nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
321: Garfield Minus Garfield Plus James A. Garfield

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield pulled several impressions with the help of soap suds; this one-panel strip is taken from the final panel of that strip. For it, the image of Garfield doing an impression of President Jimmy Carter (?) is replaced with an image of James A. Garfield, the president after whom the man Garfield was named for was named.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: . 
James A. Garfield: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Quit dawdling, Garfield.</br>
James A. Garfield: How dare you speak that way to the President of the United States.
Category:Adam Klimowski
Category:Real world references
Category:Visual puns
3220: Garfield Minus Inexplicable Flipped Position

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield was sleeping, and Jon was watching him, happily. Jon Arbuckle wants to have a staring contest with Garfield. Garfield turns around to stop facing Jon in the third panel. Here, in the third panel, Garfield goes back to sleep.
==The author writes:==
It bothered me that in the original strip, Garfield inexplicably flips position to stop facing Jon in the last panel. I think this works better.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield {sleeping}: Z
Jon: Staring contest! 
Garfield {going straight back to sleep}: Z
Jon: Or not.
Category:Christopher Wickham
3221: Garhead

==Explanation==
In this strip, Garfield is just a head without a body, Jon seems to be bemused.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{A floating Garfield head is amused} 
{Enter Jon} 
{Jon and floating Garfield head both look bemused} 
{Exit Jon} 
{Floating Garfield head distorts, throwing its mouth upwards and ears downwards, in a way to show its amusement?}
Category:Destructible Watermelon
3222: Garfield Plus Spider Fact

==Explanation==
In this strip, a spider asks Garfield if spider silk is five times stronger than steel.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Spider: Did you know that spider silk is 5x stronger than steel? 
{Garfield looks amazed by what the spider has said} 
Garfield: Cool! 
Spider: I know, right?
Category:Jared Funtime
3223: Obvious Pun (Boring)

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Yes, I know Elon Musk beat me to this pun.
Boring machine image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {to Garfield}: Boring contest!
{Jon is in front of a boring machine}
Garfield {to Jon, in full triumphant celebration}: You always win.
Category:Lubaf
Category:Real world references
3224: The Nuclear Option

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Sometimes I wonder when the submissions will dry up as people finally lose interest in Square Root of Minus Garfield. Not any time soon, I hope, but I guess we'll have this as a last resort.
[The title is apt, because I suspect global thermonuclear war will probably be the actual limiting factor. -Ed]
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Computer: We've run out of SRoMG strips!
Computer: You'll just have to go out and live your lives instead of sitting there reading us!
Computer: Just kidding! If all else fails, we can always unload the pudding pops queue.
Category:that guy
3225: You shouldn't have given me the idea

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
...I'm sorry.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: We need to make some plumbuses around here!
Garfield: You're right!
Garfield: But how do we do it?
{How They Do It title card}
Garfield: I always wondered how plumbuses got made.
Category:Mr B Natural
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
3226: Z Late-Late Movie

==Explanation==
The author has decided to start making edits of Garfield strips that had not yet been represented on this site in chronological order the day that he made this strip. The earliest Garfield strip that was not edited and submitted to Square Root of Minus Garfield at the time was syndicated on July 1st, 1978, which has been twelve days after the release of the very first one.
When he saw the original Garfield strip, he wanted to replace the two lines of "Z"s at the end of the strip with a pair of "Z" balloons for Garfield the Cat, and his owner, Jon Arbuckle, to sleep under, but he did not want to use balloons from an already-used strip, and he wanted them to be from the Garfield comic's early years of syndication.
Luckily, he found some of the "Z" balloons in the Garfield strip from January 7th, 1981 strip, which was unused at the time. So he copied and pasted them to the strip, and matched their backgrounds with that of said strip.
He then typed up the transcript and the personal notes, submitted it, waited for it to enter to the queue (like SRoMG submitters do when they're bored) all of which happened on the same day he made this strip.
He is extremely proud of himself with the result he made in the Garfield strip from July 1st, 1978.
==The author writes:==
I decided to begin making edits of Garfield strips that had not yet been represented on this site in chronological order the day I made this strip. The earliest strip that had not yet been edited and submitted to SRoMG at the time was syndicated on , twelve days after the release of the very first one. 
I wanted to replace the two lines of "Z"s at the end of the strip with a pair of "Z" balloons for Garfield and Jon to sleep under, but I didn't want to use balloons from an already-used strip, and I wanted them to be from Garfield's early years of syndication. 
Luckily, I found some "Z" balloons in the , which was also unused at the time. I copied and pasted them to the strip, and matched their backgrounds with that of said strip. 
I then typed up the transcript and these personal notes, submitted it, and waited for it to enter the queue, all of which happened on the same day I made this strip. 
I am extremely proud of the result. 
Original strips (as previously mentioned): (main) and ("Z" balloons).
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are watching TV}
Jon: This is it, Garfield. The late-late movie with Brigitte Bardot.​
Jon: Got our soda pop. Got our popcorn. We're set.
{Jon and Garfield fall asleep}
Jon: Z
Garfield: Z
Category:Redgreen
3227: Jon Hates Raisins

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon and Garfield were watching a bachelor horror theater on the TV, and Babs tells Trevor that they need to talk about ourselves. Jon was scared about that.
In this strip, Jon and Garfield are watching things that people eat on the TV called Garfield Theater, but whenever somebody says "raisins", Jon freaks out about that kind of food and runs away.
==Transcript==
{Garfield and Jon are sitting on the couch watching TV}
TV Voice 1: Lasagna
TV Voice 2: Kitty treats
TV Voice 1: Raisins
{Jon freaks out}
Jon: YAAHH!
{Jon has run offscreen}
TV Voice 1: Pizza!
Garfield: Garfield theater
Jon: YAH! YAH! YAAAAHHH!!
==The author writes:==
Original strip: , , , , , (words), (base).
Category:Muk
3228: Airhead John

==Explanation==
In The Original Garfield strip, Jon Can't Seem To Get Anything Done, No Matter How Hard He Tries. 
Here, His Head Floats Away, Watching Garfield Sit Wide-Eyed. Garfield Becomes Apathetic.
==The Author Writes:==
This Happens All The Time.
Original Strip: .
[I like this as a companion piece to #3221: Garhead. -Ed]
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield sit bored at the table}
{Jon's head floats off his neck. Garfield is surprised}
{Garfield watches Jon's head float away}
{Garfield continues to watch Jon's head float away}
{Garfield sits wide-eyed} 
{Garfield is apathetic}
Category:booknut
3229: Ear Worm... or Ants

==Explanation==
This strip essentially replicates the Ear Worm trope, using a song from the Garfield and Friends segment "The Picnic Panic" (previously explored on Square Root of Minus Garfield in 1241: The Picnic Panic); Jon started with the opening line, Garfield carried most of what was depicted within this strip, and Odie delivered the last line depicted.
==The author writes:==
So, I was reading the TV Tropes YMMV page for Garfield and Friends when I saw the opening line of the ant song. Despite not hearing it in about fifteen years, the song was stuck in my head for the rest of the day. For that reason, I am NOT going to look for it on YouTube!
And yes, Garfield talks here.
[I guess Jon had just read #1241. -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon {singing}: Oh, we're the ants who ruin your dinner!
Garfield {thinking}: We're always here...
Garfield {thinking}: To mess up any day!
Garfield {song stuck in head}: When we're around...
Garfield {song stuck in head}: Every camper gets thinner!
{Garfield is seriously annoyed now}
Garfield {song stuck in head}: Cause if we get the chance...
Garfield {whispering to Odie}: We will taaaaake...
Odie {song stuck in head}: Your food away!
Category:Professor Saber
Category:Non-strip Garfield material
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Television references
322: The Cat Who Says "Ni!"

==Explanation==
Again, the author makes reference to the die-rolling program he sometimes uses (as noted previously in strips 253 and 271), using a reference to Sesame Street's fake sponsors.
In the original comic, Garfield says "Ambition! Drive, fortitude, gumption, determination..."; in this strip, Garfield has no such lofty things to say, just the strange series of syllables associated with the Knights Who Say "Ni!" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
==The author writes:==
Another dialogue alteration, brought to you by the letter "d", and by the numbers "12", "30", and "30+1977".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: NI!</br> 
Garfield: Pend, Neee-Wom, Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing Zow Zing...</br> 
Garfield: I've always wanted to say those words.
Category:Nyperold
Category:Film references
Category:Television references
3230: Garfield Minus Two Panels, Part II

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Just a thing I made when I was bored.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield: 2011-03-18.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield walks up to Jon with Odie on his back. To secure them both together, Odie's ears have been knotted around Garfield's head. Odie does not look happy}
Jon: Okay, okay, I'll turn the heat up.
Category:Muchacho1994
3231: Phone It Out

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I noticed these two arrangements of panels from these three strips coalesce nicely. Here's one that didn't so much:
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
Jon {on phone}: Beth, sweetie, how'd you like to go out with the one and only meee on New Year's Eve?
Jon: You would love to go out with me?
Jon {to Garfield}: I think she hung up
Garfield: Like an hour ago!
----
Jon {holding phone}: Ever laugh so hard you choke?
Garfield: Oh, I've hacked up a hairball or two...
Jon: I'm practicing
Garfield: No kidding
Jon: So, Liz, I'm thinking about laminating my stamp collection
----
(bonus)
{Jon is on the phone looking nonplussed}
Jon {on phone}: You say you're thrilled I asked?
Jon {on phone}: What do you think?
Category:DEIDATVM
3232: It's time for some game theory

==Explanation==
The author opted to not count every single question mark used in the strip proper when creating the transcript; the second panel used twenty-eight question marks, and thus the line would've been rendered "Game Theory: Pope Sans Ness Killed Pudding Pops????????????????????????????" had the author opted to render every single question mark.
==The author writes:==
I hate the Game Theory meme with every fiber of my being. The entire joke is just "GAME THEORY SANS NESS POPE" and that's it. That's the "joke". A guy made a theory video a year ago. That is the entire source of the humor for this meme. Have I mentioned this meme is the worst thing ever and I hate it?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is at the computer, typing}
Text on computer: Today, they stopped making frozen pudding pops.
Text on computer: Game Theory: Pope Sans Ness Killed Pudding Pops??????????*
Jon {facing Garfield}: My blog is getting edgier!
{*I am not going to count all of those question marks.}
Category:Fastpager200
Category:Internet references
Category:Jabs
3233: Garfield hates ice cream

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Garfield asks the viewers what could be better being a cat, and then he brought back an ice cream. The edit just reverses it so that Garfield has the ice cream in the first panel and then throws it away off-panel.
==The author writes:==
I have no clue what I was hoping to accomplish, but this is what what I ended up with.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield has an ice cream}
Garfield: What could be better than being a cat with ice cream?
{Garfield leaves for an undefined unit of time}
{Garfield returns without ice cream} 
Garfield: Being a cat
Category:Wabuu
Category:Joke reversal
3234: Look Back in Languor 2: Look Back-er

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield was sleeping in bed, as usual. Sometimes he couldn't sleep, because he thinks it was , which was one of the oldest comics that Jim did.
However, five SRoMG contributors did some edits of the same comic where Garfield couldn't sleep from 1992, which was 25 years.
==The author writes:==
I wanted to make this longer, using the Sunday strip's buildup to the punchline, but I decided to cut to the chase. 
Also, as an aside, you have got to be kidding me, Jim it again?! 
Original strips: , .
[A number of contributors spotted this and sent in submissions. The above image, title, transcript, and author's note are from Crazy56U, but there were also submissions from Colin:
There was no wooshing sound; this joke hit me in the head, and I was fact-checking as soon as Garfield mentioned that date. Sure enough, ol' Jim Davis got it right. I'm sure he was having a hoot with this idea, but the rest of us are ticked that we're going down the creek toward "Garfield in 2053". 
(Chirp.) 
...Negative N:
 
That seemed like such an arbitrary date to recall, so I checked the strip and to my surprise, I found an actual strip where Garfield had trouble sleeping. Nice continuity nod! Though, .
...Redgreen:
Man, does Jim Davis wanna add more Nods to Garfield or what?! 
...and PartyEscortBotBeans:
When I saw this strip, I immediately checked the archive to see what that strip was about. I wasn't expecting it to be a real call-back. 
Sorry about the kind of lazy submission, but I felt I had to send this. 
Phew! -Ed]
==Transcript==
{Garfield is in his bed, hands behind his head, looking up at the ceiling, looking quite fed}
Garfield: Sometimes I can't sleep.
{then, to the combined best efforts of the strip's author/transcript narrator and MS Paint, Garfield proceeds to flashback...}
{...to Garfield being kept awake by the night noises in the 1992-11-08 Garfield strip} 
Garfield {in voiceover}: I think it was November 8, 1992.
Category:Colin
Category:Crazy56U
Category:Negative N
Category:PartyEscortBotBeans
Category:Redgreen
3235: Censored Garfield 2

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 3235: Censored Garfield #2.
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==Explanation==
The Original Garfield Strip (Along With The Garfield Logo) Never Had Any Censor Bars. Without Even Looking, What Was Jon Saying About Garfield? Seriously? You Think It'd Be Published On The Comics Page That Way? Anybody Who Finds Any Dirty Meaning Probably Might Have A Dirty Mind To Being With On Author's Note. The Actual Answers Are "Listen", "Agree", "Respect", "Show Affection", "Mirror", "Cat", "Grief" And Love, So Stop Having A Gutter Mind, Please.
This Strip Serves To Illustrate What Entirely Needless Censoring Can Do. You See The Censor Bar And Assume That There Might Have Been Something Worth Censoring, So Just Fill Your Mind In The Blanks, That's All. Seeing The Original Strip, However, Might Have Any Dirty Meaning Or Would Never Have A Dirty Mind To Be With. (Of Course, The Author Did, Or This Strip Would Never Have Been Made.)
Based On The First Censored Garfield Comic.
==The Author Writes:==
Anyone Who Finds Any Dirty Meaning Probably Already Has A Dirty Mind To Being With.
Original Strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: WHY Don't You Ever [Censored] To Me?
Garfield: Huh?
Jon: WHY Don't You Ever [Censored] With Me? 
Garfield: That's Not True.
Jon: WHY Don't You Show Me Any [Censored]?
Garfield: I Do... Bonehead.
Jon: WHY Don't You Ever [Censored]?
Garfield: Catch Me Around A [Censored] Sometime.
Jon: WHY Do You Cause Me So Much [Censored]?!
Garfield: Because I'm A [Censored].
Jon: And WHY Do I Still [Censored] You Anyway?
Garfield: See Previous Answer.
Category:Simon Winters
3236: Jon Henry

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon remembered having a snake named Henry back on the farm, and seeing Henry on the dinner table. Here, Jon's memory turns into a comic.
==The author writes:==
Ah, Henry. Now that we see him in real life, it makes it more sentimental. 
Original strips: , , , , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I had a pet named Henry back on the farm
Jon: YAAH! SNAKE! SNAKE! SNAKE!
{Jon presents the snake to Doc Boy}
Jon: His name is Henry.
Doc Boy: SNAKE!
Jon: Then one evening there was Henry on the dinner table
Jon: Doc Boy, there appears to be a dead snake in my salad 
Jon: I loved that snake
Garfield: Times were tough
Category:Xineohp III Esq.
3237: What on Earth am I Wearing?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This is one that's (mostly) like a normal strip, but which depends HIGHLY on leaving things to the imagination (...albeit leading somewhat towards the goopy...), and many different products of the imagination could be applied here.
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, have you seen my shoes?
Garfield: Many times
{Garfield climbs onto the table and relaxes briefly before checking in on his prank}
Garfield: While people sleep, cats are busy
{Beat panel. Jon partially gets that something's not right here}
{Garfield walks over and shows off Jon's cluelessness more than his actual prank}
Jon: I don't think that these are my shoes...
Category:Meteo Archon
3238: The tie keeps hanging

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Random thoughts. Now Jon is playing crazy.
[See also. -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is wearing an overly long striped tie, while Garfield is standing opposite him}
Jon: I think my tie is too long
Garfield: I have just the thing!
{Jon is still wearing the said tie, but he is standing on a chair, with the tie on his neck tied to something on the out-of-sight ceiling. Liz stands in front of him, staggered}
Jon: Good evening, my dear!
Category:King LJN
3239: Breeding Lymans out of the dead land

==Explanation==
For some unfathomable reason, this strip is completely unchanged from the original Garfield strip.
==The author writes:==
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw this strip and I couldn't not do it.
I hope you don't think it's stupid and unfunny.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Mouse: Watch this, Garfield
Mouse: I'm going to scurry across the table!
Garfield: You do that
Mouse {from offpanel}: Wheeeeee!
Garfield: Mice are odd
Category:rainy butterfly
Category:Unchanged strips
323: Accidental Garfield

==Explanation==
The original base is the 1993 comic. The first two panels are entirely unchanged. In the third panel, however, qvaak changed Jon's head to his head in the third panel of the 1989 comic, changed Garfield's thought bubble to the one from the second panel of the 1989 comic, and removed the magazine.
It seems that the author's pause -- of whatever nature -- put his work-in-progress in a different light, and he decided to submit it as it was.
==The author writes:==
Imagine, if you must, reminisce, if you can. You are making a Garfield mash-up. You have an idea and you hunt through the strips looking for a right word balloon, right arrangement of characters or right expression. You cut and paste the needed elements together. Half way through you pause to take a cup of tea, maybe just to sneeze, maybe to relieve your bladder. You turn back to work and there before your eyes is a mash-up you have not meant to make, have never consciously seen. Such an immaculate born thing is a wonder to behold. It might be a bit like a random generated mash-up, but still different. It certainly is something no-one would ever intend to make. 
The strip above is of course such a comic. I had hardly even read the first two panels - I only needed the last one, but saw no need to cut the two off just yet. The thing truly felt like a comic right out of the blue, when I turned my gaze back to the screen. I'm not saying this is the best example of an accidental mash-up. Mostly the things have a much more half-finished look on them, if you present them as they were. I've meant to offer a strip like this for some time and actually had a lot rougher candidate I lost changing a computer. Now I got this, though, and it has to do. It's a true thing. No post-production. 
==Transcript:==
Jon: There's an article here about cats
SFX: snatch {Garfield grabs the magazine from Jon's hands}
Garfield: Bless you, Jon. {lying in Jon's lap}
Based on strips: , .
Category:qvaak
3240: The Void

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon tells Garfield, "Happy Monday.". Then Garfield's hair draws along in his back. Here, Jon forces Garfield to enter the void as the encroaching darkness of eternity falls above Garfield.
==Transcript==
{Garfield is sitting alone in a room}
Jon: ENTER THE VOID
{The encroaching darkness of eternity above Garfield draws in the hairs along his back, much to his annoyance}
==The author writes==
Original strip: .
Category:Densetsu Bros
3241: Orchidectomy Chapter II

==Explanation==
This strip simply switches around two different pet medical procedures, from the original strip's declawing to neutering here; this is done by switching the actual procedure in the first and third panels, and one word in the second panel based on the relevancy of each of the procedures. Much like the author's earlier 3155: Orchidectomy Chapter I (but unlike the author's subsequent 3278: Orchidectomy Chapter III), the author's notes invoke a well-known long-time animal lover who was still alive at the time the strip ran but has since died at the age of 99; this time, it's Betty White that's invoked.
==The author writes:==
Betty White approves of this strip.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, I'm going to have you neutered
{Garfield bodily flails around as Jon looks at us}
Garfield: Take an arm! Take a leg! But spare my bawls!
{Garfield leaves}
Jon: You're going to be neutered and that's that. Now get your head out of the oven!
Category:JLH
3242: Heisenbark Double Uncertainty Principle

==Explanation==
The title is a pun between "bark", a vocalization type that dogs make, and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. This is a principle in quantum mechanics that states that certain pairs of physical properties of a particle are inversely limited in the degrees of precision to which they can be measured. The first example given is position and momentum: the more precisely one is known, the less precisely the other is known.
Jokes often take this to the size of objects, such as the joke about Heisenberg being stopped for speeding ("Do you know how fast you were going?" "No, but I know exactly where I am!"). Here, it's taken to the size of Odie, but since Garfield surmises that Odie knows neither his postion nor his momentum, the uncertainty is double.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I suspect Odie of kidnapping Pooky. Watch him crumble under my keen questioning
Garfield {pointing at Odie}: Where were you on the evening of April 1?!
Garfield: What am I doing? Odie doesn't even know where he is now
Garfield: Or how fast he's going, for that matter
Category:Nyperold
3243: Callback Boy

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I can read your mind! You're thinking... you're thinking...
Jon: You're thinking... you're thinking... you're thinking...
{Liz looks annoyed and leaves}
Jon: I choked, didn't I?
Garfield: Like a chicken trying to gargle a bowling ball
Category:Sloublues
3244: Best before

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In the vein of SRoMG #3067, the "hardly moving at all" starting point has now shifted back in time to 1987.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield {lying in his bed, smiling}: Milk...
Garfield {still lying there}: Some people read expiration dates
Garfield {still lying there}: And some don't
Category:Nikumubeki