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194: New Perspective

==Explanation==
The original strip had Jon simply suggesting a change of surroundings, and so they weren't upside-down in the last panel. Here, Jon suggests a change of perspective, so the last panel has been rotated 180°.
==The author writes:==
Original from .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield at the table, looking depressed.}</br>
Jon: We've gotta do something about this depression, Garfield.</br>
Garfield: Check.</br>
Jon: Maybe a change of perspective would cheer us up.</br>
Garfield: Check.</br>
{The entire third panel is upside down. Garfield and Jon are sitting on the front step.}</br>
Jon: Wrongo.</br>
Garfield: Check.
Category:Thinginthebasement
1957: Garfield Minus Garfield, but More Honest

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon is talking on the phone with a microphone beside him, and he says he would like to have a large pizza with everything. In the third panel, Garfield was the one who had a microphone in his hand. He also has a tape recorder. Garfield says there's a little tape that's gonna come in handy.
In this strip, Jon is creeped out by the microphone because it's been staring at him all day. The author noticed that Dan Walsh removes much more then just Garfield in his comics. The author did him a favor and made a much more honest strip for him.
==The author writes:==
I've always noticed that Dan Walsh obviously removes much more then just Garfield in his comics. I've did him a favour and made a more honest strip. 
Original strip: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon on phone, ordering pizza}
Jon: Hi, this is Jon Arbuckle
Jon: I'd like to order a large pizza with everything to be delivered. Thank you
{Jon sees microphone, looks creeped out}
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Wibi
1958: Shifting Mid-Point 4

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Just checking in on the mid-point again.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hi, there... I'm Jon Arbuckle. I'm a cartoonist, and this is my cat, Garfield.
{Garfield smacks Jon into his plate of food}
SFX: SMACK splot
A coffee cup with legs: I'm decaf, with nonfat milk and artificial sweetener.
Garfield: YAAHH
Category:Cody
195: Jonfield

==Explanation==
Here, the author has swapped Jon's and Garfield's heads. Curiously, while he used Jon's "annoyed speaking" head from the first panel even though it isn't saying anything, he used a Jon head not found in this strip: a smiling Jon head.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: {who has Garfield's head} Has it occurred to you that I want to be alone.</br>
{beat}</br>
Garfield: {who has Jon's head, putting an arm around Jon} Yes, it has.
Category:x
1967: Negative Jon's Donut

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I thought it would be an interesting twist if Garfield did the opposite of eating Jon's donut. After all, this is Square Root of Negative Garfield.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{An empty plate sits on a table}
{Garfield walks towards the plate}
{Jon is happily surprised, as a donut has been placed on his plate along with a sign that says "Jon's Donut"}
Category:Sparkpin
Category:Donut Wars
196: Beware of Giygas

==Explanation==
In the original strip, the sign admonished its readers: "Please do not beware of the dog"; the dog in question could be described as some sort of whacked-out Odie. This edit has the sign warn Garfield of the presence of Giygas, the main villain and final boss of EarthBound (miscapitalized by the author as Earthbound), an RPG made by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Garfield encounters it, and finds it scary. Just like many players of EarthBound have.
==The author writes:==
When I saw this strip (originally from ), I decided to replace the "scary" dog with something a bit more... appropriate. Just in case you don't recognise him, or rather, "it", that's Giygas of Earthbound (in)fame.
==Transcript==
Sign: Beware of Giygas</br>
{Garfield is shocked by a horrifying red and black mutated face}</br>
Garfield: {running away} Now that's scary.
Category:Redhead64
Category:Video game references
1971: You Know WHO ELSE Is Slow!?

==Explanation==
The first thing that should be made clear is that the real joke of this comic is being played on the reader.
The transcript and author's notes imply that the edited strip replaced the snail with a picture of a hedgehog colored blue, both a reference to famous video game character Sonic the Hedgehog and a joke about the speed of real-life hedgehogs. However, the image "breaks" before it can fully load, depriving the reader of the actual edit. (A similar gag was used in strip 214, but there it was more obvious.) Also note that the broken image icon used is for Google Chrome, which might spoil the gag for users of other browsers.
On an unrelated note, the title is a reference to Regular Show; the recurring character Muscle Man's catchphrase is "You know who else (is) [X]? My mom!"
==The author writes:==
Yeah, I kind of got lazy on this one. I just kind of did a bit of a cut-and-paste of a real-life Sonic up against the snail's body. Heck, the joke (pasting a blue hedgehog with the shell of the original snail to denote Sonic being actually slow in real life) isn't even that funny. It just sort of came upon me one day plus I had about twenty minutes to kill anyway so I thought "eh, why not?" I honestly did try to edit the dialogue to make it say "you're too slow", but my fonts were glitching out and the only other alternative I had was of Comic Sans (and that was a no-go), but thankfully I did manage to write a signature and copyright text. Besides, my copy of Photoshop has been glitchy recently, so there might be a few more tiny graphical errors in there. Just pretend those don't exist. Cool? Cool.
Also, Regular Show reference in the title. I don't know why I put it there.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Snails are slow. 
A blue-colored snail-hog: You
A blue-colored snail-hog: Take
A blue-colored snail-hog: That back 
{Garfield is not amused}
Category:stupidlyclever
Category:Animated comics
Category:Meta humor
1973: Garfield on Twitter

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
You know nothing (about social media), Jon Arbuckle.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: BURP!
{Garfield is using his smartphone.}
{Twitter screen showing Garfield's tweet.}
{Beat panel as Garfield is smiling}
Jon: You don't have to tweet everything you do!
{Garfield is still smiling}
Category:Adam Klimowski
1978: 0th Birthday Special

==Explanation==
This takes the very first Garfield strip and changes Jon's dialogue to remark on the belief that Garfield was born on June 19, 1978 - and thus, that the first comic shows him as an inexplicably large newborn.
==The author writes:==
Jim Davis launched Garfield on the 19th of June, 1978. Every year since, on the anniversary of that date, Davis has drawn a special birthday themed strip, on the premise that the date was Garfield's birthday. Beginning from the first anniversary in 1979, these strips would use the conceit that Garfield's age was the same as the age of the comic strip. The only logical conclusion we can make from this is that Garfield was born on the original date of publication of the first strip.
This strip is the first in a series inspired by the fact that SRoMG has now reached the milestone of 1978 strips. Comic contributor Lubaf suggested in the forums almost exactly a year ago: "For each SRoMG strip from 1978-2014, we do a strip from that year (since 2014 is when strip 2014 would come out)." After some discussion, Sausagefanclub suggested using the birthday strip for each year. Appropriate submissions were solicited in the forums, and I am pleased that we have a full set of birthday strips, which will appear over the next 36 days.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hi, there... I'm Jon Arbuckle. I'm a cartoonist, and this is my cat, Garfield.</br>
Jon: Believe it or not, he was born just today.</br>
Jon: If he's this big now, imagine how big he'll get in a few years.</br> 
Garfield: Feed me.
==Trivia==
* When it was originally published, the hyperlink for "Sausagefanclub" erroneously linked to Lubaf's page instead.
Category:Birthday series
Category:David Morgan-Mar
1979: 1st Birthday Special: Rocket Garfield

==Explanation==
"Retros" are short for retrorockets, an engine that decelerates a rocket by causing thrust in the opposite direction. It is entirely possible that this is a fart joke (given that Garfield's main method of propulsion is his breath, and directly opposite that is...)
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: FOOF!</br>
{Garfield flies backwards past Jon, powered by his own exhalation}</br> 
Jon: I'm leaving before he cuts in his retros.
Category:Birthday series
Category:Real world references
Category:Tudza
197: Jon: Nap Attack

==Explanation==
This edit switches the sources of the two thoughts: instead of Garfield "announcing" his own nap attack, Jon apparently makes Garfield sleep with a thought; instead of Jon thinking a witty observation, Garfield manages to do so in his sleep.
==The author writes:==
Apparently, Jon has the power to make other people fall asleep. Sure, it may sound like a stupid ability at first, but I'm sure I could think of plenty of fun things to do with it.
Or maybe it's just Jon's hidden mental powers being focused in an odd fashion.
Also, yes. Garfield can think in his sleep.
Original Comic from .
==Transcript==
Jon: {thinking} Nap attack!
SFX: FUMP! {Garfield falls asleep, flat on his face on the floor}
Garfield: {asleep} I've heard of catnaps, but this is ridiculous.
SFX: ZZZZ
Category:Michael Stangeland
1980: 2nd Birthday Special: Print, Cut Out, and Solve

==Explanation==
This strip has been rearranged into five-part blocks called pentominoes, and the goal of the viewer is to piece it back together into a rectangle - a version of a very famous, old-fashioned puzzle.
==The author writes:==
Pentominoes are one of the "classics" among puzzles. Similar to tangram, the goal of such a puzzle is to recreate a given shape with the pieces available, without overlapping or gaps. The pieces, the titular pentominoes, are shapes consisting of 5 squares of the same size, joined edge to edge. Every piece is only present once, counting rotations and flipping, which leaves 12 unique pieces that are usually named after letters in the alphabet they more or less resemble.
One of the oldest challenges with those pieces was arranging them in a rectangle. As there are 12×5 = 60 squares overall, there are several possibilities of rectangles. One of them, 4×15, has been solved completely with the computer, so now we know that it has 368 unique solutions, which excludes simple rotations and reflections.
Another standard challenge was of course, since most puzzle solvers also like chess, to place the pieces on a chess board. Since that has 64 squares, four have to remain empty, traditionally the 4 centre ones, a configuration that has only 65 unique solutions. Interestingly, excluding a few configurations that trivially fail to work, any choice of four empty squares can be solved, although the number of solutions can of course be very limited.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A square of picture fragments in different orientations}
Category:Alien@System
Category:Birthday series
Category:Puzzles
1981: 3rd Birthday Special: Metal Garfield Solid

==Explanation==
This strip refers to the Metal Gear video game franchise (the title specifically referencing the Metal Gear Solid sub-series, likely the one that made it famous). The series was one of the first stealth games to be made, pioneering the idea of sneaking around and discreetly disposing of enemies instead of brazenly attacking them. One of the most famous parts of the series is "Alert Mode" - if an enemy spots the player character, a red exclamation point appears over their head (alongside an iconic sound effect), which is recreated here. In most of the games in the series, said player character is Solid Snake, the man in the last panel here.
Of course, the entire joke is that the original strip was entirely about a surprise party.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: . 
==Transcript==
Garfield: I can hear them sneaking up behind me now.</br> 
Garfield: They are crouching, getting ready to leap.</br> 
{Solid Snake pops up behind Garfield}</br> 
Solid Snake: Happy birthday, Garfield!</br> 
{Garfield goes into Alert Mode}
Category:Birthday series
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Video game references
1982: 4th Birthday Special: Fire Safety Hazard

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield's head was intact (albeit with steam coming out of his ears). Here, his head is on fire (a slightly more realistic outcome, since cat hair can burn - and, you know, he just ate burning candles). For whatever reason, Jon is no less alarmed than before.
The author's notes leave the outcome of this situation up to the reader - after all, Garfield uses negative continuity to a tee.
==The author writes:==
Whether or not Garfield survived this abrupt tragedy is an exercise left to the reader.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Happy Birthday, Garfield!</br>
{A cake sits between Garfield and him; Garfield looks excited}</br>
{Garfield unexpectedly gulps down the cake in one bite - Jon looks shocked}</br>
SFX: GULP!</br>
{Garfield's head is now on fire and billowing smoke, but Jon doesn't panic}</br>
Jon: Maybe you should have blown out the candles first.
Category:Birthday series
Category:BlueDude
1983: 5th Birthday Special: Early Surprise

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon and Odie were attempting to surprise Garfield in bed, and were shocked to find Pookie... and also to find Garfield bursting out of the cake.
Here, they actually are trying to surprise Pookie, so when they see him, they can go straight from the "Surprise!" to birthday wishes in an otherwise replicated panel. The joke, of course, is that they're making a big production about surprising an inanimate object (that Jon, at least, knows full well is inanimate).
Additionally, the author removed the title panel and shifted the other panels accordingly, also removing the "shocked" panel in addition to the final panel. This actually brings it more into line with the old "two-row" Sundays than the more modern "three-row" Sundays -- like this originally was -- which often had a gag in the title panel and a first panel that could generally be thrown away without hurting the joke.
==The author writes:==
Happy Birthday Pookie!!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: {to Odie} Sssh.</br>
Jon: This is the perfect surprise. It's much too early for Pookie to be up.</br>
Jon: He's a year older today, you know.</br>
Jon: Surprise! {rips blanket off Garfield's bed to reveal Pookie}</br>
Jon: Happy birthday, Pookie!
==Trivia==
* In a wonderful coincidence, Pookie (originally written as "Pooky") was discovered in a drawer in the strip for October 23, 1978, 36 years to the day before this SRoMG strip was published.
Category:Birthday series
Category:Joe Mucchiello
1984: 6th Birthday Special: Cooler Than a Rubber Chicken

==Explanation==
In the original base strip, Jon was the giver of the rubber chicken, and Odie was the target of the smack. Garfield's reaction is taken from a strip in which Pookie is hit in the face with a pie.
This edit references My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - more specifically, the episode "Pinkie Pride". The episode was part of a season-long arc wherein the main sextet of ponies discovered a box with six keyholes (after an adventure that required them to give up their Elements of Harmony - essentially, friendship-powered villain-slaying macguffins). Throughout the season, certain episodes focused on one of the six and ended with them receiving an object from another pony that gave off a rainbow glow. "Pinkie Pride" focused on the semi-titular Pinkie Pie getting into a feud with fellow goofy party-planner Cheese Sandwich (voiced by "Weird Al" Yankovic), and once their conflict is resolved he gives her his rubber chicken. The season finale ("Twilight's Kingdom") reveals that the rubber chicken (along with the other ponies' objects) were actually keys that only took on their true form when brought to the aforementioned box.
Whether the rubber chicken here is intended to be Boneless (the name of the chicken Cheese Sandwich has for most of the episode), Boneless 2 (the one he's revealed to have after he gives Boneless to Pinkie), or some other chicken entirely, is left up in the air.
==The author writes:==
Saw Twilight's Kingdom, then looked at the unclaimed June 19ths for the big "1978-2014" celebration and this was among them. I know what I had to do.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Cheese Sandwich: Happy birthday, Garfield. I got you a rubber chicken. They're lots of fun!</br>
Garfield: We'll see about that.</br>
SFX: SMACK {Garfield whacks the Tree of Harmony box with the rubber chicken}</br>
{The rubber chicken turns into the Key of Laughter, much to Garfield's surprise}
==Trivia==
* This strip caused a brief controversy in the forums over the wealth of pony references in SRoMG (11, at the time of publication) and the author's strips in particular. (Incidentally, one of those strips had caused another argument about bronies beforehand.)
Category:Birthday series
Category:Garfunkel
Category:My Little Pony references
198: Variations on a Haircut 1

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 198: Variations on a Haircut #1.
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==Explanation==
Normally, characters behave as if they're more or less real. Despite the cartoon physics in play, they fear death and injury, seek out sustenance and affection, and have only the usual problems with pencils.
Here, Garfield has managed to use a pencil to erase the hairy part of Jon's head. At worst, he's still merely annoyed with the outcome.
==The author writes:==
This is the first of two strips based on the same strip (2005-05-17). This was the second of the two variations made. I liked the more "fourth-wall" idea, but wasn't entirely sure it worked until I added the pencil into panel #3. That particular detail comes from the strip.
==Transcript==
{Jon looks at himself in a mirror. The top of his head is entirely gone.}</br>
{beat}</br>
Jon: So much for home barbering.</br>
Garfield: {holding up a pencil} I thought I did a pretty good job.
==Later references==
* 205, 2103, and 2116 are other variations.
Category:Colin Foster
199: Garfield Replacement

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I liked the Lightning Made of Owls "Replacement" series*, and thought that a Garfield variant would be quite interesting. Henning Makholm, superluser and John Wallace volunteered and got their strips respectively. This is the result.
* For those unfamiliar with the idea, an original cartoon is submitted minus the first panel to one volunteer, who replaces the panel with something else that fits. The second panel is removed and sent to the next volunteer, and so on until the cartoon has been completely "replaced."
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: So, how do you like my anti-littering tract?</br>
Jon: Sorry, that was "Rite of the Daisy". This is the right paper.</br>
Garfield: I'd hate to give opinions on the wrong thing.</br>
Jon: So, what do you think?</br>
Garfield: This is just a photocopy with every "daisy" replaced with "not-trash".
Category:John Wallace
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:superluser
19: Garfield Divided by Garfield

==Explanation==
Not to be confused with the author's earlier comic "Garfield Divided by Garfield", this one takes more of a surrealist route: while Garfield is still replaced by a 1 (again: anything divided by itself equals 1), he turns into a 62 and freaks out Jon... somehow. (In the original, he freaked out because Garfield showed him one of his hairs during shedding season.)
==The author writes:==
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is a number 1}</br>
Jon: I'm going to lose it!</br> 
{Garfield becomes a number 62, which freaks Jon out.}</br>
Jon: {running away} YAAAHH!</br>
Category:John Wallace
Category:Math-based comics
1: Garfield in Haiku

==Explanation==
The first few strips are fairly simplistic. Here, for example, all the dialogue has been altered to fit the meter of a haiku - a traditional Japanese poem featuring five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third and last line.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Flea: Hello, I'm a flea.
Garfield: Excuse me just a moment. 
Garfield: Have we dynamite?
==Later references==
This comic is probably the most referenced SRoMG strip of all, being the very first one.
* It got a direct sequel 317 strips later.
Category:David McLeish
Category:Poems
2000: 22nd Birthday Special: Deathday Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
If you read Wikipedia's article on "cat years", you'll discover that, at time the strip used here showed up, Garfield was more than 100 in human years. At time of writing, Garfield's age is closer to the current world record holder for cat lifetime, Creme Puff, who was 38 years old when she died (although, admittedly, not over it, so Garfield being that old is still vaguely within the realm of possibility). Thus inspiring this rather morbid strip. (I'll admit to some inspiration from Terry Pratchett, here, as well.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, wake up. It's Monday.
Garfield: I HATE Mondays!
Jon: {Holds up a cake} And it's the day Jim Davis said he was going to let you die!
Garfield: {Happily} I thought this day would never come!
Text below: Happy Deathday, Garfield - Jim Davis
Category:Lubaf
Category:Birthday series
Category:Milestone strips
2005: 27th Birthday Special: Supercat

==Explanation==
The original strip had Garfield attempting to reverse time by walking backwards. This edit changes the final panel into a still from the 1978 Superman movie, which had a famous scene where the title hero's love interest Lois Lane dies, and thus he flies into space and pushes the Earth backwards to wind back time and save her.
Incidentally, the description was intended to mirror the mod note for strip 1137, which, after running two superhero-themed strips in a row, wondered if there was "something about Garfield we don't know". (Admittedly, it was rather ambiguously phrased.)
==The author writes:==
Hopefully most people will get the joke. If not, then the transcript should tell you. Perhaps we don't know as much about Garfield as we think we do...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sitting in bed, looking morose}</br> 
Garfield: Sigh...</br> 
Garfield: Another birthday.</br> 
{Garfield stands up, still bearing the same expression as before}</br> 
Garfield: This one's number 27...</br> 
{Garfield begins walking away from his bed}</br> 
Garfield: And that's pretty old for a cat.</br> 
{Garfield raises a finger to his chin}</br> 
Garfield: If only there were something I could do...</br> 
{Close-up on Garfield as he suddenly has an idea}</br> 
{Cut to the Earth, being pushed backwards by an unseen force - perhaps Garfield himself? - to turn time back as well}
Category:Birthday series
Category:BlueDude
Category:Comic book references
Category:Film references
200: Gar Field

==Explanation==
Of the definitions of "field" on Wiktionary, this one is most pertinent: "A physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region." Thus, "Gar field" is interpreted here as the force applied by the interjection "Gar!", as it is spoken by Garfield in pirate garb. As the sound travels from its source, each ring is the same distance from the one before as it is from the next one, indicating that this distance is the point where its power is halved.
It appears that the original image is from this jigsaw puzzle (or at least this is the only match I could find after a few minutes of searching).
==The author writes:==
What is a Gar field, anyway?
==Transcript==
Caption: Gar Field</br>
{A bullseye pattern with Garfield as a pirate in the middle shouting "Gar!". Rings moving outwards are labelled as 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8.}</br>
Caption: The area of influence of a single pirate expression.
Category:LTDave
Category:Original strip unknown