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5438: Garfield Plus Updated Astronomy

==Explanation==
This strip was made to coincide with the total solar eclipse that ran on that date along most of its path; as the author's notes state, Garfield's setting of Muncie, Indiana was on the path of totality, occurring at roughly 3:10 PM EDT (daylight saving time was in effect in the United States at the time of the event, thus placing Muncie on UTC -4 at that point). This strip exaggerates the effect of the eclipse, making it look like it fully affects the inside of the Arbuckle household.
==The author writes:==
Per NASA's website, Muncie, IN is on the path of totality.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A completely black panel}
Jon {shocked}: Was that an eclipse?
Jon {contented}: Yes
{Garfield walks silently by}
Category:Manyhills
Category:Real world references
5439: Garfield Plus A Better Nightmare

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Fixing a good example of why 2023 Garfield is mediocre.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Stylistic "Garfield" title panel}
{Garfield is in shock}
Garfield: Steady, Garfield, there must be a good reason why the house is empty
{Garfield checks a window}
Garfield: Jon must be at the grocery
{Outside view of Jon's house, boarded up due to lack of care. There is a sign near the entrance of the house}
Sign: For Sale
{After Garfield checks the now broken windows, Garfield sees a photo of himself, Jon, and Odie}
Garfield: My home has been abandoned. No one has lived here for years!
{Closeup of Garfield's shocked face}
Garfield: But that means... I haven't lived here for years!
{Garfield finds a bright light that suddenly turns purple}
Garfield: What's that?!
{Garfield wakes up to find that it's just a nightmare}
Garfield: Whoa! Worst nightmare ever!
Category:Darkbross
5441: Garmfeild

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was inspired by 1. the idea of a really simple Garfield comic and 2. Gramfel by John Cullen. Also with the rate we're headed for with Garfield this is what it'll look like in a century or two.
==Transcript==
Johm: Garmfeild I am lonely
Garmfeild: Lasanga
Category:CanadianShark26
Category:No original strip
5443: Dedenne Flowers

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
After seeing strip #2745, I thought it would be best to combine it with #2190.
Ha! Let's see somebody try to do that with #2320!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon, wearing a tartan jacket, bow tie and novelty flower, leans back in shock from a claw-bearing Garfield}
Garfield: This is one of those clawing paws
Jon: This is one of those squirting flowers
{Jon leaves}
Garfield {suddenly replaced by Dedenne}: Can you say "Dedenne"?
Category:Redgreen
Category:Video game references
5444: Fry Makes a SRoMG Strip

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Futurama stills are from S2E15 "The Problem with Popplers". Limited Edition UltraPurple™ Happy Fun Malibu™ GigantiFurby™ (surfboard and Dreamhouse™ sold separately) is from the future (and also from Lambsskin on official-furby.fandom.com). From Here To Eternity is a 1953 film starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra. It's a long, long way from the tips of my fingers to the love hidden deep in your heart.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2010-02-11, 2011-09-02.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Fry: Haha, look at these square things of Garfield! I wanna make one!
Leela {holding a pudding pops strip}: That's a fine idea, Fry, but they've already had nearly a thousand years to cover every subject there is.
Hermes: According to this, the only things that haven't been featured in a SRoMG strip are the first Herbie Vs. The Walking Dead reboot and the Great Furby War of 2375.
{Fry, Bender, and Leela look at each other. The Bender blender strip rests on the table}
Doorbell: Ding
Garfield {bad font}: wow it is great living in 2375 nohting bad ever happensBENDER IS GREAT
Doorbell: Ding
{Garfield opens the door to find a bloody Furby standing there}
Furby {bad font}: I am here to do a war!!!
Garfield {bad font}: oh no!!!!
SFX: POW!
Category:Sloublues
Category:Photo comics
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
Category:Real world references
Category:Television references
5445: Garfield Minus Proper English

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I thought it would be funny to do this.
And I was right.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Always only convey that hungry cat dinner is almost ready
{Garfield walks into frame}
Garfield: One thing smells well, what is it?
Jon: Myself'm moving to baked lasagna, garfield. Will you wanna helped?
Garfield: Let my intelligent around it of that min. Sure!
Jon: First our'll brown hamburger the taking tomato sauce and seasonings
Garfield: Myself'd better look conditionally to that stuff fresh
Jon: Then our'll the scoop ricotta, the slice mozzarella and the grate parmesan
Garfield: Myself'd better look conditionally to that stuff don't fresh
Jon: Next, our'll laid that bed for noodles the on pan
{Garfield's thought box is an illegible mess}
Jon: And currently our'll baked it of individual hour upon 375 degrees
Jon: Gee, this recipe never did create highly lasagna
Garfield: It apparently never did to take sampling onto account
Category:MrGenie151
5446: It's Always Sunny in Garfield's House

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
After misreading SRoMG #5306, I thought Jon and Garfield's lines were switched. After realizing my mistake, I figured I might as well turn it into a strip.
Apparently Garfield just loves the weather.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Everything is your fault
Jon: Well...
Jon: Nobody's perfect!
Garfield: Except the weather
Category:GravityEmblem
5447: Problem Solver

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
You have to hand it to Garfield, he is very good about coming up with creative ways to solve problems. You would expect him to eat the donuts, but it looks like he found something (or someone) to eat instead.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Jon looking at a plate between them filled with donuts}
Jon: I like glazed, but the chocolate is good, too. Ooh, and I love jelly-filled! It's just so hard to decide!
SFX: SNARF
{Garfield eating something with his cheeks puffed out and presumably filled with something}
Garfield {thinking}: Problem solved
{Jon is gone}
Category:Michael C. Fortner
5448: It's a Pillow, It's a Pet

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I made this strip in response to the fact that Garfield will be getting his own Pillow Pet. Now, this may seem rather insignificant at first, but for me, this is a big event. It seems ever since being acquired by Nickelodeon, Garfield has seen quite the resurgence in merchandising; it's hard to believe that just a few years ago Garfield merchandise was rather few and far between.
For those wondering, Pillow Pets are stuffed animals that have a Velcro latch that, when detached, allows it to fold out into a comfortable pillow. They became a crucial element of early 2010s culture thanks to their neverending advertising presence. As of me writing this (early January 2024) the Garfield version is still up for pre-order. Yes, I've pre-ordered mine.
This strip edit, in particular, was actually inspired by a post I saw on the Garfield subreddit from user u/sab_rina1 [NSFW material in comments - it's Reddit, what were you expecting. Ed].
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {as his Pillow Pet self}: If I were to come back to this earth, I'd like to come back as a pillow
{Jon walks in, towards Garfield}
Garfield: I could lie in bed all day
{Jon is depicted sleeping against Garfield, Garfield is now in his "pillow" mode}
Garfield: And people would put their heads on my body and go to sleep
Category:Super SpongeBob 64
Category:Real world references
5449: I read Garfield, so I can work longer, so I can earn more, so I can read more Garfield

==Explanation==
Little Shop of Horrors. (The, if you're classy, but the plant's purple tongue and it being able to swivel its head is specifically from the design of the 1986 version and not the 1960 version.)
The title is a reference to the song "I Do Coke" by Feed Me (though the reference is ambiguous because the lyric is actually borrowed from a 1990 PSA). "Feed me," of course, is wot the plant says in those movies, and there's also the song named "Feed Me" in the musical and the later movie.
The author's note is a reference to the rewritten ending of the 1986 movie which famously blew chunks.
The clever and astute will notice this comic is frivolous in its concept because Twoey explicitly states in "Feed Me" his food "must be human." Additionally, plants don't eat cats in real life.[original research?]
See also 973: Large Petshop of Horrors. And maybe 3195: Carnivorous Plant and 1482: Munch Munch. Freak.
==The author writes:==
Meanwhile, Jon gets rich by killing 2 people, then runs away with Liz to fantasy suburbia and everything turns out fine yay.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is standing next to a plant with a large bulb}
Garfield: They say it's good for plants to talk to them
{The bulb starts facing him}
{The bulb opens up, revealing a tongue and a row of teeth. Garfield is shocked}
Plant: You're delicious
Category:Wibi
Category:Long titles
544: Zalgo Garfield

==Explanation==
Zalgo (NSFW link) is an Internet meme concerning an unknown, eldritch entity that affects cartoons & comics and causes all sorts of creepy stuff to occur; usually, it manifests in insanity, massive amounts of corrupted text, and people bleeding black liquid from their eyes. It was originally created by prominent Something Awful member Shmorky, as part of several altered Nancy and Archie comics. This comic actually predates SRoMG by quite some time, likely having been created during part of the initial "rush" (such as it was).
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
Admin note: Playing on the Zalgo meme. This strip was originally submitted anonymously by a reader who found it somewhere on the net. I have since tracked down and contacted the original author, who was delighted to have his work shown here.
==Transcript==
{Jon reads a book. A cookie jar is on the table near him}
Cookie jar: He comes.
{Jon's eyes start bleeding}
Jon: Zalgo.
{A tentacle emerges from the cookie jar...}
==Trivia==
* It wasn't until early 2015 that the aforementioned discovery came about; as detailed in the third installment of this series, someone finally noticed the "evilscary" watermark in the first panel. As such, the admin note originally read "More anonymous weirdness. Playing on the Zalgo meme."
==Later references==
This strip managed to get an impressive eight sequels: #578, #2088, #2118, #2140, #2198, #2231, #2301, and #2356.
Category:Anonymous
Category:Rob Leigh
Category:Zalgo Garfield
5450: Playing With Fire

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
As soon as I saw SRoMG #4636, I knew immediately what I had to do.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon tosses Garfield a carrot}
Jon: Here's a carrot for your diet, Garfield. You know what to do with it
{Garfield sits blankly for a panel}
{In panel three, Garfield sits blankly, while the carrot is on fire}
Category:Lubaf
5451: Garfield from around the world

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon was taking a bath, and Garfield was telling Jon that Stretch needed a bath as well. Odie joined in, then the mailman wanted Jon to sign for the package, and finally the paperboy threw the paper at Jon. Jon then screamed out to the world that he was taking a bath and Hubert thinks he was joking as Reba heard Jon's scream. 
The author edited it to make this strip a multilingual strip, with each line in a different language. Based on an analysis via both Bing Translator and Google Translate, possible language identities for each line are as follows:
*Jon's first line: Arabic
*Garfield's line: Bosnian (Bing) or Croatian (Google)
*The mailman's line: Malay
*The paperboy's line: Portuguese (implied Brazilian dialect by Bing; Google doesn't differentiate between Brazilian and European dialects)
*Jon's second line: Afrikaans
*Reba's line: Russian
*Hubert's line (mistakenly named "Hurbert"): Haitian Creole
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: صباح الخير القط اورانج
Garfield: Kadu vode će očistiti moj gumeni
Mailman: Beri aku Surat Kuasa Wakil
Paperboy: Grande cabeça
Jon: Ek skree vir enige soort van kameraadskap
Reba: Я хочу кое-что.
Hurbert: se pou m' fè dan m' tann
Category:Simon Winters
Category:Foreign language
5452: Jon Is Nonplussed

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The original strip ended with Jon's usual eyelids drooped in mild disgust, but that would imply he knows what Garfield is thinking. As that isn't possible, it made more sense he'd just continue staring wide-eyed and nonplussed at his cat's unusual gesticulations, never realizing he had ever been callously dismissed for his efforts.
BONUS STRIP: Here's how it looks if Jon CAN read Garfield's thoughts, yet of course to anyone observing in-universe all they'd see is a cat with weird gesticulations and an owner with eyelids drooped in mild disgust:
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is apathetic, Jon is nonplussed}
Garfield: Jon, it has occurred to me that I have never thanked you for all that you do for me
{Garfield is happy, Jon is nonplussed}
Garfield: So I just want to say...
{Garfield is apathetic, Jon is nonplussed}
Garfield: That I don't plan to
Category:Luke99
5453: Charliefield the Garficorn

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Kind of surprised this edit hasn't been done yet. I enjoy Charlie the Unicorn (by FilmCow Studios), and in the second episode, some weird, green seal with a Santa hat tells Charlie to put a banana in his ear, before exploding. Well, sings the instructions to him.
In 2021, they added a final, multi-part episode, wrapping up the 16-year-old series. The second episode was in 2008, so seven years after this Garfield strip was published.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {having tripped Jon}: You're the Banana King, Jon!
Jon {face-down, with banana in his ear}: ... I'm the Bonana King ...
Category:Soot-Stained
Category:Internet references
5454: Garfield Suffers From Success

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
'Sold out', of course, meaning both that he has licensed his image so extensively that even his reflection in a mirror is become a platform for sales - and, in the sense that the image has proved so popular that he is not even able to procure himself a copy for the strip. Maybe a bit absurd and dystopian...
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2023-02-12, 2023-10-29.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks along a wall, where a mirror is propped against the skirting-board}
{Garfield stops to regard himself in the mirror; the mirror displays the notice 'Sorry! Product temporarily unavailable; check back later!'}
{Garfield turns to face the audience}
Garfield: Oh no, I sold out
Category:Linguanaut
5455: Odie reverse function

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Casual "opposite of the original comic" edit.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Odie and furniture are wrinkled}
{Odie is replaced by Jon and Garfield}
{Jon and Garfield are wrinkled, the furniture is no longer wrinkled}
Jon: Why isn't everything wrinkled?
Garfield: It's called "The Eido Effect"
Category:Uminermal
5456: Sunday Every Day: Dead Spiders

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Garfield squishes a lot of spiders, so giving this strip the "Sunday Every Day" treatment made sense to me.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield sees a spider on the table}
Spider: You squished my mother! You squished my father!
Spider: You squished my brother! You squished my sister! You squished my sister! You squished my sister! You squished my brother! You squished my sister!
Spider: You squished my brother! You squished my brother! You squished my sister! You squished my sister! You squished my brother! You squished my sister!
Spider: You squished my sister! You squished my sister! You squished my brother! You squished my sister! You squished my cousin! You squished my sister!
Spider: You squished my cousin! You squished my uncle! You squished my aunt! You squished my cousin! You squished my aunt! You squished my cousin!
Spider: You squished my uncle! You squished my cousin! You squished my aunt! You squished my uncle! You squished my cousin! You squished my cousin!
Spider: You squished my brother! You squished my brother! You squished my sister!
Garfield {readying a newspaper}: Let's hope he's the last of the line
Category:Cesium Lightning
5457: Sorry In Advance

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
And then Garfield turned the whole planet into a pumpkin. The End.
I wasted my time making this. I sincerely hope reading this wastes your time, too.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is standing on a table bored and is holding a pumpkin in his paws}
Off-panel character: WOW!
{Garfield hears what has just been said. He opens his eyes wide and looks at us in panic}
Off-panel character: LOOK AT THAT BIG, FAT, ORANGE—
{The off-panel character is revealed to be Jon, who is very interested in this sight}
Jon: Cat
{Garfield doesn't believe it. The joke has built up and then it ended badly? Not a good omen by my standards}
Garfield: Oh no, what have you done?
Category:limmey comic
5458: another darn comic

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The 8-bit character is Commander Keen, from a early game series by id Software, who would later make such classics as DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D.
The lyrics that Jon is singing are from an early unreleased song by "Weird Al" Yankovic titled "Orgy On My Own".
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Title panel: Jon, Liz, Odie, and Nermal are sitting on the couch, looking annoyed, as Garfield presses his face right up against the TV screen}
TV: Square Root of Minus Garfield
{Garfield looks miserably at a plate of mostly green vegetables}
Jon {accompanying himself on the accordion}: So I'm gonna buy a Hustler and a six pack of beer...
Garfield {hurriedly eating}: OK, I'll eat my vegetables, just... don't continue!
{Commander Keen flashes a smile and a thumbs-up}
Caption: Commander Keen says: You've Got To Eat Your Vegetables!
Caption: THE END
Category:Patryk Kornatowski
Category:Video game references
5459: Garfield plus U.S. Acres

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original U.S. Acres strip: 1987-01-06.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: What are you?
Roy: I'm a rooster
Garfield: What do you do?
Roy: I wake you up at the crack of dawn
Jon: I didn't hear the rooster this morning
Garfield: I imagine it's tough to crow with baling twine tied around one's beak
Orson: What happened?
Roy {with beak tied}: Narwield nied my meek
==Trivia==
The U.S. Acres strip in question has been preserved on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here.
Category:Reisen U. Inaba
Category:U.S. Acres
5460: This One's A Cat

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield attracted human women. In this edit, Garfield's admirers are ponies from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. What this says about the kind of women Jon's been attracting is unclear.
The title is a play on a song from the episode "Hearts and Hooves Day", which is about a holiday of the same name that is analogous to Valentine's Day. In it, the Cutie Mark Crusaders -- Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle -- attempt to find a suitable "special somepony" for their teacher, Cheerilee. The song follows their search as they eliminate various males from the running (notably, the thought of a female for another female doesn't even cross their minds) accompanied by the line "This one's (too old/too tall/whatever)". They eventually find that all of the ones who would be worthy of her already have one... except Apple Bloom's big brother, Big Macintosh. Hilarity ensues as the three try to get them together with magic... and then try to keep them apart after they find out why it's a bad idea to use magic for such things.
The use of ponies in the first place was probably inspired by the "GALLOP GALLOP GALLOP" in the second panel. One parameter that the author seems to have used in determining which ponies to use is having one pony from each type: Golden Harvest, an earth pony; Merry May, a pegasus; and Twinkleshine, a unicorn.
The image of Golden Harvest is from "Games Ponies Play", during the scene in which the main characters are waiting for the call to board the train home.
The image of Merry May is from "Lesson Zero", in which Twilight Sparkle realizes she's not sent a friendship report to Princess Celestia in a week, and, under the impression that one must be sent every seven days, sets out to find a friendship problem. Upon failing to do so, she decides to cause one by enchanting a doll such that anyone who sees it wants it more than anything. She had intended to cause a fight between the Cutie Mark Crusaders and then dispel the spell, pretending that she'd taught them a friendship lesson. Unfortunately, other ponies caught sight of the doll, and a massive magic-induced fight for the doll ensued, with ponies under the influence of the spell marked with traditional heart shape in their eyes.
The image of Twinkleshine is from "Friendship is Magic, Part 1", after Twilight Sparkle was surprised by the ponies in the library tree in which she was staying during her Princess-assigned duties relating to the upcoming Summer Sun Celebration.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
Pony images from the Friendship is Magic wiki and Derpibooru.
==Transcript==
{Garfield applies aftershave}
Garfield: Jon says this aftershave is supposed to attract women
SFX: GALLOP GALLOP GALLOP
{Hearing the sound, Garfield turns his head... and is nuzzled by Golden Harvest as Twinkleshine admires him, looking on; meanwhile, Merry May flies toward him, love hearts in her eyes. Garfield isn't pleased}
Garfield: Darn... wrong species
Category:Nyperold
Category:My Little Pony references
5462: Expired, 2053 edition

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When I saw "expiration date", I knew what had to be done.
[See also #2253. -Ed]
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2015-03-28.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon rests his chin lackadaisically on his hand}
Jon: Treats...
Jon: Some cats read expiration dates
{Garfield looms in the background, having just taken a bite of an evidently disgusting treat}
Jon: And some don't
==Trivia==
This strip contains a rare instance of an original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip linking to this very wiki.
Category:-NOYZ-
Category:Garfield in 2053