nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
5463: There Goes the Neighborhood

==Explanation==
This strip is the first one published to take on the challenge posed by 5394: Who's At The Door?: Not TomSka's author in an attempt to make 4136: Who's At The Door? the originator of a true Square Root of Minus Garfield running gag. At the same time, this strip's author may have been aware of the pitfalls of such running gags, and had an unflattering portrayal of Jon being the one to ring the doorbell, with Garfield telling off Jon as to why Hubert and Reba are no longer around, in an attempt to keep things from spiraling out of control too quickly.
==The author writes:==
We haven't seen Jon's elderly neighbors, Hubert and Reba, in quite a long time. Did they die? I'd prefer to think they got sick of the shenanigans and moved to a more peaceful neighborhood. Maybe they live next door to Cathy now. I bet she never glues a blender to her face — at least not on purpose.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2024-02-24.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
SFX: DING-DONG
{The doorbell rings. Garfield, a cat walking bipedally, is going to answer the door}
{Jon is outside wearing only a pair of floral-patterned boxer shorts, watering an off-green bush with the garden hose. For some reason, the blender is glued to his face again. Perhaps Jon is pulling stunts like gluing small kitchen appliances to his face, performing yard work in his underwear, and playing ding-dong-ditch with his geriatric cat in order to stave off the existential ennui of being an adult man-child who sees the world moving on without him, yet makes few substantive changes to his life. Despite his career as a cartoonist giving him the rare chance to make an indelible mark on human history and culture, he still chooses to let his profession wither on the vine. We should be thankful he's only acting out. Perhaps Jon saw how Lyman, his former best friend, let drugs and alcohol destroy his life; that alone may be why Jon gave up pipe smoking, and why Liz tolerates this sort of behavior from a long-term partner. Or maybe it's just a goddamn comic strip and I'm projecting. Regardless of how blatantly the certainty of aging, death, and eventual nonexistence is presented in this penultimate panel, we the readers should be more impressed that Garfield successfully operated a doorknob}
{Inside, Garfield bluntly tells a fully-clothed and de-blendered Jon, the man's overt surprise at odds with the audience's suspension of disbelief:}
Garfield: You're why Hubert and Reba moved away
Category:Colin
5464: The Bark Side

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Originally, I intended for the dog to stretch his arm, but a strip has done this already so I came up with this. Look like he finds the cat's lack of faith in his guard dog duty disturbing.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Ha! Ha! Look at those floppy ears!
{The cat points at a dog while standing a considerable distance from him}
Garfield: Look at those droopy jowls!
{The dog performs a Vader grip on the cat}
Garfield: And look at that force
Category:Kavviyenta
5465: Psychopathfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is basically a remake of my #4474 comic only now it's darker and with better editing. Also i got the Garfield font back. Hallelujah!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Cute, Garfield. Tell me my future
Garfield: Society has fallen. The universe will collapse. The multiverse will be annihilated
{Jon is now a pixelated mess}
Jon: Mr. Garfield, I don't feel so good
Garfield: Existence is behind you now, Jon.
Category:MarioGarfield
5466: Fool's Lasagna

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon has a lasagna behind him and a bowl of cat food in front of him}
Jon: Dinnertime, Garfield!
{Garfield lands on the "lasagna"}
Garfield: Cat food!
Jon {eating from the "cat food" bowl}: Gotcha
Category:Tiny Desk Engineer
5467: Linguistics with Liz: Zhuang

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Old Latin Zhuang Alphabet version:
Transcription of Liz's words: mɯŋƨ couƅ dɯg ən lauчbəg ƌeu
Sawndip version:
Transcription of Liz's words: 佲
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz: Jon?
Jon: Yes?
Liz {in Zhuang language}: Mwngz couh dwg aen lauxbaeg ndeu {You are just a radish}
Jon: I will never understand Zhuang
Garfield: I think she just called you a radish
==Trivia==
The transcription of the "Sawndip version" appears to be incomplete.
Category:Evil Duolingo Owl
Category:Linguistics with Liz
5468: How Ol' Gnorm Met His Doom

==Explanation==
The author's notes tend to explain the core premise of this strip. This strip's author essentially portrayed the product as a fully absorbed finale to Gnorm Gnat within the Garfield mythos, and did so mostly in line with Jim Davis's errant recollection of how Gnorm Gnat proper ended.
No link to the Gnorm Gnat strip is listed; this may have been due to the author either failing to provide a link or a link getting stripped out between submission and publishing (5433: When Jon Really Met Liz is a similar example to the latter possibility, having had a link attached to a credit to a Jon strip get lost in transition). The Gnorm Gnat strip in question has been collected on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here.
==The author writes:==
Essentially my version of how ol' Gnorm met his doom. See, Jim claimed for years he ended his first strip Gnorm Gnat by having a giant human foot fall out of the sky, killing that gnat. Obviously we know that wasn't how it ended. My guess is that he wanted to tell a more interesting story than Gnorm thanking Pendleton next to a "Merry Christmas" message. But I digress.
Also, I started this strip months ago (March 6) but kinda lost interest in it. Only just now (September 18 [2022 -Ed]) did I decide to finish it.
Original Gnorm Gnat strip: 1973-03-22.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Nine different ideas for Garfield plush dolls—er, I mean, uh, nine different Garfields, with a square root sign and a minus sign tacked on}
{Cut to that Muncie-born blimp-turned-basketball of a cat on a table outside}
Jon: Dinnertime!
{Jonny boy brings in a glass}
Jon: Who wants a nice, refreshing glass of lukewarm tap water? {As if Odie were in here right now}
{Jon freaks out at an ungodly creature}
Jon: Yaaah! A gnat! A gnat! A gnat!
{Closeup of that ungodly creature—oh, it’s just Gnorm. Never mind then}
Gnorm: Hark! Do my ears deceive me or is there a scaredy—{Look out!}
SPLAT!
{Oh my Jim, Garfield killed Gnorm! You BLEEP!}
Garfield: No one can relate to bugs {Unless you're reading The Far Side}
{Cut to our Holy Almighty Creator on his drawing table, as if he even draws the comics anymore}
Our Holy Almighty Creator {getting kinda old, wouldn’t you say? (sighs) Alright, fine} Jock Ewing: Ain't I a stinker? {Yes. Yes you are.}
{And I'm totally not trying to cram as many shout-outs here right now. Honest! (nose grows with slide whistle noise)}
Category:Trevor
Category:Gnorm Gnat
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
Category:Television references
5469: Second Garfield in Haiku

==Explanation==
The dialogue of the strip has been shortened so it reads like a haiku poem, with each panel acting as a line (5 syllables, then 7, then 5).
==The author writes:==
A sequel to #2263.
This strip lends itself quite well to haikuification. Sadly the next few strips aren't so much.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Happy birthday, Garf!
{Jon hands Garfield a rubber mouse}
Jon: I got you a rubber mouse!
{Garfield eats the rubber mouse}
Garfield: Could've used some salt...
Category:Super Nerd
5471: If that muffin tastes great, what does it matter if it's nutritious or whatever?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
As the title of the strip says, if that muffin tastes great, what does it matter if it's nutritious or whatever?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is eating a muffin}
Garfield: This is pretty good
{Jon appears before Garfield, surprising him with a question}
Jon: Are you enjoying that nutritious, high-fiber muffin?
{Garfield continues eating the muffin}
Garfield: I don't care if this muffin is nutritious, high in fiber, or whatever; the important thing to me is that it tastes great
Category:IQ-ranger
5472: Resurrecting a 20-year-old meme

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Law for Kids strip: "School Threats".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Want to see something funny?
Jon {on the phone}: Someone's going to die at school today
{He immediately hangs up and smiles at himself}
Garfield {offended}: That wasn't funny!
Category:Muchacho1994
Category:Webcomic references
5474: Empress Garblax

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield title card}
{Garfield is big, as a Red and Blue Pikmin can be seen}
{Garfield notices the Pikmin, and they notice him}
{Garfield looks left, and the Pikmin are confused}
{Garfield looks right, and the Pikmin look back at him}
{Garfield reaches out to get the Pikmin, and they are frightened}
{The comic strip cuts to black, and two Pikmin Ghosts can be seen, presuming that they died}
{The strip cuts back to the usual view, showing a plate with crumbs}
Garfield: Pikmin do NOT taste good...
Category:TheRealMechael
Category:Video game references
5475: The World's First SRoMG (and Igdoof's Return)

==Explanation==
The upper half of this strip is a presumably unedited Igdoof strip in which its characters took three other comic strips--Garfield, Peanuts, and Marvin--and portrayed them with fart joke dialogue. This strip's author noted that Igdoof based the Garfield portion of the third panel on an actual Garfield strip; a later strip over on iToons would reveal the same to be true for the Peanuts portion, but it is unknown if the same is true for the Marvin portion. The lower half of this strip recreates the Garfield strip within Igdoof using the actual Garfield material. The Igdoof strip's premise, as stated by the author, is essentially Square Root of Minus Garfield fifteen years before Square Root of Minus Garfield began and iToons twenty-two years before iToons began.
Neither an original Peanuts strip nor an original Marvin strip were identified anywhere within the author's notes. The depicted Peanuts strip was later identified as the 1993-09-29 strip and re-created as iToons #837: The World’s First iToons Comic; the depicted Marvin strip, on the other hand, if indeed real, would be difficult to locate, as Comics Kingdom's archives for that strip only go back as far as January 1996 for Sunday strips and October 1998 for weekday strips, and this Igdoof strip predates those dates.
==The author writes:==
After SRoMG #5140 Fat Cat, I went back to Igdoof and came across this one. The thing is, Jeff picked an actual Garfield comic to rewrite this time! And Peanuts, too! So that makes these the earliest Square Root of Minus Garfield and iToons comics ever made.
Original Igdoof strip: unknown (sometime in 1993).
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Title: Igdoof
Title: Jeff Kinney
{Igdoof is drawing something. His roommate, Ralph, is nearby}
Igdoof: Hee hee hee!
Ralph: What're you doing over there?
Igdoof: Making improvements to the comics page! These cartoons were so sophomoric that I decided to erase the text and put in my own... now they're so funny you'll fall on the floor laughing!
Ralph: Let me see...
{Three cartoons are shown}
Garfield: Guess what Jon
{Garfield smiles}
Jon: You farted in my face
Garfield: Yep.
{Various Peanuts characters are asleep}
SFX: Z
Snoopy: I knocked them out with my supersonic fart
{Marvin the baby sits in a diaper}
Marvin: Now that's...
Marvin: What I call...
Marvin: A fart!
Igoof: Hmm... You're still standing up.
Ralph: Life must be amusing indeed to someone whose mental age hasn't quite caught up with their chronological age.
{A Garfield strip}
Garfield: Guess what Jon
{Garfield smiles}
Jon: You farted in my face
Garfield: Yep.
Category:Muk
Category:Non-Garfield comics
5476: Total Alphabeticalfield

==Explanation==
This strip rearranges the letters in the dialogue in alphabetical order, much like #4659. However, in this case, the letters are sorted between all three dialogue balloons, instead of sorting each set individually.
==The author writes:==
I just couldn't resist taking this to its logical conclusion.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2022-02-19.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon has a blender yadda yadda}
Jon: A aaaaa a bcdddde ee ee fggh
{Jon leaves}
Garfield: Hiii!
Garfield: Il ll mnnoorrr ssttt tuuwyyy?
Category:Puppo
5477: Skibidi Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
internet brainrot and editing software do not mix
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2016-05-08.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield's head's in a toilet; how it got there, i don't wanna know}
Garfield: skibidi dop dop dop yes yes
Category:Sparky
5479: Nyoom

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
What happens next?
You decide!
Thanks for reading!
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is in his bed on the table}
Garfield {confidently: Time to spring into action!
{Garfield raises a fist outward à la Superman}
Garfield {confidently}: Huuuuut!
{Garfield's bed suddenly rockets out of frame, leaving a dust cloud behind}
SFX: NYOOM!
Garfield: YAAAAAAAH!!
{hard cut to Garfield going faster than the speed of light, his image distorting}
Category:Crazy56U
547: Garfield Linus Arbuckle

==Explanation==
A simple subversion of the pudding pops meme; instead of Garfield changing, it's Jon that changes into Linus from Peanuts.
The description mentions the blog Garfield Minus Arbuckle, which takes the same approach to regular Garfield strips (though it hasn't been updated since September 2011).
==The author writes:==
Seeing all those "Garfield __us Garfield" strips submitted to this site, I thought I'd submit one replacing Jon for a change. After all, Garfield Minus Arbuckle hasn't been updated in months as of this writing...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing. 
{Jon is replaced by Linus from Peanuts} 
Garfield: They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
Category:Comic strip references
Category:Constantly changing
Category:NES Boy
5480: Arbuckle '08: Garfield's Nightmare

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This strip is a drawing I made c. mid-2008 for the Garfield edit-site Arbuckle, which, for those of you who don't know, I already discussed in a previous strip of mine. Back when I was 16, I planned to scan this strip and email it to the people at Arbuckle, but those plans didn't happen as I didn't have access to a scanner at the time and I lacked my own email address. Although I got both a few years later, I was preoccupied with college and never submitted it (and I wasn't sure if Arbuckle was even accepting submissions anymore). On a sadder note, this strip is also dedicated to the memory of my late cat, Elphaba (or Elphie, neé Claire). We adopted from from a no-kill cat shelter in late April 2015 (with the shelter people estimating her to be four years old) and, unfortunately, in January 2024, she started developing health issues, sitting in places she normally doesn't, not eating or drinking, and being unusually lethargic. She was taken to a vet on the 16th, had an IV in her, and she seemed to get better at first, then her sodium levels went dangerously up, with a kidney issue appearing to be the cause, then her eyes and possibly her brain were starting to go, too. The vets didn't know if the kidney failure was the result of her brain issue or vice versa. Ultimately, we went to the vet on the evening of January 18, 2024 to say goodbye to her before she got put down. Anyway, sorry for any jarring change in tone in the author's notes.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The entire strip is a B&W pencil drawing on paper, digitally scanned, and the lines darkened for visual clarity}
{Title panel: a realistically-drawn Garfield lays stoically in his bed as a sinister, demonic shadow crawls ominously towards the cat; the title of the panel isn't Garfield, but Arbuckle}
{A slightly svelte Garfield walks over to his bed}
{He falls asleep for a catnap}
Garfield {while dreaming}: Z
{In Garfield's dream:}
Narrator: Presenting: Rip Van Garfield—The story of a catnap that lasted 50 years!
{An aged Garfield wakes up; he, along with all the aged characters appear to have dark gray fur/hair so that the whole pencil drawing can be visible on a monitor/device screen}
Narrator: Some things had changed...
{In a futuristic city, with a Chrysler-Building-like tower in the background, an aged Odie zooms around in a wheelchair chasing a car}
Odie: Arf arf!
Narrator: ...some things hadn't changed...
{Garfield is being checked out at the vet by an old Liz as a lonely, elderly Jon stands nearby}
Jon: How about a date, Doc?
Liz: No way!
Narrator: [A]nd some things had really changed!
{in some vast mountainous area, a heavily-armed/protected trooper has a net with seeming intent to eat Garfield}
Trooper {referring to Garfield}: Set the table, Mom! Here's a juicy one!
{In the dialogue, the word "here" is circled and pointed at the aged Garfield}
{The Garfield from the start of the strip wakes up with a start}
Text: fín...
Category:Michael Jacoby
5481: Doomgarf

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
After reading through SRoMG #4378, I began thinking of instances I could use some of the panels in. The first-person perspective, specifically, was what gave me the idea for this comic.
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
{A title panel is shown, featuring a glowing orange "Garfield" logo in the same font as the DOOM logo. To the right of the logo is Garfield's skeleton, with a glowing red eye}
{In the next couple of panels, Odie is shown from a first-person perspective, running around a dark neighborhood while holding a super shotgun. At the bottom of these panels is a HUD, showing Odie's ammunition, health, weapons, etc. As Odie continues his journey, he reaches a house, which he enters, and walks through to find a floating Garfield head, edited to resemble a Cacodemon. The head is surprised at the gun being pointed at it}
SFX: POW!
{In the final panel, only a line of text is seen, reading "The cartoonist has elected not to show this panel due to its graphic nature", leaving the Cacogarf's final state to the imagination}
Category:Josiahblaze
Category:Video game references
5482: Callback Cat

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When I first saw the 1984-06-27 strip, I got reminded of #397. (This strip also uses #3364 elements.)
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: My bed! Odie's sleeping in my bed!
Garfield: This calls for a good stomping!
SFX: STOMP STOMP STOMP
{Odie's nose falls off, Garfield is not amused}
Garfield: I should have never taught myself how to do that
Category:E_Vids
5483: Red Bullfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Anyone want to redraw this so it actually looks like a Red Bull commercial? Just asking. Apologies for the poor edit, I use Polish on iPad.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Bird: Hey... this isn't water...
Bird: It's chicken stock!
Garfield: Next time I should try a Red Bull
{Red Bull ad appears in last panel}
Ad: Red Bull gives you wiiiiings
Category:Catbel121
Category:Advertising references
5484: Service with Chris Pratt

==Explanation==
This strip was released on the date The Garfield Movie first opened in theaters in the United States.
==The author writes:==
I guess you can say I got inspired by my first ever SRoMG submission and the fact that Chris Pratt will voice Garfield in an upcoming movie.
Kinda shocked nobody thought of this yet.
Unless they have in which case I will look really stupid*.
[*This was submitted before the publication of #4994. -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Here's your dinner, Garfield
Garfield: How about service with a smile?
{Suddenly, Jon transforms into Chris Pratt! Garfield looks horrified before he himself transforms into Chris Pratt as well}
Category:David van Muijden
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
5485: Fixfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I found the 1978-08-27 comic had a few mistakes. I took it upon myself to edit these mistakes out.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: You're getting a little chunky there, pal
Jon: I'm thinking of putting you on a diet, Garfield.
Garfield: DIET!
Garfield: I'm already feeling weak!
Garfield {shaking Jon violently}: FOOD! I NEED FOOD!
Garfield: The room's going dim!
{Garfield faints}
SFX: WHOP!
{Jon claps, probably condescendingly}
Category:twinec
5486: Elo-dead

==Explanation==
This strip is essentially a mashup of two previous Square Root of Minus Garfield strips, 4738: OD D.O.! and 4876: Where's Elodie?; the latter had itself reused the first panel from the former, thus this strip included three panels in total (one shared, one specifically from #4876, and one specifically from #4738, in that order). Some additional effort in presentation was made in this mashup, moving the "thot" effect from the #4738-specific panel to the #4876-specific panel and adding a new reference unique to this strip (the Team Fortress 2 killfeed, added to the #4738-specific panel); the overall effect thus shows an even grimmer picture than #4876 did by itself, Princess Elodie dead by arrow by a known assassin. As the new reference specific to this strip is in the same medium as the reference carried over from #4876 (both a different medium from the one carried over from #4738), only three medium reference categories are included at the bottom of this very page (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, the root of #4738's references, counts for two of those categories).
This strip's transcript does not write out the "twang" and "thot" effects, unlike #4738's transcript; it is unknown whether the author consciously decided to not write them out to begin with, or whether the author chose not to include the effects due to #4738's transcript containing a "â™ª" mojibake in it (a mojibake created by a later site recoding effort, and one still in place at the time this strip ran--in fact, #4738 is the most recent Square Root of Minus Garfield strip known to have been hit by such mojibake errors) and not wanting to copy-paste it without knowing how to repair it.
==The author writes:==
Of all the ways to die in Long Live the Queen, Abu Dhabi decided to pick the one death that I could link these two versions with.
I thought about having Jon yell in the last panel (he'd see the killfeed, after all), but I figured the panel was busy enough already (at least for a Garfield strip).
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2022-05-09, 2022-09-24.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Where's Elodie?
{In the next two panels we find our answer. Princess Elodie has been shot to death by an arrow, fired by Garfield, who is dressed as OK KO's Elodie. This is shown with a Team Fortress 2 Killfeed, for some reason}
Category:twinec
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
Category:Video game references
5487: Internet

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon {on phone}: Hey, Bobbi baby! What's happenin'?
Jon: You say I got a wrong number? Well for a wrong number you sure have a sexy voice. Who is this?
Jon: Oh hi, mom would you care to make it the right number, songbird?
Garfield: Welcome to the internet
Category:John Murtha