nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
1197: LOGIC

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
You can use the same logic to work out what the opposite of a lasagna is. If you think about this too much you may go mad.
==Transcript==
Panel 1: Garfield will eat your lasagna.
Panel 2: Minus Garfield will make you lasagna.
Panel 3: Square Root of Garfield will eat or make a 2D cross section which, when multiplied with itself, is a lasagna.
Panel 4: Square Root of Minus Garfield will eat or make a 2D cross section which, when multiplied with itself, is the opposite of a lasagna.
Category:yogyog
Category:Original strip unknown
119: Frozen Garfield

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon stops as Garfield decides he wants to talk about his own day.
In this strip, "Garfield" is probably just a lawn ornament, and Jon realizes he's been talking to it all this time, thus cementing his mental breakdown.
==The author writes:==
The original strip is from . 
I had originally intended Jon to think out loud "...and why am I talking to a lawn ornament?", but it was funnier when his mental breakdown was silent and implied by context. So try reading the strip again, but replace Garfield with a lawn ornament that looks like Garfield.
==Transcript==
Jon: You wouldn't believe my day, Garfield.</br>
Jon: First, I tripped and fell down six flights of stairs.</br>
Jon: When I landed, I got my head stuck in a bucket of pork chops.</br>
Jon: Then, a roaming pack of hungry wolves mistook me for lunch...</br>
Jon: ... and chased me into an open elevator shaft, which wouldn't have been so bad had it not been for the rabid shaft badgers.</br>
Jon: And then I...</br>
{Jon realises Garfield hasn't moved a muscle since he started talking}</br>
{silent beat}
==Later references==
The author's notes in 1530: Silence Speaks Louder than Words‎ refer to this strip.
Category:AJ.Ä.
Category:Beat panels
Category:Joke removal
11: Garfield on a Neutron Star

==Explanation==
A neutron star is essentially the result of a massive star collapsing during a Type II, Ib, or Ic supernova. More to the point, they are the densest and tiniest stars in the universe - they are only 10 km (6 mi), but are much more massive than the Sun.
Thus, a Garfield strip following similar rules would be squashed beyond readability.
==The author writes:==
.
==Transcript (unofficial)==
Jon: This day is gone, Garfield.
Garfield: I thought it would never leave.
Jon: We can't relive it.
Garfield: Relive "boring"?
Jon: It's gone forever.
Garfield: Lock the door in case it wants to come back.
==Trivia==
* There is no official transcript for this strip (though one has been provided above).
Category:David Morgan-Mar
Category:Avant-garde strips
Category:Science-based comics
1205: Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is, Garfield?

==Explanation==
This strip only appears at a set time, usually 07:00 UTC or 17:00 UTC. When it's time, it shows the strip.
==The author writes:==
[[Original strip: (is a surprise)]]
==Transcript==
Caption: https://tudza.org/Garfield_Time/Garfield_Time.png
Category:tudza
120: Dissociated Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Taking "remixed Garfield strips" fairly literally, I created these three strips using a generalisation of the Dissociated Press algorithm to two dimensions. Here is how it works, more or less:
#Construct a source image consisting of all regular non-Sunday Garfield strips from 2007, forced into a common 216-color palette. (Avoid dithering; that gives bad results).
#Generate the pixels of the output image in pseudo-random order, as follows:
#Set N=32 and find the N pixels closest to the target pixel coordinates that have already been generated.
#Locate all pixels in the source image that have exactly the same colours in the same relative positions as the neighbour pixels found in step 3
#If no source pixels were found in step 4, decrease N by one and start over from step 3.
#Otherwise, set the target pixel to the colour of a randomly chosen one among those found in step 4.
I generated a dozen-odd images—each takes about 6 hours of CPU time—and selected the most interesting ones. They tend to be more chaotic than I had hoped (and increasing the initial N does not seem to help), but still they are not complete failures.
==Transcript==
{A series of interesting modern-art-looking coloured images, with vague hints of Garfield and Jon in them.}
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:No original strip
1210: De-Fence

==Explanation==
This strip makes a correction to the original Garfield strip so that Garfield correctly states that he had been dancing on a waxed fence. At the time this strip was created, all online Garfield archives had a strip that misspelled the word "fence" as "fench"; it is also likely that this error made its way into a number of printings of Garfield Sits Around the House: His Seventh Book (both standalone and as part of Fat Cat Three Pack Volume 3) as well for reasons explained later.
Only in more recent years has it been made clear that "fench" was, in fact, an error; the now-defunct garfield.com strip archive carried its error version until so late in its life that most surviving garfield.com-related archives of this strip are of the error version, only putting out an official corrected version not too long before the site was taken down (the Garfield wiki on Fandom carries this rare corrected version here; the timing of the emergence of the official corrected version is what suggests the error did initially make it into Garfield Sits Around the House: His Seventh Book). The current main GoComics version and the secure-domain mirror of the smaller-sized former "images.ucomics.com" strips as seen here are still the error version to this day; GoComics did put out their own corrected version as part of their now-defunct Garfield Classics line (that version debuted on 2020-04-01), but was taken down from public view on 2023-12-01 as part of discontinuing the Garfield Classics line and can only be readily viewed as social-media copies (the actual GoComics Garfield Classics version presumably still exists buried in their archives as certain strips' Garfield Classics remasters still appear in Garfield-themed collected features, but as no page readily using it appears to have been preserved, it is not readily accessible).
This strip would go on to inspire a number of other Square Root of Minus Garfield theme based on words similar to "fench", and from there other things without relation to similar words, being waxed and then danced on by Garfield.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield dances on the fence}
SFX: tappity tappity tappity
{Garfield slips and falls off the fence}
Garfield: Okay... who waxed the fence?
Category:Cody
1217: Dog-Eating Treets

==Explanation==
The dialogue and box text are exactly the same. The change is that the author lowered the box, making it clear that the box is eating him, or perhaps the treats. in fact, the transcript spells out that it is, in fact, the box eating him.
The title may be a reference to the kite-eating trees of the "Peanuts" franchise.
==The author writes:==
It seemed appropriate. I keep killing Garfield off, it was Odie's turn... and today's strip was perfect for it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Odie has his head in a box marked "Doggy Treets" as Garfield smirks to the audience.}
{SFX: munch munch munch}
Garfield: Odie is enjoying a little snack.
{The box now covers more of Odie. Garfield stares in horror.}
{SFX: munch munch munch}
{The box has consumed almost all of Odie as Garfield looks back to the audience, eyes still wide.}
{SFX: munch munch munch}
Garfield: Or it's enjoying him.
Category:The Madb
121: A Softer Cat

==Explanation==
A Softer World was a webcomic in which each strip contained three panels of photographic imagery with typewriter-style text superimposed. In reference to this, the strip places a Garfield monologue onto a photo of a cat. 
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
I was wondering how you could do Garfield in the style of another comic. A Softer World sprung to mind.
==Transcript==
{Arty black and white photos of a real cat lying curled up with its eyes closed, overlaid with cut-out strips of paper with dialogue printed in Courier font}
Garfield: You know, maybe there's more to life than just eating and sleeping... Maybe I should be nicer to Odie, and more considerate of other people's feelings.
{silent beat}
Garfield: Nah.
Category:Tom Field+Jonathan Sandman
Category:Webcomic references
1221: Poorly Received Garfield

==Explanation==
This comic (about Garfield watching static, fittingly enough) is edited to look like it is being "broadcasted" on a TV; however, the signal on said TV is poor and very grainy. Occasionally, the picture appears (albeit faintly) for a split-second, before going back to static. The author's notes read as if they were dialogue from someone watching TV as someone else attempts to adjust the rabbit ears and improve the picture, as the other person tells him which way to move the antenna.
==The author writes:==
Left a bit... hang on, you had it for a moment there, go back. No, that's - wait, that's it, hold it - no, no, you've lost it again. Oh, for goodness's sake, give it here and let me do it.
Original strips: 
==Transcript==
Jon: I don't believe it.
Jon: You're sitting here watching static!
Garfield: Yes, but it's quality static.
Category:Manyhills
Category:Animated comics
Category:Television references
1223: Dark Side of the Lasagne 2

==Explanation==
The original strip had Garfield burning Jon's bow ties. #51: Dark Side of the Lasagne had Odie being burned, with Jon noticing off screen that Odie's bowl is covered in blood.
This edit follows from that edit, with Jon expressing sadness that Odie is no longer with them, and Garfield reminiscing about the quality of the fire he made.
==The author writes:==
Original SRoMG: #51.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, you make a lovely fire.
Garfield: I do make a lovely fire.
Jon: Well, I gotta go get ready for my date. You enjoy your lovely fire.
Garfield: I'll enjoy my lovely fire.
Jon: I miss Odie!
Garfield: He made a lovely fire.
Category:Henry Morel
1225: Garfield Plus Original Three Nicktoons

==Explanation==
Doug, Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy all premiered on August 11, 1991, the same date the original strip first appeared. The author has simply taken this strip's first three panels, repeated the first, and put each show's respective protagonists in them. As such, Garfield in the first panel is replaced with Stimpy, and the original crossword answers with the names of those three shows.
It should be noted that the image of Doug Funnie used here was actually made for the show's continuation under Disney, rather than the original Nickelodeon series.
==The author writes==
I decided to do this. I could find a strip no more appropriate for the scenario than this one, as it ran on the same day the first three Nicktoons (Doug, Rugrats, and Ren and Stimpy) debuted.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is shown resting with Doug, Tommy, Chuckie, Ren, and Stimpy in the room}
{Garfield is shown resting with Doug, Tommy, Chuckie, Ren, and Stimpy in the room}
{Garfield is shown resting with Doug, Tommy, Chuckie, Ren, and Stimpy in the room}
{Garfield is shown resting with Doug, Tommy, Chuckie, Ren, and Stimpy in the room} 
Garfield: sigh 
Garfield: It's no use... 
Garfield: I can't sleep.
Category:Midnight Strike
Category:Television references
Category:Cartoon references
122: Lolfield

==Explanation==
The misspelling of "lasagna" is probably intentional, mimicking the deliberate bad spelling that often occurs in lolcats, loldogs, and other such meme images.
==The author writes:==
Readers who have been away from the Internet for the past several years, please see Lolcats at TV Tropes. Or the Other Wiki.
It's easy enough to create a Garfield lolcat. The trick is to find a framing such that Garfield is kept even remotely in character.
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{Garfield enters carrying a piece of paper}
Garfield: (ahem)
{photo of Garfield with huge grin, with caption in large capital letters}
Caption: I CAN HAS LASGANA?
Jon: How nice!
Garfield: I don't write 'em. I just read 'em.
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:Internet references
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
1234: Screen Capture

==Explanation==
Sufficiently explained in the author's note.
==The author writes:==
The idea for this strip came when I found out that you could use the GIMP editor to do screenshots. The first thing I did was press F12 (on Internet Explorer, pressing that will open up a text editor, actually allowing you to alter text on a web page as well as images). I edited the heading to say "No. 1234: Screen Capture" (the title of this strip). Then, I opened up Comments on a Postcard (on a separate page) and got the "broken image" to paste onto SRoMG. I then resized that image to fit onto the page better. I then went to GIMP 2 to "File", then to "Create", then to "Screenshot" and set the timer for seven seconds (to give me enough time to get the page ready). After I got the screenshot, I copied it from GIMP and pasted it into Paint so that way it would save as a standard PNG file like I needed it to (instead of a GIMP file). I think the end result looks pretty well.
Original strip: Technically, there's no original strip. The strip was, however, made from No. 1217 (Dog-Eating Treets), which was based on the strip.
==Transcript==
{a screenshot of the Square Root of Minus Garfield home page}
Category:Cody
Category:mezzacotta references
123: Cyclops Garfield

==Explanation==
This edit removes one of Garfield's eyes and recenters the other. This makes Garfield into a sort of cyclops, in the vein of Greco-Roman mythology, but the author also borrowed an idea from Marvel's X-Men: the eye laser. The author also changed the dialogue in the second panel from a burp to an "Oops." The final panel's dialogue was originally the revelation that Garfield had eaten the pizza before it arrived, and how Garfield accomplished this; here, Jon protests further cooking by the laser, with Garfield reminding him of how he wants his food served. This serves to re-contextualize the "Oops", either making it into feigning a mistake, or indicating that the pizza place made one.
It is unknown the author's thought process as to possible strip titles. The author's notes imply "Cyclops Garfield" was a title the author opted to discard en route to the finalized title, yet that very same title ended up being the finalized title.
==The author writes:==
The original strip is from .
Originally, this was intended to be called "Cyclops Garfield", which is probably an apt title. But the content brings to mind "Evil Alien Overlord Garfield", which is also a workable title. It's basically a combination of a sight gag with the surreal humor that I tend to like.
==Transcript==
Jon: {opening a pizza box} It's here!
Garfield: {shooting a beam from his one enormous eye at the pizza} Oops.
SFX: ZZST!
Jon: But Master, it was probably overcooked already.
Garfield: You know how I demand my food be served.
Category:Pepsiman
1241: The Picnic Panic

==Explanation==
This strip was inspired by a then-recent original Garfield strip centered around ants combined with a particular segment from the Garfield and Friends television series; as a result, this strip essentially recreates much of the ants' song from the Garfield and Friends segment.
This would not be the last time a Square Root of Minus Garfield strip author drew inspiration from that particular segment of Garfield and Friends; the later 3229: Ear Worm... or Ants also derives its setup from the same song from the same segment.
==The author writes:==
I saw today's comic, and I couldn't help but think of the old Garfield and Friends episode "The Picnic Panic." So made the ants sing the lines from the ants in the original episode. Garfield's line in the second panel is also taken more or less from the episode.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: The yard is a good place to have a picnic.
Garfield: Unless, of course, we run into a colony of ants.
Ants: Oh we're the ants who ruin your dinner! We're always here to mess up any day!
Ants: When we're around every camper gets thinner! Cause if we get the chance we will take your food away!
Ants: Oh we're the ants who plunder and steal. We leave each camper hungry and distraught
Ants: When we're around you won't get a meal. Cause if we get the chance we will eat the stuff you brought.
Ants: Oh we're the ants who pick your baloney. We're always very devious and shrewd.
Ants: We'll steal the cheese off your macaroni. Cause if we get the chance we will run off with your food.
Ants: Oh we're the ants who leave you starving. We clean you out no matter when or how.
Ants: When we're around don't bother carving. Cause if we get the chance we will take away your chow.
Ants: Oh we're the ants who leave you hollow. We're on call. We stay up every night.
Ants: When we're around you don't get a swallow. Cause if we get the chance we will not feed you a bite.
Ants: Oh we're the ants who make you diet. You may think you can eat your lunch and split.
Ants: When we're around don't even try it. Cause if we get the chance we will mop up every bit.
Ants: Oh we're the ants who took your salad. We didn't even leave an IOU.
Ants: When we're around your friends are invalid. Cause if we get the chance we will gobble up your stew.
Category:ajnrules
Category:Non-strip Garfield material
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
1242: One Little Letter

==Explanation==
In the original, the word was "texting". Changing the first "t" to "s" made the neologism "sexting", a word usually meaning the sending of text messages consisting of sexually explicit text and/or images. In this case, however, Garfield and Odie are apparently using cell phones set to vibrate when a message is received to stimulate them much as a vibrator would, the actual content of the message being irrelevant.
==The author writes:==
It's amazing what changing one little letter will do to the tone of the entire rest of the strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Odie sit at the table, staring at the audience.}</br>
{Odie looks slyly to Garfield.}</br>
{Garfield looks surprised, vibrating.}</br>
SFX: BZZZ!</br>
{Odie looks surprised, vibrating while Garfield smiles.}</br>
SFX: BZZZ!</br>
{Odie grins at Garfield who vibrates.}</br>
SFX: BZZZ!</br>
{Garfield grins to Odie as he vibrates.}</br>
SFX: BZZZ!</br>
Jon (off-camera): Garfield! Odie!</br>
{Jon leans in. Garfield looks unamused and Odie tries to look innocent.}</br>
Jon: Stop sexting each other!
==Later references==
1531 can be considered "a sort of spiritual sequel".
Category:The Madb
1249: Elevenfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Yes, yes, I know it's still not eleven. But if I'm not mistaken, Up To Eleven does not need to be an actual amount of eleven.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is typing on the computer}
Text: Jon's Blog: Today I cleaned my barbecue grill!
Text: There was a lot of caked-on gunk, and it took a lot of hard scraping with a wire brush!
Text: All afternoon long it was scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scra
Garfield: Z
Odie: Z
Jon: Come on, it's not that boring!
Garfield: Z
Odie: Z
Computer: Z
Garfield: Z
Odie: Z
Jim Davis' signature: Z
Panel: Z
Category:pookypal
124: Krazy minus Kat

==Explanation==
Garfield is not the first cat to appear in comic strips; indeed, the final strip of Krazy Kat predates the first strip of Garfield by more than three decades.
In the original comic, Krazy Kat has already tried planting an acorn and a mothball, only to have them taken by a squirrel and a moth, respectively. (Though what Krazy was expecting to get from planting a mothball is uncertain.) So, his/her new idea is to plant a tomato can full of nickels, dimes, and quarters, perhaps to grow a money tree. Later that night, Officer Pupp and Ignatz race to claim it. Maybe.
This strip takes Dan Walsh's Garfield Minus Garfield idea and applies it to another comic, removing the title character from the strip to see what results. So here, Pupp and Ignatz's sympathetic words are said to seemingly no one, and their late-night rush is unexplained.
The author's fear that the comic may be too meta for inclusion, while understandable -- there are, after all, no Garfield elements used in the strip, and the only connection is processing it the same way Garfield Minus Garfield is -- seems to have been unfounded. (Though with the arrival of iToons, which archives the processing of strips other than Garfield, future ones may be sent there, instead.)
==The author writes:==
This one may be too meta to fly.
The original Krazy Kat strip is from 1937-08-05.
==Transcript==
{A Krazy Kat strip, with Kat removed}</br>
{Officer Pupp and Ignatz walk into frame}</br>
Officer Pupp: Too bad.</br>
Ignatz: Too bad.</br>
{empty frame of scenery}</br>
{Officer Pupp and Ignatz shuffle back into frame}
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:Comic strip references
Category:Non-Garfield comics
Category:No original strip
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
1255: Garfield for Dogs

==Explanation==
This strip is an adaptation of François Caradec's eight "Poems for Dogs", contained within Veuillez trouver ci-inclus ("please find enclosed"). Each one hides the name of the dog it is addressed to within its text, usually using a phonetically similar pair of words. Take this one, for example, addressed to a dog named Flush (reprinted here):
My mistress never slights me
When taking outdoor tea.
She brings sweet cake
For her sweet sake,
Rough, luscious bones for me.
If you can't find it, the words "rough luscious" contains, in the proper order and right next to each other, the sounds in the name "Flush", and would probably attract his/her attention. 
Manyhills' equivalent is an adaptation of an earlier SRoMG strip, with Odie's name hidden in the last line ("rode easily away").
==The author writes:==
There is a Far Side comic about what dogs hear when scolded; the answer is that everything comes across as "blah" save their own name. The writer François Caradec made a similar observation, and this forms the basis of his eight Poems for Dogs, to be found in 1990's Veuillez trouver ci-inclus ("please find enclosed"), entry number 49 in the Bibliothèque Oulipienne. Each of the poems conceals the name of the dog to which it is addressed, hidden from the human eye but entirely detectable to the canine ear when read aloud.
Dogs aren't the only creatures sensitive to the sound of their own names; the cocktail party effect refers to (among other things) the ability of humans to notice their name being mentioned even in a conversation they are not consciously listening to.
Original strip: Square Root of Minus Garfield strip #38, itself based on .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is hanging by the neck on a tree branch} 
Garfield: Mmmph. 
{Odie is running to the rescue!} 
{Odie running, with Garfield happily sitting on his back, holding Odie's ears} 
Caption: A cat of idleness and greed/Caught in a tree did not dismay/He waited for his noble steed/And thanks to its tremendous speed/Rode easily away
Category:Manyhills
Category:Poems
125: Mix and Match Garfield

==Explanation==
Specifically, the author swapped Garfield's dialogue, found in the second panel of the first strip and the third panel of the second strip.
==The author writes:==
Using one of my favourite websites, Random.org, I took two different Garfield strips, then took one's dialogue and pasted it on the other's image.
#1: #2: 
==Transcript==
1:
Jon: Be a good boy and fetch the morning paper, Garfield.
Garfield: {shambling off} You lucky dog. I rarely kiss on the first date.
Jon: Why can't I have a normal house cat like everyone else?
2:
Jon: Thanks for a lovely evening, Liz. {puckers up for a kiss}
SFX: KISS {Garfield kisses Jon}
SFX: ptooy, ptooy {Jon is disgusted}
Garfield: Yes, master. I am at your beck and call, master.
Category:Colin Foster