nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
4880: What's the protomatter with her

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This will not be funny if William Shatner is buried alive in the center of a dead planet between the time I submit this and the time it's published. Or if Jim Davis is. I'm really taking a risk here for the sake of art.
Alternate ending, which should not prejudice the reader as to who is on the other end of the call in the version above, is: Jon: {to Garfield} You've got to stay out of Mrs. Feeny's flowers.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is a ballerina in the title panel}
Phone: RING
Jon: Hello?
Phone: I'll do far worse than kill you, Jon. I'll hurt you. And I wish to go on . . . hurting you.
{Garfield arrives}
Phone: I shall leave you as you left me. Where no one will ever find you.
Phone: Marooned for eternity in the center of a dead planet. Buried alive . . . buried alive.
{Jon hangs up the phone}
Jon {disgustedly, to Garfield}: I liked her better before she died.
Category:Sloublues
4882: the world wide web

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {in front of open laptop}: The computer is a wonderful thing
Garfield: For instance...
{an online chatroom, on Garfield's laptop}:
Text: You're now chatting with a random stranger
Stranger: M
Garfield: g44
Stranger: What
Garfield: garfield
Stranger: Ok
Text: Stranger has disconnected
Category:hcandle
4884: Dialogue Swap: 02/02/02 and 06/06/06

==Explanation==
This author has made other edits based on strips for which the two digits after the "20" in the year are the same as the digits of the month and of the day: 2718 for 2003, 2547 for 2007, 2951 for 2008, and 2367 for 2009. Faced with the strips for 2002 and 2006, it seems his best idea was to swap their dialogue.
The author mentions writing the setting and action descriptions in tanka, a type of Japanese poetry that starts like haiku, with a 5-7-5 syllable structure, but then continues for two more lines of 7 syllables each. Why? Even the author doesn't know.
==The author writes:==
Don't ask me why I decided to write what they're doing in tanka. I don't even know. (And yes, I do count "Garfield" as three syllables.)
These are a couple of strips I chose based on the repeating numbers in the dates.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon has put his face / right into Garfield's space / just to tell him this:}
Jon: My date tried to have me arrested for being boring
Jon: And I don't even think it's illegal!
{Garfield poses smugly, / proud of his witticism:}
Garfield: I notice you're not professing innocence
{Jon is standing there / seemingly clad for a date / but he wants to stare}
Jon: I'm staring at you, Garfield!
Jon: What do you think of that?
{Garfield simply stands still / unimpressed by Jon's staring}
Garfield: Heeey, who wouldn't want to stare at me?
Category:Nyperold
4885: A very special party

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When Garfield realized that there would be pizza, hamburgers and soda at that special party, he decided to go there, although he had to make a small sacrifice so that they could admit him at that party. (LOL)
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is sitting in his chair reading a newspaper while listening to the sound of an electric razor on and Garfield whistling}
SFX: BZZZZ
Garfield: {whistling}
SFX: CLICK
Garfield: Okay, here we go!
Jon: Ready for the sphinx cat party, Garfield?
Garfield: {shaved all over, walking out with cool sunglasses on} Sure, Jon! See you later!
Jon: Okay, Garfield! Have fun!
Category:IQ-ranger
4886: Garfield gets what he deserves.

==Explanation==
In the original 2014 strip, Garfield realizes that he wants something way better than what he deserves; here, he's served with a "SPLUT!" before he can say as much. The "SPLUT!" was originally from a 1996 strip in which he started to greet the world with a "Happy New Year!" but was hit with a pie before he could say "Year", prompting him to say "Monday", instead.
(NOTE: The 1996-01-01 strip according to GoComics.com is a differently-colored version of 1997-01-01; see the real 1996 strip here.)
==The author writes:==
Another old strip. Basically expect all my SRoMG submissions to be years old from now on.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sitting, thinking to himself}
Garfield {thinking to himself}: Someday I'll get what I deserve
{Garfield suddenly realizes something}
Garfield: WAIT!
{The last panel is one big...}
SFX: SPLUT!
Category:Mr. Skullhead
4887: Adorkable Jon

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon gazes hopefully at his telephone}
Jon: Liz is going to call me!
Garfield: That's cringe.
{Garfield is yeeted through a closed window}
==Trivia==
*This strip marked the debut of the 800th credited author of Square Root of Minus Garfield strips.
Category:ODIE IS SMART!?!?!
4888: Gar-Googol

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was trying to come up with a submission for this comic. And then this thing hit me.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: 10^200=100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Category:J. Waugh
4889: A long wait for that pizza

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
aside from the way too usual "I hope this hasn't already been done" the only thing I have to say is I was considering also doing the same for Jon but aside from the fact I was too tired to bother, since Jon doesn't change in the original comic it didn't make that much sense, besides, it may make a future SRoMG strip
Original strips: , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon and 1978 Garfield are standing at the window}
{pause}
{Garfield has now become 1979 Garfield}
{Garfield then becomes 1983 Garfield}
{Garfield then becomes 1991 Garfield}
{Garfield then becomes 2004 Garfield}
{Finally Garfield becomes 2013 Garfield}
Jon: Pizza's here!
Garfield: 'Bout time!
Category:LochlannDS
4890: Linguistics With Liz: Indonesian 2

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I thought I was done submitting comics based on the Lingustics With Liz series until I discovered "Si Nopal" from Indonesia. To be honest, I got addicted to all of its videos, most notably the 'camping episode' (that's where I discovered the word "bahenol") and it eventually gave me the idea to make this fun comic out of curiosity. Also, the fever of "Si Nopal" from Indonesia had just started in Malaysia on January 2019!
Original song: "Bahenol" by Cute Girl (Black Boi Remix).
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz: Jon
Jon: Yes?
Liz: Bahenol [Voluptuous]
{Liz leaves}
Jon: Pengen pulang [I want to go home]
Garfield: I think she just called you fat
Category:Farhan Malek
Category:Foreign language
Category:Music references
Category:Linguistics with Liz
4891: Less Darker

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Guess: Why does cupcakes make Garfield horror nightmares? Answer: ¡qnʅϽ ǝɹnʇɐɹǝʇᴉ⅂ ᴉʞoᗡ ᴉʞoᗡ
[Not to be confused with #1785. -Ed]
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Jon, Odie! You're home!
Jon: Hello, Garfield. Have some food.
{Garfield reaches his food... and throws it away}
Garfield: Who needs it? I need you!
Caption: I'll never eat cupcakes before sleep. They make me horror nightmares. --Says Garfield
Category:Reisen U. Inaba
4892: The Future is Now, Thanks to Science

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It's 1987, where's my flying car?
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield hangs from the ceiling, smiling with excitement. Jon stands next to him wearing a smug grin}
Jon: I glued the floor to the ceiling
Garfield: Technology is incredible!
Category:GravityEmblem
4893: Upscalefield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It was either this or Seinfield.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield's reading the newspaper}
Garfield: Let's see what the forecast is today...
Garfield: "I came back to repay old unkindnesses"?
Garfield {failing to notice that a buff Nermal has appeared behind him}: I wonder what that means?
Category:Nikumubeki
4894: Gemfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is what it's like when 2 cartoons collide.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Steven Universe Ruby: Hi, there... I'm Ruby. I'm a human gem, & this is my roommate, Ruby.
BFDI Ruby: Hi, there. I'm Ruby. I'm a gem, and this is my roommate, Ruby.
Steven Universe Ruby: Our only thought is to entertain you.
BFDI Ruby: Feed me.
Category:BFDIFan
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Internet references
Category:Television references
4895: Andrew Garfield 4: Cliff Robertson Edition

==Explanation==
It is unknown when this strip was first submitted, but as strips have been known to spend years in the buffer, it is possible that the brand of rice once known as "Uncle Ben's" was still known that way at the time the strip was submitted; it was announced to be getting a rebrand as Ben's Original in September 2020, with packaging to that effect having taken on the new identity by mid-2021.
==The author writes:==
Like so many of Spider-Man's detractors, Jon only sees the mask and knows nothing of the man or his tragic story behind it. Peel away the layers and you'll find a very sad, broken man inside, Jon, a man not unlike yourself, so don't judge too harshly, Mr. Arbuckle.
(And yeah, maybe I should have used Martin Sheen Ben Parker as this is "Andrew Garfield", but c'mon, Cliff Robertson is who you all think of first when Uncle Ben is mentioned. Or rice.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: You should try thinking of others
{Spider-Man visualises the image of his late uncle, Ben Parker, may he rest in peace, for it was upon the foundation of his sage advice, "With great power comes great responsibility", that Spider-Man's crime fighting activities have been built. Also he's kind of responsible for his death having not stopped the crook who shot him in a carjacking when given the opportunity to in an even earlier holdup so yeah, lots of emotions running through his spider-skull right now}
Jon: How's it going?
Spider-Man {thinking}: SOB!
Category:Luke99
Category:Comic book references
4896: I think the KOFY is a little strong...

==Explanation==
KOFY has since flipped its main affiliation to Merit Street in April 2024; KOFY still carries Grit, now on the second subchannel.
==The author writes:==
Imagine, if you will, that the backdrop of Jim Davis's life was not Indiana, but California, specifically the Bay Area; and that when he created Garfield, he decided to put Jon and Garfield there (specifically in Berkeley because SF & Oakland get all the attention and it needs more love :( ). OK, that's my flimsy set-up for an excuse to indulge in nostalgia that only people who lived in the same place during the same time period would get.
This is my parody/tribute to the KOFY 20 TV "Pet" bumpers from, as it says, around 1990–1995 (though actually Wikipedia says they were used up until 1998, darned if I can remember) before being discontinued when The WB completely took over. As you can see, it was mostly dogs, but there were the occasional cats (and I also saw birds and a goldfish in its bowl). Unfortunately, when KOFY returned to being independent after The WB & UPN merged into The CW, they brought back the Pet bumpers, but they have been all dogs, with the exception of ONE cat in 2016 (at least as far as I can see on YouTube anyway). Also unfortunately, while researching to make sure I was getting my info correct for this long-winded explanation, I learned that KOFY is now the local affiliate of Grit, a digital subchannel focused on westerns, which replaces all its local & syndicated programming. Whether they have dropped the dogs again, I don't know, as I haven't been able to watch it since my family completely dropped cable for streaming. All in all I'm disappointed that one of my favorite local stations not only forgot about us cat lovers, but now not only isn't independent anymore again, but also is focused on a niche audience.
Oh yes, and I know the irony of this being made only out of 1980s comics from the time they were using this design and jingle. But I don't find that one nearly as memorable. No offense to those who do.
Sorry about that wall of text to explain everything, local pride + longtime interest in logos = TL;DR. I hope that Bay Area SRoMGers and readers enjoy this. I hope the rest of you find it interesting enough to maybe check out more Pet logos on YouTube.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Close up on Garfield siitting on the living room chair as usual)
Singers {singing}: Welcome to your place!
Text: Garfield
Text: Berkeley
{We zoom out to the whole living room, where we can see the television with an image of the c. 1990-1995 KOFY 20 logo}
Singers {singing}: K-O-F-Y
{Garfield looks shocked as the 20 flies out of the television}
Singers {singing}: TV 20!
{We then see the 20 on a space background in full screen}
Text: KOFY 20 San Francisco
Voice {whispering}: (Stereo!)
Announcer: KOFY, K-O-F-Y, stereo TV 20, San Francisco
Category:Garlene1987
Category:Television references
4897: Going deeper into lack of effort

==Explanation==
This strip is part of an effort of intentional lazy edits designed to lampoon lazy edits; as such, it reduces the strip down to one panel with one spoken line, one-upping 4704: One-downsmanship by using a stock font and ditching Garfield text aesthetics. This strip was seemingly the culmination of the trend of intentional lazy edits lampooning lazy edits, but it somehow got one-upped by 4898: nothing, the next day's "strip".
==The author writes:==
After seeing SRoMG #4704, I knew that the only possible way to make it lazier was to do away with the Garfield font altogether. Truthfully, it took me more time to write this than it took to make the edit.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {in Arial typeface}: Lazy edit
Category:Sample_Text
Category:Intentional lazy edits
4898: nothing

==Explanation==
This "strip", if you can even call it that, is a clear attempt at a trend of one-upping in a trend of intentional lazy edits designed to lampoon lazy edits. It even goes as far as to one-up 4897: Going deeper into lack of effort, the strip that ran only the day before and had seemingly been the culmination of that trend. As such, this "strip" consists of nothing but blank pixels in an effort to look like no effort at all had been put into the "strip"; this strip ultimately proves to be the apparent culmination of a running gag that had been unwittingly started by 2193: All You Need is Me; 5520: Take It To The Limit One More Time nonetheless started yet another branch of the gag taking yet more inspiration from 4160: One Even Better/Worse, a common point where branches of the gag derive inspiration from.
Interestingly enough, this isn't the first time a submission consisted of nothing but blank space in the strip area; 293: i and 3181: SCPField also each have a content-free strip, but the former strip was designed as a joke surrounding a non-existent date, the latter was a joke designed around sanitization of comic strips, and both had author's notes written to punctuate their intended jokes.
==The author writes:==
The author's notes section for this strip is completely blank.
==Transcript==
{nothing}
Category:angrybedroom
Category:No original strip
Category:Intentional lazy edits
Category:Content-free strips
4899: Mandatory Fun

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I looked up the strip published the day I was born, and decided it was a very fitting celebration of my 0th birthday.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Here, put these on!
Jon: BC56 was born today!
Jon: We're wearing party hats!!
Jon: And we're having a good time!
Jon: The whole neighborhood is gonna have a good time!
Jon: Everybody! Hop! Hop! Hop!
Reba: Hubert, I'm very afraid
Hubert: Shut up and conga
Category:bc56
48: Garfield Minus Jon

==Explanation==
In the original strip, the "psycho" was a cat Jon had back on the farm who caught rats. Here, Garfield's remark seems to be an explanation for why Jon is nowhere around.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield looking bored}</br>
{Garfield looking bored}</br> 
Garfield: I don't hang with psychos.
==Later references==
* #53 removes Jon from a different strip.
* #77 removes Garfield, too, leaving only Odie.
* #79 takes two strips with Jon in them, removes Jon, and combines them.
* #84 replaces Jon with Calvin, but the "minus Jon"ness remains in the title.
* #152 claims to have removed several characters explicitly, including Jon. (The only character removed from its original strip was Garfield, however.)
* #160 removes Jon from its original strip and divides Garfield by himself.
* #363 removes Jon, and additionally, Garfield's thought bubble.
* #494 removes Jon, his father, and Garfield from their original strip, leaving only Doc Boy.
* Similar to #84, #502 replaces Jon with Dr. Eggman, but the title has "minus Jon" in it.
* In a twist, #1840 "removes" Jon's mother (though she wasn't present in the strip) by making Jon the knitter of the sweater instead of her.
Category:Johan Tenge
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
4900: One-Sided

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Paranoid, much?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sleeping away from the mirror}
Garfield: Yawn
{He wakes up with a stretch and walks, looking into the mirror ashe passes by. He continues only to turn around quickly as if suspecting something}
Garfield: Ever have a day when you're not sure which side of the looking glass you're on?
Category:Kavviyenta
4901: Little Gemfield

==Explanation==
This strip pokes fun at the then-ongoing turbulent administration of United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss, and in particular whether a head of lettuce could keep longer than Ms. Truss could stay in office. As the Garfield strip had its own character named Liz among its roster, the references fell into place from there. Ms. Truss resigned from office six days after this strip was published, after only fifty days in office under two different monarchs.
This strip managed to be published during the Truss administration due to Manyhills's ability to cheat the strip queue. Unless an author managed to coordinate things very carefully with manyhills (as would happen with 5193: RIPee running as a tribute strip only eight days after its honoree's death), the normal workings of the strip queue would have very likely seen uncoordinated attempts at the reference published during the administration of Rishi Sunak or one of his successors.
==The author writes:==
Original lettuce: Daily Star: LIVE: Can Liz Truss outlast a lettuce?.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield {indicating a head of lettuce made up with a wig and googly eyes to vaguely resemble British Prime Minister [at time of writing] Liz Truss}: Look, Liz, it's Liz!
{Liz looks unimpressed}
Garfield: Oops, sorry, it's just a head of lettuce!
{Liz looks alarmed}
Garfield: We don't have the same sense of humor, do we?
{Liz looks concerned}
Category:Manyhills
Category:Real world references
4903: Earth Angel

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
So you're saying it wasn't a day at all?
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2021-11-02.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{the strip starts corrupting}
Jon {casually, to Garfield}: I'm going to alter the timeline.
Garfield {shocked}: Oh, no!
{the strip corrupts more}
Jon {boldly, facing away from Garfield}: I'm gonna do it!
Garfield {terrified, raising paws to mouth}: No! Don't do it!
{the strip is completely corrupted}
Jon {offscreen}: I'm erasing today!
Garfield {pointing to Jon offscreen} You're a wild man!
Category:Crazy56U
4904: Non-consensual Cosplay

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Presumably, Odie and Liz are somewhere offscreen, with Liz trying to force Odie into a Dark Helmet costume.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {in yellow, with a red dot on his cheek and some black covering the tips of his ears}: I hate Liz's new pet cosplay obsession.
Category:Lubaf
Category:Video game references
4905: How To Post-Ruin Your Owner's Date

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Finally got my usual image editing software to cooperate again!
Here's an actual quality submission from me.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I did something unusual last night, Garfield.
Jon: I videotaped my entire date!
SFX: CLICK
Jon: That's weird, I can barely see anything
Garfield: Someone sat in front of the camera
Category:limmey comic
4907: Garfield + Armstrong

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Surprise, Garfield!
Jon: There are prizes at the bottom of the cat food
Garfield: BANZAI! {Garfield dives into the bag of cat food}
SFX {from bag}: munch munch
SFX {from bag}: munch munch
SFX {from bag}: tweet tweet
{Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance emerges from the bag of cat food}
Category:FakeMoth
Category:Video game references
4908: Snarfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sitting at the table grinning with a plate of six frosted donuts on either side of him}
{Meanwhile Snarf from ThunderCats (1985) is doing some sweeping}
{We cut back to Garfield to discover he has crammed the entire dozen into his cheeks}
Garfield: What's your superpower?
Category:GreenCustard
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
4909: Accuratefield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The other SRoMG strips didn't fix the original strip because Garfield and Jon live in Indiana (right-hand traffic, left-hand drive), so I fixed it to the point where Garfield's the one who's getting smacked by the stop sign.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are driving in the car}
{Jon notices Garfield is sticking his head out the window with his eyes closed, and does that too}
{Garfield's face is struck by a stop sign}
SFX: SMACK!
Category:ljcool2006/Bebble
490: Garfy Peyton's Frying Seacus

==Explanation==
Garfield's dialogue in the second and third panels is adapted from a French soldier's taunt in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Of course, Garfield uses a third-person pronoun instead of a second-person pronoun, as the soldier did.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Odie is a mixed breed.</br>
Garfield: His mother was a hamster.</br>
Garfield: And his father smelt of elderberries.
Category:DanielBT
Category:Film references
4910: Odie's Mind 6

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Okay, I think this is getting too realistic and too disturbing. I think I'm gonna stop doing these "Odie's Mind" strips. If other users want to continue this series, though, I support you. Actually, never mind that, I encourage you to.
Run, little Odie. Run and find Lyman, boy. I'll pay for your plane ticket. ;)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Gar
Garfield: fi...
Garfield: eld! ®
{Once again, Odie is on the edge of the table, thinking. He really misses Lyman, but is trying to suck it up because he wants to be a big, brave adult dog, not a blubbering little puppy. He thinks if he acts happy on the outside, maybe eventually he'll be happy again on the inside}
Odie: Come on, Odie, try to cheer up. Lyman may be gone, but you have Jon and Garfield now. You've got to be strong. Big dogs don't cr—
{Garfield sneaks up suddenly and punts Odie off the table}
SFX: KICK!
Odie: HEY!! Ugh, not again!
{After Odie crashes onto the floor, Garfield stares down at him}
Garfield: Ooo... I bet that hurt
Odie {down below}: Seriously? After all these years he decides to come to his senses?
{Garfield exits stage left}
Odie: After all these years, he finally realizes that being kicked off the table hurts like heck?
Odie: Well, it's about time!! Maybe this will be the day he starts being nicer to me... {notices Garfield is returning with a huge pot of daisies} Hey, what's he doing with that flowerpot???
{Garfield drops the flowerpot directly onto Odie's head, staining his yellow fur with dirt, petals... and blood}
Garfield {cheerfully "calling out" to Odie}: Get well soon!
Odie: AGH!!!! I've got glass shards stuck in my eyes and in my nose and in my face! Oh, where's Lyman when you need him?! WAAAHH!
Category:Muchacho1994