nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
4990: Connect the Dots Through Jon's Eyes but I connected the dots through Jon's eyes

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
After reading the title in Michael Jacoby's "Connect the Dots Through Jon's Eyes", I misread it as a command, wondering what special shape was hidden in the dots in Jon's eyes. Upon closer inspection, I realize "Through Jon's Eyes" means "from Jon's point of view". Did that stop me from playing Connect the Dots with Jon's eyes? No! And what shape did I make? Uh... I guess 2/3rds of a capital E is how I'd best describe it.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2022-08-21.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{A line can be seen throughout the entire strip, going through the dots in Jon's eyes}
Jon: Never play this game.
Jon: Never play connect-the-dots.
Jon: It's more than that. It messed me up for life. Don't do it.
{Silent beat. Jon glares at us as Garfield just stands there not saying anything, as he is a cat}
Jon: Yeah, but there's so much more to it. You have to think.
Jon: It's not just connecting lines.
Jon: It's about trying to find order in them.
Jon: You have to think about where the lines go.
Jon: It's thinking. It's also about probability.
Jon: The line you choose in one spot has a chance to lead somewhere else.
Jon: There's also symmetry and logic.
Jon: If you draw a line from one dot to another, there's another line that goes back to the first one.
Jon: It has to have a right and a left, or it's not even right.
Jon: It has to make sense.
Jon: There's so much more than just connecting dots.
Jon: Don't do it.
Category:Captain Demozan
4991: Hoo-ahfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I saw this strip and instantly thought of the classic "Ralph scene" from Michael Mann's 1995 Heat.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I'm angry-- I'm very angry Nermal
Garfield: You know, you can &#!! my wife-- if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post modernistic bull$#*! house if you want to--
Garfield: But you do not... get to watch... my #$*@!&#... TELEVISION SET!
Nermal: Yes, sir
Category:J. M. Phipps
Category:Film references
4992: Red Dahlia

==Explanation==
In this strip, the author slightly reworded Garfield's dialogue in the second panel to change "tribulation" to "trials and tribulations", then replaces Jon and his dialogue in the third panel with Dahlia Hawthorne.
Dahlia Hawthorne is a character in the third game of the Ace Attorney series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations; the game's subtitle is what the author reworded the second panel to invoke. Ms. Hawthorne is a key character to the Ace Attorney narrative, being part of three cases within Trials and Tribulations as the game's primary villain and being part of key events to the game's and the series's narrative.
The author's note makes reference to the Ace Attorney timeline, which was set in the near-future at the time of the games' original releases; the key event in defining the setting of the series, the DL-6 incident, occurred in the first game of the series and was stated as taking place on December 28, 2001, with the first game in the series taking place fifteen years later. The statement that Maya Fey and Franziska von Karma were roughly born around the timeframe of the original strip's publishing date is based on those characters' ages in relation to the stated date of the DL-6 incident.
==The author writes:==
To be fair, if Dahlia Hawthorne was around I'd probably stay in bed that day too.
I looked up anything interesting that might have happened in the Ace Attorney-verse in 1999, but the only thing that came up was that Maya and Franziska were born around that year.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is in his bed, completely covered by his blanket}
Garfield: Inside here, it's warm and cozy
Garfield: Out there is Trials and Tribulations
{The view zooms out to show Dahlia Hawthorne standing behind Garfield. She is out of focus and definitely not just scaled improperly}
Garfield: I rest my case
Category:PriffyViole
Category:Visual novel references
4993: PNGfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I thought it'd be funny to recreate this strip with PNGs I found on Google.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
PNG of Garfield: There's nothing happening
PNG of a human vaguely resembling Jon: I finally got the wildfire in my sock drawer under control
PNG of Garfield, now stretched out: Out of the ordinary, I mean
Category:Sample_Text
4994: Prattfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Since Chris Pratt is voicing Garfield in the upcoming CGI movie, I figured I'd do a SRoMG strip in which Garf spouts some Pratt lines from his movies, as well as replacing his face with Pratt's. Yup.
Original films: Guardians of the Galaxy (released 2014-08-01), Avengers: Infinity War (released 2018-04-27), The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (released 2019-02-02).
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield, with Chris Pratt's face instead of his own, lies on the table; Jon and Odie are right next to him}
Jon: Have you noticed how Odie is always smiling, Garfield?
Garfield: Because I'm one of the idiots who lives in it!
Jon {now frowning}: Why don't you ever smile?
Garfield: That 50% of me that's stupid, that's 100% you. {Savage, Garf.}
{Cut to a closer shot of Garfield}
Garfield: Can't think of anything to wish for? I always wish for more wishes, because you can never have enough.
Category:Trevor
Category:Film references
4995: Over the Sea and Far Away

==Explanation==
The original panel had Garfield wanting to hitch a ride to Abu Dhabi, a city in the United Arab Emirates; in the context of the comic, it was because he had missed overhearing a critical part of Jon's phone call, which would have indicated that Jon's checkup and tune-up was intended for his car, not Garfield. Here, the final panel has been isolated, and his intended destination replaced with a city in Australia, on the western coast. The author used a site called Antipodr to locate the point on the exact opposite side of the earth from where he is, and then figured out a nearby point on land, since that ended up in the ocean.
The title is a line from the song "Other Side of the World" by KT Tunstall.
==The author writes:==
Why settle for somewhere merely far away when Antipodr can find the exact opposite point on the world? Of course, Augusta, Western Australia isn't quite the exact opposite point on the world from Indiana, but it is one of the nearest places on land to it. I don't imagine Garfield would want to be sent out into the open ocean. There's no lasagna out there, for one thing.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: (from the house) Garfield?
{Garfield is at the end of the walk, holding out his thumb and holding up a sign}
Sign: Augusta, W. Aus.
Category:Nyperold
Category:Music references
4996: My Last "Redraw" Submission, I Swear

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I love this style so much. Since I didn't clarify in the strip itself, no, Jim Davis did not draw this.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I fear nothing
Jon {revealing a list}: Except for the things on this list
{Jon lays the list on the table}
Jon {somewhat terrified}: I'm also afraid of the list
{Garfield starts reading the list}
Garfield: I hope I'm on it
Category:Muchacho1994
4997: Garfvangelion

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I'm on very little sleep, and so the idea of Terminal Dogma containing Odie, a literal dog, struck me as incredibly funny. One thing led to another, I found a strip in which Lyman was posed similarly to Gendo Ikari, and this monstrosity was born.
[See also #2494 Jon's Instrumentality, #2541 Komm, süsser Lasagne, 2945 Neon Garfesis. -Ed]
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Lyman is sitting at the counter with his hands to his face}
Lyman: Use any means necessary.
{Close-up of Lyman's mouth}
Lyman: He must not be allowed to reach terminal dogma.
{An image of an uncomfortably proportioned Garfield floating in front of EVA Unit-02}
Category:Antigulp
Category:Anime and manga references
4998: Canine Affection

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
1984-01-16 was only used for the word "love".
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield thinks}
Garfield: Do you know what I love about dogs?
Garfield: Glossy adventures, sex and violence
{Odie kisses Garfield while Garfield's arms flail}
SFX: SMOOOOCH
{A heart appears}
Category:Jatotz
4999: Ascension

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is motionless on the ground, eyes glowing}
Odie: Hello?
{Garfield now is slightly lifting off the ground, floating towards Jon}
Odie: Hello?
{Garfield is now floating upright in front of Jon, as Jon stares at him blankly}
Category:twinLemons
49: Andy Warfield

==Explanation==
The original strip had Garfield dreaming in the style of various artists. This strip has him dreaming in only the style of Andy Warhol, who was noted for using repetition in his art.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Garfield: {sleeping} ZZZZ</br>
Garfield: {sleeping} ZZZZ</br>
Garfield: {sleeping} ZZZZ</br>
Garfield: {sleeping} ZZZZ</br>
Garfield: {sleeping} ZZZZ</br>
Garfield: {sleeping} ZZZZ</br>
Garfield: If sleeping is an art, then I'm a masterpiece,
Category:Art references
Category:David Morgan-Mar
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
4: Choose Your Own Garfield

==Explanation==
From June 27th to August 1st of 1983, Garfield featured no less than six strips repeating the first two panels verbatim - Jon chastising Garfield for getting in his fern (as his tail is peeking out) and asking him "What do you have to say for yourself?" The punchline is different every time, and this strip collects them all in a "choose your own ending" format. 
Unsurprisingly, the title refers to the famous Choose Your Own Adventure novels, which featured similar branching paths.
==The author writes:==
Original strips from , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, I know you're in my fern. I can see your tail.
Jon: What do you have to say for yourself?
{comic branches into six "choose your own ending" panels}
1 Garfield: {extending a paw} Dr Livingstone, I presume.
2 Garfield: {rising so the fern forms a head-dress} I say we attack the fort at dawn.
3 Garfield: {remaining hidden} Arf?
4 Garfield: {appearing on opposite side of Jon from the fern, without a tail} Pardon me, sir. Have you seen a tail around here?
5 Garfield: {remaining hidden} You'll have to speak up. I can't hear you over the band.
6 Garfield: {remaining hidden} If you must know, I am a rare carnivorous fern, and if you don't mind, I'd like to finish eating your cat in peace.
Category:Leon Arnott
Category:Print references
Category:Spot the Difference
5001: Back to the first SRoMG strip

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2008-11-15.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Calendar: 5,000
Garfield: I don't feel like getting older
{Garfield takes down the calendar and begins to amend it}
Garfield: Maybe if I change the strip number, I'll get younger
{A younger-looking Garfield looks at the reader in surprise as he is approached from behind by the version of Garfield from the first Square Root of Minus Garfield comic}
FirstSRoMGStrip!Garfield: Have we dynamite?
Category:ljcool2006/Bebble
5002: Hollow Kitty

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
If you understand the title, you'll get what's happening in this strip.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon {to himself}: Ah, a nice sumptuous meal all alone...
Jon {still to himself}: And Garfield nowhere in sight
{Suddenly, before Jon can sink his fork into the steak, the plate gets snatched from nowhere}
SFX: CHONK!
Category:Kavviyenta
5003: Uranium-255field

==Explanation==
This strip places a glowing effect over a bowl and Garfield suggesting he ate a bowl of uranium-255 (which replaced the hard candy of the original strip). The author's note states that the author had only found out the day before submission that there is no such thing as uranium-255; known isotopes of uranium have atomic weights ranging from 214 to 242, with three isotopes occurring naturally. Interestingly, an actual uranium isotope ending in 5, uranium-235, is a well-known isotope of uranium (one of the two rarer of the three naturally-occurring isotopes) known for being a starter isotope in nuclear fission reactions, which suggests the author may, at the time of initially creating this strip, have had this isotope in mind but misremembered its atomic weight.
==The author writes:==
I made this at least a year ago, (as of writing) and it's also possibly the first edit I've made to a Garfield strip. Since yesterday had I learnt that Uranium-255 is not a real uranium isotope. Oh well.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon walks up to a table. There is a bowl on it, glowing green}
Jon {looking into bowl}: You ate the entire bowl of Uranium-255?
{Garfield walks by, also glowing green}
SFX: rattle rattle rattle
Category:Tiny Desk Engineer
5004: You said it, Jon

==Explanation==
The author noticed a mistake in the original strip as it originally ran, that of Jon speaking with a clearly closed mouth, and sought to correct it with this submission. The Garfield wiki on Fandom preserves this mistake as originally presented on the former Garfield website.
The editor's note makes note of a different corrected version hosted on the now-busted unsecured "images.ucomics.com" domain; that link was functional and current when this strip first ran on Square Root of Minus Garfield and thus was used as the strip credit initially, but the link busted some months later. The secure-domain mirror of what the editor's note made reference to, which is still functional as of February 2024, still shows this fixed version, as does the link to GoComics the Square Root of Minus Garfield page currently presents as the original strip credit, suggesting that the different corrected version shown in the original strip credits is indeed an official correction of the error.
==The author writes:==
Jim Davis forgot to open Jon's mouth when he was talking*! Luckily, I'm prone to fixing problems like this!
[*In the ucomics version, Jon has an open mouth, but in for example the version preserved on the Garfield fandom wiki, his mouth is indeed closed. -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {lifting up his left arm and sticking up his index(?) finger}: They say that to avoid burping, you should drink slowly
SFX: gluk gluk gluk gluk {Garfield chugs down a soda can}
SFX: BURP! {Garfield belches so forcibly, it blows back Jon's hair}
{Jon looks sternly aside, arm and finger still in place}
Garfield {pumping his fist in excitement}: Or you can just let 'er rip!
Category:Redgreen
5005: Garfield Plus Diplopoda

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The original drawing more closely resembled a millipede.
Text taken from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millipede.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield being bored}
{A millipede enters from the right}
Garfield: You're not a spider...
Millipede: Very perceptive, sir
Millipede: For your information, I happen to be a millipede
Millipede: A cylindrical arthropod of the class Diplopoda, with numerous body segments and legs
Millipede: I generally have little impact on human economic or social well-being, especially in comparison with insects, although locally I can be a nuisance. I do not bite.
{Garfield looking at computer}
Garfield: I learned something today
Category:John Murtha
5006: Linguistics with Mustard

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Thanks to my friends Dav999 (Dutch), Aizu (Polish), Coralbits (Brazilian Portuguese) and Féinléiriú (Irish) for the first four translations. And, of course, datredcat for the original SRoMG (#3752).
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The strip is repeated in five languages}
{Jon, holding a hot dog, asks Garfield for mustard}
{Garfield then splatters mustard all over Jon}
{Jon expresses surprise at Garfield's ability to comprehend his language}
Dutch:
Jon: Geef eens een beetje mosterd. [Give me a little mustard.]
Jon: Mijn god, mijn kat verstaat Nederlands! [My God, my cat understands Dutch!]
Polish:
Jon: Daj mi trochę musztardy. [Give me some mustard.]
Jon: O kurczę, mój kot rozumie po polsku! [Oh crud (lit. Oh baby chicken), my cat understands Polish!]
Brazilian Portuguese:
Jon: Me dar um pouquinho de mostarda. [Give me a little bit of mustard.]
Jon: Meu deus, meu gato entende português! [My God, my cat understands Portuguese!]
Irish:
Jon: Bíodh meall mustaird agam. [Give me a lump of mustard.]
Jon: A thiarcais, tuigeann mo chat Gaeilge! [My goodness, my cat understands Irish!]
Esperanto:
Jon: Donu al mi iom da mustardo. [Give me some mustard.]
Jon: Je la barbo de Zamenhof, mia kato estas samidean'! [By the beard of Zamenhof, my cat is an Esperantist!]
Category:Fußmatte
Category:Foreign language
5007: Garfield Numerosity 2

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Based on a Numerosity segment from Sesame Street, it counts five different sets of features.
Based on the first test show.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Jon have an ice cream cone each}
Garfield: Two ice cream cones
{Garfield stares in surprise at two turtles}
Turtle: Two turtles
{A two-headed alien holds two items of clothing aloft}
Caption: Two heads
{Two Garfield-branded baseball caps}
Caption: Two hats
{Garfield observes two butterflies flying above Pooky}
Garfield: Two butterflies
Category:Captain Lhurgoyf
Category:Non-strip Garfield material
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
Category:Real world references
Category:Garfield Numerosity
5008: agrgield ! farfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield says two beamed eighth notes while walking by a window that says 'PE STO'}
{Arfield says an eighth note while walking by a window that says 'PET ET STOREORE'}
Unidentified person: I'd like a hamster, a canary, and a large cola, please
Category:mat
5009: I win

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
As soon as I saw a Garfield sports figure briefly appearing on a John Riggs video, I knew I had to source more pictures of such figures on eBay, find a comic where Garfield says "I win" and make this edit.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The vacuum cleaner has worn out
{Jon has left. All of a sudden, Garfield's fur starts changing color into something more yellowish}
{Shedding his fur in the air, Garfield has gained shoes and his form has changed into a 1980s Garfield sports figure version of himself. He puckers his lips out and lowers his eyelids}
Garfield: I win
Category:Nikumubeki
Category:Real world references
5010: Jon As

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Inspired by Matthew Prower's series of "Garfield As" strips. Also, used 6 strips that came out on my birthday! (Don't put this part, the part in parentheses.)
Original strips: , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{In every comic, Jon has been replaced with the Author Avatar of the submitter - thusly named Mack, after himself}
1:
Mack: Is it true you have 9 lives?
Garfield: No
Garfield: It just seems that long when living with you
{Mack looks towards the audience, unamused}
2:
Mack: Let's do something
Garfield: Like what?
Mack {pointing one finger up... wait, does he have paws??}: Something fun!
Garfield {holding his paw out}: No way!
Garfield: You know how I hate trying new things
{Mack looks towards the audience again, unhappy}
3:
Mack {in a different shirt and holding a cup of coffee, looking tired}: I'm sick of the daily routine, Garfield
Mack {putting the coffee cup down}: Wake up, eat breakfast, go outside...
Mack {head turned towards, presumably, a window - revealing a bandage on his cheek}: Somebody throws a rock...
Garfield: I'm not moving
4:
{Two panels of Mack and Garfield doing nothing. 2053 over here, folks!/sarc}
Mack: My gums hurt
Garfield {flailing his arms}: FINALLY! SOME EXCITEMENT!!!
5:
Liz {oddly enough not being replaced by Mack's real S.O.}: You know, Mack, Garfield is almost like your child
Garfield {smiling}: Feed me, daddy!
{Mack looks back at Garfield, horrified at the cat's choice of moniker for him}
Mack {looking back at Liz, in mental pain}: I wish you wouldn't give him ideas
Garfield {out loud}: Wah!
6:
Mack {from off-screen}: Garfield!
Mack {now on screen}: I'm home!
Garfield {smiling}: Good
Garfield {facing away, no longer smiling}: I've been waiting all day to ignore you
{Mack looks towards the audience a third time, just kinda annoyed by now}
Category:Mack Straubel
5011: a cat by the name of Garfield, or as I'd tell it to you my lad, I would not have known him such a fat tabby for all the lasagne he had professed to eat

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
You see, the joke here is that Ulysses' is such a famously convoluted and long book by such a famously convoluted author [that being James Joyce]; Jon is clearly [or at least, probably] not ready to jump directly from reading the blurb on a box of cheerfully-deceptive-o's, into a work so impenetrable that even the author of this remix strip has not finished reading it at the time of the writing of this note.
I considered a lot of other books to reference here, by merit of text length alone - but most of those were either works of religion, politics or history; in the present clime, such things might read as being more of a statement than a simple joke about Jon's literacy and Garfield's expectations, as was intended here. Either that or they were fantasy genre epics, which might make the joke sound like it was targeted at the genre mentioned, rather than, again, being an absurd character moment.
Finnegans Wake might have been the more obvious Joyce choice, but I have never even tried to read it, personally, and referencing a difficult book on reputation alone seemed like the sort of joke that lands at least partly on the person who is telling it; so I went with the more conventional one.
Is that a long enough explanation of the joke that it comes back around from ruining it to enhancing it, by virtue of being so blatantly unnecessary? Hopefully so; otherwise the whole thing just looks pretentious. Which it is - but that was really meant to be part of the joke.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, I decided I should read more!
{Jon is holding a brightly-coloured box of cereal}
Jon: "Fortified with essential vitamins and minerals"
Jon {visibly tired}: That's enough for today. My head hurts
Garfield {enthusiastically}: Tomorrow, we read Ulysses
Category:Linguanaut
Category:Long titles
5012: Memespresso

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The original version of this strip had "I must claw something" instead of Linguistics With Liz, but that meme has sadly passed into the well of forgotten memes.
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I wonder why they call this a memespresso?
{Garfield drinks the coffee. His eyes bug out, and images of memes rapidly flash in his vision: "They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?" "I glued a blender to my face" "Welcome to Garfield's horror theater" "I never will understand women. I think she just called you a radish."}
Garfield: Ah
==Trivia==
The non-existent date 0000-00-00 was initially credited in error in addition to the actual date credits; the erroneous credit has since been removed.
Category:GravityEmblem
Category:0000-00-00