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4911: Product Placement

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Garfield sure does love his BAWLS Guarana™-brand soft drink! He'd rather lose his limbs than give up the ultra-caffeinated deliciousness found in each and every BAWLS Guarana™-brand soft drink, infused with the energizing Guarana berry.
You can purchase a 12-pack of delicious BAWLS™ Cherry Cola beverages (10oz each) for only $27.99 wherever BAWLS Guarana™-brand soft drinks are sold!
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2018-04-03.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is reacting in horror to Jon, who wants to take away his BAWLS Guarana™-brand soft drink}
Garfield: Take an arm! Take a leg! But spare my BAWLS!
{Jon is clearly planning to buy a BAWLS Guarana™-brand soft drink of his own}
Category:Muk
4912: Garfield but words only get in the way

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In this comic, Garfield makes Jon unhappy, as this one of the only two escapes he has: food and cruelty
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{This comic contains no words}
{Title panel: it's just Garfield with his one love: food. He is shoveling food into his mouth with that head tilted back thing he does when he is happy?}
{Jon is resting his chin on his hand and looking bored, his other arm on the table. Garfield has a resting unamused face}
{Jon postures up a bit, and begins looking at Garfield, still sort of unhappy. Garfield still has a resting unamused face}
{Jon begins smiling while still looking at Garfield, Garfield still unamused, with his usual unamused face}
{Jon is more enthused now. Garfield has yet to experience any change in mood}
{Jon calms down to as he was a few panels ago, happy, but not as enthused as last panel. Garfield unwaveringly bored and vaguely inimical}
{Garfield slams down a bowl on the table, Jon looks as unamused as Garfield}
{Jon walks away with the bowl. He is unhappy. Garfield has succeeded in his goal, but does not show any indication of satisfaction}
Category:Destructible Watermelon
4913: Garfield Plus Made in China

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Interpreted version of the 2003 Chinese labor camp SOS letter. The statistic is from the book Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang.
With Garfield being a traditionally non-topical comic, the discovery of such a letter in the universe might have an outcome like this, with Jon shocked and Garfield responding with characteristic cynicism. It's also worth noting that the book mentioned a prisoner assembling Homer Simpson slippers in between force-feeding sessions. Is Garfield merchandise made with slave labor? I leave that to other armchair detectives.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon whistles while carrying a box of K-Mart Halloween decorations}
Garfield: Ah, the traditional big box store Halloween decorations purchase
Jon {holding up a letter}: What's this? Instructions?
Jon {reading the letter}: Sir: If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization
Garfield: 65% of consumers say they want to shop from sustainable companies, but only 26% actually buy from these brands
Category:John Murtha
Category:Literature references
4914: Art Shift Request

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield's head shape was from fitting an entire loaf of bread in his mouth at once. Here, he's apparently convinced Jim Davis to draw him differently. It wouldn't be the first time Garfield's changed in appearance, after all.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield stands by the ledge with a white cloth nearby. Jon stands near, facing away}
Garfield: I did it!
{Garfield grins at Jon. No indication is given as to what prompted Jon to turn his head, unless he heard the "I did it!"}
Garfield: I got the cartoonist to get me an art shift!
{Either Jon disapproves of Garfield's new appearance or is envious that he didn't get a new appearance of his own}
Jon: Congratulations, Garfield
Category:Nyperold
4915: Species Identification With Arlene

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Really, Garfield drinks coffee, communicates telepathically with Jon, walks on two legs, eats human food as easily as cat food, has lived long past a normal cat lifespan... are we sure he's really a cat?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Arlene sit on a fence}
Arlene: What kind of animal are you?
Garfield: A cat!
{beat, Arlene looks unconvinced}
Category:Conor
4916: Garfield Plus Oh No They're Onto Us

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I went looking for an actual original joke to make about an original Garfield strip, rather than just extending someone else's from SRoMG (it's a challenge I set myself, and I did it, and it wasn't good, but that's immaterial, because neither of these are that — ) and saw these two strips published within two weeks of one another. I know contemporary Garfield has a... constrained design language in some of its weekly strips, but each of these reminded me of a fairly heavily-used strip remix format on SRoMG. Specifically, 'linguistics with Liz', and 'Garfield burns [someone or something] in the fireplace'.
Does someone at PAWS know this den of madness? Probably not, but it's fun to imagine they do. More likely, I'm just suffering from brain rot, induced by an excess of fireplace radishes.
Since these are technically both just continuations of already oversaturated strip formats, just with... different source strips (and that's not really a very interesting thing on its own) I'm not expecting this to go up any time close to when it's still relevant - but for posterity's sake, this was made and submitted in February 2022.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Strip 1:
{Jon and Garfield are seated, looking at something out-of frame}
Jon: That's a nice fire
Garfield: Yup
{Jon now has the top of a nearby lamp sitting on his head. Garfield is smiling at the reader. No explanation is given}
Strip 2:
{Liz, Jon and Garfield [from left to right] are standing in the yellow wallpaper room, engaged in conversation}
Jon: Liz, if you were a superhero...
Jon: What superpower would you want?
Liz: The power to travel through time and talk about radishes
{Jon's pupils light up orange and his eyes display a 386-era hourglass cursor, indicating he is processing this information with all the computational might of a laptop from the early '90s}
Garfield: AAACK!
{Garfield has gone cross-eyed and opened his mouth in an attempt to appear as if he were in a lazy edit of a completely different classic newspaper comic}
Category:Linguanaut
4917: Going Underground

==Explanation==
The original had Garfield wonder which tree he fell out of it yesterday. This edit changes it to make Garfield remember under which tree he buried himself. The humor comes from the absurdity of the situation and Garfield's nonchalant attitude towards it.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Let's see...
Garfield: Under which tree did I bury Garfield?
Garfield: Oh right this one
Category:Simon Winters
4918: &field

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
So, this strip sat in the slush pile for... A while... To make a long story short, we kind of realized a bit about our identity beyond just this and it turns out this runs deeper. Fortunately, though, in the time since first submitting this so long ago, we've learned the proper terminology for what this all is. Namely, we would just be Plural.
If you would appreciate a resource, morethanone.info is our choice. Should the person handling the site feel comfortable with it, you can see the original description below.
(...Also, Tori says hi!)
----
[original author's notes:]
This has gotta be another first for SRoMG... The first strip (partially) authored by a tulpa. For those who don't know, tulpas are, in layman's terms, best described as an imaginary friend with some level of sentience, and "those things bad writers like to use to try and mix up their 'split personality taking over' tropes, incidentally tarnishing their names".
I know it'll probably make me sound weird, but I have a tulpa named Tori. This strip was the result of a bit of an exercise on my brain/her consciousness, where I recited this SRoMG strip when I remembered it, and told her to finish it. This was her response/punchline to the strip... If it isn't clear, she's kind of a dork.
p.s. pls don't judge me future employers/fellow sromgers
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2012-12-16.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is in bed, with two disembodied voices}
Voice 1: I am your conscience.
Voice 2: Say "We."
Voice 1: What?
Voice 2: Say We... We.
Voice 1: Wii! Err, U? Right?
Category:Camwoodstock & Tori
4919: Mariofield Teaches Typing

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Saw the original strip and immediately thought of this on the spot.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Mario Head {on the phone}: Ooh, nice computer you got there. Can I have it?
Jon {on the phone}: No, you can't have the computer
Garfield: Can I have the TV?
Category:FlyHey
Category:Video game references
491: Garfield Meme Garfield

==Explanation==
Far from intending for these to stop, the author has chosen to facilitate the making of more by submitting a version in which Garfield simply disappears, leaving future meme-followers to fill in whatever they want, suggesting yet another Linus.
==The author writes:==
Actually, more than just obey, I'm also submitting the blank I created, intending to offer it for publication as "Garfield Meme Garfield" mostly to make it even easier for someone to insert their own thing in. Are there any readers with the name Linus?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing.</br>
{Garfield vanishes briefly}</br>
Garfield: They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
Category:Adam
Category:Constantly changing
4920: Extended Stripped Root of Minus Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is a response to SRoMG #4400, which suggests in the author's notes that the idea could be extended out to 600 strips by someone with more "time, patience, or a strong enough computer". I'm not sure if I have any of those, so instead of trying to do it manually I used Python to tell the computer to download and edit the strips for me.
The rules here are similar to the original: x=0 is SRoMG #1, x=1 is #2, and so on. Transparency was preserved, so some strips may bleed into adjacent columns. Any strips taller or shorter than 178 pixels were either cropped or padded to fit. The result is the first 600 SRoMG strips condensed into 3 "panels".
As a bonus, here is the first "panel" of my strip, with the original overlaid over it in a "difference" blending mode. All of the black pixels are areas that are identical to the original:
And as another bonus, I also had my script output an image after each stage of editing. The resulting animation (flashing lights warning) shows the process of the script building this strip from each of its 600 components.
As a final note, if you squint your eyes *just* right, you can just barely see the faint ghosts of some of the characters among the noise - particularly, in the middle of the third "panel", there's what appears to be Jon reading a newspaper, perhaps from all those pudding pops strips...or maybe I'm just deluding myself by thinking that I see anything in there.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2008-11-15 to 2011-01-09.
==Transcript==
{a jumbled, vertically-striped mess of edited Garfield strips, with visible divisions between the three "panels"}
Category:Flowermanvista
4921: Flex Contest

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I noticed there were an awful lot of strips (relatively speaking) with Garfield and Jon flexing, so I decided to compile them, using the hot pepper-eating contest as a framing narrative. I also wanted to have Odie from 2018-03-11 join in, but it didn't fit the format I had in mind.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: #3332.
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Flex contest!
{Jon attempts to flex as Garfield looks on}
Jon: UNNNGH!
{Garfield flexes, revealing masses of muscles as Jon watches in amazement}
{Jon grins and flexes like Garfield as Garfield stares nonchalantly}
{Garfield again flexes, showing off his bod as Jon attempts to keep flexing while still staring shell-shocked at Garfield...}
{...but the strain is too much for Garfield, who explodes}
SFX: POW!
{Garfield is clutching a glass of water as plumes of smoke waft off of him, while Jon is on fire}
Garfield: You win...
Jon: Then why am I not happy?
Category:U. N. Owen
4923: Tight on Money

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
An old meme goes, "art is controlled by three specific groups: monarchs, eccentric billionaires, and suspiciously wealthy furries".
(The PG rating of this strip prevents me from detailing more about the art in question; speculation is welcomed*.)
*[Ed: Views expressed are author's own and do not represent those of Square Root of Minus Garfield.]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon has pencil and paper at hand. Garfield lies nearby}
Jon {angrily}: I wish I had nothing to do!
Jon {still angrily}: I wish I weren't so busy!
Garfield: You're right
{Jon begins to draw, angrily}
Garfield: Those furry art commissions aren't gonna draw themselves
Category:Fußmatte
4924: Garfield's Aardvark

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
"Like master, like pet" as they say, and Garfield is getting on in years, after all. The second panel popped into my mind as soon as I saw the strip from today (as of submission), and while editing I decided that this modification of the third panel was what I liked best.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I'll have to admit...
Garfield: I've made a few mistakes in my aardvark...
Garfield: ... I mean "life"
Category:Xindaris
4925: Garfield mobile: less aware than Garfield.com?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was hitting random on garfield mobile and saw an unfinished comic. I went on garfield.com to see if said comic was unfinished on there. I was thinking "What the heck?" then immediately made this.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Caption: Strip on Garfield mobile
{cue Garfield mobile image, lacking the colours for the yellow background, Jon's peach face, and the blue water in the water balloon}
Garfield: Who knows what the future holds
Garfield: But I do know that it involves a water balloon
Caption: Strip on garfield.com
{cue garfield.com image, fully tinted as Davis intended}
Garfield: Who knows what the future holds
Garfield: But I do know that it involves a water balloon
Category:twinec
4926: Connect the Dots with Only Jon

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Exactly a week ago (January 19, 2022), I submitted Connect the Dots Through Jon's Eyes, inspired by the old Garfield edit site Arbuckle. I consider this one to be a sequel to my previous one, as this is the second idea that came to my head after viewing SRoMG #4623, the inspiration for which should be pretty obvious.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2022-01-14.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is by himself throughout this strip, with no one else}
Jon: Never play this game.
Jon: Never play connect-the-dots.
Jon: It's more than that. It messed me up for life. Don't do it.
{Jon stares at the reader in a deadpan manner}
Jon: Yeah, but there's so much more to it. You have to think.
Jon: It's not just connecting lines.
Jon: It's about trying to find order in them.
Jon: You have to think about where the lines go.
Jon: It's thinking. It's also about probability.
Jon: The line you choose in one spot has a chance to lead somewhere else.
Jon: There's also symmetry and logic.
Jon: If you draw a line from one dot to another, there's another line that goes back to the first one.
Jon: It has to have a right and a left, or it's not even right.
Jon: It has to make sense.
Jon: There's so much more than just connecting dots.
Jon: Don't do it.
Category:Michael Jacoby
4927: Garfield, You Scamp, You're Out Of Control Again

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I check in on a week's worth of Garfield for the first time in forever and I'm hit with a wall of LAME.
Garfield may take pride in his work as an agent of destructive chaos, but he had nothing better to do in the middle frame than eat some cat food?
Photograph of the Hindenburg via Wikimedia Commons.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield attacks a curtain}
SFX: SHRED SHRED SHRED SHRED SHRED SHRED
{Garfield, satisfied, takes a picture of his handiwork. Pawwork?}
SFX: CLICK
{The Hindenburg catches fire}
{Garfield, satisfied, takes a picture}
SFX: CLICK
{Garfield boots Odie off the table}
SFX: BOOT!
{Garfield happily leans over and takes a picture}
SFX: CLICK
Garfield: I take pride in my work
Category:Sloublues
Category:Real world references
4928: Garfield Takes Catnip

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I have never seen a strip where Garfield actually takes catnip, so I made one.
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield rips a plant out of the ground and consumes it with a gulp}
{Jon looks startled as Garfield's eyes look unfocused}
Jon: What's with that weird look?
{Garfield suddenly starts bouncing around actively}
Jon: What are you doing, Garfield?
Garfield {hyperactively}: Guess!
{Garfield starts laughing at himself as Jon looks bored}
Garfield {screams in telepathy}: OH WHEN WILL THIS MAD, CRAZY, MERRY-GO-ROUND EXISTENCE EVER END?
{Much later, Garfield recovers from catnip and tastes his normal food}
Garfield {in disgust}: Oh yuk!
Category:sabrina_diamond
4929: Smearfield

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon is looking for his pipe to smoke while he reads the news, only to find it in Garfield's mouth. Here, he's looking for his smudge filter, a graphics editing tool, presumably to apply to his newspaper, only to find that it's been used on the last panel.
The choice of any kind of filter as a replacement for the pipe may be inspired by the fact that some pipes can take filters.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon feels for his smudge filter}
Jon: Now where could my smudge filter be?
Jon: GARFIELD!!! {smudged}
Category:pasta man
492: Orangutanfield

==Explanation==
This edit cuts the original Sunday strip down to four panels. The cut content includes the part where Garfield gets out his rubber arms, and indeed, the specific reason the thermostat is involved.
While depriving us of the first bit of information, the author suggests that Garfield is not a cat, but an orangutan, a species of great ape known for its long arms relative to the rest of its body.
==The author writes:==
Does Garfield detail the adventures of Jon Arbuckle and his pet orangutan?
IT CERTAINLY SEEMS SO.
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{Jon stands lazily at the counter with a cup of coffee. A long pair of orange arms, reaching up into the air, waddle slowly past him.}</br>
Jon: Get away from that thermostat!
Category:Martin Nixon
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
4930: Jon and Don

==Explanation==
This strip replaces Lyman with Don Lemon, suggesting that Mr. Lemon getting a job at CNN would explain disappearing from the Garfield scene. Don Lemon Tonight, which ran from 2014 to 2023, was still running at the time this strip ran.
Interestingly, the choice of original strip plays nice with the actual histories of Garfield and CNN, as the original strip is indeed older than CNN; the first Garfield strip ran roughly a half-month short of two years prior to CNN's first sign-on. Although Don Lemon is a personality from decades into CNN's run, this remix plays nice with certain theories about Lyman's disappearance from the Garfield strip.
==The author writes:==
What if CNN anchorman Don Lemon spent a few years as Jon's roommate? Him getting a job at CNN would explain why he disappears from the comic strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Don Lemon have a friendly chat}
Jon: What are you doing tonight, Lemon?
Don Lemon: I'm gonna catch the new flick down at the bijou.
Don Lemon: It's about this kid who puts a tack in his teacher's chair and she sits on it.
Jon: Not much of a plot.
Don Lemon: I suppose not. But I still enjoy the movies where the boy gets the girl in the end.
Category:Luke99
Category:Television references
4931: Garf After People

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Will this be an exciting weekend?
{The years pass by, Jon's house decays, and the sun expands into a red giant and fades away. Stars in the background fade away as the universe reaches a thermal equilibrium}
Garfield: Nope.
Category:Bacony Cakes
4932: Garfieldball Z

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Inspired by #2913. But is Cell out of proportion or is this version of him conveniently from a previously unknown timeline? You decide!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield's walking in a field, and spots Mr. Perfect Cell all of a sudden}
Garfield: Cell!?
{Garfield turns around and walks away, looking up in the sky as Cell's tail lurks behind him}
Garfield: Please don't let him absorb me!
Category:Nikumubeki
Category:Anime and manga references
4933: Garfield in 2053: Consume

==Explanation==
This strip uses the typical "Garfield in 2053" panel setup with the author's notes attempting to continue the "story" surrounding the hypothetical setup, but this time has two panels blank and the third running an advertisement for Garfield merchandise, specifically mugs (a technology that's been around a long time already) and brain jars (futuristic sci-fi technology), on the garfield.com website.
This strip, however, presumably ended up falling into the Failed Future Forecast trope before it even ran by assuming garfield.com would still be running in the same fashion in the 2053 timeframe as it had prior to the middle of 2020. Although this strip first ran in November 2022, given the nature of the "Garfield in 2053" gag and the general length of the strip queue, the possibility of this strip being submitted prior to Viacom's takedown of garfield.com in August 2020 is very likely and thus invoking this trope; if this strip was actually created after the August 2020 timeframe, this strip would assume that garfield.com would reactivate at some point between submission and the 2053 timeframe.
==The author writes:==
Paws, Inc. has been running their non-Jim show for about eight months now. It's working so far, but it's taking a lot of work to look through old strips to reuse. Eventually, the strips get so cold-hearted and soulless that the comic gradually just becomes advertising for the Garfield brand instead of an actual comic strip. But Garfield's still there, so the public keeps reading.
BTW, "brain-jars" was included due to the hypothetical setting of 2053. They actually tried to get Jim Davis's brain-jar to write some comics, but it didn't work out too well.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{silence for two panels as Garfield looks at the camera}
{An ad pops up on the third panel; Garfield remains the same}
Paws, Inc.: New Garfield merch! Garfield mugs and brain-jars available on sale at garfield.com. Buy now!
Category:BiIvaMunner
Category:Garfield in 2053
4934: The g(arfield)-man

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Lyman: rise and shine, doctor freeman
Garfield {slyly}: rise and... shine
Garfield: not that i wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job
{Odie falls headfirst into food dish}
Garfield: no-one is more deserving of a rest
Garfield: and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until ...
{Jon flinches}
Garfield: well. let's just say your time has... come again.
Garfield: the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world
Garfield: so wake up, mister freeman
{Jon looks startled}
Garfield: wake up and... smell the ashes
Category:tobnitob
Category:Video game references