nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
5326: Yaaaaaahhhhh

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I've been pinched before. It wasn't that painful.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is happily talking on the telephone}
Jon: Hi, Barbara, it's Jon Arbuckle...
Jon {audible by aliens on the moon}: Yaaaaaahhhhh
{Jon puts the telephone down. He is sweating and has messy hair. Somehow, his wallpaper has changed color}
Jon {angrily, to Garfield}: Stop pinching me!!
Garfield {with a content smile, holding the index finger and thumb on his right paw as though to pinch something}: That was fun! Call someone else
Category:Ryszcl
5327: Christmas

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Garfield in 10078, featuring your favorite (and only remaining) character, Disembodied Speech Bubble, in an endless, post-apocalyptic barren field of dirt, long after the extinction of all of humanity after 2027 due to global war making the planet completely inhospitable to even the strongest extremophile bacteria. Somehow, after all those years, not to mention the original author being dead along with the rest of his species, and the rediscovery of his creation by a passing extraterrestrial civilization, the strip still has the exact same name, despite the original main character the strip was named after being forgotten along with all of the other characters.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Nothing}
Disembodied speech bubble: Christmas will be here soon
{Nothing}
Category:Tiny Desk Engineer
5328: AI Curio Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is the AI Curio Bot's response to the prompt "square root of minus garfield".
==Transcript==
{A strange mass of colors and shapes. There appears to be text at the top, and a Garfield-colored pile of tails to the right. Green plants are seen in the middle}
Category:Muk
Category:No original strip
5329: Gochuumon wa usagi desu ka?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Would You Like Some Rabbits Today? is a Japanese animation that I would like to introduce to you today.
Shoot. You can get the pun without knowing what the animation is about.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
SFX: RRRRRRRRRR
Jon: Garfield, was that the blender?
{Garfield is holding a cup with rabbit ears sticking out the top}
Jon: Forget it, I don't want to know.
Garfield: ご注文はうさぎですか？(Would you like some rabbits today?)
Category:Reisen U. Inaba
Category:Anime and manga references
5330: Garfield in The Land (Caer-Caveral)

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The Land is the primary location of the 10 books in the Thomas Covenant series, which is broken down into 2 trilogies and a final quadrilogy. The series itself is fantasy, and on a maturity scale with 1 being The Chronicles of Narnia, 5 being The Lord of the Rings, and 10 being A Song of Ice and Fire, it would be about a 7 or 8. The Thomas Covenant series seemed like a great source for weird mash-ups with Garfield, and so I figured I'd just transport Garfield to The Land.
Caer-Caveral is a secondary(-ish?) character, first appearing in the second book The Illearth War of the first trilogy The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever as a stump with a single limb upraised, though with leaves at the end (this SRoMG scene takes place after the leaves have fallen). Caer-Caveral appears in the other sets of books in a few different forms, but the stump version is my favorite.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield stands in front of a stump with one limb upraised}
Caer-Caveral: Hi, I'm Forestal Caer-Caveral!
Caer-Caveral: Would you like to play?
Caer-Caveral: I like to make bargains!
Garfield: Is this a sting operation?
Category:Man Demon
Category:Literature references
5331: A Slightly More Subtle Edit

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Once again, the middle-right panel is all that was changed.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2019-08-22.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is standing between two flowers on a plot of grass}
SFX: RRRR {Garfield's hungry}
Jon: GARFIELD! LUNCH TIME!
{Garfield turns his head in delight}
Jon: GARFIELD, WHERE ARE YOU?
{As he rushes home, Garfield knocks over a person wearing a red shirt and blue pants; this individual can't possibly be Jon, and it's unlikely that Garfield has just tripped Lyman}
{Garfield dashes through Jon's fence gate, knocking it off with one hinge attached and the other breaking off of it}
SFX: screee {Garfield stops himself near the door}
Jon: It is time for you to eat, your majesty
Garfield {promptly strutting regally toward his food bowl}: If I must
Category:Redgreen
5332: A funny way to prepare for Santa

==Explanation==
Garfield lights up a fireplace with care.
==The author writes:==
This is a REALLY funny Christmas comic!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Okay, let's see...
Garfield: "Landing lights" are on...
Garfield: Stockings are hung... Milk and cookies are out... What have I forgotten?
Garfield: Oh, yeah!
SFX: Snap
{Garfield gathers wood}
{Garfield lights the fireplace, then sleeps}
Category:Captain Lhurgoyf
5333: Garfield Minus Glaring Error

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
You don't skip breakfast on Christmas! You eat it after opening your presents. How could Garfield not know that?
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and there is never a reason to skip it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Z
Odie: Bark!
Garfield: Oh yeah, it's Christmas morning
Garfield: This morning I have to get up early, be nice to people, eat breakfast late...
Jon: I love you, Garfield
Odie: Urf!
Garfield: I wish it would never end
Category:Cesium Lightning
5334: Garfield's Best Christmas Present

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
After having seen a nice image on the net where Garfield is very happy surrounded by his mom and his "second dad" and also inspired by Garfield's Christmas TV special, that's how I decided to redo said image adding Christmas touches and I really turned out pretty satisfied with the end result.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is standing on two legs, to his left is his mom sitting on all fours, to his right is his alien "second dad" standing on two legs; the three of them are inside Garfield's house, which has a fireplace going, a series of Christmas lights hanging and a Christmas tree decorated with presents under it; the three aforementioned characters are also smiling}
Garfield {to the reader}: Without a doubt, being here together with my mom and my "second dad" at the same time is the best Christmas present I have received (SIGH {heart emoji})
Category:IQ-ranger
5335: A guilty pleasure of mine

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Said film has a lot of flaws (for one, it would've been a lot better if it were another Austin Powers movie and not based on any Dr. Seuss property), but I personally find it a guilty pleasure. Nostalgia, maybe?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield Arbuckle, the Monday-hating (even though he has no job or education), food-loving, owner and dog-tormenting feline James Robert Davis created when the American media was making Americans feel guilty for eating a lot and sleeping a lot, and when there weren't as many cats as there were dogs in the funny papers, sits on a chair, in front of a TV. I recommend reading Garfield's lines in the voice of the late, great Lorenzo Music}
Garfield: All the critics hated the Cat in the Hat movie...
{Repeat first panel, really common with Garfield since the strip went digital}
Garfield: They called it sophomoric and raunchy
{Now Jonathan Q. "Jon" Arbuckle and Odie Arbuckle are sitting on either side of a now enthusiastic Garfield, with Jon, Garfield's ditzy, dorky, scatterbrained, formerly single owner and bachelor who is supposedly a cartoonist but said occupation hardly ever being mentioned in the strips (though he does work sometimes in the cartoons) and one of Garfield's main targets, eating from a bowl of popcorn. And Odie is ready to see this movie too, being the dog who formerly belonged to Jon's old roommate and friend, Lyman, a man whose surname is unknown and was around for Jon to talk to before Garf started filling that role more, and soon, Lyman gradually showed up less and less. Then in 1983, he was gone. Only in the tenth anniversary strip of ’88 and in a 2013 strip does he make brief cameos. (He also appeared on The Garfield Show in a multi-part episode, but that's just Mark Stephen Evanier's amateur story, and who gives a damn about that show anyway? Even though it's another guilty pleasure of mine, but I digress.) As for Odie himself, he makes Homer J. Simpson look like Albert Einstein by comparison, since he's so dumb he can't even speak. And you gotta feel bad for him, since one of Garfield's favorite pastimes is kicking him off the table. Oh, and did I mention he was originally called Spot, before Mort Walker pointed out that he had a dog named Spot in his Boner's Ark strip? Anyway, enough with all the pointless rambling for one three-panel strip}
Garfield: So you know it's gotta be good!
{Running gag time: Oh hai Creator!}
Category:Trevor
Category:Film references
5336: Hot pepper eating contest plus milk

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I'll admit it looks more like just a chunk of ice in a glass but I don't have any better way to make it look more like milk without spending an excessive amount of time so deal with it
But yeah if it's too spicy, drink milk, not water, water just makes more of your mouth burn
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are standing at the table with a glass of milk between them}
Jon: Hot pepper eating contest!
Jon: Jalapeño!
{Jon eats a jalapeño}
Garfield: Cayenne!
{Garfield eats a cayenne pepper}
Jon: Habanero!
{Jon eats a habanero pepper}
Garfield: Peruvian death pepper!
{Garfield attempts to eat a Peruvian death pepper}
{Garfield is then shown spitting a large amount of flames}
SFX: FOOM
{cut to Garfield having drank the glass of milk while Jon is heavily burned}
Garfield: You win...
Jon: Then why am I not happy?
Category:LochlannDS
5337: Footlong in Mouth

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It's not often we see the aftermath of a three-panel strip like this.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is about to eat a hot dog}
SFX: Squirt
{The sausage comes out of the bun and Garfield catches it}
Jon: Okay! Who greased my wiener?!
{Jon realizes what he just said and facepalms in embarrassment}
Jon {to himself}: Clear your head, Jon. There has to be a logical explanation for this, other than the comment that came out of my big mouth
Category:Kavviyenta
5338: Odie's Mind 7, kinda

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I've always wondered why Odie is unable to communicate by thinking and has to be translated by Garfield. Although this edit doesn't give any new insights into the way Odie thinks, like previous "Odie's Mind" entries, it still allows him to be the one answering the questions. (He still can't read, though.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {reading a letter}: "Dear Ask a Dog, if you were a millionaire, what would you do?"
Odie: Drink from a toilet
Odie: A platinum toilet, with gold filagree and diamond inlay
Category:Puppo
5339: Garf Disney

==Explanation==
This strip makes reference to public domain laws in the United States, with a particular focus on the Walt Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie (the first released cartoon starring Mickey Mouse). The date of Steamboat Willle's transition into the American public domain, January 1, 2024, has been well understood for a number of recent years and as such this strip is known to have gone up the day before the event in most of the world. The exact timing of the event (namely, whether it happens at a fixed point throughout all United States territory or if the point of the event varies by time zone), however, is not well known, so it is unknown exactly how many hours before the event this strip went up on; using the United States's Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 during the standard time which was applicable on January 1, 2024) as a reference point (new strips of mezzacotta features typically go live at 4:10 AM EST, which is 9:10 AM UTC; mezzacotta features' upload timings do not apply any form of daylight saving time) and assuming the event happened at local midnight in either that time zone or each American time zone in turn, the strip went live 19 hours and 50 minutes prior to the event in at least the Eastern Time Zone. (If the event is applied to local midnight as some interpretations might assume, the strip went up with as little as 4 hours 50 minutes left to go in the Chamorro Time Zone of Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands [UTC +10] and as much as 25 hours 50 minutes left to go in the Samoa Time Zone of American Samoa [UTC -11].)
The author's notes make a note that Steamboat Willle's public domain transition may have happened by the time visitors first saw this strip, a reference to the size of the large queue which typically sees Square Root of Minus Garfield strips take months, if not years, after submission to reach the reader, and suggests the author may not have known for sure when the strip would run as is true for most strips; the statement revealing the strip was made in the early parts of 2023 is also in reference to normal queue behavior. The December 23, 2023 publication date of the article linked to in the author's notes, however, suggests that this strip may have either been given a late edit to the author's notes to add a link to said article or even been given an accelerated run through the queue specifically to reference the date of the event in question; it is unknown for sure which of those is true without knowing the exact date of submission.
==The author writes:==
This strip was made in early 2023. Steamboat Willie will go into public domain in 2024, possibly by the time site visitors read this.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield points at Odie, off-panel}
Garfield: Hey!
{Odie stands next to Garfield, whistling, in black and white}
{Garfield frowns}
Garfield: Steamboat Willie isn't in public domain yet
Category:garftools
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
5340: Spot the Difference with Garfield 16: New Year's Edition

==Explanation==
Contrary to the author's intent in the presentation of a reused joke run in the original strip a year apart, the final result of this strip is based on an error in the GoComics archives; the strip credited to 1996-01-01 is actually the 1997-01-01 strip colored differently, even bearing a 1997 copyright date. This error is likely due to a mistake GoComics made when remastering strips from 1996, remastering 1997-01-01 and misattributing it to 1996-01-01; GoComics has as of this writing not yet remastered strips attributed to 1997, thus 1997-01-01 on GoComics remains identical to that of the secure-domain mirror of the former "images.ucomics.com" domain. This strip's author mistook GoComics's mistake as genuine, resulting in this strip's setup; note how the strip correctly attributed to 1997-01-01 on GoComics in this SRoMG strip is blown-up in proportions to match what the author thought was 1996-01-01. GoComics made the same mistake for four days' worth of strips; the strips attributed to , , and are likewise each actually the following year's strip for that date (, , and ), with the mistakes likely stopping at that point due to being a Sunday compared to the Friday fell on.
The Garfield wiki on Fandom has a copy of the actual 1996-01-01 strip, drawn from the former garfield.com site, here; likewise, the secure-domain mirror of the former "images.ucomics.com" domain also has a smaller copy of the correct strip for that date.
This strip's author was not the only one to fall for GoComics's gaffe. Nyperold also fell for the gaffe when attempting to report 1996-01-01 as an "erroneous credit" on 4886: Garfield gets what he deserves. to the Square Root of Minus Garfield bug/error reports thread based on GoComics's gaffe being mistaken as the genuine article for the date; #4886 makes use of material from the actual 1996-01-01 and was thus duly and correctly credited as such.
==The author writes:==
Ring out the old, ring in the new, eh Jim?
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Caption: January 1, 1996
{Garfield is chilling, holding a cup of coffee}
{A spider wearing a party hat bungee-jumps down from the ceiling}
Spider: Whoo! What a night!
Garfield: Happy new year
Caption: January 1, 1997
{Garfield is chilling, holding a cup of coffee}
{A spider wearing a party hat bungee-jumps down from the ceiling}
Spider: Whoo! What a night!
Garfield: Happy new year
Category:U. N. Owen
Category:Spot the Difference
5341: Making Garfield Slightly Weirder: Garfield the Dog Mechanic

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It's a failing hydraulic leg lifter. It'll probably cost the dog upward of $300 for a replacement job.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The Loud Dog is barking at Garfield, while Garfield closely examines him}
Dog: You found the cause of the rattling noise yet?
Garfield: Not yet. Start her up again and I'll go check around back
Category:Lubaf
5342: T-Balloon!

==Explanation==
Same as SRoMG #5015, but the third panel (aka the beat panel) was removed. After the balloon smiles at Jon, a panel from July 12, 2011 strip (which is big letters "BOOM" in a blue background panel) was used, showing the balloon explodes like a bomb, and then followed by an empty white panel, implying that balloon has blown up everything.
==The author writes:==
I'm bored and saw SRoMG #5015 so I made this. You can say that the balloon has been "blown up" literally!
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hmm hmm
{Jon turns around and looks at a balloon with his face drawn on it}
{The balloon smiles, causing Jon to open his eyes wide}
{Big letters "BOOM" in a blue background panel}
{Empty white panel}
Category:SpiroSpiro
5343: Jon Minus Sentence Failure

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Now what if Jon was able to actually complete his sentence?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Ga
Garfield: Rf
Garfield: Ield!
Jon: Sigh...
Jon: Liz and I are pretty serious, Garfield
Jon: Do you think it's time I tell her that I love her?
Garfield: Go for it, whirlwind romance boy!
{Jon is surprised that Garfield is actually encouraging him to tell Liz}
Category:bkcrown
5344: Show Don't Tell

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Huh, I wonder where the carrot came from...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is sitting silently at the table, alone}
{Suddenly, without warning, both a carrot and plate appear next to him. Jon is surprised}
{Jon, now impassive, looks out toward the next room}
Jon: Oh, Garfield, may I have a word with you?
Garfield {offscreen}: Nope. A magician never reveals his secrets...
==Trivia==
The carrot was last seen exactly a year earlier in 4979: The Pass, by the same author.
Category:Crazy56U
5345: Underneath An Idea Moon

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield's idea was to make a shadow puppet and bark. Here, the moon gains a filament, showing it to be the top part of an incandescent Idea Bulb, in response to Arlene's question about ideas.
There are a few different songs and albums the title could be a reference to, all called "Underneath a/an (something) Moon". It's possible the author has heard of none of these and knows only the reference made by Ferr of the Freelance Astronauts during the Let's Play of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest, which Maxwell Adams played after having played its direct sequel, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: upon learning that the moon in Ocarina of Time doesn't have a face, Maxwell called it a benign moon, to which Ferr said, "Underneath a Benign Moon."
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Arlene are on the fence, in silhouette against the backdrop of a full moon}
Arlene: Just look at that moon, Garfield
Arlene: Doesn't it give you any ideas?
Garfield: Sure does...
{The moon suddenly has a filament}
Arlene: Sigh
Category:Nyperold
5348: Even more confusing machine

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The answer, of course, is 324.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{title panel showing a fridge with magnets made to look like cutesy versions of Garfield, Odie, and Arlene}
{Comic Proper}
{Jon and Garfield are at the store, paying for a bag of Cheese Doodles at the credit card machine}
Machine: Please swipe your card.
{Jon does so}
Machine: Would you like to donate a dollar to charity today?
{Jon presses an unseen button, meaning we'll never know what he hit; Garfield gets frustrated}
Machine: Enter PIN.
{Garfield gets angrier; Jon presses some buttons, most likely numbers, and we can't see them, so we won't be able to find out his PIN - smart actions, Jon}
{both Jon and Garfield are now grouchy}
Machine: Your total is $3.24. Is this correct?
{Jon presses a button; we still can't see what it is}
Machine: I am a number that can be divided by 9. But if you add 9 to me, I become a prime. I have three digits that are all the same. But if you reverse me, I am not the same. What number am I?
{Jon looks surprised while Garfield angrily stares at us}
Jon: ALL I WANT IS A BAG OF CHEESE DOODLES!
Garfield: DON'T WE ALL?!!
Category:Matronammfly
Category:Math-based jokes
5349: Newton's Cradlefield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I saw this and thought it needed to be a little bit longer. Originally, it's implied this would happen, but it just seemed so unsatisfying to leave it implied. Especially considering that Garfield is a cat. We all know how a cat would act after seeing this play out...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sleeping}
{A spider drops down. Garfield appraises it sleepily}
{A second spider joins the first. Garfield takes a little more notice}
{A third spider comes down. Garfield sits up}
{A fourth spider drops down. Garfield watches in interest}
{Garfield decides to try something new. Garfield lifts up a spider on the right}
{Garfield drops the spider. It collides with the others, causing the leftmost to fly out...}
{The spider falls back, colliding with the others. This causes the rightmost to fly out. Garfield is intrigued}
{The spider falls back, colliding with the others. This causes the leftmost to fly out. Garfield is still intrigued}
{The spider falls back, colliding with the others. It doesn't have enough momentum to push the rightmost spider out}
{Garfield watches carefully, hoping for something to happen}
{Garfield gets bored}
{Garfield decides it's time to make his own fun again and lifts up the rightmost spider, grinning in a self satisfied manner}
Category:Ephreal
5350: Thunderstorm

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The thick lines made me think of an emoji.
We've already seen custom emoji in modern Garfield strips, so who's to say this isn't one of them?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: A thunderstorm is headed this way
{An icon of a thunderstorm passes by}
Garfield: Just like the emoji
Category:PriffyViole
5351: Words!

==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. This edit removes Liz, her speech, and Garfield's thought.
==The author writes:==
I was struck by the urge to do this the instant I saw the original strip (which published the same day I'm submitting this, for those who want to measure the size of the slush pile). I thought about changing Garfield's line in the last panel, but ultimately I think removing it altogether gives a better result.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Twenty-three!
Jon: Loose-leaf paper! Green! Cleveland!
{Garfield, who has until now been staring impassively into space, tilts his head ever so slightly upward}
Jon: Elephant!
Category:Xindaris