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1649: Mega Garfield's Planet

==Explanation==
In the Mega Man series of video games, the titular protagonist typically must fight 8 bosses (or "Robot Masters") in order to finish the game, and after defeating one he copies their weapon for his own use. Most of the games show a screen indicating the name of the weapon, usually beginning with "You Got..." Certain bosses also hold Rush adapters, which help Mega Man get through the stages. (Do note that, contrary to the transcript, it is never said that someone is actually saying "You Got...".)
Here, a strip involving Garfield asking for donations of objects has one of these screens (specifically, one from the fourth game) edited in. (Of minor note: The Rush Marine adapter is one of the most useless upgrades in the entire series, thus making the result doubly useless from Garfield's perspective.)
==The author writes:==
I decided to adapt a standard Mega Man staple for this strip. This particular sequence comes from Mega Man 4 for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Welcome to my planet! 
Garfield: Feel free to give me things.! 
Rush: You got Rush marine adaptor. 
Garfield: Edible things.
Category:NES Boy
Category:Video game references
164: Jon's Chat Screen

==Explanation==
In the original strip, we only see "Stephano"'s first two lines as Jon types them at his computer. The punchline is his reaction to everyone leaving, with Garfield remarking "Nobody can empty a chat room like Stephano." Here, we see the chatroom in question, which has a host of colorful characters in it, among them including:
* "DimJavis" (a spoonerism of Jim Davis)
* "mezzacotta" (the comic which SRoMG is a subset of)
* "DMMaus" (presumably referring to mezzacotta creator David Morgan-Mar, whose email address is "dmm@dangermouse.net")
* "Redhead64" (the creator of this strip)
* "1337|-|@><0r" (who apparently is a big fan of leetspeak)
* "OverlyLongGag" (a TV Tropes page which describes jokes that go on long enough that they wrap around from tiring into being funny again, like this very strip)
* and "HalfHidden" (who, true to their name, is partially obscured)
==The author writes:==
For this one (from ), I decided to depict what's happening on Jon's computer screen. Take a look at that list!
==Transcript==
{A "ChatMouth" chat room window}</br>
<Stephan0 has entered the chat room></br>
Stephan0: My name is Stephano. I am very rich and macho [sic]</br>
Stephan0: Anyone want to chat?</br>
<hawtgal has left the chat room></br>
<not-so-hawtgal has left the chat room></br>
<plainlookin'gal has left the chat room></br>
<unattractivegal has left the chat room></br>
<flat-outuglygal has left the chat room></br>
<DimJavis has left the chat room></br>
<cAPSLOCK has left the chat room></br>
<SumUtherGuy has left the chat room></br>
<mezzacotta has left the chat room></br>
<DMMaus has left the chat room></br>
<Redhead64 has left the chat room></br>
<BoB has left the chat room></br>
<1337|-|@><0r has left the chat room></br>
<OverlyLongGag has left the chat room></br>
<fla@mynFaery has left the chat room></br>
<YoMomma has left the chat room></br>
<HalfHidden has left the chat room>
==Later references==
* The comic inspired several sequels with different takes on the concept.
Category:Chat screen
Category:Redhead64
1653: Killer Smile

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
There are times when Jon is somehow capable of understanding what Garfield is thinking. Remarkable how removing an essential piece of the dialogue can give an entirely new meaning to an otherwise boring strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Here's your dinner Garfield.
{Jon gives Garfield a huge grin}
Garfield: {looking warily at food} I hope this food is safe to eat.
Category:DanielBT
1655: Garfield Groundhog Day Garfield

==Explanation==
This is the infamous pudding pops strip (or rather, SRoMG strip 614) stuck in a time loop. The title references the famous comedy Groundhog Day, where a man is forced to relive the same day over and over until he improves his own character. 
Jon's line, however, is a more obscure reference - namely, the light novel/anime Haruhi Suzumiya, which is best summed up as being about a Japanese girl with unknown reality warping powers being held down by some of her friends. One installment of the series (known as "Endless Eight") centers around the group finding themselves repeating the last two weeks of summer break over and over again, as Haruhi finds herself wanting to do more each time. The anime adaptation tried to illustrate how this felt to the characters by playing what was essentially the same episode eight times - thus, the phrase "We have entered an endless recursion of time" became a meme among anime nerds.
==The author writes:==
Yeah, yeah, the Pudding Pops remixes are tired, but I couldn't resist this. Ripped the idea from an earlier strip.
Original strip: .
Original SRoMG strip: #614.
==Transcript==
Jon: We have entered an endless recursion of time.</br>
{Jon and Garfield are shown motionless for the next two panels.}
Category:Anime and manga references
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Film references
Category:Negative N
1656: Really Misanthropic Garfield

==Explanation==
In this comic, Lubaf escalates Garfield's misanthropy by giving the name of a film in which the whole world gets blown up: 1970's Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
==The author writes:==
Immediately upon seeing SRoMG #1532, I thought that the joke could be improved by going for a movie that ends with [spoiler alert] the whole world getting blown up.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield reading letter}: Dear Garfield, What is your favorite all-time film?
Garfield: "Beneath The Planet Of The Apes".
Garfield: I love movies with happy endings.
==Later references==
* No. 2058: Extremely Misanthropic Garfield mentions both this strip and their shared predecessor, No. 1532: Misanthropic Garfield.
Category:Lubaf
Category:Film references
165: Polterfield

==Explanation==
This is a Garfield Minus Garfield strip with a twist; as Garfield himself was the focus of the original strip, removing Garfield without changing what happens implies that there is a ghost hitting things with silverware.
==The author writes:==
As I understand it, the humour behind Garfield Minus Garfield lies in the fact that much of the humour of Garfield lies in Garfield's responses to Jon's activities, and removing Garfield's snide commentary changes the focus to just how bizarre Jon is.
But then, not all Garfield strips follow this structure.
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
{A fork and spoon play a rhythm on a glass and some crockery}</br>
SFX: donk</br>
SFX: dink</br>
SFX: dinka</br>
SFX: dinka, donka</br>
SFX: dinka, donka, dunka</br>
SFX: dinka, donka, dunka, splut</br>
SFX: dinka, donka, dunka, bonk!
Category:Dataphile
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
166: Fun With Hair Day

==Explanation==
This strip is a compilation of some of Jon's stranger hair styles in the early 2000's.
==The author writes:==
Jon has had some strange haircuts over the years.
Original comics: , , and .
==Transcript==
{Jon has a new hairstyle}
Garfield: Jon says it's fun-with-hair-day.
{Garfield pulls out one of Jon's hairs, Jon's hair changes}
SFX: POINK!
{Jon's hair is sticking out.}
{Jon walks away with a different haircut.}
==Later references==
* "Fun With Hair Day Minus Garfield" removes Garfield from this strip.
Category:Pieter
Category:Compilations
1673: Inverted Backfield

==Explanation==
This comic inverts the "Backfield" strips - while the first two depicted a snail with slow speech but a quick initial reaction, this one shows the snail taking a while to process its thoughts, but then speaking at a normal rate.
==The author writes:==
After seeing SRoMG 1445 and 1549, I wondered how the snail had such fast initial reactions, but spoke slowly. This comic just inverts it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Snails are slow. 
{beat panel as Garfield smiles smugly} 
Snail: You take that back. 
{Garfield is shocked}
Category:edderiofer
Category:Snail
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
1675: Cubefield

==Explanation==
The original strip had Garfield remarking "Man, I should have been paying more attention" in the last panel. This strip changes both that line and slightly alters the other panels (note Jon saying "Today was a good day" instead of "This has been a good day") to create a reference to the final lines of "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube - "Today I didn't even have to use my AK/I got to say it was a good day".
Of note is the author's notes - an IRC conversation between Manyhills and someone named "p_k", where the former posts his idea for the strip and asks if it would not be funny. p_k says it wouldn't, then tells him to do it anyway. Thus, here we stand, reading the end product.
==The author writes:==
[20:59] <me> can i just check
[20:59] <me> editing http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2012/ga120604.gif to have the dialogue
[21:00] <me> "today was a good day" "it was?" "man, i didn't even have to use my ak"
[21:00] <me> would not actually be funny, right
[21:06] <p_k> are you listening to ice cube
[21:07] <p_k> also no it wouldn't be funny
[21:07] <p_k> you should do it
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Today was a good day. 
Garfield: It was? 
Garfield: Man, I didn't even have to use my AK.
Category:Manyhills
Category:Music references
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
167: Why So Serious? - Final Take

==Explanation==
See also #111, #114, and #117. Here, the Joker-like Odie disappears in the last panel; this may be Garfield's doing. Or maybe he's just mocking his line from the other takes.
==The author writes:==
As the comic title indicates, this is the last of my "How about a magic trick" jokes. I can't blame you if you've grown tired of them by this point. By the looks of things, Garfield feels the same way.
Original Images taken from 
==Transcript==
Odie: How about a magic trick?</br>
Odie: I'm going to make this dinner dissappear (sic).</br>
{Odie disappears.}</br>
Garfield: {smugly} Ta-dah! He's... gone!
Category:Michael Stangeland
Category:Film references
Category:Callbacks
1683: Grimdull Garfield

==Explanation==
"Grimdull" is a portmanteau of "grimdark" (already portmanteau of "Grim" and "Dark") and "dull". In this case, "grim" because Garfield is apparently dead, but "dull" because Jon seems to have no real emotional reaction as he informs the person on the other end of the telephone call of this fact.
The author references a previous work in which he had Garfield encourage Vincent van Gogh to cut off an ear; that was his 4th strip overall (ignoring relative stupidity), while this strip was his 41st (again, ignoring relative stupidity). However, order of publication is not necessarily the same as order of creation or submission, so it may be impossible to tell, even if one knows which ones the author considers stupid.
==The author writes:==
Every time I promise myself I'll never do something this stupid again, I find myself thinking up something even dumber. This strip is probably exhibit A of that fact.
Or maybe exhibit G. I may have lost count shortly after "Garfield Plus High Art Minus Good Taste".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is on the phone, Garfield is beside him, motionless}
Jon: One second, let me get a pen.
{Jon looks around, sees Garfield, apparently dead}
Jon: Gotta go, I think my cat just died.
== Notes ==
1764: Baby, It's Cold Inside, by the same author, would link back to this strip, as it was a possible "Exhibit H".
Category:Lubaf
Category:Completely rewritten dialogue
Category:Dark strips
1686: Ted Turner's Garfield

==Explanation==
As the author's comment alludes to, Ted Turner was notorious, for a time, for colorizing old black and white movies in order to make them more commercially viable. Thus, in this strip, Lubaf takes a strip that was previously uncolored for artistic reasons and colored it in as a sort of "Take That" at colorization.
==The author writes:==
By way of explanation (search for "Turner"). Idea from this thread. (If you're curious how long it takes a strip to go through the queue, as of September, 2013, I submitted this at the same time I posted a reply on the thread featuring an Imgur version of same.)
Original Strip: 
Admin note: Actually this strip got a slightly accelerated run through the submission pile, because of the consonance with yesterday's strip. There are (as of this strip being published) still 8 strips which were submitted in August 2013 which will probably show up soon, plus a lot of strips submitted earlier than that which have been leapfrogged because either because newer submissions are of higher quality or the submitter is prolific and they're being broken up in time.
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sleeping}
Garfield: I hate Mondays. Mondays are boring. Woe is me...
Jon: {Offscreen} Get the paper, Garfield.
Garfield: Yes, master.
{Garfield goes outside, and picks up the paper, noticing...}
Garfield: It's Sunday!
{Garfield jumps for joy}
Category:Lubaf
1687: 2012-12-21

==Explanation==
The author's notes state that the author opted to make fun of the doomsday hysteria that had long surrounded the original strip's run date, and did so by modifying that date's original strip with dialogue related to the phenomemon.
Square Root of Minus Garfield, on that day, ran 1312: Dumbfield Instead of Darkfield.
==The author writes:==
I wrote this strip to make fun of the December 21, 2012, phenomenon.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon You'll never find where I hid your present this year, Garfield.
Garfield: Oh, yeah?!
Garfield: We'll see about that!
Jon: Besides, the world is ending today.
Category:Cody
1688: Uncle Forrest

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Good old Uncle Forrest, always knew just what to say!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: My Uncle Forrest would say, "You can't know someone...
Jon: until you've seen life from their eyes."
Jon: He had three hundred pairs when they caught him.
Garfield: That's about a seven on the creepy scale.
Category:Densetsu Bros
168: Indexed Colour Garfield

==Explanation==
This comic claims to be a Garfield comic converted to an indexed color image file. However, the index is deliberately restrictive, consisting entirely of greys and blacks, and the indexing is even worse, assigning black colors to every pixel.
Presumably, the original strip was chosen for Jon's comment, as this edit appropriately renders Jon invisible, in addition to everything shown in the panels of the original strip. 
==The author writes:==
Original: 
You could do indexed PNG with 8 colours (such as FFFFFF for panel 1, FEFFFF for panel 2, FFFEFF for panel 3, FFFFFE for panels 1 and 2, etc.). In fact, you might even be able to do 8 identical index colours (does PNG allow that?).
As it turns out, yes, it does:
ISO 15948:2003, section 11.2.3:
There is no requirement that the palette entries all be used by the image, nor that they all be different.
The guide to the index:
*0 - white in all
*1 - black in panel 1
*2 - grey in panel 1
*3 - black in panel 2
*4 - grey in panel 2
*5 - black in panel 3
*6 - grey in panel 3
*7 - black in panel 1 and 2
*8 - grey in panel 1 and 2
*9 - black in panel 1, grey in panel 2
*10 - grey in panel 1, black in panel 2
*11 - black in panel 1 and 3
*12 - grey in panel 1 and 3
*13 - black in panel 1, grey in panel 2
*14 - grey in panel 1, black in panel 3
*15 - black in panels 2 and 3
*16 - grey in panels 2 and 3
*17 - black in panel 2, grey in panel 3
*18 - grey in panel 2, black in panel 3
*19 - black in panel 1 and 2, grey in panel 3
*20 - black in panel 1 and 3, grey in panel 2
*21 - black in panel 2 and 3, grey in panel 1
*22 - grey in panel 1 and 2, black in panel 3
*23 - grey in panel 1 and 3, black in panel 2
*24 - grey in panel 2 and 3, black in panel 1
*25 - grey in all
*26 - black in all
*27 - I'm not sure why this is here.
==Transcript==
{What appears to be a black square}
Category:superluser
1691: Garfield sings The Beatles 1

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 1691: Garfield sings The Beatles #1.
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
About the song Garfield is singing.
Hear the song here.
Although The Beatles have been referenced before on this site, it's about time Garfield is shown singing a Beatles song. And since I made this comic in December, why not make that song The Beatles' own Christmas song? The name "Garfield sings The Beatles #1" was chosen because I feel this will inspire a lot of comics where Garfield meets The Beatles (see what I did there?) in song.
(With some help from SRoMG #1247.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {dancing} Shoo-doop boowa. Shoo-doop boowa.
Garfield: {singing} Christmas time is here again. Christmas time is here again.
Garfield: Christmas time is here again.
Garfield: Christmas time is here again.
{Garfield turns to glare at record player}
Record player: Christmas time is here again.
Record player: Christmas
SFX: Ka-chunk {Garfield hits the player}
Record player: Christmas time is here again.
Garfield: You mean to tell me it's supposed to be like that?!
==Trivia==
The link allowing users to listen to the song no longer works as intended due to the video the link led to being rendered unavailable.
Category:Emil Borg
Category:Music references
1693: Web Affair

==Explanation==
For a person whose only exposure to mezzacotta is SRoMG, this strip may be baffling. Where's Garfield? Who's this poorly-drawn professor guy? And why is there no author's note? The answer requires knowledge of both the other strips on mezzacotta and SRoMG's history.
You see, Ambrose (the professor's name) is actually a character from another mezzacotta feature, called Lightning Made of Owls. To find the real SRoMG strip, you have to find that site's strip for January 6, 2014 - 604: The Problem with Webcomic Buffers, also by Cody.
This strip has Jon talking about accidentally rerunning one of his own strips because he screwed up with his webcomic buffer (with a panel from an older SRoMG, the same author's 1642: Choice Words, to hammer in the point). Yes, the strips for SRoMG and LMoO were intentionally switched as a reference to the "Cat Memes" debacle (in short: that strip was accidentally featured again six days after its initial release, and had to be replaced with "Violence-Free Garfield"). An interestingly meta concept, but one that may prove to be very confusing.
==The author writes:==
(Note: "Web Affair" has no author's note, as per many LMoO strips. "The Problem with Webcomic Buffers", however, does:)
You could say this is based on something that previously happened on the site.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
For The Problem with Webcomic Buffers:</br>
Jon: {sitting in front of a computer} I made a buffering error on my webcomic.</br>
Jon: I accidentally added in one of my older strips.</br>
{a frame from an old Square Root of Minus Garfield strip:}</br>
Jon: Garfield, I'd like to have a few choice words with you about this mess.
For Web Affair:</br>
Ambrose: Today I'll be explaining all about internal combustion.</br>
Ambrose: {to audience} What are you doing here? You weren't supposed to see this until next week!
==Trivia==
This double feature of strips was later called back to in the double feature of LMoO #908: Comedy of Errors/iToons 750: The Boys Make an iToons Strip; the LMoO half featured a direct call-back to the same strip's half of this double feature, while the iToons half lampoons an incident that happened on that strip.
Category:Cody
Category:Mezzacotta references
Category:Painting the medium
1695: Mildly Obscure Reference Time!

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon requests Garfield grab the string, to which he replies "Only if it opens a trapdoor". Here, their dialogue is turned into a reference to the Ed Wood film Glen or Glenda. The plot of the film (which concerns two separate crossdressers and the trials they face) are interspersed with comments by "the Scientist", an odd sort of narrator (played by Bela Lugosi) who sits in a chair and gives monologues only tangentially related to the events preceding it. In one of the movie's most notorious moments, he declares "Pull the string!" while stock footage of buffalo is superimposed over the shot. 
==The author writes:==
By way of explanation.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is playing with a string in front of Garfield}</br>
Jon: Pull the string, Garfield!</br>
Garfield: Buffalo stock footage time!
Category:Film references
Category:Lubaf
169: The Bunny Slipper Diet

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon was congratulating Garfield for sticking to his diet, while Garfield tried to confess to eating Jon's slippers. This edit reverses both the characters' placement and their dialogue, resulting in an awkward conversation where Jon is apparently proud of Garfield for eating his slippers.
==The author writes:==
Original strip from .
I was editing the 1986-03-21 strip with a completely different effect in mind when it struck me how perfect it was for simply reversing the order of everything. Sure, that's been done before, but let's not let that stand in the way of The Funny. So without further ado, here is another installment in the Reversed Garfield series.
==Transcript==
Garfield: I ate your bunny slippers.
Jon: And that takes a lot of self-discipline.
Garfield: Listen to me, Jon.
Jon: You've done a great job sticking with your diet this week.
Garfield: There's something I have to tell you.
Jon: I just want to tell you how proud I am of you.
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:Joke reversal
16: Uncomfortably Close Garfield

==Explanation==
Nothing big here; Garfield has simply been placed closer to Jon to create a slightly more uncomfortable atmosphere.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
{Garfield is standing uncomfortably close to Jon, right in his personal space.} 
Jon: I've instituted my first time-saving measure, Garfield. 
Jon: Are you ready for this? 
Garfield: ... As I'll ever be. 
Jon: One button! 
Garfield: It would be cruel to tell him about pullovers.
Category:Matt Albrecht
1701: Kiss Me Fat Cat

==Explanation==
Every part of this is a reference to Stephen King's It. Breaking down the specific references by panel:
* Binky's appearance in the first panel is a reference to the fact that one of It's forms (and perhaps its most famous) is the monstrous clown Pennywise. The line he says is a quote from It. 
* The turtle in the second panel is meant to be Maturin, a being that appears as a giant turtle and helps the protagonists perform the ritual of Chüd - the only way It can be defeated.
* When they do face off, It takes the form of a giant spider - humorously downsized in this version (note Garfield's unimpressed "Sure"). His line is also directly taken from It.
* Finally, the title is yet another It quote (although slightly altered - it was originally "Kiss me, fat boy!")
==The author writes:==
Something I came up with after reading It by Stephen King; people who haven't read the book may not get this. It got a fairly good respsonse [sic] when I posted it on my Tumblr, so I thought why not submit it here?
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is talking to Binky, a clown} </br>
Binky: You're too old to stop me. You're all too old.</br> 
{Garfield is next to a turtle}</br> 
Turtle: There is only Chud.</br>
{Garfield is next to a spider (who is Binky's true form)}</br> 
Spider: I am eternal. I am the eater of worlds.</br> 
Garfield: Sure.
Category:McGeesJabberwock
Category:Print references