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4023: UNLOCK! Cartoon Adventures: The Monday that Wouldn't Die

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Rule 34G: if it exists, no matter how obscure or ill-fitting it is, a Square Root of Minus Garfield comic will reference it. Today, once again, that universal truth becomes slightly more universally true.
UNLOCK! is a series of tabletop card games modeled after the room escape genre, made by a French studio called Space Cowboys. Theyâ€™re made to be played alone or cooperatively with friends; although I have no one to play with, I still find them great fun to play through again and again.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{A horizontal card headed G, featuring a picture of Garfield peeking into a kitchen. A gray circle on a cupboard contains the number 5, and another on the fridge contains the number 23}
Caption: Jon's not in the kitchenâ€” lucky for you!
{A card headed 5, a number from the kitchen scene, featuring a blue puzzle piece and a picture of Garfield holding a rope}
Caption: You find a length of rope in the cupboard. Why Jon put it there is anyone's guess, but it's just long enough to reach the top of the refrigerator.
{A card headed 23, a number from the kitchen scene, featuring a red puzzle piece and a close-up of the fridge}
Caption: Jon's put the cookie jar on top of the refrigerator where you can't reach it. Or so he hopes...
{A card headed 28, taken by combining 5 and 23}
Caption {with an unrelated Garfield comic panel in the background}: You tie the rope into a lasso and throw it at the cookie jar. Unfortunately, after a few failures, you realize that with the rope tied so, it's no longer long enough to reach the top of the fridge. The rope's not a bad idea, but you'll have to use it some other way. Your futile attempts have cost you precious time.
Second caption: Press the penalty button once. {picture of a calendar showing Monday}
{A card headed 40, presumably revealed on a prior occasion, featuring a red puzzle piece and a picture of a rake}
Caption: Jon's gardening rake. Weirdly, it reminds you of a grappling hook...
{A card headed 45, taken by combining 5 and 40, featuring a blue puzzle piece, indicators to discard cards 5 and 40, and the rope and rake tied together}
Caption: It's a DIY grappling hook and rope. And Jon calls you lazy!
{A card headed 68, taken by combining 23 and 45, featuring an indicator to discard cards G, 23, and 45}
Caption {with a pertinent Garfield comic panel in the background}: Your makeshift grappling hook easily catches the top of the refrigerator. You start to climb up, but your weight causes the whole thing to topple over! THUD! The fridge crushes you. You're lucky you're a cartoon cat; otherwise, you would've lost one of your nine lives for sure!
Second caption: Take card 90.
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript and author's notes were hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript and author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:SonicLover
Category:Tabletop game references
Category:Mojibake
4024: Risky in the Jar

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield enters, carrying a cookie jar}
Garfield: Jon, if you can guess how many cookies are in this jar, you get the entire contents!
Jon: You filled it with hairballs, didn't you
Garfield {opening the jar with a flourish}: We have a winner!
Category:Simon Winters
4025: I Think You've Gone Crazy

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
[It's not quite the same, but readers in the UK can currently watch the National Theatre's production of Oh, Streetcar!. -Ed]
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I sewed Pooky's arm back on good as new, Garfield
Garfield: Can he play the piano anymore?
Jon: Of course he can
Garfield: Well, he couldn't before!
Category:Muk
4026: Wanted: Dead or Alive

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Another "Wow, no one's done this yet?" edit.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: All I know is that to me / You look like you're lots of fun / Open up your lovin' arms / Watch out, here I come
Garfield: You spin me right round, baby / Right round like a record, baby / Right round round round / You spin me right round, baby / Right round like a record, baby / Right round round round
Garfield: You spin me right round, baby / Right round like a record, baby / Right round round round / You spin me right round, baby / Right round like a record, baby / Right round round round
Record player: You spin me right round, baby / Right round like a record, baby / Right round round round / You spin me right round, baby / Right round like a record, baby / Right round round round
Record player: You spin-
SFX: KA-CHUNK
Garfield: I want your looooove
Category:Garlene1987
Category:Music references
4027: The Origarfield King

==Explanation==
This strip is a jab at the quality of the Super Mario series, and in particular the Paper Mario branch of RPGs, in recent years; as such, it takes a strip that was originally about an old couple talking about a cat named Bowser comparing him to Garfield, replaces Garfield with Mario as seen in the Paper Mario series, and rewords the dialogue to refer to Mario's nemesis Bowser. The author's notes make mention of another branch of the Super Mario series, the Mario Kart line of racing games, and uses it to punctuate the strip's storyline.
The strip's title is a play on the subtitle on the then-upcoming Paper Mario: The Origami King, which would be released eleven days short of two months after this strip; the strip itself was fast-tracked through the strip queue, debuting only two weeks after the game was announced on May 14, 2020. Nintendo's original plans for the game's announcement would not have resulted in this strip debuting when it did with the title it did; had the COVID-19 pandemic not resulted in E3 2020, scheduled for June 9-11, 2020 (the end date being two weeks after this strip debuted), being cancelled, the game would have been announced there and not in an online showcase a month earlier, thus this strip would have either debuted later or titled differently (if it were even made at all) had E3 2020 been able to go ahead as originally planned.
==The author writes:==
After Bowser's tragic death in a horrific kart accident, the Mario series went downhill.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{An elderly couple approaches Mario, who is laying on the ground}
Man: Look at that plumber
Woman: Too bad old Bowser isn't here
Man: He was a good Koopa
Woman: Old Bowser would have made a red and blue hat out of him
Man: Old Bowser would have made a Mario taco with him
{The old couple depart}
Woman: Yep, too bad old Bowser isn't here
Man: He was a good Koopa
Mario {thinking}: I hope they-a buried him deep
Category:Colin
Category:Video game references
Category:Jabs
4028: Smash Mouth All Gar

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Why did I create this? I don't know. I knew someone was going to make this at some point, so technically I've saved someone else's time by making this. You should be thanking me.
Anyway, fun facts.
There's only one strip where someone says the word "shooting" and it's the spider in 2000-09-14; the "All Star" came out of "all staring" in strip 1996-09-28. The "L on her" was taken from "fell on her" in 2006-02-25. I am very surprised the words "rockstar" and "glitter" have never appeared in a Garfield strip.
Please don't put this as an example of "Sanity Slippage" on TVTropes again. People have already done that with my SRoMGs and it makes me look crazy. I assure you I am completely sane and that any reasonable person could end up in the situation I am in and they could have done what I have done.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Some
Garfield: Body
Jon: Once
Jon: Told me...
Garfield: The world is
Jon: Gonna
Garfield: Roll me
Garfield: I ain't
Garfield: The
Jon: Sharp
Garfield: Est
Jon: Tool
Garfield: In the
Jon: She
Jon: She was looking
Garfield: Kind of
Garfield: Dumb with
Jon: Her
Jon: Finger
TV: And her
Jon: Thumb
Jon: In the
Garfield: Shape
Jon: Of an
Jon: L on her
Jon: Forehead...
Garfield: Well the
Garfield: Years
Garfield: Start
Garfield: Coming AND
Garfield: They don't
Garfield: Stop
Jon: Coming
Garfield: Fed to
Jon: The rules
Garfield: And you
Jon: Hit the
Irma: Ground
Garfield: Running,
Jon: Didn't
Garfield: Make
Garfield: Sense
Garfield: Not to
Garfield: Live for
Garfield: Fun
Garfield: Your brain
Jon: Gets
Jon: Smart
Mouse: But your
Garfield: Head
Garfield: Gets
Garfield: Dumb
Bee: So much to
Garfield: Do
Bee: So much to
Garfield: See so
Jon: What's wrong with
Garfield: Taking the
Garfield: Back
Jon: Streets
Garfield: You'll never know
Jon: If you don't go
Liz: You'll never
Jon: Shine
Goldfish: If you don't
Garfield: Glow
Jon: Hey now
Garfield: You're an
Garfield: All star
Garfield: Get your
Garfield: Game
Garfield: On go
Garfield: Play
Jon: Hey now
Garfield: You're a
Garfield: Rock
Garfield: Star
Intercom: Get the
Garfield: Show on
TV: Get paid
Garfield: And all that
Jon: Gli
Garfield: tters
Jon: Is gold
Garfield: Only
Spider: Shooting
Garfield: Stars
TV: Break the
Garfield: Mold
Category:Roytheshort
Category:Music references
402: Garfield Minus Pooky

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield's teddy bear, Pooky, was there, and had a smile drawn on him. Here, Pooky isn't there, so Garfield draws on the air somehow.
==The author writes==
I realise we've done these to death already but when today's comic (2010-05-05) was pointed out to me, I had to do it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is all alone}
Garfield: Cheer up, Pooky...
Garfield: Here, I have just the thing...
{Garfield draws a smile on the air}
Garfield: Better.
Category:Joe Mucchiello
4030: Pepperoni Dreaming

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Inspired by a thread in the forums, about how recent Garfield strips are not as inspiring for SRoMG strips as older ones, and a response pointing out how to make remixed jokes out of every strip published in the past 7 days.
Number two in the set of seven.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield has a pizza for a face}
Jon {looking at phone, also with a pizza for a face}: Wow
Jon: My weather app says this blizzard shows no sign of stopping
Jon: We could be snowed in here for a week
{beat, Odie appears, also with a pizza for a face}
Jon: What?
Garfield: Can't we just tunnel to the pharmacy for zit cream?
Category:David Morgan-Mar
4031: It's Time for Quirky Questions

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
How's this for a curveball?
I killed the joke, you can all go home now.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is reading a letter, like he has so many times before}
Letter: Dear Garfield, what is your favorite all-time film?
Garfield {looks to reader; smirks}: I don't watch movies.
{He leaves}
{...}
{...}
{...wait, what?}
Category:Crazy56U
4032: Wait, What?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This immediately came into mind when I read the original strip and it raises quite a few questions. Why does the fish talk? How can it survive in a hot costume? When did the fish replace Garfield? Is the honest-and-true-Garfield dead? More news at 11.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is looking at the fishbowl with a forlorn expression. Garfield, practically lifeless, stares on into the bowl}
Jon: I remember a happy fishbowl
Jon: I remember a frisky little fish
{Jon is practically on the verge of tears; there are bags under his eyes as he reminisces about his saltwater friend}
Jon: Where have all the memories gone?
{Jon shuffles away wistfully, thinking of the large fishbowl-shaped hole in his heart. But alas, "Garfield" takes off his head to reveal a face that was previously presumed deceased. The fish looks toward Jon with an evil glare, thinking of just what he's going to do next}
Fish: Mortal fool
Category:brntbcn
4033: Oh, I got a live one here

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
BAT BAT BAT BAT BAT
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon enjoys a cup of coffee}
SFX: Bat
SFX: Bat bat bat
SFX: Bat bat bat bat bat bat bat
SFX: {A whole lot of bats}
{Jon looks on in astonishment}
Jon {standing in front of a cave with a bat in his hair}: Stop making bats!
Category:Rennie
4034: Garfield Made Slightly Disturbing 2: Special Edition

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2013-05-19.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
SFX: SAW SAW SAW SAW SAW SA- {Blood splashes onscreen}
Jon {off-screen}: Oops
Jon {off-screen}: Boy, I hope that can be sewn back on
{Garfield looks shocked}
Jon {missing a hand, with blood dripping from the socket}: Hey, Garfield, I lost a hand... Garfield?
{Garfield has fainted}
Category:Jamz64
4036: Jon Anagram

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Jon is actually speaking gibberish, so I tried to use this anagram generator. Also, this is my first strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is dressed as a waiter}
Jon {speaking anagram}: Hue ploy
{Liz and her husband look wide-eyed}
Liz: Jon?... Is that you?
{Jon looks neutral}
Jon: Well... Uh... Yeah. What gave me away? The bad accent?
Liz {neutrally}: No...
{the camera slides to Garfield dressed as a busboy, but still for the other roles viewing in the panel}
{Jon looks wide-eyed. Everyone looks at Garfield. Liz's unnamed husband still looks wide-eyed}
Liz: Your busboy
Category:AflixaLabs
4037: Kill Liz: Vol. 2

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It was only as I was writing up the submission email that I realized I should make the yarn yellow.
Do I leave the hyphen in the transcript, or take it out because I don't have to break the word "anymore" across two lines? Either way, it is correct as Garfield uses it, which means the cat has a better grasp of punctuation than his owner does.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Ball of yarn
Garfield: Here, Jon
Jon: You know, I have a girlfriend this exact same color
Garfield: Not any-more
Category:Sloublues
Category:Film references
4038: The House on Shady Grove Lane

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I made this. I'm not sure what exactly it is, but I made it.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2008-11-15, 2018-04-29.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon {leaning into frame}: I don't want to be disturbed!
Garfield: Okay
{Beat, Jon has left the room}
{Beat}
{Beat}
{Beat}
{Beat}
{Beat}
{Beat}
{The room is now empty}
{An empty room}
{An empty room}
{An empty room}
{An empty room}
{An empty room}
{An empty room}
{The Arbuckle house. It is night. The bedroom light is on}
{It is day, but the house is still in bluish nighttime hues. The bedroom light is on}
{It is night. The bedroom light is on}
{It is night. The bedroom light is on}
{It is day, but the house is still in bluish nighttime hues. The bedroom light is on}
{An empty room}
{An empty room}
{An empty room}
{The Arbuckle house, at night. The bedroom light is on. Superimposed is the same house, dilapidated and abandoned}
{An empty room}
{An empty room}
{The Arbuckle house, at night. The bedroom light is off}
Jon: {Inside} Okay, Garfield, I'm done!
{The living room light is on}
Jon: {Inside} Garfield?
{All the lights are on}
Jon: {Inside} GARFIELD! SPEAK TO ME!
{An empty, dark room}
{Three panels of the house at night, fading to white. The living room light is on. Superimposed over each of Jon's speech bubbles is the phrase "Let me in!"}
Jon: {Inside} HUBERT! REBA! COME HERE, QUICK!
Jon: {Inside} OH GOD! HELP!
Jon: {Inside} HELP! SOMEBODY!
{An empty, grayish room. The panel is faded}
{An empty, grayish room. The panel is even more faded}
{A boarded-up house, surrounded by dead trees and gravestones. All the lights are on. The panel fades to a faint image of the first panel of June 19, 1978. The words "Have we dynamite?" are faintly outlined over the whole row}
Category:Henry Morel
4039: Really Imaginary Puzzle

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Jon has ascended into a new plane of dumb. Inspired by SRoMG #2551.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is standing on a table}
Jon: I don't want to be disturbed!
Garfield: Jon's working on a jigsaw puzzle
Garfield: Those âˆš(-1)-piecers can be vicious
{The fabric of space in front of the table has been ripped}
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Theepicosity
Category:Mojibake
403: Half-Panelled Garfield

==Explanation==
The concept is sufficiently explained, so for original contexts:
*The first two half-panels are from 1981, from a strip where Garfield was trying to mime an answer to the question of where he was last night.
*The 5th and 6th half-panels are from 1979, in which Garfield was pretending to choke because he didn't like his cat food.
*The 9th and 10th half-panels are from 1989, in a series of strips in which Garfield finds himself alone in an abandoned house. In this strip in particular, he thinks Jon and Odie have come home, only for both them and the food Jon offers to vanish before him.
*The remaining half-panels are from 1991, in a strip in which Garfield sleeps in various spots in and just outside the house.
==The author writes==
This is simply a collection of those rare split panels in Garfield, interspersed with the only 6-panel daily Garfield.
Original strip: , , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Z
Garfield: Z
Garfield: Gasp! Choke!
Garfield: Brack! Cough! Hack!
Garfield: Z
Garfield: Z
Garfield: Z
Garfield: Z
Garfield: The world is my bed.
Category:DanielBT
Category:Compilations
4040: Garfield watches Nick Jr.

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
With the new Garfield series coming to Nickelodeon, I think it's time to make Garfield get annoyed by Face, the original mascot on Nick Jr. from 1994 until 2004, as he is watching TV.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Face: Hi there, Face here. Welcome to Nick Jr. Brr Brr Brrrr
{Garfield sits staring at the TV}
{Garfield looks at the audience}
Category:MaisieMacKenzieFan2000
Category:Television references
Category:Jabs
4041: oh no

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original Webcomic Name strips: "Cat", "It's Animal Week".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I wonder whose glasses these are
{As Garfield dons the glasses, the scene changes to a blue void with an orange cat and a yellow dog}
Garfield: Alex Norris'
Category:Mr B Natural
Category:Webcomic references
4042: Shoes

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Dryer: BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP!
Jon: Okay, who put the shoe in the dryer?!
Dryer: BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP!
Jon: GARFIELD?!...
Dryer: BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP!
{Garfield enters from the right}
Garfield: Nope, it wasn't me
Dryer: BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP!
Jon: ODIE?!...
Dryer: BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP!
{caption reads "Odie is dead, no more funny cat comics"}
Category:LiquidZulu
4044: Disgusting

==Explanation==
This strip rewords the dialogue of the mice so that charitable causes are referenced. This strip gives names to two of the mice, Rip on the left and Bob on the right; the middle mouse is unnamed.
The WWF acronym is explained in the author's notes, primarily for those who may have last heard of the wrestling promotion prior to their rebrand as World Wrestling Entertainment. The last bubble makes mention of masks for medical workers; this dialogue makes this the first of three straight days' worth of Square Root of Minus Garfield strips to make some sort of reference to the then-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, in this case a safety measure intended to protect people.
==The author writes:==
It's the World Wildlife Fund, not the World Wrestling Federation.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Rip: What do you guys want to do today?
Bob: Let's protest climate change!
Rip: Nah, let's give food to a homeless shelter
Bob: Or donate to the WWF
Garfield: You're disgusting
Rip: It's a living
Bob: Or make masks for medical workers?
Category:autumn
Category:Real world references
4045: Garfield plus current events

==Explanation==
This strip makes reference to the then-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the second of a three-day stretch of Square Root of Minus Garfield strips making some sort of reference to said pandemic, by having Jon reveal he's surprised that his cat has yet to contract the disease; a slight reword of the first panel (which originally referenced Jon having a cold) and a mask drawn onto Garfield in the third panel are used to create the COVID-19 related context. A link within the transcript was designed to lead to information to encourage readership to take precautionary measures.
Comparison between this remixed strip and the original Garfield strip could potentially create an interpretation of this strip implying Jon had come down with COVID-19, the spread of which could create Jon's expectation that Garfield might have also come down with the disease during the time Jon was infected.
==The author writes:==
I couldn't resist after randomly stumbling upon this comic.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {to Garfield}: I'm surprised you haven't caught corona yet
Jon: Are you even listening to me?
Garfield {looking up, revealing he is taking precautions and wearing a face mask}: Pardon?
Category:twinec
Category:Real world references
4046: Garfield Almost Plus Proper Social Distancing

==Explanation==
This strip sees the author having drawn a mask onto Liz as a protection measure against the then-ongoing wikipedia:COVID-19 pandemic, this strip being the third of three consecutive days of Square Root of Minus Garfield making references to the pandemic; this strip had a quick turnaround (less than a month) from the original Garfield strip, which itself first ran a little more than two months after COVID-19 had been declared a pandemic and already implemented references to social distancing measures. Jon not wearing a mask in public, as the setup implies, could potentially send multiple varying messages based on one's viewpoint (politically-driven anti-mask movements were already active by even when the original Garfield strip first ran), but as Jon has never been the brightest bulb in the shed, the intended interpretation of both original and remixed strips is that of the reckless behavior one might typically expect of Jon.
==The author writes:==
For those in the future to whom this is (hopefully) baffling, hopefully this link is still functional and will do enough to explain this strip.
Challenge: Spot the pun in the filename I chose for this strip ("DoYouLoveOrHateMagpiesCrowsAndBlueJays.png").
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz {wearing surgical mask}: Let's go out
Jon {not wearing a mask}: Okay! {he ZOOMS off panel}
{beat panel}
Liz: I meant together!
Garfield {spotting the problem given the current situation}: Think, Liz. Think
Category:Lubaf
Category:Real world references
4047: Not Quite What It Seems

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
You know, my great uncle Ed always tells stories of his time in the Pastel War. Never heard of it? Not surprising, it didn't really go anywhere and it fizzled out within a few months. But for such an obscure war, a lot of stuff happened during that time. For example, one of his bunkmates was very, shall we say, simple. Sometimes, wherever Ed got bored, he pranked the man by telling him that something was something else, and he'd believe him every time. To this day, Ed cracks himself up thinking of the time he tried to use his shoe as a key. Even if he knew what it was before, Ed would come along to "correct" him. Poor guy never made it past the second week, when Ed convinced him that a used napkin was his helmet. I sometimes wonder where that man would be if he was still around.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: This is a donut
Jon {peeking from the left}: That is a carrot
Garfield {standing corrected}: This is a carrot
Category:Cartoonosaurus Rex