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2952: Garfield As

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm in a playful mood.
Jon: And when I'm in a playful mood, that can mean only one thing!
Jon: CHESS BY MAIL!
Pepper Ann: Do you feel that? That's electricity in the air!
Category:Matthew Prower
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2953: Puzzledfield

==Explanation==
This strip and its author's notes are essentially an admission that this strip's author was stumped by the puzzle in 1634: Just Look At That Gorgeous Garfield, and suggesting that the vast majority of Square Root of Minus Garfield readers were likewise stumped as well.
==The author writes:==
Manyhills's puzzle stumped a few readers... OK, it stumped a lot of readers... Alright, I don't think anybody other than Manyhills and DMM knew the answer. Apparently, Garfield couldn't figure it out either.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
TV: This is a test...
TV: This is only a test...
TV: But what should I choose, but when should I search?
{beat}
Garfield: I'll never figure this one out!
Category:MadDogBV
2954: Garfield's Birthday Rant

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
 was SO disappointing. It's not only a waste of a Sunday strip, but a waste of a Garfield's birthday strip. If they wanted to conclude the running gag of Garfield not remembering things, here's what I would've done: Garfield walks into room, forgets why he came in. He sees Jon and Odie smiling with the birthday cake. He eats the cake, and then leaves the room, still completely forgetting that it's his birthday, as Jon and Odie do their standard Aside Glance. BOOM. There's your punchline. C'mon, Paws Inc. and Jim Davis! We know you can do better than this.
[Ed: It could be worse, Garfield. They could have completely forgotten about your birthday and ended up only running a strip acknowledging it the day after.]
Original strips: , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Logo box: Garfield, Jon and a birthday cake}
{Garfield walks into a room}
Garfield: Hey, today's my birthday!
Garfield: Why isn't anyone celebrating it?
Garfield: Oh, there's that logo box, but that's about it.
{flashback to Monday}
Garfield: {in flashback} I can't remember why I walked into this room.
Garfield: {in caption} I know this is supposed to be a conclusion to that continuity arc we did this past week...
{the last panel of the 2016-06-19 strip: Garfield holds a piece of paper at arm's length}
Garfield: {in caption} But THIS is the best punchline we can think of???
{flashback to the 2016-06-18 strip}
Jon: {in flashback} How does that look for your birthday cake?
Garfield: {in flashback} I have one slight change.
Garfield: {in caption} ALSO, the strip just before this one wasn't even related to that line of strips so what was the point?
{flashforward to the 2016-06-20 strip}
Jon: {in flashforward} I'm eating cereal straight out of the box!
Garfield: {in caption} And yes, that Sunday strip was the conclusion to that gag, since the day after goes back to the usual.
Garfield: Let's talk about how STATIC this is for a *Sunday* strip.
Garfield: The layout is uninteresting, the background colors are drab...
{flashback to Garfield's birthday in 2011}
Garfield: {in flashback} YES!
Garfield: {in caption} Compare this to the last time my birthday was on a Sunday, back in 2011.
Garfield: By the way, Liz was in that one. Remember her?
{flashback to 07-26-2011 strip}
Jon: {over the phone, in flashback} Hi Liz, it's your boyfriend!
Liz: {in flashback} Ooh, which one? I have so many!
Garfield: {in caption} When she got together with Jon, the strip felt like it had new life breathed into it.
Garfield: Like the rest of the supporting cast, they've mostly forgotten about her.
Garfield: So happy birthday to me. I hope you have something better for my 40th.
Category:Jacob Huller
2955: Square Root of Additive Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This has a similar premise to Square Root of Multiplied Garfield (which I pray is published by the time this one is). I took all SRoMG strips with the word "add" in the transcript, resized them to 600x181 if necessary, and put them into a layered image. I then set the blend method to "Add". To prevent the image from being all white, however, I set all of the transparencies to 35, and put it all over a black image for easy sight.
I'm not even gonna bother transcribing this one, since it's hardly even readable. You can really, REALLY easily see which strips were resized, though; especially ones who had to be resized in the size department.
As a side note, since the April Fools '16 strip, which mentioned Undertale, got used here: there's been a surprising lack of Undertale in SRoMG. Then again, there was little to no FNaF in SRoMG, but it's genuinely kinda surprising how few references there were (and still are) given the April Fools '16 strip dedicated itself to Undertale. Ah well, tangent over.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfields: 2010-02-12, 2011-07-09, 2015-07-18, 2015-11-03, 2016-04-01, 2016-07-25, 2016-11-22.
==Transcript==
{a mishmash of a bunch of Square Root of Minus Garfield strips with the word "add" in them}
Category:Camwoodstock & Tori
2956: A New Exploitable

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Seriously, how has Garfield's latest birthday strip not been used in a SRoMG yet? Birthday strips naturally get attention, and this one's so darn exploitable. I can think of at least six other possible things that added thought balloon could say. Heck, maybe I should host a caption contest on the forum.
[Ed: I guess not everyone hated the original strip.]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Two-panels-wide Garfield title banner with a birthday theme}
{Garfield walks into a room; his mind goes blank immediately}
Garfield: Now I know I walked into this room for a reason...
{Garfield pulls out a sheet of paper}
Garfield: Because I wrote it down!
{Garfield faces the camera}
Garfield: And that's how you outsmart old age!
{Garfield looks at the paper, and squints as he tries to read it}
Garfield: "Create a new exploitable"?
Category:SonicLover
2957: Liz REALLY Has Amnesia

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In this unofficial sequel of sorts to #2629, Liz's memory is now so short it only lasts a few seconds. Jon is less of a boyfriend and more of a carer.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz: Who's that?
Jon: That's our neighbor, Mrs. Feeny.
{Pause}
Liz: Who's that?
Category:Billy Hicks
2958: Fixed In-joke Theatre

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
As pointed out in the forums, the original strip simply uses two puns, rather than any actual inside joke. As Wikipedia says:
:An in-joke, also known as an inside joke or a private joke, is a joke whose humour is understandable only to members of an ingroup, that is, people who are in a particular social group, occupation, or other community of shared interest. It is an esoteric joke that is humorous only to those who are aware of the circumstances behind it.
This means that to be an inside joke, the humour in the joke must be understandable only to the particular group in question - in this case, accountants. Since the joke in the first panel consists entirely of a couple of puns using accounting terms that many, if not most, people outside the occupation of accounting are familiar with, it does not qualify as an inside joke - even if cats such as Garfield are apparently not familiar with the accounting terms in question.
To turn this into a real inside joke, we must substitute a joke that only accountants will get. Or better yet, a joke that only some small group of accountants, such as the ones who work at a particular accounting firm in a major metropolitan city, would get, as it refers explicitly to one of their own work colleagues.
The TV's line in panel 1 is now a true inside joke - one that only a few dozen people at most will understand and appreciate. This makes Garfield's reaction all the more believable, as no longer is he apparently ignorant of the financial use of two common English words or the humour inherent in their use as puns related to accounting, but he is once again the savvy cat we know him to be, albeit ignorant of this one particular inside joke, since he does not happen to work at the same accounting firm as the characters on the TV screen.
Thus removing all humour for the general reader from the comic, we have thereby made it substantially better.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
TV: So one accountant says to the other, "Remember what Johnson entered into the ledger that one time?"
TV: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Garfield: I don't get it.
TV: This has been "Inside Joke Theatre".
Garfield: Figures.
Category:David Morgan-Mar
2959: Cerebus Returns

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A sequel to my earlier strip #823. Cerebus is from circa the "Guys" storyline, where he ran a bar populated mostly by independent comic characters.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon & Garfield look at the menus while Cerebus stands behind the counter}
Jon: You changed your menu!
Cerebus: Yeah
Cerebus: Cerebus is experimenting with more exotic fare
{Cerebus turns around and leaves}
Jon: "Aardvark tartare"?
{Garfield holds up a bottle of scotch}
Garfield: Enough scodge and it all tastes the same!
==Trivia==
The remnants of the old crediting system (surrounded by brackets on Square Root of Minus Garfield itself, not included on this wiki as part of steps that would normally eliminate redundancy) retain a miscredit to ; the current crediting system credits the correct original Garfield strip.
Category:JLH
Category:Comic book references
295: Feet

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield's feet were normal, and his fear was due to him being unfamiliar with his own feet. Here, Garfield's feet are green, and thus his fears might be warranted... but as he reacts the same as in the original to being told that they are feet, his unfamiliarity leads him to surmise that the green coloration is normal rather than strange.
==The author writes:==
It was a simple matter just to recolour the feet.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Sigh.</br>
Garfield: Jon's had me on this diet, like, forever.</br>
Garfield: {noticing his green feet} Hey! What the...?!</br>
Garfield: Yaaaahhhh!!!</br>
Garfield: Yaaah!!! Yaaahh!</br>
Jon: What is it, Garfield? Something wrong with your feet?</br>
Garfield: Feet?... Feet?... Those are feet?!</br>
Garfield: Hey, and I bet those wiggly things on the ends are toes, right?
Category:timothymh
2960: Antitrust

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I made this strip just to make that pun in the title.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Can I trust you to hold my candy bar?
Garfield: Absolutely!
{In the next panel, Garfield has some brown stains below his mouth, and a ball of paper next to him}
Garfield: He's so trusting
Category:Lubaf
2961: Not flipping channels

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Garfield has a well-established of having for his . The 2016 strip therefore adds little that is new. Using an excited Jon produces a stranger, more interesting result.
Original strips: , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is eagerly watching TV.}
Jon: I've seen this twenty times
Jon: Fell asleep nineteen
==Trivia==
Of the credited original strip dates, it is implied only the 1993 and 2016 original strips were intended to be directly credited, as only those two appear on the first strip credit line (the one enclosed by brackets left behind by the remnants of the old strip crediting system) on Square Root of Minus Garfield itself; the remainder may have been taken from the author's notes proper and interpreted by the coding for the new strip system as strip dates to credit, and listed as formally credited strips on the current crediting system's strip credits line.
Category:Sloublues
2962: Alleycat Garfield

== Explanation ==
The author's notes below already explain this strip sufficiently, though it should be mentioned that the title is another reference to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. The author of this strip retroactively explained that, unlike his other strips with Turtles in Time references in the title, this example does have a connection to the game: The actual level of Turtles in Time is called "Alleycat Blues"; Garfield has been down alleys a few times in both the strip and animated adaptations, and the outlines to the original strip are colored blue, this otherwise being the only significant change to the strip.
The author's "realization that he is Garfield" is most likely a reference to this submission's overall laziness.
== The author writes ==
I have come to the realization that I am Garfield.
About the color: in Japan, some manga magazines will have pages printed in a blue ink. I've come across some manga pages online with the text and illustrations colored blue. Of course, many comic artists also pencil their work with blue pencils before going over it with black ink. Either way, I wanted to make a shout out.
The title contains another reference, but you'll have to do some digging to find out what it refers to.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
Jon: Garfield, I'm worried about you. 
{Garfield just lies there} 
Jon: How long do you think you can go on doing nothing with your life? 
{Garfield lies there still} 
Garfield: He's just jealous that I have a life to do nothing with. 
Category:Dr. Manny
Category:Video game references
Category:Turtles in Time references
Category:Anime and manga references
2963: Garfield Sketched 2

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 2963: Garfield Sketched #2.
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Sketched Garfield is wearing a Hawaiian shirt}
{beat}
Sketched Garfield: {to reader} Casual Friday.
Category:StickXZ100
2964: Da Ba Dee Da Ba Daa

==Explanation==
In the original strip, the only blue Jon and Garfield were was metaphorical. In this edit, they are also literally blue.
The title is part of the lyrics of "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by the Italian music group Eiffel 65.
==The author writes:==
This was inevitable upon seeing #2831, and its original strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are sitting at a table. Jon appears to be coloured blue, and looks depressed.}</br>
Jon: I feel blue, Garfield.</br>
Garfield: You do look depressed.</br>
Jon: I know! I'll treat myself to a new pair of sweat socks!</br>
{Jon stands up, feeling invigorated, but is still coloured blue. Garfield also becomes blue-coloured, somehow, and becomes depressed.}</br>
Garfield: Oh no! He's contagious!
Category:edderiofer
Category:Music references
2965: Mercedes for Christmas

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In reference to Mercedes' 3rd World Championship title victory in 2016, which results in all people demanding Mercedes-Benz cars as the meaningful gift for this year's Christmas... ... Maybe Garfield was also one of the most crazy fans of Mercedes AMG Petronas, too?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Liz are talking on the phone}
Liz: What did you get Garfield for Christmas, Jon?
Jon: I got him a y-a-r-n, Liz.
{Garfield started feeling upset and started complaining on Jon}
Garfield: I want a M-e-r-c-e-d-e-s, you B-e-n-z!
Category:Farhan Malek
Category:Real world references
2966: Evil

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Thank goodness that cats haven't mastered explosives. Those evil little things would blow us all up for the laughs. But just in case I keep my matches and lighters where my cats can't find them.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon out waking in the snow. Garfield is hiding behind a tree holding something}
Garfield: Here's something for all you mischievous-yet-evil types out there
{Jon reacts in fear to snowball with lit fuse thrown at him}
SFX: Ssssssss...
{Garfield hiding behind the tree}
Jon {off screen}: GARFIELD!
SFX: BOOM!
Garfield: I call it the "Have A Nice Day" Grenade!
Category:Michael C. Fortner
2967: Gazorpazorpfield Minus Gazorpazorp

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Reference.
On some level I'm surprised nobody's done this, but at the same time it's pretty obvious why. Even with the censorship it might be more vulgar than what the SRoMG mods want.
Also, Rick and Morty is a great show, in case the rest of the internet hasn't made that clear.
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is lying in bed.}
Garfield. Sigh. I hate Mondays. And I could really go for some enchiladas!
{Garfield approaches Jon.}
Garfield: Hey, Jon, it's me, Garfield.
{Garfield grabs Jon by the shirt, and angrily looks at him.}
Garfield: Boy, **** you Jon, you ******* dumb, stupid idiot.
Jon: Come on Garfield, go easy on me, huh?
Garfield: You dumb, stupid, pathetic, weak, white guilt...white guilt, milquetoast piece of human garbage.
Jon: Geez, Garfield, you're pretty mean to me, but that takes the cake!
Garfield: I don't give a ****! I'm Gar-*******-field, *****!
{A bowl of food spontaneously appears. Garfield throws it in Jon's face.}
Garfield: Now give me my ******* enchiladas!
==Trivia==
This strip's author also created an uncensored version of this strip.
Category:Error 52
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2968: The Intergalactic Consequences of Memes

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Just to get this out of the way, the quote boxes are like that because that's how I imagine they would be on Gazorpazorp and definitely not because I got lazy at the end.
Â¹For those who never saw the episode (let alone the Gazorpazorpfield segment), that is actually the name of the Jon analogue. Why they would only change Garfield's name, I do not know...
Original Rick and Morty episode: "Rixty Minutes".
==Transcript==
JonÂ¹: Gazorpazorpfield, you seriously need to lighten up. After all, the world is constantly chan-
Gazorpazorpfield: {angry} Don't you DARE quote that "Minus Garfield" meme to me!
{Gazorpazorpfield kicks over Jon's cup of coffee}
SFX: KICK
{the coffee has spilled over Jon's newspaper}
Gazorpazorpfield: {glares and points at Jon} Now get me my enchiladas...
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript and author's notes were hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript and author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Crazy56U
Category:No original strip
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
Category:Mojibake
2969: The Tragic Fate of Leon the Spider

==Explanation==
The author had swapped the dialogue around in the comic and it lead to a different cause of a spider's death.
==Transcript==
Spider: My uncle Leon was healthy his whole life... 
Spider: Then one day... BAM! He went just like that! 
Garfield: Hong Kong phone book?
Spider: Heart attack.
==The author writes:==
Funny how swapping dialogue can lead to a different cause of a spider's death...
Original strip: .
Category:Redgreen
296: Nermal Minus Garfield

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield was present, holding a pillow for Nermal to jump onto... only to pull it away once he jumped, so that he'd fall to the floor while in a position to land on a pillow.
Here, Nermal jumps with no such prompting, so the target of Nermal's annoyance is unclear.
==The author writes:==
Because why should Jon be the only one talking to imaginary cats? Either that, or Nermal's calling out gravity.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Nermal jumps off a table}</br>
SFX: Blat! {Nermal lands flat on his face on the floor}</br>
Nermal: You did that on purpose, didn't you?
Category:Redhead64
2970: Garfield and Jon are Champs

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I have made so many Garfield mods that imply they have a romantic relationship. This is the tamest of them.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon leans on an elbow, talking to Garfield}
Jon: You know what I hate?
Jon: Tequila.
{Garfield opens his arms and looks shocked}
Garfield: Hey, no one forced you to get my face tattooed on your butt.
Category:Jason Tank
2971: Negative Piecers

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Behold, I have just made Jon even dumber. Sorry, pookypal and Cody!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I don't want to be disturbed!
Garfield: Jon's working on a jigsaw puzzle.
Garfield: Those negative piecers can be vicious.
{Jon is staring at a negative puzzle}
Category:PartyEscortBotBeans
2972: Consider the Jonster

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I hope you don't think this is the Nadir of my contributions.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: In order to write a book I must go out and live life
Garfield: I think I'll go on a cruise!
Garfield: Then I'll write a book entitled "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"
Category:Manyhills
2973: Garfield Minus Snark

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
SRoMG #2811 offers a general 'take that bait' scenario that could be adapted to any place that serves food. (The original strip was barely any more specific citing a 'health food store'.) In this case I removed the snark and made the strip logically sound. Garfield, in sheer desperation, is seeking out food in a computer store. Alas, nobody within had any to spare so his journey must continue.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: FOOD! I GOTTA HAVE FOOD!
{Garfield enters a store bearing the INTEL logo}
Garfield: FOOD! I GOTTA HAVE FOOD!
Category:Levellass
Category:Real world references
2974: Non-Stop Ecstatic Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The idea of Garfield doing something as out there as putting ecstasy in Jon's coffee is hilarious to me, and of course it wouldn't phase Garfield in the slightest.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, did you put ecstasy in my coffee?
Garfield: No
Jon: Cough! Cough! Cough!
{Jon starts tripping out}
Garfield: Maybe a little
Category:Even
2975: First Battle of Breitengarfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This one mashes up two SRoMG ideas that got a few mutations, but mercifully never reached pudding-pops levels of overuse: #563 (the Gustaf-themed take on the idea started by #321) and #981.
I additionally blame the Swedish band Sabaton, specifically their album Carolus Rex, for my choice of which king to use for this.
Original strips: , . Image of Gustav II Adolph from Wikimedia Commons.
==Transcript==
{Jon looks surprised, Mouse is holding a flag of Sweden}
Mouse: I declare this house the property of the Swedish Empire!
{Mouse walks away, still holding flag}
Jon: Garfield....
Gustavus Adolphus: How dare you speak that way to the King of Sweden.
Category:Chaosvolt
Category:Real world references
2976: A Really Ugly Lamp

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Several possibilities here: either Garfield is so used to Odie's shenanigans after almost 40 years that he now treats him as a mere prop and no better than a really ugly lamp; the bucket-headed Odie looks so much like a really ugly lamp that he managed to trick Garfield; or that actually is a really ugly lamp. You can decide for yourself which is funnier.
Have I used the phrase "really ugly lamp" enough yet?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks along the table.}
Garfield: What is that?
{He approaches Odie with a bucket on his head... or is it?}
Garfield: Ah, it's a really ugly lamp.
{Garfield leaves without a second thought.}
Category:Midna