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2552: But This Wasn't One Of Them

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I suggest you don't look at the artwork in this one too closely. For the joke to work, I had to erase both Garfield's line in the last panel, and his outstretched arm. I ran into problems when I realized there was no easy way for me to erase his arm without making the black dots background pattern present in most of the strips look weird. Thus I decided to erase the background itself. Then I realized that made the other panels look weird, so I erased it from those panels too... but then I had motion lines to deal with. And I only have MS Paint. Anyway, if you look at the art (which I recommend you don't), you'll notice my amateurish image manipulation pretty easily.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is tying an unravelled string from his sweater to a table leg}
{Garfield starts running as fast as he can}
Garfield: There's more than one way to skin a cat.
SFX: TWANG
{Garfield is dead}
Category:KelpTheGreat
2553: Tener Cuidado Con Lo Que Deseas

==Explanation==
This strip is part of an effort of intentional lazy edits designed to lampoon lazy edits; as such, it copies the original strip's first panel into all three panels and sets up the dialogue stating that the world needs more lazy edits, responding to the challenge 2290: Duplifield set up in that strip's author's notes. This strip would be one-upped by 3673: One Better, which pared down this strip by a panel and turned the second panel into the punchline, and thus continued the intentional lazy-edit trend.
==The author writes:==
Ask and ye shall receive...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: You know what the world needs more of?
Jon: Lazy edits.
Jon: Oops.
Category:Crazy56U
Category:Intentional lazy edits
2554: DuckDuckGarfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Question Duck. I drew the duck by my own dang self!
And shaded the comic. That neon blanket just felt like it should reflect a lot of light.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Question Duck walks}
{Question Duck comes upon a waking Jon}
Question Duck: {to an expressionless Jon} Who gives presents to Santa?
Category:DEIDATVM
Category:Go back to bed
2555: Garfield Minus Feelings

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This one is a bit dark.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Liz and Jon look at each other romantically}
Liz: I'm willing to share my feelings
Jon: I'm willing to share MY feelings
{Garfield enters with an empty bowl}
Garfield: Already ate it
{Liz and Jon look at each other evilly (same as romantically)}
Liz: Do you have a sudden urge to kill a man
Jon: Yes! And no pesky feelings to stop us
Category:Thiskurt
2556: Waste of Sunday Space

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The second I saw this strip in the paper, I knew there was a horrendous waste of panel space for a Sunday comic.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {off-screen}: Skiing?...Really?! Sure, Liz! I haven't been skiing in ages!
Caption: 6:00PM
{Garfield turns on the TV}
Newsman: Tonight's top story: "Mayhem on the Bunny Slope"!
Category:Jacob Huller
2557: It's A Food

==Explanation==
This strip takes an original Garfield strip where Jon deals with the customer service retention methods of a pizzeria while trying to order one pizza and makes a "order a topping, hold the pizza" joke out of it (mice, for example, seeking cheese in such a fashion); as such, Jon is portrayed as trying to order a whole pepperoni from the pizzeria without actually putting it onto a pizza, a task that would be easier if he were to use a delicatessen instead.
==The author writes:==
I made this over a year ago and forgot about it. Also, this is only funny if you imagine it in the style of a goofy old sitcom where Garfield turns directly towards the camera, shrugs, and goes "The OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD pizza!" followed by 30 minutes of studio audience laughter as his dead eyes continue to stare right at you, piercing your soul.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is talking into the phone as Garfield sits on the table}
Jon: Hello, Swindell Pizza? I'd like a large pepperoni.
Jon: No, I don't need a pizza, just...
Jon: No, I don't need any pizza with that.
Jon: No, I don't want any pizza, either. Just the pepperoni.
Jon: {angrily} AND JUST WHY WOULD I NEED A PIZZA?!
Garfield: {smiling slyly} The old pizza.
Category:kobochat
2558: Drowning Garfield

==Explanation==
1815: Sock Puppet Minus Garfield 2, the strip linked to in the first line of the author's notes, actually has nothing to do with the story told within this strip's author's notes; additionally, the narrative from this strip's author's notes does not appear to have been continued to date despite the inclusion of "To be continued..." text.
==The author writes:==
[The story so far: with the cyborg duplicate of the President safely disposed of, the author and companion have set the spaceship to self-destruct and made good their escape. Now read on...]
Our pod touched down the moment the spaceship exploded, and a fireball filled the sky, lighting the city in a blinding flash. Debris pattered down gently around us as we got out.
"We've done it!" cried Grace Chatto, whirling me around in jubilation. "Now finally at last peace negotiations with New Zealand can resume."
"We've certainly thwarted their plans, alright," I said. "But I'm sure there's something we're forgetting. Something important..."
"The bomb!" cried Grace.
"Of course! The bomb that started all this! But where is it? What was that clunky line The Green Cutlass came out with when she was taunting us?"
"Um..." The chart-topping pop artiste thought hard. "'When I press the bomb trigger, ahead of you explosions will blaze through the sky...'"
"Of course! The Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at Kettle's Yard! That's where the peace treaty is being signed - tonight! That must be where the bomb is!" I paused to reflect. "She must have thought it was safe to clumsily paraphrase Whaam! after I demonstrated a lack of familiarity with its exact text on national television."
"Then there's no time to lose!" said Grace decisively. She flipped open her phone. "I'd better call MI5."
I gasped.
[Has the multi-hitmaking cellist secretly been a British government agent all this time? How complete is the security state's infiltration of the UK singles charts? And why did they never actually find The Green Cutlass's body? To be continued...]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is in a pastiche of Roy Lichtenstein's "Drowning Girl"}
Garfield: I don't care! I'd rather sink -- than call Jon for help!
Category:Manyhills
Category:Art references
2559: Garfield in 2016

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Even though it isn't 2053 yet, the strip is starting to get really static. Is MadDogBV's prophecy slowly being fulfilled 37 years early?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield the orange cat is sitting at the green table in his yellow kitchen, staring at a bright purple ball of yarn. The exact same image is used for all three panels.}
Yarn: {in a futuristic computerized font} Garfield, is it 2053 already?
Garfield: {in the same futuristic computerized font} Shockingly... no, it isn't.
Category:Muchacho1994
255: Fun With Hair Day Minus Garfield

==Explanation==
This is an edit of "Fun With Hair Day", removing Garfield from each panel in order to further highlight how absurd Jon's hairstyles are.
==The author writes:==
I saw #166 and knew I had to remove Garfield from it.
Original comics: , , and .
==Transcript==
{Jon has a new hairstyle.}
{Jon's hair changes.}
{Jon's hair is sticking out.}
{Jon walks away with a different haircut.}
Category:Nagel
Category:Callbacks
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
2560: Ventura Ventura Space People

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon thought of a change, so he left, now he's back with a checkered table. Garfield says it's a start.
In this strip, Jon thought of a change, so he left, and now Jon is a piece of the Milky Way. Garfield smiles and says, "Now there's a change you don't get to see everyday." The title is a reference to the song that was made by Shinobu in 2004.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: , with help from .
==Transcript==
Jon: We need a change.
{Jon is away, Garfield blank stares in boredom} 
{Jon is now a piece of the Milky Way} 
Garfield: {smiles} That's a change you don't get to see everyday.
Category:Herr Cactus
Category:Real world references
Category:Music references
2561: State of the Arbuckle

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A picture dramatically showing how Obama has aged during his time in office so far has been doing the rounds on social media, and today (January 13) someone added a comparison between Palpatine when he first appeared in Star Wars to his final form as a hideous Sith lord. Perhaps by the time this Garfield-ised version pops out of the queue, the "Presidential comparison" meme will have already become a social media sensation, run its course, and died a peaceful death, causing this SRoMG submission to clearly show the ravages of age. How meta.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{A photograph of President Obama when he first took office.}
{A photograph of President Obama when he gave his 2016 State of the Union Address.}
{A cropped picture of Jon Arbuckle when he first appeared in a Garfield strip.}
{A cropped picture of Jon Arbuckle when he appeared in the Garfield strip that ran on the day of President Obama's 2016 State of the Union Address.}
Category:Andrew Kepple
Category:Real world references
2562: Contagious

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Done in the spirit of the googly series.
I cannot parse these expressions as "excited". If anything, they look like "light-headed from water deprivation" to me. I can only suppose that Jim Davis sketched these faces during a brainstorming session, thought they were funny, and found an excuse to wedge them into a strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Odie stare at Jon with identical disturbing expressions and hunched shoulders.}
Jon: You two are just silly!
{Garfield and Odie continue to stare. Jon looks startled and his arm contorts.}
{Jon now has the same expression and body language.}
Category:Sloublues
2563: Portalfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Another idea that popped into my head the first time I saw the strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks up to Jon}
{Jon opens the door and lets Garfield go outside}
{Garfield comes back from behind Jon, and Jon lets Garfield outside again}
{To Jon's surprise, Garfield comes back from behind again, and Jon lets Garfield out again}
{Jon notices the orange portal on the wall leading to outside}
Category:pookypal
Category:Video game references
2564: Ol' Lightning Wit

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In an alternate universe, Jon is capable of spouting snarky one-liners off the bat, thus earning Garfield's respect. Nevermind that his "clever" retort makes no sense.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: ...and I was wondering if you'd go out with me tonight?
Jon: You say you'd rather go out with camel spittle?
Garfield: Zap her back! Zap her back!
Jon: But what if your brother already has plans?
Garfield: Ol' lightning wit strikes again
Category:DanielBT
2566: Jon Piece

==Explanation==
This edit completely changes the dialogue of the original and replaces Garfield with Monkey D. Luffy, protagonist of the manga series One Piece. The author's notes below describe Luffy's basic character; ever since he was saved by his idol, "Red-Haired" Shanks, he's made it his life's ambition to become the Pirate King, to the point of putting his life on the line many, many times.
This particular image of Luffy was ripped from one of a few Straw Hat Theater segments that aired after certain episodes of the anime.
==The author writes==
One rule when dealing with Luffy: NEVER tell him he can't be King of the Pirates. Remember, he's dead serious about that, and he's willing to put his life on the line to try to reach his dream. Of course, Jon doesn't believe that.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is in a room with Monkey D. Luffy} 
Luffy {punching the air for some reason}: I'm gonna be King of the Pirates! 
Jon {snidely}: Try it, you fool. 
Luffy {still punching the air}: I'm gonna kill you! 
==Trivia==
*An alternate title of this strip is "Long Jon Silver".
*The following strip also makes reference to One Piece.
Category:Dr. Manny
Category:Anime and manga references
2567: Jon Arrrbuckle

== Explanation ==
This strip takes #1303's punchline and improves on it by having the one piece of the jigsaw puzzle being a photo of One Piece protagonist Monkey D. Luffy; this appropriately makes the one piece a pun. Additionally, arr is an interjection stereotypically associated with pirates, thus making another pun in that it appears in Jon's surname.
Of note is that this strip appeared the day after #2566, which also made reference to One Piece.
== The author writes ==
Original strip: .
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2012-12-12.
== Transcript ==
Jon: I don't want to be disturbed! 
Garfield: Jon's working on a jigsaw puzzle. 
Garfield: Those One-Piecers can be vicious. 
{Jon is staring at a piece with a picture of Monkey D. Luffy} 
Category:Anime and manga references
Category:Improving humor
Category:rainy butterfly
2568: Garfield In 2053 Jumps The Shark

== Explanation ==
This is a "Garfield in 2053" strip with a twist - the general concept already implies that Garfield jumped the shark long ago, but this latest strip takes it a step further by theoretically bringing back Lyman, after an absence of 70 years, without reintroducing anybody else. It's pretty straightforward.
== The author writes ==
Now granted, this would be a rather adventurous decision for a comic strip to make, bringing back a character that went AWOL sometime in the 1980s to a nearly century-old comic strip, but it begs the question: Where's Jon? Where's Liz? Where's Odie? Why Lyman? Why now, after so long?
After all these years, there aren't very many sharks left for Garfield to jump, but I presume this would be one of them.
Original strips: , .
== Transcript ==
Garfield: People are complaining we've become stale.
Garfield: So we've decided to bring back a fan favorite.
Lyman: {enters panel left} Hey, Garfield.
Garfield: Hello, Lyman!
Category:MadDogBV
Category:Garfield in 2053
2569: A dull life

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
If THIS is dull for Jon, then... what IS exciting?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sitting at a table, bored}
{Jon runs through with a beehive on his head}
Jon: Dull, dull, dull...
{Garfield is still sitting at a table, bored}
Category:RedBlupi
256: It's an Old, Old World

==Explanation==
The original strip was published on New Year's Day in 1995, and as such had repeated references to a "new X". This comic reverses them all into "old X", as well as altering the title panel to create the surreal idea that the new year never came to pass, and 1994 somehow reoccurred. The punchline is also slightly altered - "same Jon" becomes "dumb Jon".
The title is a reference to "It's a Small World" (or, as its infamously catchy song goes, "It's a Small, Small World").
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield! Wake up! 
Jon: Come on, Garfield! Time's wasting! 
Jon: It's a Old Year, pal. Time for a old start! 
Jon: There's a old world out there with old challenges! 
Jon: And it's all mine! 
Jon: Tallyho!! 
{Jon opens a door and a closet full of junk falls on him.} 
Garfield: Old Year, old start, old world, dumb Jon.
Category:Joke reversal
Category:Nottoostupid
Category:Real world references
2570: EarthField

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I made this because the kid's clothing in the original strip looks like Ness from EarthBound's clothing. There's not really anything else to the joke.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield's stomach: RRRRR
Garfield: Okay, okay. Let's get something to eat.
{Garfield enters a bakery}
{Garfield is thrown out of the bakery}
Unseen man: No cats allowed!
{Garfield sees Ness entering the bakery}
{Garfield steals Ness' clothing and re-enters the bakery}
{Garfield exits the bakery with donuts and throws one to another cat}
Garfield: I've been in Eagleland for 10 minutes now, but I haven't forgotten my roots.
Category:Anonymous
Category:Video game references
2571: A Perfect Day For Lasagnafish

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I came across the original strip entirely by accident, and I couldn't help but notice how similar Jon looked to Holden Caulfield, protagonist of the classic American novel The Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger. And seeing as I'm a pretty big fan of TCITR, this strip basically wrote itself.
Also, the title isn't a Catcher reference; it's a reference to Salinger's short story A Perfect Day For Bananafish, which is easily one of the best short stories of all time, and if you haven't read it already go ahead and read it right now. You'll thank me later.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {walking, alongside Garfield}: If you really want to hear about it....
Jon: The first thing you'll probably want to know...
Jon {standing whilst holding out his hand}: Is where I was born,
Jon: And what my lousy childhood was like,
Jon: And how my parents were occupied and all
Jon: Before they had me,
Jon {resumes walking}: And all that David Copperfield kind of crap,
Jon {turning towards Garfield (who is out-of-frame), and frowning}: But I don't feel like going
Jon: Into it,
Jon: If you want to know the truth.
Category:Kendria Perry
Category:Literature references
2572: Garfield plus Garfield plus Garfield plus Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
See #931, and #2.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield 1: It's my exact double!
{Garfield 2 stares in shock}
Garfield 3: Can't stop to chat... I'm busy doing good deeds!
Garfield 4: More like my evil opposite
Category:NEO
2573: Obvious Pun (Mouse)

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Usually, I consider a pun based on a word that's already a pun as worthless, (e.g., any "byte/bite" reference is pointless, as "byte" was coined as a pun on "bit" and "bite"). This is a special case, though, as the real pun here is "point", as in "pointing device", as in "another name for mouse".
...I'll see myself out now.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A computer mouse crosses the screen}
Jon: Do you not see that mouse?!
Garfield: Do you not know it's impolite to point?!
Category:Lubaf
Category:Real world references
2574: A New Man

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This was originally going to include the panel after the first as well, thus establishing that Jon had gone to the street fair while implying just what he had done. But why stop there?
Really, though, Jon was doomed to failure from the moment he decided to take his cat on his date with Liz.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: {handing flowers to a pleasantly surprised Liz} Say goodbye to Jon the loser, Liz. Yes, I'm a new man!
{cut to Jon, with an assortment of odd objects, at a fancy restaurant with Liz and Garfield}
Jon: This "new man" stuff is easy!
Garfield: I'll create a diversion, and you run like the wind.
Category:Densetsu Bros
2575: Something Elsa Is Constantly Changing

==Explanation==
This strip makes reference to the CGI-animated Disney film Frozen. Apparently, this Garfield is anxious that it's stopped being shown in theaters. Maybe he hasn't seen it yet, and wants the theater experience.
Elsa and Olaf -- both of whose names are used for puns -- are the main character's sister and a snowman, respectively.
The author also refers to the other usual aspects of a "Constantly Changing" strip in saying that he didn't change Garfield (or Jon) into anyone or anything else, or even use a different Garfield era's model, but he did change Garfield's concern to something else.
==The author writes:==
No, I don't think she'll let you watch. But have Olaf at it all the same.
Anyway, after all this time, I've finally made a "Constantly Changing" strip (heh), though I suspect I'll not make any more.
No confections were named in the making of this strip. And all characters remain the same.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world is constantly changing.</br>
{Garfield looks anxious}</br>
Garfield: They haven't stopped showing Frozen, have they?
Category:Nyperold
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
2576: Coffee really does kills dogs

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Poor Odie suffers from death of dogs drinking coffee. Also, the title says it all.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Odie sniffs the coffee}
{Odie licks the coffee}
{Garfield's visiting Odie's grave}
Garfield: I guess it's true, coffee does kills dogs.
Category:Nicholas Crawford
2577: Bananaman Begins

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
That shot of Bananaman comes from the episode "Mystery at the Old Mine".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon looks glum as Garfield covered in bananas runs in}
Garfield: Why, just look at that gloomy face!
{Garfield rubs Jon's face with bananas}
Garfield: Fear not! Banana Man is here to help!
{Garfield shakes hands with UK superhero Bananaman}
Bananaman: Why... Why thank you, Banana Man. I feel better already!
Category:JLH
Category:Comic book references
2578: Gotta feelin', gotta feelin', gotta feelin' like I'm paralysed

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
With all the food he eats, especially all that cheese from those lasagnas he devours, I'm surprised he hasn't had several heart attacks by now. How much cholesterol can a cat take?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is lying down on his back}
Garfield: Nothing can stop me!
{beat}
Garfield: Except this heart attack...
Category:Michael C. Fortner
2579: Really, Erm... Dog-Hating, Cat. Meh.

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield reading letter}: Dear Garfield, What is your all-time favorite episode of a TV show?
Garfield: It's "Jurassic Bark".
Garfield: I love shows with happy endings.
==Trivia==
The last line of the transcript does not match the strip proper; the strip proper uses "movies" where the transcript uses "shows".
Category:Negative N
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
257: Rice

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon was running away from an unexplained avalanche of rice. This strip shows an alternate dimension where the rice is being sucked into the "main" dimension via Warp Pipe, a pipe often used for travel in the Mario series of video games.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Too much rice!</br> 
{Rice is sucked through a pipe from an alternate panel in another dimension and engulfs Jon}</br> 
Garfield: {eating rice} That's one man's opinion.
Category:PSE1nf0
Category:Video game references
2580: Misan(s)thropic Garfield

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 2580: Misan[s]thropic Garfield.
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I honestly have no idea where I came up with this. Made in MS Paint. If it were allowed, I would have immediately put this into paint.net, saved it as a .jpg, and made it as low-quality as possible.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield reading letter}: Dear Garfield, What is your favorite all-time film?
Garfield: {in Comic Sans} uh
Garfield: {in Comic Sans} idk lol
Category:Fastpager200
2581: Highfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Garfield ate a grimy green brownie that he considered a vegetable, but there is a reveal on what it really is.
Panel 3 background from Ermsy's Say No To Soft Drugs Series.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: That brownie has green mold growing on it
{Garfield eats the brownie}
{Weirdness}
==Trivia==
The link reading "Panel 3 background" in the author's notes is now broken; no archives of its content are known to exist.
Category:John Notstamos
Category:Real world references