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2582: Garfield Plus Bombermen

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield should start eating mice because if he ate mice, he wouldn't want to wait around for Jon to feed him. The mouse says that Garfield doesn't want to do that. Garfield asks the mouse why not. The mouse raises his arm to the five disgusting mice that Garfield never wants to eat.
In this strip, they have been replaced by Bombermen from the game called Bomberman, but it's still presented as a reason why Garfield wouldn't want to eat mice.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Maybe I should start eating mice...
Garfield: If I ate mice, I won't have to wait around for Jon to feed me
Squeak(?): You don't want to do that
Garfield: Why not? 
{Five Bombermen appear while Garfield look disgusted}
Squeak(?): Have you seen Bombermen in this house!?
Category:Nadiya2000
Category:Video game references
2583: Garfield Minus Three Filler Panels

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield shoos three mice away from his vitamin pills.}
Garfield: Shoo, mice. Get out of my vitamin pills.
{Garfield puts the spilled pills back in the container.}
Garfield: Mice get into everything.
{Garfield walks away, looking bored.}
Garfield: Somebody should chase them out of here.
Category:Riley
2584: Garfield, Amethyst and Pearl

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When I discovered that these two completely different characters have the same first syllable, I knew I had to do this, but it took me a while because I couldn't find a good Garfield Minus Garfield strip or a good PNG image of Garnet until the day before I wrote this blurb (I make strips/submission e-mails in advance, like Jim Davis).
Garnet image from the Steven Universe wiki.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is smiling at a chibi Garnet}
Jon: How about giving me a big smile?
{Jon is smiling at a chibi Garnet, whom is still unfazed}
Category:Edwong Pepelu
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2586: If You Seek Odie

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The PG-rating of the strip prevents me from explicitly stating what Jon's covered in. Speculation is welcomed.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Have you seen Odie?
Garfield: No.
{Box hisses as Garfield inspects it}
{Jon is now covered in red, dripping goo}
Garfield: All you had to do was ask!
Category:Rebecca O'Tool
2587: Not-So-Darkfield

==Explanation==
As this strip's author's notes explain, this strip's premise has been made lighter and softer by removing any implication that Garfield may have killed the mailman with his actions; the change from killing to tripping may, however, change possible interpretations of the Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking trope.
==The author writes:==
A lot of Square Root of Minus Garfield strips take an innocent Garfield strip and change a few details to make the premise much Darker And Edgier (caution: TV Tropes link), often by killing a major character. When I stumbled upon an original Garfield strip that actually mentioned death, I decided to do the opposite.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is running}
Garfield: I wonder how fast I can run.
{Garfield runs towards a pet door}
Garfield: I wonder what would happen if I hit this kitty door at Mach 2.
{Garfield is outside, having knocked down a mailman}
Garfield: I wonder if tripping a mailman is a federal offense.
Category:SonicLover
2588: Garf or Die

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Just a huge shout-out to Move or Die, an indie party game where the main gimmick is that not moving results in, well, death.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is taking a cookie out of a cookie jar, while looking nervously at Jon. There is a blue health bar at the bottom, with Garfield's face on it}
Jon: Eat that cookie and die!
{Garfield ignores Jon's precautions and throws the cookie into his comically large mouth. The blue health bar at the bottom is now half empty}
{Garfield has splattered all over the wall, as his health bar is completely empty. Jon stares to the reader, dissatisfied with Garfield's lack of common sense}
Category:Wibi
Category:Video game references
2589: Monty Garfield's Flying Circus

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Yup, that's Monty Python all right...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Armando, my fork is dirty.
Armando: My apologies, sir.
Armando: I shall plunge it into my heart and get you a clean one.
Jon: Boy, you've gotta admire that dedication.
Liz: And that sarcasm.
Text: And now... the punch line
Jon: Lucky I didn't say anything about the dirty knife!
Category:Gashren
Category:Comedy references
Category:Television references
258: Garfloraled, Part 2

==Explanation==
This is the second in a series of three strips in which Garfield, originally his normal orange with black stripes, had the coloration of the chair, and vice versa. In the original, Garfield sneezes due to the floral print, as if it produced pollen; here, the chair sneezes for the same reason.
This time, the author's note talks about the difficulty in editing Garfield comics when the colors aren't just a uniform shade.
==The author writes:==
The transposition I mentioned in part 1, as probably anybody who's messed with this aspect of a Garfield comic can tell you, was very tedious. This is because each coloured area is not just one solid colour, oh no, it's a few different shades of the same colour. So changing them around is an interesting experience: flowers aside, you can't just hit the Pick tool, grab the colour, switch to Fill, hit it once for each outlined area, and have done; you have to cover several one-pixel areas, as well.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield, in floral print, is sitting in a chair that bears his normal colouration.}
Garfield: WAHCHOO!
Garfield: Cat hair print.
Category:Nyperold
Category:Joke reversal
Category:Reskins
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
2590: Think of seven letters, begin and end with 'c'

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield walks around with the sombrero on his head, then falls down with the sombrero covering him. Garfield goes to sleep, because he had a sombrero attack. Here, Garfield has a myocardial infarction, which is the short term for a heart attack.
The title tells you to think of a word with -- or so it can be inferred -- seven letters which begins and ends with c; the word is probably "cardiac", meaning "pertaining to the physical heart". It is the first word in another term for "heart attack": "cardiac arrest".
==The author writes==
Original strip: ,
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks along with a sombrero covering his face}
Garfield: uh-oh
{Garfield falls down, with the sombrero covering him}
SFX: plop
Garfield: HRRNG! AURGH
{Jon is calmly apathetic}
Jon: Myocardial infarction
Category:Destructible Watermelon
2591: Garfield Minus Garfield Minus G, a, r, f, i, e, l, d

==Explanation==
In this strip, Jon speaks incoherently because Garfield's gone, right down to the letters in his name.
==The author writes:==
After years of no human contact, Jon's articulation declines to incoherence.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: T's stn
Jon: Vy tm o nto th pt sto
Jon: Th osh scm
Category:Mr B Natural
2592: Enough Dressing To Fill The Black Sea

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon had bought a turkey -- that is, the bird -- prepared for cooking and eating. He considers leftovers, but realizes that his cat will likely not leave any. Here, he seems to have bought the entire country of Turkey, again, with the purpose of cooking and eating.
Turkey is one of those countries considered to be part of two continents: Europe and Asia. The two parts are separated by the Bosphorus Strait, the Sea of Marmara, and the Strait of the Dardanelles, all in the northwest. This means that Garfield is, as usual, getting the lion's share of the meal.
Dressing, in the context of turkeys, is also called "stuffing", and refers to a mixture of bread, onion, celery, salt, pepper, and herbs and spices traditionally cooked within a turkey. (There is also a sauce called "dressing", or less ambiguously "salad dressing", which is poured over salads or spread in sandwiches.) The Black Sea is a body of water bounded on the south by Turkey, and connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the aforementioned straits and intervening sea.
(As a side note, the date this strip was released was the date of the Brexit vote, a day when Europe was going to be much in the media, and appears to have been chosen specifically as the most Europe-mentioning strip available in the queue.)
==The author writes:==
This strip was made just for the sake of a pun. No political message is intended.
Original strip: .
Image of Turkey by Atilim Gunes Baydin found on Wikipedia, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, with permission granted to, among other things, remix the work.
==Transcript==
{Garfield is just leaning on the ledge.}</br>
SFX: SLAM</br>
{Garfield's eyes move, but nothing else.}</br>
Jon: Look what I bought at the store, Garfield...</br>
{Jon presents his purchase...}</br>
Jon: The Republic of Turkey!</br>
SFX: PAT PAT PAT</br>
Jon: We can roast it, and eat it, and then use the leftovers for sandwiches!</br>
{Jon has a realization about the eating capabilities of his cat.}</br>
Jon: How much do I get?</br>
Garfield: The European part.
Category:Nyperold
Category:Real world references
2593: Garfield Plus Correct Hyphenation I

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon was asking Garfield about a "jelly filled (sic) doughnut". Here, he's asking Godzilla about a jelly-filled Tokyo.
Godzilla (or Gojira) has been one of the most famous, if not the most famous, examples of kaiju in the movies. The stereotypical Godzilla movie would have him stomping around Tokyo, destroying things as plastic toy tanks attack him.
The author's notes focus entirely on the missed hyphenation in the original, as compared to the author's edit. Instead of giving us the real rules of hyphenation, he lists "exceptions" that really don't apply:
# I comes before E after C. This is a rule of spelling, not punctuation, and really has too many exceptions to cover properly without causing other misspellings, though some have tried.
# b² - 4ac < 0. This pertains to the quadratic formula. If the discriminant -- the part under the radical in the full formula -- works out to be negative, then the formula is forced to take the square root of a negative number, and thus the answers will be complex.
# it's your turn, your opponent has at least one man on the bar, and the stakes have been doubled exactly once during the match. This appears to be a rule of backgammon.
==The author writes:==
When a compound adjective consisting of a noun before an adjective occurs directly before the noun it modifies, a hyphen is required, unless
1. I comes before E after C, 2. b² - 4ac < 0, or 3. it's your turn, your opponent has at least one man on the bar, and the stakes have been doubled exactly once during the match.
Honestly, Jon, this is elementary stuff.
Original strip: .
Godzilla from a Godzilla wiki.
==Transcript==
Jon: Godzilla, did you eat my jelly-filled Tokyo?</br>
Godzilla: It was like this, Jon. It happened to be a rogue city wounded in a jungle bakery</br>
Godzilla: Crazed with fear and pain, it charged my mouth and I was forced to eat it in self-defense</br>
Jon: It's times like this I wish I understood him
Category:Sloublues
Category:Film references
2594: Garfield In Alice

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Alice, a free program that lets users make simple animations and games with 3D models, added models of Garfield characters in its latest version (2014-07-15, as of this submission). The program and models are by no means perfect, but they're still fun to play around with at least.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm a pretty hip dude.
{beat}
Jon: So...
Garfield: Wait. I'm still processing that last comment.
Category:Densetsu Bros
2595: SpongeField SquareCat

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This comic has quite a backstory. I first went on Garfield.com around Christmastime to catch up on the "12 Days Of Christmas". When it was finished loading, it came up with the original strip. I noticed the third panel said "Five minutes later" and... I knew what had to be done.
I knew my favorite cartoon is SpongeBob SquarePants, and I went from there.
Original SpongeBob SquarePants episode: "Free Samples".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: This shouldn't take long
Text: Five minutes later...
Jon: Help
Garfield: Smile for the internet
Category:Super SpongeBob 64
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2596: John Garvoltafield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Do you know what they call a lasagna in Paris?
Lasagne.
Maybe that doesn't have quite as much of a ring to it as the Royale With Cheese.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {singing} Go, greased lightnin', you're burnin' up the quarter mile.
Garfield: {singing} (Greased lightnin'! Go, greased lightnin'!)
Garfield: {singing} Go, greased lightnin', you're coastin' thru the heat lap trials.
Garfield: {singing} (Greased lightnin'! Go, greased lightnin'!)
Garfield: I love musicals.
Category:MadDogBV
Category:Film references
2597: Doog

==Explanation==
This strip essentially exaggerates the original Garfield strip's core joke; here, every single O across the strip proper, transcript, and--with the exception of the version of the original strip credit corresponding to the current crediting system (the version recreated here to avoid redundancy)--author's notes, has been doubled.
==The author writes:==
If a strip can goo too a further extreme, then the oonly loogical ooptioon is too reach it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{While walking, Garfield nootices a sign saying "Beware oof Doog"}
{Garfield stoops in froont oof the sign}
Doog: Doo yoou knoow hoow much I saved oon that sign?
Garfield: Noot enoough.
Category:pookypal
2598: Symbolic Thoughts

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Hacchi's Blissymbolics entry was a noble if failed attempt to introduce a universal symbol approach to conveying complex ideas through sketchy drawings that were immensely difficult to decipher. To counter that approach (and give a more potentially useful alternative), I've simplified Garfield's words to their pictorial equivalents.
This isn't exactly perfect, since the last balloon could be thought as, "Stop, think cheese?" The last panel's thought balloon was originally a light bulb, but that could've resulted in multiple interpretations, ranging from "Hold it, I've got an idea for cheese" or "Wait, light cheese".
In either case, it's certainly more understandable and legible than the messy Blissymbolics. (No insult intended.)
[Ed: Just to clarify, Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss, not Hacchi.]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Jon's head, toothpick?
Garfield: Bread + Ham } Teeth
Garfield: Stop sign, Thought bubble, Cheese?
Category:DanielBT
2599: Ham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A combo of Nos. 2, 1355, 1715 and bizarro 1302.
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield has a ham for a head, facing another ham. The fridge is the table, and the background has a hamlike motif}
Garfield: Should I tell him I ate the the ham?
Category:DEIDATVM
259: Garfield Shrink & Re-enlarge, Part 1

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
qvaak wrote in the forums:
The process would be as follows: 1. A Garfield Sunday strip is sent to the first participant. He squeezes the strip into a three panel strip. 2. The three panel strip is sent to the second participant. He squeezes it into a single panel funny picture. 3. The funny picture is sent to the third participant, who expands the picture into a three panel strip. 4. The fourth participant expands the three panel strip into a Sunday strip.
Rules: 1. Everybody will be told what the original strip was, so that they can avoid it as much as they can. We cannot hope the participants don't remember the strip or that they would not run into it by accident, but the less the better. No artwork or dialogue may be taken straight from the original. This does not concern the first participant, of course. 2. Other than that every method is allowed. You can edit existing artwork or copy/paste new art from other Garfield strips. You can rewrite dialogue or add new dialogue. Etc. 3. The goal of edits should be to carry the most essential parts of the story and the gag from one strip format to another.
This experiment is based on my experiments already published: #127, #113, #109. They are a fine proof that the challenge should be manageable. Not that my ways should be yours; the truncating and expanding can certainly be achieved by many different tricks.
Rule three might seem strange, but my aim for this experiment is to play on information loss and confabulation that slips into creation when edited and re-edited enough. If everyone would make their own gag somehow based on material given to them, information loss and confabulation would not so much slip, but crash in.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon sits in an inflatable pool.}
Jon: {looking up in alarm} Hey! Get off that diving board!
{There is a hole in the ground where the pool used to be.}
Garfield: How long until the next ride?
Jon: First: free legs. Then: throttle cat. 
Category:superluser
25: Reversed Garfield

==Explanation==
Nothing really complicated here (the author says as much in his notes); the first and last word balloons are switched. Interestingly, this creates a decent joke in itself, with the juxtaposition of Garfield stealing Jon's wallet and the "financial advice" line working well.
==The author writes:==
This is just a very simple one. The plan was to take a random strip, and swap the first and last speech bubble. This is the result.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {grinning} I want a lawyer. 
{silent beat} 
Jon: Did you take my wallet?! 
Garfield: {still grinning} People seek me out for financial advice.
Category:Joke reversal
Category:LTDave
2600: 2600

==Explanation==
This strip essentially recreates the original Garfield strip as if it had taken place in Adventure; the game's red dragon character, Rhindle, takes on Garfield's plight, with Pooky replaced by Adventure's bat character, Knubberub. The author's notes also brings up Adventure's famous Easter egg, a credit for the game's programmer.
To further punctuate the strip's Atari 2600-based setup, this strip was published as strip #2600.
==The author writes:==
The Atari VCS, later known by its part number, 2600, had quite a few famous games on it, most notably E.T. and the disastrous port of Pac-Man; but it had many good (for the time) games on it as well. In honor of that, I offer a strip using the 2600s unique (for the time) game, "Adventure", the source of the phrase "Easter Egg", as applied to computer software.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Rhindle: So what if I'm lost. Big deal. I can handle it.
Rhindle: Dragons are adventurous. Dragons are independent. Dragons are strong...
Rhindle: {Crying out} I WANT MY KNUBBERRUB THE BAT!
Category:Lubaf
2601: But With A Whisker

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Inspired by #2417 and the associated forum thread.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield stares sullenly at a sign, which reads "END OF COMIC"}
{The next two panels progressively fade in colour and darkness until the end of the strip is pure white}
Garfield: Not exactly the ending I was expecting for this comic strip.
Garfield: At least U.S. Acres had a sunset.
Category:David Morgan-Mar
2602: It's fun to swap words around!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I had a dream I ate a giant marshmallow in my pyjamas. How it got into my pyjamas I'll never know.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Let me tell you about my Monday. Monday was going great. I thought it was going to be the first Monday of my life that didn't stink.
Garfield: I got up in the middle of the night and ate some marbles
Garfield: Then I woke up this morning and my jawbreaker collection was missing!
Category:Manyhills
2603: Garfield Plus 3 Previously Consumed Bottles

==Explanation==
A relatively simple edit, this makes Jon appear to be intoxicated, through the use of eye dialect imitating the poorly-articulated speech typical of this status. 
The transcript, as has been done before, is written more like prose than a script.
==The author writes:==
Saw this strip. Knew what I had to do. Folks, tastefully pushing the boundaries of PG-ness, this is your Jon on champagne. 
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Setting: some stupid restaurant. I don't know where it is, I don't even care, but it's obviously in Muncie. Anyway, Jon, joined by an orange figure whose identity is hidden for now by a giant green cap, is on a date with Liz. After drinking three bottles of champagne, Jon is completely hammered. As soon as the fourth bottle arrives, Jon attempts opening it in his inebriated state, but does it incorrectly, sending the cork flying.}
SFX: POW!
Jon: HA-AH-HA! WHEHEE!!!
{Liz can only look up in horror as the cork goes into orbit.}
Liz: {off panel, moaning} Oh, my God, Jon...
{Jon turns to the orange figure with the green cap.}
Jon: {with obviously slurred speech and giggling a little} Whe-whennus-uh laz'ime youhou'ad zo'uch vun. Garfield? Hehe!
{The figure has now been revealed to be none other than Garfield, who, nearly immediately, internally spouts some words of wisdom.}
Garfield: I think we need to get home, now, before the fifth bottle arrives.
Category:Muchacho1994
Category:Completely rewritten dialogue
Category:Drugs
2604: Bananatime

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Bananagans!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield covered in bananas sneaks up behind glum Odie}
Garfield: Yikes! Another dreary, listless soul in need of assistance
{Garfield rubs Odie's ears with bananas}
Garfield: From... Banana Man!
{Adventure Time character Banana Man stands in Odie's place}
Category:JLH
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
2605: Played For Drama

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
AKA: Garfield Specimen 7 Garfield
I decided to mix up the infamous Pudding Pops meme, and make it so the character physically changes the strip, instead of having them just show up randomly. I also saw that the CAT.DOS entry for Specimen 7 in Spooky's House of Jumpscares mentions that its appearance is constantly changing.
The net result? I fused the obvious joke with the concept of having the character that shows up actually interact in the strip, and... Now the strip is devoured by Specimen 7, causing this to be a lot more dramatic! Yay...?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: {reading newspaper} Specimen 7 is constantly changing.
{slowly, Specimen 7 devours the strip...}
Garfield: {scared, shouting} Jon, what have you done?!
{Specimen 7 eats the entire rest of the strip...}
Category:Camwoodstock & Tori
Category:Video game references
2606: Garfield Minus Thought Bubble

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
There was a gocomics comment where a user wondered if Jon was freaked out about Garfield shoving his face into his own, or if he heard Garfield's thoughts. This is of course based on whether or not Jon can really hear Garfield's thoughts. I personally think this is much funnier than the original.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks in, smiling at the camera.}
{Garfield suddenly shoves his face into Jon's, which freaks Jon out.}
{Garfield walks off with his hands clasped and a big smile on his face.}
Category:Angelus Brady
2607: Garfield Plus Resignation To Fate

==Explanation==
The author just rearranged the order of what Garfield says in the original strip.
==The author writes:==
By rearranging the order of what Garfield says in each panel, and carefully changing the emphasis, Garfield's closing comment is now one of sarcasm, having resigned himself to his fate.
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
{Garfield is trying to hold himself back from climbing a tree}
Garfield: Sometimes it's hard to fight primal instincts.
{Garfield starts climbing the tree}
Garfield: No! No! No! Don't make me do it! 
{Garfield is sitting on a tree branch, looking perturbed}
Garfield: Arrrgh. Someone help me.
Category:KelpTheGreat
Category:Joke reversal