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3999: I Contend That Your Garfield Eye Has Never Opened

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Not too long ago I was introduced to the music and visual art of Jack Stauber. Fantastic stuff â€” so you bet I wanted to implement it into a Garfield strip. And of course, here's a link to the original video of the song referenced ("Baby Hotline"). Is anyone else tickled by the notion of Jack Stauber owning a pizza parlour?
Fun fact: Jon's smile and Garfield's eyelids were manually drawn in the last panel.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is dialing on his phone while Garfield watches}
SFX: BEEP BOOP
{Jon listens to the phone ring}
SFX: RIIIIIIING
{Jon and Garfield smile, as the latter looks at the viewer}
Phone: Baby hotline, please hold me close to you
Garfield: Stauber's Pizza
==Trivia==
This strip's author's notes were hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Fußmatte
Category:Music references
Category:Mojibake
399: Digital Grey 'n' Dull

==Explanation==
Having already made 391: Digital Garfield, the author turned their digitizing eye to this comic, turning everything literally black and white.
==The author writes==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Everything is gray and dull.
Jon: I just realized I haven't dusted in 17 years.
Garfield: Aha.
Category:Nottoostupid
Category:Reskins
39: Garfield on a Postcard

==Explanation==
Comments on a Postcard is another mezzacotta project that purports to be a webcomic — however, every image file is broken, leaving only the author's notes. Naturally, the reader must imagine what the strip would've been like from their notes — which are often intentionally absurd, further piquing this hypothetical reader's curiosity.
This strip is ostensibly an edit of the first strip that replaces the characters with Garfield ones — of course, it's just as fake as the original.
==The author writes:==
As a big fan of both Comments on a Postcard and Square Root of Minus Garfield, I just had to make this strip. Replacing the CG characters with Jon and Garfield was easy. The really hard part was fixing the wax crayon background using only MS Paint.
Also, can you spot Odie in the last panel?
Original Garfield strip: Original Comments on a Postcard strip: Strip No. 1
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, not sure you can be trusted.</br>
Garfield: Why would you say that?</br>
Garfield: Oh, look. I found your wallet.
==Trivia==
* The transcript contains a minor typo — Jon's line is "Garfield, I'm not sure you can be trusted."
Category:Mezzacotta references
Category:Wendel Scardua
3: Recursive Garfield

==Explanation==
Benoît Mandelbrot (1924 - 2010) was a famous mathematician who developed a "theory of roughness" in nature and fractal geometry. He also coined the term "fractal" and discovered a set of intricate, infinite fractal shapes, which were then named the Mandelbrot set.
The original strip had Jon running away from a surplus of rice; here, he is outrunning a fractal set. (He says "Too much Mandelbrot!", however, which is something of a non-sequitur.) This has the side effect of making Garfield eating the substance in the last panel look out of place.
==The author writes:==
I created this strip on [[wikipedia:Benoît Mandelbrot|Benoît Mandelbrot's] birthday, 20 November.
.
==Transcript==
Jon: {running} Too much Mandelbrot!
{Jon is swept away in a tide of fractal patterns as Garfield watches nonchalantly}
Garfield: {eating the fractals with a spoon} There's no such thing.
Category:David Atwell
Category:Math-based comics
4000: Memes Are Bad

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon {reading newspaper while Garfield sits nearby}: The world is constantly changing
{Garfield is shocked}
{Garfield looks up at the strip number}
Garfield {mad at Jon}: Do you want the 4000th strip to be ruined by a meme?!?
Category:PartyEscortBotBeans
Category:Milestone strips
4001: Camouflage Pants

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Or he knew and doesn't care because... we're BACHELORS, baby.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon just stands there as Garfield walks by and rubs himself on his pant legs}
Garfield: Purrr
Jon: Why, hello, Garfield. Where have you been all day?
Garfield: Under your car
{The cat walks away with Jon none the wiser}
Category:Kavviyenta
4002: garfield b e n d s to escape bagel

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{a decadent bagel presents itself to the orange creature}
{the screeching of a metallic substance, the very reality the cat inhabits, bends. The bagel will never see him again. A flatlander gazing into his slice of the third dimension, not understanding, for he does not know how to understand}
Category:HeatherButt
4003: The Garchemist Code

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I saw the unedited line in the tutorial of The Alchemist Code and had to go for the obvious joke. Unfortunately, the closest thing to editing software I had to work with on my tablet was MicrosoftÂ® WordÂ®. On the plus side, I think I actually got the correct font for once. (Or at least one that's close.)
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Logi: Why, Dias!? In a world that's constantly changing, there's one thing that remains the same!
Logi: Frozen pudding pops!
==Trivia==
*The link within the author's notes no longer works as originally intended; The Alchemist Code is a mobile game whose non-Japanese servers were shut down in March 2023 (its Japanese servers are still active), with IGN dismantling their coverage of the game in conjunction with that shutdown event.
*This strip's author's notes were hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:PriffyViole
Category:Video game references
Category:Mojibake
4004: Imaginary Garfield: Fetch not found

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Jon tries to play fetch with his imaginary cat.
[A sequel of sorts to #91. -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon dangles a rubber mouse}
Jon: Look, Garfield! A rubber mousie! Fetch it!
Jon: Fetch it, Garfield! Fetch, Fetch, Fetchy-Fetchy, Fetch, Fetch, Fetch!
Jon {angrily}: FETCH!
Category:booknut
4005: Garfield but they're actually Vikings

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
My apologies for any translation or transcription errors â€” I don't actually know any Old Norse. Anyway, now Jon has no reason to complain.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Name and date on the left side: á›á›á›˜á›¬á›áš¬áš á›á›‹á›¬6á›¬6 (iim dÃ¦fis 6/6)
Jon: á›áš´á›¬áš¢áš¦áš±á›¬á›…áš¦áš±á›¬á›‹á›…áš´á›á›…á›¬á›˜á›áš¾ (ek yÃ°r Ã¡Ã°r sagda, menn)
Jon: á›áš´á›á›¬áš±áš¬áš¾á›¬áš¢á›’á›¬á›…á›¬á›˜á›…á›áš±á›’áš¢áš±áš¦á›áš¾áš¢ (ekki rÃ¦n upp Ã¡ matrborÃ°inu)
Garfield: áš¾á›á›˜á›…á›¬áš¢á›áš´á›áš¾áš´á›…áš±á›¬áš¢á›áš±á›¬á›áš±áš¢á›˜ (nema vÃ­kingar vÃ©r erum)
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript and author's notes, moreso the former than the latter, 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.
Category:Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Category:Foreign language
Category:Mojibake
4006: Garf-Spirit by Will Eisner

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In my personal opinion, Will Eisner is probably the greatest comic artist of all time. While Jack Kirby gets a great deal of love (and rightly so) for co-creating the Marvel Universe, Eisner actually created a number of the now familiar tropes we take for granted in comic books today. When I saw this homage to him done up by Jim Davis, I must admit, I was kinda impressed, so I turned it black and white and added in Eisner's iconic signature. Reminds me slightly of the Garfield special "Babes and Bullets", a surprisingly adult cartoon as I recall. I wouldn't mind seeing Garfield in a noir setting again.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{An image of Garfield cosplaying as classic comic book superhero The Spirit, with Arlene in the background in full-on feline femme fatale mode; the title floats off like paper in the wind, the Â® bouncing off like a marble, while the words "By Will Eisner" are painted on the bricks behind them}
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript is lost to the public due to this.
Category:Luke99
Category:Comic book references
Category:Mojibake
4007: Old School Memery (aka Linguistics With CATS)

==Explanation==
This strip takes the "Linguistics with Liz" setup and infuses the most infamous line from the opening of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version of Zero Wing into the setup. The setup includes a presumably intentionally-bad copy-paste of the villain organization's ambassador's head onto Liz's body in the first two panels to set up the ambassador delivering the infamous line to Jon in-person (the background around the ambassador's head being left in place and the head as a whole not being edited to blend in with Liz's body--both the ambasssador's and Liz's collars are visible--is likely in reference to the infamously bad translation the Genesis/Mega Drive version of Zero Wing was given).
This strip was published before more detailed research into the game's plot was done for more recent re-releases of various versions of the game, including versions that didn't have the infamous introduction; at the time this strip was made, it was widely thought CATS was a singular villain rather than a villainous organization and that the ambassador was said singular villain rather than his actual profession, as such portraying the ambassador as being named CATS as opposed to being unnamed. As such, this strip portrays what turned out to be several misconceptions about Zero Wing's plot
==The author writes:==
And you thought these memes were dead!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
CATS: Jon?
Jon: Yes?
CATS: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
Jon: I will never understand CATS
Garfield: I think he just called you a meme
Category:Lubaf
Category:Video game references
Category:Linguistics with Liz
4008: Linguistics With Liz: Indonesian

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Although I'm a Malay (and not from Indonesia), I do know some bits of Indonesian language (because both languages sound similar) and I got the idea after listening to DJ Rahmat Tahulu's song of the same name (Bukan Kaleng Kaleng)!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Liz: Jon
Jon: Yes?
Liz: Bukan Kaleng Kaleng
{Liz leaves}
Jon: I will never understand Indonesian
Garfield: I think she just called you outrageous
Category:Farhan Malek
Category:Music references
Category:Linguistics with Liz
4009: Linguistics without Liz: Chinese

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Saw this strip, couldn't resist, remembered the overused "Linguistics with Liz" gag, named it "Linguistics WITHOUT Liz".
Please don't blame me if it becomes another well-hated gag.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Dog: I'm learning a second language
Dog:è¯·é—®åŽ»æ‰³æ‰‹æ€Žä¹ˆèµ°ï¼Ÿ
Dog: How was that?
Garfield: You just asked for directions to the pipe wrench
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Reisen U. Inaba
Category:Foreign language
Category:Mojibake
400: e to the Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes==
The complex exponential function of Garfield.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
SFX: BOOT!
SFX: WHOOMP!
SFX: BWONK!
SFX: THOOMP!
SFX: BLOOONG
Jon: You should be more active.
Garfield: I don't think Odie could take that.
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:Math-based comics
4010: Money Pylon's Fleeing Circle

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The sequel to the original, which you might like to know* was not actually by me. Also, I did have a vocabulary test right before I wrote the transcript.
*You probably don't care.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon stands, pondering the meaning of life}
{A coconut, presumably slipping from an untrained page's hands, flies towards Jon, bashing him on the head}
SFX: CLONK!
Jon {gazing down towards the renegade drupe}: How could I have been hit by a coconut?
Garfield {adorned in a traditional Hawaiian grass skirt, a luau necklace, and clutching a ukulele in his fist}: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
Jon {clearly annoyed at Garfield's nonsensical justification for his unnatural possession of the tropical pome}: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Garfield {remarkably calm, despite his friend's apoplectic maledictions}: Not at all, they could be carried
Category:Xineohp III Esq.
4011: Scribblenaps

==Explanation==
In the original, the speech bubble only had the traditional "Z" in it. Here, it's replaced with the "Sleep" emotion icon from the Scribblenauts series, of which a pun is made in the title.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The "Sleep" emotion icon is in a speech bubble suspended over the ledge}</br>
{Garfield espies it and approaches}</br>
Garfield: This looks like a nice place...</br>
{Garfield makes the speech bubble and its contents his own by lying there}</br>
Garfield: ...for a nap
Category:Nyperold
Category:Video game references
4012: Cameo by Bertha

==Explanation==
The "website" referred to in the author's notes is presumably garfield.com, which had not yet been taken down when this strip first ran (that happened roughly a month later); as of May 2024, this Square Root of Minus Garfield strip is the only one using this particular original Garfield strip, thus eliminating any possibility of Square Root of Minus Garfield itself being where the author made their observation.
==The author writes:==
Was browsing the website when I stumbled upon this.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Liz are in a restaurant. One of Jon's previous girlfriends, Bertha, is seen eating in the background, as indicated by a red arrow}
Liz: I have the uneasy feeling your cat is going to show up
Jon: Nonsense, my dear
Category:Memes-In-Your-Dreams
4013: 2015 Art Style: Amnesiafield

==Explanation==
The February 6th strip of 1987 drawn in the 2015 art style.
==The author writes:==
The same comic strip as last time, but extended and recreated.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon, along with Odie, is showing Garfield Pooky}
Jon: Look, Garfield. It's Pooky! Your favorite possession and closest friend. Do you remember Pooky?
{Garfield reacts by walking away}
Garfield: Don't be silly. I'm a grown cat. What would I need for a teddy bear?
{Jon, Odie and Pooky have a single tear in their eyes}
Category:garfieldXDjonXDodie
4014: Same xkcdfield, different xkcd

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
The crossed-out moon in the SRoMG strip I based this one on made me recall a different xkcd comic, one involving a moon-hater at a podium.
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2019-05-30.
Original xkcd strip: 2013-11-15 [bad words].
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Screaming crowd {running from a giant Garfield}: XKCD!
Garfield {standing behind a podium, labelled with a "no Moon" logo}: Shoot for the moon.
Garfield: If you miss, shoot again.
Garfield: Keep shooting and never stop.
Garfield: Someday, one of us will destroy...
SFX: CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP {the cat audience applauds Garfield}
Garfield: ...that stupid skycircle right behind me.
Category:Redgreen
Category:Webcomic references
4015: 50 lasagnas

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon is writing on a yellow piece of paper}
{Jon takes a picture of Odie holding a piece of paper}
{Odie is holding a sign which says "Here's four questions to ponder"}
{Nermal is holding a sign which says "Do you like hurting other people?"}
{Squeak is holding a sign which says "Who are leaving messages on your answering machine?"}
{Garfield is holding a sign which says "Where are you right now?"}
{Jon is holding a sign which says "Why are we having this conversation?"}
Category:Elephantflies
4016: Garfield Minus Lines

==Explanation==
It is unknown when the author observed the original strips on garfield.com; by the time the site was taken down roughly a month after this strip was first published, the material taken from the November 1989 original strip was still in the same state as depicted in this strip, but the material taken from the December 1989 original strip had been fixed (both strips have been preserved in those states on the Garfield wiki on Fandom). Other online archives have both strips fixed.
==The author writes:==
So, I saw a Garfield strip, on garfield.com, where one of the panels had lost most of its black lines. I thought this was a bit strange. Stranger still was that there was another one, but with two blunder panels. So I cut out the strange panels, and glued them together.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{most of the black lines in the first panel are replaced with a neon green colour}
{Garfield retrieves a remote from the top of a television set}
{most of the black lines in the second panel are replaced with cyan}
{Jon is looking alarmed as a loud noise is sounding and the set is shaking}
SFX: KACHINK-KACHINK-KACHINK-
{in the third panel, most black lines are replaced with yellow}
{Garfield is holding a remote, watching television}
SFX (remote): click
Clown on TV: Heeey, kids!
Category:Destructible Watermelon
4017: Where Else Could Jon's Pipe Be?

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
One of my favourite Garfield strips as a kid was the one where Odie's more sophisticated side was revealed. I rediscovered it by accident years later, just as the Garfield Pipe meme was taking off - it didn't occur to me until much later still that the two could be combined in this manner.
Why would Odie not want to let Garfield or Jon know he's smart, anyway? Does he just not want them to feel bad for being dumber than he is? Or is he plotting something more sinister...?
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is reading his newspaper, and reaches over to where his pipe is - or should be}
Jon: Now where could my pipe be?
{Odie is sat in an armchair, in front of the TV, wearing a dressing gown, with a pair of glasses and a copy of War and Peace on the table next to him - and he's smoking Jon's pipe}
TV Announcer: "And now... An evening with Mozart."
Category:Craig Black
4018: The Treachery of Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I really really hope this hasn't been done before.
[The above is by Levy Martinez but there was also a very similar Destructible Watermelon submission -Ed]
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield smokes a pipe}
RenÃ© Magritte: Ceci n'est pas une bande de pipe. (Translation: This is not a pipe strip.)
==Trivia==
This strip's transcript was hit by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
Category:Destructible Watermelon
Category:Levy Martinez
Category:Art references
Category:Mojibake
4019: A Broken Hamburger

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Hey, what do you expect for a lousy $23.50?
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
{A hamburger lies on the table. Jon approaches it}
Jon: I can't wait to eat this hamburger
SFX: POW!
{Without warning, the burger just spontaneously combusts in a nuclear explosion, right in Jon's face. Jon is mildly turned off by this freak occurrence}
Jon {deadpan}: Uhh... yyyeah, I don't think I want it now
Category:Muchacho1994
401: Width

==Explanation==
Almost everything is explained in the author's note, but what would it mean? In both cases, Garfield is saying, in a roundabout way, that the tie is only suitable for the severely obese, as 300 pounds alone is generally considered to put one in that range, never mind on top of one's current weight. The difference with this edit is that, as the tie is now narrower, Jon wouldn't need to be as wide himself as in the original strip to make the tie work, and probably wouldn't even need to gain 300 pounds for that goal.
==The author writes==
I only recently stumbled upon Square Root Of Minus Garfield. Being an xkcd fan, I fell in love with some of the more mathematically inclined spoofs quickly. When I realised that anyone could contribute a strip, I decided I couldn't resist.
At a loss for a place to begin, I decided to start with the strip that was published on my birthday: the 1989-05-31 strip. The gag was about Jon wearing a tie that was too wide for him; the inspiration flowed naturally from there.
My original idea was to widen or narrow the entire strip, but I decided it would be more effective just to make Jon 50% narrower; it also gives the dialogue a whole new meaning. It was a tedious process, but I managed to make it look good.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Do you think this tie is too wide, Garfield?
Garfield: Absolutely not.
Garfield: However, you do need to gain about 300 pounds.
Category:SonicLover
4020: Confidence

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Confidence isn't everything. Jon is not a lawyer. He is on trial for impersonating a law firm. Do not take his legal advice.
Inspired by SRoMG #2670 Action Hero 2.0.
Base of courtroom image from Smithsonian Magazine.
[See also SRoMG #2796 -Ed]
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I could be a lawyer
{Jon appears in a courtroom, apparently having achieved his dream}
Category:Argis14
4021: Pizza

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Garfield sits alone}
{Jon enters, on his phone}
Jon {whose head has turned into a pizza}: Wow
Jon: My weather app says this blizzard shows no signs of stopping
{Odie enters}
Jon: We could be snowed in here for a week
{Odie's head also turns into a pizza. He and Jon stare at Garfield}
{Garfield has turned into the Garfield Pizza from Garfield Eats}
Category:GreenOfRain
4022: Sharpfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In regular Garfield, Garfield could care less. Here's a version of Garfield who COULDN'T care less. I have now stolen precious seconds of your life.
Inspired by SRoMG #3784.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon watches casually as Garfield slams down a cup of coffee}
{Garfield suddenly begins to spin, much to his shock and Jon's disinterest}
Jon: How's the coffee?
Garfield {glances into cup}: Little weak, like you
Category:Levellass