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2257: Pie Form Coming Right Up

==Explanation==
The original comic started with a panel in which Jon called Garfield. This panel was removed, and the last panel replicated and edited. A border was added to the new first panel and removed from the new second panel.
In the third panel:
* A pie was edited in from another strip. This pie had a red filling, edited here to be roughly the color of apple pie filling.
* The eyes from the new first panel were replicated and flipped for the third, and the pupils moved.
* A "don't" was added to Garfield's thought balloon, with dialogue moved to accommodate.
Thus we see Garfield getting what he prefers, just not in the way he prefers it. Whether or not the Garfield & Friends theme ("surprises and pies of all sizes", anyone?) provided inspiration is currently unclear, but the author has (at least after the fact) made the connection.
==The author writes:==
Original strips: (base), (pie), (don't).
==Transcript==
{Jon presents an apple to Garfield...}</br>
Jon: Surprise! It's an apple!</br>
{...and leaves}</br>
Garfield: I prefer my surprises in pie form!</br>
{A large apple pie is poised to strike; a splut is about to occur}</br>
Garfield: I don't prefer my surprises in pie form!
Category:Nyperold
2258: Fatso

==Explanation==
Garfield shredded Jon's shirt cause Jon called him Fatso. Here, Garfield made Jon become fat by calling him Fatso.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: with help from 
==Transcript==
Jon: Hello, Fatso
Garfield: Hello, Fatso
{Jon becomes fat}
Jon: Whoa
Category:Mr B Natural
2259: Platefield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I think Jon has finally found a way to win the Donut Wars...
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{A donut is left on a plate in the middle of the table, with a sign above it}
Sign: JON'S PLATE
{Garfield walks by the donut}
Sign: JON'S PLATE
{Jon returns to the donut to find that Garfield has only eaten the plate, due to his neverending greed. His only goal is to take away what Jon holds dear, and Jon has implied that he cares about the plate much more than the donut. Jon smirks}
Sign: GARFIELD ATE
Sign: JON'S PLATE
Category:Wibi
Category:Donut Wars
225: Jon - Why Jon Can't Go Grocery Shopping

==Explanation==
All that has been changed here is that the "stems" of Jon and Garfield's dialogue balloons are now coming from the other character, with the dialogue in the first panel altered accordingly, making it seem like Garfield is the owner and Jon is the pet.
==The author writes:==
There are some people you just can't take with you anywhere.
Original Comic: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: That's the last time I take you to the grocery store, Jon.
Garfield: I've never been so humiliated in all my life.
Jon: (Off Panel) So I ate the pastry section, big deal.
Category:Michael Stangeland
Category:Joke reversal
2260: Garfield plus all-too-predictable consequences

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Garfield never spoke of what horrors he found in that dumpster.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: When I'm in one of my crazy moods, anything can happen!
{Garfield dives head-first into a garbage dumpster}
{Some time later, Garfield is in the bath with his face entirely obscured by the running hot shower. He is scrubbing hard to clean off whatever unspeakable things he had contaminated himself with.}
Category:Andrew Collier
2261: Irma Juice

==Explanation==
In the original, the health department had forbidden Irma from serving anything but water, as long as she doesn't use one of her glasses. Undaunted, she serves water in her hands. Garfield doesn't think there's a straw long enough to make this a good idea.
Imagine, then, the health department's reaction to this edit, in which Irma puts her blood, sweat, and tears into her work. Normally a metaphor for determination, Jon is disturbed -- probably retroactively over many meals -- to find that Irma means it quite literally. But at least she can still put her own blood into a glass.
The title may be a pun on the title Irma la Douce (Irma the Sweet), but not otherwise connected. One hopes.
==The author writes:==
I actually have a list of a dozen or so SRoMG ideas that I've been putting off for a very long time. This one is not from that list. Rather, it was spontaneous inspiration that I got from reading today's (Mar 27, 2015) strip on Garfield.com.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Irma: I always put my blood, sweat and tears into my work
{Irma presumably walks into the kitchen.}
Irma: Unfortunately, I'm all out of sweat and tears
{Irma comes back, her hands covered in what seems to be blood. Jon is shocked.}
Irma: Would you like a glass for this, hon?
Garfield: Irma needs a new therapist
Category:WatchYourMother
2262: Reversed Decayfield Redux

==Explanation==
This strip refers to 2158, where Garfield's decay in the original strip is reversed, making him seem to be a skeleton, but gradually turn into a cat, until the Pizza arrives, where Garfield "reverts" to a skeleton.
This strip in particular takes that particular edit one step further; instead of making Garfield revert to a skeleton, Garfield instead turns into a younger version of himself, particularly, a version of him as a kitten.
==The author writes:==
SRoMG 2158 claims to be 'Reversed Decayfield', but Garfield is decayed by the last panel. A REAL Reversed Decayfield would go further.
As such we see here the logical conclusion, kitten!Garfield.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and a skeleton are waiting at the window}
{the skeleton slowly morphs into Garfield}
Jon: Pizza's here!
{Garfield is now a kitten}
Category:Levellass
2263: First Garfield in Haiku

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Garfield in haiku. This was the first Garfield strip. Is it funnier?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm John. He's Garfield.
Garfield: I am Garfield. He is Jon.
Jon: Entertain.
Garfield: Feed me.
Category:DarthAlex314
2264: Gnorm Gnatfield

==Explanation==
This strip essentially fuses the first Garfield Christmas strip with the final strip of Gnorm Gnat, which had been published three years prior to the depicted Garfield strip. The author's notes explain the then-scarcity of known information about Gnorm Gnat, with the authors explaining how they managed to observe the original Gnorm Gnat strip for themselves. As information about Gnorm Gnat was then scarce (and information about its successor, Jon, even scarcer), it was unknown at the time this strip first ran that this particular Gnorm Gnat was in fact the final one; it would take the complete archive of Gnorm Gnat--and arguably, also the complete archive of Jon, which began two weeks after Gnorm Gnat ended--resurfacing to reveal this detail.
The original submission did not originally include the image of the final Gnorm Gnat strip; that was added further down the line.
This strip may have helped lead to the entire archive of Gnorm Gnat to eventually resurface, much in the same vein as (and possibly helped by) 3170: Embryonic Garfield did for Gnorm Gnat's successor Jon.
==The author writes:==
Before Jim Davis made Garfield, he actually had a strip called Gnorm Gnat. Information on the internet is currently extremely scarce, and all we really know online is that it exists. What doesn't help was that the only paper that accepted it was the local paper for Pendleton, Indiana.
As a result, scanned strips are incredibly scarce, the only real way to see them being the ones lucky enough that got on the dates you see on microfiche films at the local library there. So, this seems like a lost cause, right?
...Well, I happen to live close to that location.
As a result, I got to see these strips! There was actually a few things to talk about. There was a shady dealer who reminds me of Bubs from H*R, whose name was Lyman. I saw a strip where Gnorm was watching TV and got told he'd be seeing a word from the show's sponsors, and then they'd go back to airing the show. Cue the sponsor saying a word, and they go back. . Wonder if any die-hard fans wanna dig up that particular 1975 strip, and then edit it so we get it to use that word?
Either way, because of the scarceness of the strip scans, I can't exactly show the Gnorm strip I used, but I can tell you its date (December 25th, 1975.) Also, I can sure say that the one-newspaper-accepted thing actually made specials that referred to the readers a lot more directly!
(P.S. If this manages to get enough SRoMG readers to try and use the microfiche and see the strips, and it gets in the local paper... I will probably laugh so hard, and both have hopes this will get these strips scanned.)
EDIT: There are now scans of Gnorm Gnat from the microfiche! The one used in this strip is shown below.
Original Gnorm Gnat strip: 1975-12-25.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: This is my very first Christmas...
Garfield: I hope you have a loved one to spend today with, because I do.
Garfield: Thanks, Pendleton.
Caption: Merry CHRISTMAS
Category:Camwoodstock & Tori
Category:Gnorm Gnat
2265: Garfield Abridged

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Because the original was wasteful of panel space, again.
(And no, this is not a reference to any of the many "The Abridged Series".)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {To Robot Cat} Robots will never replace cats.
{Robot cat has fallen asleep}
Garfield: The technology is more advanced then I thought!
Category:Lubaf
2266: Public Service Announcement

==Explanation==
The author swapped Jon's guess and what Garfield says it is.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Kids</br>
Garfield {points toward Jon}: Don't let this happen to you.</br>
Jon: Was that a public service announcement?</br>
Garfield: No, that was an insult.
Category:Joke reversal
Category:Negative N
2267: Anti-Jon's Donut

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
After seeing comic #2107, I knew I had to do this. I'll be very surprised if another author hasn't sent in a similar submission within a few hours of mine.
Original SRoMG strips: 1967, 2107, and pretty much every other Jon's Donut variation.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{An anti-plate sits on an anti-table.}
{Anti-Garfield walks in.}
{A donut is now sitting on the anti-plate, with an anti-sign reading "Jon's Donut", with a bar above "Jon's" to signify anti-Jon. Anti-Jon looks apprehensive.}
Category:Riley
Category:Donut Wars
2268: LaserDisc

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==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, 1978 Garfield has heard that a lot has happened since 1978, like disco dying. Garfield doesn't believe the old Garfield until he sees Jon dancing.
Here, '78 Garfield heard that disco died in 1978, but Jon walks in, dancing, holding a LaserDisc. LaserDisc has been introduced in 1978 and was basically the predecessor to DVD. In Southeast Asia, LaserDisc was largely a failure, despite superior audiovisual quality to its competitors. 
==The author writes:==
LaserDisc was introduced in 1978 and was basically the predecessor to DVD. Despite superior audiovisual quality to its competitors, it was largely a failure (outside of Southeast Asia). When I heard its alternate/original name, Disco-Vision, this popped into my head immediately. 
Original strips: (main strip), and , (additional elements}. LaserDisc Image from 
from Wikipedia.
Category:Fußmatte
226: Fluffy

==Explanation==
While Jon bluntly points out the giant cat who replaces Garfield in this strip, the original has Jon yelling "giant rat", presumably about Odie being shaven by Garfield. This turns the cat's line into a non-sequitur.
==The author writes:==
I was intrigued by the very brief appearance of a large, very Garfield-like cat in a couple of early Garfields, called "Fluffy". He was so similar I couldn't help but see him as a kind of parallel Garfield. The original strips are and .
==Transcript==
Jon: {running} Giant cat!
{beat}
Fluffy: {a huge blue cat} Did I mention I shaved Odie?
Category:Wes White
2270: And the winner is...

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Perhaps you wonder why the room the vacuum cleaner is in is clean and not cat hair filled. The answer: vacuums are evil beings who only work for themselves.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield, hair is piling up around them}
Jon: The vacuum cleaner has worn out
{Garfield stares down at the large pile of hair he has been shedding, now filling the room}
{The vacuum sits in a clean room}
Vacuum {thinking}: I win!
Category:JohnGames
2271: :D

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Bonus strip: use the first panel from #1653 instead.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Here's your dinner, Garfield.
Garfield: How about service with a smile?
{Jon has a very goofy grin}
Garfield: I hope this food is safe to eat.
Category:Densetsu Bros
2272: Naugahyde

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Naugas were an actual thing, used to promote Naugahyde in the 60s and 70s. They can shed their skin, making the use of their hides possible without slaughter. Garfield (or perhaps Jim Davis) clearly didn't know this.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon puts a leash on Garfield}
Jon: There you are, Garfield. A genuine Naugahyde leash.
Garfield: How inhumane! How cruel!
Garfield: Do you know how many Naugas had to shed to make this leash?
Category:pookypal
Category:Real world references
2273: 3:16, Five Years Later

==Explanation==
This strip is essentially a continuation of 666: 3:16, showing the next five years' worth of panels in line with the pattern established in #666.
==The author writes:==
A follow-up to Henning Makholm's 3:16. This one samples the strips from the last five years. No improvement in the visuals department, however.
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Odie pants}
TV: Bob... something
Garfield: The years are catching up with Sherlock
Garfield: Cat wisdom
Jon: There
Garfield: We're bachelors, baby
Jon: Good night, Garfield
Garfield: Good night, Jon
Category:NES Boy
2274: Mice Mice Baby

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It's not actually 4,732 mice. I wonder if the other 4,731 mice are hiding in plain sight.
(Ed: The pattern of the mice in this one reminds me of classic Dreamcast puzzle game ChuChu Rocket!.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: How many mice are in there?
Mouse: Let's see...
Mouse: 4,732.
Garfield: Where's everybody else?
{Mouse pops his head out of the mouse hole}
{Clones of the mouse come in from the sides of the panel}
Category:bigyihsuan
Category:Music references
Category:Video game references
2275: Coming Down With A Code

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When I first read the original strip as a kid, I didn't immediately get that the "code" Garfield was talking about was actually a stuffed-up way of saying "cold". With that in mind, why not make Garfield "come down" with an ACTUAL code (Wingdings in this case)? You can even try to solve it like a cryptogram!... or you can cheat and look up the original text.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: â¬§â– â™“â™â™
Garfield: â–¡â™’ â™Žâ–¡â™! â™“'â â™â—†â™Œâ™Œâ™“â– â™‘ â™Žâ–¡â¬¥â– â¬¥â™“â™Ž â™‹ â™â–¡â™Žâ™
Garfield: â—â–¡â–¡â™‘, â™“ â™â™‹â– â™’â™‹â’â™Žâ—â“ â™â™Œâ™Œâ™â– â—†â– â™Žâ™â’â¬§â§«â™‹â™Ž â™Œâ“ â–¡â¬¥â– â§«â™’â–¡â—†â™‘â™’â§«â¬§
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding update; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Redhead64
Category:Mojibake
2276: Garfield Minus Cartoon Physics

==Explanation==
This strip essentially takes the original Garfield strip and reworks the outcome to be more realistic, in this case the fridge falling onto Garfield ended up killing him. Due to the nature of Square Root of Minus Garfield, this death thankfully didn't stick.
==The author writes:==
I saw strip #1070 and what the description said about Cartoon Physics, thereby introducing this idea to me. The "speheheheak" is supposed to be a reference to SpongeBob.
With help from SRoMG #997.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Title panel: Garfield, the Caped Avenger, has attempted to take flight off the kitchen table, but Odie has stepped on his cape in mid-jump, leaving our hero hanging. Frustrated, the Caped Avenger decides to take his anger out on us, the readers, instead of Odie.}
Garfield: You should be drug out into the street and shot. I know everyone's IPs.
{Garfield peeks into the kitchen and spots the cookie jar on top of the fridge. A disclaimer appears below:}
Note: Garfield is a cat and does not really know your IP.
{Garfield throws a grappling hook behind the refrigerator and puts one of his back paws on the fridge, starting to climb it. Suddenly, the fridge starts to lean.}
SFX: KREEEEEEEK
{Frightened, Garfield's eyes widen and his ears pull back, just before the fridge falls on top of him with a resounding...}
SFX: THUD
{Smoke rises up from the green refrigerator. Garfield has been crushed to death.}
Jon: What the $+#% was that? *gasp* GARFIELD!?
{Jon shouts Garfield's name, but unlike the other times, not out of fury. This time, out of concern and worry. Jon pulls Garfield's flattened corpse out from under the fridge and is holding it in disbelief.}
Jon: GARFIELD! SPEAK TO ME!
{Jon is in tears.}
Jon: SPEHEHEHEAK!!
{A tribute panel with white text on black reads:}
R.I.P.
Garfield Horatio Arbuckle Cat III, Esq.
June 19, 1978 - April 25, 2015
He hated Mondays, even though he had no job.
Category:Muchacho1994
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2277: Buttered Cat Paradox

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is based on the buttered cat paradox.
When I first thought up this idea, I wasn't really sure how to go about doing it, but then I remembered that David Morgan-Mar had the Mythbusters theme on Irregular Webcomic! and the rest flowed naturally.
Original Irregular Webcomic!s: #910, #960, #980.
Panel three original comic: Buttered cat paradox.
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
Adam: What myth are we busting today, Jamie?
Jamie: Today we are testing the buttered cat paradox.
Jamie: According to the myth (and Wikipedia), the paradox is "a common tongue-in-cheek joke based on two adages."
Adam: And what might those two adages be?
{a cartoon illustration of a cat with a piece of buttered toast strapped to his back awaiting landing}
Jamie: "Cats always land on their feet" and "Buttered toast always lands buttered side down."
Jamie: To help test this theory, we have brought in a very special guest.
{Garfield, with a piece of buttered toast strapped to his back, jumps down onto the floor}
{Garfield suddenly stops in mid-air}
{Garfield starts spinning uncontrollably}
SFX: POW!
Adam and Jamie: Myth confirmed!
Category:Cody
Category:mezzacotta references
Category:Television references
2278: Day Tripper

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Granted, I could've made Yesterday!Garfield look a little less compressed. But my justification for the compression is due to possible time distortion on Yesterday!Garfield's part thanks to there being two Garfields within the same space.
Just pray that Present!Garfield doesn't turn around lest we get some Project Almanac nonsense with (SPOILERS) Garfield erasing himself from the timeline by seeing his past self.
Trust me, we don't want another Project Almanac on our hands. One is enough, and that is already bad.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield approaches his bed}
Garfield: Now to enter my time travel machine.
{Garfield climbs in, pulling his blanket over his head}
Garfield: Z
{suddenly, the bed vanishes...}
{...as we cut to the next day, as Jon is serving Liz and Garfield burgers}
Jon: (plopping an extremely charred burger onto Liz's plate) Here you go! Hot off the grill!
{cut to Liz}
Liz: (visibly disgusted) I wouldn't feed this to a dog.
{cut to a wider shot, showing a shocked Liz, a neutral looking Garfield, a barely visible Odie... and Yesterday!Garfield with his time travel machine}
Present!Garfield: I would.
Odie: (munch munch munch)
Yesterday!Garfield: And just like that, it's tomorrow!
Category:Crazy56U
2279: Joe Root of Minus Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This was originally longer, but really the entirety of the joke is in the title so I didn't see any point in just repeating it over and over. This isn't The Onion.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Joe Root: Do you remember Steve Smith, that guy I caught out once?
Category:Manyhills
Category:Internet references
Category:Real world references
227: Less Humour, More Story!

==Explanation==
As explained by the author, this is a group of strips with their punchline panels removed, thereby increasing the plot-to-humor ratio.
==The author writes:==
Garfield is full of little multi-strip stories. I wanted to make something based on that fact. Removing the last panels of strips and then smashing them together is an obvious method for creating a more story-centred continuum. These simple methods never actually do just what they should, but the results are double the fun. And who would want more story-centred Garfield anyhow?
Stirps: , , , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Yawn.
SFX: CHONK {Garfield gets his upper jaw caught on a tree branch}
Garfield: How in the world am I gonna get out of this?
Garfield: Maybe if I just closed my mouth...
Garfield: I really don't think this is exactly the way to get me down, Odie.
Garfield: Why don't you try something else?
{Odie tries pulling down on the branch}
Garfield: Congratulations, Odie! You did something right for a change!
Garfield: Well, Odie, you almost broke every bone in my body, but you did get me down from the tree.
Garfield: Someday I hope to do the same for you.
Category:qvaak
Category:Continuity
Category:Joke removal
2280: Pizza Number One

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In the 10,000th Garfield strip, Garfield admits to ordering pizza 10,000 times. This means he ordered his first pizza in the first strip.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hi, there... I'm Jon Arbuckle. I'm a cartoonist, and this is my cat, Garfield.
Garfield: BIP BIP BOOP BEEP BEEP BEEP BOOP
Jon: Welcome to Luigi's pizza... If you'd like a pizza, touch one...
Garfield: One.
Category:Teemu Hautala
2281: Garcissism

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Whereas removing Garfield (the cat) from Garfield (the strip) reveals that Jon is a hopeless bachelor dwindling into a sad state of apathetic depression, removing Jon from Garfield (the strip) reveals just how much of a self-centered and pompous narcissist Garfield (the cat) is. It also makes it evident how extreme in difference the two personality types are.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I'm the best!
Garfield: I'm the best!
Category:MadDogBV
2282: Garfield plus a twenty years old advert

==Explanation==
This strip essentially recreates the core of the Budweiser Frogs campaign, which initially ran from 1995-2000, using core Garfield characters in place of the frogs; the strip's title references the strip itself coming twenty years after the advertising campaign began.
==The author writes:==
Other brands of fizzy yellow chilled hooch are available.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Odie are sat on a sofa. Each opens their mouth absurdly wide when they speak.}
Garfield: Bud!
Odie: Weis!
{Jon joins the scene}
Jon: Er!
Category:Andrew Collier
Category:Advertising references
2283: XXXL

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I wanted to emphasise the "large" part of Jon's order (and PBF is a great web comic :))
Original Perry Bible Fellowship: #96.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: {on phone} I'd like to order a large anchovy, onion, and garlic pizza
Jon: {on phone} Make it an xxxtra-large
{A giant robot with a pizza box stands on the North American continent}
Giant robot: {on phone} I'm AT the blue and green planet, but I still don't see you.
Garfield: We'll starve!
Category:Renke
Category:Non-Garfield comics
Category:Webcomic references
2284: Garfield Must Die(t)!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
(Yes, this is named after the Robbie Coltrane movie)
This strip is obviously a prequel to either SRoMG #1683 or #2000. Or maybe an interquel between them, if you mentally edit Garfield to say "I'm going to be dead tomorrow...".
Original strip: }.
==Transcript==
Garfield: I'm going to die tomorrow...
{Garfield pigs out on a vast amount of food}
Garfield: {finishing a cookie} No need to stick to my diet!
Category:Lubaf
Category:Film references