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2392: Bat

==Explanation==
In the first original Garfield strip, Garfield is bored, then sees Jon with a bat stuck in his hair. Some people have all the fun. And in the second original strip, Jon yawns, while Garfield bats a ball of yarn, then Jon has a ball of yarn in his mouth and he looks angry while Garfield smiles cause he's sorry that he threw the ball of yarn in Jon's mouth.
In this strip, Jon yawns, while Garfield bats something, Garfield smiles cause he just appears to have thrown something, then Jon runs away with a bat stuck in his hair.
==The author writes==
Original strip: , 
==Transcript==
Jon: {yawns}
SFX: BAT
Garfield: {appears to have thrown something}
Jon: I've got a bat stuck in my hair!
Category:Jay Nighte
2393: Grafield Meets Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: , with elements from SRoMG #1419.
==Transcript==
Garfield: Hello, I'm a fat, lazy cat.
Grafield: What's your name?
Garfield: Garfield.
Grafield: Wait right here.
Grafield: Call our lawyer.
Category:Tye
2394: 37th Birthday Special Redux

==Explanation==
This strip is essentially a follow-up to 2015: 37th Birthday Special: 404 Error, and thus the second unofficial extension to Square Root of Minus Garfield's "birthday series" that was held in celebration of its 2000th strip. The lead-up to the center bottom panel is the same, with Odie searching for the 2015 Garfield birthday strip; in this strip, the 2015-06-19 strip actually exists, thus we see a panel of it and then Odie's reaction.
The 2015-06-19 strip would ultimately get a remix in the style of the "birthday series" proper in 2634: The Real 37th Birthday Special - Too Old.
==The author writes:==
Now that the actual 37th birthday strip is finally up, I felt it's time for Odie to try again.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Odie sneaks to the computer}
{Odie clicks the mouse button}
SFX: click
{Odie starts typing}
SFX: tappy tappy type type tappy tappy type
{Odie clicks the mouse button}
SFX: click
{a strip pops up on the screen}
Nermal: How old are you today, Garfield?
Garfield: None of your business!
{Odie smiles}
Category:NES Boy
Category:Birthday series
2395: Nostalgiafield

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield was sobbing over the locked-up refrigerator (he was on a diet). Here, however, Garfield clearly represents the author, emotionally devastated by the demise of old technology (here represented by VHS tapes, 8-tracks, a record player, a cathode ray television, a rotary phone, and a typewriter) in favor of modern devices (smartphones, MP3s, DVDs/Blu Ray, computers, high definition televisions, and so on), all accompanied by the Beach Boys song "Caroline, No" (which is about loss, fitting the theme).
The author's notes continue the screed against modern technology, noting the nostalgia-fueled resurgence of records (which, in his eyes, only further damages the CD market). (His arguments, most noticeably the mention of the "good old days", fall straight into the "nostalgia filter" fallacy.) He also reveals his... preoccupation with the sight of Garfield crying (providing a still from a Garfield and Friends episode for further context).
==The author writes:==
This SRoMG is more serious than others. I felt a little bit making this. I have this thing about old technology, and I believe that this world has become too technological. Whatever happened to the good old days with no DVDs, vinyl and cassette, and quality programming? When CD is on the brink of death because of MP3 but somehow staying alive along with records, you know something's gone terribly wrong.
I chose the song "Caroline, No" because it's about nostalgia, and it went well here. One line of the song talks about bringing things back once they're gone, which is what nostalgia is all about.
On a side note, I also have this strange thing with Garfield crying. It's not a fetish or anything, but just look at Garfield's reaction to his dream bed. Isn't it adorable? 
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
SFX: SNIF</br>
Record player: ♪Breaks my heart, I want to go and cryyyyyyy♪</br>
{A teary-eyed, miserable-looking Garfield leans against a stack of VHS tapes. A record player sits next to him, playing the Beach Boys' "Caroline, No." As the bridge enters its second line, Garfield bursts into tears and hugs his tape collection. A zoom out reveals Garfield also has 8-track tapes, a manual typewriter, and an old style rotary phone. An old tube TV with dials stands on top of the stack of VHSs and 8-tracks.}</br>
Record player: ♪It's so sad to watch a sweet thing dieeeee♪</br>
Garfield: WAAHH!</br>
Record player: ♪Oh, Caroline, whyyyyyy?♪</br>
Garfield: {in anguish} WHY? WHY'D THEY HAVE TO REPLACE YOU WITH MP3S, CDS, DVDS, IPHONES, LAPTOPS AND HDTV'S?!!! Don't worry, buddies. I'll never let you go!
Category:Muchacho1994
Category:Jabs
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Music references
Category:Real world references
Category:Television references
2396: It Can Be Hugs Time Now?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It's a terrible thing when you've spent several decades purging yourself of any desire for affection or companionship, only to find one day that all you really want is a hug.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {happily} I need ice cream!
{Garfield holds his torso experimentally.}
Garfield: No, that isn't it
Garfield: {horrified} I need a hug
Category:Sloublues
2398: This One Is Garbage

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I think I'm paranoid, since the world is not enough, but my queer #1 crush told me the trick is to keep breathing.
By way of explanation for the strip, and the sentence above.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {outside} I'm only happy when it rains.
{It rains. Garfield smiles}
Garfield: {inside} I'm only happy when it's complicated.
Category:Lubaf
Category:Music references
239: Unprovoked

==Explanation==
This edit removes "rov" from the word "provoke", making the word "poke". This is the only sense in which the title is apt, since the word changed.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: . When I saw it, I couldn't resist.
Okay?
==Transcript==
{Garfield spots a large ball of wool.}</br>
SFX: poke {Garfield pokes the ball}</br>
Garfield: {wrapped and entangled by the ball} I had to poke it.
Category:Nottoostupid
23: Garfield Zen

==Explanation==
The original strip had the first panel bereft of characters, leaving only the scenery. Of course, Garfield enters the scene in the second panel, but this edit isolates it to create a faux sense of zen (peaceful, quiet, you know the deal). 
The description discusses the belief that all existence is a lie in the form of a haiku: a short Japanese poem with 17 syllables total (5 in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third).
==The author writes:==
All Existence is
Illusion. What of Garfield?
My answer is here.
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{A single panel containing only a horizontal line indicating a table, and Jim Davis' signature.}
Category:Avant-garde strips
Category:Matt Albrecht
2400: Garfield Minus Garfield, Value Added: Blah Blah Blah

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Garfield Minus Garfield: 2015-09-15.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Blah, blah, blah, blah
Jon: Blah, blah, blah...
Jon: Blah, blah, blah...
Category:tudza
Category:Webcomic references
2401: Garfield Plus Nudism

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Another example of changing just a few words to give a whole new meaning to the strip. Here I have carefully omitted the words "never" and "loose". The resulting strip apparently takes place in a dimension where naked men are allowed to host children's television programs.
P.S. I suggest you do not think too hard on what exactly got caught in the machinery.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is watching TV}
TV: Here we are in a real factory, boys and girls. Let's see what we can learn...
TV: ARRRRRGH!
SFX: Whap! Whap! Whap!
{Garfield is alarmed}
TV: SHUT THIS @*#& THING OFF
Garfield: Uncle Roy is learning to wear clothing around big machinery.
==Trivia==
Between March 2021 and November 2021, the string "NRIILIZTV" was included in the author's notes between the end of the author's notes proper and the original strip run date. This was an element of an ARG the creators of 4745: Another Garfield Code were part of at the time, and that later strip referenced the one-time existence of the string that was once included in this strip's author's notes. The string in question was retrieved by running this strip's Square Root of Minus Garfield page URL through an archival service.
Category:KelpTheGreat
2402: Pictorial Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The idea of pictures representing words I thought helped the joke. However, that expression was added for my own amusement.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield sleeps}
{Garfield suddenly springs upward from his bed}
Garfield: Canary plus Lasagna {Represented in pictures, not words}
{Garfield sits in glee at the thought of mixing them}
Category:JohnGames
2403: Japanfield

==Explanation==
In the original, the car had the steering wheel on the left side of the car, and Jon was driving on the wrong side of the road (for American drivers, of course) when he smacked his face into a stop sign that was facing the wrong way (probably sacrificing realism for ease of recognition, even though the stop sign is the only octagonal road sign in the United States).
No. 1890: One-Wayfield flipped the car horizontally (to appeal to car design in the United Kingdom and other countries), put another curb in to make it a one-way street, and gave us the back side of the stop sign to look at.
This strip keeps most of No. 1890's changes, but changes the octagonal stop sign to the downward-pointing triangle stop sign found in Japan. The "SMACK!" onomatopoeia is replaced with the hiragana "DA-!", which is somewhat inaccurate - it's a copula that only serves to link a sentence's predicate (or subject complement) with its subject (equivalent to the word "is" in the sentence "Today is boring)", and thus has no relevance to the scene at hand. The author also replaced Jim Davis's signature with its corresponding katakana ("ジム*デイビス"), and added the kanji for "month" and "day" after their respective numbers.
==The author writes:==
I took the liberty of making the 'expected' sequel to One-Wayfield, remade with a Japanese street sign and onomatopoeia and signature. It can only get better/worse from here.
More to come!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are driving down a one-way road in the car.}</br>
{Jon notices Garfield is sticking his head out the window with his eyes closed, and does that too.}</br>
{His face is struck by a Japanese stop sign.}</br>
SFX: だ～！
Category:Foreign language
Category:Superfoo Turret Opera
2404: Turn Around, Bright Eyes

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
True story, after reading this strip for the first time and coming up with what you see before you, I said to myself "Wait, no, that's stupid".
But being stupid never stopped me before! (Also, watch We Bare Bears, it's surprisingly good.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hi, Lisa! How are you?
{Lisa sees something behind Jon offscreen}
Lisa: GUH!
Jon: It's been a long time!
Lisa: {drops her phone} GAK!
Jon: So, how's everything?
{Lisa is now trying to get Jon's attention to what's behind him}
Lisa: NYAH!
Jon: Are you still single?
Lisa: {runs off} EEEYAAAAAAAAH!
Jon: {calls after her} Well... See you!
{Jon turns to talk to Garfield... and both are somehow completely unaware of the bear behind them}
Jon: We went out on a date once.
Garfield: I kinda figured that out.
Category:Crazy56U
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2405: Garfield Plus PawSense

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
PawSense is a piece of software that detects typing patterns akin to those that might be produced by a cat, and locks the computer to protect it from damage. It has become known for the CAT-LIKE TYPING DETECTED screen it displays when cat-like typing is, er, detected.
The cat that comes into my garden sometimes would like to add, "u:Iiiiiiiiijpol#".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon furtively prepares to use his laptop, looking around to ensure Garfield is not nearby}
{Jon gets ready to type}
PawSense: CAT-LIKE TYPING DETECTED
Category:Manyhills
Category:Real world references
2406: Fench TV

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Fench TVs, made with the finest woodgrain that 1975 had to offer!
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield hangs over the front of a Fench brand television set}
Jon: Oh, by the way, Garfield
{Garfield slips off the top of the TV}
SFX: CRASH!
Jon: I waxed the fench today
Category:JLH
2407: Hug

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I saw the "wrap a hug" strip, and thought it would make a happier ending to SRoMG #2396.
Alternatively, based on the dates of the original strips, it only took Odie 7 entire months to figure out what Garfield wanted and give it to him.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {despondent} I need a hug.
{Garfield walks forward and discovers Odie in Christmas packaging}
{Odie gives Garfield the hug he needs}
Category:Xindaris
2408: Dark Side of the Lasagne: Christmas Edition

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It's this time of year, so I thought to myself, "Hey! Why not make an Christmas edition of this?"
Original SRoMG: #51.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I love this time of year.
Garfield: Lovely fire... Presents... Lovely fire... Family... Lovely fire...
Jon: Hey! Why is Odie's bowl covered in blood?
Garfield: More lovely fire...
Category:Nicholas Crawford
2409: A Good Bone

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I know this is wrong, but seriously... Odie already had a big grin in the original first panel. Who knows what he was thinking while she was talking.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Odie smiles while Liz is speaking to him. Garfield is present}
Liz: So what are you getting me for Christmas, Odie?
Liz: ...A good bone?
{Odie turns to Garfield with a much larger grin}
Garfield: No... Just no... That is so wrong
Category:Andrew Askew
240: Jon - The Prisoner

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon was sawing with Garfield observing, when Jon made some sort of mistake. Jon's expressed hope that "that" can be sewn back on led Garfield to believe that Jon had severed part of himself, and fainted, whereupon Jon revealed that he'd lost a button. This edit uses the Garfield Minus Garfield version, and turns it into a reference to The Prisoner.
The Prisoner is a spy fiction series from the United Kingdom in which its main character, an unnamed agent, resigns from his job, but is knocked out and abducted while preparing to leave the country. He wakes up and finds himself in a strange, pseudo-idyllic village run by some unknown group that wants to know, among other things, why he resigned.
Two lines from the intro to the show are used, put in the speech bubble in the replicated second panel of the comic. First, "I am not a number. I am a free man!" This refers to the in-series practice of assigning everyone a number and using "Number (whatever)" instead of their name; the main character, assigned "Six", resists this practice. Second, "We want information", one of the lines spoken by that episode's Number Two.
Despite the idyllic appearance of the village, it is, after all, a prison; if a prisoner gets too close to escaping, the Rovers, large white balloons capable of capturing, killing, and transporting people, are sent after them. This is probably the inspiration behind adding quotes from The Prisoner in the first place, though the transcript simply refers to the white section of the panel as "an empty space". These white spaces were present in the original strip, as well, highlighting Garfield's presence in the original first panel as well as the third for some reason.
==The author writes:==
Garfield Minus Garfield yields an unexpected sub-text. Jon's plight becomes more desperate.
Original Comic - 
Garfield Minus Garfield - 2009-11-06
==Transcript==
Off-panel voice: I am not a number. I am a free man!</br>
Off-panel voice: We want information.</br>
{Jon appears, looking at an empty space.}
Category:tudza
Category:Television references
2410: Another Garkov

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Inspired by Josh Millard's Garkov, the results of which are featured in a couple of strips on here, I decided to create my own Markov-style text generator, and (using Josh's source text with permission) threw together a program that applied the results to Garfield strips.
The way my generator works is a little different from the original Garkov: instead of operating at the word level, it considers arbitrarily long "chunks" of characters. To generate text, it looks at the last n characters it's generated so far, appends a random character to follow it, then repeats the process. The probabilities are the same as in the source text: If n is 2, and, in the source text, "th" is followed twice by "e" and once by "a", then "e" will be twice as likely as "a" to be appended to "th" in the generated output.
It follows that the larger n is - the more characters are considered at once - the more coherent the output gets. The first and the last strip were generated with an n of 5, so they resemble the source text more or less closely, while for the middle strip I used an n of 2, and the result is more reminiscent of Finnegans Wake if anything. (Disclaimer: I have not actually read Finnegans Wake).
Some of the resulting strips (of which I've selected just three) are interesting for one reason or another, and I've found it quite fun to both program and play around with.
If you'd like to do the latter, the generator can be found at http://www.eric-kaiser.net/garkov.
[Ed: As with Garkov, future strips created using this new generator will not be accepted by SRoMG.]
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Here, Garfield!
{Garfied starts gobbling up his food}
Garfield: All the mice. Get me a poker.
Jon: Okay, Tam.
Jon: I've comp bate high to my yout!
Jon: Is tifunnere's fring, a chom to youl gettle suit. My likend.
Jon: Yawarfield you ber ling ar le en.
{Garfield's words are partially cut off}
Garfield: Uh, justumb[...] t.
Garfield: Hmmmm.
Garfield: The Christmas decorations.
Garfield: It's here.
{Jon is hanging from the roof, wrapped in a string of Christmas lights}
Jon: My wall o.
Category:wye
2411: Garfield in 2053: Christmas Special

== Explanation ==
Published on Christmas Day 2015, this is, as the title implies, a "Garfield in 2053" Christmas special. As explained below, instead of one strip, the reader is provided with two - one in which Garfield announces the forthcoming Christmas holiday, and another in which Christmas has come and, in a deviation from the norm (as far as "Garfield in 2053" is concerned, anyway), wearing a Santa hat in the last panel. As is usual, more straightforwardness from "Garfield in 2053."
== The author writes ==
Garfield always has to have a Christmas special, even in 2053!
The syndicate thought just one strip lacked the festive glamor of Christmas, so a second part is included:
Original strips: , .
Original SRoMG strip: #1494 (with further inspiration from #2167).
Category:Pareidolon
Category:Multiple strips
Category:Holiday-themed edits
Category:Garfield in 2053
2412: Stupid-Looking Snowman

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
What I would like to know is, what genius thought that marketing a snowman year-round was a good idea anyway?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{scene: Garfield, a bratty kid, and a snowman}
Bratty Kid: That's a stupid-looking snowman!
Garfield: No, it isn't...
{Garfield's snowman has been replaced by Olaf}
Garfield: Now it is.
Category:Cody
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
Category:Jabs
2413: Garfield Kart 64

==Explanation==
This strip takes the original Garfield strip and re-frames the traps in the context of a Mario Kart game; the banana peel's graphics, once placed, are those from Mario Kart 64, and what was originally the saw trap has been redone as a blue Spiny Shell hit.
Despite the strip's name alluding to Mario Kart 64 and indeed its item graphics are used for both the banana peel and the blue Spiny Shell, the behavior of the blue Spiny Shell depicted in this strip more resembles its behavior from Mario Kart: Double Dash, Mario Kart DS, and Mario Kart Wii; that version of the item had wings and flew directly toward the lead racer (the transcript even states the shell to be flying). The Mario Kart 64 version of the item remained on the ground, traversing the course and affecting every racer it hits along the way en route to the lead racer; this behavior was reinstated in Mario Kart 7.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is eating a banana}
SFX: Munch munch
{Garfield throws the banana peel on the ground}
{Jon walks by and finds the banana peel, which looks like one from Mario Kart}
Jon: Pretty lame attempt, Garfield.
Jon: {oblivious to the Blue Shell flying towards him} If you want to put one over on ol' Jon, you'll have to do better than
{Garfield gives a thumbs-up as the Blue Shell explodes}
Category:Densetsu Bros
Category:Video game references
2415: What Year Is It?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The cool thing about Garfield strips is that it's always easy to find an obvious joke. In the original strip, Jon thought that the year was 2009 (the strip was published in 2014). I'm using the date the comic premiered, and letting extensions and alterations occur naturally.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: 1978 has sure been a long year.
{beat}
Garfield: We gotta get a new calendar.
Category:Negative N
2416: Jon's Hallucination

==Explanation==
The original strip had Jon saying the sun was shining and the air was fresh, and that it was therefore not an inside day, prompting Garfield to ask if he was implying movement. Square Root of Minus Garfield strip #1871 mixed several of those elements up, to humorously surreal effect. This strip latches on to one of the panels and makes it (seem to) happen by putting an image of the sun in the clearly indoor setting. However, as neither Jon nor Garfield appear to be burnt up, the title comes into play; it is likely that Jon is hallucinating the sun's presence inside the house. In the comments, the author laments that this was a lot funnier when he was making it at 3AM.
==The author writes:==
How did this strip come to be? Well, I was very tired one night at about 3am, and saw this strip. It was a lot funnier then. I then noticed that Jon said the sun was inside... So I granted that wish.
They may or may not be burnt to a crisp in any given second that is upcoming.
Original SRoMG: #1871.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The entire strip has the sun for the background}</br>
Jon: The sun is inside, Garfield!</br>
{Garfield is asleep}
Category:Camwoodstock & Tori
2417: Not With a Bang

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It occurred to me when looking at the original strip that there was some deeper meaning behind Garfield's body language than hinted at even by the author - the drooping arms, the slumped posture, the apathetic gaze... Then I realized that there were many strips that reflected this same level of resigned apathy. Was this indicative of the languishing boredom in Garfield... or in Jim Davis himself?
Then I started getting contemplative - forget about Garfield in 2053; how would Garfield end, if it HAD to end? With ceremony? Or something a bit more underwhelming?
Surely not like this... But who knows?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield stares sullenly at a sign, which reads "END OF COMIC"}
Garfield: Not exactly the ending I was expecting for this comic strip.
Garfield: At least U.S. Acres had a sunset.
Category:MadDogBV