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4575: Look, I Made a Hat

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I have diligently ploughed through Finishing the Hat searching for an epigram about creativity that could be applied to my SRoMG oeuvre, and I found one, in a footnote at the bottom of page seven: "STRAINED JOKE. No exegesis necessary.".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield mashes a remote control in frustration}
SFX: CLICK CLICK CLICK
Garfield: Where are the clowns?!
{Garfield points the remote control towards himself and peers into it curiously}
Garfield: Quick, send in the clowns
SFX: CLICK CLICK CLICK
{Garfield is suddenly wearing a clown costume and make-up}
Garfield: Don't bother, they're here
Category:Manyhills
Category:Literature references
4576: Taking Lazy To The Next Level

==Explanation==
This strip is part of an effort of intentional lazy edits designed to lampoon lazy edits; as such, it took 4160: One Even Better/Worse and simply performed one action on its file, a color inversion, to turn out this strip. This is nevertheless more effort than the next strip of the trend, 4704: One-downsmanship, which outright reuses #4160's file; the effort in this strip is somewhat comparable to a later branch of the trend, 5520: Take It To The Limit One More Time, which slices the file.
==The author writes:==
I took SRoMG #4160 as a challenge. It only took me about five seconds to use the invert tool in paint.net (though it admittedly took me longer to copy the strip into paint.net and figure out what to do, but the actual "editing" part was just a few seconds).
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Lazy Edit
{The panel has inverted colours}
Category:Twistedplant
Category:Intentional lazy edits
4577: But...

==Explanation==
The reference to "book #16" is to the sixteenth printed Garfield strip compiliation book, Garfield Rounds Out: His 16th Book; the "free sample" refers to the brief number of pages of a book Apple Books allows free viewing of to attempt to entice potential purchasers.
==The author writes:==
Rule of thumb: if a sentence begins with "I'm not _____, but...", the rest of it can be accurately paraphrased as "...actually, yes, I absolutely am."
I was lucky enough to have the original of this strip saved on my computer, as I'd downloaded it a few years back in order to trim out the last panel for use as a reaction image. Not that I needed the luck, since it's in the free sample of book #16.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield. Garfield is eating from his food bowl}
Jon: You know, Garfield...
{Garfield stops eating and turns to face Jon}
Jon: I'm not ableist, but...
{Garfield jams his food bowl into Jonâ€™s mouth and starts to walk away}
Garfield: Then don't be
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit by a mojibake error during a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:SonicLover
Category:Mojibake
4578: The Kitty Map

==Explanation==
The original strip was about it being Phony Smile Day, and calling out Odie for bringing in a real smile. In this one, Jon and Odie's smiles are turned into a reference to the Season 5 premier of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, in which there is an entire town of ponies who've given up their cutie marks in exchange for equal signs, much like the ones on Jon's shirt and Garfield's hip -- in the name of "equality". The smiles seen on the townsfolk are enough to put Pinkie Pie -- the pony seen here -- on edge.
Thus, when Jon and Garfield welcome her with phony smiles, she's not happy about it.
The strip title is a pun on the episode title, which refers to the magical massive friendship problem detector which came with the new castle.
The thread referred to started out pointing out the work of Siosilvar, who had made only three strips, each of which were three panels of Garfield grinning. (Whether or not this subconsciously contributed to Nyperold's eventual decision to use the "Phony Smile Day" strip is impossible to tell.) It then proceeded to ask for nominations for best strip by an author with only one published. Nyperold went through the authors' pages looking for such authors, and looking at the strips when he saw only one. It was in the process of doing this that he encountered one by Frank Kong, Jr. In it, Jon's skin color had been changed, and he was alone. (Not to be confused with the one in which Garfield was present, and his fur color had been changed.)
==The author writes:==
While going through the authors' pages and looking at their works, I saw No. 740 and decided to put its original strip to good use again. So you have this thread in part to thank for it.
Said original strip: .
Pinkie Pie image cropped from screenshots of "The Cutie Map, Part 1" found on the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic wiki and used only as a vehicle for parody.
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are grinning. Jon has an equal sign on his shirt, and Garfield has one on his hip.}</br>
Jon: Here comes a visitor!</br>
{Pinkie Pie approaches. She looks displeased.}</br>
Jon: Hey, friend!</br>
Jon: Welcome to our home!</br>
{Pinkie puts her forehooves on the table.}</br>
Pinkie Pie: Oh great, more phony smiles!
Category:Nyperold
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
Category:My Little Pony references
Category:Completely rewritten dialogue
4579: I Hope You're Prepared For An Unforgettable Christmas

==Explanation==
The original strip ended with Jon saying he accidentally set the oven to "broil" and reporting how many cookies were lost as a result, with Garfield replying "Oh, the humanity."
Here, Jon and Garfield's lines in the last two panels are changed to be a reference to "22 Short Films About Springfield", an episode of The Simpsons featuring multiple vignettes focusing on specific characters. One segment, famously nicknamed "Steamed Hams", focuses on Principal Skinner inviting Superintendent Chalmers over to his house for lunch. Unfortunately, the roast that Skinner was cooking burns up in the oven, so Skinner instead goes out to get food from a nearby Krusty Burger and serves it for their lunch, all the while insisting to Chalmers that it is in fact his own cooking (and also trying to ignore the fire now spreading in his kitchen).
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm baking Christmas cookies for Liz!
Jon {out of frame}: Ow! Ow! Ow!
Jon {out of frame}: Hot! Hot! Yaah! Fire!
Jon: Egads, my cookies are ruined
Jon: But... What if I were to purchase gingerbread and disguise it as my own baking?
Garfield: Delightfully devilish, Jon
Category:Levy Martinez
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
4581: Odie defies physics

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When I saw the original Garfield strips from 1993-05-02 and 2017-10-18 together, I thought it was funnier if it was Odie who ended up crushing Garfield instead of that weird fat dog from the first mentioned strip.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Odie looks from the edge of the table at Garfield}
Garfield {off-screen}: Here, Odie!
{Odie happily jumps towards Garfield}
{Moments later, Odie returns to the table holding Garfield - who now looks like a pancake - with his teeth, while Jon watches the scene with concern}
Garfield: But, what the...?!
SFX: Z-
{In the last panel we see Garfield suddenly awakening, thus revealing that it was all just a bad dream}
Category:IQ-ranger
4582: Garfield Miru Garfield

==Explanation==
This strip appears to serve as a jab at those believing the Pac-Man series to be a dead series. It is unknown when this strip was actually made and first submitted, thus it is difficult to discern which year the author was referring to in reference to there being more and better Pac-Man games than Mario games; 2021 itself did see the initial release of the now-defunct Pac-Man 99 as well as a now-defunct Facebook game (both falling defunct in 2023), but also saw three Mario releases.
Miru is the titular "pal" of Pac & Pal, the third Pac-Man game produced in-house by Namco. She notably never saw the light of day outside Japan until 2006 when Pac & Pal was included in the Super Pac-Man Collection plug-and-play dedicated console released in the United States by Jakks Pacific; Pac & Pal prior to then had only been released in limited supplies in Europe under the name Pac-Man Chomp & Chomp with Miru replaced with Chomp Chomp from the Pac-Man animated series (with a planned North American release including Chomp Chomp titled Pac Man & Chomp Chomp scrapped due to failed location tests possibly caused by oversaturation of Pac-Man titles not authorized by Namco).
Contrary to what the author's notes appear to imply (this strip being the second Pac-Man-themed SRoMG strip), the strip the author linked to--2040: Obvious Crossover (Pac-Man)--is actually the second Pac-Man strip on the Square Root of Minus Garfield site, 2032: Pac-field just eight strips before that being the first.
==The author writes:==
I hate when people say Pac-Man is a dead or dying franchise when it literally has more (and better) games released this year alone than the Super Mario franchise, one considered by those same people as alive and well. Also, I think this is the second Pac-Man strip on the entire site.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Miru: Amazing what you can learn online
Pac-Man: My series is DEAD?!
Miru: Like how gullible some people are
Category:-NOYZ-
Category:Video game references
4583: Connection to the Garfield Series

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
By way of explanation, this is a reference to the Make A Good Mega Man Level contest. In it, despite a focus on the Classic series, Zero is a character... except instead of being, y'know, Mega Man X Zero, it's instead some MS Paint... abomination. The battle with Zero is also largely a joke, and also Zero has a totally different character â€” and arguably better. If none of that made sense, here's a wiki link.
Upon looking at the best Zero fan interpretation to ever be devised, he's actually the result of taking a silhouette of Zero, and filling it in with MS Paint. I decided to apply this glorious technique to a Garfield strip. As you can see, it is now art.
The title is a change of the term "Connection to the X Series" â€” a lot of poorly made Mega Man fangames will usually contain at least one of these.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are beautiful works of art}
Jon: That hamburger had better be right there when I get back!
{Garfield looks at the really good burger, beat}
{Jon returns with a bottle of Nondescript Red Condiment SubstanceTM, to see Garfield on the plate, having (supposedly?) eaten the burger}
Jon: GARFIELD!
Garfield: Problem?
==Trivia==
The author's notes were hit by mojibake errors during a later site recoding effort; the original author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Camwoodstock & Tori
Category:Video game references
Category:Mojibake
4584: Garfield, but with Nancy

== Explanation ==
This edit replaces Garfield with Nancy, and consequently, the thought bubbles with actual speech bubbles, since (unlike Garfield) Nancy is capable of speech. As the author explains, it is a companion strip to their iToons strip "Nancy, but with Garfield".
== The author writes ==
I made this around the same time as my iToons strip "Nancy, but with Garfield". I think you can probably guess what my intent was...
Original Nancy strips: 2018-04-10, 2018-04-11.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
Jon: You know, Nancy, Christmas isn't too far off
Nancy: That can only mean one thing...
{Nancy glances at the sugar bowl}
Nancy: Santa's spies are around
Category:Dr. Manny
Category:Comic strip references
4585: Garfield Plus Severe Tinnitus

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
See an otolaryngologist, Garfield.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I'm a great listener
Arlene: Really?
{Nine panels of Arlene and Garfield staring at each other in silence}
Garfield: You say something?
{Arlene gives an aside glance and a frown}
Category:captaingoosehead
4586: Evil Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Boy, there must be A Bunch of Pis in the Arbuckle Residence.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The entire strip is low-quality and the colours are messed up}
{Jon's holding pi, the math number that never ends}
Jon: Hey, Garfield, the delivery guy just told me this is the fifteen-thousandth pi we've ordered
Garfield: Pi?
Garfield: Hmmmm
Garfield: By golly, he's right
Category:MarioGarfield
4588: Garfield in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl

==Explanation==
This strip is a parody of the downloadable content character announcements from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which involved envelopes containing invitations to join the game's roster. This strip was made for the occasion of Garfield being added to the playable roster of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, created shortly after the announcement of Garfield's addition to the roster and fast-tracked through the queue to correspond to Garfield formally being added to the roster.
Garfield is notably the oldest representative in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl's roster; Garfield as the world knows him (debuting 1978-06-19) actually predated the Nickelodeon brand (the Nickelodeon brand launched on 1979-04-01), and the character as a whole dating back to his prototype in Jon (debuting 1976-01-08) even predates Nickelodeon's entire history (Nickelodeon was originally an unnamed channel C-3 on Warner QUBE cable systems in Columbus, Ohio, first hitting the air on 1977-12-01 in that form airing only a single preschool-oriented program at that time). For comparison, the next oldest element in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is the stage Slime Time, derived from the game show Double Dare (debuted 1986-10-06) and similarly added as post-launch content.
==The author writes:==
Now that Garfield has been officially announced for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (and he'll be out tomorrow for most platforms as of writing) I decided it would be appropriate to, in tradition, make a Garfield edit for it in celebration. I suspect Garfield's release will renew interest in the game, which is good, as people have spotted him in the game files before he was announced.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: This is for you {hands Garfield a letter}
Garfield {looking at the letter excitedly}: Mail! For me! Wow! I'm important! I'm somebody
{Jon is happily glancing at the fourth wall, anticipating Garfield's response}
Garfield {still looking at the letter}: Hey, wait a minute! This is addressed to "Fighter"
Jon: Congratulations, Garfield! You're in!
Garfield {pointing at Jon excitedly}: No one stands a chance against me
Category:Toader The Toad
Category:Video game references
4589: Garfield but with an incorrect timeline

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Bad timing.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon gives Garfield a bowl of milk}
Jon: Here you go, Garfield
Garfield: That's milk
Jon: It'll make your coat nice and shiny
Garfield: I think I'll opt to molt
Jon: All cats love milk!
Garfield: When I was younger, I was frightened by an udder
Caption: 7 years later...
{Garfield is sitting at a table with a mug of coffee}
Jon: Cream in your coffee, Garfield?
{Garfield has now run away because Jon is holding a cup of cream shaped like an udder with horns on it}
Jon: I'm sorry! Did I ruin your sense of aesthetics?!
Category:FatCatandDoggie
458: Manga Garfield 2 - The End

==Explanation==
This strip, contrary to its title, is intended to be the third part of the author's "Manga Garfield" trilogy, which started in 372: Manga Garfield; the intended second part, 749: Manga Garfield 3: Black Humour, wound up published after this strip.
==The author writes:==
The last two pages of the first What's Michael comic. In the original Manga, the thoughts the cartoonist had during the close-up were:
"Okay, Okay, don't come back to haunt me, all right?"
"So the cartoonist prayed with all his heart..."
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: ...
{Jon looks outside to the balcony.}
{He looks over the balcony, down several floors to the pavement below.}
Jon: GARFIELD!
Jon: ...
Jon: ...
Caption: After years of taking Garfield for granted, Jon is shaken by a horrifying vision of the inevitable process called "time".
Jon: Only one weapon...
{Jon wipes the cat paw prints off the balcony railing.}
SFX: flip! flip!
Caption: ... denial.
Caption: Locked fast within a time where Garfield no longer exists, Jon grapples with his greatest fear...
Caption: ... Loneliness.
Category:DanielBT
Category:Non-Garfield comics
4590: Untitled Edit 1

==Explanation==
This strip transplants the scenario of 2000-09-17 into the 2020-09-27 strip, both of which share the same title panel. (The latter strip has since been switched to a "short form" on GoComics, omitting the title panel and the panel that shared that line; the version with the title panel is still available via the Garfield wiki on Fandom. The other credited 2020 strip, presumably having had elements from it used in the remixed strip, is also a Sunday strip that's been shortened to "short form" on GoComics but still available in full via the Garfield wiki on Fandom.)
==The author writes:==
Caption swap of two strips that, for some reason, share the same title panel. Not much more to add beyond that.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hot pepper eating contest!
Jon: JalapeÃ±o!
Odie: Cayenne!
Jon: Habanero!
Odie: Peruvian death pepper!
Garfield: Foom
Odie: You win.
Jon: Then why am I not happy?
==Trivia==
The transcript was hit with a mojibake error in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:MadDogBV
Category:Mojibake
4592: Wimpfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Funny how removing just one panel changes the humor of the strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Off-panel character: Ready to go out, guys?
{Odie and Garfield look at the off-panel character. Garfield doesn't look happy}
Garfield: Ask me again in the spring
{Nonetheless, Jon opens the door outside. Odie and Garfield head out}
Jon: Have fun in the snow, boys
{Jon closes the door shut}
SFX: SLAM!
{A pile of snow from the roof falls on top of Odie and Garfield}
SFX: FOOMP!
{Odie and Garfield are covered in snow. Garfield wipes the snow off himself, and now appears to be having a slight panic attack}
Garfield: Odie! Are you okay?!
{Odie's snow falls down. No sign of Odie. That made Garfield lose it}
Garfield: ARRRRGH!
{Garfield falls to the ground. Jon opens the door}
Jon: Wimp
Category:limmey comic
4593: Garfield in 2021

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is quite possibly the worst Garfield strip I have ever read. Garfield, reduced to little more than a xeroxed talking head, says an awful joke to the void. THE END.
Not even the slightest chuckle was elicited by this strip, it takes no risks and delivers virtually nothing. The only joke in this strip is the time the reader wasted reading it.
I almost find it hard to believe a company would put out such a bottom-of-the-barrel strip, but this is late stage Garfield and no low is too low.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {to himself}: What to do today... What to do...
Garfield {to himself}: I think I'll stay out of trouble
Garfield {to himself}: That should kill ten minutes
Category:TheCleanerDragon
4594: Terrariafield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This strip is a reference to the game Terraria. "The air is getting colder around you" is the text that the game displays when Skeletron Prime is going to spawn naturally (without a spawn item). However, Garfield remains relaxed and feigns being worried because Skeletron Prime is the easiest of the Mechanical Bosses and doesn't pose a very significant threat.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is laying on an armchair}
Skeletron Prime {off-panel}: Garfield, I'm spawning in now!
Garfield {eyes closed}: Boy, am I in trouble
Skeletron Prime {off-panel}: The air is getting colder around you...
Garfield {eyes closed}: I'm scared
Skeletron Prime {off-panel}: I'm spawning in now!
Garfield {eyes still closed}: Wake me after the beating
Category:Ravioli Boy
Category:Video game references
4595: Friday Night Garfin'

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
garfield confirmed for new friday night funkin boss?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Daddy Dearest from Friday Night Funkin' walks into the room}
Daddy Dearest: Da eesa da eesa da da da da da
{Daddy Dearest then leaves the room}
Garfield: Woah!
Garfield: Is it Friday night already?
Category:AyyBee
Category:Video game references
4596: I'm A Garfcess

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original song: "I'm A Princess" by Bill Wurtz.
Original strips: 1979-12-13}}, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Offscreen voice: princess
i'm a princess
Jon: diamond
and i think about the diamonds in the sky too often
Jon: do you love me?
do you love me?
Garfield: ruined
or have things gone astray?
Garfield: a bucket
buckets
Jon: dreams
catch the dreams as they fall from my ceiling
Jon: Earthquakes!
and earthquakes come and go all afternoon
Offscreen voice: princess
i'm a princess
Jon: neighbors
and i wonder about my neighbors even though i don't have them
Garfield: listening
but they're listening to every word i say
Jon: ON THE ROAD
back on the road, back down the road downtown
Jon: courage
i don't have courage but i have something else
Jon: more than
and it's more than words
Garfield: Ridiculous
i'm ridiculous
Jon: very particular
i'm feeling very particular... about my world
SFX: SPLAT!
Garfield: gibberish
klkfpu8orzce0ix
Jon: Interesting song
what an interesting song
Jon: belong
tell me where i belong
Jon: what's going on
tell me what's going on, where i went wrong,
Answering machine: Message
SFX: Click
Answering machine: Message
SFX: Click
Answering machine: Message
and what's the message in this song?
Garfield's grandpa: lessons
where are the lessons in this song?
Jon: I'm gone
tell it to me once before i'm gone
Jon: respect me
respect me... i'm a princess
Garfield: soldier
Dame: I love men in uniform
all the soldiers that surround me and make sure i'm lonely
Garfield: daydream
through the daydream... dreamed that it's ok
Jon: open the door...
open the door... close the door
Garfield: the other side
got to get through the other side of the door... open the door
Jon: to be more
mmmm, there's got to be more
Garfield: much more
there's got to be so much more
Garfield: there for
but i don't know what it's there for
Jon: here
i don't know what we're here for
Garfield: think of it
sometimes i think of it when i sleep
Jon: in need
and i'm dreaming about my friends in need
Garfield: dreams
step into the machine and feel the dreams
Garfield: ingredients
and all the ingredients in the dream
Garfield: appealing
see what makes them seem so appealing
Garfield: the ceiling
oops, there goes the ceiling, ohh
Offscreen voice: princess
i'm a princess
Jon: Excuse me
excuse me i read that wrong, i'm a dunce
Category:Muncee
Category:Music references
4597: Home Movies

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Before you ask, yes, this is another edit in which Garfield dies.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{All references to Garfield have been removed from the strip}
{Odie is sitting on the couch and watching something on TV}
TV: â™ª
TV: â™«
Odie: sniff sniff
Odie: Sob! Sob!
Odie: WAAAAAAHHH!
Odie: AROOOOOOOOOO!
Garfield {over TV, his inner thoughts somehow having been recorded}: I... (cough) I hate Mondaayys...
Heart monitor {over TV}: (beeeeeeeeeeep)
SFX: HONK {Odie blows his nose}
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript got hit by a mojibake error in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Muchacho1994
Category:Mojibake