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4505: Banzai!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
September the 18th is the date when the Japanese invaded China, and Garfield said BANZAI on this date...
Call our lawyer, sue Jim Davis for insulting China.
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Banzai!
Garfield: Banzai!
Garfield: Banzai!
Garfield: Banzai!
Garfield: Banzai!
Category:Reisen U. Inaba
4506: If you like those, then I'll be there

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I upscaled this strip in order to edit it more cleanly. This stock Garfield font looks better at larger font sizes.
The mouse is singing the opening lines of Carmen. The title of this strip comes from the Arthur episode "Lights, Camera... Opera!" I know nothing about opera or ballet, so I'm not sure if grand jetÃ©s are even used in Carmen or opera in general.
Original strip: 1997-11-24.
==Transcript==
Garfield: Jon, I don't think you appreciate what a great ballet instructor I am
{A mouse dances across the table}
Mouse: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle que nul ne peut apprivoiser!
Garfield: We need to work on your grand jetÃ©!
==Trivia==
Both the transcript and the author's notes were hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript and author's notes are currently lost to the public due to this, although the strip itself implies this would be an easy fix (for example, the character in question is used in the name of the popular Pokémon series).
Category:Muk
Category:Theater references
Category:Mojibake
4507: Get the point?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
If you're reading this on Sunday morning, you should really wait a couple of hours.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Jon, I don't think you appreciate what a great painter I am
{The middle panel is broken into dots in the manner of a pointillist painting}
Mouse: I'm living in a mouse paradise!
{The last panel is normal again}
Garfield: We need to work on your Grande Jatte!
Category:Manyhills
4509: Garfield but with a more realistic Jim Davis

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The strip's cover has a person that looks very identical to Jim Davis, so I replaced the drawing with the actual figure. I think someone has already done this before, but I can't tell.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A spider walks to a magazine with Jim Davis on it}
Spider: Hee, hee, hee. When the cat gets here I'm going to swat him with this magazine!
{The spider tries to lift the magazine, now with a picture of Jim Davis on it}
Spider: Uh-oh... too heavy!
{The magazine has now crushed the spider, with Garfield coming over}
Garfield: Couldn't wait for me, huh?
Category:FatCatAnimations
Category:Real world references
450: Odie (In the Name of Love)

==Explanation==
The original has the ball of yarn (which is inexplicably sentient) declaring itself cool. When Garfield retorts by saying that it is impossible for a ball of yarn to be cool, it responds by donning sunglasses somehow, causing him to retract his statement.
This edit merely takes the final panel and changes it into a slam against Irish rock band U2, with Garfield declaring that their last good album was The Joshua Tree (their fifth, released in 1987). (The author does not actually share these views -- a much later strip's commentary reveals that he thinks their best album was Achtung Baby, their seventh from 1991.) Thus, the ball of yarn's sunglasses are now a reference to the band's frontman Paul "Bono" Hewson, who has a particularly iconic pair.
The title is a reference to "Pride (In the Name of Love)", from their fourth album.
==The author writes:==
Harsh.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: {in front of a ball of wool with dark sunglasses on} They've not been good since "The Joshua Tree".
Category:Manyhills
Category:Music references
Category:Jabs
4511: Grumpiest Cat

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I'm convinced that whichever person at Paws, Inc. copy-pasted the original comic accidentally/purposefully mixed up the first two panels, since the usual "setup/development/punchline" formula is completely broken in it, making it more like "setup AND development/pointless beat panel that ruins the flow/punchline". Obviously, this shall not do, so I corrected that inexperienced intern's mistake.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A disheveled-looking Garfield is holding a mug of coffee, having an exaggeratedly furious expression on his face}
Garfield: I'm actually in a pretty good mood
Garfield: I just haven't told my face yet
Category:Redhead64
Category:Internet references
4513: Garfield Minus Telepathy

==Explanation==
This strip basically edits the final panel to remove Jon's response to Garfield's quip about when Jon's date was, never bringing up the mention of the corsage present in the original Garfield strip.
The author used a portion of their notes to call out the Square Root of Minus Garfield top dogs for actually publishing the author's previous "strip", 4179: Truthfield, confessing to a number of "faults" with it; it is unknown whether these "faults" are accurate due to the circumstances surrounding that "strip".
==The author writes:==
First read the original strip and thought it was kind of odd that Jon basically responded to Garfield's thinking. Then again 40+ years with your immortal cat surely should result in some kind of psychic bond, right? Not anymore!
...did you actually publish #4179? I'm shocked you even looked at it. The format was wrong, the text wasn't in the right font, and I'm pretty sure the watermark was still there. Definitely showed how young and stupid I was with these programs at the time.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {in a snazzy suit}: I am ready for my date!
Jon: How do I look?
Garfield: Um...
Garfield: Isn't your date on Friday?
{Jon continues to vacantly stare at Garfield}
Category:Hoopla
4514: Relatablefield

==Explanation==
In the original, the tree's pain was due to Garfield standing on one of its roots, much as a human would feel if someone stood on their foot. Here, the pain is just constant, and thus relatable -- hence the title -- to people who are also always feeling pain.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Do trees have feelings? Like love... hate... pain?
Tree: Oh, pain, definitely
Garfield: Really? When?
Tree: Always
Category:Levy Martinez
4515: Garfield Plus Garfield: Origins

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The origin story for SRoMG #2.
I won't be surprised if multiple people are sending in this exact edit.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I wonder why they call this a double espresso?
SFX: SIP!
{A second Garfield appears}
Garfield: Ah
Category:wye
4516: Slappoon 3

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I learned how to use GIMP to make this.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {walking and looking at the reader}: I slap people who drink poo
{Garfield approaches Jon, who is holding a mug of poo, and hits him with a loud...}
SFX: Slap!
Jon {spitting his poo out of his mouth}: Poo!
Garfield {walking away and looking at the reader}: None shall survive
Category:BuyMilkOverVanillaOkay
4517: Mama Told Me Not to Come

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Based on the song by Three Dog Night. Garfield is experiencing one bad acid trip. Best way to deal with these things is to blissfully close your eyes and just block it out until it burns out of your system! Well, that and therapy, but that's only good if you can talk to your therapist, which Garfield cannot.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks past Odie's normal sized bowl}
{Garfield is shocked when he walks past his bowl, which is enormous!}
{Garfield has shut his eyes to block out seeing anything else that may disrupt his carefully balanced reality}
Garfield: I don't know what it is, I don't want to see no more
==Trivia==
The link to the Three Dog Night song has since busted due to the account that uploaded it having since been terminated.
Category:Luke99
Category:Music references
4518: Garfield Plus Scrat

==Explanation==
The original Garfield strip framed itself around a heartburn dream sequence where a dinosaur asks Garfield if the ice age had ended, to which Garfield confirms and the dinosaur calls out its friends for a party. This remix replaces the dinosaur with Scrat from the Ice Age film series, with the sequence largely playing out the same.
The author's notes make note that Blue Sky Studios, the studio that put out the five mainline Ice Age films to date, was shut down; it was shut down by Disney, its owner since 2019, in April 2021.
It should be noted that there is no one real defined definition of just what constitutes an ice age; some definitions may imply that the Earth is actually still in an ice age, albeit at the tail end of it, and won't come out of it until the last of the extant glaciers have vanished.
==The author writes:==
It really sucks that Blue Sky Studios went defunct though.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Offscreen voice: Excuse me!
{The offscreen voice is revealed to be Scrat from the Ice Age movies}
Scrat: Is the Ice Age over?
Garfield: Yes
Scrat {offscreen}: Woo-hoo! Party!
Garfield: These pepperoni-and-deep-fried acorn dreams are the weirdest
Category:Hyper Jen
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
4519: Garfield Divided By ield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Ever since I saw Garfield Divided By Garfield, I knew I had to do this. Side note: BFDI is a brilliant show and you should all watch it right now.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Two {grouchily}: Boy, am I in a bad mood
{Two attacks Four using a red ball with six spikes}
SFX: STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!
Two {cheerfully}: Thanks, 4
Category:-NOYZ-
Category:Internet references
4520: Odie's Mind 5

==Explanation==
The edit made here is simple: the author added a thought balloon above Odie that wasn't in the original strip.
The "seeing Lyman again back in 2012" part of the author's commentary is referring to an hour-length episode of The Garfield Show titled "Long Lost Lyman", in which it was revealed that Lyman became a wildlife photographer and went to Franistan. Jon learns that he disappeared while looking for the mythical Zabadu. It is later revealed that that the Zabadu is actually a disguise Lyman has been using (passed down to him by its creator, an elderly retired doctor named Sam) to scare off poachers. Lyman offered to take in Odie again, but quickly saw that Odie missed being with Jon and Garfield and gave him back to them.
==The author writes:==
After years of struggling to forget his old owner, Lyman, the repressed memories of him suddenly return with full force. Seeing Lyman again back in 2012 only made things worse, as does the picture of him on Jon's mantel. He begins to regret his decision of wanting to go back with Jon and Garfield when Lyman tried to keep him with him. In fact, he'd probably rather be with Lyman at this point.
But Odie cares for Garfield too much to let him see him upset, because then Garfield might worry about him. So he tries to act natural when he's around. But how long will Odie be able to keep this up? How long until Odie snaps and becomes irreversibly depressed?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Cats can tell what you're thinking
{Garfield comes across Odie, who is panting and wagging his tail. He doesn't know he's actually faking it}
Odie: Smile and drool, smile and drool. Don't show Garfield you're upset. You can cry over how much you miss Lyman later, but not now
{Garfield can't understand what Odie is thinking, so he just continues on his way and decides that Odie isn't thinking at all}
Garfield: Assuming you are
Category:Muchacho1994
4523: Garfield Plus Socks

==Explanation==
This version takes the original strip as then linked to from the Square Root of Minus Garfield site (the now-busted unsecured "images.ucomics.com" domain; its secure-domain mirror is still available here) and recolors Jon's socks so they don't match his skin to fix a coloring mistake.
The editor's note in the author's notes reveals the reason why the ucomics/uclick archive's version, and also that of the GoComics archive the original strip credit currently links to (GoComics's medium-size strip archives only begin within the main Garfield feature on 1995-01-01, and even then have their own coloring issues as explained in the explanation for 5399: Color me Garfield; GoComics's now-discontinued Garfield Classics collection extended the presence of medium-size strips to between the strip's beginning until 1985-11-22's strip after which the collection was discontinued on 2023-12-01, but the Garfield Classics strip images are still available to access directly due to several GoComics Garfield features making use of them), could even be considered a coloring mistake to begin with--the former garfield.com website's version (archived by the Garfield wiki on Fandom here) did have Jon wear distinctly-colored socks, which would presumably extend to Garfield Pulls His Weight: His 26th Book as well.
==The author writes:==
I saw this and couldn't help but notice a coloring mistake*. So I fixed it.
Changing the color of Jon's feet took me way too long to figure out.
[*The version available via the original strip link below shows the colouring mistake, although the version available on the old Garfield website did not have it. -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Ah, the traditional family around the hearth
{Jon is reclining and wearing socks}
Jon: YAAAH!
Garfield: Followed by the traditional "flaming socks dance"
Jon: OOH! AAH! OOCH! YAH!
Category:bc56
4525: Garfield plus Retraction Watch

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Does this study require peer review? You decide.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Computer: 12 272 sluck {checkmark} the sound of drinking the water
Garfield: Sluck!
Garfield: Sluck!
Odie: Sluck!
Garfield: Sluck
Jon: Shoop!
Garfield: Arrgh! It's too late
Garfield: Sluuuck!
Garfield: I'm slucking the cheese off your lasagna
Garfield: Slook
Garfield: Slosh!
Dog: Waah!
Garfield: Sluuuuuuk
Garfield: Schlurp
Odie: Lap lap lap slurp slurp lap lap lap
Garfield: There are two kinds of onomatopoeic words found in the Garfield comic, the primary and secondary onomatopoeias. The primary is the imitation of the sound of an object and the secondary is the imitation of the combined sounds of an object and its movement
{White box}
Text: References
Text: An Analysis of Onomatopoeias in Garfield Comic
Text: Tiara Eliza
Text: English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Andalas University
==Trivia==
The link reading "you decide" in the author's notes is now a dead link.
Category:John Murtha
4526: What's Wrong With This SRoMG Strip?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
How many problems with this SRoMG strip can you spot?
(Hint: The correct answer is, of course, "None, because this edit is perfect as it is, as is everything Lubaf has ever produced, including that first strip that's almost illegible and that strip that required a correction".)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield passes Odie, whose tongue stretches across the entire strip.}
Middle panel text: This panel is completely unnecessary
{Garfield sees why Odie's tongue is so long: A stake has been driven through it, pinning it to the ground}
Garfield: Well, that answers my initial question, but it still raises several additional questions
Category:Lubaf
4527: Jonsien-Ko

==Explanation==
Garfield's final line is presumably not addressed toward Jon's own consciousness; Jon canonically does not have a sister, his only sibling being his brother Doc Boy.
==The author writes:==
If you don't know anything about Darkstalkers, this probably makes no sense to you. Just keep in mind that Darkstalkers has some very strange lore.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield looks at Jon, who has a piece of paper on his face}
Jon: I accidentally glued a piece of paper to my face
Garfield: How?
{Garfield grabs a pencil}
Garfield: Whatever, let me fix it.
{Garfield draws Hsien-Ko's talisman from the Darkstalkers series onto the paper}
Jon: Why am I not happy?
Garfield: At least you have your sister.
Category:AyyBee
Category:Video game references
4528: It was me first day with the hook

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Wish granted Garfield. I read the original strip and thought it was kinda a missed opportunity to make some modifications since the comics are basically a blog in themselves, so I did it myself.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Nobody ever visits my blog... it's too dull
Jon: I guess no one wants to read about an ordinary guy and his cat
Jon: Time to make stuff up!
Garfield {now sporting an eye patch, a goatee and a tuxedo}: Give me an eye patch and a goatee!
Category:Not Generic Username
4529: ne

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
#2617 remve the subject f the sin. This strip takes it even further than that, remvin the letters that make the wr that ives us the subject's name.
[This was submitted a couple of months after I suggested we'd had enough of this theme, but hopefully the five years that have passed since then have been enough of a break. -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{While walkin, arfiel ntices a sin sayin "Beware f"}
{arfiel stps in frnt f the sin}
Nthin: yu knw hw much I save n that sin?
arfiel: Nt enuh
Category:Redgreen
4530: Telepathy

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
As Sam and Fuzzy points out, comic-strip animals don't talk - all their 'dialogue' is in thought bubbles. So let's just fix that, shall we?
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Several birds are relaxing by and/or in a birdbath}
{Suddenly the birds look alarmed}
{They all fly off}
Garfield {emerging from behind a hedge}: I gotta stop thinking so loudly
Category:Conor
4531: Fangs for the Memeries

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
thlup.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I wonder why they call this a Double Demon Fang?
{Garfield drinks his coffee with a "thlup" noise. His eyeballs get huge}
Garfield: Damn, I must be a genius!
Category:Zeyphr
4532: Afoot in the Door

==Explanation==
This methodology of this strip's creation is well-explained within the author's notes. As they state, the official Garfield printed compilation books are available as digital downloads; the author's choice of storefront is Apple Books. The original Garfield strip in particular was compiled in Garfield Chickens Out: His 61st Book. The author's choice of methods ultimately resulted in a higher resolution than even the version of the strip formerly found on the garfield.com site (archived on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here); this strip is 1534×466 as the author's methodology--presumably the scanning equipment used by the compiler of the electronic book edition of the Garfield strip compilation--ultimately rendered it, whereas the former garfield.com version was only 1200×357 (versions on other archives are smaller than even that).
The link to the Apple Books download is rendered in the style the strip credits worked prior to the Square Root of Minus Garfield site recoding effort that allowed the original strip date search function, as rendered after said recoding effort.
As for the actual remix, its premise is relatively simple: the original had Garfield hiding the car keys, Jon finding them, then Garfield proceeded to hide the car; this strip had Garfield hiding an initially-unmentioned set of keys, Jon finding them, then it be revealed that Garfield somehow hid the house's front door.
==The author writes:==
Since the strips.garfield.com takedown, I'm experimenting with a new strip source: the digital versions of the Garfield compilation books. I dragged-and-dropped this strip from the free sample of Garfield Chickens Out into my image editor, and made this edit mainly as a test run. I'm not looking forwards to having to pay for the full books, but I suppose thatâ€™s the price of quality and reliability.
Notice that the "original strip" date below is accompanied by a linked book number. If I'm going to be getting my material from the compilation books, it's only right that I cite them appropriately.
[[Original strip from book #61.]]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield. Neither looks particularly happy}
Jon {to reader}: Garfield hid my keys
Jon {holding up a keyring and looking satisfied}: But, HA! I found them!
{Jon leaves}
Jon {off-panel}: Uh, Garfield? Where is the front door?
Garfield {suddenly smiling}: The game is afoot!
==Trivia==
The author's notes were affected by a mojibake error during a later site recoding effort; the original author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:SonicLover
Category:Mojibake
4533: Harpofield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is based on the classic Marx Brothers comedy Monkey Business, where they play stowaways on an ocean liner. In order to get off the ship, they each pretend to be a famous actor, Maurice Chevalier, and sing a song of his to "prove" their "identity". Harpo, who is mute, pulls this off by hiding a record player behind his back, similar to a certain striped cat years later...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Shoo-doop boowa, shoo-doop boowa
Garfield {singing}: If a nightingale could sing like you
Garfield {singing}: They'd sing much better than they do
Garfield {singing}: For you for you for you for you
[Garfield turns to look angrily at record player]
Record Player: For you for you for you for you for you for you for you
SFX: Ka-chunk! {Garfield hits the record player}
Garfield {singing}: Sweet Adeline...
Category:U. N. Owen
Category:Film references
4534: He can talk!

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
It always bugged me how this strip didn't do the obvious thing and actually show Garfield talking as he claims to be able to.
Note that cat speech is slightly different from human speech which explains why Garfield's text is in ugly speech balloons. Yes, that explains it, it was an artistic choice.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Did you know cats can talk? We just don't choose to
Jon: Garfield, I'm home!
Garfield: Who cares?!
Garfield: If we did, NOBODY would like us
Category:Andrew McGrae
4535: Spot the Difference with Garfield 14

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
... What's up with the wood wall texture, Mr. Colourist?
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{there are two Garfield strips}
{strip 1:}
Jon: I sometimes make poor decisions
Garfield {actually vocalising}: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Jon: Like thinking you might be sympathetic
Garfield {thinking}: Hey, I was laughing with you
{strip 2:}
Jon: I've made a few mistakes in my life
Garfield: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Jon: Like looking to you for sympathy, for instance
Category:Destructible Watermelon
Category:Spot the Difference
4536: Steak Swap

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is a simple edit, I just re-arranged the words.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Would you say, "May I?", Odie?
{Garfield holds the steak up, causing Odie to fall off the table}
Garfield: You didn't like a steak
Category:limmey comic
4537: Jon the thief

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The original strip was worded fairly strangely for a pretty simple "Jon is stupid" joke. For one reason or another, I got the idea to turn the joke of the strip from "Jon is stupid" to "Jon is a liar", which would at least make the "does that sound convincing?" line make more sense.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm honest
{Jon pauses while Garfield stares down}
Jon: Did that sound convincing?
Garfield: You stole my shoes
Category:Twistedplant
4539: proto-garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-19/ancient-cat-glyph-found-in-perus-nazca-lines/12781128
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon reaches for something on an empty table beside him}
Jon: Now where could my pipe be?
{a giant cat geoglyph is smoking Jon's pipe}
Jon: GARFIELD!!
Category:citrons
Category:Real world references