nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
1704: Shifting Mid-Point 2

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is a sequel to #313 by Wes White. It has been a few years since we last checked on the mid-point of the strip's run, so here it is.
As of the time this has been submitted (2013-09-10), there have been 12,868 Garfield strips produced so far. And that number will continue to grow in the foreseeable future...
As a bonus, I've determined the mid-point of Garfield's companion comic, U.S. Acres, which only had 1,144 strips in comparison. And since that strip has already reached its end, its own mid-point can no longer shift.
Original U.S. Acres strips: 1986-03-03 (#1), 1987-09-25 (#572), 1989-05-07 (#1144).
Original strips: (#1), (#6434), (#12868).
==Transcript==
Jon: Hi, there... I'm Jon Arbuckle. I'm a cartoonist, and this is my cat, Garfield.
Garfield: {off-screen} Yes, we have plenty of food.
Garfield: Shortly before discovering the lawsuit!
==Trivia==
The links to the original U.S. Acres strips used for the supplementary strip no longer work as intended due to the garfield.com takedown from June 2020; they have been archived on the Garfield wiki on Fandom as follows: 1986-03-03, 1987-09-25, 1989-05-07.
Category:NES Boy
Category:U.S. Acres
1705: Invisible Cat

==Explanation==
Garfield was chasing an invisible mouse in the original strip. But in this edit, Jon sees an invisible cat or he is just imagining an invisible cat. The author said that this one is basically Garfield Minus Garfield if Garfield really existed, but was invisible. He thinks that he worked great on this strip.
==The author writes==
This one is basically Garfield Minus Garfield if Garfield really existed, but was invisible. Worked great on this strip, i think.
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Jon: An invisible cat! 
{clouds of dust and a shadow move by} 
{Jon looks confused, dust vanishes} 
Jon: Cats are so strange .
Category:olfi500
1706: Hug Day

==Explanation==
Simply put, the author swapped Jon's guess with Garfield's statement. You would think this would make Jon the more cynical one, but he seems just as happy about National Check-Your-Wallet Day as the Jon in the real strip is about National Hug Day.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: That was odd.</br>
Jon: I was just hugged by a stranger.</br>
Jon: It must be national check-your-wallet day!</br>
Garfield: Actually, it's national hug day.
Category:tardis2334
Category:Joke reversal
170: Ledge

==Explanation==
In the original, the thoughts belonged to Garfield. Here, with Garfield edited out, they are the ledge's. After all, what else is a ledge going to do?
==The author writes:==
If you remove all the foreground object, most Garfield's feature a ledge. So why not feature the ledge? When I saw this strip I knew I'd found something the ledge could think.
From Garfield 
==Transcript==
{A blank scene, with a featureless, motionless ledge in the foreground}
Ledge: There was something I was planning to do today.
Ledge: Oh yeah.
Ledge: This is it.
Category:Joe Mucchiello
1712: Tie Stain

==Explanation==
In this strip, Garfield tastes Jon's gravy stain on it's tie but then he gets shocked when he realizes it's Ray Ozzie.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Look at these food spots on my tie. This is a gravy stain
Jon: And I can't remember what this one is
Garfield: Ray Ozzie?
Category:Real world references
Category:Darby Smurf
1715: That Ham in the Fridge

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon's head is a ham and the table is a fridge}
Jon: Garfield, all I think about is Liz...
Jon: I can't think about anything else.
Garfield: I know what you mean...
Garfield: I can't get my mind off that ham in the fridge.
Category:Densetsu Bros
171: Choose Your Own Punchline

==Explanation==
The original strip had Jon receiving a phone call from Santa Claus because Garfield had contacted him through his pager. The author's note pretty much explains the change.
==The author writes:==
The original version (from ) of this strip irked me since pagers were pretty much "out" by 2003, so I decided to let the reader replace it with something more modern, or even more outdated!
==Transcript==
SFX: riiing
Jon: {answering phone} Hello?
Jon: Yes, he's here.
Jon: Who's calling?
{Jon looks shocked}
Jon: {to Garfield} You (empty box) Santa?!!
Garfield: Hey, his e-mail server has been down all morning.te
{Arrow leading from empty box in Jon's last line to a text panel}
Caption: Fill in the blank! Pick a punchline!
List: Paged Texted Tweeted Friended Faxed Telegrammed Smoke-Signalled
Category:Redhead64
1722: Jon's Worries Come To Pass

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon worries about forgetting how to speak (prompting Garfield to say "Don't try to cheer me up"). Thus, in this strip, as the title implies, his worries about forgetting how to speak come to pass. Further, the Author's Comment is also (mostly) blank, quite imitative of Jon's lack of speech.
==Transcript==
Jon: ...</br>
Jon: ...</br>
Jon: {Distressed} ...</br>
Garfield: Jon forgot how to speak.
==The author writes:==
...
Original strip: .
Category:Lubaf
Category:Joke reversal
1726: Sign-Up Now for Only $19.99 a Month!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Just click this link for more information!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{in a real cheesy-looking ad, a couch and a lamp are seen in the background}
Caption: Get new furniture for your home!
Caption: Sign-up and shop now for only $19.99 a month!
Caption: {in red star} Ask about our free trial!
Category:Cody
Category:Advertising references
1727: Tom Waitsfield

==Explanation==
This edit quotes the first two lines of "The Piano Has Been Drinking" by Tom Waits: "The piano has been drinking/My necktie is asleep". For the record, the entire song is sung from the perspective of a drunk man, with a slightly off-key backing tune to boot.
==The author writes:==
By way of explanation.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon's Piano appears to be playing itself, with a bottle of liquor on top of it and a necktie sticking out of it.} 
Jon: {Screaming} THE PIANO HAS BEEN DRINKING! 
{Garfield appears, having been inside the piano.} 
Garfield: Hey, my necktie is asleep!
Category:Lubaf
Category:Music references
172: Jon: Jon Minus Minus Mouse Catching

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon tells Garfield to catch a mouse, but Garfield didn't even try. 
In this edit, Jon's speech bubble is pointing to Garfield now. The third panel removes Garfield's thoughts.
This is another comic about Garfield the talking cat and his pet human, Jon. 
The author likes to think that in the last panel, that Garfield is quietly thinking something along the lines like, "Oh, Jon, you rascal. What am I ever going to do with you?"
==The author writes:==
Another comic about Garfield the talking cat and his "pet human" Jon.
I like to think that in the last panel, Garfield is quietly thinking something along the lines of, "Oh Jon, you rascal. What ever will I do with you?"
Original comic from .
==Transcript==
Garfield: A mouse! Get it!
Garfield: Jon! You didn't even try!
{Garfield gazes out absent-mindedly}
Category:Michael Stangeland
1731: Die with a T

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield's explanation for why he'd gained three pounds despite having been on a diet for a week was that he'd eaten the diet book. Here, Garfield had eaten Odie. The title is how Garfield defines a diet in the strip from 1978-08-30. Appropriate, as eating Odie would almost certainly cause him to die.
==The author writes:==
I guess hunger has warped his mind.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: You've been a diet for a week, Garfield.
Jon: And you've gained three pounds.
Jon: Care to explain?
Garfield: I ate Odie.
Category:xzyzz
1732: Bang-ana

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Just like Invisible Jon, it's another situation where Garfield's imagination becomes a reality.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Happy diet, Garfield. Here's a banana for breakfast.
{Jon gives Garfield a banana}
{Garfield looks at the banana as Jon walks away}
{Garfield aims the banana at Jon, and shoots a bullet from it}
SFX: Bang!
Category:pookypal
1735: Playing Possum

==Explanation==
Garfield and Jon are in the car, Odie and Jon moo like cows, but Garfield says "Noo" instead of saying "Moo" like a cow. The car then runs over a possum. Garfield and Odie play dead like possums do. Jon thinks it's very funny with an angry look on his face. Odie says "URF" and Garfield thinks that he's been killed by Jonathan Quentin Arbuckle (that's Jon's full name)
==The author writes:==
Because the original just wasn't good enough.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Moooooo.
Odie: Mooo.
Garfield: Noo. 
{The car goes over a possum}
SFX: THUMP! THUMP!
Jon: A POSSUM!
{Garfield and Odie play dead}
Garfield: Jonathan Q. Arbuckle, You Killed Meeeee.... 
Odie: Urf.
Jon: Very funny.
Category:Henry Morel
173: Comic Without Garfield

==Explanation==
The strip's title is a reference to Garfield Minus Garfield, but also refers to the widely-maligned font Comic Sans; as is said in the author's comment, the French word for "without" is "sans". In typography, "sans-serif" is used to refer to fonts that lack serifs, or the lines at the ends of strokes in some fonts.
==The author writes:==
This is the strip of relettered using the One Font.
It may help to know that "sans" is French for "without".
(Also, is it just me, or doesn't the dialogue in this strip have more rhyme than typical Garfield strips? We have "Liz"/"is", "my"/"tie", eye-rhyming straight"/"right", alliteration "leans a little", and a triple assonance in the third panel. Quite poetic, unless one demands poetry to have interesting meaning).
==Transcript==
Jon: Liz, is my tie on straight?
Liz: It leans a little right.
Jon: How about now?
==Later references==
*The author Lubaf would later use an updated version of Comic Sans called Comic Neue starting with strip 1953.
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
1740: Garfield's 75th Birthday

== Explanation ==
This is a Garfield in 2053 strip theoretically published on June 19 (Garfield's birthday) - as the author implies, 2053 will have been 75 years since Garfield debuted, and a birthday strip (a longstanding Garfield tradition) would never be an exception.
While this strip itself can be considered just as rooted in hypotheticals as any other Garfield in 2053 strip is, provided the current calendar systems are still in use come 2053, this strip does get its use of weekday format correct; June 19, 2053 is a Thursday in the Gregorian calendar.
== The author writes ==
With a milestone like this falling in 2053, how half-assed could it possibly be?
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Today is my 75th birthday and I want to thank you for reading me.
Garfield: I'm not talking about the other readers, I'm talking to you. Thank you!
Garfield: ♪ Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to meee. Happy birthday dear Garfield, happy birthday tooo meee! ♪
Category:NES Boy
Category:Garfield in 2053
1742: Odie Minus Everyone Else

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield said to Odie, "This is going to hurt me more than it will you." Then Garfield kicks Odie off the table. Garfield told Odie, who is off-panel and kicked off the table by Garfield, "Or maybe not...". 
In this strip, Odie is standing there looking down, happily, then falls out of the table, and a small wift of smoke rises from outside of the frame.
The author doesn't have any comment about the strip.
==The author writes:==
...No comment.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Odie stands on a table.}
{Odie falls out of the frame.}
SFX: Splat!
{A small wift of smoke rises from outside of the frame.}
Category:Pakuku
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
1746: Garfield Minus Christmas Tree Plus Bored

==Explanation==
In this edit, the Christmas Tree is removed from the strip, and Garfield's eyes are bored. The seventh panel has Garfield eating nothing in the edit.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield being bored}
Garfield: Mozilla!
Jon: Lunch. 
{Garfield eats his food dish}
{Garfield spits his dish} 
{Garfield being bored}
Jon: {reading a book} Enjoying your meal?
Garfield: {eating} Immensely.
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Darby Smurf
1748: The Wolf Dog

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Fun fact: There actually exists a real world condition called "Clinical lycanthropy" and an unrelated affliction known as "Werewolf syndrome". Neither is as exciting as it sounds.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks up to Odie, who has started growing some uncharacteristic brown hair and is growling with his teeth exposed.}
Odie: Arrr...
{Garfield walks up to Jon}
Garfield: Jon, you remember how you said that werewolf bite on Odie was "nothing to worry about"?
Odie: {off-panel} ROOOO!
Category:Lubaf
174: Jon: Jon's Snapped Mind

==Explanation==
This comic takes Jon's dialogue from the original strip and attributes it to Garfield. Thus, Garfield is now talking out loud, which "snaps" Jon's mind. This edit was likely made because Jon's reactions in the second and third panels could also be seen as a reaction to having one's mind snapped.
==The author writes:==
Original comic from 
==Transcript==
Garfield: Jon, as of this minute, I'm putting you on a diet.
{Jon stares with wide eyes}
Garfield: Jon?
{Jon continues staring}
Garfield: I think I snapped his mind.
Category:Michael Stangeland
1750: French

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When I read number 1210, which corrected the typo in the original comic to "fence", I realised it's possible, albeit unlikely, that "fench" was a typo of a different word altogether.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield dances on a French flag}
SFX: tappity tappity tappity
{Garfield slips and falls off the French flag}
Garfield: Okay... who waxed the French?
Category:Sir Bacon
1751: Finch

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
After yesterday's strip, this queue-jumping abuse of my administrator privileges had to be done.
Image of common chaffinch is Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike by Andreas Trepte, . This individual comic strip is therefore also Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield dances on a common chaffinch}
SFX: tappity tappity tappity
{Garfield slips and falls off the chaffinch}
Garfield: Okay... who waxed the finch?
Category:David Morgan-Mar
1752: Clive Again

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield ate Jon's donut. Here, Garfield's invisible friend, Clive has eaten Jon's donut.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
{donut on plate} 
Sign: Jon's Donut
{Garfield passes donut}
Sign: Clive ate Jon's Donut
{empty plate}
{Jon looks at the reader}
Category:xzyzz
175: Garfield Really Minus Garfield

==Explanation==
Garfield Minus Garfield is a classic Garfield parody webcomic, and one of the inspirations for Square Root of Minus Garfield. The comic consists of strips with Jon and Garfield, but Garfield removed in order to make Jon talk to himself. The artist makes the comics by removing Garfield and replacing him with the background behind him.
Contributor superluser pretends to take offense to this technicality, as it is not "Garfield removed" but "Garfield replaced". Thus in this SRoMG strip superluser has deleted all of the pixels pertaining to Garfield but not replaced them with anything.
==The author writes:==
Technically, Garfield Minus Garfield should be called "Garfield replaced with the background." I have remedied the problem, more or less following the conventions of removing Garfield and his dialogue. I left in Garfield's motion lines since it's not strictly speaking Garfield, and I could not in good conscience remove the shadow, since I'd actually be adding light.
(Interestingly, Garfield Minus Garfield would have been able to do this had they kept the files in the original GIF format.)
Also, to all the Go players out there, you may be interested in the two dots in the second panel. In order to get the quickmask to leave them, I had to make two eyes.
Original: 
==Transcript==
{Jon watches as a blank space the shape of Garfield and his thought balloons walks by.}
Category:superluser
1763: Garfield Irish Garfield (St. Patrick’s Day Special)

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was reading strip No. 532 â€œ¡Mexicano Garfield!â€, and realised maybe I could do something with Irish. I wanted to try something based on the colours of the Irish flag, but that proved too much work; but since St. Patrickâ€™s Day happened to be coming up, I found a strip with the word â€œgreen,â€ translated the strip to Irish to the best of my abilities, coloured the strip green, and added a celebratory message.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
on: Tá ár rí agus banríon abhaile
Jon: Agus go tá dom
Jon: Bhí vótáil mé fuirseoir cúirte abhaile
Garfield: Riteoga glas faiseanta
Caption: Be sure to wear green on St. Patrickâ€™s Day.
==Trivia==
This strip's title, transcript, and author's notes were all hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript and author's notes unaffected by mojibake are 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:Mojibake
1765: Skinfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I concur with Densetsu Bros: this strip is nothing but SRoMG bait.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield's skeleton are standing at the window}
{Over the course of 6 beat panels, Garfield's skeleton remains a skeleton}
Jon: Skin's here!
Garfield: 'Bout time!
Category:Grant Fikes
1769: Slowfield

==Explanation==
Another inversion of "Backfield" - this time, the snail speaks quickly, and Garfield is the one slowly reacting in turn.
==The author writes:==
This rewrite was a little more than inspired by Inverted Backfield, but I noticed that when you make the snail quick to speech, it leaves a lot of time for Garfield to react... and react... as he slowly processes its response.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Snails are slow.</br> 
Snail: You take that back.</br>
{beat panel as Garfield smiles smugly}</br>
{beat panel as Garfield is shocked}
Category:pareidolon
Category:Snail
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
176: Garfield with Bad Words

==Explanation==
This edit replaces the roar in the middle panel with Grawlixes, symbols used in family-friendly comics used to represent profane language. Grawlixes can be a variety of symbols; here they are mostly typographical. In particular they are the shift modifiers of the number keys on a standard QWERTY keyboard (exclamation point, "at sign", hash symbol, etc.) in left to right order.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Lyman: Does it hurt to rub a cat the wrong way?
Jon: I don't know.
Lyman: !@#$%^&*!!
Lyman: Yup.
Category:mallo
177: Reversed Garfield, and ditto Jon

==Explanation==
25: Reversed Garfield, 50: Reversed Garfield and 70: Reversed Garfield - Variant reversed the dialogue of their respective original strips. This edit instead flips Garfield's and Jon's horizontal orientation so that they face away from each other.
==The author writes:==
We've had a few strips where the order of the action in the strip get reversed. Here the idea is just to reverse each character separately. This proves to increase the tension of the (unchanged) dialogue considerably. Apparently, Garfield is seriously angry with Jon for some reason, whereas Jon tries to explain away his behaviour as some kind of old man's ADD, all while conspicuously avoiding eye contact. Garfield ain't buyin' any of that. Well, would you?
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are facing away from each other}
Jon: Listen to this, Garfield.
Jon: As we grow older, your attention span gets shorter.
Jon: Pretty interesting, huh?
Garfield: What?
Category:Henning Makholm
1781: Standing Tall

==Explanation==
As said in the author's comments, this edit exaggerates Garfield's preference (and fear) of sitting in high places by putting Garfield atop the tallest building on Earth, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Cats are indeed able to survive great falls, due to the cat righting reflex, in addition to low terminal velocity.
==The author writes:==
When looking at Garfield standing tall on the bookshelf, an idea came to me to exaggerate this idea into something bigger, which is to put Garfield on something very tall. I decided on the tallest building in the world as of this writing (21 December 2013), which is the Burj Khalifa. 
The comic you see here went through quite a number of edits so that it doesn't look cheap. It was harder to pull off because I am not quite an experience photoshopper, so I apologise if the quality doesn't look too good.
Also, I heard that cats are able to survive great falls, so it would be possible for Garfield to survive that fall if he finds himself falling, but then again, Garfield is not an ordinary cat, capable of laughing like a human, eating things cat can't normally eat, and of course, expressing thought. Or it could be that Garfield is just a scaredy-cat.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield stands atop a skyscraper}
Garfield: We cats like to sit in high places. It reinforces our superiority.
{Garfield looks down at Burj Khalifa}
Garfield: Help.
Category:Edwin Chee
178: Darkfield

==Explanation==
In the original strip, it was Garfield's litter box.
In this edit, Garfield has taken Odie's corpse -- a reference to 51: Dark Side of the Lasagne, in which Odie was killed as fuel for a fire -- and moved it to the side of Jon's bed.
==The author writes:==
I made this in response to no. 51 - Dark Side of the Lasagne.
Original strip date: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Sometimes it's good to get up early and do chores.</br>
Jon: {off screen} Aarrrggh!</br>
Garfield: Like moving Odie's corpse to the side of Jon's bed.
Category:Dark strips
Category:D Headshot
Category:Callbacks
1793: ... Backfield

==Explanation==
Yet another "Backfield" comic - this time, the snail's speech is only moderately slow, but its initial reaction time is abysmal.
If the count in the author's notes is to believe, this comic was submitted before 1769: Slowfield.
==The author writes:==
After 1445, 1549, and 1673 I guess this is the inevitable conclusion. I left the empty thought bubble in the first panel as I thought that made it clearer that the snail was slow to react.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Snails are slow. 
Snail: 
Snail: You take 
Snail: that back.
Category:Neil
Category:Snail
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
1798: Do Wah Diddy Diddy

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Yeah, I think we've all heard â€œDo Wah Diddy Diddyâ€ enough times to understand Garfield's reaction here.
By the way, if you look at the original comic, you'll notice that the first two panels in the second row are switched. This is because, when I started making this comic, I thought the way Garfield's expression changed as the comic progressed flowed better this way.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are sitting at the table with a radio between them}
{Radio begins playing music}
Radio: There she was, just a walkin' down the street singin'
Radio: Do-wah diddy diddy down diddy do {Garfield looks annoyed while Jon enjoys the song}
Radio: Snappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet singin' {Garfield turns to the radio with a look of extreme annoyance while Jon continues to enjoy the music}
Radio: Do-wah diddy diddy down â€“ {Garfield can't stand it anymore while Jon is really enjoying the music}
{Garfield is gone and the radio is smashed}
Jon: Hey, I like that song!
==Trivia==
*This strip marked the debut of the 300th credited author of Square Root of Minus Garfield strips.
*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:SomeFunnyMoney
Category:Music references
Category:Mojibake