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3462: Mandela Effect Garfield

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield was staring at the mirror, asking who is the fairest one of all. It starts to shatter, and now Garfield looks at the shards on the floor.
This comic was made based on the Mandela effect, which refers to a type of false memory that occurs when many different people incorrectly remember the same thing.
For the record, Pikachu's tail is yellow, and the Berenstain Bears' name was never spelled with an E.
==The author writes:==
This comic is based on the Mandela effect. What color is Pikachu's tail? Isn't it Berenstein Bears? "Mirror, mirror, on the wall", right? Well, about that last one. Apparently, the line in the Disney version, which is by far the most well-known version, is "Magic mirror on the wall..." "Mirror mirror" doesn't make sense and just comes off as redundant. 
I also changed the last line to "sharp shards" for two reasons: 
# I once misread the comic and thought it said that;
# I like the rhyme and alliteration.
Original strips: , (main) , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?
{The mirror breaks}
SFX: Tinkle CRACK! Tinkle
Garfield: Sharp shards on the floor...
Category:Muk
3463: Quantity Over Quality

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield was walking on the grass next to a sign that read "Beware of Dog", and another sign that read "Or visit me on the web at www." 
Here, Doug Funnie appears in front of Garfield as he walked next to a sign saying "Beware of Doug".
==Transcript==
{Garfield is walking on the grass next to a sign reading 'Beware of Doug'}
{Garfield continues walking}
{Doug Funnie appears in front of Garfield}
Garfield: Is this supposed to be Funnie?
==The author writes:==
I opted for two bad puns here over one good pun. With all the mentions of Nicktoons in previous SRoMG strips I was surprised this joke hadn't already been done. 
Also, is it obvious that I made this in Microsoft Word? it's the best editing software I have. 
Original strip: .
Category:A Way With Word
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Comic strip references
Category:Television references
3464: Deadly Miscalculation

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon has a bowl with Garfield's food, which then vanishes because Garfield ate it in the brief amount of time it took Jon to blink.
Here, Jon's head vanishes which was a dark spinoff of 1791: Miscalculation.
==The author writes:==
A dark spinoff of #1791.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield sets himself in a sprinter pose. He starts to run. He begins accelerating. He reaches blinding speed}
{Jon walks by holding a dish of cat food}
{Suddenly, his head vanishes}
{Garfield stops with his mouth full and turns around}
Garfield: You bli- Uh-oh
Category:Kavviyenta
3465: Fudgefield

==Explanation==
The dialogue is switched around from the original strip; as the author's notes explain, Garfield's and Arlene's personalities are switched as well.
==The author writes:==
Garfield is a true romantic who has to put with a hungry hungry girlfriend. 
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I love romance
Arlene: I love fudge
Arlene: Okay, your turn
Garfield {with adoring eyes}: You are a piece of work
Category:Simon Winters
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
Category:Joke reversal
3466: No Sign Reading

==Explanation==
This edit simply removes Garfield from the final panel. In the original strip, Garfield pointed to the reader in the last panel, knowing that they were reading the sign. Without him, the joke is lost. The author's comments, as seen below, are thus quite apt.
==The author writes:==
I wonder if Dan Walsh has done this yet...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Sign: NO SIGN READING
Sign: NO SIGN READING
Sign: NO SIGN READING
Category:Redgreen
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Joke removal
3468: Garfield the Addict

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield was on a diet being hungry for pizza, which is an obsession that won't go away. He then goes to Jon in the third panel, who wants him to meet a personal obsession of his.
Here, the pizza was replaced by a YouTube logo, and the background has been changed to a pattern that the author used for the strip, after he did a dopamine-inducing activity. Garfield was being addicted to YouTube in this strip, cause he was bored in the first panel.
==The author writes:==
I have many dopamine addictions, one of which is Garfield. I turned this around for the strip. 
The background comes from when after I did a dopamine-inducing activity. The pattern appeared in front of my face. I took this as a sign I was having a dopamine overload. I also chose to use it for the strip. 
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
YouTube: Saayyy... You're looking bored
Garfield: You're just a dopamine addiction. Go away
YouTube: I can't, until you stop being addicted to me
Garfield {holding his arms out and talking to Jon}: I'd like you to meet a close, dear and personal addiction of mine
Category:Memes-In-Your-Dreams
3469: Death of a Garfler

==Explanation==
The author's note aptly explains this comic; it is a parody of "Death of a Bachelor".
==The author writes:==
Since using strips to make a song is so popular on SRoMG, I thought: why not the song "Death Of A Bachelor" by Panic! At The Disco?
Original strips: , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield falls out of a tree}
SFX: SPLAT!
Caption: Death of a bachelor, oooh,
{Water is splashing out of a room onto Jon}
Jon: ARRRGH!
Caption: Letting the water fall,
{Tons of items pile onto Jon}
Garfield: New year, new start, new world, same Jon
Caption: oooh, seems so fitting for,
{A tree is spitting ornaments at Jon}
SFX: WHIRRRR
Jon: ARRRRGH!
Caption: happy ever after, oooh,
{Odie is smiling as Garfield falls out of a tree}
Garfield: I hate dogs
Caption: how could I ask for more?
{Jon is laughing as Garfield approaches him} 
Caption: a lifetime of laughter,
{Jon is looking both ways as Garfield and Odie run towards him}
SFX: CHUGGA GALLOP CHUGGA GALLOP CHUGGA GALLOP CHUGGA GALLOP
Caption: at the expense of the death of a bachelor
Category:spooper
Category:Music references
346: iField

==Explanation==
The original title panel already spoofs advertising for the iPod. This edit takes it all the way by having the iPod, earbuds, and Jon's word balloon still fully there, but making Garfield and Jon into silhouettes of themselves while replacing everything else in each panel with a single solid color, only reusing one once.
==The author writes:==
We're Still Relevant Dammit. The idea was just so obvious. 
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Title: iGarfield®</br>
{Garfield dancing as a silhouette with an iPod against primary coloured backgrounds}</br>
{Jon tries the iPod}</br>
Jon: Bacon frying.
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Advertising references
3470: Jon is a Social Outcast

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon was asking Ellen if he could go for a drive-in tonight, but she doesn't care about that. 
==The author writes:==
It's funny because you normally wouldn't say you tickle goats on the phone, y'see? 
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon {on phone}: WE'D GO OUT TO THE BARN AND TICKLE THE GOATS
Jon {on phone}: LOOK AT ME... I'M A LAZY CAT!
SFX: CLICK! {Jon's interlocutor hangs up}
Jon: I said that out loud, didn't I? 
Garfield: Yup
Category:IMode
3471: If you eat pizza / and you're a cat / watch it arrive / on your doormat

==Explanation==
In this strip, Garfield and Jon were watching something on the computer called "Pizza Cam" and they were tracking the pizza they ordered.
==The author writes:==
Recently I read this article and learned of Burma Shave*. The rhyme in #3352 made my mind jump to that, and this was the result. 
Original strip: .
[*Long-time SRoMG readers may have learned from #899 and #1334. -Ed]
==Transcript==
{Jon leans over languidly to look at a computer, which Garfield is staring at avidly}
Jon: What are you watching on the computer?
Garfield: Pizza cam
{Jon is unsurprised}
Jon: Tracking the pizza we ordered?
Garfield: Yes I am
{Jon is absent. Garfield looks at the audience}
Garfield: Burma Shave
Category:Edderiofer
Category:Pizza Cam
Category:Long titles
3472: The System Is Meow'n'

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon just turns the light on once, hurting Garfield's eyes by doing so while his eyes were adjusted to low light conditions. Here, Jon appears to be throwing a lightswitch rave, much as The Cheat does in Strong Bad email #45: techno. The title is a pun on the "obligatory old movie quote from some sci-fi movie" (which Matt Chapman says Mike made up) that is heard in the music. The author's note is a paraphrase of what Strong Bad says to The Cheat when he discovers what he's doing.
==The author writes:==
The Jon is grounded.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Black}
{Jon turns the light on} 
SFX: CLICK
{Black}
{Jon turns the light on}
SFX: CLICK
{Black}
{Jon turns the light on}
SFX: CLICK
{Black}
{Jon turns the light on}
SFX: CLICK
{Black}
{Jon turns the light on}
SFX: CLICK
{Black}
{Jon turns the light on}
SFX: CLICK
{Black}
{Jon turns the light on}
SFX: CLICK
Garfield: ARGH!
Jon: Sorry, Garfield
Garfield: I wish you'd warn me
Category:Nyperold
Category:Internet references
3473: Test Your Square Root of Minus Garfield Knowledge 2!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Since the first one of these seems to have gone over well, I'll do a second. But since I've got strips that have been waiting to run for several years at this point (to name just three, "What We Suspect Jim Davis Is Thinking", "Garfield Put In A Very Special Episode", and "Non-consensual Cosplay"), this will be the last in this series from me; if somebody else wants to do something like this, I won't object, although Manyhills might. Just don't overdo it, and maybe try to keep the panels roughly the same in size. 
The rules, again: All of these panels differ from the original Garfield strip. All were chosen using the random button on the archive. The answers are found below, in invisitext; if you want to cheat, or verify your guesses are correct, highlight the text. This time, I've resized many of these, so it fits into a usual Sunday format. 
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2009-08-06, 2011-06-10, 2011-10-24, 2012-09-15, 2014-07-05, 2014-11-17, 2016-07-02, 2018-01-19.
==Transcript==
Lubaf: Which 8 Square Root of Minus Garfield strips are the following panels taken from?
{Rest of transcript omitted in vain hope of preventing cheating. Visually impaired readers, you're not missing that much}
Category:Lubaf
3474: Where Is Garfield?

==Explanation==
In the original "Garfield is Really into Turkey" banner, Jon was about to cut the turkey with a sharp knife. Turns out Garfield was in the turkey, leaving his tail out of it. A "burp" comes out of it.
==Transcript==
{Garfield is inside of a turkey with the text "Garfiel" hovering above}
Second panel
Jon {from off-panel right}: Now where could my Garfield be?
Garfield: You s
woul
in
{John is holding a carving knife which is reflecting Garfield's tail, and his eyes are replaced with an image of Garfield smoking a pipe from the 1978-07-27 Garfield strip}
Garfield: aid there
d be a pip
here
==The author writes:==
It's not a strip per se this is based on, but a banner used for the garfield.com website during the holidays.
I took creative liberty on this strip with themes of the mainstream personality that the Internet has given Garfield and his owner Jon. I took a three-panel Garfield comic and layered it over the banner for continuity of Square Root of Minus Garfield's themes.
Original strips: , Garfield is Really into Turkey Garfield.com banner image..
Category:Duebers
3475: Human Brain Remix

==Explanation==
The author has made a remix of the original Garfield strip called Human Brain.
==Transcript==
Human Brain!
H-H-H-Human Brain!
Hu-Hu-Human Br-Br-Br-Br-Brain!
M-M-M-M-Must Have Human Brain!
H-H-H-H-Have
Must H-H-H-H-Have 
Must Have Human Brain!
N-N-N-Notice H-How He Walked Right Past You
W-W-Walked Right Past You
W-W-Walked Right Past You
N-N-N-Notice H-How He Walked Right Past You
Walked Right Past You
You
You
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
Category:Xineohp III Esq.
3476: Garfield, one word per panel

==Explanation==
The original strip was changed to one word in each panel.
==Transcript==
Garfield: Nothing
{Enter Jon. There is a puff of smoke, and he appears disheveled}
Jon: Wildfire
{Exit Jon}
Garfield: Ordinary,
==The author writes:==
singlular
Original strip: .
Category:Destructible Watermelon
3477: Wait for it...

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Arlene slept through yesterday because she was lazy. Garfield goes shocked at the viewer, then to Arlene, who thought there was a yesterday. Arlene looks at the viewer, unamused.
Here, Arlene tells Garfield that he's pregnant, then the nineteen beat panels have Garfield get shocked, with both Garfield and Arlene looking at the viewer from time to time. Arlene smiles at Garfield for the first nine of the beat panels, but gets irritated for the rest to happen.
Arlene in the last panel starts frowning. Garfield thought Arlene was spayed.
==The author writes:==
When I saw the original strip the gag just came to me. It was, I'm having to take one of my kittens to get spayed this week. So why not combine it with the typical shock reaction joke of men finding out that the woman in their life is pregnant, especially if it wasn't planned and they were using birth control. And let's face it, for this type of joke you can never have enough beat panels.
And just for the record, I was never this stunned when my wife told me she was pregnant.
Honest.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Arlene and Garfield looking at each other on the fence} 
Arlene {smiling}: Garfield, honey... Guess what? I'm pregnant! 
{Nineteen panels of Garfield in shock, with both of them looking at the fourth wall from time to time, with Arlene smiling at Garfield for the first nine of the beat panels, then getting an irritated look on her face for the rest}
{Arlene looks at the fourth wall in the last panel, frowning}
Garfield {still in shock}: But... but... I thought you were spayed!
Category:Michael C. Fortner
3478: Watch out, you might get what you're Garfield

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon sees the pizza that Garfield ordered on Pizza Cam.
Here, Jon is seeing a video Garfield is watching called Burning House, by Cam, the singer with only one name. Her real name is Cameron Marvel Ochs.
==The author writes:==
Continuing with my perchant for obscure country music references. I saw that the original strip had the word "Cam" in it and thought of the singer who just goes by the name Cam. It struck me as an odd name for a country singer, but I happen to love her music, particularly her only big hit, "Burning House".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is watching something on the computer}
Jon: What are you watching on the computer?
Jon: Is that "Burning House"?
Garfield: Yep
Garfield: Cam
Category:Anonymous Contributor
Category:Music references
Category:Pizza Cam
3479: You Ever Sat Down and Read This Thing?

==Explanation==
As the author of this strip confirmed, this strip was created in response to #3314's "slight against Sesame Street". As opposed to criticizing himself for singing such a "childish" song, Garfield is now expressing frustration at how catchy Sesame Street songs are (such examples are often called earworms). As well as Number Guy (the editor's note alludes to someone other than the author of #3314 remembering that character), this edit makes a reference to "Rubber Duckie", one of the more enduring Sesame Street songs.
The title of the strip is a secondary jab against the original, as instead of being a Bible verse, it is a reference to Reverend Lovejoy from The Simpsons and his dismissal of the Bible in the episode "Secrets of a Successful Marriage": "Marge, just about everything is a sin. You ever sat down and read this thing? Technically, we're not allowed to go to the bathroom."
==The author writes:==
Don't diss Sesame Street. That's the moral for today.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2018-06-15.
[I guess this strip is in answer to Muchacho1994's implied final line question. -Ed]
==Transcript==
{Garfield is alone one day, bored, rocking on his own fat}
Garfield: ♪Hummm♪
Garfield: ♪How many sheep will jump over my bed, bef—♪
{Garfield realizes what he is singing, and quickly becomes angry with himself}
Garfield: Great, I just got "Rubber Ducky" out of my head, and now this is stuck there. Why is Sesame Street so catchy?
Category:Crazy56U
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Music references
Category:Television references
Category:Jabs
347: Accessorize

==Explanation==
The author uses three strips, not necessarily all selected by the Garfield Randomiser, but possibly merely inspired by its selection, to craft a story in which Odie, being told the secret of looking good by Garfield, attempts to accessorize by stuffing a pine cone up his nose, then gets on TV while trying to remove it.
Contexts:
# Odie goes on to put a paper bag over his head, to Jon's surprise.
# Having been told by Garfield to sit, Odie goes and gets a stool, and is told, "Good boy!"
# Garfield is watching a show in which a dog chases and corners a squirrel. The dog is not implied to be Odie.
==The author writes:==
I got the idea from the Garfield Randomiser.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {to Odie} The secret to looking good is to accessorize.</br>
{Odie runs away}</br>
TV: Here we see the dog trying to remove a pine cone from up his nose.</br>
Garfield: Disgraceful.
Category:Nottoostupid
3480: Leatherfield

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon and Garfield were shocked to see a waiter, but not Irma cause she's on vacation. Jon asks the waiter if he will be cooking their food, but the waiter says no. Jon and Garfield will have the "Spanish Special" The waiter tells Bubba to give them two tacos and go light on the flies. Jon and Garfield were utterly shocked by the huge Bubba.
Here, "Spanish" in the fifth panel was replaced by "Texan", "tacos" replaced by "barbecue" and "flies" replaced by "sauce" in the last panel. Bubba was replaced by Leatherface from Sim-Ant in From Beyond the Re-Animated Evil Dead from Tumblr which the author used with permission. Bubba and Leatherface both share the same name, have the huge fat, and do some questionable cooking. The author was surprised that it hasn't been done with Leatherface after that similar joke from [#2199].
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are walking to the diner}
Waiter: Ready to order?
Jon: Where's Irma?
Waiter: On vacation
Jon: Uh, will you be cooking our food?
Waiter: Nope
Jon: In that case, we'll have the "Texan Special"
{Jon and Garfield are both shocked upon seeing Leatherface}
Waiter: Barbecue for two, and go light on the sauce this time, Bubba
==The author writes:==
While a similar joke [has been made before], I'm surprised that it hasn't been done with Leatherface; aside from sharing the same name, both are huge dudes that do questionable cooking. 
Original strip: . 
Leatherface artwork by sim-ant (frombeyondthereanimateevildead), used with permission.
Category:jehsetpanic
3481: 1 in Boogie Land

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 3481: #1 in Boogie Land.
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==Explanation==
In the original strip, which was part of a week-long storyline in which Jon's car breaks down on the way to his family's farm, he and Garfield walk up to an abandoned house, and Garfield finds a tombstone that seems to be predicting his own death.
This edit is a follow-up to Strip 3367, which replaced Garfield's tombstone with the one reading "Here lies Squidward's hopes and dreams" from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "One Krab's Trash". This time, it has been replaced with the tombstone for "Smitty Werben Jaegermanjenson" from the same episode. Mr. Krabs makes up the name in an attempt to get back the valuable hat that he sold to SpongeBob, but to his surprise, there actually is someone with that name buried in the Bikini Bottom cemetery, and SpongeBob brings the hat to that grave, resulting in Mr. Krabs having to dig the grave up just to get the hat back. The strip's title comes from a line that Mr. Krabs uses to describe Smitty.
As noted by the editor, this strip went up shortly following the death of SpongeBob's creator, Stephen Hillenburg.
==Transcript==
Jon: I guess we'll have to stay in this abandoned house tonight, Garfield
Tombstone: #1: Smitty Werbenjaegermanjenson
Garfield: He must've been number one.
==The author writes:==
As soon as I saw No. 3367, I knew what had to be done.
Original strip: .
[This seemed like an appropriate if slightly belated way of marking the death of Hillenburg. -Ed]]
Category:Cody
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
3482: Graffitifield

==Explanation==
There was a photo of an urban streetscape with a large sticker of Garfield on the lower corner of a wall. Stuck above it is a speech balloon saying "Eat your heart out, Banksy."
The author took a screenshot of this while travelling in Cologne, Germany. He had to preserve it for all time here naturally.
The original image actually said, "Du hast zwar Recht, aber ich finde meine Meinung besser. Ja! Da!", which Google translates as "You are right, but I think my opinion is better. Yes! There!". This sounds like a comment on the modern social trend of people giving as much weight to personal opinions as to the truth, so he would guess this is some sort of political or probably social commentary.
He decided he'd replace it with a more Garfield-esque social commentary.
The Square Root of Minus Garfield in the wild is from Google Streetview images. The image cannot be seen there, because it was presumably taken before Garfield appeared. He's on the yellow wall directly below the red BARBER sign on the right.
==Transcript==
{A photo of an urban streetscape. A large sticker of Garfield adorns the lower corner of a wall. Stuck above it is a speech balloon}
Garfield: Eat your heart out, Banksy
==The author writes:==
I was travelling in Cologne, Germany, when this struck my eye. Naturally I had to preserve it for all time here.
The original actually said: "Du hast zwar Recht, aber ich finde meine Meinung besser. Ja! Da!", which Google translates as "You are right, but I think my opinion is better. Yes! There!". This sounds like a comment on the modern social trend of people giving as much weight to personal opinions as to the truth, so I guess this is some sort of political and/or social commentary.
I decided to replace it with a more Garfield-esque social commentary.
If you'd like to see exactly where you can see this SRoMG in the wild, it's here: Google Streetview image. You can't see it in that image, presumably taken before Garfield appeared, but he is on the yellow wall directly below the red BARBER sign on the right.
Category:David Morgan-Mar
Category:No original strip
3483: Garfloyd

==Explanation==
Jon Arbuckle is singing the song called The Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd which Garfield seems to love. 
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: OHHHH AHHHH AH EAHHHH OOOH OOH OH
Garfield: I love "The Great Gig in the Sky"
Category:Guan
Category:Music references
3484: Garfield Poop

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A quick edit made while tired, in the absurdist tradition of YouTube poop: basically, use whatever editing tools are available (in my case, MS Paint and an ancient PhotoshopÂ®) to create bizarre images out of existing normal ones. (A real YouTube poop would instead create a bizarre video out of existing normal ones, of course.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {who has several mouths}: Body shame don't don't else without, have you? Have you? Have you?
Garfield(?): What {which echoes throughout the background}
{Pooky doesn't seem normal}
Garfield(?) {thinks}: ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME
{Nothing is normal now}
{The copyright text is just "WHY ARE YOU READING THIS" over and over}
{The signature is overtaken by a crowd of armless legless stick people}
==Trivia==
This strip's author's notes were hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Xindaris
Category:Mojibake