nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
2921: Show Me

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Mouser image from the Super Mario Wiki; Mouser image from The Spriters' Resource (sprite ripped by Tom Guycott). Both are used only as a vehicle for parody.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: A mouse! Get it!
{Garfield idly watches the mouse run by.}
Jon: Garfield! You didn't even try!
{Garfield glares back before resting his head on folded forelegs on the footstool.}
Garfield: Show me a good mouser...
{A mouser chases Mouser past.}
Garfield: A...
{Garfield is stunned mid-word by what he sees.}
Category:Nyperold
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
Category:Video game references
2922: Mouser

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
That's a classic 87-96 TMNT Mouser there, of course.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{a Mouser runs past Garfield in the living room}
Jon: A Mouser! Get it!
Jon: Garfield! You didn't even try!
Garfield: Show me a bad Mouser, and I'll show you a cat with good breath.
Category:JLH
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2923: Garfield Minus Garfield Beginnings

==Explanation==
In this edit of the first original Garfield strip, Garfield has been removed from the strip (as well as the second and third panels) and Jon introduces himself because he's a cartoonist and he wants to be fed. Jon points to... well, nothing in a drawer board.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hi there, I'm Jon Arbuckle. I'm a cartoonist. Feed me.
Category:GullWingDoors
2924: Unteased

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Sequel to #2724: Teaser, of course. I won't be surprised if this gets rejected because too similar to 47 billion other submissions.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sleeping in bed.}
Garfield: Z
{Garfield wakes up.}
Garfield: I was sleeping. I am now awake.
Caption: WHAT A TWIST!
Category:PartyEscortBotBeans
2925: I I I I I I I I I I said I wanna sit down

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I couldn't resist an overt(ure) Phil Collins referenâ€”wait a minute.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield, with his right eye closed, fires from a bow}
SFX: TWANGâ™ª
SFX: THOT!
Jon: {off-panel} Ha! Missed again! That's four!
Jon: {with four suction-cup arrows on his face and an apple in his hair} Now it's my turn to be William Tell
Garfield: Ahh, Friday night
==Trivia==
This strips transcript and author's notes were hit with 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:DEIDATVM
Category:Music references
Category:Mojibake
2927: Thinking of otters

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
There's no real deep reason for this strip's existence, I just couldn't resist the visual pun. Though I like to think this alters the strip's tone. The original strips provides the basic 'Garfield is narcissistic' joke, while the SRoMG strip based on it plays it straight. This strip on the other hand suggests that Garfield has legitimate difficulties with imagining random things.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2017-01-23.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: You should try thinking of otters
{Garfield thinks of Ted the Squirrel}
Jon: How's it going?
Garfield: This is going to take some time
Category:Levellass
2928: Jon the Bully

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Behold, I have turned the geeky Jon Arbuckle into a big meanie who looks down at others!
In the original strip, the guy in the sand had a girlfriend and Jon almost took her away from him. Yes, Jon Arbuckle was so desperate for a girlfriend that he would steal one from some other loser.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon throws sand at a guy who is completely beneath the sand, save his head and a hand}
Jon: Go pound sand, you little twerp.
{Jon watches in horror as the guy gets up from the sand to reveal that he is not as wimpy as Jon assumed}
{now Jon is completely beneath the sand, save his feet; Garfield and Odie look at each other disapprovingly}
Garfield: No digging in the sand, he says.
Category:dayaman
2929: Infinite Jonst

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
MR. VEALS: Plus the kid market's a frigging horror show. Near every species was copyrighted. Garfield. McGruff the freaking crime dog. Toucan Sam. The O.N.A.N. bird of prey. Let's not even get into the bears or bunnies. It was basically either an ass or a cockroach. (p880)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
TV: News flash! A herd of feral hamsters is terrorizing the Great Concavity!
TV: Wide berth advised. Carry nothing even remotely vegetablish.
Jon: Oh, great!
Garfield: There goes his weekend
Category:Manyhills
Category:Reference unknown
292: Clobberin' Time

==Explanation==
"It's clobberin time!" is the catchphrase of Benjamin Grimm, known as "The Thing", of the Marvel superhero team The Fantastic Four. His use in this strip seems to have been inspired by the "CLOBBER!" in the last panel.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
Thing image from http://itsclobberingtime.blogspot.com/
==Transcript==
SFX: BARK! {Odie barks and Garfield falls face first into his food dish}</br>
SFX: splat!</br>
The Thing: It's clobberin' time!</br>
SFX: CLOBBER! {Garfield clobbers Odie into his own food dish}</br>
SFX: splat!
Category:Commie Pinko Dirtbag
Category:Comic book references
2930: Disgustingly Logical Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Yes, this is incredibly stupid. Yes, I should know better. Yes, I did it anyway. No, I have nothing to say in my defense, and have no further comments at this time.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Nothing in the human body disgusts me, Garfield.
Garfield: Look, a booger.
{Jon faints}
Garfield: Although, that might not be a valid counter-argument, since it came from a cat.
Category:Lubaf
2932: Reaperfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I hate it when you smile
Jon: Whenever you smile something bad happens
Jon: But, maybe I'm just paranoid
Reaperfield: Release the anvil
Jon: {dejectedly} Nobody will go out with me on New Year's
Reaperfield: Don't feel bad, Jon
Reaperfield: They wouldn't go out with you even if it weren't New Year's
SFX: pat pat pat pat
Jon: What was that?
Jon: I thought I heard something
Reaperfield: Oh, that...
Reaperfield: That was just the sound of my life force being sucked into a shrieking vortex of infinite boredom
Jon: There it is again
Category:Paarthursnax
Category:Reference unknown
2933: Ask Me Another

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
With the number of pudding pop comics... you have to wonder about Garfield's response.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Mouse: They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
Garfield: I don't know
Mouse: Okay
Garfield: Now, thereâ€™s a question you don't ask every day
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Andrew Askew
Category:Mojibake
2934: Asleep

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
C'mon, who hasn't fallen asleep watching TV with their eyes still open? Haven't you seen the garbage that is on TV lately? What, only me?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Six panels of Garfield staring at the TV, not moving}
{Seventh panel, still not moving}
Garfield: zzzzz...
Category:Michael C. Fortner
2935: Irregular Callback!

==Explanation==
This strip takes the idea of three particular Irregular Webcomic! strips about there being a sizable number of webcomics out there and drops it into a Garfield strip that originally invoked the The Internet is for Cats trope, implying that the Internet's primary purpose is for webcomics as opposed to cat videos or pornography. The strip's title is also a play on the title of Irregular Webcomic!.
==The author writes:==
I saw today's comic (at the time of submission) and immediately thought of Irregular Webcomic! #1, #1129 and #3182. So I thought I'd do an Irregularfield 4-except-not/callback.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Ha ha ha!
Jon: There sure are a lot of comics on the Internet.
Garfield: Of course...
Garfield: That's why it was invented.
Category:Redgreen
Category:mezzacotta references
2936: The Garfield Story

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
So, I decided to try and make something with the strips that came out on my birthday (but going by fives, for simplicity). However, with the strips I got, I grabbed the panels that seemed the most interesting to me, and cobbled them together to make... this.
And, truth be told, I think I accidentally created something akin to the trailer of a drama.
Think about it: at first, it seems like Garfield's happy. He's got a home, an owner, a girlfriend, the means for entertainment, and so on and so forth. But then, we see that Garfield isn't happy, given how nonplussed he is about telling a snowman it's going to eventually melt. And then, at the end, he gleefully turns to crime.
I think I created a dramatic narrative without trying. ...well, either that or I pulled a Game Theory and have over-analyzed irrelevant things and jumped to an out-there/stupid conclusion (a la the "Mario is Mental" two-parter)...
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is listening in shock}
Voice: Congratulations! You've saved the princess!
{cut to the living room}
{Jon leans in, upset, and looks at Garfield, who's smiling at him while holding the controller}
{cut to Garfield and Arline at the fence}
Arline: You smell like you've been rolling around in a dumpster behind a fish store.
Garfield: {patting the back of his head} Jealous...
{cut to Garfield standing on the fence, indignant, at night}
Garfield: I have a right to sing the blues!
{cut to a winter setting}
Garfield: {to a snowman, with a neutral expression} Someday it will warm up.
Garfield: {arms raised, still with a neutral expression} And you will melt into a puddle of water.
{cut to Jon being interrupted at dinner by Garfield, in a robber outfit, armed with a banana}
Garfield: STICK 'EM UP!
Category:Crazy56U
2937: The Mustache

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidntThinkThisThrough
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield wears a mustache as a clever disguise}
Garfield: This masterfully crafted mustache should disguise me as Roy Gato for sure-
{Evil Jon enters, angry looking}
Evil Jon: Wait a minute... where was your mustache before?!!
{Garfield makes a run for it}
Garfield: -Although it might've worked better better if he hadn't seen me mustacheless earlier!
Category:Ardoku
2938: Aisle 10

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original song: "Aisle 10 (Hello, Allison)" by Scapegoat Wax.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {on the phone}: Hello, Allison, I wanna hold your hand
Jon: I haven't been the same man since I saw you coming in...
Jon: WAIT, DON'T HANG UP!
Garfield: So much for the girl in Aisle 10.
Category:PriffyViole
Category:Music references
2939: I'd have pegged him as more of a Gibson Flying V man

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon glued a blender to his face. In this Square Root of Minus Garfield running gag, Jon has glued a Fender Stratocaster to his face.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
{Jon has a Fender Stratocaster glued to his face}
Jon: I glued a Fender to my face. 
Garfield {surprised}: Whoa! 
{Jon leaves} 
Garfield: Is it Saturday night already?
Category:Vaughn
293: i

==Explanation==
In the original strip... wait, 404 Not Found? Let's check the date again. That's right, the author(s) gave us a date of February 29 during a standard year, i.e., one in which February only has 28 days. As this date doesn't exist in our system, so too, the author claimed, are square roots of a negative number. Here's why.
For any real number n, n² is nonnegative. This is because, when you square a number, you're always multiplying two numbers with the same sign, and if that number isn't 0, you always get a positive number. To get a negative number from squaring, you have to use imaginary numbers.
To represent an imaginary comic, the author(s), in addition to giving an invalid date, made the strip completely transparent.
For a more comprehensive explanation of imaginary numbers, click this link.
==The author writes:==
What is the square root of a minus number? It doesn't exist*. So this is a nonexistant comic. Yeah.
Original strip: 0000-00-00.
* Footnote added by site admin, because I know someone will complain if I don't: At least not in the real numbers.
==Transcript==
{A totally transparent image the size of a Garfield comic strip}
==Trivia==
The alleged date of the "original strip" was originally programmed as the non-existent date 1999-02-29; that date is non-existent because only leap years have a February 29, and 1999 was not a leap year. Changes to the workings of the Square Root of Minus Garfield site have broken the logic behind the original joke and instead render the "original strip"'s alleged date as the equally non-existent 0000-00-00 (one of two strips still crediting that date after a number of other strips bearing that error had it corrected, the other being 5195: Still Garf And Roll To Me); that date is itself non-existent because the year 0 does not exist in most civil calendar systems, including the Gregorian calendar currently in usage in most of the world and the Julian calendar that preceded it and was in usage during the year 1 BCE, the year that in reality preceded the year AD 1.
Category:Tom Field+Jonathan Sandman
Category:Math-based jokes
Category:0000-00-00
Category:1999-02-29
Category:Content-free strips
2940: LOL SAVAGE!!!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Jon's disco skills aren't THAT cringey, Garf. Remember, "when you're feeling low, there's a little dance that you can do!" Oh, yeah, the dance is what you're upset over, isn't it?
Yeah, I got lazy with the text this time. I'm not as good at copying Jim's handwriting as I thought.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon sees Garfield watching TV with the back of one hand over his eyes and a look on his face that practically screams, "Why me?!" Some old-timey, dramatic soap opera organ music would probably be suitable here.}
Jon: You shouldn't watch sad movies when you're on a diet, Garfield. You know how emotional you get.
Garfield: This isn't a sad movie.
Garfield: It's a home movie of you disco dancing!
{Jon gives a slightly annoyed look to the readers, which is then zoomed in on}
Text: REKT
Category:Muchacho1994
2941: Found By: Giygas

==Explanation==
The strip exists because this author was just on Square Root of Minus Garfield's TVTropes page and found that "722: Found By: Zalgo" has been listed under "Running Gags" through as an aversion, as no other renditions came out of it. The author made this edit.
==The author writes:==
This strip exists because I was on Square Root of Minus Garfield's TVTropes page, and saw that #722 was listed under Running Gags, though as an aversion, as no other renditions came out of it. Thus, I made this.
Original strip: , 
==Transcript==
SFX: CLOMP CLOMP
Jon: What do you suppose it is?
Garfield: Let's hope it's the welcome wagon.
SFX: CLOMP CLOMP
Jon: Something's coming!
Text Box: It hurts Jon... It hurts...
Jon & Garfield {in text box}: ARGH!!!
Category:ItsThe
2942: Garfield Minus Garfield Plus A Tragic End

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon is obviously very depressed and tries to confide in Garfield. Jon thinks he'll go out and shoot himself, but Garfield retorts that he is just trying to cheer him up.
Here, in which Garfield is (almost predictably) removed from the strip, Jon is more depressed than ever. Without Garfield to "comfort" Jon, he apparently actually proceeds to shoot himself. The final panel conists of a newspaper headline notifying the reader of Jon's suicide.
The editor's note is most likely referring to the contentious 2016 presidential election in the United States; it's likely that this strip was submitted on or after November 8 of that year, and subsequently run on the date of the 2017 general election in the United Kingdom to further punctuate the political editor's note.
==The author writes:==
Looking back at several of the older Garfield strips, it was surprising to see how much dark stuff Jim included in his comic. With Garfield out of the picture, strips such as this one ended up having a much more grim undertone. So, I thought to myself, "How can I make a depressing strip like this one ever more depressing?" With one simple addition, this was my result.
Original strip: .
[Ed: I knew I could find the perfect submission for election day if I tried.]
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm so depressed it's depressing. 
Jon: I think I'll go out and shoot myself. 
{Jon stares off into space solemnly} 
Newspaper Headline: Local Man, 33, Kills Self In Front of House 
Category:Tye
Category:Dark strips
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Real world references
Category:Jabs
2943: An unguarded hamburger.

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield spotted an unguarded hamburger and ate it, then he realized it was actually cat food. Jon appeared behind Garfield and said "Gotcha."
In this edit, the third panel's dialogue has been changed to imply that Garfield has eaten Lyman.
==The author writes==
So the big question here is how was Garfield able to identify what Lyman tastes like so quickly.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: An unguarded hamburger!</br>
{Garfield swallows the hamburger whole}</br>
Garfield: Lyman!</br>
Jon: Not anymore
Category:Wabuu
2944: Colour Correction

==Explanation==
This strip is an attempt to correct a perceived mistake involving the color of the pancake mix. Unlike 273: Night Garfield, which the strip's author cited as inspiration, it cannot be confirmed that the original strip actually had a mistake, as the coloration that had appeared on colorized prints on online archives could very well be the official colorists' perception of the coloration of pancake mix.
Yet another alternative perception could imply that, while author's presumption of an error on the colorists' part to be accurate, that the colorists themselves weren't aware that the stove was supposed to be off and thus colored the pancake mix as if it were the finished side of a half-cooked pancake.
==The author writes:==
Unless Jon was using a chocolate-flavoured pancake mix, the colour just looked wrong.
Inspired by #273.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: And now the world-class pancake flipper will demonstrate his skill.
Garfield: Pardon my ignorance, Mr. World-class Pancake Flipper, but shouldn't the stove be turned on first?
{Jon has pancake mix all over his face}
Category:ThatChapThere
2945: Neon Garfesis

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield strangles Odie on the beach at the end of Evangelion. Giant, ambient Jons rise out of the ocean behind them. Jim Davis's signature sits in the corner}
Odie: CHOKE! GASP!
Category:teomodo
Category:Anime and manga references
2946: Lemon 'n' Lyman

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Fan sequel to Square Root of Minus Garfield #2833.
Quite obvious thought for me. However it shows Lyman in a much more manipulative way.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
SFX: DING DONG
Jon: Lyman.
Lyman: Jon.
Lyman: I'm cold. I'm hungry. I'm weak. Take me in!
Jon: No.
Lyman: I have cake.
Jon: Sure, Lyman. You know my home is your home.
Garfield: Wait! You are hungry and still have one cake?
Category:Grzegorz_Brzęczyszczykiewicz
2947: Nermal Map

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping
Garfield's dialogue here is ironic, considering that in computer graphics the purpose of a normal map is generally to give an appearance of increased three-dimensional detail. I've had Blender glued to my face for a while now so this idea came quite naturally.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Do you know what I hate about you, Nermal? You're so one dimensional.
Nermal: Oh yeah? And what dimension is that?
Garfield: Youth!
Category:Dudurin
2948: Biff-Field, or Garfield to the Future

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield the Cat introduces his new college intern, Biff the cat. Biff asks Garfield if there is something he should be doing. Then Garfield tells Biff that he's got a lot to learn about being a cat. 
In this Square Root of Minus Garfield strip, Biff the cat has been replaced by [[wikipedia:Biff Tannen|Biff Tannen], the antagonist from [[wikipedia:Back to the Future|Back to the Future], specifically his teenaged self from 1955, who instead says his catchphrase.
==The author writes==
I was going through the archives when I saw #2309 and from there I looked at the original. As a huge fan of Back to the Future, I knew what I had to do.
Sorry if Biff looks weird. I'm not very good at Photoshop. Which is good, because I used GIMP, but I'm not very good at that, either.
Image of Biff Tannen from Back to the Future © Universal Studios.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: This is my new high school intern, Biff. 
Biff Tannen: What're you lookin' at, butthead?
{Biff silently mugs for the audience}
Garfield: You've got a lot to learn about time travel, Biff.
Category:Professor Saber
Category:Film references
2949: B A C H E L O R S

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This image, or something like it, was the very first thing that popped into my head as a good use of the sticker. I'm sure this is a perfectly normal thought, and you've got several other submissions doing something similar, but oh well, I can't help myself.
It should be noted that the number of Garfields present here is still countable, because it's 1 + a countably infinite collection of countably infinite collections. So here there's one Garfield for every natural number!
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2017-03-22.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
An infinite continuum of infinitely long rows of Garfields, all in chorus: WE'RE BACHELORS, BABY
A giant Garfield standing before them: WE'RE BACHELORS, BABY
Category:Xindaris
294: Tung

==Explanation==
Edits:
# Remove Garfield from all but the last panel.
# Remove the borders.
# Connect the panels together in one long panel.
# Make the center section's wall the same color as the other sections.
# Give the other sections the same horizontal halftone as the center section.
This gives the effect of Garfield having walked from one Odie, only to come face-to-face with another.
==The author writes:==
Why have three panels when you can have the exact same effect with just one giant panel? That's what I did with this strip (originally from ), and I think it turned out pretty good!
==Transcript==
{Garfield is shocked to discover that Odie's long, lolling tongue on the floor connects to another Odie on the other side of the room!}
Category:Redhead64
2951: The GarB System

==Explanation==
This comic's joke revolves around the Starbeans Café in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. The character who replaces the one from the original strip works at the Café for its owner, E. Gadd. He helps the player use the StarB System of making coffee from the beans you've been collecting; this system is the source of the strip title's pun. The coffees, too, are replaced with coffees from the game. When you end dialogue with the employee, he says, "Oh! I'm so sad!!!" The edit to Jon's dialogue in the last panel is a reference to this.
One of the types of coffee you can make is the Chuckle Blend, hence the pun in the author's notes.
==The author writes:==
It's a new flavor of bean juice: Archuckle Blend!
Original strip: .
Sprites found at the Spriters' Resource. Starbeans employee sprites ripped by Havoc. Coffee sprite ripped by A.J. Nitro. Sprites are © Nintendo and are used only as a vehicle for parody.
==Transcript==
Starbeans Employee: Okay, who had the coffees?</br>
Jon: Um...</br>
Starbeans Employee: Just a little coffee-bar humor, sir.</br>
Jon: Oh! That guy always looks so sad!!!</br>
Garfield: Your tips could make Binky the clown sad.
Category:Nyperold
Category:Video game references