nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
4727: Reba

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hey, Lyman. What do you think of my new tennis racket?
Lyman: What's it strung with?
Jon: Catgut
{Odie comes to a realization}
{Jon and Lyman look back to see Odie in a state of shock}
Category:Gfold
4729: Garfield kills shimmer and shine

==Explanation==
Odie has been replaced by Shimmer and Shine from the Nick Jr. cartoon series that provides the same name and Garfield kicks them off of the table. Garfield's original line has been replaced by the words "dead" implying that Shimmer and Shine are now dead.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks up to the table. Shimmer and Shine, from the Nick Jr. series of the same name, are already standing there}
Garfield {kicking Shimmer and Shine}: kick
Garfield: dead
Category:damian hendriks
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
4730: Lubaf's 200th Strip Spectacular!

==Explanation==
This strip was, indeed, Lubaf's 200th Square Root of Minus Garfield strip to run.
==The author writes:==
By my count, right now*, I have 190-some-odd strips, with at least a dozen more in the meta-buffer. So I figured I would follow in the grand tradition of milestone spectaculars: do something that's both stupid and easy to shoot out. (I'd do a clip show, but that would probably be too high-effort and high-concept to be used in something so eminently disposable as a webcomic mini-milestone celebration.)
[*at time of writing -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Lubaf: Hey, Garfield, it's me, Lubaf. This will be my 200th strip, so I figure I should put in some effort and do something special. What do you think?
Garfield: Why start now?
Lubaf: Huh, good point.
Category:Lubaf
4731: Define "comic strip"

==Explanation==
PIXLR is an online image editor somewhat comparable to Photoshop; the author's notes make mention of PIXLR not playing nice with "201_Garfield", the font linked from Square Root of Minus Garfield's Submit page as the recommended font for digital-era strips, in recent years. ("Garfield Sans", the recommended font for handwritten-era strips, does still play nice with PIXLR even as of February 2024.)
==The author writes:==
I'm trying not to do something like my #4410 strip. PIXLR doesn't accept the Garfield font anymore for some reason.
Original strips: , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield! You missed my New Years party!
Garfield: Define "party"
Garfield: Define "again"
Garfield: Define "out of Hand"
Jon: I have a special date tonight
Garfield: Define "special"
Garfield: Define "little bitty"
Jon: Was there any property damage or loss of life?
Garfield: Define "life"
Jon: Have you seen my new curtains?
Garfield: Define "new"
Category:MarioGarfield
4732: Garfield intersect Puggsy

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This was actually quite easy to make, but then again, I have used GIMP for a fairly sizable portion of time, so my skill might not equate to others.
A bit of backstory on Puggsy: his 1993 Mega Drive outing was developed by Traveller's Tales (and published by Psygnosis) as a physics-based puzzle platformer (of which there were scarcely any at the time), but he originates from an earlier Amiga demo looking slightly different, and much redder in colour.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Puggsy is standing to the right of Jon}
Jon: I really should cut the grass... but it's such a nice day
Jon: Maybe I'll water it instead
{Puggsy dons a set of sunglasses}
Jon: What's with the sunglasses?
Puggsy: You're blinding me with your logic
Category:PSI Penguin
Category:Video game references
4733: Yodafield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Probably less Jon Skywalker, more Jon-Jon Binks.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon Skywalker: I can't leave yet, my training isn't finished!
{Yodafield uses force transcend}
Jon Skywalker: Master Yoda?
Category:Calebyte
Category:Film references
4734: The horror, the horror...

==Explanation==
This strip takes the original strip, replaces the middle panel with an image taken from The Garfield Show, and rewrites Garfield's last panel to imply Cartoon Network owns the glasses. Cartoon Network has been misblamed here--all they did was import the show for presentation in the United States and select other countries (such as their Boomerang network in the United Kingdom), presumably playing no actual role in the show's production; actual production was in the hands of French company Dargaud Media with supervision by Paws, Inc., and episodes first premiered on France 3 in its original French-language dub, first premiering nearly a year ahead of the United States.
==The author writes:==
I once watched The Garfield Show religiously as a kid. Not anymore. I find it pretty mediocre nowadays, but still can't bring myself to hate it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield stumbles upon a pink pair of glasses. Odie is in the background}
Garfield: I wonder whose glasses these are
{Garfield puts on the glasses and finds everything around him rendered in horrible creepy CGI, much to his horror. Odie does not look pleased either}
{Garfield quickly tosses the glasses off}
Garfield: Cartoon Network's
Category:Jamz64
Category:Non-strip Garfield material
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
4736: Garfield Plus Tortured Ideophonics

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was reading through the archives of Zippy the Pinhead, came across this strip (2021-05-09), and thought it would be fun to apply the concept to an SRoMG. Are we having Garf yet?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Shakin' what's, mouse, hey?
Squeak: I t'nod kniht s'taht yna fo ruoy ssenisub, ostaf
Garfield: Mc ae tuh bfr tev hd ter mrig ces
{Jim Davis' signature and the copyright information are both reversed}
Category:captaingoosehead
Category:Comic strip references
4737: Dark Chocolate

==Explanation==
Jon called Garfield and Odie for hot chocolate and Garfield was standing on Odie. Here, the author colored the marshmallows yellow, erased one "ZIP" and edited Garfield's thought making him tell Jon that Odie's resting very comfortably.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Boys! Hot chocolate!
{The marshmallows in the hot chocolate are yellow}
SFX: ZIP!
Jon: Where's Odie?
Garfield {smiling}: He's resting very comfortably
Category:Stick27
4738: OD D.O.!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I love OK KO, and I always think about how Elodie's name contains Odie's name. She's an archer, so I decided to draw her outfit on Garfield while he's shooting an arrow.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Where's Elodie?
{Garfield is dressed as the character Elodie from the cartoon OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, and has shot an arrow from a bow}
SFX: TWANG â™ª THOT!
==Trivia==
The transcript got hit with a mojibake error after a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake are currently lost as a result.
*The mojibake in the transcript corresponds to a musical note, an eighth-note specifically, in the actual strip. This may imply that the mojibake was originally either a Unicode character for the eighth note, ♪, or an emoji to the same effect. Emojis after said later site recoding effort has been known to cause problems with transcripts and author's notes; indeed, incidents with the transcripts for 5301: Gౡrfiⵥld and 5302: Garfward Jonbles from after the site recoding effort revealed the current site code system does not support emojis, and the former of those two strips' problematic emojis also corresponded to a musical eighth-note. If the mojibake in this strip was indeed originally an emoji, it could be worked around with the Unicode character in question; if the mojibake was originally the Unicode character, it is directly fixable.
*This strip is the most recent one to have been hit by a mojibake error to date.
Category:Cero
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
Category:Mojibake
4739: Tribute to Arthur

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I decided that, with the end of one of the longest-running cartoons of all time (Arthur), I'd make a tribute strip. I saw the final episode and it was great. Surprised it ended after 25 years, but at least it was allowed to go out with dignity, unlike some other long-running properties I can think of...
Original Arthur episode: 2022-02-21.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon {reading newspaper while Garfield sits nearby}: So "Arthur" has ended after 25 years
{Cut to Garfield watching the final Arthur episode "All Grown Up"}
Francine {offscreen}: Read it to us!
Arthur {offscreen}: Chapter one: How I got my very first pair of glasses...
Garfield: At least "Arthur" was allowed a dignified end. RIP "Arthur", 1996-2022
Category:Trevor
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
4740: Morganfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
[Camwoodstock writes:] A strip suggestion at the request/behest of my younger brother, Morgan. This came back when the @flatgarf Twitter was still new and really big, to date it a bit.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon walks by with a blender glued to his face}
Jon: I glued a blender to my face
{Jon walks by, Garfield looking on bewildered}
{Garfield deflates}
Jon {with blender still glued on face}: GARFIELD! SPEAK TO ME!
Category:Camwoodstock & Tori
Category:Morgan
4741: Corrected Berthas in a Shady Place

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
So I noticed Bertha actually reappeared after this arc in a 2003 Sunday strip. Noticeably she was blonde there (and lost 200 pounds), as opposed to the recolored dailies of this arc where she's brown. So I fixed it in GIMP so she's blonde here for consistency, even editing Jon's line to reflect the change.
Note: Interestingly Jim avoided having her on a Sunday for this arc, despite it being over a week long.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon pushes Garfield into the scene. Garfield noticeably is indignant}
Jon: Bertha, I'd like you to meet Garfield
Bertha {while petting}: He could use some meat on his bones
{Hearing this, Garfield perks up in happiness}
{Garfield is now affectionately hugging her leg}
Bertha: Affectionate sort, isn't he?
Jon: He's a sucker for blondes
Category:Sonikku A
4742: Sentinels of the Garfiverse

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Pete Riske (aka Setback) is a hero from the card game Sentinels of the Multiverse. His power is that he is unbelievably unlucky. Presumably he's using those flasks and beakers as part of the cooking process.
(And the image looked a lot better before I compressed it down to fit in a Garfield strip.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Some people are lucky
Setback: Dinner is going to be a little late
Garfield: And some people are Pete
Category:bc56
Category:Tabletop game references
4744: Souperbad

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A simple condensation of a Sunday strip down to a three-panel strip, with a side order of turning Garfield's righteous fury at soup into the punchline.
Bonus points, one of my friends has expressed a noted hatred for soup, so this strip is dedicated to Ekarus I suppose.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon places a bowl of soup on the table}
Jon: Dinner!
{Garfield's hatred of soup manifests itself}
Garfield: Soup?!
{Garfield's ire over having to drink his food boils over}
Garfield: Soup?!!
Category:Chaosvolt
4745: Another Garfield Code

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In January of 2021, I put together a Garfield-based ARG for a community I'm in. At the time of submission, December of 2021, that ARG has come to its completion. You may have noticed an element of this ARG on this very website, if you looked at the description of SRoMG #2401 between March and November. (Don't go looking for it now; it's been removed.) My friend, TwinBuilder, created 26 Garfield (and Garfield-related) faces to be turned into text. I got the idea of turning these characters into a font, which led to the creation of GarfieldCode.
(There's a similar pictographic font that was shown off here at some point... but I didn't realize it existed until after our font was complete!)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is reading a newspaper}
Jon {in encoded text}: The world is constantly changing
{Garfield looks at the camera, then looks at the newspaper}
Garfield {also in encoded text}: They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
Category:TPTPWDotACoEMW
Category:TwinBuilder
4747: Jon Minus Neck Shadow

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
One wonders how Jon affords such a large food budget on a cartoonist's salary. The answer is that he buys his clothes at the local secondhand store, but because the universe loves to mess with him, all the men's shirts are always at least three sizes too large for him. Thus we see the outlandish proportions of collar to neck, and he's always got that backfat which is really just the way-too-big shirt bunching up back there.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Irma: Would you care for an after-dinner coffee drink?
Jon {his spindly neck dwarfed by a giant collar}: Sure! What have you got?
Irma: Well, there's your regular and your decaf
Garfield: You've gotta love a diner
Category:Sloublues
4748: Lip Splinters

==Explanation==
The original splinters were intended to be pointy bits of wood. This edit has Splinter, the mutated rat sensei to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a splinter, an enemy creature from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, attached to his lip.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
Splinter and the splinter found on Turtlepedia/TMNTpedia and Wikitroid, respectively.
==Transcript==
{Garfield is in his bed, as is frequently his wont. His upper lip is over the edge of the bed, and has a splinter and Splinter stuck to it}
Garfield: Oh sure, this may look comfortable...
Garfield: ...but it has its risks
Garfield: Lip splinters are no laughing matter
Category:Nyperold
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
Category:Video game references
4749: Ickisfield

==Explanation==
Both Nickelodeon characters, Garfield and Ickis are good at scaring.
==The author writes:==
It would be more funny if Ickis from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters took Garfield's place in this strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Ickis: ROWR!
Jon: YAAAH!
Jon: Don't sneak up behind me like that!
Ickis: Okay
Ickis: ROWR!
Jon: YAAAH!
The author writes:
==Trivia==
An unformatted heading for a duplicate set of author's notes was included in the transcript, presumably by accident.
Category:Captain Lhurgoyf
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
474: Garfield Mynas Garfield

==Explanation==
After the previous departure comes a return almost to form: whereas most incarnations of the meme before have just second-panel Garfield being replaced being replaced by whatever, this one replaces the entire second panel with a picture of two mynas.
==The author writes:==
Against my better judgement, another for the series (#268, #332, #335, #337, #352, #384, #390, and probably more by now).
Mynas from Wikimedia Commons, photographed by one Chris Harshaw, and licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing.</br>
{Mynas}</br>
Garfield: They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
Category:John Campbell
Category:Constantly changing
4750: Being Ignored

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
There's a big difference between catching his attention and drawing his attention.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is reading a newspaper}
{Garfield pops up to look at him}
{The cat enters the scene making numerous series of face taunts, dances, and other theatrics}
{Once Garfield's exhausted, Jon hasn't budged an inch, to which the cat does an annoyed aside glance}
Jon: Soooooooo... what have you been up to?
{The man looks disappointedly through his slashed-up newspaper}
Category:Kavviyenta
4751: You Can't Lose With Your Colors Flying High

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The floor has been recolored to Pantone 448 C, which is the least appealing color in the world, as proven by psychologists and market researchers. Starting in Australia in 2012 and reaching other countries afterwards, the color is often found on packages of cigarettes and tobacco.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is smoking a pipe}
Jon: GARFIELD!!
Category:Muk
Category:Real world references
4753: On the Other Hand

==Explanation==
A gratingly[opinion] simple edit. The sole edit in this strip, aside from the changed copyright gutter, is horizontally flipping Garfield's pose in the last panel, so that he really does hold up his other hand after he says "on the other hand."
In the author's note, the author suffers the same forgetful memory as demonstrated by Garfield in this strip, claiming their next work will be this already-submitted edit.
==The author writes:==
I have contacted King Carl XVI Gustaf ahead of time and informed him I am too humble for the cash reward included with the Nobel Prize in Literature. My next work, for those awaiting it, shall be an edit of the Garfield strip for November 20th, 2021, wherein Garfield will hold out his right paw instead of his left after saying "However, on the other hand".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield holds out his left paw}
Garfield: My memory isn't what it used to be. Sometimes I forget things...
{Garfield places his left paw on the table}
Garfield: However, on the other hand...
{Garfield holds out his right paw}
Garfield: My memory isn't what it used to be. Sometimes I forget things...
==Trivia==
This strip, along with 4657 and 4709, change the leftmost copyright gutter to include the phrase "Used only as vehicle for parody", similar to the disclaimer shown at the bottom of every Square Root of Minus Garfield page.
Category:Wibi
4754: ODIEYATTA MONDATTA

==Explanation==
Sting (whose real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) was the lead singer of a rock band called The Police. The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. The were popular in the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s with a style of rock influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz. The interaction between Sting and Odie references the 1980 smash hit "Don't Stand So Close to Me", although it is slightly misquoted. The title of this comic is a reference to The Police's third studio album Zenyatta Mondatta released in October of 1980. 
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Odie is standing beside British rock star Sting}
Sting: Odie...
Sting: Don't stand
Sting: Don't stand
Sting: Don't stand so close to me
Sting {upon seeing Odie backing away}: Thanks
Category:GreenCustard
Category:Music references
4755: Okay, And?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Guess they don't care about your date, huh, Jon?
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon returns home from his date with Liz}
Jon: Guys! I'm back from my date! Did you miss me?
{Suddenly, Garfield and Odie show up, leaving Jon surprised}
Garfield and Odie: Cool
Category:Jared Funtime
4756: Dozing of Milk

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I came across #3972 again today, and it reminded me of #2822.
I did not get the reference in the title of the latter (not without some reading up, anyway), but went with its naming scheme because I couldn't think of anything else.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz: Hmmmm...
Jon: What are you doing, Liz?
Liz: Reviewing my INEPT POSTMAN for tomorrow.
Liz: Let's see... I have a SINGLE DUO... a SCARY AGAR CUTTER...
Liz: A LOAN ACTOR... a METHANE CLIPPER... an ORGANIC PREP... an EASING NBC CLASS...
Liz: And then a WIDE UTAH TOY!
{beat}
Garfield: I'd SECLUDE HER
Category:wye
4757: Garfield in the Doom Palette

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I converted this strip to a DOOMGFX (which uses the Doom Palette, which only has 256 colors) and then back to png. The darker sky actually looks nicer to me.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Odie walks onto the fence}
SFX: CLAP CLAP CLAP
Odie: Bark Bark Arf Arf Arf
Odie: Woof Woof Bark Ark Ark Ark
Odie: Bark-Bark BOW-WOW-WOW!
{Odie leaves}
SFX: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
{Garfield enters}
SFX: TAPPITY TAPPITY TAPPITY
{Garfield gets pelted by tomatoes}
SFX: SPLUT SPLUT SPLUT SPLUT SPLUT
Garfield: I gotta find a new opening act
SFX: BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO!
Category:TRSB
Category:Video game references
4759: What's Wrong With This Picture?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield sitting with their swapped foods, playing the game of...}
Jon: Garfield, what's wrong with this picture?
{Jon angrily stares at his food and Garfield stares at his food too...}
{Suddenly, a jumpscare makes Jon fall down unconscious, while Garfield smiles with two foods}
Category:Luis T.
475: Blockland Multiplied by Garfield

==Explanation==
This is a recreation of the original strip within the limitations of the computer game Blockland, in which objects and even people are made of blocks, not too dissimilar from the LEGO games or Minecraft.
The strip and game seem to have been selected based on the word "block", which, in the original strip, meant a section of land bounded by streets on which buildings -- houses, for example -- may be built. Here, since the strip is in the style of Blockland, everything is blocks, so one might even say that running around Garfield would be an example of running around the block.
Not that this matters much to Garfield, as he is threatening Jon with a rocket launcher for his taunt, which was only countered by brandishing claws in the original strip.
==The author writes:==
Blockland.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm trying to decide which would be more exercise.</br>
{Jon raises his "arm"}</br>
Jon: Running around the block...</br>
Jon: Or running around you.</br>
{Garfield pulls out a rocket-launcher}</br>
Garfield: How about running from me, smart guy?
Category:PeejsterM
Category:Strip recreations
Category:Video game references
4760: Aymarfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
While it is, as best as I can tell, a matter of debate, it may be the case that the Aymara, in contrast to many other world cultures, consider the future to be behind them and the past to be in front of them.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield indicates the space behind him gleefully}
Garfield: Here comes the future!
{Garfield indicates the space around him gleefully}
Garfield: Here it is!
{Garfield contemplates the space in front of him with a distinct lack of glee}
Garfield: Gee, it was a lot like the past
Category:Manyhills
4761: Platarbuckle vs Garfogines

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I searched to make sure this hadn't been done in one that's already public, and I kinda hope I'm the first to think of this, but on the the other hand I'd be kinda sad if I am because this is probably the funniest moment in Greek history, maybe even philosophy history. Also, if that Garfield Nicktoon ever gets off the ground, I hope Stretch is in it. (Seriously though, what the heck is going on with that? #WhereIsTheGarfieldNicktoon ?)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon, angrily for some reason, points at Garfield who is holding his rubber chicken, Stretch}
Jon: A man is a featherless biped
{Garfield looks shocked/confused}
{Garfield then points into the air and declares:}
Garfield: BEHOLD, A MAN!
{Garfield whacks Jon with Stretch}
SFX: WHACK!
Category:Garlene1987
4762: Behold, A Man

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Don't blame Garfield for mistaking his birds; he was only around a year old when the original strip came out.
Also, I have no idea what happened to the color; before I cropped the panel it was completely normal.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2014-03-05.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is preparing to have a turkey dinner when Garfield bolts in, looking concerned}
Garfield: Who waxed the finch!?
Category:PriffyViole