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46: Garfield's Inferno

==Explanation==
On October 23, 1989, the first strip in a series of very different Garfield strips ran. These strips were not intended to be humorous, but to face head-on the fear of loneliness. This series, particularly the strip for October 28th, has led to the theory that every strip since then has been part of a hallucination that Garfield is having as he slowly starves in that chilly, abandoned house.
Thus, this strip. The original is a strip in which Jon pretends to be Garfield's guilt over food theft, evoking thoughts of A Christmas Carol in Garfield. Here, Jon's dialogue is edited to make him a Divine Comedy reference, as is reflected in the title. Jon attempts to portray the Roman poet Virgil, who becomes Dante's guide through the afterlife.
Jon's depiction is so bad, however, that Garfield considers it proof that he's not dead (refuting the aforementioned theory).
==The author writes:==
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Jon: Woooooooo! Gaaaaaaaarfield!</br>
Jon: I am Virgil!</br>
Jon: I have come to take you on a tour of the afterlife to change your sinful ways!</br>
Garfield: There goes you 'I'm dead' theory, folks.
Category:Completely rewritten dialogue
Category:John Wallace
Category:Print references
4700: Jon's Singing

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Pretty funny joke, huh?
Original YouTube video: ♪ UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL - Animation Song Parody.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The Sunday comic starts out with the intro panel, but instead of "Garfield", it reads out "Garf", because the author does not know what the heck he's doing}
Jon: â™ª OHHHHHHH
Garfield: No!
Jon: â™« Story of Undertale â™«
{Jon shocks both Odie and Garfield as he sings}
Jon: â™ª I fell from the light / Talk or should I fight?
Jon: â™ª Monster genocide â™«
Jon: â™ª T H I S M Y U N D E R T A L E â™«
{At this point, Garfield and Odie have left the car, but Jon doesn't notice}
Jon: I fell from a cave on Mount Ebott
==Trivia==
Both the transcript and the author's notes were hit by mojibake errors in later site recoding efforts. The mojibake in the author's notes was easily fixable for presentation on this wiki as a result of a quick search for the cited YouTube video's source, but the original transcript is lost to the public due to these mojibake errors.
* The strip itself suggests the mojibaked characters were originally musical notes ♪ and ♫.
Category:AQ206
Category:Video game references
Category:Mojibake
4701: Jevil May Cry

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: When Jon's asleep, I can do anything!
{Garfield tiptoes away with an evil grin}
Garfield {dressed as Jevil}: Greetings, ladies and gentlemen!
Category:TheMostQuackinest
Category:Video game references
4702: Happy Birthday Cucumber Quest

==Explanation==
This is the webcomic's 11th birthday, 2 years since it was put on indefinite hiatus, now that the author is now working on the adult visual novel, Soul of Sovereignty.
==The author writes:==
Another Cucumber Quest comic, but on its 11th anniversary, which is 2022-04-03.
I feel pretty bad that CQ is on hiatus indefinitely, and the author Gigi DG wants to end it as a Google document.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Cucumber with a cake}
Cucumber: Today is my 11th birthday and I want to thank you for reading me
{Close up of Cucumber's face}
Cucumber: I'm not talking about the other readers, I'm talking to you. Thank you!
{Cucumber, Almond, and Princess Nautilus appear alongside the original versions of themselves}
Cucumber: From all of us!
Category:Captain Lhurgoyf
Category:Webcomic references
4704: One-downsmanship

==Explanation==
This strip is part of an effort of intentional lazy edits designed to lampoon lazy edits; as such, it reduces the strip down to one panel with one spoken line, one-upping 4160: One Even Better/Worse by appearing to simply be a copy of that strip, even going as far as to reuse the same file as that strip. The author claimed that this was as far as the trend could go, but was proven wrong by 4897: Going deeper into lack of effort which didn't even bother with keeping the text within Garfield aesthetics; the strip that one-upped even that strip, 4898: nothing, was also presumably seeking to one-up this strip with their "effort" due to the nature of the strip buffer.
==The author writes:==
After seeing SRoMG #4160, I knew what I had to do.
This edit took me 0 seconds and truly is the furthest you can take this concept. If anyone does manage to somehow take it further, I tip my hat to them.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Lazy edit
Category:bc56
Category:Intentional lazy edits
4705: The Cask of Jontillado

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The thousand injuries of Jon I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge...
Original strips: , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{The vet's office. Jon and Liz talk while Garfield waits on the examination table}
Jon: Doc, will you go out with me?
Liz: Come, let us go
{They leave}
Liz {off-panel}: I have a pipe of Amontillado
SFX: CLICK
{Garfield looks surprised}
{Liz returns holding a key}
Liz: Nemo me impune lacessit! Let's go, Garfield
{Garfield smiles}
Jon {off-panel}: For the love of God, Liz!
Liz: Yes... for the love of God!
Category:Conor
Category:Foreign language
4706: Darkfield (No Pun Intended)

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
He's gonna need to get up early and do chores.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Two Zs are shown in the dark}
????: zzzzzSNOORE
{Someone's eyes pop open}
{The light turns on to reveal Garfield and Jon sleeping in bed, the former scowling at the latter snoring}
Jon: SNOORRRRE
{Garfield turns off the light}
Jon: SNOOOORE
Jon: HARK!-KAFF! KAFF! GASP! SNORT! SNORT! SNAAAARK!
{All went silent in the dark}
Garfield: Z
Category:Kavviyenta
4707: Suit Suit Jonic Borier

==Explanation==
Garfield's original guess was that all his other clothes were dirty. Here, it's that Jon wanted to look like Green Hill Zone.
Green Hill Zone is the first zone in the SEGA Genesis game Sonic the Hedgehog, the first game in the Sonic series. The ground there, as seen in Sonic Adventure 2 by players who A-rank every mission in every stage and get all the other emblems besides, is light-and-dark-green-checkered, much like Jon's jacket and pants. (In Sonic the Hedgehog, we only see the edge of the ground, so for all we knew, it was just striped.)
The author's note makes a stealth pun by referring to the possibility that, were readers to race to be the first to figure out what was wrong with the original, two or more might figure it out at the same time; this event is called a tie, and Jon's tie is what was wrong. 
In the original second panel, Jon's tie in the mirror was magenta-striped, despite being light blue with black spots everywhere else, including the other panel where it shows up in the mirror. The author likely copied and flipped the original image of the tie, copied and isolated what he needed to have in front of it (such as the hairbrush), pasted it in the appropriate spot, and pasted the other stuff over it.
The third panel has been removed.
The title is a pun on the title of the Japanese version of Sonic CD's theme song.
==The author writes:==
Bonus: There's a really weird error in the original. Here's hoping the fix is seamless enough. I'm not making it a competition, but if I did, two or more people might come up with the answer at the same time.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is wearing a suit checked in green and lighter green. Or, if you prefer, green and darker green. Also of note, a light blue tie with black spots, which he's adjusting in the mirror. The tie, not just the spots. Less interesting is the pair of brown shoes}
Jon: Know why I'm wearing a suit, Garfield?
{Jon pokes at his teeth or something}
Garfield: You wanted to look like Green Hill Zone?
Category:Nyperold
Category:Video game references
4708: Yeah, I'll have a burger with a side of truth and respect, oh, and a cookie.

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
First of all, I'm aware that this kind of thing has been done many times before on this site.
So anyway, I saw the second strip when it first came out and thought nothing of it at first, then I noticed that it reminded me of the "I seek truth" strip that came out a few years back. I began to think about making a SRoMG strip based on that, but, being a lazy person, I kept putting it off for a couple weeks.
Then I started getting paranoid that someone else would notice the similarities between the two strips and steal my idea before I had a chance to make it. So finally I stopped being lazy and opened my GIMP and made this.
Notice any difference in the strips when you swap the dialogue? Yeah, me neither.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Strip 1:
Garfield {walking proudly with one arm out as if making a regal speech}: I demand respect!
{A blank panel. Just a dumb blank panel of nothingness. Stupid cat... Ugh, where'd you run off to? Garfield? Gaarfiiiiield?? Where aaaarrrrree yoooouuu?? Oh, there you are}
Garfield {walking the opposite direction and eating a cookie he is holding}: Close enough
{Yeah, I'm kind of a "lemony narrator"}
Strip 2:
{Garfield looks ticked! Let's see what's wrong with him}
Garfield {raising his right pointer finger}: I seek truth!
Jon {presenting a plate with a burger on it to Garfield}: Have a burger
{this seems to cheer Garfield up, and in the next panel, he has taken a BIG bite outta dat burger}
Garfield {chewing the burger while smiling at the same time with bun crumbs all over his chin}: But a burger will do
Category:Muchacho1994
4709: Non-Zero-Sum Game

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A non-zero-sum game is a game where the amount of gains and losses accumulated by all players do not sum to zero. This comic represents an interaction wherein neither parties of a two-player game experience net gains: the first player, unable to reverse-engineer the arcane magicks invoked by the second player, must now live the rest of eternity as an unmoving teddy bear, with no mouth through which to scream or eyelids to blink for help, whose only refuge is his moments of being cuddled until he finds himself cuddled with less and less, eventually being abandoned by his owners after a few decades, and outliving them as he slowly decomposes with no-one left to watch after him, with his last moments of life when everything keeping him discernable as a teddy bear becomes naught but dust resembling not ultimate despair so much as a final moment of relief, but the second player loses 20 points. The prisoner's dilemma is a particularly well-known non-zero-sum game, illustrating a situation where the ideal strategy that results in gains for both players, and the highest overall gain, is actually the least preferable option from an individual player's perspective in an isolated game.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A mouse is walking with a grim expression}
Mouse: I'm feeling depressed
{The mouse is now standing in front of Pooky}
{The mouse is replaced with a grey Pooky; Pooky is replaced with a brown mouse}
{The brown mouse is walking with a grim expression}
Brown mouse: I'm feeling depressed
Category:Wibi
470: The Dead Future

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield guessed that five years from his guess would be the same thing, but hopefully with fresher coffee.
Thankfully (for us, not for him), the strip from five years after is a lot more interesting than Garfield predicted, as it seems he's become covered in snow, with a walkie-talkie-carrying scout snowflake leading the advance.
The third panel of the more recent of the two strips has replaced the third panel of the older strip.
==The author writes:==
Predicting the future is easy.
It is predicting the past that is hard, because that leaves you open to experimental disproof.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: What if we could see into the future, Garfield?</br>
Jon: Even just five years into the future... What would we see?</br>
{Garfield is outside, covered in snow}</br>
Garfield: I had no idea they were that organized.</br>
Snowflakes: Oorah!
Category:Henning Makholm
4710: Garfield Plus Rex 84

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
FEMA concentration camp conspiracy theory. Garfield's line is taken from https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2010/fear-fema.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Well, here we are in beautiful Beech Grove, guys!
Jon: Look, a big delivery truck!
Jon: Uh, what's with all the plastic coffins?
Garfield: Probably routine use in preventing the collapse of burial plots
Category:John Murtha
4711: Garfield Before Swine

==Explanation==
This strip takes the original Pearls Before Swine strip and switches out its second panel with the final panel of the original Garfield strip, slightly tweaking Rat's dialogue in the first panel to reflect the change of target character (Pig in the original Pearls Before Swine strip, Garfield in this strip). The panel swapped out from the Pearls Before Swine strip involved a broken window, similar to the panel swapped in from the Garfield strip. The strip's name plays on the names of both source strips.
This strip is not the first time a Square Root of Minus Garfield strip was named "Garfield Before Swine"; 1083: Garfield Before Swine, another fusion of Garfield and Pearls Before Swine elements, also bore that title.
==The author writes:==
An homage to one of my favorite comic strips (along with SRoMG), Pearls Before Swine. I was scrolling through the SRoMG archive and I got to the series of strips based on 1981-03-29, and my mind went to the PBS 2012-09-24 strip, in which Pig also gets 'defenestrated'. Vocabulary! It's fun!
Original Pearls Before Swine strip: 2012-09-24.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Rat: I'm expanding Gar's vocabulary. Today's word was 'defenestration', which means the act of throwing someone out a window.
Goat: That's great. What have you found is the best way of teaching new words?
{Cut to Garfield getting thrown out of a window}
Rat: Learning can be a painful process.
Category:U. N. Owen
Category:Non-Garfield comics
4712: Ignorance Is Bliss

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I mean, have you seen the news lately?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {holding a steaming cup of coffee and a newspaper}: There's nothing like a steaming cup of coffee and a newspaper to get the day started
{beat panel}
Garfield: I'd enjoy it even more if I couldn't read
Category:Manyhills
4713: Garfield multiply Touhou

==Explanation==
The author's choice of alternate title stated that it had previously been used as the main title of a previous strip; the author is apparently aware of same-name tropes and sought to avoid them. Interestingly enough, this strip ran just two days after a strip that invoked that very same-name trope this strip's author sought to avoid.
==The author writes:==
Alternate title: Sekifield (if it were not taken by #1621).
Sekibanki is a girl who is able to separate her head from her body without death. She is a character from Touhou Project, too.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
SFX: WHOCK
Jon: ?
{Sekibanki's head flies towards Jon}
Jon: Garfield!
{A smug-looking Garfield is standing next to Sekibanki's body holding a baseball bat}
Category:Reisen U. Inaba
Category:Video game references
4714: Edward James Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Continuing the theme of RenÃ© Magritte strips (including SRoMGs #2252, #2300, #2493 and #4018) with a take on Not To Be Reproduced.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Shown from behind, Garfield stands in front of a mirror - but his reflection is also shown from behind!}
==Trivia==
The author's notes were hit with a mojibake error in a later site recoding effort; as a result, the original author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public as a result.
Category:Nikumubeki
Category:Mojibake
4715: Dimensionfield Plus Grafield Plus High Definition Strip Courtesy Of Lasagna Man

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2017-07-28, 2015-12-07, 2016-11-21.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Hello, I'm a fat, lazy cat!
Grafield: What's your name?
Garfield: Garfield
Grafield: Wait right here
{An evil Jon doppelganger holding a coffee cup looks at Grafield in surprise as he enters}
Grafield: Call our lawyer
Category:-NOYZ-
4717: A disastrous barbecue

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Seeing the original Garfield strip from 2021/08/29 was hilarious, but I thought there were too few guests at Jon's BBQ, so I decided to increase the number of guests to 12 (including Jon himself) and even felt this strip far superior to the original.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield chews some kind of food}
{Garfield is suddenly quite disgusted moments after chewing his food}
{In the next five panels we see that Liz, Odie, Nermal, Arlene and even Pooky also have that same feeling of disgust when chewing the same food}
{Cut to Jon cooking a skewer on the grill}
Jon {asking the rest of the guests at the barbecue}: Anyone else want to taste another liver tahini satay kebob?!
{Cut to the rest of the guests at Jon's BBQ}
Lyman {frowning}: Nope
Lyman's Girlfriend {also frowning}: I'm on a diet
Jon's Mother {frowning as well as Lyman and his girlfriend}: I think I'll wait for dessert
Jon's Father {disappointed}: I just ate
Big Vicious Dog {also disappointed}: Not now!
Category:IQ-ranger
4718: Women like winners, Garfield.

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Made this after seeing SRoMG #4430 "Odie's a Witch" by AQ206.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Look, no feet!
Garfield: Look, only one hand!
{Detective Steve Lowry floats into view, not even facing Garfield}
Garfield: I hate showoffs
Category:Mary Bones
471: Garfield Minun Garfield

==Explanation==
Another "thing that sounds a little bit like 'minus' (but is spelled even more like it)" edit, but refreshingly, it doesn't replace Garfield, and it doesn't use the same strip as most of them.
Minun aside from being pretty adorable in appearance, is a Cheering Pokémon found in Generations III-VI. Certain Pokédexes (HeartGold, SoulSilver, and X) say that "Exposure to electricity from Minun and Plusle ... relaxes muscles", which could certainly be of benefit to Garfield at this point.
==The author writes:==
Minun is the 312th Pokémon. It doesn't look that frightening, but I guess it's enough to scare Garfield.
Original strip date: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Why do I stay up and watch those old horror movies?</br>
Garfield: What if there's a monster under my bed?</br>
Garfield: That's silly. A monster couldn't fit under there.</br>
Garfield: Unless of course, it's a Pocket Monster.</br>
{Garfield lifts his bed up and sees the Pokémon Minun underneath.}</br>
Garfield: {walking away scared} The sun should be up soon.
Category:Terrane
Category:Video game references
4720: Not Cool, Jon

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I don't know if you've noticed, but Jim Davis tends to use a lot of outdated and problematic tropes when writing romantic relationships.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz: Well, Jon, you finally wore me down
Jon: Who knew that constantly harassing two women would eventually pay off?
{They kiss}
SFX: KISS
Liz: I'm sure that in 13 years, no one will find a problem with this series of events
Jon: Not at all
{Garfield gives that aside smirk to the viewer that indicates what he's saying is completely snarky}
Garfield: And they lived happily ever after
Category:Garlene1987
4721: Garfield Night Funkin

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This was submitted to the Garfield thrown out the window Twitter account, but I feel like it would fit here as well.
For those unaware, Friday Night Funkin' is a popular work-in-progress rhythm game made by NinjaMuffin, PhantomArcade, and Kawai Sprite. With an active modding community, one could say this is the next big trend... and one would be right.
One more thing... the Garfield wiki still has the HQ comics from up to Garfield.com's closure. Just wanna let you all know.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield sit at a table, as per usual. Garfield looks at Jon in surprise, while Jon stares off in the distance, bored}
Jon: Friday night...
{Almost as if on cue, Boyfriend from Friday Night Funkin' appears, either being thrown through the window, or jumping through it. Regardless, I sense an angry third phase...}
==Trivia==
The last paragraph of the author's notes initially got cut off by a bad piece of code; a "</cite>" tag got miscoded as "</cite<". This error persisted undetected for years, but was finally fixed in May 2024.
Category:JakeLeB
Category:Video game references
4722: Garfield becoming uncanny

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
this edit was a late-night-spur-of-the-moment thing, but you'd be surprised how long i had that title panel idea in mind
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Title panel: Garfield and Odie are at a convention for Scott Pilgrim fans; there are lots of Ramona cosplayers}
Garfield: Don't worry, First Mate Stupid; we'll know we've found Jon by the brown spot between the sea of blue.
{Comic proper: Jon and Garfield are standing at the window}
{Over the course of 6 beat panels, Garfield goes through several stages of uncanniness}
JON: Pizza's here!
{Garfield reverts to normal}
GARFIELD: 'Bout time!
Category:Matthew Prower
Category:Comic book references
4723: BIGCOMIC

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Yes, thats right....
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks pixellatedly into shot}
Garfield {in sudden close-up}: Goodbye.
{A still from the closing credits sequence of the second season of Garfield & Friends}
Strange figure in chair: Now this is history...
Garfield: No, its not.
Strange figure {screaming}: WHAAA-
{An uncannily smooth Garfield looks angrily toward the viewer}
Caption: To be continued...
Category:Patryk Kornatowski
Category:Original strip unknown
Category:Non-strip Garfield material
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
4725: A Shocking Refusal To Change The Status Quo

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was originally going to use Jon's look of disgust for a different idea. Then I put it together with the haircut strip, and this happened. Whatever this is.
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield appears slightly uninterested. Jon is entering the frame}
Garfield: New haircut?
{Jon is fully in frame with a look of disgust on his face. Garfield appears shocked}
Jon: Old haircut
{Jon is exiting the frame. Garfield continues to be shocked, perhaps stunned by Jon's apparent lack of new haircut/ability to read his thoughts}
Category:Greg Retry
4726: A tribute to Skye

==Explanation==
This strip essentially takes 1902: Garfield comic by Skye and drops it into actual Garfield strip panels, correcting the misspelling on the word "exercise" en route and, in the transcript, adjusting the clock's sound effect to that of the original Garfield strip it initially came from.
It is technically unknown how old Skye was at the time of this strip's submission, as that would require knowing exactly when both this strip as well as #1902 were both submitted, and quite possibly the date of Skye's birthday as well (the possibility of Skye's eleventh birthday coming before #1902 was published cannot be definitively ruled in or out without knowing those details); this strip ran roughly four months short of eight years after #1902 did, hence it may have been reasonable for the author to think #1902's time in the strip queue was fairly close to when it ran.
==The author writes:==
as the title says, this is a tribute to SRoMG #1902 by Skye, crazy to think that now she's probably 17*, almost a legal adult (and likely older than I am by a couple months)
Unrelated but I just want to point out I was eating lasagne while making this
Alternate title: SRoMG minus potential law breaking
[*at time of submission -Ed]
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I'm tired of the same routine every day.
Garfield: Which is why Im going to exercise day and night and eat healthy for the rest of my life!!!!!
{cut to Garfield in bed}
SFX: Beep Beep Beep
Garfield: ZZZZZ... Woah!! What a nightmare!!!
Category:LochlannDS