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5543: The Elephant in the Graduation Room

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Not sure if this new punchline makes this particular strip any funnier.
Oh, and now, for the hypothetical backstory: Jon, despite not knowing better, applied for a high-level college after graduating high school. However, when he applied, he was informed he had an extremely low GPA, and that the college would only accept students with very high GPAs. This meant Jon was forced to retake his senior year of high school. But he kept failing, and to this day, he is still taking high school courses.
The cartoonist job was the occasional stint he did when he had a good amount of money, which is also why it was sparingly mentioned.
Now for the math! Jim Davis has mentioned that his life parallels that of Jon Arbuckle. Jim Davis was born in 1945. This strip takes place in 1998. 1998 minus 1945 is 53, and 53 minus 18 (the year in which most students graduate high school) is 35.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A smiling Odie walks by a bored Garfield. He is wearing a blue-and-yellow graduation cap}
{Garfield stares at Odie, then stares at the reader}
Garfield: Jon keeps all 35 of his graduation caps
Category:limmey comic
5544: Mysterious Floating Spider

==Explanation==
In the original, the spider's floating was due to air from a heating vent. Here, the vent and air gusts have been removed, leaving the spider's ability to fly unexplained. The author's note throws out a couple of explanations.
* The spider is actually a fly in disguise.
* The spider has a Vertical Take Off and Landing device, which is usually a component of some airplanes that allows it to fly upwards or descend slowly, enabling it to take off or land in places where a regular airplane could not, due to needing space to get up to speed or slow to a stop.
In the original, Garfield batted the spider away. This, along with many other occasions, proves that Garfield is no less likely to swat a spider than a fly, and thus, that a fly would not be disguised as a spider to make Garfield not want to swat it. Perhaps it wished to hide its ability to fly so as to render Garfield unprepared to land a blow on a flying pest. Or perhaps it just wanted to confuse Garfield.
This also proves that solely being able to fly wouldn't make an arthropod safe from being hit, especially if it's just going to hover there. If it is just a spider with VTOL, its purpose must just be to confuse Garfield.
Other explanations are not offered by the author.
As evidenced by the date, the lack of Jim's signature, and the wall color not having gone back to the first panel's color as it had in the original, the third panel was made by replicating, then editing, the second panel. Garfield's muzzle is a flip of first-panel Garfield's.
==The author writes:==
Could it be a fly masquerading as a spider? Does the spider have VTOL? We may never know...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield gets ready to hit a spider with a newspaper}
{The spider starts floating}
{Garfield watches it float in shock}
Category:Daboi491
5546: Garfield uses the Force in only 2 frames

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This strip is inspired by SRoMG #472 "Yodafield". Garfield has expressed his distaste for cat food in the past, and he uses his force powers to enact revenge.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield holds out his arms as Jon approaches with food}
{Garfield in same pose as food flies into Jon's face}
Category:Polihy
5547: Felix as Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
No I didn't mean Felix the Cat, I meant the repairman. That Tapper's scene in the movie Ralph Breaks the Internet, especially the exchange between Fix-It Felix and Wreck-It Ralph, sort of screams, average Garfield layout! I changed the punchline a bit, considering what happened to Felix at the beginning of RBTI. I love Fix-It Felix so much, that is why I decided to make him a star of this submission.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A sullen Fix-It Felix is at a bar, with a covered root beer mug next to him. Several customers are preparing to drink mugs of root beer behind Felix; however they are not moving at all in the entire strip}
Felix: Mondays...
Felix: There's one in every single week, 52 times a year
Felix: Seems a bit stressful to me
Category:garfieldXDjonXDodie
Category:Photo comics
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
5548: Japanfield v2.5

==Explanation==
This strip essentially takes 3618: Japanfield v2 and re-stacks the panels so that it's properly rendered in the fashion of a Japanese vertical comic strip. Japanese is typically read right-to-left and top-to-bottom, from a western standpoint backward horizontally but not vertically; if one were to take two versions of the same manga volume, one flipped to make more sense to read in western style and one published in its original Japanese-style orientation (a good example would be Pokémon Adventures volume 1 in both its flipped 2000 and unflipped 2009 North American versions), it can be easily observed that the work only needed to be flipped on one axis (horizontal) to make sense to westerners, as the vertical axis would need to be left alone to serve that same audience.
==The author writes:==
I read Cdudeiscool's take on "Japanfield" and thought that it was bizarre that it was a bottom-to-top comic. The Japanese don't read vertical strips that way, usually unless they backtrack them! I made* a properly-structured Japanese-style Garfield comic strip so that I could relieve myself of my wrong-reading-order stress.
*Really, all I did was swap the first and last panels, but still.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{This comic is meant to be read from top to bottom, like a yonkoma manga strip, though since this strip has three panels instead of four, it would probably be a sankoma}
{Jon and Garfield are driving down a one-way road in the car} 
{Jon notices Garfield is sticking his head out the window with his eyes closed, and does that too} 
{A Japanese stop sign strikes his face} 
Category:Redgreen
Category:Foreign language
5549: SPAMTONfield

==Explanation==
The author has replaced Garfield with Spamton G. Spamton from Deltarune, because the term hot shot reminded them of big shot, Spamton's catchphrase.
==The author writes:==
I noticed the term [HOT SHOT] in this comic, and noticed it sounded like big shot. Then I thought of SPAMTON from Deltarune. So I decided to edit this comic to add in SPAMTON and change the dialogue slightly. Why do I do these things?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon's turkey is sliding across the table, much to his surprise}
{The turkey almost goes off the table in the next panel, as Jon turns his head}
{Jon has lifted his turkey off the table, and we see that Spamton was pulling the tablecloth}
Jon: Nice try, [BIG SHOT]
Category:Jamz64
Category:Video game references
5550: Oversimplifield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A lot of newer Garfield comics can just be described in a few words honestly
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is writing a list}
Jon: health
{Garfield cuffs him upside the head}
SFX: SMACK!
Jon: diabetes
{Garfield pats him contentedly}
Garfield: good
SFX: pat pat pat
Category:MarioGarfield
5551: The Prospect of Commitment

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I could think of skeevier ways to edit this, but Garf is scared of commitment either way, so...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{We see Garfield and Arlene chatting on the fence}
Garfield: We have the evening ahead of us, Arlene. What should we do?
{Arlene leans in, with a statement that startles Garfield}
Arlene: I want kittens...
{We cut to reveal it was a dream. Garfield is shook}
Garfield: Worst nightmare ever
Category:Sonikku A
5552: Ashfield

==Explanation==
This strip switches out the cookie jar from the original strip for an urn carrying Jon's father's ashes, with Garfield's appearance and punchline unchanged. As such, this strip is intended to portray that Jon's father is deceased; Jon's father is heavily implied to canonically be still alive as of when this strip first ran (his most recent appearance in the original strips was the at-the-time fairly recent ).
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
SFX: CRASH!
Jon: Was that Dad's ashes?!
Garfield {with a full mouth}: Gravity is my friend
==Trivia==
The non-existent date 0000-00-00 was initially credited in error in addition to the actual date credits; the erroneous credit has since been removed.
Category:Bosco Burns
Category:0000-00-00
5553: Fnafield

==Explanation==
This strip recolors Jon in the final panel to resemble the Puppet from the Five Nights at Freddy's series, and adjusts the dialogue to portray himself as string-bound rather than muscle-bound and about to go on a date with Cassidy, another FNaF series character.
The author's notes make note of coloring differences between varying archives:
*The statement of UComics being "down" implies that this strip was made and submitted during the period between when the non-secure "images.ucomics.com" domain Square Root of Minus Garfield had been using for original strip credits hopelessly busted and Square Root of Minus Garfield switched the strip credit linking to lead to GoComics; what had been the secure-domain mirror of the UComics domain is still functional, it shows Jon's mime costume as black in color. Despite the author's notes implying otherwise, this appears to be the source the author used to get the original strip, as the other listed archives are bigger in size than from this particular archive (the author could not have sourced the strip wholesale from another Square Root of Minus Garfield strip, as the SRoMG strip that was the author's "third opinion", 757: Jon Arbuckle 2001 Random Montage, only sourced one panel from it and was the only strip to source from the original Garfield strip prior to this strip).
*The "Wikia version" refers to the collection of strips hosted on the Garfield wiki on Fandom (the wiki farm previously known as Wikia), which for strips originally published prior to the takedown of garfield.com were sourced from that website; it shows Jon's mime costume as black in color. As garfield.com was the Garfield franchise's official website, it is presumed that this is the official colorization and implies Garfield Survival of the Fattest: His 40th Book also has Jon's mime costume in black.
*GoComics, on the other hand, has been known to apply color schemes of their own to Garfield strips that often differ from those of other archives, with older strips rendered at 900 pixels wide often having wildly different color schemes (refer to the explanation of 5399: Color me Garfield for examples of wild color scheme variance) as opposed to later ones not varying as wildly; this particular rendition is the one that rendered Jon's mime costume in white.
==The author writes:==
For some reason, the Gocomics version has the costume that the entity (presumably Jon, though it's never explicitly confirmed) wears in white, whereas the Wikia version has it in black, and this other SRoMG has it in black again. Since UComics is down, I can't get a fourth opinion.
Either way, it looks like the Puppet.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Charlie: I have a date with Cassidy, Garfield
Charlie: She likes the strong, silent type.
Charlie: So I'm dressed as a string-bound mime
Garfield: Try not to get beat up
Category:-NOYZ-
Category:Video game references
5554: Milky Jon

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I attempted to parody the 12/23/2015 Christmas strip, but messed up trying to remove Jon. This is better.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Odie look excited to an offputting degree}
Garfield: We're excited about Milky Jon
Jon {milkily}: Milky milky milky
{"Stone Cold" Steve Austin glowers with a milk mustache in a "Got Milk?" poster campaign}
Caption: Milky Jon promotes bone strength
Category:UnusualLasagnaDeficit
5555: Garf Sale

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I thought of taking the 6 September 1998 strip and rewriting the narrative so that Garfield is made to dress in such gaudy attire without the intention of annoying Jon.
The backstory I came up with was that Garfield, desperate to make at least minimum wage, reluctantly landed a job dressing as the mascot of a mouse-oriented store chain called Gard'n'Sport. Further details, such as what the mice were thinking when they had Garfield wear this combination of clothing and "advertise" in his own house, are left to the reader's imagination.
Part of the inspiration came from a story arc from Greg Cravens' Hubris where the character of Lowell dresses a clown during a sales event for Sportsmart. Another inspiration was the scene in the Jimmy Neutron episode "Men at Work" where Jimmy is demoted to wearing a hamburger outfit which he doesn't like.
While much of the humor in vanilla Garfield derives from Garfield annoying Jon, I thought I'd experiment to see if Garfield being just as much a straight man as Jon could be anywhere near as funny, unless it's been done here before.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon holds a rolled-up newspaper underarm. He walks by Garfield wearing a jester hat, a bowtie, a tutu and rollerskates and holding a shovel and a tennis racquet. Jon struggles to read his newspaper as he finds himself distracted by the sight of Garfield in the gaudy getup}
John: ALL RIGHT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
{Even Garfield isn't happy}
Garfield: Please kill me now...
Narration: When the mice asked Garfield how his shift for advertising the Gard'n'Sport store went, he grabbed his paycheck and ran out the door without saying a word.
Category:Josep Nollette
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
Category:Webcomic references
5556: Garfield plus correct positioning

==Explanation==
The original Garfield strip was published the day after the 2016 Summer Olympics ended; in keeping with Olympic tradition, this strip was first published during the middle weekend of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
==The author writes:==
While making my Spot the Difference: Bored Edition strip*, I noticed another glaring issue with this strip. It's pretty clear that in the original, the illustrator just took Jon and Garfield from the first panel and mirrored the image, not realising their positions were now swapped. Since I'm not that lazy, I've presented a corrected version.
[*not yet published -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield yawn facing left}
{Jon and Garfield yawn facing right}
{Jon and Garfield lay their heads on the table while pointing an arm each up}
Garfield: Synchronized boredom
Category:LochlannDS
5557: Disappointingly Realistic

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Because sound can't propagate in a vacuum. Please ignore the fact that there are aliens on what is presumably the moon. I had already went through the effort of removing their surprised expressions by the time I noticed it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The lights are off}
Garfield: Okay, Odie...
Garfield: This time we go for the world's record
Odie: Urf
Garfield: One... two... three... Go!
{The lights are on}
SFX: SLURP! {Odie licks Jon's eyes}
{Jon's scream cannot be heard from space}
Category:Tiny Desk Engineer
5558: Rugratsfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Sorry, but that Rugrats strip is extremely inaccurate to the show. Angelica is much more of a Cynthia fan than Susie is. That's why I decided to replace the final panel with Garfield. I don't think the people behind the original Rugrats strip from 1998 watched the show.
Original Rugrats strip: 1998-06-08.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Susie Carmichael: Check out my new Cynthia bell, Angelica!
Angelica Pickles: My Reptar horn's better!
Susie Carmichael: Bell!
Angelica Pickles: Horn!
Garfield: Hmmm... Susie has the Cynthia bell while Angelica has the Reptar horn... Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Category:damian hendriks
Category:Non-Garfield comics
5559: Moonrise

==Explanation==
The original had Garfield and Arlene looking at the moon, when Odie interrupts their night by howling. Garfield told Odie to howl at his own moon and Odie then did just that when Arlene saw.
This edit replaced the moon with the Death Star from Star Wars.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Arlene stare at the moon}
Both: Sigh...
Garfield: What a beautiful evening
Arlene: So peaceful. So..
SFX: AROO
Garfield: Quiet, Odie! Go howl at your own moon!
Arlene: Garfield, what are you talking about
Odie: AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
{Odie is howling at the Death Star}
Category:TheCleanerDragon
Category:Film references
5561: Jonocracy Manifest

==Explanation==
This strip essentially is a verbal re-creation of a real life account of a man arrested in 1991 at a Chinese restaurant in Australia, the news report of which memetically exploded when the raw footage used to create the initial news report was uploaded to the Internet in 2009. The man in question, Jack Peter Karlson (a.k.a. Cecil George Edwards), was arrested for using a potentially-stolen credit card to pay for his meal; it wasn't until 2020 when the arrested man was finally identified. This strip was created and fast-tracked through the strip queue to debut two days after Mr. Karlson's death.
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: My date tried to have me arrested for eating a succulent Chinese meal
Jon: And I don't even think it's illegal!
Garfield: For your pleasure, I, Judo Cat, will lay a basic move on this hapless bystander
Category:Manyhills
Category:Real world references
5562: CHOCOLATE!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I read today's comic (at time of submission) and was instantly reminded of one of SpongeBob's most iconic scenes. So I changed the foodstuffs being served, and added a little reference to Patrick's line immediately before Incidental 6 screams his famous line.
Original SpongeBob SquarePants episode: 2002-06-01.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Title card}
{Cut to perennial feckless loser Jon Arbuckle with a bowl containing a tasty dessert next to a picnic table}
Jon: Hey, guys! Check it out!
{Liz, Garfield and Odie walk in, and Panel No. 2 (not counting the title panel) also has The Creator’s signature and the original strip's date}
Jon: I really outdid myself for the cookout this year!
Jon: For this treat, I used a good amount of strawberries, with Pocky sticks and wafer bars. Then I seasoned them with sprinkles!
Jon: I gave the banana split a nice amount of drizzle with cherries on top. How sweet is THAT!
{Jon now has a puzzled expression as Liz, Garf and Odie are surprised. Here comes Epic Fail...}
Jon: But something's wrong here...
{Liz grabs a hastily, crudely-drawn banana, with a deadpan expression. Garf and Odie look at each other, knowing what to do}
Liz: Where's the chocolate?
Jon: Chocolate?
{This next panel, Liz looks at the camera and Jon screams his line. Garf and Odie have a phone, going "BIP BIP BIP"}
Jon: CHOCOLATE!
Garfield: With or without nuts?
Odie: Urf
Category:Trevor
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
5563: Once Upon a Lasagna

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Disney's Once Upon a Studio is already a goldmine of potential inspiration. It shouldn't come as a surprise that someone would reference it in SRoMG.
Screencaps from Once Upon a Studio.
The image of Lorenzo Music is from the Disney Wiki.
I drew Garfield myself.
==Transcript==
{Garfield holds a lasagna pan as a sign of respect}
{In the next scene is a framed photograph of Lorenzo Music}
Category:Dr. Manny
Category:No original strip
Category:Photo comics
Category:Film references
5565: Cooking with Jon Arbuckle: Recipes that don't Fail

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Face it, Jon. Even if sampling is taken into account, there was no way Garfield wouldn't take the opportunity.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Something smells good. What is it?
Jon: I'm going to bake a lasagna, Garfield. Do you wanna help?
Garfield: Let me think about it for a min... sure!
Jon: First we'll brown the hamburger with the tomato sauce and seasonings
Garfield: I'd better see if this stuff's fresh
Jon: Then we scoop the ricotta, slice the mozzarella and grate the parmesan
Garfield: I'd better see if this stuff's not fresh
Jon: Next, we'll lay a bed of noodles in the pan
Garfield: One for me, one for the lasagna. One for me...
Jon: And now we'll bake it for one hour at 375°
{TIME PASSES}
{Jon pulls his masterpiece out of the oven as Garfield watches eagerly}
Jon: And, voilà! It is-
Jon: OUCH!
{Jon, suddenly, lets go of the pan, causing him to drop a perfectly good lasagna onto the floor}
{Garfield doesn't seem disappointed as he happily scoops up the scraps when Jon finds the cause}
Jon: You wouldn't happen to know how this hole got in here would you?
Garfield: Rare oven mitt-eating moths, I suspect
Category:Kavviyenta
5566: Firey

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was originally going to literally show the character Firey, but I realized it wouldn't fit very well in the context of the strip. So here's the plush version.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {gesturing to a plush toy of Firey from BFDI [YouTube animation series Battle for Dream Island]}: Pick up your stuff, Garfield
Garfield: Stuff?! Firey isn't stuff! He's a real, live, feeling, breathing...
Garfield: Uh... inanimate object
Category:Puppo
Category:Internet references
5567: The Bootstrap Mouse

==Explanation==
The ciphered text decodes to 'send an e-mail to penguinofthedeepbluebeak@gmail.com with the subject line "garfield times i" to receive the next clue'.
==The author writes:==
The cryptogram isn't a Caesar cipher. Have fun solving it.
Also, the weird halftone bit looks a bit strange. Imitating it is a bit difficult.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{a mouse exits an inverted time portal}
{a man with a moustache who is definitely not Jon Arbuckle places a bunch of toy mice in a box labelled "Toy mice (No live ones)"}
Jon: It's a deal!
{in a room}
Jon: Happy birthday, Garfield. I have a surprise for you
Jon: A rubber mousey!
{Garfield stares at toy mouse}
{The mouse jumps to life and then leaves the panel}
{near a couch}
Jon {off-panel}: A mouse! Get it!
Jon {still off-panel}: Garfield! You didn't even try!
Garfield {not wearing a top hat}: Disregarding the antecedent statement, I decree that the quadrupedal rodent has indeed travelled backwards on the temporal spectrum.
{mouse enters time portal}
{a black box appears with a cryptogram contained within it}
Text: Bonus cyphered text: drmf sm r-zsoa yp qrmhiompgyjrfrrqnairnrsl@hzsoa.vpz eoyj yjr dinkrvy aomr "hstgoraf yozrd o" yp trvrobr yjr mrcy vair
Category:XQ22