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1871: Jon's Perception

==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.
The author has changed the words around in this strip so that Jon thinks that the air is shining, and thinks the sun is inside the house. Garfield's line has instead been given to Jon, whose third line is removed as a result.
==The author writes:==
By changing the words around, I like to think Jon is under the influence of a psychedelic substance.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The air is shining.
Jon: The sun is inside, Garfield! 
Jon: Are you moving?!
Category:Chunky Charlie
1873: Changefield 9

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 1873: Changefield #9.
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==Explanation==
Despite its title, this is actually the tenth strip of the "Changefield" series; this is due to the fifth strip in the series, 657: "Garfield Minus Garfield" Plus Garfield, not being titled or numbered as a numbered "Changefield" strip and throwing off subsequent numbered titles in the series as a result.
==The author writes:==
I'm a little surprised this one hasn't been done before.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: We need to make some changes around here!
Garfield: You're right!
SFX: POW!
{Garfield is drawn in the strip's original art style}
Category:Sir Bacon
187: Pokemon Orange

==Explanation==
The strip is a reference to the Pokémon series. Some Pokémon games' titles take the form Pokémon (color), so the title of the comic makes reference to this using Garfield's dominant color.
Smog is a Poison-type move. However, Poison-type moves are never super effective against Normal-type Pokémon.
Snorlax is one of the original 151 Pokémon; as mentioned in the description, Snorlax is extremely lazy and gluttonous and is among the heaviest Pokémon (the heaviest in its debut), so the comparison to Garfield is quite apt.
The labelling of Jon as a Psychic-type is presumably a reference to him occasionally being able to read Garfield's thoughts, while the line about responding to individuals that are not there is a Garfield Minus Garfield reference.
==The author writes:==
Jon
Normal/Psychic
Type: Human Joke Pokemon
Height: ?'??"
Weight: ??? Lbs.
This POKEMON is well known for its ability to make a fool of itself. Sometimes known to respond to other individuals that are not actually there.
Garfield
Normal
Type: Fat Cat Pokemon
Height: ?'??"
Weight: ??? Lbs.
Its ability to sleep and eat rivals that of SNORLAX. When active, its ill temperament makes it a danger to both friend and foe alike.
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Text Box: Wild GARFIELD appeared!
Text Box: JON used SMOG!
{Jon exhales a puff of mist}
SFX: Foof!
{The whole panel is covered in a smoky cloud}
Text Box: It's SUPER EFFECTIVE!
== Later references ==
This strip was later remade as #3427: Pokémon Striped Orange.
Category:Michael Stangeland
Category:Video game references
1882: Jon Minus Half of His Teeth

==Explanation==
This was the author's first time seeing the original strip, this is what she misread Jon's quote as. She misread it as "I fell down" instead of "I feel down" The author knew what she had to do. Jon Arbuckle is smiling but half of his teeth are missing.
==The author writes:==
The first time I saw the original strip, this is what I misread Jon's quote as. I knew what I had to do.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, I fell down.
{Jon smiles; half of his teeth are missing.}
Category:Vellidragon
1889: Garfield Manny’s (Picture) Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was reading the webcomic version of the popular book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I realised that one page mentioned pudding pops.
Original Diary of a Wimpy Kid page: Day 46, Page 2.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Look, Mom sent me some drawings I did when I was little.
{Two giant blobs angry with each other are yelling and throwing spit. A smaller blob is cowering and crying. To the right-hand side of the small blob is a pudding pop.}
Jon: The world is constantly changing.
Garfield: They havenâ€™t stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
==Trivia==
This strip's title and transcript were hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public as a result, but the original title was preserved on this wiki's list of strip titles prior to the recoding effort and thus is not lost to the public as a result.
Category:Negative N
Category:Webcomic references
Category:Mojibake
188: Impressionist Garfield

==Explanation==
Impressionism is a style and movement of art developed in the late 19th century. The art style is named for Impression, Sunrise by Impressionist painter Claude Monet—mentioned in the transcript—via an article criticizing an exhibition at which the painting was displayed. 
One of the Impressionist style's primary features is visible brushstrokes, which are imitated here.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
{An impressionistic, Monet-esque rendering of Garfield standing in a field of flowers}
Category:David McLeish
1890: One-Wayfield

==Explanation==
The original strip had Jon driving a car with the steering wheel on the left side the wrong way down the street (for American traffic, that is) when he smacked his face into a stop sign that was facing the wrong way (probably for ease of recognition). No. 1416 fixed the former issue, but not the latter.
This edit flips the car horizontally, bringing it in line with the United Kingdom's design specifications, and turns the stop sign so it's facing Jon rather than the viewer. It also adds a curb on the other side, making it a one-way street so Jon can still smack his face into the sign, with the question of whether he's on the correct side of the road rendered moot.
==The author writes:==
I'm from the UK, so I naturally choose to present John on the right-hand side of the car. The original strip had two errors; namely that the driver's side of the car is never next to the pavement on a two-way road (unless Jon was driving the wrong way), and that the stop sign would not be facing opposite to the way Jon was driving (unless Jon was driving the wrong way). This wasn't fixed in Left-Hand Traffic (SRoMG #1416) either. So I took the liberty to fix them.
Now I'm expecting someone to do a Japanfield remake, with a triangular stop sign.
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 stop sign.}</br>
SFX: SMACK!
==Later References==
* 2403: Japanfield later came up to this author's expectations.
Category:edderiofer
1891: Subtly Less Subtle Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Sometimes, a joke can be made more subtle by being more direct. It's rare, but quite possible.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hey there buddy!
{Jon brings out a bowl filled with pudding. Various suspicious green capsules float on top of the pudding.}
Jon: Have some pudding, ol' pal, ol' pal!
Garfield: There's a pill in there, isn't there?
Category:Lubaf
1898: Super Odie 64

==Explanation==
The only change that has been made to this strip is that the painting Jon hangs up is of Bob-omb Battlefield from the video game Super Mario 64.
==Transcript==
{Jon is holding a painting in his hands, Odie watching out the window}
{Jon puts the painting, the painting of Bob-omb Battlefield from Super Mario 64, on the wall}
{Odie is now looking inside from the painting, shocking Garfield}
==The author writes:==
Ever since I laid eyes on this strip, I've related it to Super Mario 64, even with the 9-year difference.
Original strip: .
Category:pookypal
Category:Video game references
189: Hark! A Vagrant Minus Garfield!

==Explanation==
While this is another reference to Garfield Minus Garfield, the edit does not remove Garfield the cat from the original Hark! A Vagrant! strip, instead removing 19th-century United States president James A. Garfield. (This includes the title panel, which originally said "Another Dang Garfield Cartoon".)
Also worth noting is the rather inconsistent censorship; (cat) Garfield's first line has the f-word substituted for a less offensive substitute, yet "goddamn" is left as-is.
==The author writes:==
...Just continuing the tradition of removing Garfield from everything.
Original Hark! A Vagrant comic #134 (contains bad words)
==Transcript==
Caption: Another Dang Cartoon
Jon: You ate all the food. You are so lazy.
Garfield: Screw you, Jon.
Jon: You too.
Garfield: Give me some of that lasagna.
Garfield: Give me that goddam lasagna.
Garfield: Don't you mean...
Garfield: Charles Guiteau.
{A gun lies on the floor as Garfield eats the lasagna...}
Category:Dataphile
Category:Non-Garfield comics
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Real world references
Category:Webcomic references
Category:Visual puns
18: Garfield/Jon Reversal

==Explanation==
This comic switches Garfield and Jon completely, proportions and all. Not much else to say.
==The author writes:==
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Jon! You lost another pound! 
Garfield: I'm so proud of you! 
Jon: Garfield's so naive. 
Jon: It's the same pound I lose every week.
Category:Daniel Kristjansson
190: Garfield of the Old Republic

==Explanation==
This strip is a reference to the robotic character of HK-47 from the Star Wars spin-off games [[wikipedia:Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic|Knights of the Old Republic], as assassin droid designed to conceal itself as a protocol droid. Of note are two verbal tics of HK-47: His tendency to preface his sentences with a speech conditional that described the type of statement it was (for example, all of his questions began "Query:", e.g. "Query: Can I kill him now, master?"), and a programming instruction that he refer to all organic beings as "meatbags".
==The author writes:==
Original Garfield strip: 
Garfield meets HK-47 from Knights of the Old Republic.
==Transcript==
{Garfield approaches a scale}
Scale: Statement: Hello, I'm HK-47, your talking scale. If you step on me, I'll tell you your weight.
{Garfield steps on the scale}
Scale: Aaugh! What are you doing? Remove the fat cat! Remove the fat cat! Medic!
{Garfield is off the scale, walking away}
Garfield: Wise guy.
Scale: Mockery: Whew! Thank you, meatbag!
Category:superluser
Category:fabiocbinbutter
1917: Garfield in 2053, Part 7

== Explanation ==
As the author explains, their intent was to create a strip that would theoretically be the nadir of Garfield -- and what better way to illustrate it than as a Garfield in 2053 strip?
== The author writes ==
Based on the first six comics in this series. After some time of recycling old gags (even some that were already recycled), Paws, Inc. has run out of comics to reuse, and have to admit to themselves, and to the world, that, yes, the quality of Garfield is deteriorating.
Original strip: .
Original SRoMG comics: #783, #1494</span>, #1508, #1526, #1627, #1643, #1740.
== Transcript ==
{beat}
{beat}
Garfield: You may as well laugh now, it's not getting any funnier than this.
Category:Riley
Category:Garfield in 2053
191: Garfield Miners Garfield

==Explanation==
The title is a reference to Garfield Minus Garfield; this substitution of a similar-sounding word for "Minus" notably precedes the Constantly changing edits that, for the most part, used the same title format. The strip itself switches the worm's and Garfield's dialogue and fittingly places a miner's hat on Garfield, as miners are one of a few jobs that involve digging.
Wikipedia's page for miner's helmets redirects to the article on hard hats. While not many photos of miners' helmets were available in Wikimedia Commons in 2009, there have since been more images added.
==The author writes:==
Do you know how hard it is to draw a miner's helmet? It wouldn't be so bad if Wikipedia had any decent pictures of them.
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Worm: What do you do for a living?
Garfield: {in miner's helmet} Dig.
Category:Manyhills
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
1923: The Automatic Colouriser Takes Over (aka Garfield minus Jim Davis)

==Explanation==
The author's notes tend to explain the methodology behind how this strip, essentially the colorized version of the original Garfield strip minus the elements found in its black-and-white version.
The author's notes make mention of 960: Gluefield #443's mention that GoComics had not colorized the strip for themselves; this had been true at the time of even this strip's publication, and may have been true as late as the 2019-2020 timeframe, but GoComics now has colorized the strip corresponding to their own logic. (The difference between the GoComics color logic and the color logic of other domains' archives are explained in more detail in the explanation for 5399: Color me Garfield.) The garfield.com site was taken down in the middle part of 2020, and thus its archive can no longer be found there; the Garfield wiki on Fandom has preserved that version of the strip here.
The differences between this strip's author and the initial writer of this very explanation are apparent in the spelling of a key word. This strip's author (as does strip #960's author) hails from a Commonwealth country, which spells out the key word as "colour"; the initial writer of this very explanation, on the other hand, is an American (as does strip #5399's author), which spells out the key word as "color". 
==The author writes:==
This is what happens when the "automated colouriser" thinks it can work on its own.
The idea for this came about because SRoMG comic 960 claimed that this Leap Day strip hadn't been colourised. I was bored, so I set about colourising it. As I'm doing so, I look at the colour layer by itself, and think it would look good as a submission called "Garfield + colour - ink." I get it finished, but, right before I saved, my editor crashed and I lost it. To make it worse, when looking for the original again, I realize it actually has been colourised on the official Garfield site.
So I wound up trying to recreate my image using the real colours from the actual comic. I removed the colour, then used that black-and-white version as a mask to get just the colour. Then I had to go and fill in all the gaps with the appropriate colour. The result looks a lot like the version I lost, all aliased like something on an old computer circa 1996.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The colours of a Garfield strip without any of the outlines}
Category:trlkly
1928: And so it begins...

==Explanation==
In this strip, Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics fame uses his comic to make a jab at the infamous "Constantly changing/Garfield [something that sounds like minus] Garfield" edits. The strip shows the dinosaurs (T. rex, Dromiceiomimus, and Utahraptor) creating the joke and its subsequent imitators, resulting in descent into insanity. The date this was published matches up with the date when the gag becomes sentient, as mentioned in #625.
Dinosaur Comics is a constrained comic; in its case, the same six-panel layout and artwork of the titular dinosaurs is reused in every strip, with only dialogue changing (the above strip being an exception). It is an absurdist comic featuring three species of dinosaurs as its characters:
* T-Rex is the de facto main character; only T-Rex appears in all six panels.
* Utahraptor serves as T-Rex's foil; he appears on panels 4 and 5.
* Dromiceiomimus appears in the third panel. She serves as a friendly, yet mildly critical, straight woman.
Perhaps as a joke, this strip lists the 2001-11-28 Garfield strip as its source. 
Also of note is that mezzacotta hosts its own version of Dinosaur Comics titled The Dinosaur Whiteboard.
==The author writes==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
T-Rex: Garfield Minus Garfield! PFFT. 
T-Rex: More like Garfield LINUS Garfield!
T-Rex: More like Garfield FINEST Garfield!
Dromiceiomimus: More like Garfield WRYNESS Garfield!
T-Rex: MORE LIKE GARFIELD SLYNESS GARFIELD!!
Dromiceiomimus: MORE LIKE GARFIELD SILENCE GARFIELD! 
{the comic begins breaking up with pixelated noise}
T-Rex: MORE LIKE GARFIELD HIGHNESS GARFIELD
Utahraptor: MORE LIKE GARFIELD VIRUS GARFIELD
{the breakup gets worse and it becomes difficult to read the text} 
T-Rex: MORE LIKE GARFIELD CORONARY SINUS GARFIELD
Utahraptor: MORE LIKE GARFIELD [SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE MINUS] GARFIELD
{a weird overlay of cascading symbols partly obscured by digital noise covers the final frame}
Caption: {barely legible} THE MADNESS IS INSIDE YOU NOW
Category:Ryan North
Category:Webcomic references
Category:Non-Garfield comics
Category:Avant-garde strips
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Meta humor
Category:Jabs
1929: The Pudding Pop Horror

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield wakes up one morning, but something isn't right...}
Garfield: Brrr, there's a chill in here this morning.
Garfield: What an eerie sensation...
Garfield: A snack should help me feel better.
Garfield: I think I'll have a pudding pop.
{Garfield looks in the fridge, but to his surprise and horror...}
Garfield: There are none.
Caption: You have no idea, Garfield...
Garfield: Steady, Garfield. There must be a good reason why the pudding pops are gone.
{Garfield walks over to the nearest window and looks out}
Garfield: Jon must be getting more at the grocery-
{The house has been abandoned, supposedly from a lack of pudding pops}
{Garfield looks at a picture of a pudding pop}
Garfield: No one has eaten a frozen pudding pop in years!
{Garfield comes to a horrible realization}
Garfield: But, that means...I haven't eaten one in years!
{A noise catches Garfield's attention}
Garfield: WHAT'S THAT?!
{Garfield runs into the nearby room, and gasps in surprise}
Garfield: Jon! Odie! You're home!
Jon: Hello, Garfield. Have a pudding pop.
{Jon holds out a pudding pop for Garfield, and Garfield happily accepts the offer...}
{...but it was a hallucination, probably, again, from a lack of pudding pops}
Caption: Locked fast within a time where they no longer exist, Garfield grapples with his greatest fear...
Caption: No pudding pops.
{Garfield is slowly going insane}
Caption: After years of taking pudding pops for granted, Garfield is shaken by a horrifying vision of the inevitable process called "Time".
Caption: He has only one weapon...
Caption: Denial...
Garfield: I WANT A PUDDING POP.
{Garfield opens his eyes again, his home the same as it is any other day, Jon and Odie with him}
Jon: Want a pudding pop, Garfield?
Garfield}filled with joy}: Oh, yes I do!
Caption: An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending on how we cnduct[sic] ourselves today.
Category:pookypal
192: Garfield Mosaic

==Explanation==
As the author says, this mosaic is made up of 27,406 panels of Garfield, excluding Sunday comics. 
Notably, some panels, including most found in Garfield's eyes and the snowflake, and some elsewhere, lack color.
The full-sized image as originally submitted is presumably by far the largest file ever submitted to Square Root of Minus Garfield; being far too large to actually run, the image was slimmed down to just over 1 MB for the version that actually ran on the site, with a larger 6.7 MB file offered as an alternative download. The full-sized image as submitted is far larger than the largest file to actually run on Square Root of Minus Garfield, the 23.7 MB file containing 5000: We Didn't Write The Garfield's strip image.
It is impractical to categorize this very article in every Garfield original strip date category, excluding Sundays, prior to the stated date in 2007. As such, this article only includes the date categories corresponding to the credited dates on the Square Root of Minus Garfield site itself.
==The author writes:==
This is every panel from every Monday-to-Saturday Garfield strip up to and including the first panel of . The resulting mosaic image is from .
That's 193×142 panels, for a total of 27,406 panels.
We obviously can't display this at full size here. Or in fact, at all, considering the full-sized image is 37635×24424 pixels and over a gigabyte in size. A somewhat larger version, at a mere 4632×2982 pixels, is available for download here.
==Transcript==
{Garfield catching a snowflake}
==Later references==
*208: Garfield Mosaic 2 uses fewer weekday Garfield panels to recreate another Sunday panel.
*1000: 1000th Root of Minus Garfield is a later mosaic made with Square Root of Minus Garfield strips.
Category:Comics
Category:David McLeish
193: The Angriest Cat in the World

==Explanation==
This comic is an homage to The Angriest Dog in the World, a comic strip by noted surrealist filmmaker David Lynch that ran in the LA Reader from 1983 until 1992. Each strip began with a caption mostly identical to the one seen in the Garfield strip (with the exception of all cat-related words originally being dog-appropriate ones, of course), then continued on with three completely identical panels showing the titular dog, then ending with a final panel that was the same thing, but after dusk had fallen. The only difference between strips was the dialogue, which could show up in any panel and was often philosophical and/or a non-sequitur.
The SRoMG comic is mostly the same, except the dialogue's style is rather imperfect - unlike the aforementioned non-sequiturs Lynch used, Colin Foster instead makes a simple pun ("Claire and Annette" are clearly intended to evoke the clarinet). Also note that Foster has referenced the series before (though this strip was made first, but submitted later).
==The author writes:==
I actually came up with this before No. 135, but neglected to submit it before then. The toughest part was coming up with dialogue to match the strangeness of the original work. The second-toughest part was finding a suitable "angry" Garfield.
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Caption: The cat who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely purr. Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis.</br>
{Garfield sits angrily, motionless}</br>
Voice off-screen: I met two very nice girls at the orchestra...</br>
Voice off-screen: Claire and Annette.</br>
{Garfield sits motionless}</br>
{Garfield sits motionless in the dark, as the sun has gone down}
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Comic strip references
Category:Music references
1940: Garfield Plus an Even Spicier Pepper

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was searching up the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, the highlight of one of my older strips, on Wikipedia, but I noticed something different. The pepper had now been considered the second hottest pepper, now beaten by a pepper known as the Carolina Reaper. I knew immediately what to do, making this strip, and making differences in Garfield (and Jon)'s reaction to present positive continuity. I decided to make both the strip and this description narrative too.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Jon, with a glass of water between them, look at each other eagerly, preparing for the great rematch of the...}
Jon: Hot pepper eating contest!
{Jon manages to get a head start, stuffing in his mouth a...}
Jon: Jalapeño!
{Garfield manages to get one step ahead, pulling out and eating up a...}
Garfield: Cayenne!
{Jon, still determined to win, goes the extra mile and eats a...}
Jon: Habanero!
{Garfield, out of desperation, pulls out the ultimate pepper, the...}
Garfield: Carolina Reaper!
{However, this turns out to be a big mistake, as the pure spiciness was too much for Garfield, and he releases it all in a breath of fire, with Jon caught in the agonizing flames}
Jon: AAA! AAA!
{Garfield quickly drinks all the water, burnt from the inside, admitting defeat}
Garfield: You win...
{Jon doesn't respond, as he is lying on the floor burnt to a crisp}
Category:pookypal