nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
5739: Gapftflb - remorxed, relooted, resorted adn reseividete

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
I drew this a while ago, had a bad idea about how to use it, decided against that, and then was reminded of its existence after SRoMG #5254 made its joke about the reducibility of some of the strips on this site. So I thought I would use this thing to make a joke about the reducibility of Garfield strips altogether - if writing 'GARFIELD' can call to mind every Garfield an audience has ever known... what happens when this is presented to an audience that has never known a Garfield? Would it have more meaning than 'GAPFTFLB'? I conjecture that, 'No, it would not, because that is silly' - but you are quite free to disagree with me on that.
That's a lot better than the headache-inducing Notes text I was originally planning to write for this one, I think. Here's the best bit, for reference:
:"After the recently serious of stripes, where Garfield is retooled in textile formation rather than by draught of the stripe, and egregiously the recent one in which is mentioned the TV Tropics (a wiki sight, likened the wiki sight Wikipedestrian, the Encyclistpedestrian Brittany of intranet pagers - which is ironing because Encyclistpedestrian Brittany haze its own sight anyway), I wanted to do my owner spine on the jake"
The problem with this, of course, was that it gave me a headache to write and would have at best also given people a headache to read, provided that they both understood all the references and made the connection with the obfuscated and intentionally incorrect ways in which I referenced them. Which works really well if you're writing an in-joke for a school or university newsletter in the 1980s or 90s, is a poor-to-middling idea in most other places, and is roughly the opposite of what works well as humour on the internet. But it does at least sort-of tie in with the point I co-opted this drawing to later make, and that lets me vindicate having had that headache by leaving it here. For all of you lovely internet people! Enjoy :D
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2023-10-07, 2015-02-16, 2009-02-23 and the others that built on it.
== Transcript ==
{There is a single blank white panel with the word 'GAPFTFLB' scrawled in it, and a strange squiggly orange shape that might be an animal, because it has eyes, some stripes, and some other indeterminate appendages}
Category:Linguanaut
Category:No original strip
573: Christmas Lights

==Explanation==
This edit takes advantage of the computerized capabilities of the web format to make a strip that changes colors in a loop, reminiscent of Christmas lights. (Or, for that matter, RGB lighting.)
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Join us now, won't you?
Garfield: In our traditional holiday search...
Garfield: For the one bad bulb in a string of five zillion that makes the others go out.
Category:Colin Foster
5740

== Explanation ==
This strip essentially takes the Garfield in 2053 approach to the original Garfield strip by removing Jon from the original strip in favor of a third identical pose of Garfield.
This strip is the second in the history of Square Root of Minus Garfield to be untitled, the first being 1527.
== The author writes ==
For some reason, this strip kinda reminds me of the . It’s no secret that Old Man Davis and co. can recycle entire panels as they please ever since they abandoned ye olde papers and pens for these modern technologies you call tablets. In both this strip and the 2013 one, the first two panels are the same, except for the dialogue, and the punchline is in the third panel. Garfield's dialogue in this strip, as well as the punchline, are pretty similar to the 2013 strip.
Apologies in advance for doing a strip based on a tired meme, but I did what I had to do.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2013-06-21.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
{Our Creator Jim Davis' rotund orange feline sits near a table, moping}
Garfield: Life...
{Garfield is still sitting there}
Garfield: Some people make the most of it...
{And he's STILL sitting there, but hey, the Creator's signature and the date are etched onto the table now, so that's something, I guess}
Garfield: And then there are the abusers
Category:Trevor
5741: Garfield minus Pooky plus Pouka Plush

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
Sometime after I submitted my original comic, but before it was published, Destiny 2 did feature more Pouka, introducing in the Lightfall Campaign a Pouka Pond which was used by players to gain more options for the new Subclass element (Strand). The Pouka continue to be fan loved to the point of Bungie offering more recently a Pouka Plush in their store.
I had originally planned to just redo my original strip with pasting in the new Pouka Plush, but while cleaning my wife and I found her vintage Garfield plushes and I knew it would work much better to just use pictures of Garfield Plush and Pouka Plush to remake the panels of my original comic and pasting in what text I could from my original for consistency.
Pouka Plush from Bungie copyright 2024.
Garfield Plush from United Features Syndicate Inc. copyright 1981.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2023-10-28.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
{Garfield Plush finds Pouka Plush from Destiny 2 in a drawer}
Garfield Plush: Hello, what's this?
{Garfield Plush holds up Pouka Plush to investigate it}
Garfield Plush: A weird fish. A dumb, stupid, silly-looking old weird fish.
{Garfield Plush settles down with Pouka Plush sitting in his arms}
Garfield Plush: I think I'll call him "Pouka"
Category:Man Demon
Category:Video game references
5742: SRoMG is banned in Russia

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
{A scene of Garfield sitting on the table, staring at the reader}
{Garfield's head has been replaced by an Russian ISP block page}
{The Russian ISP block page, which translates to "Access to the resource is limited on the basis of the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 No. 149-FZ on Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection. Find out why."}
Category:SpiroSpiro
Category:Real world references
5743: Attempted Murderfield

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
I would say "sorry if this one's too dark", but I know there are other dark SRoMG strips. Furthermore, liver is perishable.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
Garfield: Cookie time!
Garfield: Jon's so easy to fool...
{the jar reads "arsenic"}
Garfield: Ordinarily
Category:Cesium Lightning
5744: An actual happy ending

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
I decided to put another movie that actually had a happy ending. (Not counting the sequel trilogy, anyway.) Return of the Jedi's ending still makes me shed tears of joy.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
Garfield {reading letter}: Dear Garfield, What is your favorite all-time film?
Garfield: It's "Return of the Jedi"
Garfield {strolling away}: I love movies with happy endings
Category:Jamz64
Category:Film references
5745: The Real Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, I Think

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
Shout out to the kaBOOM! comic line for being really flipping weird, allowing me to do this stupid strip, and shout out to Super Size Me for being wrong.
Original Garfield comics: August 2013 (Garfield (kaBOOM!) issue #16, "By Jon Arbuckle"), December 2012 (Garfield (kaBOOM!) issue #8, "Snow Problem!").
Original strips: , .
== Transcript ==
{open on Garfield, leaning against something}
Garfield: They say good things come in small packages. True...
{zoom out; we see he's leaning against a giant hamburger}
Garfield {happily}: But the best things come super-sized!
{cut to a man making his way down a staircase}
{cut to the man standing outside; it's the Super Size Me guy, and no, he doesn't get to have his name mentioned in this transcript}
The Super Size Me Guy {cockily}: Not if I have anything to say about it!
{hard cut to an extreme-close up on Garfield}
Garfield {enraged; pointing at the camera}: YOU RAT FINK!
{Garfield is now standing in the Void, that's how mad he is}
Garfield: Your hit-piece of a "documentary" ruined everything good about McDonald's, you jerk! I refuse to let you ruin my strip too!
{cut back to the Super Size Me guy}
The Super Size Me Guy {unimpressed}: Oh, yeah? How?
{cut back to Garfield, who is now outside in the snow, that's how mad he is}
Garfield {holding up a giant wand [just roll with it] in contemplation}: Well...
{cue blast of thunder}
SFX: KA-THOOM
{the Super Size Me guy is now a giant hamburger}
The Super Size Me Guy {conceding}: Fair enough...
Garfield {calmly walking away}: Hopefully, we never do this again...
Category:Crazy56U
Category:Non-strip Garfield material
Category:Film references
Category:Jabs
5746: Linoleum!

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
"LINOLEUM!"
Ah, that Fritz. He’s never here when you need him.
Original strips: , , , .
== Transcript ==
Garfield: Silence please, we're watching the linoleum curl
Jon: Aim a little off today, Garfield?
Garfield: This tastes like linoleum!
Garfield: No traction on the linoleum
{DINGLE DINGLE DINGLE DINGLE}
{SKITTY SKITTY SKITTY SKITTY SKITTY}
Jon: Did you know the linoleum had a pattern?
Garfield: And when was the last time you saw paisley?
Category:zerovision
Category:Television references
Category:Video game references
5747: Floral Hug! -Garfield Mines Garfield 2-

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
This is a sequel to SRoMG #524, focusing on the Garfield clone that he created by smelling a flower and then throwing it into a hole. Maybe the color of the flower in the first part and that of the flower in this sequel don't match, but I realized that the original strip has all the necessary structure to make said sequel.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
{A Garfield clone created from a flower wistfully recalls his past}
Garfield's Clone: I still remember when I was a beautiful flower before being turned into a clone of that fat cat
Garfield's Clone: If my old friends saw me now, they would surely reject me (Sigh)
{A flower grows on the ground surprising the Garfield clone}
SFX: POINK
Flower: We, reject you?! Ha, ha, ha, ha! Don't be silly, brother
{2 more flowers grow on the ground, also surprising the Garfield clone}
SFX: POINK POINK
Another flower: We'll always love you, even though you've become a clone of that fat cat.
{10 more flowers grow on the ground, being observed by the Garfield clone}
SFX: POINK POINK POINK POINK POINK POINK POINK PO-
All the flowers: YEP, WE'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!!
SFX: POINK
{A lot of flowers that grew from the ground surround the Garfield clone, making a kind of group hug that makes him very happy}
Garfield's Clone {smiling and shedding a tear}: Thank you very much, my friends! I'll always love you too! (Snif)
Category:IQ-ranger
5749: Soup Rice Big Not

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
With how many comics referencing TF2 came before this, I'm sure at least one person on this site will know exactly what to do with this.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
{Garfield walks up to a tombstone saying "Garfield: ded, not big suprise"}
Category:Tiny Desk Engineer
Category:Video game references
5750: Mesmerizing

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
We all know what this is going to lead to.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
Garfield: Here comes Arlene. One look from those dewy eyes turns me to jelly. I'd go to the ends of the Earth for her
{Garfield stares at Arlene, then... I don't really know...}
Category:limmey comic
5751: A Week in a Day 3: Literally 1984

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 5751: A Week in a Day #3: Literally 1984.
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== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
*I wasn't actually in college when I first sent this, but it's likely that I will be when you all have seen this.
Also, I found the idea of a week condensed into a Sunday underused, in that I’ve only seen two on this site (as of late March 2024).
Original strips: , , , , , , .
== Transcript ==
{Garfield is talking to a bowl of cat food}
Garfield: I don't have a conscience
Food-Vision: I know. I'm free-lancing!
Garfield: If you ARE my conscience, what are you doing in my food bowl?
Food-Vision: I took on a form you would understand
Food-Vision: It is my duty to make you feel bad about things that make you feel good {Like the college work I'm not doing for some reason.*}
Garfield: Well, conscience, if you don't mind, I'll go to bed now
Food-Vision: Tah tah
{Garfield approaches his bed}
Bed-Vision: You sleep too much {it clearly does mind}
Garfield: ACK
{An alarm clock has now appeared next to Garfield's bed, as well as the food bowl}
Garfield {now tucked in bed}: Who's he?
Clock-Vision: Guilt
Food-Vision/Guilt: On the jogging track in 5 minutes, sucker! Be there!
{Some time later...}
Jon: Garfield! Where have you been?!
Garfield {beaten up}: At Custer's Last Stand
Category:The Book of All Things Preston
5752: And you say the world goes rushing by, but it seems so slow to me

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
When I saw the original strip, I couldn't resist replacing Garfield with The Flash.
It must suck having super speed, because you perceive everything to be in slow motion.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
Jon: There!
Jon: Well, the lasagna is in the oven!
Jon {in slow motion}: should
Jon {in slow motion, holding up his arm}: take
Jon {in slow motion, holding up his arm}: about
Jon {in slow motion, now looking at his watch on his arm}: forty-five
Jon {in slow motion, now looking at The Flash}: minutes
The Flash: I failed to consider the fact I perceive everything to be slow motion
Odie {in slow motion} bark
Category:csroberto2854
Category:Comic book references
5753: Garfield as a Metaphor for the Atom Bomb

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
Has anyone heard of this little humor comic-strip called Garfield? I used to think comics were all Supermans that couldn't hold any artistic merit. Garfield shocked my world! The punchlines are so intellectual and the subtext is deeper than you'd expect. The main character is clever and not only makes for good setups but also represents the cartoonist's internal struggles! I used to think comics couldn't hold any artistic merit, then I read Garfield. hbomberguy made an awesome video about Garfield. The punchlines in Garfield make you think and the cleverly interwoven themes REALLY make you think! The "orange cat" character makes for more than just great gut-busting laughs. Comics can finally be art for smart people. Smart art, if you will. Garfield is the way forward for not only comics but art as a medium, and perhaps for civilization as a whole. Garfield is an Indiana masterpiece. Garfield
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2016-11-26.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
Garfield {partially colored in}: It's been a long Tim
{Tim from Braid is long}
Category:Wibi
Category:Video game references
5755: Garfield Minus Third Panel Text

== Explanation ==
In the original, Garfield told Odie if dog food was made from dogs and Odie was horrified about that. Garfield then thought dog food doesn't taste stupid enough in the third panel, in which the author removed Garfield's thought bubble to make this edit.
== The author writes ==
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
Garfield: Question, Odie... is dog food made from dogs?
Odie {covering his mouth, horrified}: URP
{Garfield starts eating Odie's food with a happy expression}
Category:gus mcgus
5756: Gradientfield

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
In all my years reading SRoMG, I don't think I've ever seen anyone else do a strip like this. At least, when I tried to ctrl+F "Gradient" in the archive, I got nothing. Which is weird, you'd think such a simple concept as this would have been done within the first 500 strips or so. Then again, I don't have time to go back and re-read all 5000+ strips currently published, so if there is one that did this same concept, I don't know about it. I also considered including the unpleasant gradient somewhere in here, but common sense be a harsh mistress.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
{Garfield stands in front of a bored Jon on a table; everything is colored in gradients}
Garfield: Being yellow in color, you would think canaries would have a buttery flavor
Garfield: But they don't
Jon: Go away
Garfield: Or lemony!
Category:Cartoonosaurus Rex
5757: Jar of Parts

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
Jon has put Lyman's head in the oven and under a blanket, but Garfield still found it, so he put it in a jar that says "Lyman", not one of his greatest ideas, but did he ever have great ideas?
Original strips: , .
== Transcript ==
Garfield: Cookie time!
{Garfield opens the jar}
Garfield: Jon's so easy to fool
{Then the jar reveals to have Lyman inside, Garfield feels something that is PROBABLY not a cookie}
Garfield: Ordinarily
{He runs screaming from one room to another with blood covering his hand, meanwhile, Jon is reading his newspaper}
Garfield: YAAAHHHHHHH!
{Jon makes a trollface}
Category:SamField
5758: It's so hard to tell...

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
I went through the most recent strips until I found one I could come up with a quick edit of.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
Garfield: Am I boring you?
Arlene: No, I just look this way
Garfield: It's so hard to tell...
Arlene: This is also my giddy-with-excitement face
Category:wye
5760: Garfield's Dispendious Meal

== Explanation ==
== The author writes ==
Jon is a cruel man for the photos he showed Garfield on May 2nd, 2000. I used a slightly less violent comic strip also revolving around Jon showing off photos to lower Jon's malevolence to mere passive aggression.
Original strips: , .
== Transcript ==
{Jon is excitedly showing Garfield a photo album}
Jon: Here's a picture of you at the zoo sitting next to a parrot
Jon: I remember it being very rare
{Garfield's eyes widen in remembrance}
{Jon's face then drops to a neutral expression}
Jon: Because this is me shelling out $300 for your lunch
{Garfield looks to the reader in disgust, guilt, and exasperation}
Category:AGuy27
578: Zalgo Garfield 2

==Explanation==
The sequel to no. 544 contains yet more creepiness, as a Zalgo-infected Jon (complete with black eyes, inexplicable tentacle, and blood) warns Garfield about his coming. Not much else to it than that. (Again, this strip likely precedes the creation of SRoMG, given that it was posted on another site beforehand.)
Naturally, the admin note is a jab at the influx of "Garfield [something that sounds like 'minus'] Garfield" strips that the comic was currently struggling with.
==The author writes:==
Admin note: Another along the lines of #544. Perhaps this is the result of viewing too many puns on the word "minus"...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon lurches in, with black eyes}
Jon: Gaaarfield... Gaaaaaarfield.
{Jon walks past, blood oozing from his ear and a giant black tentacle emerging from his back}
Jon: He comes!
Jon: {off-panel} Zalgo!
{Garfield's eyes and nose start bleeding and black tentacles writhe across the background, over arcane symbols...}
Category:Anonymous
Category:Rob Leigh
Category:Zalgo Garfield
57: No Time for the Dog!

==Explanation==
Garfield is notorious for reusing jokes (many punchlines boil down to "Garfield is lazy", "Jon is pathetic", etc.). This comic plays on that perception in order to set up a punchline at the expense of the sitcom Friends.
The second panel presumably was inspired by Jon's collection of aggressively ugly ties, itself a running gag.
==The author writes:==
It's not as knowledgeable as most of them on here, and takes the mickey out of Garfield a bit, but otherwise it's just the sort of thing you do. As it says, it was originally created for our main (though very fledgling) comic, Social Networking.
Original strips: Several. I'm afraid we don't know exactly.
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, we are in deep trouble!
Garfield: Why? You run out of new ties?
Jon: Worse than that! We're running out of jokes!
Garfield: What?!
Jon: We've been going on like this for so long, we have used up every possible sardonic cat/dumb dog/dumb owner joke. We've got a few more in the vault, but then we're out!
Garfield: ... This is serious.
Jon: We have to leave now, before Jim Davis appears for his fee. Fire up the escape pod. No time for the dog! We leave now!
Garfield: But where to?
Jon: Isn't it obvious? We need somewhere that will appreciate our particular brand of repeated identical gags and two-dimensional characters!
Garfield: Of course! To Friends!
Category:Tom Field+Jonathan Sandman
Category:Television references
Category:Original strip unknown
Category:Jabs
580: Yes, Garfield, That's Exactly What They Did

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield had a thought, and wondered if they'd stopped making frozen pudding pops. In this edit, Jon cites frozen pudding pops no longer being made as an example of the constant change the world has undergone.
==The author writes:==
I can not believe no one else has tried this version yet. Yeah, the comic is overused, but look on the bright side - at least this comic doesn't replace him with anything!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing.
Jon: For example, they stopped making frozen pudding pops.
{Garfield is shocked}
Category:Michael Stangeland
Category:Constantly changing
581: End of the Worldfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
According to a few different beliefs, which base their claim on the ancient Mayan long count calendar, the world as we know it will come to an end on December 21st 2012. Of course, as fully rational human beings we are certain to ignore this kind of raving lunacy and doom-saying as nothing more than products of a few minds gone astray.
But that was before I found that there does exist foolproof evidence that the world as we know it is certain to face its doom on that fateful day. As you may know it, the webcomic Mezzacotta is able to produce comics far into the past, serving as a time machine of sorts to eras where webcomics should not have existed. How it does this is unknown to me, but it is clear that this webcomic is dealing with powers beyond our comprehension. Which led to the question: Is the webcomic able to predict the future? Thus I entered the fated date of December 22nd 2012, the day after the proclaimed cataclysm.
The strip was blank, with the website claiming that the date I had entered was invalid.
I tried and I tried to refresh the page, yet it was to no avail. Fear started to creep into my heart. Are the predictions really true? Is the world certain to end on that fateful day? According to what could be considered our time machine on the Internet it would be so. I took that as my revelation, and made it my calling to spread the word about what is to come for mankind on December 21st, 2012, and as my first step on this new path, I created a new Square Root of Minus Garfield strip re-enacting the Mezzacotta strip of December 22nd, 2012.
Admin note: This contributor was not privy to the horrific additional information which another contributor sent to us independently. As a public service, we have suitably collated the relevant revelation, and it should now be clear to readers of this comic exactly what event will lead to the end of the world as we know it...
==Transcript==
{There is a table and a wall, yet no characters or text are seen}
{There is a table and a wall, yet no characters or text are seen}
{There is a table and a wall, yet still no characters or text are being seen}
==Trivia==
*This strip does not credit an original Garfield strip.
*mezzacotta has since generated a proper 2012-12-22 strip.
Category:AJ.Ä.
Category:Original strip unknown
Category:Real world references
Category:Webcomic references