nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
3268: Fools in April

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield's panicked awakening of Jon is because he has hunger pangs.
Here, he tells Jon that he's pregnant, which is odd, because outside of a few SRoMG strips, we've only known Garfield to be male, and only women get pregnant.
Normally, the day in April on which people play pranks is the 1st, April Fools' Day; Garfield, on the other hand, played his prank on the 30th, the last day of April.
The title may be a reference to the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Fools in April".
==The author writes:==
Garfield plays his pranks on the the last day of the month, not the first.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is anxiously trying to wake Jon up}
Garfield: Jon! Jon! Wake up! It's horrible! It's awful! You gotta do something!
Jon: What is it, Garfield?! Is the house on fire?! Is there a burglar?!
Garfield: Worse!!!
Garfield: I'm pregnant!
Category:Mr. Skullhead
3269: Linguistics with Liz: German

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Liz was speaking some gibberish that Jon didn't understand. Garfield thinks that Liz just called Jon a radish.
Here, Liz says "you are a radish" in German language that Jon doesn't understand, when Nyperold commented on the forums saying: My tentative conclusion is that those are just nonsense words, but I'm neither an expert cryptographer nor an expert linguist.
The "expert linguist" part had gave the author an idea. He replaced that kind of nonsense that Liz was saying with the words "you are a radish" in foreign language. He's done "Linguistics with Liz" and he's invited people to do it too with a template comic.
==Transcript==
Liz: Jon?
Jon: Yes?
Liz: Du bist en Rettich
{Liz leaves}
Jon: I will never understand German 
Garfield: I think she just called you a radish
==The author writes:==
When I saw the source strip, I thought it was odd ​that Liz would be speaking gibberish. 
Nyperold commented: My tentative conclusion is that those are just nonsense words, but I'm neither an expert cryptographer nor an expert linguist.
The "expert linguist" part gave me an idea: what if I replaced those nonsense words with the words "you are a radish" in a foreign language? Enter "Linguistics with Liz", where I actually do that, and you can too! 
Here's a good template to start out with: 
Original strip: .
Category:Redgreen
Category:Linguistics with Liz
326: Garfield Times Garfield

==Explanation==
What Andrusi apparently means by squaring the first strip is running it across and downward, then taking the first panel of the second strip and putting it in the middle, putting its last panel both to the right and below that panel, and taking the last panel of the third strip and putting it in the bottom right.
==The author writes:==
With all the different variations on mathematical functions of varying complexity, I'm surprised that apparently nobody else has thought of taking that first strip and squaring it. 
The result comes disturbingly close to making sense. 
Strips used: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hi, there... I'm Jon Arbuckle. I'm a cartoonist, and this is my cat, Garfield.
Garfield: Hi, there. I'm Garfield. I'm a cat, and this is my cartoonist, Jon.
Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you.
Garfield: Feed me.
Garfield: Hi, there. I'm Garfield. I'm a cat, and this is my cartoonist, Jon.
Jon: Happy birthday, Garfield. I have a surprise for you.
Garfield: Could've used a little salt...
Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you.
Garfield: Feed me.
Garfield: Could've used a little salt...
Garfield: Show me a good mouser, and I'll show you a cat with bad breath.
Category:Andrusi
3270: Gatos Antes De Frijoles

==Explanation==
In this Garfield edit, only two words, "cat" and "beans", have been swapped in two panels, thus implying that the speakers had decided to eat cats before resorting to beans, the opposite order from the original. Garfield's eyes are now wide open in shock in the first panel.
The title means "cats before beans" in Spanish.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
TV: Well, pardner, that was the last cat
{Garfield sits, eyes wide open in shock at what's being said}
TV: Yup, looks like we'll have to eat the beans 
TV: I'll get the taco shells
{Garfield allows his eyes to narrow as he looks at us}
Garfield: Boy, are they going to get a nasty letter
Category:Nyperold
3271: Silly break extended

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon, Odie and Garfield sitting on sofa}
Jon: Silly break
{Jon and Garfield bug out from the strength of their coffee}
SFX: ZANG
SFX: ZONG
{Jon, Odie and Garfield have long, drooping faces}
{Jon, Odie and Garfield have interchanged heads}
{Jon and Garfield have massive eyes from the strength of their coffee}
{Jon, Odie and Garfield have their faces distorted by tape}
Garfield: Fun with tape
{Garfield looks shocked and his face is blown backwards}
{Garfield pulls a funny face and waves his arms in the air}
Garfield: Woo! Hoo! Woo woo!!
{Garfield looks stunned}
{Odie presses his face against a window}
{Odie and Garfield pull faces}
Garfield: This would be much better
{Odie has his own lower body in his mouth}
{Jon looks wild}
{Jon is beaten up and dishevelled}
Jon: It was horrible! I barely escaped with my life!
{Jon is hitting himself with a spoon}
SFX: WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP
Jon: YAAA
{Jon is covered in ingredients}
Jon: Or puhpath wathanya
{Jon and Garfield have interchanged heads}
{Jon's head is inflated}
{Garfield's fur is standing on end as he takes a selfie}
SFX: CLICK
{Garfield dances wildly on a fence}
Garfield: Meow yowr owr row
{Jon is covered in food, with spaghetti hair and meatballs for eyes}
Jon: In some cultures they eat cats
Garfield: Not from the can, I'll bet
{Jon looks distressed}
SFX: ZZZZZ ZZZZZ ZZZZ ZZZZ ZZZZ ZZZZ
{Jon frantically gestures, tossing away a beverage}
{Jon's head is stuck inside a fishbowl}
{Garfield flies backwards, propelled by his rapidly rotating leg}
Garfield: AAARRRGGGHHH!
{Jon is covered in makeup}
Jon: Liz can't find her makeup case
Garfield {barely suppressing laughter}: Haven't seen it!!!
{Odie bounces frantically up and down, salivating}
{Odie walks with a dazed expression}
{Odie startles Jon with ring donuts on his eyes}
Jon: YAAAHH
{Garfield is shaved above the neck}
{Odie whirrs Garfield around in his jaw}
SFX: WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Garfield: AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!
{Jon and Garfield are both wired on coffee}
Jon: Must build bigger closet!!!
Garfield: I get lumber!
{Jon, Odie and Garfield have their tongues hanging out in anticipation}
{Jon, Odie and Garfield sitting on sofa}
Category:Reisen U. Inaba
3273: Every Day Is Like Sunday, Or, The Parable of the Talents

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
So, here's two strips from two sequential days, smushed together to make a single Sunday strip. Oh, and the first bit of the title is a reference to the Pretenders cover, not the Morrissey original. As to the last bit, I felt the need to mention it in order to put to you the following entirely hypothetical question: is buying a complete jerk of a fat orange cat a better or worse use of money left in my trust than burying it in the ground?
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Cats have many talents
{Garfield knocks over a table, kicks Odie, steals a hamburger from right off Jon's plate, and sheds}
Garfield: Tah-dah!
Category:Lubaf
Category:Music references
3274: Jon Uncovered Minus Speech Bubble

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Whilst looking through the SRoMG archives, it occurred to me that #745 would work better if I got rid of Jon's speech bubble in the first panel, and moved its contents to his speech bubble in the second panel. Voila.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Liz: What are you wearing to the restaurant tonight?
Jon: Oh, nothing much...
{Liz looks horrified}
Category:Christopher Wickham
3275: Sdrawkcab

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Here's one I've wanted to do for a while. I said the entire strip's dialogue backwards in Audacity, and then reversed the audio. It sounds a little choppy, but I'm still amazed at how close I got in only one take.
Possibly inspired by Rob Scallon's backwards cover of "Enter Sandman".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Unbelievable
TV: Hi
TV: Doog ,gnineve ...ris
TV Su htiw evah ew nac ohw nam a !sdrawkcab klat
Category:Anonymous Contributor
Category:Music references
3276: POW!

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, the green screen has been focused on Jon's house, captioned Target Search, then the screen zooms in and is now captioned "Enhance", and then the screen zooms in further, now showing Garfield coming out from inside the door, the caption reading Locked On. Suddenly, the screen turns red and Garfield has a look of panic on his face, while the caption reads Fire! The sixth panel has a WHOP sound effect, and the newspaper got Garfield that time.
In this strip, Garfield dies in a Square Root of Minus Garfield comic strip like he did in many Square Root of Minus Garfield strips, the fifth panel has a POW sound effect, and Jon starts to have a calm look on his face.
==Transcript==
{A green screen focuses on Jon's house, captioned Target Search}
{The screen zooms in and is now captioned Enhance}
{The screen further zooms in, now showing Garfield opening the door and coming out, the caption reads Locked on}
{The screen turns red, showing Garfield with a look of panic on his face, the caption reads Fire}
SFX: POW!
Jon: A soothing sense of calm just came over my being.
==The author writes:==
Garfield dies in a SRoMG strip...again...
Original strips: , , .
Category:Xineohp III Esq.
3277: A Friendly Reminder For These Trying Times

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Today we fulfill the site's educational requirements.
Original strip: None, but the screenshot is from the Garfield and Friends episode "Forget Me Not".
==Transcript==
{Garfield is handing Liz a syringe}
Caption: Garfield Says: VACCINATE YOUR KIDS
Caption: The only bad thing that will happen is if you don't
Category:Crazy56U
Category:No original strip
Category:Non-strip Garfield material
3278: Orchidectomy Chapter III

==Explanation==
This strip appears to change the context of who got the stitches by changing one word in the second panel; the author also opted to change the procedure being done in the first panel (much like in the author's earlier strips 3155: Orchidectomy Chapter I and 3241: Orchidectomy Chapter II), as the original Garfield strip talked about declawing rather than this strip's neutering. The change in context in the second panel could imply that anyone, such as a female veterinarian (Liz or otherwise) or even Jon himself, could've been given stitches as a result of what happened at the veterinarian's office.
It is unknown whether or not the original strip made a mistake with its pronoun choice; the original strip was prior to Liz's introduction into Garfield proper (and even if one takes predecessor strip Jon into account, Liz was not a veterinarian during the run of that strip; this interpretation was exploited in the author's notes of the later 5433: When Jon Really Met Liz), hence the possibility Jon may have indeed taken Garfield to a male veterinarian that time around, said male veterinarian being implied to be the one who got the stitches in the original strip's context.
==The author writes:==
The original strip ruins the joke by having Jon say "his" stitches. Nothing a little cut and paste can't fix (though we shouldn't say "fix" around Garfield, shh).
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon & Lyman sip coffee}
Jon: I took Garfield to the vet to be neutered
Jon: They're removing the stitches next Thursday
Lyman: Poor Garfield
Jon: Who's talking about Garfield?
Category:JLH
3279: The Times They Are A-Constantly Changin'

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield couldn't decide to pick the lasagna or the bananas. Garfield chose the bananas and juggled them because they were talking play value here. Here, Garfield chose the frozen pudding pops and juggled them because they were talking meme value here.
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Which do you want, Garfield? The lasagna or the frozen pudding pops?
{Garfield takes the frozen pudding pops}
Jon: The frozen pudding pops?
Garfield {juggling the pops}: We're talking meme value here
Category:Densetsu Bros
Category:Pudding pops
Category:Constantly changing
327: AverageGarfield

==Explanation==
The author got this idea while browsing the AverageCats (also known as a parody of "LolCats") and then he found this one and it reminded him of Garfield, so he made a picture of it.
==The author writes:==
I got an idea when I was browsing AverageCats (it's of course a parody of "lolcats"). I found this one and it immediately reminded me of Garfield, so I made a picture.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Caption: this cat doesn't love pizza</br>
{Garfield eating a pizza}</br>
SFX: crunch crunch crunch</br>
Caption: cats eat cat food
Category:Janek37
3280: Garfield Irish Garfield, Plus However You Say "The Better Version" in Gaelic

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Unlike ¡Garfield Mexicano, La Versión Mejorada!, I didn't change the language. Just the coloring.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2014-03-17.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: TÃ¡ Ã¡r rÃ­ agus banrÃ­on abhaile
Jon: Agus go tÃ¡ dom
Jon: BhÃ­ vÃ³tÃ¡il mÃ© fuirseoir cÃºirte abhaile
Garfield: Riteoga glas faiseanta
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript and author's notes were hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the author's notes were recovered for presentation on this very wiki based on the unaffected title of the strip the author's notes was linking to (the mojibake there being entirely within that link), but the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to the mojibake.
Category:DEIDATVM
Category:Foreign language
Category:Mojibake
3281: Platent Mistakes

==Explanation==
In the original strip, the plate inexplicably disappeared when the mouse appeared. Thus, the only edit made to this strip is that the plate has been reinstated into that panel.
==Transcript==
Jon: How about a snack, Garfield?
Jon: Here's some liver left from dinner
Garfield: Blech!
Jon: It's good. Really. Watch me
{Jon eats some of the liver}
Jon: M-m-m-m nummy, nummy, nummy
Garfield: Oh, very well
{Garfield starts eating the liver}
{Jon suddenly turns to look at the other direction. A mouse runs past them on the table} 
Jon: A MOUSE! GET IT! 
{Garfield looks at the mouse but continues eating the liver}
Jon: Garfield, why can't you chase mice like other cats?
Garfield: If Jon eats one first, I'll consider it
==The author writes:==
Almost went with removing the mouse altogether and replacing Jon's line with "A plate has appeared!" in the 3rd to last panel.
Original strip: .
Category:Nikumubeki
3282: I don't even know

==Explanation==
The author doesn't even know what he did to this Garfield strip. It used to be original, but now it's made in a different version. The author tells us not to ask him what he did.
==The author writes:==
Don't ask.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: One week to Christmas, Pooky! Can you stand the excitement?
{Garfield awaits a response or any kind of reaction, but doesn't get one}
Garfield: Don't be fooled. Under that calm exterior, he's a quivering mess
Category:Lukasmah
3283: Crimp My Spide

==Explanation==
In the original strip, the punchline came from the spider saying, "Hey! You crimped my straw!" The author changed it so that the straw is the one giving the punchline instead.
==The author writes:==
I swear I didn't just do this for the pun of it.
...Okay, maybe I did.
I was going to have him turn his eyes toward the suddenly "talking" straw, but ultimately decided it would be funnier (not to mention less effort) if I just left it as is. It almost makes a sort of sense, too; if a donut can talk (and apparently grant wishes), why not a straw?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Spider: Hey, cat, I'm gonna hop on your neck and suck out all your bodily fluids
{Garfield whacks the spider without even looking}
Straw: Hey, you crimped my spider!
Category:PriffyViole
3284: Stupid is as stupid does

==Explanation==
This is simply a picture containing elements from two different strips; Jon's pose is from the 2012 strip, and Garfield's pose is from the 2009 strip.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is wearing a "I'm With Stupid" shirt without an arrow. Garfield is wearing a "He's With Stupid" shirt, indicating that Jon is named "With Stupid"}
Category:Simon Winters
3285: Garfield, Twisted

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield comic, Garfield watched a cloud that looked like a cow and it went moo then Garfield got wide-eyed. Garfield went back to Jon Arbuckle because it was a windy day. The background was blue.
In this strip, the background is from the film called Twister from 1996. Garfield watched a cow fly in the sky and got wide-eyed. Jon is now standing outside with Garfield, while the wind tossed leaves in the background. Jon saw another cow. Garfield thinked that was the other one.
==The author writes:==
Yeah, it's been 22 years, but the statute of limitations on stolen jokes is endless.
Original strip: .
Other image: from the film Twister (1996)
==Transcript==
{Garfield is standing outside, looking up}
Garfield: That cloud looks like a cow
{Garfield, wide-eyed, watches a cow fly across the sky}
Cow: Moo!
{Jon is standing next to Garfield, still outside, a wind tossing leaves in the background}
Jon: Hey, another cow
Garfield: Actually, I think that was the same one
Category:Jason Tank
3286: Fed Up

==Explanation==
The author has recently found Square Root of Minus Garfield for the first time, and this was his first thought upon seeing the February 8th strip.
So he made this. Jon is fed up with dieting Garfield so Garfield can eat what he wants. So Garfield eats Jon by extracting his claws but Jon doesn't want to be eaten by Garfield.
==The author writes:==
Having recently found SRoMG for the first time, this was my first thought upon seeing the Feb. 8th strip.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm fed up with dieting you. Eat what you want!
Garfield: Hmm... what should I eat?
Garfield: Jon! What a great idea!
{Garfield extends his claws towards Jon}
Jon: Except that
Category:Kiovenn
3287: America's Funniest Home Videos

==Explanation==
The only change that has been done to this strip is Garfield's line in the final panel. In the original strip, he said "I love home videos"; here, he instead mentions America's Funniest Home Videos, a long-running show on ABC in which people send in home movies of them or their family members suffering amusing injuries like the ones Jon suffers in this strip.
==The author writes:==
This is another fairly obvious one that involves something far more familiar and has more of a point to it, that has only a minor dialogue swap to bring massive changes. I liked seeing all those stupid ones of People Falling Down to Goofy Music on that show, and even had a PC Game where you went to different parts of the house, putting together clips and sometimes slotting the clips into some Mad Libs story spoofing a particular genre (Dashing Pirates, Spy Films, Star Trek...), did ANYONE have, or even vaguely know about this game?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon gets hit in the head by a ball while drinking coffee}
SFX: GONK
Jon: SPOOT
{Jon gets hit in the face by Garfield's food dish}
SFX: SPLOT
{Jon steps on a rake, the handle of which hits him in the face} 
SFX: THWACK
{Jon has hammered his thumb}
JON: GAAAHH
{Jon has stuck his finger in a lamp socket}
SFX: HUMMMMMMMM
{Jon drops a watermelon on his foot}
Jon: YAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
{Jon, Liz and Garfield are watching all these things occur on TV. Jon and Liz are shocked at what they see, ashamed. Garfield is amused.}
Jon {on TV}: YAH! YAH! YAH!
Garfield: I love America's Funniest Home Videos
Category:Meteo Archon
Category:Television references
3288: ...I hear both

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield was using music notes to sing like the eighth notes, then Odie tells Garfield to do the sixteenth note, Garfield has no clue how to do the sixteenth note, so Odie does it for him and they all sing the sixteenth note. Jon whistles the eighth note but then Garfield and Odie angrily shout at Jon and tell him to do the sixteenth note!
But in this Square Root of Minus Garfield strip, Garfield hears Laurel, but Odie tells him to hear Yanny. Garfield has no clue what Yanny is, so Odie does it for him and they all hear Yanny in their head. Jon whistles Laurel but Garfield and Odie angrily shout at Jon telling him to hear Yanny!
The author is aware that everyone would have forgotten about Laurel and Yanny by the time the comic makes it through the buffer. It's fine, actually.
The editor is also aware that the despite of unusual hasty grasp at topicality but this is still true, probably.
==The author writes:==
I'm aware that everyone will have forgotten about this by the time this strip makes it through the buffer*. It's fine.
Original strip: .
*[I'm aware that despite the unusual hasty grasp at topicality, this is probably still true... -Ed]
==Transcript==
Garfield: Laurel
Garfield: Laurel
Odie: Yanny 
Garfield: Yanny? 
Odie: Yanny
Garfield and Odie: Yanny
Jon: Laurel
Garfield and Odie: Yanny!
Category:Mr B Natural
3289: The World Is My Playground

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield thinks the world is his playground, sighs, and he also thinks that the big kids are hogging the swings. The author sees the comments, then thinks they were weird in the strip. Here, Garfield has been replaced by a kid.
==The author writes:==
Garfield's comments in the original strip were weird to me. Why is a cat talking about big kids at playgrounds? Why would he even care? Is there an actual playground right out of view? I thought that if I replaced Garfield with a kid, it might make more sense.
Original strip: , .
==Transcript==
Kid: The world is my playground
Kid: Sigh... 
Kid: And the big kids are hogging the swings
Category:Muk
328: Garfield of Leaves

==Explanation==
Ever since this author discovered Square Root of Minus Garfield, he has been meaning to contribute but he never had a good idea. He recently finished reading House of Leaves, and thought he'd make an attempt to redo the famous Halloween 1989 storyline in Danielewski's trademark psychotic style.
==The author writes:==
Ever since I discovered Square Root of Minus Garfield, I've been meaning to contribute but never had a good idea. Then, recently I finished reading House of Leaves, and thought I'd make an attempt to redo the famous Halloween 1989 storyline in Danielewski's trademark psychotic style. 
Original strips: , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Brrr, there's a chill in here this morning.
Caption: Locked fast within a time when he no longer exists, Garfield grapples with his greatest fear
Caption: YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW ALONE YOU ARE, GARFIELD
Caption: After years of taking life for granted, Garfield is shaken by horrifying vision of the inevitable process called "Time"
Caption: He has only one weapon. DENIAL
{Garfield reaches eagerly for a proffered food bowl}
Garfield: Steady, Garfield, there must be a good reason why the house is empty.
Garfield: What an eerie sensation.
Garfield: Jon? Odie?
Garfield: Anybody home?
Caption: ...LONELINESS
{The food bowl vanishes into illusion as Garfield, inverted, bifurcates into a positive and negative version}
Garfield: Jon must at the grocery.
Garfield: This doesn't feel like my home.
{Garfield screams and runs through a doorway}
Garfield: {mirror image} What's that?!
Garfield: {mirror image} But, that means... I haven't lived here for years!
Garfield: {mirror image} My home has been abandoned. No one has lived here for years!
{Sideways picture of Jon's house, boarded up and in disrepair, with a "For Sale" sign out the front}
Caption: As imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today...
Caption: TO BE CONTINUED...
Category:Archie Anderson