nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
24: Garfield meets mezzacotta

==Explanation==
This is the Garfield strip from 08-11-2000 with Jon replaced with a character from the mezzacotta strip on the same date (though, since every mezzacotta strip is computer-generated, it was obviously not made on said date). Her facial expressions fit Jon's dialogue surprisingly well.
==The author writes:==
The and the mezzacotta comic are both from August 11, 2000.
==Transcript==
Character 22: I saw a woman at the mall today with a big tattoo of a bowling ball on her leg. 
Character 22: She wore an eye patch, and was carrying an iguana. 
Garfield: You asked her out, didn't you? 
Character 22: Shot me down like a one-winged duck.
Category:mezzacotta references
Category:Pieter
2500: SRoMG 1 of 1 of 1, 2 of 2 of 2, and 3 of 3 of 3

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 2500: SRoMG 1 of 1 of #1, 2 of 2 of #2, and 3 of 3 of #3.
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==Explanation==
Sufficiently explained in the author's note.
==The author writes:==
A special thanks to Nyperold, who, in this thread, calculated the top 5 authors of Square Root of Minus Garfield as of Feb 16, 2016. To make this strip, I took the first panel from the first strip from the most prolific author, the second panel from the second strip of the second most prolific author, and the third panel of the third most prolific author.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfields: #98, #311, #611.
(And the fourth panel of #1117, and the fifth panel of #50. I personally consider the sixth panel of #271 to belong here, even if Nyperold is (probably) not the sixth most prolific author, just for doing the legwork necessary to make this strip possible.)
==Transcript==
TV: Tonight: A special film about dangers lurking in your garden.
{Picture of a couple dancing the minuet.}
Garfield: I see I'm not alone.
Fish: Go ahead. Stick your hand in here.
Category:Lubaf
Category:Milestone strips
2501: Garfolution

==Explanation==
As this strip's transcript states, this strip is essentially a collection of various images of Garfield from over the years, starting from his earliest days and leading up to the point of submission; a lot of design differences are thus collected in this single compilation.
==The author writes:==
I think my favorites are pictures 6-7, and 15 is nice too.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{A compilation showing the evolution of Garfield's design since 1978}
Category:Muchacho1994
2502: Jon I think was his name.

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This comic was made the day I uploaded this. (Link: Cool Huh?) Unlike my last submission, which is a reverse of another comic, this time I decided to go full-on original edit. Original? ORIGINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is in the same pose in all the panels with no dialogue. Garfield is sleeping in his bed with his snoring getting bigger in each panel, and also his level of angriness.}
Category:craftersshaft
2503: Garfield Minus Lack of Sense

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield in the title logo looks like SpongeBob SquarePants. Garfield was walking when suddenly he found a bagel, and he wonders what he could do with it. If Garfield eats Jon's bagel, Jon will be angry with Garfield. But if Garfield doesn't, then he'll be angry with him. Garfield ate the bagel and there was an angry Jon scolding Garfield that he ate his bagel! Garfield told Jon that he's pleased with himself.
In this strip, the Garfield logo was replaced with money, and so is Garfield's face. The words, "I", "eat", "ate", and "Jon's" were gone. And in the last panel "Pleased with myself" that was in Garfield's thought bubble has been replaced by the colors of red and blue. The editor's note surely knows that this is lack of sense.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
[Ed: Surely this is Plus Lack of Sense...]
==Transcript==
{Garfield is walking} 
Garfield: Hmm...
Garfield: If bagel, be angry with
Garfield: But if don't, be angry with...
Garfield: What should do?
{beat} 
Jon: You my bagel!
Garfield: But I'm {colors}
Category:Nodog
2504: You're Just Too Good To Be True

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I had this as "the ham in the fridge" at first, but fortunately checked the source just before submitting.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz: Jon, why are you staring at me?
Jon: I can't take my eyes off you, Liz
Liz: Could you at least blink?
Garfield: That's the way I stare at that ham in the fridge
Category:Sloublues
2505: Horrible Place

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Well, he is old enough to drink in the Western world...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield sitting at table, disgruntled.}
Garfield: The world is a horrible place.
{Jon enters with Garfield's bowl. Garfield is overjoyed.}
Jon: Dinner.
{Garfield looking shocked.}
Garfield: See what I mean? No wine list!
Category:Michael C. Fortner
2507: Shifted

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Idea by Nyperold, coding by manyhills.
Each strip is the strip above with all of the individual pixel colour hex values 'rotated' - for example, the #B4C2FC background of the first strip becomes #CB4C2F in the second.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: We're being annoying in shifts.
{The strip appears five more times in different colour schemes}
Category:Manyhills
Category:Nyperold
2508: Garfield Minus Arbuckle

==Explanation==
As told as the explanation from 2080: The Woman Who Speaks Only In MadLibs.
Here, the woman reads a book but then realized that nobody is next to her, which makes her angry.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2015-01-28.
==Transcript==
{The woman is reading a book.}
{She suddenly turns around and realizes nobody is next to her, which makes her angry.}
Woman: I'm going to pull your ears over your head and tie them into a knot. Then I'm going to stretch your upper lip over your chin, and then I'm going to pull your shoe off and stuff it up your left nostril.
Category:Herr Cactus
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
2509: An Undertale Of Two Kitties

==Explanation==
This strip takes a number of original Garfield strips and shoehorns references to Undertale into them. The editor's note is an April Fools' day prank, implying a change to the Square Root of Minus Garfield posting rules to ensure future submissions require inclusion of Undertale references lest they be automatically rejected; a sizable number of later Undertale-referencing contributions may have fallen for this prank.
==The author writes:==
Editor's note: In response to a flurry of Undertale/Garfield strips, we have decided to make a minor adjustment to our posting rules and guidelines. As of April 1st, 2016, if your submission does not contain at least one reference to the hit video game Undertale, it will be automatically rejected.
Original strips: , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: You're the best girlfriend ever!
Jon: And you're the best pet ever!
Garfield: UNDERTALE Â· Â£6.99 Â· Add to Cart Â· STEAM
Laptop: UNDERTALE
Jon: HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Jon: What a funny game
Laptop: Replay
Jon: Garfield's gotta see this... Hey, Garfield!
SFX: Z
SFX: Z
SFX: Z
Garfield: {smirking} Might as well play Undertale
Jon: See my wallet photos, Garfield?
Jon: One of Liz... One of you and Odie...
Jon: And Toby Fox
Garfield: The inventor of Undertale
Jon: Sometimes dreams do come true
Garfield: Z
Garfield: Nope. You're still not Sans from Undertale
Liz: This is nice
Jon: Yes, it is
Garfield: HOW CAN IT BE NICE IF WE'RE NOT PLAYING UNDERTALE
Jon: I'm always looking for ways to improve my brain
Garfield: Hmmm...
Garfield: Have you considered playing Undertale?
Arlene: You never take me anywhere but this fence
Garfield: I think of this as "our place"
Arlene: How sweet!
Garfield: I'm also cheap, like Undertale on Steam.
Caption: They're practically giving it away!
==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:Slobberbeetle Offalrot
Category:Video game references
Category:Mojibake
250: Garfapteryx

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield stopped because the apteryx, otherwise known as the kiwi, is not a common sight in Indiana. In this edit, he stopped because the apteryx suddenly appeared in front of him.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Hello, tree. Hello, flowers.</br>
Garfield: Hello, Apteryx.</br>
{Garfield is stunned as the Apteryx appears in front of him.}
Category:Mr. Cavan
2510: Wacky Eyes Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Finally, an excuse to use what I learned in that high-school animation class (I'm not joking, it's a real class and it's great fun).
This is inspired mostly by the r/wackyeyes Reddit group, dedicated to archiving and/or creating weird animations involving editing photos or even live film to have the eyes move in silly ways. I had no luck editing photos but it recently dawned on me that it would be FAR easier to edit a cartoon cat!
I thought it would be interesting to note that this was made entirely with free software. I was originally going to animate it in GIMP, but that didn't work well for keyframe animation. I wound up falling back on Pencil2D, open-source animation software I've used on and off for years. I was ecstatic to find that some export bugs had been fixed, and while Pencil2D could not export the GIF directly, I was able to export a series of images which I imported into GIMP. So I then used GIMP to optimize the file. It's pretty small since only a small area is actually being animated, so the optimized GIF requires a relatively small amount of information. It all went smoother than expected and I completed the project in just over an hour.
The original strip was chosen because it's the strip that was posted on my birthday. It still amazes me that this comic has been running for longer than I've been alive.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A spider crawls onto Garfield's head}
Spider: {yodelling} Yo de lay hee hoo
{Garfield's eyes spin as the spider walks away}
Category:Connor McHarney
2511: "What Year Is It?" Plus Accuracy

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
As Treehugger pointed out on the forum, the calendar pictured actually starts on a Tuesday, which was the case in December 2009. The only month in 1978 that actually began on a Tuesday was August, so...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Calendar reads August}
Jon: 1978 has sure been a long year.
{beat}
Garfield: We gotta get a new calendar.
Category:Negative N
2513: Kiss me, you fool!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I tried removing Garfield from the strip and keeping Liz, which resulted in this bizarre scene. Note the arms weren't copied from any other strips but rather drawn from scratch with digitizer and PaintTool SAI.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz: I had tuna salad for lunch.
Liz: And now I'm afraid my breath smells like tuna.
{Jon's eyes widen.}
{Liz wobbles her hands uncontrollably and falls back.}
Liz: Kiss me, you fool!
Category:dsp2003
2514: Imagine Garfields

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Roots.
[Ed: Or this, I suppose.]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Sigh...
Garfield: Another day...
Garfield: Another door...
Garfield: Another high, another low
Garfield: Rock bottom, rock bottom, rock bottom
{Garfield appears surprised, then starts walking backwards into a square root sign}
Jon: You're walking backwards.
Garfield: I'm going back to my roots.
Category:MadDogBV
2515: MegaGarufirodo

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Fred Gallagher of MegaTokyo fame has been doing most of his drawing on live video feed for several years now, these days on justin.tv. Appearances from his cat Moofie are an audience favorite. Several months ago the potential similarity with the original Garfield strip struck me and I put this together. I have been meaning to submit it all along, but yesterday (Sep 16, 2015) Moofie passed away, so I am submitting it now as a tribute to him. The title I've given this one is "MegaGarfield" filtered through Japanese phonetics. And yes, Fred has already seen this and enjoyed it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{This is a justin.tv video feed from "fredrin playing Creative"}
Fred: Hi, there... I'm Fred Gallagher. I'm a web cartoonist, and this is my cat, Moofie.
Moofie: Hi, there. I'm Moofie. I'm a cat, and this is my web cartoonist, Fred.
Fred: Our only thought is to entertain you.
Moofie: Feed me.
Category:Ray Kremer
Category:Non-Garfield comics
Category:Webcomic references
2516: Brownie points

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This seemed more like Garfield. I doubt he would wait for someone to toss him a brownie, he would try to get the whole pan if possible.
I am guessing it's Jon saying who wants a brownie... but I guess now it could be Liz... who knows...
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I don't plan to move
Garfield: ...ever
Jon: Who wants a brownie?
{Garfield has gone from the scene in a puff of smoke}
Category:Andrew Askew
2517: Stand-In Delivers

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
They say pets grow to resemble their masters. Obviously, this includes offspring... Yeah, that's the ticket!
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Liz: Where's Jon?
Garfield: I don't know
Garfield: I can stand in for him if you like...
{TIME PASSES caption}
{Garfield looks at a human baby with his face}
Garfield: I'm such a sentimental slob
Category:JLH
2518: asdfgarfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Asdfmovie. That is all.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is floating through an idyllic cloudy sky}
Caption: He's a magical Garfield flying through the sky on a magical...
Helmeted man: Shoot it down
SFX: BOOM!!
Category:Abomagoonios
Category:Internet references
2519: Garfdust

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Stardust the Super Wizard: "De Structo and the Headhunters".
Original strips: , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Narration: The tree splits open.
{A tree splits in half lengthwise. Garfield is standing silhouetted between the halves, his hiding place revealed.}
Narration: Stardust swoops out of the sky.
Stardust: You're going to pay a heavy penalty for this crime.
Narration: In a desperate and murderous rage, Garfield rushes at Stardust.
Garfield: I'll kill you, you big palooka!
Narration: Stardust quickly transfixes him with a superiority beam, and Garfield becomes helpless.
Stardust: Take it easy!
Narration: Stardust then applies his transforming ray.
Narration: Immediately, the head of Garfield grows to enormous size.
Garfield: Ow-w!
Narration: Then the enlarged head begins to absorb the body.
Garfield: Stop it!
Stardust: I'll punish you according to your crime.
{Stardust picks up Garfield's head}
Garfield: What are you going to do to me?
Stardust: Plenty!
Narration: Stardust then unfolds his tubular spacial, and the bodyless Garfield to is whisked into space.
Stardust: You tried to destroy the heads of a great nation, so your own head shall be destroyed!
Stardust: Look, Garfield! You're nearing the space pocket of licing death, where the headless headhunter dwells! He's the hugest giant in the universe!
Narration: Then Stardust siezes Garfield like a ball...
Narration: And hurls him into the space pocket.
Garfield: Oofh!
Narration: The head drifts toward the bottom.
Garfield: Have mercy!
Narration: The giant headhunter waits eagerly.
Narration: Garfield is terrified by the sight.
Garfield: Stardust, Stardust! Please have mercy on me!
Narration: Stardust's distant answer reaches the killer's ears.
Stardust: You had no mercy on your victims, you fiend, so now you'll pay the penalty!
Narration: Garfield's head comes within reach of the giant.
Narration: The giant places the head on his own shoulders.
Narration: They are immediately enveloped in a Stardust flash.
Narration: And Garfield's head begins disappearing into the giant's body.
Garfield: Help! Help!
Stardust: Farewell forever, killer!
Narration: Then Stardust returns to the Earth.
Category:priority_kitten
Category:Non-Garfield comics
2520: Square Root of Minus Garfield No. 1 Special Edition High Definition Re-Release

==Explanation==
This strip is essentially a high-definition remake of 1: Garfield in Haiku, making use of 1200-pixel wide source material whereas #1 used 600-pixel wide material. The author's notes also allude to 268: Garfield Linus Garfield (which also used 600-pixel wide material) and that strip's infamous nature likely precluding such a high-definition remake.
==The author writes:==
I wanted to do the same treatment to the original Pudding Pops comic, but I figured that would probably never make it through the buffer queue.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2008-11-15.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Flea: Hello, I'm a flea.
Garfield: Excuse me just a moment.
Garfield: Have we dynamite?
Category:Riley
2521: Facebomb

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I noticed that, in the original comic, Doc Boy's face was nearly identical to Jon's for the first two panels. What if Jim was just a little bit lazier?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Throughout the entire comic, all characters have the same goofy smile and uninterested glare, likely excluding Doc Boy's girlfriend, but who knows?}
Doc Boy: I have a girlfriend now, Jon
Jon: Really?
Doc Boy: Want to see a picture of her?
Jon: Sure!
Doc Boy: What do you think?
Jon {with a rather large photograph in his hand}: Saaaay...
Garfield: {leaning in} That's one shiny tooth
Category:Wibi
2522: A Treaty

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A comic for the Donut Wars! I note that Garfield has eaten a lot of donuts in these wars.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Jon, it has occurred to me that I have never thanked you for all the donuts I ate.
Garfield: So I just want to say...
Garfield: That I don't plan to.
Category:bigyihsuan
2524: Satisfaction

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strips, Garfield knew what was in this stump and he put his head inside the stump. Then, Garfield gave a stump a rock and the stump ate it. 
Here, they have been mashed up to make this. Garfield must know what was in the stump and the stump ate Garfield then spits out a bone. Garfield is now outside of the tree somehow saying "That was awesome!"
==The author writes==
Your clue is as good as mine. Also:
Original strip: , 
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2013-06-09.
==Transcript==
Garfield: Even though "curiosity killed the cat" is just a silly superstition, I must know what's in this stump.
Stump: RRRR
Stump: ROAR!
SFX: Rip! Snort! Chomp! {Garfield is pulled inside the stump}
Stump: Munch munch ptooey! {spits out a bone}
Garfield: {Now outside of tree somehow} That was awesome!
Category:Insquamous
2525: Bury My Garfield At Wounded Knee

==Explanation==
This is a simple edit -- the author has simply switched the names on Odie and Gafield's food bowls, thus creating an implication that Garfield has changed his eating habits in reference to #2155, which, interestingly, appeared a year before.
The title, however, needs a bit of explaining, not really having anything to do with the strip itself. It is actually a reference to the arcade game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time; specifically, one of its levels, "Bury My Shell at Wounded Knee." This, in turn, is a reference to the non-fiction book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which gets its title from a poem by writer Stephen Vincent Benét titled "American Names".
==The author writes==
Consider this a sequel to #2155.
Original strip: .
==Transcript:==
{Garfield walks by his food bowl}
{Garfield walks by Odie's much larger food bowl}
Garfield: All is right with the world.
Category:Dr. Manny
Category:Video game references
Category:Turtles in Time references
Category:Print references
Category:Joke reversal
2526: BlondE!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Blondie strip: 2015-04-17.
Bonus strip:
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
TV: The world knows him as cheerful, friendly, kind, and helpful...
TV: But in the deep underbelly of his subconscious lurks the secret obsession for sandwiches!
Garfield: They dig up dirt on anybody.
TV: "He constantly sleeps on the job," sez boss Dithers.
Garfield: The "E! True Hollywood Story of Dagwood Bumstead".
==Trivia==
The link to the Blondie strip now redirects to the strip's Comics Kingdom overview page; the actual Blondie strip can be viewed here (limited free access).
Category:Densetsu Bros
Category:Comic strip references
Category:Television references
2528: ?comic=0field

==Explanation==
This strip essentially involved the authors trying out Square Root of Minus Garfield's own then-recently-implemented randomize button, the workings of which are alluded to in the strip's title. The three randomly-chosen strips' panels were laid out in chronological order; it is unknown if the authors drew the strips in the same order as they are presented in.
The authors had at one point intended to do a different idea; despite linking to 313: Shifting Mid-Point, the author's notes imply that their idea was more along the lines of 1819: Meta Mid-Point due to the mention of Square Root of Minus Garfield strips as opposed to those of Garfield proper (a Garfield-proper shifting mid-point based on the implied timeframe would've implied the usage of the and strips).
==The author writes:==
I decided to try something new with the randomized strip format; I took the 1st panel from a randomized SRoMG strip, the 2nd panel from another, and the 3rd from yet another.
This was actually originally gonna be a shifting mid-point strip, but strips #1009 and #2108 (the mid-point and latest strips at the time) really didn't allow for that sort of mash-up.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2009-03-16, 2012-04-09, 2015-01-19.
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks into frame, wide-eyed and with a big grin, wearing a party hat and carrying a horn}
{cut to Garfield behind a fence, using My Little Pony figurines as puppets}
Garfield as Fluttershy: Will you be our friend?
Garfield as Pinkie Pie: You silly, everypony loves pony friends!
{a puff of smoke is rising from the side of the table}
Garfield: I'm so mashupable.
Category:Camwoodstock & Tori
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2529: Simple Re-contextualization 5: Positivity Enhancement

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It's amazing sometimes how little you have to do to make a joke completely saccharine and glurgy.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Yes, I do love you Odie. Now go away.
{Odie hugs Garfield}
Garfield: I suppose this was a predictable result.
Category:Lubaf
252: Grey

==Explanation==
The strip as found on the archives is in color, with little sign of grayness. This edit puts the comic in grayscale, making it literally true.
The title uses the spelling "grey", which is used in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, and less universally in the United States of America. The strip uses the American spelling of "gray".
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Strip is in black and white}</br>
Garfield: Everything is gray and dull.</br>
Jon: I just realized I haven't dusted in 17 years.</br>
Garfield: Aha.
Category:Nottoostupid