nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
3514: Feels About The Same

==Explanation==
The New Year's Day strips for 1980 and 1981 have very similar structures and jokes (Garfield in bed, being unimpressed with the new year).
As a nod to this, the two strips have had their middle panels swapped. Not only does this result in the strips largely retaining their jokes, but the background colors are now more consistent.
==The author writes:==
It's not an exact copy, but they come very close and feature Garfield laying in bed the whole strip.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: So this is 1980
Garfield: A brand new year fresh with new promise
Garfield: Feels about the same
Garfield: So this is 1981
{Garfield reaches his hand out}
Garfield: Big, fat, hairy deal
Category:Muk
3515: Antifield Minus Containment

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When I saw the original SRoMG strip, I immediately thought that the explosion was far too small. And then I realized that Antifield would have had to have an impressive magnetic containment of some sort not to explode on contact with the air itself, never mind the sidewalk, or Garfield.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks out of the house, reading a book entitled 'Bird Calls'}
{He puts down the book and blows a whistle, making a 'TWEET'}
{Jon is reading the newspaper, but is startled by a massive explosion as Antifield loses containment upon conceptually entering into the world}
SFX: KA-BLAM!
{Picture of a mushroom cloud from the Antifield-regular matter explosion}
Category:Abu Dhabi
3516: Plushfield II: Pipe Bag Dripped with Lasagna

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I do or do not apologize to Camwoodstock and his sister for making this as a mockery to their special effects.
Kudos to anyone in the forums who gets the title reference!
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2018-08-09.
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
Garfield {on the table with Odie}: I'm the kind of person {cat?} who must see something to believe it
{To Garfield's surprise, a giant, seemingly disembodied hand seizes Odie, lifting him off the table. A second one appears behind him, attempting to drag him away by his right front paw. He looks down and notices that the edge of the table seems to be moving out from under him, slowly inching closer and closer}
Garfield: Yup, I do need to lay off the catnip
Category:Muchacho1994
3517: Passable Editing Skills

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This strip was born from the following exchange (insofar as you can call me reading a paragraph and then talking to myself an "exchange"):
Mattman324: "Oh, and the first strip could have so many different jokes done about it by people with even passable editing skills. Like, first of all, how in the world did those arms bend that way?"
KelpTheGreat (to himself): "Hey, I have passable editing skills..."
And here we are. So, my answer to the question, "how in the world did those arms bend that way?" Clearly, the way they were able to bend in such a manner is out of this world.
Now, of course, I'm fully expecting people to make strips that substitute Mr. Fantastic's origin story in the last panel for Plastic Man's, Elongated Man's, Elastigirl's, Monkey D. Luffy's, etc.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2018-09-24.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is eating a hamburger, which Garfield is clearly begging for}
Jon: You can have this hamburger if you can reach it, Garfield
Jon: Wha!?
{Garfield's arms stretch up to grab the burger. Jon attempts to remove it from Garfield's presence, but Garfield's arms, already larger than himself, contort themselves in strange ways, eventually stealing away the burger. Garfield eats the burger}
Jon: B-B-B-B-B-B-B
Garfield: Jon will rue the day I was exposed to cosmic radiation
Category:KelpTheGreat
Category:Comic book references
3518: Freshly Recorded

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
And he's just started watching!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is about to kick Odie}
{Garfield kicks Odie}
{This sequence is rewound â€‹and played back twice...}
{...by Garfield}
Jon: Whatcha' watching?
Garfield: Oh, just some treasured memories
==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:Redgreen
Category:Mojibake
3519: Odie Pudding

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {to Garfield}: Hey there, buddy!
Jon {putting a bowl on the table}: Have some pudding, ol' pal, ol' pal!
{Jon grins broadly at Garfield}
Garfield: There's Odie in there, isn't there?
Category:booknut
351: Height-Mapped Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I generated this image by projecting the comic into the z-axis, by computing the height value as a function of how close the comic's colour is to a grey colour.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Bachelorhood is okay, I guess.
Jon: But you just can't beat...
Jon: Someone waiting for you when you get home.
Category:Matt Albrecht
3520: Linguistics with Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
"Edutainment" is a fusty word, but even in this modern era comics aim to teach us things - IWC #1946 stopped me in my tracks with the obvious-but-not-obvious fact that the Appalachians and the Scottish Highlands are parts of the same range, and experts predict that by 2025 there will be no Wikipedia article that will not have been used as the basis for an xkcd. By contrast, though Jim Davis's work promoting education is laudable, pedagogy is rarely a concern for the strip Garfield. After writing the annotation to #1436, I decided to explore this missed possibility; the above five strips are me trying to communicate a few basic ideas in semiotics while still, crucially, producing something that could realistically run in newspapers.
Incidentally, the message of the last strip - that signs are distinct from their referents - might seem obvious to you, but it isn't to everyone. In her paper "The child's learning of English morphology", Jean Berko writes that young children often say that birthdays are called "birthdays" because you get presents, or that Thanksgiving is so called because you eat turkey.
The part of that paper that makes it so titanically important to the history of linguistics, however, is - to bring us full circle - Berko's own cartoon creation: the wug.
Original strips: , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
TV: Tonight: semiotics, the study of signs!
{Garfield gets down from his chair}
{Garfield is looking at a BEWARE OF DOG sign}
Garfield: I feel smarter already
TV: A sign is anything that has meaning!
Garfield: Hey, listen to that, Jon
Garfield: Your life isn't a sign
TV: A sign consists of signifier and signified. These are inseparable!
Jon: Like me and my accordion!
Jon: Say, where is my accordion?
Garfield: It's been separated
TV: An instance of sign use is called "parole"
TV: And the rules about sign use...
TV: ...are called "langue"!
Garfield: Wake me when they get to "linguine"
TV: Signs are distinct from the things they represent
TV: The word "lasagne" is not the thing lasagne
TV: You can't eat "lasagne"!
Garfield: I reckon I could give it a shot
Category:Manyhills
3521: John, Who Died

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I put the first comic through Google Translate over 20 times and made this... work of art? Trash? Whatever it is...
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hello, John, and I'm an animator. My guard, Garfield.
Garfield: Mr. Garfield, this is John, who died.
Jon: Our only idea is to thank you.
Garfield: Feed me;
Category:Cole S.
3522: Hanging Lamp Shade

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
There are so many "Lost in Translation" strips right now (at the time I submitted this*), that I felt like I should meta-lampshade that. And what better way to make Jon aware of that than through the infamous Pudding Pops strip's newspaper?
The dialogue is "There are many "Lost in Translation" strips recently." and "Lampshade hanging." translated to Japanese then back to English via Google Translate.
*[2016-08-25 -Ed]
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2011-01-23.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Many of the missing are "in strip" translation There recently
{beat}
Jon: Hanging lamp shade
Category:PartyEscortBotBeans
3523: Making Garfield Slightly Weirder 2: The Octopus in Jeopardy

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I may have made my previous entry in this series a little too weird. So here's my attempt at a slightly less weird edit (that's still weirder than the original) of another strip. Discussion question: Should I retroactively declare "Beware of Fog" and "Vegan Jon" part of this series, or leave them to their own (already slightly weird) devices?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield sees a strangely shaped hole}
Mouse: Larry the octopus is coming to visit next month.
Garfield: I'll take "Answers to Questions I Didn't Ask" for 600, Alex
Category:Lubaf
Category:Television references
3524: Puritan America

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Special thanks to: Google Drawings.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Caption: Puritan Massachusetts
Puritan Citizen: Something seems odd
Puritan Citizen: Oh, yeah
Puritan Citizen: I'm in a good mood!
Puritan Church: Sorry I'm late!
Category:Xineohp III Esq.
3525: Take 2

==Explanation==
This is the 2nd take of the last comic.
Arlene tells Garfield that she's pregnant, then all thirty seven beat panels have Garfield get shocked, with both Garfield and Arlene looking at the viewer from time to time. Arlene smiles at Garfield for the first nine of the beat panels, but gets irritated for the rest to happen.
Arlene in the last panel starts frowning. Garfield then thought that the last take was done already.
==The author writes:==
Well, what do you know, you're right, Garfield...
Why don't you say something when Jim Davis does it?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Arlene and Garfield looking at each other on the fence}
Arlene {smiling}: Garfield, honey... Guess what? I'm pregnant!
{Thirty seven panels of Garfield in shock, with both of them looking at the fourth wall from time to time, with Arlene smiling at Garfield for the first nine of the beat panels, then getting an irritated look on her face for the rest}
{Arlene looks at the fourth wall in the last panel, frowning}
Garfield: But... I thought we did this joke already.
Category:Michael C. Fortner
3526: Garfield of Light

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Obligatory "I hope someone didn't beat me to this".
The recent trailer for the story mode of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate shows everyone in the roster (apart from Kirby) getting obliterated by beams of light coming from an unknown source. Unsurprisingly, various images have been created and shared online showcasing popular characters meeting the same fate, and I thought a Garfield strip would fit perfectly.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are standing outside at night, watching the stars}
{Jon spots something}
Jon: Look Garfield! A falling star!
Jon: If you make a wish on a falling star, it will come true
Jon {looking at Garfield}: Did you make a wish?!
{Jon suddenly gets vaporised by a beam of light}
Garfield {now smiling}: Yes
Category:pips
Category:Video game references
3527: Cthufield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Jim Davis once commented that the hard k sound is inherently funny. Does that make Cthulhu an inherently funny word?
Here's an alternate version which may or may not be funnier:
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Brenda, meet Garfield
Brenda: Hi Garfield
Brenda: Is Garfield Cthulhu?
Jon: He's a cat
Garfield: Oh, that really hurts
Category:ccznen
Category:Literature references
3528: Garfield minus an initial expository panel

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
If you deem this edit too lazy, I have included a bonus strip. This one took me an entire additional minute to find , copy it to my desktop and add it to the strip.
...I'm still not sure in what context this would make much sense.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
TV: Okay, let's give it a touch...
TV: Stillll a little wet
Garfield: Oh, come ON!
Category:Mr B Natural
3529: A Connecticut Yankee In King Garfield's Quartz

==Explanation==
This strip recolors Garfield into the color scheme of Amethyst from Steven Universe, also applying the emblem Amethyst wears on her shirt. For an added touch of style, even the title panel is recolored.
==The author writes:==
Amethyst loves to kick back and enjoy herself.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Amethyst: Pencil
Amethyst: Change
Amethyst: Comb
Amethyst: Corn chips
Amethyst: Fork
SFX: MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH
Amethyst: Ah-HA!
Amethyst: The remote control
Category:Simon Winters
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
352: Garfield, Minus, Garfield

==Explanation==
This comic substitutes for the middle panel, in which the anchor is merely receiving word that his news was untrue, the final panel of a particular Minus strip in which a meteor actually did threaten to strike, but Minus stood ready to hit it like a baseball. In this context, the reporter's gaffe was speaking of the destruction of all life as something that already happened rather than a likely outcome if one didn't know Minus was going to intervene.
==The author writes:==
Original strips:
* Garfield: .
* Minus: #37 (2006-10-12).
==Transcript==
TV: Today in the news, a giant meteor struck Earth, destroying all life.</br>
{Minus stands on a hilltop with a baseball bat, lining up the meteor}</br>
TV: Oops, I guess that didn't happen.</br>
Garfield: You gotta check those sources, bucko.
Category:DanielBT
Category:Webcomic references
3530: Pearl, Alexandrite and Moonstone

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is my first submission into the Square Root of Minus Garfield lore, and it is a three panel strip that contains every June 10th comic from 2000 to 2018 (with the exception of 2001, 2007, 2012, and 2018 - those were Sundays) set to varying levels of opacity.
Why June 10th? That's my birthday, and I was born in 2000.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
{A number of Garfield strips blurrily overlaid. Relatively little order in character positioning is visible}
Category:Guan
3531: Garfield Gets Organised

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I know it's not very good, but isn't it pretty? It also raises the question of how they have that many cups.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{16 coffee cups, each numbered and a different colour, are on the table. Garfield also has one in his hand}
Garfield: I'm not myself before my 17th cup of coffee
Category:Memes-In-Your-Dreams
3532: A Dated Joke

== Explanation ==
Anyone who's ever read Garfield knows that Jon is infamous for being a failure with women (until 2006, when he and Liz became a couple). This strip plays on this recurring theme by replacing the original Godzilla-related joke with one about Jon's love life. The title of this strip cements this - it's both a pun on the joke being dated (old-fashioned; no longer common) and a pun on Jon's relationship woes.
== The author writes ==
Obvious edit is obvious. I'm almost certain Jon has had at least one date that went more or less this way.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
{Two-panels-wide Garfield title banner with a fall theme}
{Garfield, sitting in an easy chair, turns the TV on}
SFX: Click
SFX from TV: Ding-Dong 
TV: Coming!
TV: Yes?…
TV: SHRIEEEEEEK! 
TV: Hi! You must be Sherri! 
TV: YAAAAHHHH!!
TV: You sure look pretty 
TV: YEEEEEEEEEK!!!
TV: What would you like to do this evening?
TV: You are watching "Dating with Jon Arbuckle" 
Garfield: I hate reruns
TV: What say we step out on the town?
Category:SonicLover
3533: Lizzil

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Alternate title for this edit: In which Liz wasn't being sarcastic and the "A Dog Named Dog" trope was in full play.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: By the way, there, Doc, what's your name?
Liz {now an anthropomorphic reptile}: Liz
Jon: Gee, what a pretty name. Is that short for Elizabeth?
Liz: No. It's short for Lizard
Garfield: Liz must not be much for small talk
Category:Redhead64
3534: Heavy Sleeper

==Explanation==
The original had Jon find something odd, and realize that he's in a good mood until Garfield rushes in saying that he's late. This edit changes it to make Jon realize that Garfield is still asleep, until Garfield rushed in to say that he overslept today.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Something seems odd
Jon: Oh, yeah
Jon: Garfield's still asleep!
{Garfield rushes in}
Garfield: Sorry! I overslept today!
Category:Eric G.
3535: Lorem Ipsum

== Explanation ==
In short, the author's notes describe a server error. Lorem ipsum is placeholder text designed to showcase a work without focusing on the meaningful content (paraphrased from Wikipedia), and it fills the same purpose here - this strip was used by the admins during their examination of the server error. Rather than remove it, the author decided to leave it intact.
== The author writes ==
Quite literally. The strip uploader suddenly stopped working for Manyhills for no apparent reason, so I'm testing it.
Original strip: .
== Transcript ==
Jon: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
Garfield: incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad 
Jon: minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation
Garfield: We're debugging.
Category:David Morgan-Mar
Category:1978-06-19
Category:Meta humor
Category:Real world references
Category:Painting the medium
3537: Garfield Mine Club

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
"Rule 34G: if it exists, no matter how obscure or ill-fitting it is, a Square Root of Minus Garfield comic will reference it."
For obvious reasons, this rule will never be completely true. What's notable is the rate at which it becomes truer. (This also applies to the regular Rule 34, but don't think too hard about it or you may find yourself constantly disgusted.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is plowing through grass. He sees a sign and a pair of lenses}
Sign: Invisible wall ahead
{Garfield smirks at the viewer as he collects the lenses and passes the sign}
{Garfield smacks into the now-visible wall}
Category:Wibi
Category:Video game references
3538: Garfield Multiply Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
When these strips are combined into one, they make even more sense than original ones.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Sometimes I don't know if I'm awake or dreaming
SFX: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP click
Jon: Here are your breakfast lawn gnomes, Garfield
Jon: And here's your breakfast guitar
Garfield: And then sometimes I get a hint
Odie {actually speaking}: Ya think?
Category:Reisen U. Inaba
3539: Distraction Tactics

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I switched the dialogue in the first and last panels. Now this comic just looks like Garfield is desperately trying to change the subject from his very bad date.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: This isn't about the last time you had a date, is it?
Garfield: Hold it
Garfield {trying to distract from the disaster that was his date}: Millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth
Category:Wabuu
353: Little Sandwich

==Explanation==
In the original, the sandwich's length was implied by Garfield warning someone across the street away from it. Here, two more sections of it are shown. (Although, close inspection reveals the middle section to be a flip of the original middle.)
==The author writes:==
Garfield, Now With 2/3 Less Garfield!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I'm making a little sandwich.</br>
{Second panel shows extension of the sandwich}</br>
{Third panel shows extension of the sandwich}
Category:Colin Foster
3540: No Love Garfield Web

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I was listening to music and reading Garfield strips on the website www.garfield.com as I usually do, and I decided to pay homage to the album No Love Deep Web* by Death Grips.
[*Cover art NSFW -Ed.]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Computer: "Garfield: {image of Garfield} Uploading..."
{Garfield is being uploaded to the web}
Garfield {from computer}: i am online
Category:Duebers
Category:Music references
3541: Garfield Deciduas Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I saw Garfield looking in a dictionary and I remembered the IWC strip that is used in this, so I combined them.
Also does the title mean that this strip won't appear until the late 2050s?
Original Irregular Webcomic!: 2003-01-23.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: You irk me
{Garfield has morphed into DMM}
{DMM is reading a dictionary, with a bewildered expression}
{DMM has morphed back into Garfield}
Garfield: Thank you!
Category:Destructible Watermelon
Category:Webcomic references
3542: Because Jon is the Center of Attention

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
See answer above.
Original strips: , , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Runaway electric toothbrush!
Jon: Rabid moth!
Jon: Killer moths!
Jon: I've got a bat stuck in my hair!
Jon: This isn't a hat! It's a beehive!
Jon: Bees!
Jon: {running with a flaming baton between his teeth} Yaaahh!
Jon: My hair's on fire!
Jon: Ankle-biting woodchucks!
Jon: I'm being deported to Mongolia!
Jon: Locusts!
Jon: Your dinner will be a teense late.
Garfield: Why does everything happen to me?!
Category:Kavviyenta
3543: Garfield Crossed With Peanuts

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I think I initially thought of having the punchline be "You get an overused meme", but I thought this would be funnier.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: What do you get if you cross my comic strip with "Peanuts"?
{Garfield is suddenly joined by Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Woodstock}
Garfield: I'm guessing a licensing deal
Category:MichaelSar
Category:Comic strip references
3545: Thinking of You

==Explanation==
As the author's notes state, the 1985-06-26 Garfield strip essentially had a blank in Odie's thought bubble for readers to fill in; this strip's author used that strip as a template in order to create this strip, by filling Lyman--Odie's original owner who had already been phased out of the strip by the time the 1985-06-26 strip first ran--into the blank.
The author's notes also brings up an alternately-colored version of the strip from an Odie-focused collection book; this differs from the colored versions of the strip found on various archives, such as the former garfield.com archive (archived on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here), the secure-domain mirror of the former "images.ucomics.com" domain, the GoComics archive (as of writing identical to the former "images.ucomics.com" version), and the former GoComics "Garfield Classics" archive (archived here; the Odie-focused collection book gave the house exterior yellow siding and green sills, while the online archives give the siding and windowsill two different shades of purple 
==The author writes:==
On 26th June 1985, Jim Davis made an exploitable template for us. Let's all take a moment to thank him.
Now that that's over, there's something I'd like to bring up. I found this strip in Odie Unleashed: Garfield Lets the Dog Out, and in that book this strip has totally different colouring. Here's a picture:
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon thinks of a female human, showing his desire for love}
{Garfield thinks of an ice cream truck, showing his desire for food}
{Odie thinks of Lyman...}
Category:Fnorfensuld