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77: Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon

==Explanation==
Like a number of strips, this employs the Garfield Minus Garfield approach of removing characters and their dialogue. In this case, both Garfield and Jon are removed, leaving only Odie.
==The author writes:==
Well, after Garfield minus Garfield and Garfield minus Jon, it seemed only logical to complete the set by doing away with them both...
I like to think panel two is Odie's sudden realisation of utter solitude.
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{Odie looking relaxed}
{Odie looking shocked}
Odie: {howling} Aaarrroooo
Category:Andrew Collier
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
784: Centrefold, Updated

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
AK47 wrote in the forums:
JLH's version is how the original comic should have been done. When I saw the source comic, with the title character completely absent, and Jon being a vehicle for some kind of joke about tall women being unattractive (what???), or possibly an observation about the size of centrefolds, I just couldn't believe it was a real, published Garfield strip at all.
I guess you have to put it down to being one of the older comics, when Jim Davis was still finding his groove for the strip. Imagine the letters to the editor if tomorrow's Garfield strip had no Garfield, but instead just Jon entering "hot ladies" into Google and disappointedly finding Almira the Amazon. It'd be Remembrance Day all over again!
I wonder, does Mr Davis look back on that one and think "What was I thinking?" or what?
MadDogBV wrote:
The original strip always confounded me too. I could only assume it was for the reason that you indicated. Bear in mind that this was back in the 70s, of course.
That gives me an idea...
The twist I made was a purely fundamental one. A lot more can be added onto it, but very few strips exist (I'd venture as far as to say "none") where Jon is viewed from the back looking at a computer monitor. It left me with very few options but to go for simple bad taste, as the original poster indicated - Jon looking at Playboy online and being disappointed with the featured item being an Amazon.
He's right; if this type of strip were published nowadays, the press would have a field day. And yet we can't deny that this is exactly the sort of thing that pre-2007 Jon would do. :P
Original strips (snicker): , .
==Transcript==
Jon: {at computer} Don't tell Garfield... My monthly Playboy e-mail's arrived.
Jon: I wonder who the centerfold is: Elke? Farrah?
Jon: What? *sigh* Almira the Amazon?
Category:MadDogBV
Category:AK47
Category:Print references
786: Transplanted Punchline Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Given this forum thread, I realised we'd see a lot of SRoMG strips of the 2008-04-26 strip with the punchline changed. So I decided to instead find a strip with the exact same joke, and transplant the punchline there.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: There's nothing happening.
Jon: I finally got the wildfire in my sock drawer under control!
Garfield: Is it Saturday night already?
Category:Lubaf
78: Garfield & Hobbes

==Explanation==
A rather simple edit: Calvin's tiger form in the original Calvin and Hobbes strip is replaced with an image of Garfield.
==The author writes:==
This is based on the Calvin & Hobbes strip from 1987-03-28 when Calvin "transmogrified" himself into a smaller version of Hobbes.
==Transcript==
Hobbes: So you're a tiger now?
Calvin: Yep. Let me out.
{Hobbes lifts the corner of the box.}
{Calvin has been transformed into Garfield.}
Hobbes: Words fail me.
Calvin/Garfield: I'm disappointed too, but keep in mind transmogrification is a new technology.
==Later references==
Category:Craig Wittler
Category:No original strip
Category:Comic strip references
79: Liz and Jon's Father Minus Jon but Plus Each Other

==Explanation==
This strip inserts Jon's father, a farm owner, into a 1980s comic involving Liz. The "vulgarity" comes from the context into which his line is placed, presumably referring to milking Liz instead of a farm animal.
==The author writes:==
I do hope the strip doesn't seem vulgar*.
Original strips from and .
[* Admin: Or maybe that's part of the charm...]
==Transcript==
Jon's father: I gotta milk something!
Liz: Could you make it through the night if I said no?
Jon's Father: Yes.
Liz: No.
Category:John Callaghan
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
7: Mystical Garfield

==Explanation==
It appears that Garfield is attending a hermeticism course. Hermeticism is a religion involving magic. The "Law of Contagion" he mentions is the belief that if two beings or objects touch one another, then they share a magical link unless a banishing act (i.e. an exorcism) is performed to destroy it. 
With this in mind, it's likely that Garfield is cutting off Jon's hair to form a link, presumably to annoy him more than he already does.
==The author writes:==
The idea of Garfield studying hermetic magic just appeals to me.
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==Transcript==
{Garfield sneaks up behind Jon.} 
{Garfield snips a lock of Jon's hair.} 
SFX: Snip! 
Garfield: {walking off with the hair} My Hermetic Magic course is up to the Law of Contagion...
Category:Real world references
Category:David Morgan-Mar
80: Zero Function Garfield

==Explanation==
The zero function is a function that returns a value of 0 no matter what you put into it. The author ran the color values of each pixel through the function, thus generating a black rectangle. This relates to the original strip, in which Garfield was supposed to be doing sit-ups, but never got past a count of zero.
==The author writes:==
Oh come on, someone had to do it. For reference: zero function.
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{An image whose pixel values are all zero.}
Category:Math-based comics
Category:David Morgan-Mar
811: Minefield 2

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 811: Minefield #2.
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==Explanation==
This comic uses the first two panels of the first strip featuring Lyman, in which he went on to beg to stay with Jon, with Jon welcoming him to do so (and Garfield setting a boundary).
The third panel is an edit of the strip in which Jon asked if Lyman just had the one suitcase, which proceeded with Lyman calling in his dog, whose name would soon be revealed to be Odie. Here, Jon has been removed, as well as his and Lyman's speech balloons. Lyman has been flipped to face the door, and his head angle adjusted to regard the Creeper, iconic enemy from the video game Minecraft.
Its hissing, signaling that it will soon explode, comes from a strip in which Jon, his father, and Garfield are hanging out at a fence when the father spits out some chewing tobacco. Jon seems to disapprove, but the father says, "A good chew never hurt nobody" as Garfield also spits some out. This latter spitting is where the "SSS" comes from; it was originally followed by a "T".
The final panel is from a strip in which Lyman tested if it hurts to rub a cat the wrong way. The answer was "Yes"; this answer was removed and replaced with "Creeper".
==The author writes:==
In movies and TV shows, it always really bugs me when characters go into a house or apartment and don't close the front door behind them. This could happen!
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
SFX: ding dong
Jon: Lyman.
Lyman: Jon.
Creeper: sss
Lyman: {severely damaged} Creeper.
Category:Michael Halila
Category:Video game references
81: James A. Garfield

==Explanation==
James A. Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, becoming President on March 4th, 1881, being shot by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, and dying on September 19, thus concluding the second-shortest presidency to date, and leaving Chester A. Arthur to succeed him.
Some say that the common practice of inserting unsterilized fingers into the bullet wound by the doctors was a major factor, though others say infection from the bullet itself was inevitable, and a professor has said that starvation also played a role, going on to say that in today's world, he would've gone home in a couple of days.
The choice of president is simple enough to figure out, as his surname is Garfield, same as the cat's name. This is no coincidence, as Garfield the cat was named after Jim Davis' grandfather, James Garfield Davis, himself named after the president.
James A. Garfield's quote here is an excerpt from p. 396 of The Diary of James A. Garfield: 1875-1877 (1983), edited by Harry James Brown and Frederick D. Williams. In the context of the comic, he seems to be considering the fact that the Arbuckle household is down to only one bag of potato chips to be a great crisis.
Speaking of potato chips (or "crisps" in British English, as "chips" there are more similar to french fries), they were, indeed, invented a few decades before Garfield's presidency; a traditional story dates them to 1853 in the United States, while in England, it's attributed to William Kitchinier's 1822 cookbook The Cook's Oracle, a bestseller in both England and the United States.
Whether James A. Garfield ever had this kind of potato chip is unknown, but certainly possible. (Incidentally, earlier president Thomas Jefferson had "potatoes served in the French manner" in 1802.)
==The author writes:==
James A. Garfield was the President of the United States for four months, until a disgruntled speechwriter shot him in his torso. Thanks to the efforts of his doctors, what may have been a non-fatal shooting ended up growing into an infection, killing him eighty days later. Presumably, he enjoyed potato chips.
The portrait used of James A. Garfield here is public domain.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Not counting this bag...</br>
Jon: We're completely out of potato chips.</br>
James A. Garfield: Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Real world references
Category:Visual puns
821: Minefield 3

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 821: Minefield #3.
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==Explanation==
In the original 1988 strip, Garfield saw Snoopy of Peanuts fame when he looked in the mirror, and said, "It's going to be one of those Mondays". Here, he sees a Creeper, the iconic enemy of the video game Minecraft, which, upon noticing a player, approaches, hissing and flashing, until a few seconds later when it explodes if not first otherwise killed, destroying a lot of surroundings and killing any insufficiently-protected players nearby.
In the 1980 comic, Jon, his father, and Garfield are hanging out at a fence when the father spits out some chewing tobacco. Jon seems to disapprove, but the father says, "A good chew never hurt nobody" as Garfield also spits some out. This latter spitting is where the "SSS" comes from; it was originally followed by a "T".
The 1984 strip is where the often-used explosion panel comes from; it originally occurred when Garfield "borrowed" the ballet slippers Jon had intended to give to his niece and did a few moves, causing them to "blow out on a bourrée".
==The author writes:==
One of the things I like the most about Garfield is the absurd humour.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks up to a mirror}
{He sees himself reflected as a creeper}
SFX: sss
SFX: POW!
Category:Michael Halila
Category:Video game references
826: Garfield's Theatres

==Explanation==
This edit swaps the middle panels of the two strips.
==The author writes:==
After seeing today's (2011-07-05) strip, I couldn't resist.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Welcome to "Garfield's Horror Theater".
Jon: Hungry?
Garfield: Nope.
Garfield: You have been watching "Garfield's Horror Theater".
Garfield: Welcome to "Garfield's Science Fiction Theater".
Garfield: We're out of cookies!
Garfield: You have been watching "Garfield's Science Fiction Theater".
Category:NES Boy
82: xkcd minus Garfield

==Explanation==
Rather than editing a Garfield strip, the author instead edited an xkcd strip in which Randall Munroe urges Jim Davis to "make up for it all" by doing something completely unexpected. In the original strip, this was Garfield telling us "The world is burning" and to "RUN" with a smile and a weirdly twitchy eye; here, it's just four panels of the blue background.
==The author writes:==
The original comic, from xkcd, is by Randall Munroe and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Licence.
==Transcript==
I want to see something unexpected in the comics. Just one strip could make up for it all.
{blank panel}
{blank panel}
{blank panel}
{blank panel}
Jim Davis, throw off your commercial shackles. Challenge us. Go out in a blaze of Dadaist glory. There is still time.
==Later references==
The very next strip, by a different author, shows us (almost) what it might have looked like had Jim Davis simply taken Randall Munroe's idea instead of coming up with his own.
Category:Chris Mann
Category:Webcomic references
Category:No original strip
Category:Non-Garfield comics
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
837: Minefield 4

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 837: Minefield #4.
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==Explanation==
In the original 1985 strip, the "SSSSSSS" was the beginning of a "SPLUT", finally achieved when Garfield opened the box's door to see what was hissing, unleashing the pie within and being hit in the face with it. Here, the hissing is implied to be from a Creeper, iconic enemy from the video game Minecraft. Creepers, once they notice a player character, start approaching them, hissing, then flashing, signaling that they're about to explode. The explosion here comes from a strip in which Garfield "borrowed" the ballet slippers Jon had intended to give to his niece and did a few moves, causing them to "blow out on a bourrée".
==The author writes:==
The 1985-02-06 strip took on a whole new meaning after I started playing Minecraft.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks past a box making a hissing noise}
SFX: sss
SFX: sss
{The box explodes}
SFX: POW!
Category:Michael Halila
Category:Video game references
83: Garfield minus xkcd

==Explanation==
In the title, the minuend and the subtrahend have become transposed; in the comic itself, the author depicts what it might look like if Jim Davis had merely redone Randall's example strip instead of coming up with something on his own. (Of course, he likely would not have had the signature and date in all three panels.)
Incidentally, the strip used is about Garfield encouraging everyone to do his best... with the intent that he won't have to do much of anything. This may or may not be a commentary on the state of Garfield comics.
==The author writes:==
Original Garfield strip: .
The original xkcd strip by Randall Munroe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Licence.
[Admin note: I received this strip from a different author completely independently of the previous strip, and just two days later.]
==Transcript==
{Garfield staring maniacally out of the comic frame}</br>
Garfield: The world is burning.</br>
Garfield: {eye twitching weirdly} RUN
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Webcomic references
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
842: Wallpaper

==Explanation==
This strip is a mild jab at an odd trend in Garfield: the fact that the background color (which is usually assumed to be the Arbuckle household's wallpaper) often changes radically from panel to panel. The author chalks it up to an attempt to make the comic's (infamously staid) visuals more lively, pointing to a particularly odd example where the wallpaper has a pattern (unlike most other strips, where it's one solid color).
==The author writes:==
The need for visual interest without fuss is met with an unnerving device. 2000-07-30 is a particularly psychedelic example.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield sits by himself in silence. The wallpaper changes colour, from aquamarine to lavender rose, and back again.}</br>
Garfield: Something weird about the wallpaper in here.
Category:Andrew Woods
Category:Meta humor
849: Square Root of Minus Garfield's Hue

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I've been thinking about how you can take the square root of a minus Garfield. My idea for this submission was to just take the square root of minus Garfield's hue; since hue is a polar coordinate negating it is equivalent to a modular addition and taking the square root is equivalent to halving it.
Those of you who are paying attention will realise that each (minus) hue has two square root hues. Fortunately the source comic has a gap in its hue range. This gap itself has two square roots, and I can therefore choose a square root hue range that starts at one gap and finishes at the other.
For this comic I chose the range that includes the hue nearest to pink.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
SFX: clap clap clap clap clap
Garfield: Thank you for that kind applause!
SFX: clap clap clap clap clap clap
SFX: clap clap clap clap clap clap
Garfield: I said, thank you!
SFX: clap clap clap clap clap clap
SFX: clap clap clap clap
Garfield: If you don't stop applauding, I can't start my act.
SFX: clap clap clap clap clap
Unseen Audience: He's on to us.
Category:Neil
84: Garfield minus Jon plus Calvin

==Explanation==
By substituting Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes for Jon, the author now has Garfield insulting the imagination of a character who is famous for having an active imagination. The background looks like a typical landscape in which Calvin's pretended adventures take place.
==The author writes:==
It should be obvious, but in case anyone's worried, rest assured that I drew all the Calvins myself. Not to mention the background for the second panel (does it look familiar to anyone?).
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Calvin: {to Garfield} Is it my imagination, or do you insult me at every opportunity?
{Scene changes to Garfield standing in a lurid alien landscape of incredible rock formations, with Spaceman Spiff pointing a raygun at him.}
Garfield: {to Calvin, as scene changes back to normal reality} That's assuming you have an imagination.
Category:Comic strip references
Category:Andrew Bird
852: Tulip Tiptoe

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Apparently, Garfield and Roy share the same passions. Perhaps they're Nick Lucas fans?
Original U.S. Acres strip: 1986-07-13.
Ed: At least Garfield has the flowers right. Roy seems to have mistaken the identity of some daisies.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I love to tiptoe through tulips.
Roy: {singing} Tip toe through the tulips!
==Trivia==
The link to the original U.S. Acres strip no longer works following the garfield.com takedown in June 2020; it has been archived on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here.
Category:NES Boy
Category:U.S. Acres
855: Transplanted Punchline Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel (Fun With Penultimate Beat Panel 1)

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 855: Transplanted Punchline Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel (Fun With Penultimate Beat Panel #1).
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==Explanation==
In the original, there is no beat panel, and Garfield merely amends his statement by indicating that he doesn't find a wildfire in Jon's sock drawer to be out of the ordinary. Here, the author has added a beat panel, and swapped in the punchline from the Blender strip.
==The author writes:==
Well, given Garfield Plus Penultimate Lengthened Gutter, I figured I'd better run the idea of the Penultimate Beat Panel into the ground. Here is the first of three strips I made from the same strips as Transplanted Punchline Garfield, playing with the Penultimate Beat Panel.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: There's nothing happening</br>
Jon: I finally got the wildfire in my sock drawer under control!</br>
{beat}</br>
Garfield: Is it Saturday night already?
==Later references==
The author's notes for #892 and #910 refer to this as the first in this series.
Category:Lubaf
Category:Beat panels
Category:Long titles
85: Paintfield

==Explanation==
In reference to the strip's theme of watching paint dry, the strip has been modified with a Photoshop filter so it resembles a painting.
==The author writes:==
I'm not totally happy with this, but Photoshop doesn't appear to have a drying-paint filter. Oh well.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Panels are rendered in a "painted" visual effect}
TV: Welcome to "Watching Paint Dry Theater".
{Garfield watches}
Jon: It's a rerun.
Garfield: Don't tell me how it turns out!
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
866: Minefield 5

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 866: Minefield #5.
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==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield hissed over the phone, hung up, and walked away. Here, the sound of the phone may be surmised to have been made by a Creeper, iconic enemy of Minecraft. Whether its explosion took out only the area around the Arbuckles' phone or Liz as well is implicitly left to the imagination.
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Liz is on the telephone}
Liz: Hi, Jon, this is Liz. I was just calling to remind you that Garfield is due for his checkup next week...
Phone: sssssss
SFX: POW!
Category:Michael Halila
Category:Video game references
867: Garfield's Error Theatre

==Explanation==
This edit changes "horror" to "error", removes the apostrophe from "we're", misspells "out" and "of", and flips the exclamation mark. Graphically, it removes some teeth and a tail, replaces the tail with another right hand, and transposes the wall and table colors. All changes are reflected or mentioned in the transcript.
==The author writes:==
With apologies to NES Boy.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Welcome to "Garfield's Error Theater".
{Garfield has an extra arm and is missing teeth and a tail, and the background colours are inverted}
Garfield: Were owt off cookies¡
Garfield: You have been watching "Garfield's Error Theater".
Category:Grant Fikes
869: Garfmeme^2

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Having recently read through the archives and encountered all of the "Garfield [minus-pun] Garfield" strips, it always struck me as odd that few people changed the unwieldy final punchline. Maybe I would have found that strip funnier if I'd ever had a pudding pop growing up?
Once I saw strip #786, I knew I had to combine the two. It... actually came out rather boring to switch out the punchline like that. Garfield leans over, and presumably finds out what day it is by looking at the printed date. I opted to go one step further and glue the blender onto Jon's head, even if it is mostly obscured by the newspaper. I like the idea of Jon going about his daily life with a blender stuck to his head, for no good reason. ...Maybe I should look into that...
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: {reading newspaper with a blender glued to his face} The world is constantly changing.
{Garfield looks shocked}
Garfield: Is it Saturday night already?
Category:Usoki
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Blender
86: Garfield's Other Dog

==Explanation==
A simple edit replacing Odie with Snoopy of Peanuts fame.
==The author writes:==
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{Snoopy (Odie) sits on edge of table.}
{Garfield approaches behind Snoopy.}
{Garfield kicks Snoopy off the table.}
SFX: BOOT
{Snoopy lands out-of-frame.}
SFX: THUD
{Garfield looks over edge of table.}
{Snoopy shuffles back onto table and sits down again.}
Garfield: Any doubt why I love this dog?
==Later references==
*877: Garfield's Dog Day, also by Craig Wittler, uses the same original strip and makes reference to this one in the author's comments.
Category:Craig Wittler
Category:Comic strip references