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3038: Science, duuuude.

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When I saw the original strip again yesterday, I started wondering why Jon was telling his cat random science facts, and what even prompted him to do so in the first place. Also, if this weren't a comic, Garfield wouldn't care anyway; even in the strip, he usually only has the mental capacity to care about eating, sleeping, and abusing everyone around him. You could tell him "Did you know water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen?" or "Did you know the diameter of the moon is 2,159 miles [3,474 km]?" and get the same blank stare. Thus, I updated the strip to reflect this.
Original strips: , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, {Garfield looks at Jon} did you know everything evolves from a lower life form?
Garfield: ?
{Sadly, cats don't understand biology, so Garfield leaves to go do something else.}
Garfield: I'm hungry.
{Jon watches Garfield walk away with a "Well, that was pointless" look}
Category:Muchacho1994
3039: Visual Punchline

==Explanation==
The author put Garfield's thought bubble in the third panel into the second panel.
==The author writes:==
I keep noticing that the small circles in Garfield's thought bubbles zig-zag a lot more in the earlier comics.
Original strips: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are at the beach.}
Jon: Garfield, I wish you wouldn't keep burying Odie in the sand.
Garfield: I only buried him up to his knees.
{Indeed he has - upside down.}
Category:Riley
303: Möbius Strip

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
For best enjoyment, print this one out, then fold it along the horizontal axis, twist it once and glue the ends together.
If you are too lazy, (like me) then start at any panel and start reading to the right. When you get to the right end, continue on the left, but in the opposite row.
Möbius strip.
Original non-Möbius strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield notices his reflection in a mirror is upside down} </br>
{Garfield turns the mirror upside down}</br>
{Garfield notices his reflection in the mirror is upright, but he is now upside down}</br>
{Garfield turns the mirror upside down} 
Category:Quaternion
3040: Jon's Stupidity Plus Another Dimension

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon does not want to be disturbed by Garfield, and Garfield tells to the readers that Jon is working on a jigsaw puzzle. Garfield smiles at the readers saying that these two-piecers can be vicious.
In this strip, we see that Jon ponders with a Rubix Cube.
==The author writes:==
Inspired by SRoMGs 1303, 2551, 2567, and 2971. What if Jon tried to be smarter by doing a three dimensional puzzle? Of course, he still wouldn't be able to handle the most basic kind.
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Jon: I don't want to be disturbed!
Garfield: Jon's working on a Rubik's Cube. 
{Jon ponders over a 1x1x1 Rubik's Cube} 
Garfield: Those one-by-ones can be vicious.
Category:DarthAlex314
3041: Ball Reversal

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Odie gets excited when Garfield waves a small round, and yellow-and-green ball. Garfield throws the ball and Odie goes to catch it, but comes back with an American football. As Garfield asks Odie where he got that, we see that a bunch of giant American football players are about to tackle him.
In this strip, Garfield now instead throws a football, and Odie comes back with the yellow-and-green ball that Garfield threw in the original strip. As a result, the football players are nowhere to be seen.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is waving an American football in front of a very excited Odie.}
Garfield: Fetch the ball, Odie!
{Garfield smiles as Odie retrieves a small, round, yellow-and-green ball.}
SFX: PLOP
Garfield: Where did you get that?
Category:GreenCustard
Category:Joke reversal
3042: Something Something Roof Comic

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Yes, half genies are quite efficient in roof repair, as they often experience roof destruction first hand.
If you or anyone you know has been prone to pirate attacks, please report any incidents to the House Repair Hotline at (redacted)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield opens the door and, to the best of Hoopla's photoshopping image manipulation using AdobeÂ® PhotoshopÂ® software abilities, sees Shantae standing outside.}
Garfield: The guy's here to fix the roof.
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Hoopla
Category:Video game references
Category:Mojibake
3043: Actually Showing the Punchline

==Explanation==
This strip takes the 2017-03-21 original Garfield strip and expands the third panel to include animals taken from a selection of other Garfield strips, including a goat to punctuate the punchline.
==The author writes:==
Simply having Garfield point out that there's a goat in the living room is funny enough, I suppose, but it doesn't make for a very visually interesting comic strip. Thus...
In hindsight, I guess this is maybe a tad too similar to , but hey...
Original strip: , with help from (the goat), (the bear), (the rooster who may or may not be Roy from U.S. Acres), } (the turtle), (the porcupine whose name happens to be "Ed"), (the plump little chipmunk), (the snake), and finally (the elephant whose name happens to be "Simba").
==Transcript==
Jon: You know that nagging feeling, Garfield?
Jon: Like when you can't remember if you did something or not?
Jon: I wonder if I forgot to close the door.
{He did, as evidenced by the various animals that are standing in their kitchen}
Garfield: I don't know. Let's ask the goat.
==Trivia==
The original strip date line corresponding to the current crediting system includes in it despite it not being included in the original strip date line corresponding to the old crediting system; it is likely due to the logic filling the current-system line seeing all links to original Garfield strips throughout the entire author's notes section and crediting them accordingly, and 1987-08-25 was linked to from the author's note proper. (Due to the old crediting system providing key context, that was the system reproduced on this wiki; this very trivia point includes the code to included the credited attribution to 1987-08-25 the current crediting system includes on Square Root of Minus Garfield itself.)
Category:MichaelSar
3044: Jon's Meme Diary

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield reads Jon's diary, then in the third panel, Garfield frowns, as he reads that Jon got his lips stuck in a blender in his diary on Tuesday.
This edit changes the third panel. Jon's Diary now says that Jon got his face glued to a blender on Saturday night. This references the running gag/meme of Jon getting his face glued to a blender. See strips #755, #774, #777, #783, and many more.
==The author writes:==
Why hasn't anyone done this yet?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is holding a book, and addressing the fourth wall}
Garfield: And now for the continuing saga of Jon's Diary. 
{Garfield excitedly reads from the diary} 
Jon's Diary: Monday: Dear Diary, the dawn of a new week. The possibilities are limitless.
{Garfield's face falls as he reads the next entry}
Jon's Diary: Saturday: Dear Diary, tonight I got my face glued to a blender.
Category:KelpTheGreat
3045: Rarfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Rarfield: Oh, boy!
Rarfield: {starts extracting files} It's time to extract files again.
Rarfield: Look at how useful I am.
Rarfield: I'm working so hard. I want something in return.
Rarfield: You should really buy WinRAR.
Rarfield: ...
Rarfield: Fine. If you don't want to, I won't force you. Consider it, though.
Category:Lukasmah
Category:Real world references
3046: And I Wanna Be Met With!

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield was using Nermal to troll for dogs; here, he's trolling for snark, in other words, using him as Snark Bait. The author does not fail to provide, as the last line of the transcript is fairly sarcastic.
The author's notes make reference to the Lewis Carroll poem The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in 8 Fits, in that "Just the place for a snark!" is something said by the Bellman to get the others on the voyage to believe they are likely to catch a snark at that location. However, it is also revealed that if the snark happens to be a Boojum, the hunter who finds it will "softly and suddenly vanish away, and never be met with again." The title of the strip combines this pronouncement with a line from the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode "Sleepless in Ponyville", in which a story is told about the Headless Horse, leading to the cliché ending "and they were never heard from ever again". Scootaloo, who hears this story, later has a nightmare about the Headless Horse. During the nightmare, she says, "If The Headless Horse catches me, I'm never gonna be heard from again! And I wanna be heard from!", thus reiterating the fate of those caught, and giving voice to the usually-unspoken desire not to have it happen.
==The author writes:==
I think you will agree that that was just the place for a snark.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield, holding a ball of yarn behind his back, beckons to an obliviously-delighted Nermal, who approaches.}</br>
Garfield: Come here, Nermal.</br>
{Garfield ties up Nermal with the yarn. Nermal seems to have grasped that this is not about to be an enjoyable venture.}</br>
Garfield: Make yourself useful.</br>
{Garfield drags Nermal past Jon, who seems relatively unconcerned.}</br>
Jon: Where are you going?</br>
Garfield: Trolling for snark.</br>
{...Yeah, I'm sure that'll be hard to find.}
Category:Nyperold
Category:Literature references
Category:My Little Pony references
3047: An ACTOR, for crying out loud!

==Explanation==
This was inspired by #1038, and the author has made his own modification to this strip. This has been based on a classic series called Arrested Development. The author included this part of it, because the scene was too long to fit in this entire strip.
==The author writes:==
Inspired by #1038, I made my own modification to this strip.
This is based on a classic scene from Arrested Development. The scene was too long to fit into the strip, so I just included this part of it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: But in this business of show, you've got to have the heart of an angel, and the hide, of an elefont [sic]
{Jon aggressively pokes Garfield}
Jon: But you've never actually *had* an audition
Garfield: Well, excuuuuuuse me! 
{Garfield does some weird gesturing}
Category:Destructible Watermelon
3048: Political Consultant Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
After seeing 2003-02-14 used for an SRoMG again, I was struck by how much the original is framed like a Congressional inquiry. Thus, this strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Mr. Garfield: {testifying before Congress} People from all across the world seek me out for political advice!
{beat}
Senator Jon: Did you recently sell a plan for a coup d'Ã©tat to a Middle Eastern colonel?
Mr. Garfield: I need to consult with my lawyer
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Lubaf
Category:Mojibake
3049: Read Labels

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I think the punchline is funnier by removing Garfield's line and changing his expression.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is chewing happily}
Jon: That's odd.
Jon: It's missing.
Jon: Garfield, have you seen twenty pounds of kitty litter?
{Garfield grimaces}
Category:PartyEscortBotBeans
304: Mr. Wolverine

==Explanation==
In the original, the dog's friend was "little", and an actual wolverine; here, the friend is a mutant called Wolverine.
Wolverine, birth name James Howlett, is a member of the superhero team the X-Men, people who developed mutant powers and decided to use them for good, as opposed to evil, like a number of other mutants. His most iconic power is a set of adamantium claws, seen protruding in from the left.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
Info about Wolverine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine_(comics).
==Transcript==
Sign: Beware of the dog</br>
Sign: And his mutant friend</br>
Sign: Mr. Wolverine</br>
Garfield: {turning back} That does it.
Category:Adam Klimowski
Category:Comic book references
3050: Gutter Mind

==Explanation==
In this strip, only two of Lyman's words has been censored in the second panel. The author realizes, thanks to the same effect as in #54, that the censor bars are making the reader think there's something worth censoring behind them, so attempts to direct the reader's mind away from that line of thinking. However, before this, he claims that the censored words were "flower" and "hand", which is not only incorrect, but also implies that the teacher sat on the flower in her hand. The actual text censored here is "tack" and "chair", so the plot of the film Lyman is going to see involves someone sitting on a sharp object as the result of a boy's prank.
==The author writes:==
Get your mind out of the gutter! Clearly the words censored are "flower" and "hand".
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Jon: What're you doing tonight, Lyman? 
Lyman: I'm gonna catch the new flick down at the Bijou.
Lyman: It's about this kid who puts a ██████ in his teacher's ██████ and she sits on it. 
Jon: Not much of a plot.
Lyman: I suppose not. But I still enjoy the movies where the boy gets the girl in the end.
Category:JLH
3052: Shinin'

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Please tell me I'm not the only one on the site who's played the original Lumines.
Also, I considered making the panel backgrounds white and orange to mimic the game field, but it turned out to be more trouble than it was worth.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2012-10-17.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield(?): World of silence, creeping sightless time
Port of sadness, sleeping flightless mind
World of silence, blinking farthest light
Road of brightness, I will get there, and shinin', shinin', shinin', shinin'...
{Word repeats longer than it's supposed to; Garfield smacks the record player...to no avail}
Garfield: Come on, how hard is it to make one square!?
Category:PriffyViole
Category:Video game references
3053: Hello, Friend Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When I saw the original comic, the classic image from the Paranoia role playing game came to mind: a pair of smoking boots. It looks like Friend Computer isn't the only one who will leave just the lower legs and shoes behind when displeased. You shouldn't have skimped on the lasagna for Garfield, Jon.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon, admiring Garfield's snowman while Garfield looks on}
Jon: Very cute. What do you call it?
SFX: SPLOT
{Jon just a pair of bloody, smoking legs with the headless snowman and a smiling Garfield covered in blood}
Garfield: I call it a hidden bomb.
Category:Michael C. Fortner
[[Category:Tabletop game references]
3054: Smack Tip

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I realized that if I switched the speech bubbles to a speechless strip, it would work flawlessly.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
SFX: Smack
Garfield: Cats are invincible
Garfield: Woe be to he who incurs the wrath of a cat
SFX: Tip
speech bubble: How long will he be in that body cast, doc?
speech bubble: About a week
Garfield: I could've guessed as much
Category:Teemu Hautala
3055: Yeech!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I originally considered referencing "Garfield Linus Garfield" (since, because irony is a constant presence in our lives, that strip and the Mad Magazine issue this references both share the month of February as a publishing month).
Then I remembered "Attack of the Memes" existed.
Original strip (yes, really): .
==Transcript==
{A magazine cover for SRoMG}
Text: In order to sell products these days, Madison Avenue, Hollywood, Television, other publishers... everyone exploits MEMES but we'd never stoop that low!
Category:Crazy56U
Category:Print references
3056: A different type of meme

==Explanation==
The infamous "constantly changing/frozen pudding pops" comic is so ubiquitous that, within SRoMG circles, it has become a meme in its own right (heck, the author of this strip even has the handle "FrozenPuddingPops"). This edit, on the other hand, takes the form of an image macro, which has captions based on the dialogue of the original comic.
==The author writes:==
When I hear the word "meme", this is what I think of.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{the middle panel of the famous "Pudding Pops" comic}
Caption on top: The world is constantly changing.
Caption on bottom: They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
Category:2001-11-28
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Pudding pops
Category:Internet references
Category:FrozenPuddingPops
3057: Test Results

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Liz has a paper with Garfield's test results, but there's some sort of error that says Garfield's blood is twenty percent marinara sauce. Garfield asks Liz how his cheese levels are.
Here, the paper with Garfield's test results says that he has no pulse, and Garfield's colors have been inverted along with his thought bubble, and Garfield has an evil looking grin on his face. Luckily the mortals cannot strike this Garfield down.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz: I have Garfield's test results... 
Liz: But I think there's some sort of error. 
{Garfield's colors have been inverted, he has an angry look on his face, and his speech bubble has likewise been inverted}
Liz: It says he has no pulse.
Garfield: You mortals cannot strike me down.
Category:Badsy the Edgecat
3058: Sniff

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon and Garfield are sitting at a table, with their coffee cups, and they seem to be staring away from each other for only two panels. Jon and Garfield's eyes go wide when they notice something. Jon and Garfield are looking up, and when they start to sniff something in the air, their expressions start going wild. Jon and Garfield look at each other with utterly disgusted looks on their faces. Jon starts to hold his nose angrily, while Garfield wipes his nose sadly. Garfield says the furnace really kicked on.
In this Square Root of Minus Garfield strip, Jon and Garfield are sitting at a table, with their coffee cups, and they seem to be staring away from each other for only two panels. Jon's eyes go wide when he notices something, but not Garfield's eyes, cause Garfield doesn't care. Jon looks up, but not Garfield, cause Garfield never looks up in this strip. Jon starts to sniff something in the air, and his expression starts going wild. Garfield's expression never changes in this strip. Jon starts to look at Garfield with an utterly disgusted look, but Garfield doesn't look at Jon, cause Garfield doesn't seem to matter. Jon and Garfield continue to stare away from each other, looking in the opposite directions.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield sat at table, staring away from each other}
{Jon and Garfield sat at table, staring away from each other}
{Jon's eyes go wide, he notices something. Garfield oblivious.}
{Jon looks up, sniffing something in the air. Garfield oblivious.} 
{Jon sniffs, expression goes wild. Garfield oblivious.}
{Jon looks at Garfield, look of utter disgust on his face. Garfield oblivious.}
{Jon and Garfield look in opposite directions. Garfield oblivious.}
Category:Rand al'Thor
3059: My Birthday Strip Is Ruined

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A blue Garfield with brown eyes, a purple nose, and pink lips is leaning against a red fence (which as "Jim Davis 1-4-92" written on it) on a beige sidewalk.}
{Still leaning against the red fence, the blue Garfield reacts in agony, producing bright green irises, and clenching his orange teeth.}
{We pull back to reveal a magenta-eared green dog, also with brown eyes, orange teeth, and a purple nose, clenching Garfield's tail. The dog is leaning against the red fence, which has a dark green sign that reads "Beware of Dog" - all against a bright green sky with a purple tree in the background.}
Category:Michael Jacoby
305: Hey Evelyn, Nice Shot

==Explanation==
In the original strip from 2005-01-15, Jon's musings are followed by Garfield speculating that it happened while they were taking their nap. Jon was, of course, not shot. This is the strip processed by Dan Walsh for January 15, 2002.
Garfield's image and thought balloon comes from the Garfield strip for 2002-05-02, in which a weary Jon wants Evelyn to say she'll go out with him; when she is implied to have, he wants confirmation that she's not just saying that... only to find out that she is.
Here, Jon is shot at from above the strip. The border around the first panel protects him, but by the time of the second panel, it's not there, and the bullet finds its mark in Jon's head. Garfield's comment then becomes darkly literal.
The strip's title, in addition to being a rephrasing of Garfield's line in the original strip, is likely a reference to the song Hey Man, Nice Shot by the band Filter.
==The author writes:==
That middle panel, always without a border, it is not only a bad idea, it can also be quite dangerous.
Original strip: . Based on original Garfield Minus Garfield: 2002-01-15.
==Transcript==
SFX: ping! {A stone or bullet bounces off the top of the comic panel border}</br>
Jon: I thought I was going to have fun today.</br>
SFX: thunk!! {The next shot enters the middle panel, since it has no border, and pierces Jon through the head}</br>
Garfield: Nice shot, Evelyn!
Category:tudza
3060: Hatfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A pretty minor edit - I just replaced one drawing of a hat with another.
At least Sanjay KulkaÄek knows how to draw snakes properly.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Phobias are funny things
{A snake enters the panel}
Garfield: I am absolutely fearless, except where spiders are concerned
{Garfield turns to face the snake}
Garfield: Hello, snake
{Garfield batters the snake}
Garfield: How are you?
{Garfield embraces the snake}
Garfield: Isn't that strange? Spiders scare me, but snakes don't scare me
{A drawing of a hat - Antoine de Saint ExupÃ©ry's Drawing Number One}
Hat: Now snakes scare me.
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript and author's notes were hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript and author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Manyhills
Category:Art references
Category:Mojibake
3061: wakeupwiththekingfield.

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Even though he gave him food, even Garfield doesn't like The Burger King.
The punchline is my favorite SRoMG punchline*.
*[Ed: I guess it's all been downhill since then...]
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is walking along.}
{Garfield walks by a window, and sees that The Burger King is in it.}
{Garfield is now by Jon, and has a burger.}
Garfield: Have we dynamite?
Category:Mr. Skullhead
Category:Real world references
3062: Garfiel Shoppe

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The colors and patterns of the original strip reminded me of this album art.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: We need a change
{Jon leaves}
{The room is now the album art of Floral Shoppe by Macintosh Plus}
Jon?: How's that?
Garfield?: It's a start
Category:ShyTenda
Category:Music references