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1589: Cat Memes

==Explanation==
This strip compares some older Garfield strips with cat-related Internet memes:
* Tardar Sauce, aka "Grumpy Cat", whose perpetually dissatisfied-looking face (actually the result of feline dwarfism) fits well with Garfield's general demeanor;
* "Nyan Cat", a pixel animation of a cat with a Pop-Tart for a body flying through space and leaving a rainbow trail behind it, is accompanied by one of Garfield's rare energetic moments;
* "Happy Cat", the original LOLcat, asking "I can has cheezburger?", is accompanied by Garfield eating several hamburgers at once while declaring his love for them;
* "Ceiling Cat", a cat peeking through a hole in the wall, versus Garfield putting glue on his feet and standing on the wall;
* and finally, "Longcat", whose famous length befits Garfield's rubber arms.
==The author writes:==
No matter what popular Internet cat meme, it seems that Garfield got there first.
Original strips: , , , , .
==Transcript==
Caption: Grumpy Cat 
Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal. 
Caption: Nyan Cat 
SFX: Poing! 
Caption: Cheezburger cat 
Garfield: Oh boy! Hamburgers! I love hamburgers! 
Caption: Ceiling Cat 
Garfield This is going to be fun. 
Caption: Loooongcat 
{Garfield using stretchy arms to reach for Jon's food}
==Trivia==
* Apparently, there was some sort of mistake in the description when this comic was first posted. It was later fixed, of course.
* This strip was accidentally re-posted on September 30th, six days later, with the aforementioned mistake intact. It was later replaced with "Violence-Free Garfield" (by the same author) and inspired "The Problem with Webcomic Buffers" and "Web Affair".
Category:DanielBT
Category:Internet references
158: Minus Garfield

==Explanation==
For this strip, the colors of Garfield are inverted; thus, instead of the comic lacking Garfield, it has a Garfield in negative.
The way the title—in addition to the draft title in the authors' comments— is phrased is yet another reference to Garfield Minus Garfield.
==The author writes:==
burning wrote:
Tossing out an idea for anyone who wants to attempt it: Garfield minus 2*Garfield. Instead of Garfield being missing from the strip, have the colours for Garfield in negative.
manyhills wrote:
You could just call it Minus Garfield.
Henning Makholm wrote:
Like this?
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, why don't you catch mice?
Jon: Are you afraid of them?
Jon: What power do they have over you?
Garfield: {coloured like a photographic negative} Tiny little incriminating photographs.
Category:Manyhills 
Category:Henning Makholm 
Category:burning
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Math-based comics
1595: Violence-Free Garfield

==Explanation==
This comic is a tribute to the practice of censoring cartoons (usually Looney Tunes, as this page will attest to) in reruns. In the original strip, Garfield repeatedly beats up Jon to get his way - first slapping him with the menu, then hitting him over the head, then finally throwing a glass of water in his face. This one removes the panels depicting said actions, and while it's obvious that cuts were made the strip's story is surprisingly still somewhat coherent. 
The long opening panel, according to the author's notes, is a reference to the title cards used on CBS' The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show and ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show from 1985 to 1989, which the author mentions preferring over the title cards used for the remainder of the latter show's run. (Also note that the author, like many others, mistakenly spells the series' name as Looney Toons.)
==The author writes:==
My tribute to all those Animes and Looney Toons that were edited to reduce the amount of onscreen violence. The remarkable thing was that even though obvious cuts were made so you could see the seams in the editing, you could still enjoy the episodes. The opening for this comic is inspired by those "strobe" openings for the Looney Toons shorts that I much vastly preferred to the Bugs Bunny 50th Anniversary logo before the title.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'll have a steak, fries and a large cola. 
Jon: And my cat here will have an order of lasagna. 
Jon: Make that a double order. 
Jon: Perhaps a triple order. 
Jon: Heck with it. Give him the whole pan. 
Garfield: And give it wings.
==Trivia==
* For a time, strip 1595 was actually a rerun of 1589: Cat Memes (by the same author). This mistake was soon corrected, and the whole ordeal was referenced in "The Problem with Webcomic Buffers" and "Web Affair".
Category:DanielBT
Category:Cartoon references
Category:Film references
Category:Television references
159: urururururururur

==Explanation==
The original comic had Garfield lip-syncing to a record player. When a CD player skips, it might not skip as far as a record player often does; thus, only the "ur" syllable is repeated rather than "I'll sure".
==The author writes:==
This one (from ) is an up-to-date version (well, "up-to-date" by newspaper comic standards, anyway...) of one of my personal favourites. Don't you just hate it when your CD player starts skipping?
==Transcript==
Garfield: Shoo-doop boowa, shoo-doop boowa.
Garfield: Well I was workin' last night on my piston head, when my best friend told me my girl was dead. 
Garfield: Well, I'll sururururururururururururur
Garfield: urururururururururururururururururur
CD player: urururururururururururururururururururururururur
{Garfield hits the CD player}
SFX: Ka-chunk
CD player: ururure. 
Garfield: Miss herrrrr.
Category:Redhead64
15: Garfield Divided by Garfield

==Explanation==
Any number divided by itself is 1. Thus, Garfield divided by Garfield would be 1, as shown here. (Apparently, the 1 is non-sentient, though a later version contradicts this.)
==The author writes:==
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Jon: {talking to a giant number 1} I couldn't find my hat! 
Jon: Then it occurred to me that I didn't have one!
Jon: So I didn't wear it!
Category:John Wallace
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Math-based comics
1601: Mariofield

==Explanation==
In the original strip, the "Box O'Mystery" was green and covered in question marks. Here, it's been replaced with a Question Block (or ? Block) from the Super Mario Bros games. In said series, when a ? Block is hit, it produces an item of some sort. Here, Jon finds a Poison Mushroom (a hazard that appears from the blocks) inside - originally, the box was empty. (Incidentally, the graphic used for the Poison Mushroom is its appearance from the crossover fighting game Super Smash Bros. Brawl - it's usually depicted as purple.)
==The author writes:== 
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Merry Christmas, Jon!</br> 
{Garfield enters, carrying a Question Block}</br> 
Garfield: I'm giving you the "Box O' Mystery"!</br> 
{Jon opens it to reveal a Poison Mushroom}</br> 
Jon: It's poison.</br> 
Garfield: {exasperated} And now you've ruined it!
Category:Manyhills
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
Category:Video game references
1602: Dialogue Swap: English vs. Spanish

==Explanation==
This might get a little complicated. Bear with me.
Put simply, when the original two strips were published in Spanish, their respective dialogue was swapped, resulting in a mismatch with the action. This edit switches all four around - the Spanish strips have the correct dialogue, while the English strips now have the wrong ones.
==The author writes:==
Work this out for yourself: Which language-specific dialogue is correct? Which is wrong?
Original strips: (and ), (and ).
==Transcript==
{Strip 1: English}</br>
Jon: Nobody ever visits my blog... It's too dull.</br> 
Jon: I guess nobody wants to read about an ordinary guy and his cat.</br> 
Jon: Time to make stuff up!</br> 
Garfield: Give me an eye patch and a goatee!</br> 
{Strip 1: Spanish}</br> 
Jon: No he tenido una sola visita a mi "blog".</br> 
Jon: ¡Pensarias que le gente estaria interesada en lo que tengo que decir!</br> 
Jon: ¡Bien, lo estarán!</br> 
Garfield: ¿Hace sol en la tierra de Jon?</br>
{Strip 2: English}</br>
Jon: I haven't had a single hit on my blog.</br>
Jon: You'd think people would be interested in what I have to say!</br> 
Jon: Well, they would!</br> 
Garfield: Is it sunny in Jonland today?</br> 
{Strip 2: Spanish}</br> 
Jon: Nadie visita mi "blog"... Es muy aburrido.</br> 
Jon: Creo que nadie quiere leer acerca de un tipo común y su gato.</br> 
Jon: ¡Hora de inventar!</br> 
Garfield: ¡Ponme un parche en el ojo y una perilla!
Category:Corrections
Category:Foreign language
Category:NES Boy
160: (Garfield minus Jon) Divided by Garfield

==Explanation==
This strip combines the concepts, but not the original strips, of #48 and #15 by removing Jon and dividing Garfield by himself, leaving only a motionless number 1.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
{A number 1 sits behind the table.}
Category:mallo
Category:Joke removal
Category:Math-based comics
1612: More Sophisticated Garfield

==Explanation==
Garfield ate his food cause he thought it was actually food and that was Garfield's 
Taste. Here, Garfield tosses his food away cause he thought it was Odie.
==The author writes:==
More sophisticated Garfield!
Based on 1512
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I have sophisticated tastes
{Garfield tosses his food away}
Garfield: That was Odie
Category:William White
1613: Catch the Durian

==Explanation==
The original strip had Jon playing "Catch the Pineapple". This edit substitutes the durian instead - durians being similarly spiky fruits.
==The author writes:==
Durians.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: MINE! 
Garfield: Poor Jon... 
Jon: I GOT IT! I GOT IT!
 
Garfield: Will he ever learn? 
Jon: YEEOOWW! 
Garfield: "Catch the Durian".
Category:Real world references
Category:tardis2334
161: Concerned Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
After the first couple of comics I tried, my mind started looking for potential ways I could take the square root of the inverse of Garfield's comics as I was reading them.
Not long after came Garfield's Sombrero Week (which I use to refer to the week of comics from a few weeks back - as of writing this, at least - when Garfield toted a sombrero around). For some reason, the imagery of Garfield with his head fully covered in a hat that size made me think of Headcrabs from the Half-Life series. Being the webcomic reading geek that I am, this brought my train of thought to the wonderful work of Christopher C. Livingston in his (now concluded) webcomic Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman. It all just kind of came together from there.
For those wondering, the Headcrab featured in this comic is of the rare and elusive Sombrero variety, which usually likes to simply sit around and try to look like nothing more than an ordinary Nice Hat until some unsuspecting stranger comes along and tries it on. But that's not to say that they don't have some initiative if their usual laziness fails them.
Original Garfield comics from , , , and .
Scenario and dialogue based on Concerned comics number 90 and 91.
==Transcript==
{Sound effect: Skreeee!}
Garfield: Ow! My Health Points!
Garfield: Stop burrowing in my flesh! It's extremely unpleasant! Ouch! Arrgh! Agggh! Oogh! Rrrr...
Garfield: RRRAAAGGHHH!!!
{Beat Panel}
Garfield: Sigh. Of course this would have to happen when I've just finished washing.
Garfield: Jon? I don’t feel so goooood...
Jon: Wha?
Jon: Garfield? Good Lord, is that you?
Garfield: Duh. Who else would it be?
Jon: But... you walk and think of your own free will... how can this be?
Garfield: Gee, I dunno.
Jon: These Headcrabs... possess people...
Garfield: What's your point?
Jon: You should have no will of your own! Why, you are one of the Walking Dead!
Garfield: Yeah, well... your life is a punch line.
Garfield: So, what do you suggest? Siesta?
Jon: Perhaps something a bit more... drastic.
Garfield: Is it lasagna? Cause I'm starving.
Category:Michael Stangeland
Category:Webcomic references
Category:Video game references
1626: Garfield Meets The Thin Man

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
By way of explanation. (Hey, at least this is marginally more original than yet another strip from .)
Slenderman sketch is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike by DeviantArt user BrokenDoll777.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: Know what's good about dieting, Garfield?
Jon: You walk down the street...
{The Slender Man has appeared behind Jon; Garfield looks on in a mixture of shock and horror}
Jon: And people yell "Hey, there, Slenderman!"
==Trivia==
2006-10-28 was presumably not intended to be treated as a formal strip credit as the current strip crediting system presumes; it likely was given such a formal credit due to a quirk in the transition between the old and credit strip crediting systems, likely due to the entire author's notes being taken into account rather than just the parts covered by the old strip crediting system.
Category:Lubaf
Category:Internet references
1627: Garfield in 2053, Part 4

== Explanation ==
The oeuvre of Garfield in 2053 continues, and this time - as explained below - the strip will likely devolve to the point where it merely describes Garfield's basic character traits. To quote another explanation: "At this point, there's almost nowhere to escalate the joke to... Almost."
== The author writes ==
This strip is based on the third strip in this series; rehashing the old content (including the letters) with no original additions at all. I believe this is the inevitable result of Garfield's decline where the strips will be reduced to simply stating Garfield's character traits in their most banal form.
== Transcript ==
{beat}
{beat}
Garfield: I am a fat and lazy individual.
Original strip: .
Category:Levellass
Category:Garfield in 2053
162: Garfield Retold Minus Garfield

==Explanation==
In another Garfield Minus Garfield reference, this simply removes any mention of Garfield from 44: Garfield Retold, replacing it with white space.
==The author writes:==
Based on Garfield Retold.
Original Garfield strip: 
==Transcript==
Okay, so, in the first panel, Jon walks in and says good morning. You know what I mean.
Then in the second panel, Jon is just staring straight ahead at something. He's wearing a striped shirt. He was wearing the same shirt in the first panel too, I should have said that before.
And then in the third panel, Jon, he's wearing the same shirt but that's not really important, Jon says that he thinks the toaster has a short. Like, as in, a short circuit.
Did I mention that Jon's hair is pointing out like he's been shocked, and he's sort of glowing and smoking? And his eyes are bulging out. That's why he was staring straight ahead in the second panel.
I guess you had to be there.
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:Retellings
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Text-Only
1631: Sex & drums & rock 'n' rollfield

==Explanation==
In the original strip, the meat loaf said that it was a lasagna to lure Garfield to the fridge. Here, it quotes the titular line of Meat Loaf's hit single "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)". Garfield's line "Meat loaf is cruel" thus takes on a different meaning. 
The title is another reference to the song - specifically, the lyric "Some days I just pray to the god of sex & drums & rock 'n' roll."
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Voice from fridge: Garfield, I am calling you... 
Voice from fridge: I would do anything for love. 
{Garfield opens the fridge} 
Voice from fridge: NOT! 
Garfield: Meat Loaf is cruel.
Category:Manyhills
Category:Music references
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
1633: De-Wrench

==Explanation==
This strip pokes fun at the error from the original Garfield strip by tweaking the wordplay in the third panel, implying that somebody sent a wrench through telephone lines and came out of an unseen fax machine to knock Garfield off his perch. It is unknown how such could potentially be achieved with Garfield falling the way he did; had the mechanical setup been behind the fence, Garfield would've likely fallen on the side of the fence facing the viewer.
This thread is the forum thread mentioned in the author's notes.
==The author writes:==
Based on comic 1210: De-Fence. Inspired by the forum thread of the same name.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is performing on the fence again. Why does he do it? It normally results in him getting hit with things.}
SFX: tappity tappity tappity
{Garfield falls off the fence}
Garfield: Okay... Who faxed the wrench?
{This proves Garfield did not slip off the fence, but instead was hit by a somehow-sent-through-the-fax wrench}
Category:Henry Morel
1634: Just Look At That Gorgeous Garfield

==Explanation==
This strip is an homage to the CiSRA Puzzle Competition, an annual event wherein several groups compete to see who can solve the most puzzles (with the potential for Australian students to win prizes). The puzzles themselves tend to be extremely obtuse, and have no instructions at all. (See, for example, this one from 2013 - and compare its structure to this comic.)
After attempting to give hints in a forum thread, Manyhills eventually gave up and revealed the solution to the puzzle:
The Garfields come in coloured pairs. For all but four of these pairs, the two Garfields are facing each other; for four of these pairs, one of them is facing away from the other.
Write each of the characters of BUTWHATSHOULDICHOOSEBUTWHENSHOULDISEARCH left-to-right, top-to-bottom on the strip, and extract the four characters corresponding to the panels containing the facing-away Garfields.
This gives you the characters T-C-B-S.
Now we know what we should choose, we just need a date (a when to search). Translating the letters into numbers in the usual way (A=1, B=2, etc) gives us 20-03-02-19, which suggests the eight-digit date 2003-02-19; and, since this is a SRoMG comic, looking up the might be a wise course of action; all that remains is to answer Jon's baldly stated question with one word, eight letters: BISMARCK.
==The author writes:==
The answer is one word, eight letters. The first correct response received at many_hills-excitingcompetition@yahoo.co.uk wins a FABULOUS PRIZE*. Alternatively, email the same address with the subject "I'm colourblind and you annoy me" and win a FABULOUS PERSONALISED APOLOGY (for a limited time only).
* Probably nothing but hey, make me an offer.
Original strip: .
The colours were chosen from a Two4U colour catalogue.
==Transcript==
1A. Just Look At That Gorgeous Garfield
Puzzle by: manyhills
Difficulty: Easy
SRoMG Puzzle Competition 2013
http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield
{An array of bored-looking Garfields}
...BUT WHAT SHOULD I CHOOSE
BUT WHEN SHOULD I SEARCH?
Category:Manyhills
Category:Puzzles
Category:Real world references
1635: Skelefield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This strip is nothing but SRoMG bait.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Jon and Garfield are standing at the window}
{Over the course of 6 beat panels, Garfield decays and becomes a skeleton}
Jon: Pizza's here!
Garfield's skeleton: 'Bout time.
Category:Densetsu Bros
1637: Garfield Off-Script

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
In which we learn that Garfield neither likes to nor is good at being extemporaneous .
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Is lying there all you can do?
Garfield: It is until somebody gives me today's script!!!
Jon: You could try ad-libbing for once.
Garfield: Here... I'll ad-lib wiggling my toes, okay?
Category:Craig Wittler
163: Meta-Garfield

==Explanation==
The strip's text is replaced with generic dialogue from the movie Schizopolis, coincidentally referencing the structure of a typical three-panel Garfield strip. Unusually, this strip was created from a longer Sunday strip.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Garfield: Generic greeting!
Jon: Generic greeting returned.
Garfield: Imminent sustenance.
Jon: Overly dramatic statement regarding upcoming meal.
Garfield: Ooh! False reaction indicating hunger and excitement.
Category:superluser
Category:Meta humor
1642: Choice Words

==Explanation==
This strip's premise is pretty well-explained within both the strip itself and its author's notes; essentially, the words Jon wants to use to tell off Garfield for the damage in the living room are those that would fall outside Square Root of Minus Garfield's family-friendly scope.
==The author writes:==
This is a parody of the TV Trope Think of the Censors.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield, I'd like to have a few choice words with you about this mess.
Jon: Now I would say these words to you, but there's one problem.
Jon: Our host DMM wouldn't allow it to appear on the site.
==Trivia==
The first panel of this strip was later reused on Lightning Made of Owls #604: The Problem with Webcomic Buffers as part of a two-strip, two-feature lampooning of an incident that had previously happened on Square Root of Minus Garfield.
Category:Cody
1643: Garfield: 2053-11-28

== Explanation ==
Another addition to the growing Garfield in 2053 collection; this time, we have an escalation of #1526's joke - Garfield flat-out states that they've stopped making frozen pudding pops.
== The author writes ==
Inspired by #1494.
Original strips: , .
== Transcript ==
Garfield: The world is constantly changing. 
{beat panel}
Garfield: They've stopped making frozen pudding pops.
Category:Light
Category:Garfield in 2053
Category:Improving humor
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Pudding pops
1645: Reason 1 This Day Can Get Better

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 1645: Reason #1 This Day Can Get Better.
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
... I think Andrew Collier is right. I think Jim Davis is clearly baiting us!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield confidently strolls down the counter}
Garfield: Can this day get any better?
Jon: They've started making frozen pudding pops again!
Garfield: Well, yes it can!
Category:randomdude
1646: Fifth Anniversary

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
We made this together and are hoping it can get on the site in time for SRoMG's 5th anniversary on 2013-11-18 [sic], but if not, oh well. We debated whether the final punchline should be "Have we dynamite?" or "They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?" We think we made the right decision in the end.
Admin note: We received this well in advance of the 5th anniversary date, but alas the contributor stated the wrong date - the first SRoMG strip actually appeared on 2008-11-15. This, combined with the fact that I set myself a reminder in my calendar to queue this strip up for the 18th and the fact that the search function in my mail program failed to find the word "anniversary" in the submission email, meant I didn't find the strip again in time, and queued up strips for a few days past the anniversary. By the time I found this strip again, it was too late, both for the true date of the 15th and the false date of the 18th... So here we are several days after the real anniversary, but hopefully close enough to make the whole thing worthwhile.
Original Garfield strip: .
Original SRoMG strips: *deep breath* 268, 556, 15, 1, 777, 46, 179, 205, 123, 83, 229, 253, 505, 305, 321, 744, 635, 716, 605, 582, 667, 867, 811, 804, 845, 918, 897, 1490, 1006, 938, 1098, 1011, 1111, 1225, 1277, 1313, 1352, 1461, 1514. In no particular order.
==Transcript==
Jon: Happy 5th birthday, SRoMG!
Garfield: If you brought me presents you may stay.
Jon: Hey, Garfield, I just ran across the SRoMG archive.
Garfield: Ho boy.
(SRoMG panels are placed like photos on the photo-album background)
Jon: You've really changed in five years, Garfield.
Garfield: Have we dynamite?
==Trivia==
The blunders described in the admin note resulted in 1641: Shakesfield running on the occasion that this strip was meant to commemorate and 1644: Therapy running on the date this strip's author mistakenly set as the initial target.
Category:Densetsu Bros
Category:Milestone strips