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5379: The Odiessy, a Journey of Space and Time

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is a comic I made a few years back, based on the infamous "Knocking-Odie-Into-Next-Week" comic. I tried to cram as many references as I could into this one, which tells the story of Odie's journey during the week he was knocked away.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A long vertical comic, panel-less:}
{Garfield drops Odie into next week}
{Odie flies downward, seen above the Muncie, Indiana skyline}
{Odie looks at birds as he flies higher into the atmosphere, before eventually entering empty space}
{Odie passes the moon}
Odie: Aroooooooooo!
{Odie flies deeper into space, passing a globular cluster}
{Odie passes a gas giant with Garfield's face}
{Odie does an orbital flyby around a Saturn-like planet with his tongue}
{After passing the Crab Nebula, Odie falls into a black hole}
{Beat. No dog}
{Odie emerges from a white hole, stretched, passing the Pillars of Creation}
{Odie observes sign reading "Beware of God"}
{Odie looks on in shock while passed by Lyman in a cartoon spaceship, while threading the needle of another nebula and a quazar}
{Odie re-enters earth's atmosphere}
{A three panel comic begins}
Garfield: I have this nagging feeling I'm forgetting something
{Odie crashes upon our titular feline}
SFX: WHUMP!
Garfield: Oh yes, I forgot I kicked Odie into next week, last week
Category:Alaka_Talzin
5380: Odie Joins The PAW Patrol

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I'm surprised no one's done this one yet.
Original PAW Patrol episode: "Pups And The Kitty-tastrophe / Pups Save A Train".
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{A screenshot of Ryder}
Ryder: Okay, Odie. I can let you join the Paw Patrol, but you'll need a catchphrase. All the other pups have one. Why don't you say your catchphrases, pups? You might help inspire him. I think he needs it.
{The six main pups}
Marshall: I'm fired up!
Rubble: Rubble on the double!
Zuma: Let's dive in!
Chase: Chase is on the case!
Rocky: Green means go!
Skye: This puppy's gotta fly!
{Odie ponders}
Odie: Hmmm...
{Odie is barking at a sleeping Garfield}
Odie: Bark!
{A screenshot of Chase}
Chase: Sorry, Odie. We all say that.
Category:Cesium Lightning
Category:Photo comics
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
5381: Garfield Joins The Pawpsicle

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
SRoMG-vision: Combining lazy edits, references, pudding pops and linguistics in one package.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield picks up a pair of glasses}
Garfield: I wonder whose glasses these are
{Garfield puts on the glasses. A copy-pasted 'Pawpsicle' from Disney's Zootopia appears, with the text 'Ce n’est pas un pudding glacé.'}
{Garfield throws away the glasses}
Garfield: SROMG's
Category:Levellass
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
5382: Linguistics With Liz Confusion

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Taken from a forum thread on UsingEnglish.com asking for help interpreting the 1983-03-16, 1985-07-22, and 1992-01-09 Garfield strips. Garfield may not be the best choice for learning English, if these posts are any indication.
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Evil Roy Gato, Mr. Skins, The Mad Doofer. Could you please tell me who is Roy Gato and what do Mr. Skins and The Mad Doofer refer to?
Garfield: Let me google that for you
Liz {appearing}: hey sir...in our native language "gato" means cat... Roy Gato may mean "Roy the Cat" in Enlgish...hehehe
Category:John Murtha
5383: Donut Eat Pierre Instead

==Explanation==
Garfield's original remark was that he was drowning in boredom, and that Jon was throwing him anchors. Here, Jon's question with a definitive answer reminded Garfield of food, specifically a jelly-or-custard-filled donut, sometimes called a "Bismar(c)k". The author's note mentions another food called a "Bismarck". Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota, thus the answer to Jon's question.
The title makes a pun between "donut" and "do not", and mentions Pierre, the capital of South Dakota.
==The author writes:==
Or a Dutch baby pancake.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: There are some questions in life I guess I'll never know the answers to...
Jon: Like, "What's the capital of North Dakota?"
{Garfield's eyes go wide}
Jon: I can never get that one
{Garfield's eyes settle into dejection}
Garfield: Great, now I want a jelly-or-custard-filled donut
==Trivia==
The second-to-last line of the transcript on the Square Root of Minus Garfield site initially doubled the word "into"; this has since been fixed.
Category:Nyperold
5384: Kissing And Thanking

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Although Jon did not kiss Garfield, he at least received his thanks.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon walks with Liz towards the door taking her by the shoulder, while Garfield watches unamused}
Jon: I'll walk you to your car, Liz...
{Jon kisses Liz off screen, while Garfield now looks at the reader, still unamused}
Liz: Oh, Jon, you're such a perfect gentleman!
SFX: KISS
{Garfield greets Jon with long lashes in his eyes and smiling, while Jon quietly drinks his coffee}
Garfield: Oh, Jon, you're such a perfect gentleman!
Jon: Thank you
==Trivia==
This strip originally ran with the erroneous author's note "Although Garfield was not kissed by Jon, at least Jon received a thank you from him."; this has since been corrected to the author's intended one.
Category:IQ-ranger
5386: But Yoshi was amused

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This strip was made in the Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga Comic Editor.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Luigi looking red standing next to Yoshi}
Luigi: You know...
{Same as the last panel except Yoshi moves downward}
Luigi: Daisy is the best thing that's ever happened to me
Yoshi: I know what you mean
{Same as the last panel except Yoshi is now very happy}
Yoshi: I feel the same way about those egg sandwiches
Category:ZMFC
Category:Video game references
5387: Pun Guy Redux

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In the grand tradition of Garfield strips that are republished with minor alterations, here is a follow-up to SRoMG #3900 by Levy Martinez. And to all the snickering adolescents out there, yes, that is a Phallus impudicus mushroom. Deal with it.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Jon is a fun guy
Jon {having turned into a giant talking mushroom}: Spores have always been a big part of my life
Garfield: Get it?
Category:Charles Montpetit
5388: sitelen ponafield

==Explanation==
The dialogue from strip has been translated to Toki Pona, an language invented by Canadian linguist and translator Sonja Lang. The Toki Pona dialogue in the comic were written in sitelen pona, while transcript and description of this SRoMG strip were also written in Toki Pona, but in Latin alphabets.
In transcript, Garfield and Pooky were translated as "Kapi" and "Puki".
==The author writes:==
toki! sitelen lipu ni li toki e toki pona. toki pona li toki pali pi jan Sonja, sitelen pona li pali kin e ona. nasin pi toki pona li ni: lon pi pali lili li lon pona. mi anu e lipu ni tan one li jo e toki Inli "simple". mi wile e ni: sina sona e lipu ni, mi sona lili e toki pona.
mi anu e sitelen pi jan sitelen tan kalama ona.
--waso Aki
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{sitelen kepeken sitelen pona:}
soweli Kapi: mi sona taso e sona lon tu...
soweli Kapi: mi olin e soweli Puki, soweli Puki li olin e mi
soweli Kapi: sona lon pona li sona lon pi suli mute
Category:Hacchi
5389: Garfield is a Millennial

==Explanation==
The original had Garfield hiding from a bad mood by ducking. Here, he hides from depression by hiding under the counter, but realizes that it's still there as he pops back up.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {looking scared}: Can I hide from depression?
{Garfield ducks under counter}
Garfield {pops back up, still looking scared}: Nope still there
Category:Fiery Chipmunk
5390: Forward Thinking

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz: What do you see in the future for us, Jon?
{The scene cuts to a post-apocalyptic future. A silver hedgehog sits by a campfire; in the background a giant fiery beast looms}
Liz: I mean after that
Garfield: Dessert!
Category:TheCleanerDragon
Category:Video game references
5391: BREAKING: Local Italian Food Lover Has Pushed His Luck Too Far

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I decided to make this instead of going to bed like I intended to do two hours prior (at time of me typing this). Go me.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is going the distance, he's going for speed, as he runs for his life from an enraged Peppino Spaghetti}
Garfield: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
{They're headed down south and they're still running today}
Category:Crazy56U
Category:Video game references
5392: The Last Action Hero

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Warner started this mess. Now Netflix is shelving completed series and movies. This must stop. Also, how did I get on this soapbox? I should step off, it's quite wobbly.
Other assets: SpongeBob SquarePants interstitial, a still frame from the Garfield and Friends TV show.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon {to Garfield}: I could be an action hero
{SpongeBob interstitial panel that says "Several Months Later..."}
{Jon is reading a newspaper. There is a small picture of him on the front page, in the middle of what is probably a sick dance move}
Inset of newspaper article: "LOSERMAN" SHELVED. Despite being 98% completed, the superhero movie, starring an unknown cartoonist, has been shelved as a "tax writeoff", never to be shown.
{Jon is crying silently in the foreground}
Garfield {angry}: I told you not to trust Warner Media to release it.
Category:Jason Tank
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Real world references
Category:Television references
Category:Non-strip Garfield material
5393: The Unauthorized Biography of Bucky Katt

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Several times over the run of Get Fuzzy, Bucky mentions that he believes Garfield is an unauthorized biography of himself. Only now do we have undeniable proof!
#Bucky and Garfield both eat a lot.
#Satchel and Odie are quite dumb, yet are loved by all except Bucky and Garfield.
#When Jon and Rob go on dates with women, it turns out pathetically. (Barring the concept of Liz, created when Jim Davis realized Bucky might eventually catch on. Liz started dating Jon due to Bucky catching on to the truth.)
Original Get Fuzzy strip: 2003-05-16.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Rob ("Jon"): OK, Mr Finicky Eater, here's your dinner
Bucky ("Garfield"): What is it?
Jon: It's coquille Saint-Jacques with Belgian endive and laced with French truffles.
Garfield: AGAIN?
Category:tylerzgameroom
Category:Non-Garfield comics
Category:Comic strip references
5394: Who's At The Door?: Not TomSka

==Explanation==
As the author's notes state, this strip is a response to an idea put forth by the author of 4136: Who's At The Door? to start another running gag, this time with a character from Eddsworld at the door apparently asking for a cup of sugar.
Also in the author's notes, the author also included the most dreaded of all utensils as a supplemental strip image: a template! The very inclusion of a template suggests the setup of the original strip could very well become the next out-of-control running gag to be unleashed onto the Square Root of Minus Garfield fandom.
==The author writes:==
I was inspired by SRoMG #4136's author's proposal to make this strip a running gag. Granted, it's been a little over two years since that was published*, but better late than never!
For people who want to do one of these as well, a template:
[*at time of writing -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
SFX: Ding-dong
{Garfield walks over to the door and opens it, revealing that Tom from Eddsworld is standing on the front stoop. He's holding a flask in his right hand}
{Cut to Garfield talking to a confused-looking Jon... Yeah, I think they have the wrong house}
Garfield: Could you, perchance, spare a cup of your finest sugar?
Category:Mack Straubel
Category:Internet references
5395: Dog of Two Faces

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I saw today's (as of writing this) Garfield comic, and thought of the fact that this is just a repeat of an old joke, and also thought of [https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=952 SRoMG #952, "Dog of a Thousand Faces v.2"', so I decided to make this. I also directly lifted parts of the transcript from it.
I suspect somebody will use the original comics for a Spot The Difference With Garfield sometime.
Also, here's a bonus alternate version from while I was editing it. Let's call this one...
;No. 5395-B: Face of Two Dogs
{Odie stares vacantly and drools, Garfield gestures at Odie} Garfield: Odie, the dog of a thousand faces! {Garfield stares at Odie, who stares vacantly and drools} Garfield: That's one... {Garfield, suddenly in the modern comic style, turns around to see another Odie, who stares vacantly and drools, also in the modern comic style} Garfield: That's two...
The author writes, again:
I considered using formatted text to recreate the entire SRoMG page for this with the buttons and "Strip by" and everything but decided it was too gimmicky for a simple edit and also it'd just be a hassle for the site admins.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Odie stares vacantly and drools, Garfield gestures at Odie}
Garfield: Odie, the dog of a thousand faces!
{Garfield stares at Odie, who stares vacantly and drools}
Garfield: That's one...
{Garfield, suddenly in the modern comic style, stares at Odie, who stares vacantly and drools, also in the modern comic style}
Garfield: That's two...
Category:Extreme905
5396: Simple Recontextualization 6: Word Order

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Funny how this keeps the same punchline, but this time, Garfield screams for a completely different reason.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Farms are so dull
{Garfield opens a door and enters}
Garfield: Maybe there's something exciting in here...
SFX: SPLOOSH!
Garfield: AIIIYYYEEEEEE
{Garfield has walked into an outhouse}
Category:Kavviyenta
5397: Garfield Plus an Actual Pepper that is an actual pepper

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A variation of pookypal's edit which features a live-action image of the world's hottest pepper (at time of me creating this, which was 2018-09-20): the Carolina Reaper* (grown by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company (USA), which rates at an average of 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA, throughout 2017) replacing the Peruvian Death Pepper**.
PS: I tried to edit the water to make it milk (since when drunk it negates the capsaicin in peppers after eating them***)... but it turns out that I could not so I kept it as water in this edit
[*later mentioned in pookypal's strip #1940
**As predicted by strip #4059, the Carolina Reaper has now been officially superseded as the world's hottest pepper by the same horticulturist's Pepper X
***See strip #5336
-Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{There is a cup of water between Garfield and Jon}
Jon: Hot pepper eating contest!
Jon: Jalapeño! {Jon eats a Jalapeño}
Garfield: Cayenne! {Garfield eats a Cayenne}
Jon: Habanero! {Jon eats a Habanero}
Garfield: Carolina Reaper! {Garfield eats a Carolina Reaper}
{Garfield breathes fire}
SFX: FOOM
{Garfield has drunk all the water}
Garfield: You win...
{Jon is burnt}
Jon: Then why am I not happy?
Category:J.D. Sadler
5398: This is worse than that time I tried to make an actual Family Guy crossover SRoMG

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Because Family Guy ate my brain and I can never pull myself away from it permanently (and believe me, I have tried several times), I've spent the last couple of years trying to do a SRoMG with Pouncy, the evil cat from the episode "Family Cat". Unfortunately, the two humans you could call her "owner" are Meg and Quagmire, two characters who are pretty much impossible to keep PG (especially in the same scene). I finally settled on a quick "switcheroo" strip where you can fill in the blanks on what poor Garfield has witnessed. As for how this switch happened? Either Pouncy has powers we don't know about, or maybe it's just the result of Stewie and Brian messing around with the time machine yet again. Or who cares? Why waste your time worrying how a Family Guy joke works? Anyway, all hail Pouncy.
Also, I apologize for using the blender strip but I was looking for the quickest "dumb Jon" visual shorthand and I guess I'm too impatient to be more original.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Pouncy the cat sits smugly on the Arbuckle household table, looking upon Jon with the ol' blender on his face and Odie looking his usual stupid self}
Jon: I glued a blender to my face
Pouncy: Enslaving these idiots will be just TOO easy
Text: MEANWHILE...
{Garfield is unfortunately in the household of one Glenn Quagmire, who is in the background being as Quagmire as this site will allow. Garfield is running like the wind}
Garfield: Oh no! I’m stuck in another cartoon with an even creepier owner than Jon! GET ME OUT OF HEEEEERE!
Category:Garlene1987
Category:Long titles
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
5399: Color me Garfield

==Explanation==
This strip takes advantage of the fact that, until a few years prior to this strip's publication, the original Garfield strip was not colorized on GoComics (and, as of this writing, still isn't on the secure-domain mirror of the smaller-sized strips formerly hosted on the now-busted "images.ucomics.com" domain). As such, the author took the effort to colorize the strip on their own in a clearly amateurish-looking effort (which the author basically openly admits in the author's notes); the colors used here mirror those in the version formerly on garfield.com (and preserved on the Garfield wiki on Fandom, as seen here). The author's notes basically explains that the original strip has since gained color on the main presentation of the GoComics archive; however, it tends to exhibit vast coloring differences in comparison to the version formerly on garfield.com as do many of the strips from that particular era (for another example, compare the infamous North Pole-dwelling penguin strip of 1996-01-13: the current main GoComics version has vastly different colorization from the versions seen in Square Root of Minus Garfield remixes; the former garfield.com version, as seen on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here, and the secure-domain mirror of the smaller-sized former "images.ucomics.com" strips as seen here, are of the colorization typically seen in SRoMG remixes).
This strip, much like the original Garfield strip, was published on a leap day, that being February 29; both 1996 and 2024 are leap years that add an extra day to the end of February, which in non-leap years is 28 days long.
==The author writes:==
An alternative timeline where GoComics did not colorize this strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The strip is almost colorized, apart from some leftover white and some bleeding over the lines}
Jon: Garfield, may I have a word with you?
Jon {pointing to phone}: Can you explain this?
Garfield: This is a wild guess, but I'd say you're on the phone
{Jon removes his hands from the phone handset, which remains adjoining his face}
Jon {angrily}: Have you been playing with the glue again?
Garfield: Woah! You gotta show me how you do that!
==Trivia==
The transcript misspells the boldfaced word; the strip itself spells it "Whoa" instead of "Woah".
Category:Darkbross
539: Garfield Menus Garfield

==Explanation==
Yet another pudding pops strip, this time with Garfield being replaced by a Windows drop-down menu that appears to be for inserting characters, as well as dictating their actions and emotions (a possible jab at the samey nature of Garfield).
Of note is that "Lyman" (infamous for abruptly disappearing from the strip in its early years) is grayed out, and that the first six emotions are the same as the Seven Dwarfs (sans Doc) from the Disney version of Snow White. The seventh, "Lawsey", became infamous once Peter Paltridge posted an article about baffling Garfield comics on his site. (For the record: as attested to on SRoMG much later, it's a Indiana-specific variant of "lordy".)
==The author writes:==
The emotion of "Lawsey" comes from - and to this day, it seems that nobody except Jim Davis is sure of what it could possibly mean.
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Jon: {reading newspaper while Garfield sits nearby} The world is constantly changing.
{Garfield disappears and the frame is nearly covered by drop-down menus for selecting characters etc.}
Garfield: {reappearing} They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
Category:Andrew Kepple
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
Category:Constantly changing
53: Garfield Minus Jon

==Explanation==
Again, an author removes Jon from a strip, changing the explanation for why Garfield thought-spoke "Midnight." For all we know, without Jon there in his pajamas drinking his morning coffee, maybe it is about midnight instead of 17-18 hours earlier.
This strip was published only 5 strips (or 12 days, since these are the early days of Square Root of Minus Garfield) after a strip titled the same thing, linked to by David Morgan-Mar, since the author clearly only suspected there would be a strip with the same idea.
==The author writes:==
A pretty obvious idea. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody else did one of these before I did. (Ed: they did.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks into frame, wide-eyed and with a big grin, wearing a party hat and carrying a horn}</br>
{Garfield stands silently, wide-eyed and with a big grin}</br>
Garfield: {wide-eyed and with a big grin} Midnight.
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
5400: Garfield Plus A Black Hole

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is lying in the grass}
Garfield: Clouds are so interesting. I love to find shapes in them
Garfield {slightly distorted}: There's a chicken cloud, and a hamburger cloud, and a bicycle cloud
Garfield {more distorted}: And I do believe that one's a black hole
{Garfield gets sucked into the black hole}
Category:Mister Nobody
5401: Jon the Pessimist

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It's even worse than that: Thanks to crumbs and spoilage, you won't even eat all the food you buy, Jon. That being said, there's no reason to be such a pessimist about things.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm going grocery shopping
Jon: To buy food... all of which we will eat...
Jon {shouting}: Leaving us nothing!
Garfield {smiling}: Sounds like a plan
Category:Lubaf
5402: Censorship

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Title panel: Garfield and Odie are dressed to resemble Laurel and Hardy}
Garfield: Well, this is another fine mess you've gotten me into
Odie: Man!
{Comic proper}
Garfield: Yup, time for my 2:17 P.M. snack
{Garfield espies a cookie jar atop a kitchen counter}
SFX {from jar}: Munch munch
Garfield {climbing counter}: UMMF ERRRGH UMFF UMFF UMFF
SFX {from jar}: Munch munch munch
Garfield: HURP! HUMFFF ERRRGH UFF UFF
Garfield {atop the counter}: Whew!
{Garfield raises and inverts the jar over his open mouth}
{The next panel is mostly blacked out}
Text: CENSORED
Category:MarioGarfield
5405: The Apathy of Felinekind, Brought About by Injustice, Poverty, and General Dissatisfaction

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield chased the laser dot, successfully caught it, and framed it on the wall near his bed. Here, Garfield shows no interest in it whatsoever, and then goes to bed.
The second half of the author note is taken from "This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself" by David Moser.
==The author writes:==
Made November 21st, 2021. Submitted December 20th, 2022. Funny how that works.
A sentence fragment. Another. Good device. Will be used more later.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is standing}
{A red dot appears and moves around a bit}
{Jon checks if his laser pointer is broken}
{Garfield lies in bed}
Category:Wibi