in the last panel is "Lorde", the stage name for Ella Yelich-O'Connor. Her 2013 single "Royals" became a hit, being named as one of the best songs of the year by several publications and winning a Grammy (as the title suggests). More to the point of the comic, a section of the song's chorus has the background singers go "aroo" no less than three times in succession. Thus, with an existing Garfield strip already containing the word, this was likely inevitable.
==The author writes:==
I was inadvertently reminded of "Royals."
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Odie: Arooooooo! 
Jon: Arooooooo! 
Garfield: Arooooooo! 
Lorde: Arooooooo!
==Trivia==
* The original strip section of the author's note was originally blank. It got filled in some time after the strip was published.
Category:Music references
Category:Negative N
1847: Bioluminescencefield

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield obviously was not glowing, and Jon's statement was sarcastic. Here, he is literally lighting up the room - the transcript specifically saying that he is performing phosphorescence, which involves the energy absorbed by a substance being slowly released over time (i.e. any glow-in-the-dark toy). The title refers to bioluminescence, which is the production and emission of light by an organism.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: You sure do light up a room!
Garfield: And I'm not even trying
{Garfield is phosphorescing}
Category:Manyhills
Category:Joke removal
Category:Science-based comics
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
184: Garfield Cross Section B

==Explanation==
This is the second strip in this series, following 180: Garfield Cross Section A.
==The author writes:==
Seemingly dadaist, this strip truly depicts the three elements of all Garfield humour: At the top, Garfield ("Oh, my, what a crazy cat! Ha ha! He likes to sleep and eat! Will he never learn?"). In the middle, two humans fighting ("Ha ha! What lovable cads are we humans! How ridiculous we can be!"). And at the bottom, one of Garfield's room-mates ("Ha ha! The people who live with that cat are slightly eccentric!").
This strip is unedited, except to remove the left and right columns of panels. I hope you understand a bit better now.
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{A cut off title panel showing half of Garfield, with the text: "Field"}
{Garfield looking out a window where two men are arguing about a car accident}
Man: Yabba! Yabba! Yabba!
Odie: {in the house with Garfield} Urf.
==Later references==
The series concludes with 186: Garfield Cross Section C.
Category:David Atwell
1853: Metajoke Garfield 2

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon remarked that sports were a big part of his life, the punchline having him elaborate "being bad at them, I mean." This edit simply changes his remarks to insult the comic's lack of humor.
==The author writes:==
The change in setup more or less suggested itself.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Humor has always been an important part of this strip. 
{Garfield looks confused.} 
Jon: Being bad at it, I mean. 
Garfield: Okay.
Category:Jabs
Category:Lubaf
Category:Meta humor
1857: Spot the Difference with Garfield & Liz

==Explanation==
Another "Spot the Difference" comic, this time with the repeated joke in question going as follows: Character A asks Jon "penny for your thoughts", Jon reveals his biologically improbable and generally idiotic thoughts, and Character A offers him a full dollar if he stops talking about it. 
The author's note discusses an underlying issue with the latter comic; Liz plays the role of the straight man, which Garfield has traditionally held (even in the strip right above it), and Garfield contributes little to the joke. It then proceeds to wonder if Jon needs two straight men to counteract his personality.
==The author writes:==
Looking past the whole "recycling jokes" bit, it strikes me how little Garfield himself speaks in the 2014 strip. Given that Liz takes his place, I wondered: how necessary is Liz in this setting? Garfield generally plays straight man to Jon at home, while Liz does so at her office or, in later strips, on a date - does Jon really need two straight men? I'll leave it up to you to debate that among yourselves.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Jon are sitting down at a table; the former is smiling} 
Garfield: Penny for your thoughts. 
Jon: Garfield, I was thinking... if our ears were in our armpits... 
{Garfield looks horrified, or perhaps just very embarrassed} 
[Jon raises his arms to emphasize his point} 
Jon: Would we have to raise our arms to hear people talk? 
Garfield: [holding his hand out] A dollar if you stop thinking. 
{Garfield, Jon and Liz are sitting down at a table; Jon appears to be contemplating something, while Garfield remains static throughout all three panels} 
Liz: A penny for your thoughts, Jon. 
Jon: Are nose hairs directly connected to the brain? 
{Again, Liz looks horrified/embarrassed} 
Liz: A dollar if you never ask that again. 
Garfield: Thank you.
Category:BlueDude
Category:Spot the Difference
1858: Wrench Wench

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I wanted to do "finch," but since I am not a site administrator, I had to improvise.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield dances on a photograph of Winry from Fullmetal Alchemist}
SFX: tappity tappity tappity
{Garfield slips and falls off Winry}
Garfield: Okay... who waxed the Wrench Wench?
Category:Negative N
Category:Anime and manga references
1859: Vegan Garfield

==Explanation==
This strip mashes together elements from two original Garfield strips, to portray a storyline in which Jon puts Garfield on a vegan diet and brags about it on his blog. The author states that the practice would gain attention and notoriety on Tumblr in particular, and adds a warning against putting obligate carnivores such as house cats onto vegan diets.
One particular Tumblr blog eventually took notice of either this strip or the original 1983-08-17 Garfield strip and called Jon out on his practices; that blog spliced into this strip eventually formed 3826: Tumblr mad.
==The author writes:==
Promoting feeding cats a vegan diet is an effective way to gain attention and notoriety on Tumblr.
Note: The submitter of this SRoMG strip does not support the (eventually) lethal practice of enforcing a vegan diet on obligate carnivores. Jon really is a cruel, cruel man.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: {tossing a banana onto the bench in front of Garfield} Happy diet, Garfield. Here's a banana for breakfast.
{Jon at the computer, typing}
Text: 'Sup Tumblr, my cat is now 100% vegan! U mad?
Jon: {facing Garfield} My blog is getting edgier!
Category:Andrew Kepple
1866: Gone Fishin'

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I considered attaching a "Garfield's Donut" sign to this, but thought better of it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A hook on a string hanging from above is attached to a donut.}
Mysterious Thought Balloon from Above: Wait for it...
{...as Garfield dips the donut into his coffee.}
Category:Lubaf
1869: Slow in more ways than one

==Explanation==
This iteration of "Backfield" makes the snail incredibly slow - both in initial reaction time and its speech, as it only begins to talk in the final panel.
==The author writes:==
The natural continuation of Inverted Backfield (SRoMG #1673), where the snail is not only slow to react, but also slow to think.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Snails are slow 
{beat panel as Garfield smiles smugly} 
Snail: You 
{Garfield is still smiling}
Category:edderiofer
Category:Snail
186: Garfield Cross Section C

==Explanation==
This is the final installment of a series, the previous entries being 180: Garfield Cross Section A and 184: Garfield Cross Section B.
==The author writes:==
Well, this certainly has a different feel to it than the original. Gone is what I'm sure Davis thought of as a rapier wit lampoon of how ludicrous our petty human fisticuffs are. Now, it's a pastiche of violence in media. Before, he was calm; now, after witnessing brutality outside his very window, he is angry. Garfield learns from what he sees in the world: directing frustration upon the other person. (Please note: he does not learn this from violent video games or movies! It is real life that teaches him it's okay to hit someone.) Then he uses that newfound knowledge on another by hitting Odie for no reason.
This strip is unedited, except to remove all but the strip in between. I do not condone any actions you may undertake after viewing the drawings in this blog!
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{Garfield sees two men having an argument after a car accident}
Man: Yabba! Yabba! Yabba!
{Garfield whacks Odie}
Garfield: What do you know?
SFX: Woing!
Category:David Atwell