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5568: Garfield Plus Evolutionary Psychological Science

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Garfield presents research, pre-Divine Davis intervention. Believe it, or don't.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: It's a wonder I'm still single, right, Garfield?
Garfield: Wrong
Text: Garfield's Believe it, or DON'T!
Jon: Now I'll never get a woman!
Text: Poor looks, where men indicated that they were single because they were not good looking, was at the top of the hierarchy. Frequent complaints involved being short and bald.
Garfield: It's called a calorie
Text: The Overweight, found a bit lower in the hierarchy, where men indicated that being overweight prevented them from attracting a partner
Jon: I couldn't get the front door open
Garfield: My hero
Text: The "Low self-esteem/confidence category" was second in the hierarchy
Garfield: Ah-ha!
Text: followed by the "Low effort," where individuals indicated that they were single because they did not put sufficient effort in getting a relationship.
Jon: There
Garfield: We're bachelors, baby
Text: The "Not interested in relationships" was next, where individuals indicated a lack of interest in forming an intimate relationship, with freedom being the most common reason mentioned.
{A crowd}
Text: Demographics across post-industrial countries indicate that a considerable proportion of adult population is single, and our findings suggest that a large portion of the singles is involuntarily single; that is to say, they want a partner but they cannot get one.
Text: In turn, this makes the study of singlehood of high importance, especially if one considers the negative emotional impact it can have.}
Jon: I don't want to be alone
Text: Apostolou, M. (2018). Why men stay single? Evidence from reddit. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 5(1), 87-97. doi:10.1007/s40806-018-0163-7
Category:John Murtha
5569: Awefield

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon told Garfield about his essential survival skills, such as how to build a fire, how to avoid poison ivy, and how to sneak out snacks during supper.
This edit simply changes it to make it look like a 9-panel comic. Now Jon tells Garfield about his essential survival skills in summer camp, like how to kill bears with a loose leaf notebook, or build a cabin with a pocket knife, where he had to fight off five masked serial killers, craft weapons from pinecones and sap, plus they taught him and his crew how to hike for a month without stopping, how to sew his own arms with just teeth and hair, how to climb a mountain with a donkey on their back, and get two cupcakes during supper.
Garfield, however, doesn't seem to be impressed until the last one, as he gives each one a synonym for "boring".
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: At summer camp I learned essential survival skills...
Jon: Like how to kill a bear with a loose-leaf notebook
Garfield: Boring
Jon: Or build a cabin with a pocket knife
Garfield: Unimpressive
Jon: I had to fight off five masked serial killers
Garfield: Trite
Jon: Crafting weapons from pinecones and tree sap
Garfield: Mundane
Jon: They taught us to hike for a month without stopping
Garfield: Banal
Jon: How to sew on my own arms with just teeth and hair
Garfield: Tedious
Jon: How to climb a mountain with a donkey on your back
Garfield: Dull
Jon: And get two cupcakes during supper
Garfield: Okay. Now I'm impressed
Category:Simon Winters
5570: Your Opinion Doesn't Matter, Amongst the Many Hills to Die Upon

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Then put your little hand in mine...
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2021-11-06, 2022-01-08.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Light mode users suck
{beat panel as Garfield stares at Jon}
Garfield: You already said that
Category:Crazy56U
5571: Gareld

==Explanation==
To summarize the author's notes, each strip has had its middle panel removed, as they served little purpose other than dragging out the punchline.
==The author writes:==
An integral component of comedy is timing. In comic strips, the number of panels, and the progression of the strip through each panel, is key to the success of the joke. To see if Garfield's terrible attempts at humour could be salvaged by a change in timing, I collected some strips and simply snipped out the middle panel. Such a simple change completely revitalises the joke, raising it to be higher-brow, as thought is required to piece together the joke, rather than it being spoon-fed to the strip's aging audience. The abruptness also lends an irresistible slapstick element to the strip. If Davis had only considered leaving out the middle panel, he could rival greats such as Larson, and save himself a third of the work.
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Five Garfield strips, which have had their middle panel removed}
{Jon is on the phone. He is holding it in his left hand. Garfield sits beside him on all fours}
Jon: Florence, remember when you said I was no fun?
Jon {revealing a book with an elephant on its cover}: "1001 Elephant Jokes", baby!
Garfield: Run, Florence, run!
{Garfield and a mouse sit against the wall}
Mouse: I wish I were a cat instead of a mouse
Mouse: You're not on the business end of the food chain
Garfield: Good point
{Jon is on the phone again, but he is holding it in his right hand. This is presumably because it is his dominant hand, but he was previously using to hold the joke book. Garfield is in the same position as before}
Jon: Hello, pest control?
Jon: I have a cat!
Garfield {suddenly bipedal and leaving purposefully}: You had a cat
{Jon sits at a table. Before him is a bowling ball that has embedded itself into the table, shattering his plate and knocking over his coffee cup in the process}
Jon {seemingly unfazed by the destruction}: Garfield...
Garfield {from above}: Me?
{Garfield stands on a table. In previous strips, this table was blue, pink, and then yellow, but now it is a red-brown colour}
{The table has broken in two and collapsed. Perhaps this is why Jon goes through so many tables}
Jon: You must diet now
Garfield: Be a pal and slide some food down here
Category:Memes-In-Your-Dreams
5572: Kellfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The context has been thrown away after it was realized that it was a scam product ordered online.
Lindesfarne is from Kevin and Kell. No, I don't know how to pronounce it, I just end up saying "Nick-en-Daph" in my head whenever I read it, mainly out of spite.
Original Kevin and Kell strips: 2000-07-19, 2000-07-20.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {running behind Garfield}: VEGETARIAN ALIENS WEARING SPACE SUITS!
Garfield: This should be interesting
Lindesfarne {wearing a space suit}: Hey, Garfie... Don't I look cute in this big bulky suit of mine?
Garfield: Aren't you still taking anti-growth hormones?
Lindesfarne: Uuuhhhhh...no?
Garfield: You creep me out.
{Garfield presents a door off-panel}
Garfield: LEAVE.
Category:Rusty Ralston
Category:Webcomic references
5573: Is Cleveland a cutting word or a seasonal reference?

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon's words were prompted by Liz saying "Guess what?" After Jon's initial guess, she asked, "Excuse me?" After the second batch, Liz turned to Garfield, who merely thought that Jon's not good at guessing. #5351: Words! removed Liz, her speech, and Garfield's thought. This edit puts Liz back, but has her retain the same position through all three panels. She says, "Guess what?" in the first and third panels, as the author realized that their addition would make the exchange fit the traditional syllable structure of a haiku. Meanwhile, Garfield turns to leave in the second panel, and is gone by the third.
The title refers to oft-forgotten -- at least among haiku-writers outside of Japan or in the modern era even in Japan -- aspects of traditional haiku: the kireji, or "cutting word", and the kigo, or "seasonal reference". The suggestion of Cleveland as a cutting word may be a pun on the "split or sever" meaning of "cleave". (If the author wants a seasonal reference, he may find one in "loose-leaf paper", as the American school year began around a month ago when the original strip was published, and was not far off when this edit was published.)
==The author writes:==
After seeing SRoMG, I did a little calculation, and figured out that I could harken back to the haiku format of the very first SRoMG with this comic.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Liz [in bold] and Jon share a haiku between themselves. Garfield, getting bored, shuffles away}
Guess what? Twenty-three!
Loose-leaf paper! Green! Cleveland!
Guess what? Elephant!
Category:King James III
5574: Garfield Plus You-Have-No-Idea-How-Alone-You-Are-Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In fact, Garfield lived in the illusion of catnip for the past 50 years.
Alternate title: 周庄梦蝶 (a Chinese fable)
Alternate the author writes: Is Garfield dreaming that he is alone, or was he dreamed that he wasn't alone?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: The Farm Cat sets out to patrol his property.
Garfield: He happens upon a plot of fresh catnip...
Garfield: And wakes up the next morning in Atlantic City with a Barbie doll
Caption: You have no idea how alone you are, Garfield
Category:Reisen U. Inaba
5575: The Uneducated Jon Arbuckle

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I think that if Jon were uneducated, he would prefer to give Liz a poster of King Kong or Godzilla on her birthday, since he is a lover of monster movies. (LOL).
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I need to get Liz a present for her birthday
Jon {drinking his coffee}: Something great...
{Garfield quickly goes to get something}
Garfield: Hang on!
{Garfield returns to Jon showing him a replica of the Mona Lisa}
Jon: Not that
Garfield: Don't like the frame?
Category:IQ-ranger
Category:Art references
5577: That Game Awards

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield watches The Game Awards 2023 at Jon's computer, shocked}
Announcer: And the winner is Cocoon!
Garfield {pointing to the computer and screaming}: YAAAAAAHHHH!!!
{The scene cuts to Garfield waking up}
Garfield: YAAAAAHHH!!!
Garfield: What a horrible nightmare! I dreamed that Pizza Tower got nominated in The Game Awards 2023 and lost
{The scene cuts to Garfield looking happily at the camera and Jon's computer}
Garfield: But at least the good thing is, Pizza Tower is also nominated in The Steam Awards
{Garfield watches the result of The Steam Awards at Jon's computer, shocked}
Garfield {pointing to the computer and screaming}: YAAAAAAHHHH!!!
Category:SpiroSpiro
Category:Video game references
5578: Unnecessary Special Format

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Saw this recent (as of typing this, of course) Garfield comic, and thought about making it into "Yet Another Singular-Paneled Garfield", but then I randomly thought of the special format used in 2014-08-02 and 2014-12-23 (and probably at least once elsewhere?) so I made this instead, even though it was incredibly unnecessary. But also, something about the idea of Garfield using one of its incredibly rare instances of a two-paneled comic for something as unnecessary as this seemed somewhat funny.
The only comic I used for making this was 2024-03-04, but I put 2014-12-23 there too because that's what I looked at for reference of how the second panel looked. (I did not, however, use 2014-08-02, as I found that after when trying to find other instances of this format, but I figured I might as well put it as an original comic since I've mentioned it here.)
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is lying in bed}
Garfield: I locked the door, closed the curtains and turned the lights off, but to no avail...
{Garfield shifts his gaze to the viewer}
Garfield: Monday got in through the pet door
Category:Extreme905
5579: Who The Flip Nose

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Inspired by (at the time) recent submissions.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon's and Liz's noses have been rotated - now the pointy end is on the bottom, and instead of the bridge of the nose being implied and the philtrum (?) being drawn, it's the other way round}
Jon: We should do something exciting!
Liz: Okay!
Jon: How about a game of checkers?
Liz: Whoa!
Garfield: That's just crazy!
Jon: I'm sensing sarcasm here
Liz: Who is this wild man?
Garfield: He's the Funmeister!
Category:wye
557: Eyeballfield

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield's eyes are normal for him. His response to Jon is that he can't, and he can't help wondering who gives presents to Santa.
In this edit, Garfield's eyes are skewed, and as Jon continues to look, his own eyes become skewed, as well.
==The author writes:==
Another strip rescued off an Internet forum somewhere and sent in for posterity.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is in his bed, with his eyeballs skewed.}
{Garfield sits on Jon's bed.}
Jon: Garfield, go back to bed.
{Garfield merely sits there with eyes skewed.}
{Jon's eyes go skewy too.}
Category:Anonymous
Category:Go back to bed
5581: The Logical Conclusion

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Alternative title: Garfield with Nouns Replaced With "Cat," Adjectives Replaced With "Fat," Verbs Replaced With "Nap," Pronouns Replaced With "Dog," Adverbs Replaced With "Hungrily," Interjections Replaced With "Jon," Particles Replaced With "Vet," Conjunctions Replaced With "Plus," Prepositions Replaced With "Betwixt," and Determiners Replaced With "Thou"
From #5413:
"Hopefully someone makes a verbs version after this."
And after that, something for adverbs perhaps, then conjunctions and prepositions and pronouns and so on... And then I come along and combine them all to eliminate all comprehension forevermore.
But I don't want to have to wait for all of those other comics to come out before we finally push this to the logical conclusion. So I skipped all those steps and went straight to the end. I unstuck all of the contractions, then I took every word and converted it to its logical replacement. The strip is now composed of a mere eleven words, or thirteen if you count the plural "cats" and "dogs." Where possible, I tried to keep the grammatical type of the word the same, but pronouns had to be converted to nouns and particles were entirely transmuted, because just changing those two to a random pronoun or particle wouldn't have been very funny, at least not in my opinion.
There was one issue which this comic's predecessors, #1119 and #5413, ended up creating: the original converts nouns that are used as adjectives, like "sock" and "guy," into "cat," and so its successor leaves those alone even though they are, in fact, adjectives. I decided to reconcile this by replacing all nouns used as adjectives into "fat-cat," the adjective and noun as a hyphenated pair.
Fun extra thing: I was originally going to replace all verbs with "eat," but that made for some rather strange word combinations. "Nap" is just as funny, though.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Nap hungrily, cat. Dog nap cat vet nap dog
Jon: Dog nap nap vet nap dog fat-cat cat hungrily
Garfield: Dog nap thou fat-fat-cat cat!
Jon: Dog nap nap vet nap thou fat dogs betwixt fat cat plus thou fat dogs betwixt thou fat
Garfield: Cats! Cats! Cats!
Jon: Plus nap dog nap plus dog nap nap betwixt dog?
Garfield: Jon Jon! Nap dog! Nap dog!
Jon: Dog nap nap thou cats betwixt fat fat cats
Garfield: Jon!
Author's Signature: CAT CAT CAT-CAT
Garfield: Jon hungrily nap thou fat, fat, fat-cat cat hungrily nap?
Copyright Notice: Cat Cat CAT, FAT. Thou Cat Fat.
Jon: Plus dog nap nap thou fat fat fat-cat cat thou cat
Garfield: Dog nap nap, dog nap
Category:TPTPWDotACoEMW
5583: Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel Remastered

==Explanation==
This strip is essentially 10: Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel using more recent GoComics-based resources, and as such its premise is the same as strip #10's; whereas #10 used small-sized resources that originated at 600px wide with colors similar to those formerly found on garfield.com's large-sized versions (think the secure-domain mirror of the smaller-sized strips formerly hosted on the now-busted "images.ucomics.com" domain), this strip uses medium-sized resources that originated at 900px wide and a different approach to coloration. Although the coloration differences are noticeable, in this case they're not too dissimilar from one another, with Garfield's tie being the only radically-different coloration choice.
The choice of the GoComics resources for this strip can likely be defended due to the different approaches to coloration; had garfield.com's large-sized versions that originated at 1200px wide (archived on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here been used, the end result would've likely come across as a simple blow-up of strip #10.
==The author writes:==
Another previous comic unnecessarily remastered!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {alarmingly checking his wallet}: My credit cards are missing
Jon: Garfield, have you seen my credit cards?
Garfield: No
{Silent beat panel, where Jon sees Garfield standing in a flashy suit and shoes}
Jon: And, nice suit
Garfield: It's Italian
Category:Darkbross
Category:Beat panels
5584: Spot the Difference with Garfield, Yet Again

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Disregarding everything else, does Garfield's bellybutton have an on/off switch or something? Because one day he has a bellybutton and the other day he doesn't!
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield {looking at his bellybutton}: Awk! There's someone in this bag with me
Garfield: Oh, it's you
Garfield: Hello, bellybutton
Garfield {in bed}: Hey! There's somebody in bed with me!
{Garfield pulls his bedsheets back}
Garfield: Oh, it's you...
Garfield: Good morning, belly
Category:E_Vids
Category:Spot the Difference
5585: Another Perfectly Innocent Jon's Socks Strip

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
...yes. I don't know what else to say about this one; usually my humour's more absurd and less grotesque, but today - I don't know, something about how well the expression fits the new dialogue, without needing any editing at all, and implies a completely different set of thoughts and emotions? I like how this one turned out. I could have sworn it had already been done, but a strip search turned up nothing, so... maybe on another website.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is angrily holding up his own face, which is missing the rest of his body and has chew-marks around the edges}
Jon: Okay, who ate me?
{Odie, Lyman, and Garfield are sitting in a row. Odie and Lyman look unimpressed, and also have several large bite marks taken out of them. Garfield is wide-eyed and grinning in a manner which shows off a lot of teeth}
{Close-up of Garfield and this expression, with eyes now turned towards the reader}
Jon {off-panel}: Garfield!!
Garfield: The guy's some kind of meat!
Category:Linguanaut
5586: Cymothoa exiguafield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Thankfully, this thing only infects fish.
Right?
RIGHT?!?!?!
What's... that... BEHIND YOU?!?!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield flees from Odie, his tongue an unhealthy shade of white}
Garfield: JON! JON!
{Jon reads the newspaper as Garfield panics}
Garfield: Jon, that's not a tongue!
Garfield: It's a tongue-eating louse from Ecuador!
Garfield: It attached itself to Odie, and sucked out his blood!
Garfield: Jon, do you hear me?! We have to do something! Jon?!
{Jon sticks his head out, a dour expression on his face as he reveals he too has been infected. Garfield screams in terror, revealing a vestigal parasite has taken root. Goodbye taste of lasanga!}
Category:Luke99
5587: Rudefield: Bark and Hiss

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Insert whatever two swear words your imagination desires. Surely they're all funnier than bark and hiss!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A dog is chasing Garfield}
Dog: I find your presence unpleasant
Garfield: You possess many shortcomings also
Dog: No one is perfect
Garfield: Let's go back to @#$%&* and *#$%!
Category:Cesium Lightning
5588: Careless

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Absolutely careless behaviour from Jon in the Sunday strip. Discarding a lit match onto what I assume is living room carpet was stupid even without an alcohol-soaked cat involved. The relevant panels are expanded to the proportions of a regular strip for emphasis. Source was scanned because I could.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon, seated, presumably indoors, lights a tobacco pipe}
{Jon throws a lit match over his shoulder}
{Smoke and ash erupts behind Jon in a "FOOMP". He is startled}
Category:KahnerC
5589: Nap

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is shown alone staring at nothing in particular}
{Jon and Liz converse about something. Nothing is known about the conversation}
{Jon and Odie, disguised as candy canes, are staring at each other}
{Jon notices a sleeping Garfield, and looks at the viewer in exasperation}
Garfield: Z
Category:A.V
558: Garfield The Square Root Of Minus Garfield Garfield

==Explanation==
Following Manyhills' futile attempt to halt the onslaught of pudding pops comics, Mr. Kepple here makes it into an example of the Droste effect - the middle image is the entire comic, which means that comic's middle image is itself, and that comic's middle image is itself, and it goes on like that. The animated version makes this more obvious, as it continuously zooms into the middle part, making it clear that it never stops repeating.
==The author writes:==
Inspired by #478.
For even more fun, here's an animated version:
For those without Flash, here's an animated GIF (much larger file size).
[Note: the animated version above is the GIF. ShoutWiki does not support uploading Flash files - that can be found here.]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing.
{This comic, squashed into the middle frame.}
Garfield: They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
==Trivia==
The animated GIF has since replaced the Flash version on the Square Root of Minus Garfield site; the Flash file no longer works.
Category:Andrew Kepple
Category:Animated comics
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Multiple strips
5591: Hey GoComics, I've given you a corrected coloured strip

==Explanation==
This strip is essentially a subsequent step in the saga begun by 3549: "Hello? Is this Jim Davis? Yes, I'd like to report a bug."; at some point after that strip was first published, GoComics switched out the strip that had been color-elements sans black-and-white elements with the black-and-white version. Although now readable, that still was not the presumed intended presentation of the original Garfield strip, so as such this strip's author took the color elements and the black-and-white version, blended them together, and whipped them up into this strip--what this strip's author presumes is what GoComics intended their presentation of the original Garfield strip to be.
==The author writes:==
so I came across SRoMG #3549 and naturally the first thing I did is see if the comic had been corrected
And while it HAD been replaced with a version that wasn't broken (yay), it's only in black and white (boo)
But that means we have the ingredients to create a corrected COLOURED version!
All I did was take both versions, use the multiply blend mode in paint.net, touch up the copyright text because they're not the same between versions for some reason and voila! It may not be perfect, but it's as close to perfect as we can reasonably get without just manually recolouring it
Now to see if GoComics will actually use this
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2019-02-05.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I had a busy day
{Jon walks out of frame by the next panel}
Garfield: Me too
Garfield: Mine was about eight years ago
Category:LochlannDS