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69: Garfield Minus Garfield, Value Added: Help Me Do Nothing

==Explanation==
The author, in reading strips from Garfield Minus Garfield, sometimes gets an idea for adding something to the strip. In this case, an old sailing ship on what has been interpreted as a sea rather than just a blue ledge. Whether it has turned because the crew is afraid of giants, or just afraid of boring suggestions, is left as an exercise for the reader.
==The author writes:==
Most of the Garfield Minus Garfield things are great like they are, but I sometimes feel the need to add something back in...
Original strip from Original from Garfield Minus Garfield from 2009-03-09
==Transcript==
{A ship sails across a sea}</br>
Jon: Who wants to help me do nothing? {Jon looms as an immense giant above the ship}</br>
{Ship flees}</br>
Voice on ship: Aieee!!
Category:tudza
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
6: Silent-Era Garfield

==Explanation==
This strip, as explained in the author's notes, edits out all the dialogue except for the punchline, while also presenting the strip as if it were an old silent film.
Without superfluous dialogue, the strip flows better - a classic example of "brevity is wit."
==The author writes:==
This is a classic case of where Garfield violates the fundamental principle of comedy: Brevity is the soul of wit*. The original strip () has completely superfluous dialogue in the first two panels. You really only need the punchline to make the joke work - and it actually works better that way. So I decided to turn this one completely silent and have the punchline appear as a silent movie era title card.
* Polonius, in Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2.
==Transcript==
{Garfield lies prone on the floor with a confident grin. The images are sepia-toned and scratchy.} 
{Garfield strains mightily to push himself off the floor.} 
{Garfield lies flat on the floor with a disgruntled expression.} 
Card with Garfield's thoughts written on it, surrounded by a fancy border: 'So much for "push". Tomorrow we work on "up".'
Category:Improving humor
Category:David Morgan-Mar
Category:Theater references
706: Jon and Lyman 3: Movie

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 706: Jon and Lyman #3: Movie.
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==Explanation==
In the original September 9th strip, Jon didn't think much of the plot of the film Lyman was going to see, and Lyman made a pun. In the original September 16th strip, Lyman's breakdown was a result of seeing his assertion that a dog is necessary for protection challenged by Garfield chasing Odie.
In this edit, Lyman breaks down... after explaining the plot of the film, for reasons the author knows.
The author's note mentions the trope of the Limited Wardrobe, in which a character has an outfit that they rarely deviate from, such as Jon's cyan shirt and Lyman's green shirt, and both of their black pants, even when the strips take place on different days. This means an editor can combine strips without jarring clothes coloring changes. (They're not walls, after all, so these things matter.)
==The author writes:==
Limited wardrobe enables playing around with the characters' personalities with very few alterations on the original strips. It seems Lyman also has some issues.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: What're you doing tonight, Lyman?
Lyman: I'm gonna catch the new flick down at the Bijou.
Lyman: It's about this kid who puts a tack in his teacher's chair, and she sits on it.
{Lyman starts crying.}
Jon: {thinking} I hate to see a grown man cry.
Category:Vigintiseptem
70: Reversed Garfield - Variant

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield couldn't change the TV channel because the TV was broken, so Jon gave him a book to read instead. Garfield responded by pointing the remote at the book and expressing frustration that the pages wouldn't turn.
Here, it is the book that is apparently broken, and Jon suggests that Garfield watch TV... which is apparently still broken as well, judging from Garfield's reaction.
==The author writes:==
Original strip is from 
==Transcript==
Garfield: {aiming a remote at a book} Rats! The pages won't turn.
[SFX]: click click click
Jon: The book's broken, Garfield.
Jon: Here, watch TV for a change. {takes book away}
[SFX]: click click click
Garfield: {aiming remote at TV} Rats! The channel won't turn!
Category:MiffTheFox
Category:Joke reversal
716: Jon and Lyman 4: The roll

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 716: Jon and Lyman #4: The roll.
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==Explanation==
As you might already guess, the roll in the original strip was intercepted by Garfield, not a dimensional disruption.
==The author writes:==
If I were a dimensional disruption, I would go for rolls as well.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon has a bowl of rolls.}
Lyman: Throw me a roll, Jon.
{Jon throws a roll, but a dimensional disruption appears and swallows the roll.}
SFX: Gulp!
Lyman: Pass me a roll, Jon.
Category:Vigintiseptem
71: Garfield Minus Garfield, Value Added: Woo, woo, woo

==Explanation==
The author, in reading strips from Garfield Minus Garfield, sometimes gets an idea for adding something to the strip. In this case, a lone sheep. Whether it is shocked and disturbed by the giant or by his behavior is left as an exercise for the reader.
==The author writes:==
Most of the Garfield Minus Garfield things are great like they are, but I sometimes feel the need to add something back in...
Original strip from Original from Garfield Minus Garfield from 2009-03-11
==Transcript==
{A sheep}</br>
Jon: {an enormous giant, leaping over the sheep} Woo woo woo!</br>
{Sheep looking shocked and disturbed}
Category:tudza
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
722: Found by: Zalgo

==Explanation==
In these original Garfield comics, Jon and Garfield hide in the closet, and they scream because it's Jon's father.
Here, they are hiding in the closet, getting scared of Zalgo.
==The author writes== 
What if Garfield and Jon were found by someone, or something, else besides Jon's father? This is just one of many possibilities.
Original strip: , 
==Transcript==
SFX: CLOMP CLOMP 
Jon: What do you suppose it is?
Garfield: Let's hope it's the welcome wagon.
SFX: CLOMP CLOMP
Jon: He comes!
Jon & Garfield: Zalgo!
==Later references==
* No. 2941: Found By: Giygas follows up on this strip, substituting Zalgo with another well-known Eldritch horror.
Category:Enhas
Category:Zalgo Garfield
728: Clowns

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield remarks on the lack of action to either side of him before sarcastically suggesting that his current position (or perhaps right in front of him?) is a theoretical hot-spot. In this version, he instead recites the chorus to the famous Stealers Wheel tune "Stuck in the Middle with You", whose lyrics fit well with his glances.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {looking left} Clowns to the left of me...</br>
Garfield: {looking right} Jokers to the right...</br>
Garfield: {looking straight ahead} Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
Category:Chezzie
Category:Music references
72: Meditations on Garfield

==Explanation==
In the original strip, when Jon looked up to see what he thought Garfield was looking at, it was then that Garfield began to snore, causing Jon to realize that Garfield was actually sleeping.
Here, Garfield recites a Hindu mantra offering to Śiva/Shiva a respectful invocation of his name, preceded by the mystical syllable "Aum", often transcribed as "Om".
The idea is likely to have come from the similar appearance of "Om" to Jon's original "Oh".
==The author writes:==
Om
Aum Namah Shivaya
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{Jon comes across Garfield, whose face looks upwards.}
{Jon turns to look upwards, at whatever it may be that Garfield looks at.}
Garfield: Aum Namah Shivaya.
Jon: Om.
Category:Matt Albrecht
Category:Real world references
732: Garfield Fortress 2

== Explanation ==
This one is fairly self-explanatory in and of itself - it's just the heads of Garfield characters pasted over the heads of the Team Fortress characters. Rather, it's the jokes implicit in the correspondence between the two that needs explaining. From left to right:
* Odie -> Pyro: Both are known for being silent, crazy types.
* Doc Boy -> Engineer: Both are country boys.
* Pookie -> Sniper: Both are known for standing still. (This could be taken as a minor dig at Snipers in TF2, as Pookie is a helpless inanimate object, and, in some people's opinion, so are many Sniper players.)
* Lyman -> Spy: Both are known for disappearing. (Perhaps Lyman is a Cloak and Dagger Spy who went AFK?)
* Garfield -> Heavy: Both are known for being large.
* Binky The Clown -> Demoman: Both are known for explosive entrances.
* Liz -> Medic: Both are healers without medical degrees (if for completely different reasons).
* Nermal -> Scout: Both are "annoying", both are the youngest characters in their respective casts (ignoring fish and spiders, who rarely survive through an entire Garfield strip).
* Jon -> Soldier: Both are utterly insane in a quiet, understated way. (Sure, the Soldier is loud, but most of his madness only shows through when he tries to provide logic for what he's doing.)
==Transcript==
{The "Meet the Team" shot from Team Fortress 2, with the following modifications pasted on:</br>
Odie's head replaces the Pyro's</br>
Doc Boy's head replaces the Engineer's</br>
Pookie's head replaces the Sniper's</br>
Lyman's head replaces the Spy's</br>
Garfield's head replaces the Heavy's</br>
Binky the Clown's head replaces the Demoman's</br>
Liz's head replaces the Medic's</br>
Nermal's head replaces the Scout's</br>
Jon's head replaces the Soldier's</br>
The "Fortress 2" in "Team Fortress 2" has been replaced with "Garfield", thus the text reads "Team Garfield"}
==The author writes:==
I figured why not take the two most remixed properties I know of and mix them together?
Original strip: None, but the image is taken from Trailer 1 for Team Fortress 2, because later group shots put the scout's head in front of the Sniper's body, making substituting the heads that much more tricky.
Category:Lubaf
Category:Video game references
Category:No original strip
738: Jon and Lyman 5: Scary TV show

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 738: Jon and Lyman #5: Scary TV show.
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==Explanation==
In the original from the 21st, Garfield screamed out of boredom, sending Lyman, Odie, and Jon into the ceiling. Here, Lyman screams for some reason, sending Jon alone into the ceiling; Odie doesn't seem to be present. The title indicates that this is due to a scary TV show, while the author's note speculates that he saw even a little bit of Garfield: The Movie, which was enough to make him scream, as it was generally unfavorably reviewed.
==The author writes:==
Maybe Lyman caught a glimpse of Garfield: The Movie...
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Lyman and Jon are sitting on chairs; Lyman is watching TV, Jon is reading a newspaper.}
Lyman: {screaming} ARGHHH!
{Jon has jumped through the ceiling and is hanging from the hole by his neck; Lyman continues watching TV.}
Category:Vigintiseptem
Category:Film references
73: Garfield Minus Garfield, Value Added: Mysterious

==Explanation==
The author, in reading strips from Garfield Minus Garfield, sometimes gets an idea for adding something to the strip. In this case, it consists of making Jon fade to non-existence, or at least invisibility, over the course of the last two strips.
Incidentally, Jon's statement was originally a question, but Dan Walsh changed it to its current form.
==The author writes:==
Most of the Garfield Minus Garfield things are great like they are, but I sometimes feel the need to add something back in...
Original strip: Original from Garfield Minus Garfield from 2009-01-05
==Transcript==
Jon: {in trenchcoat and hat} This outfit makes me look mysterious.</br>
{Jon fades from view...}</br>
{Jon is gone... or is he invisible...?}
Category:tudza
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
749: Manga Garfield 3: Black Humour

==Explanation==
This strip, contrary to its title, is intended to be the second part of the author's "Manga Garfield" trilogy, which started in 372: Manga Garfield; the intended finale, 458: Manga Garfield 2 - The End, wound up published before this strip.
==The author writes:==
I'm sure that after posting the first two pages of the What's Michael manga, people may naturally be curious as to why this story was left out of the Dark Horse English translation. Well, the next two pages may be a big clue. I've tried to recreate the dialogue as best as I can remember in the 2nd page, with some slight differences. In the last panel, the cartoonist originally said, "No reason...", but in foreign editions, he just said the silent "...", similar for most of the comic at the beginning.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is sitting at his cartooning table. Garfield is sitting by the window, with his back to Jon}
Jon: I wonder what would happen...
{Jon throws a cigarette lighter at Garfield}
SFX: TUNK!
Jon: If I hit this kitty at Mach 2.
{Garfield stumbles and falls out the window}
Jon: ... Hurm...
Lyman: Hey, did you say something?
Jon: Uh?
Jon: No, nothing...
Jon: Nothing at all...
Jon: ... ...
Jon: Say Lyman, if a cat fell six floors onto a concrete sidewalk, do you think it'd survive?
Lyman: Huh?
Lyman: No way! That's pretty high up, even for a cat!
Lyman: Why'd you ask that?
Jon: ... Reference...
Category:DanielBT
Category:Non-Garfield comics
74: Plush Garfield: Reproportioned Jon

==Explanation==
In the author's notes for #52, the author remarked on comic strip character proportions. For this strip, David, who plays Jon, has had his image manipulated to more or less match Jon's proportions. Below is a chat transcript between the two authors of this strip and Joe Mucchiello.
==The author writes:==
jmucchiello: So what was harder, getting the size difference between a plush cat and yourself to line or spinning around like Jon does in the last panel? I imagine the last panel could have required multiple takes.
DMM: Yeah, I had to shoot multiple takes of each frame. And some of those poses were very uncomfortable and awkward. And compounding the problem is the fact that Jon isn't proportioned like a real human being.
AB: Indeed not. But, with just a little bit of work...
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, there was a pan of lasagna here.</br>
Jon: Where's the lasagna?</br>
Garfield: Resting comfortably.</br>
Jon: Where's the pan?</br>
Garfield: Resting not so comfortably.
Category:Andrew Bird
Category:David Morgan-Mar
Category:Strip recreations
750: Jon and Lyman 6: Scary Newspaper (or Vengeance)

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 750: Jon and Lyman #6: Scary Newspaper (or Vengeance).
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This just had to be done after the previous one, for the sake of fairness alone.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Lyman and Jon are sitting on chairs; Lyman is watching TV, Jon is reading a newspaper.}
Jon: {screaming} ARGHHH!
{Lyman has jumped through the ceiling and is hanging from the hole by his neck; Jon continues reading.}
Category:Vigintiseptem
751: Loneliness

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Using the resources from the Garfield Minus Garfield randomiser.
Original Garfield Minus Garfield: unknown, 2008-03-03. unknown.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon {morose}: Sometimes I feel like everybody hates me.
Jon: {Has a determined, angry expression}
SFX {from off panel, on right}: THUD
Caption: Loneliness is our middle name.
Category:PTTG
Category:Webcomic references
755: Comic in a Blender

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon and the blender were the focus of the first panel, and the punchline is Garfield remarking "Is it Saturday night already?" Feeling that this was rather underwhelming (after all, the simple physical comedy of Jon somehow gluing a blender to his face is all you really need), Manyhills took to the Irregular Webcomic! forums to remark on this, to which superluser provided this edit (where Jon's plain-faced remark is the punchline).
==The author writes:==
manyhills wrote in the forum:
While browsing for ideas I came across the strip.
I kinda wonder why Davis didn't just stop writing after the first panel. No matter what you put in panels two and three, it's just gonna be a disappointment.''
superluser wrote:
How I'd do it:
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon has a blender on his face; Garfield looks shocked}</br>
{Jon has a blender on his face; Garfield looks shocked}</br>
Jon: I glued a blender to my face.
==Later references==
* This comic inspired a whole slew of "Garfield [something that sounds like 'minus'] Garfield"-like edits, to the point that it was considered something of a second coming of the overused running gag.
Category:Blender
Category:Improving humor
Category:Manyhills
Category:superluser
75: Liz Minus (Garfield and Jon)

==Explanation==
Inspired by Garfield Minus Garfield, this is a strip with Jon and Garfield omitted.
==The author writes:==
I suspect this is what friends I haven't seen in a while do now and again.
Original comic: 
==Transcript==
{Liz, silently pondering}
Liz: Oh yes, I remember.
Liz: Names escape me, but I never forget a twit.
Category:John Callaghan
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
760: Jon and Lyman 7: How it ended

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 760: Jon and Lyman #7: How it ended.
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The eternal mystery - what happened to Lyman? - needed to be solved. Originally I had him just leave for whatever reason, as seen in the first four frames and Jon thinking by himself that he always hated Lyman's moustache which is pretty terrible to tell the truth (hence Jon's thought of hitting Lyman in the head and Lyman going somewhere).
However, Jim Davis' explanation to the reason of Lyman's disappearance ("Don't look in Jon's basement") proved funnier to explore, so I altered the strip accordingly (and managed to slip in something which could be interpreted as an alternate background premise for Garfield Minus Garfield - just think about that). The question remains: Why did Jon kill Lyman? Maybe he was maddened by the incident shown in Jon and Lyman #5. Maybe he did always hate Lyman's moustache. Maybe Lyman used his sandbox. We'll never know.
P.S. I'm perfectly aware.
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Are you sure you packed everything?
Lyman: Yes.
Lyman: Oh, Jon! I will miss you so much! Will you miss me?
Jon: Don't be silly, of course I will miss you, Lyman.
{Jon thinks about hitting Lyman in the head}
Jon: Goodbye.
Lyman: See ya. {Lyman walks out}
{The door is closed}
Lyman: {from behind the door} Um, Jon... This is the basement, let me out.
Lyman: There's a dead cat in here and I think I smell bitter almonds.
Lyman: Jon?
{a close-up of Jon laughing maniacally}
Category:Vigintiseptem
767: Changefield 5: Fern Comics

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 767: Changefield #5: Fern Comics.
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==Explanation==
Despite its title, this is actually the sixth 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:==
For some reason, the comics with ferns in them were always my favourite ones.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: We need to make some changes around here!
Garfield: You're right!
SFX: POW!
{Garfield and Jon are transformed into ferns}
Category:Michael Halila
768: Yecch!

==Explanation==
This image imitates the fold-ins seen in every issue of Mad magazine. As is shown here, each one shows an image (often somewhat abstract) and a question, which the reader must fold back so that points A and B match, at which point the answer becomes apparent. Usually, the answer is completely different from what you would expect. (On a side note, every one begins with "Here we go with another ridiculous MAD Fold-In, which this version duly mirrors.)
Manyhills' take on the formula is a decent example of this in action: folding the image back reveals that Garfield is thinking "What me worry?", the catchphrase of the magazine's mascot Alfred E. Neuman. The title is another Mad in-joke - "yecch!" was one of its many repeated phrases.
In the author's note, Manyhills reveals that he hasn't really read MAD, as it is apparently uncommon in Britain, but knows all of these things through cultural osmosis - the indirect infusion of cultural knowledge.
==The author writes:==
Obviously I would prefer it if you actually printed it out and folded it in real life. I didn't, I just used the GIMP. But still.
I've read, ooh, one issue of MAD Magazine ever? I'm not sure anywhere sells it in the UK. But it's cultural osmosis, innit.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Title: What is Garfield really thinking? 
Title: Here we go with another ridiculous Garfield Fold-In 
Title: Everyone's favourite cat may appear at first sight overly paranoid, but what are the actual thoughts of this fretful feline? To find out, fold the page as shown. 
Garfield: What a strange world this is! 
Garfield: Full of so many dangers... can I be blamed 
Garfield: if it makes me a bit wary?
==Trivia==
The rough approximation of the folded image eventually formed the basis of 5325: the answer to #768.
Category:Manyhills
Category:Print references
Category:Puzzles
76: Identity Function Garfield

==Explanation==
The Identity Function is a mathematical function that returns the value fed into it. (It is usually only important as part of defining the inverse of a function--if two functions, when combined, produce an identity function, they are said to be each other's inverse for the method of combination at hand.) Thus, the strip is identical to the original.
==The author writes:==
Jon: Garfield, why don't you catch mice?
Jon: Are you afraid of them?
Jon: What power do they have over you?
Garfield: Tiny little incriminating photographs.
==Transcript==
This comic has been produced by applying the identity function simultaneously to every pixel of the comic of .
I don't think it's funny by itself*, but it might by funny after the sum, average, division, and polar coordinate transform "functions" on Garfield.
* ED: Ouch!
Category:Pieter
Category:Unchanged strips
Category:Math-based comics
770: Garfield Stanton Friedman Garfield

==Explanation==
Stanton Friedman is a professional Ufologist and the original civilian investigator of the [[Roswell UFO incident|Roswell incident]. The second panel involves him, a UFO, and Garfield wearing strange glasses (presumably tying into a conspiracy theorist sterotype of some sort). Of course, the main point of the strip is that the "constantly changing" formula has degraded into total nonsense, as Garfield's confused stare at the end makes rather obvious.
==The author writes:==
Has anyone else noticed that these strips don't make any sense any more?
Original strips: and .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing. 
{Jon is replaced by Stanton Friedman.} 
{Silence.}
Category:Avant-garde strips
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Michael Halila
Category:Real world references
773: Centrefurld

==Explanation==
Where the original strip has the centerfold in the last panel elongated to fit "Almira, the Amazon", this edit makes the centerfold normal size and replaces Almira with an image of Garfield stripped of his fur.
The author's comments allude to the lyrics of the J. Geils Band song "Centerfold".
==The author writes:==
I bet Jon's blood runs cold. His memory has just been sold.
Original strips (pun intended): , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Oh boy! My bachelor magazine.
Jon: I wonder who the centerfold is: Elke? Farrah?
{Jon frowns upon seeing centerfold is a fur-less Garfield}
Category:JLH
Category:Music references