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2741: Petool

==Explanation==
Originally, Henry was found on the dinner table. Here, the author gives us the option of deciding which definition of "snake" was true and which was pretended, or if something else entirely is the case.
The plumbing snake is a tool used to help clear clogged pipes.
The strip's title, "Petool", is a fusion of the words "pet" and "tool". In addition, the word "Petool" is also a pun on "Metool", one of the names of an enemy from the Mega Man series, though this was likely unintentional.
==The author writes:==
So! In this scenario, is Henry:
a) a snake -- as in the reptile -- that Jon's parents decided would make a good plumbing tool,</br>
b) a snake -- as in the plumbing tool -- that Jon took for a pet despite it not being alive, or</br>
c) some other possibility?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I had a pet named Henry back on the farm.</br>
Jon: Then one evening, there was Henry in the plumbing tools.</br>
Jon: I loved that snake.</br>
Garfield: Times were tough.
Category:Nyperold
Category:Video game references
2742: Casual Milk

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I saw the strip and couldn't resist.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is wearing a Hawaiian shirt}
Garfield: Milk...
Garfield: Some people read expiration dates.
{His eyes make only the barest of movements and not a single other thing changes}
Garfield: And some don't
Category:Negative N
2743: Dimensionfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Stumbling across a dark mirror of your own reality is a near certainty when travelling across parallel dimensions.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{An evil Jon doppelganger places a plate with eyeballs on the table. Garfield looks at it in surprise.}
Jon: Fresh eyeballs
{Evil Jon leaves. Garfield continues looking at the eyeballs in shock.}
{Garfield looks to the fourth wall}
Garfield: That settles it. No more dimension hopping!
Category:Ardoku
2744: Garfield's Bedtime Stories

==Explanation==
This strip is essentially two unaltered strips with the same core theme, Jon reading bedtime stories to Garfield out of a cookbook.
==The author writes:==
Not exactly a verbatim repeat, but still an example of exactly the same joke being used twice. In this case, it's pretty forgivable, given the differences between the strips, and the fact they're 26 years apart, but still...
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield excitedly hands Jon a book}
Jon: What's this? You want me to read you a bedtime story?
Jon: Oh, very well.
Jon: {reading} "Chop up a small onion and sautÃ© until tender, then add sliced mushrooms..."
Garfield: It's bedtime
Garfield: {handing Jon a book} And Jon is going to read me a bedtime story.
Jon: {reading} "Preheat the oven to 350 degrees..."
==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:Mr Top Hat
Category:Mojibake
2745: Garfield Plus Dedenne

==Explanation==
The only change to this strip is that Garfield has been replaced by Dedenne from Pokémon in the last panel. 
==The author writes:==
When I saw the word "détente", I immediately thought of this Pokémon.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: This is one of those squirting flowers.
Garfield: This is one of those clawing paws.
{Jon looks scared}
Garfield: {suddenly replaced by Dedenne} Can you say "Dedenne"?
Category:FrozenPuddingPops
2746: JiggilyField

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield comic, Jon checks out the view and he is beside Garfield wearing shades. Jon wants Garfield to check out the view but he turns his head down to see Garfield wearing shades. Jon doesn't think Garfield is checking it out.
Here, Jon is standing on top of a hill, he checks out the view from the clouds, but Jigglypuff appears, using Rest. Jon starts flying off the screen. He also loses one point. 
==The author writes==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Check out that view!
{Jigglypuff appears, using Rest}
{Jon flies off the screen, losing one point}
{Jigglypuff smiles}
Category:Birm
2747: Detente

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon, with a tartan jacket, holding a novelty flower, leans forward, smiling at Garfield. Garfield started to extend his claws, and Jon leans back with the clawing paws. Jon left and Garfield wants the viewer to say "détente".
Here, Garfield uses this small, torch-shaped object, which is actually a detonator. Garfield is maintaining a calm, facial expression, as the last thread of his sanity snaps. Jon recoils in pure terror.
Jon has no time to react to this, as Garfield activates the device, making it explode, killing Garfield and Jon instantly.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon leans towards Garfield, holding a flower on his shirt}
Jon: This is one of those squirting flowers
{Garfield's face is completely blank, unreacting}
{Garfield then responds by holding up a small, torch shaped object, wired to an unseen payload. It is a detonator. Garfield maintains a calm facial expression as the last thread of his sanity snaps. Jon recoils in pure terror}
Garfield: This is one of those explosive devices
{Jon has no time to react as Garfield activates the device, killing both of them in a fatal explosion}
SFX: POW
Category:Destructible Watermelon
2748: Gar

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Had this idea come to me recently. Grab six strips and fill some spots in with white. Make it look "unfinished". And I did just that. I'm also not that good with fractions, as these barely look 2/5.
Original strips: , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Six different strips are laid in a 2x3 format. The comics appear to look as if the characters were two-fifths finished, having a mixture of actual color and white coloring.}
Jon: Hey! It's sto
Jon: Let's g
Garfield: See what happens w
Garfield: It's been a long tim
SFX: PL
SFX: SP
{Jon and Garfield look at unwashed dishes}
Jon: We nee
Garfield: We're bac
Garfield: I must c
Garfield: Whew! I f
Jon: Have you see
Garfield: Def
Jon: Ah, spr
Jon: A time whe
Jon: What does hap
Garfield: You hold you
Mouse: Mm
Mouse: Cheese wi
Garfield: Mice are s
Category:Buffalo
2749: Delta

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Time for some physical humor, like, literally physics. Here we see 'the world' is in fact on a slope of constant change over time. It is possible cessation of Pudding Pops also lies on this line. And yes, this has so been done to death, let me help build the coffin.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing.
{We see a graph of change vs time with a constant positive slope. The world is a point on this slope}
{Garfield looks anxious}
Category:Levellass
274: Schrödinger's Cat: Reloaded

==Explanation==
Schrödinger's Cat is a famous thought experiment in which there is a cat in a box with a flask of poison which becomes shattered if an internal monitor detects the decay of a single atom. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics seems to imply that, given time, the cat is both alive and dead at the same time. Any event of this type is known as a quantum superposition, which is believed to collapse into a single reality upon observation. While Schrödinger intended to use the experiment to highlight the absurdity of this view, it is still referenced even among physicists who hold to other interpretations that include the dead-and-alive-cat scenario.
Connections to the original comic can be observed: a cat, a box (the TV, the house), a radiation source... one could even say Garfield has been "poisoned" against watching something worthwhile on television.
This edit gives us a looped animation between two frames, one being the original strip, and the other, in which Garfield, his thought balloons, and the remote have been removed. This could signify existence/non-existence, or perhaps changed the channel/left the armchair.
==The author writes:==
I'd like to post another take on the Schrödinger's Garfield theme.
Alternatively, it could be interpreted as:
      Garfield - max(0, (-1)^t * Garfield)
(assuming t is discrete, of course)
Original: .
==Transcript==
TV: Welcome to "Quantum Physics And You".
{The world bifurcates: one reality shows an empty armchair. The other reality shows:}
SFX: click click click
Garfield: Whoa! Look out!
Garfield: Whew! I almost saw something worthwhile.
Category:Quaternion
Category:Science-based comics
Category:Animated comics
2750: Garfield in 2053 Minus Garfield

== Explanation ==
This one is pretty straightforward - it's a Garfield in 2053 strip minus Garfield. As is further explained below, it's essentially become a remake of #386.
== The author writes ==
The cybernetic organism known as Dan Walsh, having run out of strips to use for his depressing and psychedelic experience made from Jim Davis' beloved comic strip, Garfield, has decided to use the latest strip, which only contains Garfield, like all the others made in the past few years, and turn it into a bitter, nihilist reflection on modern life.
Original strip: .
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2013-06-21.
== Transcript ==
{An empty room}
{An empty room}
{An empty room}
Category:Redgreen
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Garfield in 2053
2751: Jogging

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Now Garfield is health-conscious! That's just as amusing as the original strip, right?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield jogs in place behind Jon.}
SFX: Jog Jog Jog Jog Jog
{Garfield lays down. Jon looks back, surprised.}
{Garfield goes back to jogging in place. Jon looks unamused.}
Garfield: It's good to take a break every so often.
SFX: Jog Jog
Category:Jason Tank
2752: Darkfield 2

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon saw a mint on his wrist, but where was his watch? Garfield thought why Jon's tummy was ticking. It's because Jon ate his watch.
The author told Garfield to run far from Jon and he also got the idea reading Garfield's last line over and over. So he edited Jon's speech bubbles, but Garfield's thought bubble didn't need any editing.
==The author writes==
Run far from Jon, Garfield.
I got this idea from reading the last line over and over.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Say, if there's some churros over there, then where is my bomb?
Garfield: And why is your tummy ticking?
Category:twinec
2753: Garfield Adventure

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In reference to Adventure Time, a cartoon I enjoy a lot. If Garfield was interested in having an adventure, he'd want the lead role. Even if he'd be more suited as the orange, smart-alec animal character.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon scratches his chin, as if in thought, and smiles, while Garfield stares blankly.}
Jon: You know what we could use in our lives?
{Jon now raises a finger with a happy expression.}
Jon: A wacky adventure!
{Garfield raises a finger up as well, but his expression stays the same.}
Garfield: I'm in.
{Garfield now raises his hand up.}
Garfield: As long as you're my talking dog sidekick, and I'm the human.
{Jon looks defeated.}
Category:Nathanial Murray
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2754: Polka Palace

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This was the first result when I Google searched for "Polka Palace". I have no idea how good or bad The Backyardigans is, nevermind how bad this particular episode of it was, but I imagine it wasn't very good, just based on past experience with "educational" children's programming from Nickelodeon.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: In quiet moments my mind goes to another place... a happy place.
{Jon imagines Nickelodeon's The Backyardigansâ„¢ The Polka Palace Party: An Adventure in Teamworkâ„¢}
Garfield: Not the Polka Palace!
Jon: The Polka Palace!
==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:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
Category:Mojibake
2755: Love It or Hate It

== Explanation ==
This strip is #2704, but with Jon's jar re-colored to more closely resemble a jar of Marmite, as the author's notes below explain.
== The author writes ==
That didn't look anything like a jar of Marmite. It still doesn't, but at least now it's the right colors. 
Original strip: . 
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2016-10-13. 
== Transcript ==
{Garfield is sitting alone, looking bored. Suddenly, Jon comes in, carrying a 100% genuine jar of Marmite and not a can of frosting, as well as two spoons.} 
Jon: I have a jar of Marmite and two spoons! 
{Garfield and Jon eat the Marmite straight from the jar.} 
Garfield: I prefer Vegemite, but Marmite will do in a pinch. 
Category:Improving humor
Category: Real world references
Category:Midna
2756: Nice Looking Tie, Updated

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Inspired by SRoMG #784, I decided to make an update to the 1981-12-08 strip, which seems to make even more sense in the context of social networking. At least Jon isn't grabbed by the neck now...
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon {typing in the computer}: My what a nice looking tie.
Reply {in the computer screen}: What are you? Some kind of weirdo or something?
Jon {to Garfield}: Some people aren't very nice, are they, Garfield?
Garfield: Welcome to the Internet, Jon.
Category:Ricardo_OC
2757: Smackfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In my country, there's occasionally two stop signs on one-way roads, so when I saw #1890, I knew I needed to do this.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sticking his head out the window}
{Jon does that too}
{Jon and Garfield's heads get struck by two stop signs}
Category:PartyEscortBotBeans
2758: Garfield Dies... Again

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
How many times must Garfield die on SRoMG?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is lying down, not making any movement}
{Garfield is lying down, not making any movement}
{Garfield is lying down, not making any movement}
Category:Camwoodstock & Tori
2759: Whatever happened to Fido Dido's Fido?

==Explanation==
The first part of the author's notes is essentially a composite of Fido Dido's history between the North American and non-North American markets; the mention of 7-up is a clear reference to his role in non-North American markets (in North American markets, Fido Dido promoted the Slice brand instead due to differences in marketing rights involving 7-up), but also mention his role in the Saturday morning lineups on North American television.
==The author writes:==
Fido Dido was a popular cartoon character who was used to promote Pepsi and 7-up, and was heavily featured in commercial bumpers during 1990-1995 Saturday Morning Cartoons. He was most prominent for the Garfield hour-long shows. (He was also there for other CBS shows such as Muppet Babies, Pee Wee Herman, Dink the Dinosaur, etc., though people are more likely to remember Garfield first.)
Since then, he's remained a virtual unknown, having fallen out of the public eye. This is an alternate explanation for how there could've been a falling out within the product and the creative process. The truth is most likely duller.
There was a Fido Dido comic, but since its contents aren't available online, and I didn't have any of the material on-hand, I was reduced to taking stills from the YouTube frames. (The second "chomp" occurs when the screen blacks out, which is why it looks slightly off.)
Fun fact - apart from the titular teenage boy, the rest of the silent cast is virtually nameless. I have no idea what the dog's actual name is, but thought it'd be funnier if he was actually named Fido.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: You can growl in my face, you can lick my head,
Text: Garfield + Friends will return after these messages
SFX: Chomp Chomp
Garfield: But if you touch my food, consider your career dead
SFX: !
Category:DanielBT
Category:Real world references
275: One Small Push...

==Explanation==
In the original, we saw no farther down the ledge than in the other two panels, and we still saw Odie's head. This edit makes the ledge explicitly much taller than we might assume, and has Odie farther along his fall than before.
==The author writes:==
Original: .
That's quite the fall, Odie.
==Transcript==
Garfield: There's only one way to get rid of a free-floating guilt complex.</br>
{Garfield pushes Odie off the table, from where he falls a long way...}</br>
Garfield: Do something to deserve it.
Category:Psychomelody
2760: Samples

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Xindaris writes:
As a follow-up to #2468: Coffie, I eventually managed to track down the program I was talking about in that one. Well, more like someone in the forums found it immediately as soon as that strip was published, and then I took some time to actually get it. So I went to try and use it and, surprise surprise, it doesn't work on modern computers.
I am not an expert in virtual computer running, but I managed to sort of get a Windows 98 virtual machine running and install the comic maker on it. The only problem is that the comic maker's ONLY export function is "print" and I could not despite a lot of effort find a way to make that virtual machine print to a file. Instead I used screenshotting, which I think results in lesser-quality images. Included here are the three "Sample" strips that the comic maker program has available when you first boot it up. The author of all three of them is just "Author", so there's no telling whether Jim Davis or somebody at Scholastic or some random guy off the street made them. I have to wonder whether any of these is actually a reproduction of an existing strip from somewhere.
Whoever it was, I want to talk to them about the errors in the second sample strip: the background color is just ONE pixel down from where it would cover the entire background, and the window is also one pixel below where it probably should be. Speaking of that one, though, does else anyone remember Mrs. Feeney? I may be wrong, but I don't think there's ever been an SRoMG dedicated to her.
These aren't presented in exactly the format they would be in if I'd managed to print to an image somehow. Normally the size of 3 regular panels (or 1 regular panel and 1 big panel) is treated as "one line" and it wraps down to the next, so that the result is friendly to printing on a portrait-oriented paper.
==Transcript==
SAMPLE 1--
{Garfield sees Odie dreaming of a burger}
Garfield: Amateur
{Garfield dreams of FOUR burgers}
SAMPLE 2--
Jon: That was Mrs. Feeny. She told me what you did
Jon: Her tulip garden will never be the same!
Garfield: Neither will Mrs. Feeney. You should've seen her
Jon: The little victory dance was also uncalled for
Garfield: Why?... I let her lead
SAMPLE 3--
Garfield: Fore!
SFX: BOOT!
Garfield: Rats! Landed in a bear trap!
==Trivia==
The then-hypothetical Mrs. Feeny-dedicated strip alluded to in the author's notes would ultimately come to fruition as 4193: The Feeny Saga.
Category:Anonymous
Category:Xindaris
Category:No original strip
2761: Oh, Lawsey, Lawsey, Lawsey...

==Explanation==
This strip essentially switches Lyman's and Odie's heads and body colorations, keeping the names attached to the lower bodies, essentially turning Odie!Lyman into a dog-headed human and Lyman!Odie into a human-headed dog.
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{DING DONG}
{Jon answers the door to "Lyman", a bizarre creature with the body of a man but the head of a dog}
Jon: Lyman
Lyman: Jon
Lyman: I'm cold. I'm hungry. I'm weak. Take me in!
Jon: Sure, Lyman. You know my home is your home.
Garfield: And my sandbox is off-limits.
Jon: Is that all you have, the one suitcase?
Lyman: Not exactly
Lyman: HERE BOY!
{An equally demented hybrid with the body of a dog but the head of a man hops into the house to Garfield's horror}
Garfield: Oh, Lawsey, Lawsey, Lawsey.
Category:Billy Hicks
2764: The Darkness consumed your pudding pops

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield comic, Garfield senses the forces of darkness gathering but it might be his imagination. Jon tells Garfield that it's diet time which startles Garfield. Now Garfield runs away telling the readers to save themselves.
In the Square Root of Minus Garfield comic, Garfield patrols the Dreadnought in Saturn's Ring and says he senses the forces of darkness gathering. Jon Arbuckle has been replaced by Oryx, The Taken King, which is startling Garfield telling him that's it's die time, which means it's time to die. Garfield runs away from Oryx and in the opposite direction telling the readers to save themselves... again.
The Destiny Game Over screen appears and it says "The Darkness Consumed You" with a thing below it saying Restarting From Last Checkpoint... and this username called xX_puddingpopdestroyer_Xx and the darkness has consumed your pudding pops which says that in the title. The reason why they consumed them because they stopped making them.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield patrols the Dreadnought in Saturn's Ring} 
Garfield: I sense the forces of darkness gathering. 
{Oryx, The Taken King appears, startling Garfield} 
Oryx: It's die time. 
{Garfield runs in the opposite direction} 
Garfield: Save yourselves! 
{Destiny game over screen}
Category:Micahlad
2765: The Car-tuner in Action

==Explanation==
The TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 ran for ten seasons on cable TV, and currently has an eleventh season on Netflix. The main focus was on making fun of bad movies, but during seasons 1-5 (and 11+), the show would begin with an "invention exchange", showing off two goofy devices. The fourth season's 24th episode (which featured one Manos: The Hands of Fate, one of the worst movies ever made) had an invention called the "Car-tuner", which purportedly mashed up two different, unfunny comic strips and created an amalgam of them that was actually funny. The strips themselves were never shown, just given a verbal description. The final mash-up was described by two lines of dialogue:
:"Ziggy had Garfield neutered? Now that's funny!"
This SRoMG strip attempts to replicate what the invention could have made from combining the Garfield and Ziggy comic strips. It features Ziggy's one-panel style.
==The author writes==
I got inspired by a thread in the forums. This is better then seeing Dagwood eat a tufted titmouse, for sure.
Context.
Original strip: .
Original Ziggy strip: 2015-09-08.
==Transcript==
{Ziggy is listening to a veterinarian in his office. Garfield is in a full-body cast with a stunned expression on his face.}
Vet: There wasn't a problem with the neutering. I just put him in a cast because I hate his smarmy attitude.
Category:Jason Tank
Category:Non-Garfield comics
2767: Jon's a Jerk

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Well, this is the most depressing strip I've ever made...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {smugly, to Garfield}: Liz likes me more than she likes you!
{Garfield stands alone in the room}
{We slowly zoom in on his face as he begins to tear up}
{Cut back to the wide shot of the room, where Garfield is now openly crying}
Garfield {still crying, "calls out" to Jon}: Liz also likes broccoli!
Category:Crazy56U
2768: More Beautiful Inlawfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The second one definitely has more G's than the first.
I am sorry to say that mine have slightly clearer story lines than manyhills's.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Mouse: {pointing to Jon while filing large regal flag} I file a large regal flag! Afraid?
{Jon is dumbstruck by the fact that another one of these strips has just been made.}
Jon: Garfield...
Garfield: Egad! I fear rage!
Garfield: {left half of body off panel} Fill. Agreed, laddie?
Jon: Greed
Jon: I gage a giddier Garfield
Garfield: {as his whole body comes into view, it is shown that his tail is hyperactive} I, a giddier Garfield? Liar.
Category:B.L.