nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
150: Is that just cool or what?

==Explanation==
In contrast to 5: Qwantzfield, which applies the Dinosaur Comics premise by using the first strip's art to tell the story of a later strip, this one uses the six-panel format of Dinosaur Comics itself, using similar poses. In addition, two throwaway panels, as used in Garfield, are added.
The comic discusses the Furry fandom and the way most media focuses on the sexual behavior of some of its members. 
The final panel may refer to otherkin, who identify themselves as non-human.
==The author writes:==
In which the Garfield cast enact a Dinosaur Comics pastiche, creating a sort of complement to No. 5 "Qwantzfield".
Art clipped from the strips of , , , , , , and .
==Transcript==
Caption: Square Root of Minus Garfield
Caption: The Garfield parody webcomic that anyone can contribute a strip to
Jon: It's Jonpedia day!
Jon: Today, let's talk about furries. Furries are people who like to dress up as animals. Then they have hot sex with each other while in costume.
Jon: Is that just cool or what?
Odie: Is that really an accurate description of what furries are about? Are you sure you're not perpetuating a distorted perspective introduced by sensationalist media that fixate on a small minority within the furry community and falsely represent them as being representative of the whole?
Garfield: Odie is right, Jon.
Garfield: To most people in furdom, their hobby has no sexual aspect at all.
Jon: That sounds boring.
Garfield: But true.
Jon: The first pillar of Jonpedia is Awesomeness not Truth.
Caption: Meanwhile in a dimension where Jon is a Tyrannosaurus trapped in a man's body:
Jon: ROAR!
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:Webcomic references
1516: Take this

==Explanation==
This strip is a reference to an oft-quoted line from the original Legend of Zelda game. When you first start the game, a nearby cave houses an old man, giving away a sword with the line "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." In the Internet era, the line became a nostalgia-based meme. This Garfield strip fits inexplicably well with this line.
==The author writes:==
I don't like flogging dead horses anymore than the next person, but when I saw Nermal's introduction, I couldn't resist. And now for the dreaded Know Your Meme link.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: {holding Nermal out towards Garfield} It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.
Category:Kojinka
Category:Video game references
1518: Beautiful Inlawfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
A beautiful in-law is a work that uses only those letters that appear in the name of its dedicatee - in this case, Garfield. As the Oulipo Compendium drolly puts it, "a tribute to Eva would leave her beloved hard put to offer anything, unless her second name were 'Macronphylgjerstiquawofbeduvsk'".
Much more fun are beautiful outlaws, which are not quite the opposite - a beautiful outlaw is a poem of N lines, where N is the length of the dedicatee's name, such that line N of the poem contains every letter of the alphabet bar the Nth letter of the name. (They are thus more of an opposite to the acrostic than to the beautiful inlaw.) Here is an illustration, and to make sure you've got the idea I'll leave you to deduce the name by yourselves (hint: it isn't "Garfield"):
:Gingerly I pick my way through the room, over the floor, in a daze to the bed (jqx)
:There she lies, dozing softly, weaving dreams, books, constrained poems (jqx)
:And in the sun her pale face, bright eyes, make vows (jqx)
:Of love, beauty, and such, pure azure dreams gone when awake (jqx)
:Ruby hair stirs lazily, blinking... fading, cold. Promising now only void. (jqx)
You might note that the poem is about the absence of its subject twice over - the subject's name is on a basic literal level not present, but the subject to whom the name refers is also, in the world of the poem, missing, intangible, void. I like to think of this as an illustration of Roubaud's First Principle - a text written in accordance with a restrictive procedure refers to that procedure - although I think the reference Roubaud was talking about is meant to be a direct and literal one.
Original strips: , , , .
==Transcript==
Jon: I dial a girl.
Voice over phone: Aaaaaaaa! Flee!
Jon: {despairingly} Garfield...
Garfield: Feed.
Category:Manyhills
151: Talking Garfield

==Explanation==
As explained by the author, the original strip was featured in a collection of "baffling Garfield strips" compiled by Peter Paltridge, who noted that this particular strip lacks irony because Garfield does not actually speak, but instead uses thought bubbles. This edit attempts to improve the punchline by turning Garfield into a talking cat.
==The author writes:==
Peter Paltridge of Platypus Comix recently highlighted a handful of odd Garfield strips, the original version of this strip among them. I thought I'd try my hand at making a version where Garfield actually talks, thus improving the strip. I had to draw an open mouth onto Garfield in the third panel myself (he already had one in the second panel). 
Original strip from 
==Transcript==
TV voice 1: Look who's come to visit, boys and girls. It's Jerry the cat. Hi, Jerry.
TV voice 2: Hi, uncle Roy.
TV voice 1: How are you?
TV voice 2: I'm fine. How are you.
Garfield: {actual speech bubble, not just a thought bubble} Uncle Roy is getting pretty bizarre.
TV voice 1: How's your mother?
TV voice 2: She's fine.
Garfield: {actual speech bubble, not just a thought bubble} Who'd be dumb enough to believe there is a talking cat?
Category:NES Boy
Category:Improving humor
Category:Internet references
1520: Garfield Plus an Actual Pepper

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
My guess that the reason Jim Davis made up the "Peruvian Death Pepper" is because he was unaware of any pepper spicier than Habanero. But, thanks to the internet, it's easy to find out the current hottest pepper is the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, thus no longer having any need for the "Peruvian Death Pepper".
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hot pepper eating contest! {There is a cup of water between Garfield and Jon}
Jon: Jalapeño! {Jon eats a Jalapeño}
Garfield: Cayenne! {Garfield eats a Cayenne}
Jon: Habanero! {Jon eats a Habanero}
Garfield: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion! {Garfield eats a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion}
SFX: FOOM {Garfield breathes fire)
Garfield: You win... {Garfield has drunk all the water}
Jon: Then why am I not happy? {Jon is burnt}
Category:pookypal
1526: Garfield in 2053, Part 3

== Explanation ==
The third Garfield in 2053 strip has Garfield describe the infamous 2001-11-28 strip. Given the nature of Garfield in 2053, it's pretty straightforward.
== The author writes ==
Original strips: , .
== Transcript ==
Garfield: Jon said the world is constantly changing.
{beat}
Garfield: I hope they haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops.
Category:MadDogBV
Category:Garfield in 2053
Category:Constantly changing
Category:Pudding pops
1527

==Explanation==
This comic satirizes the trend of "Seasonal Rot" (as the TV Tropes link puts it), where the general perception of an ongoing work's quality decreases as it continues. Garfield is popular for such accusations, and not without reason.
Here, Garfield himself is the one making these complaints about his own strip (which, unlike every other SRoMG strip aside from 5740, is untitled). The opening remark is likely a reference to mezzacotta proper - "I think this comic is going downhill" is the very first line of the very first comic (which, due to the comic's gimmick, was supposedly made on January 1st, 9999999999999 BC).
==The author writes:==
Seasonal Rot.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{the strip is in black-and-white}</br>
Garfield: I think this comic is going downhill.</br>
Garfield: They didn't color this strip, they didn't write this strip...</br>
Garfield: ...they didn't even title this strip.
Category:Cody
Category:Meta humor
Category:Painting the medium
152: Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon Minus Odie Minus Nermal Minus Arlene Minus Lyman Minus Liz Minus Pookie

==Explanation==
This strip is an exaggeration of the Garfield Minus Garfield concept - now, every recurring character has been deleted, leaving only a dog that appeared in a single comic. (Apologies for the long title, by the way.)
==The author writes:==
With many of the remixes using the "Garfield Minus X" formula, I decided to do away with any and all recurring characters, leaving only this dog that appeared in one strip ().
==Transcript==
{A dog standing in front of a sign that says "Beware of cats".} 
Dog: Cats are mean. 
Dog: {appealing to the heavens} See?
==Trivia==
Although this strip's title is lengthy in its own right, Square Root of Minus Garfield's Archive page lists the "shortening ellipsis" (a string formatted ". . ."), common to very lengthy titles, as this strip's entire title, presumably to not spoil this strip's twists.
Category:Colin Foster
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Long titles
1530: Silence Speaks Louder than Words

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon's opening remark is the preface for his telling of a series of undesirable occurrences, "interrupted" by Garfield rudely wanting to relate his own day before Jon is finished. 119: Frozen Garfield is the same telling, which ends when Jon realizes that Garfield has not moved and is continuing not to move.
This strip has Jon apparently deciding that since Garfield won't believe his day, he simply won't elaborate. Garfield, instead of asking him to, ends with his dialogue from the original strip, which comes off as more sarcastic since Jon said nothing after the first panel... for four panels before Garfield finally said something.
==The author writes:==
Expanding upon #119, I have decided to explore other ways to improve on the original strip. By keeping Jon mostly silent (with the exception of the first panel), Garfield's remark comes off as even more sarcastic.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: You wouldn't believe my day, Garfield</br>
{beat}</br>
{beat}</br>
{beat}</br>
{beat}</br>
Garfield: Hey, Mr. Motor Mouth! Don't you want to know how my day went?</br>
Category:Beat panels
Category:Joke reversal
Category:Kojinka
1531: Uvula

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon took a picture of his own uvula because he didn't have a date. For this strip, the author removed the first panel and had Garfield imply that the uvula was Liz's, taken as part of the practice of sexting, or sending sexually explicit text messages that may or may not have images accompanying them (or as the main aspect of the message).
It is possible that Liz sent a picture of her uvula instead of one of a part with a name that's a near-anagram. Such a mix-up is implied here to be a newbie mistake, but Jon is appreciative, nonetheless.
The author mentions 1242: One Little Letter, which used "sexting" in a slightly different way.
==The author writes:==
I guess it's a sort of spiritual sequel to strip 1242?
Original strip: . That's all, thankfully.
==Transcript==
{Jon looks in surprise at a picture message that has just arrived on his phone}</br>
Jon: {leering} Now there's a good-lookin' uvula!</br>
Garfield: Liz is new to sexting.
Category:Manyhills
1532: Misanthropic Garfield

==Explanation==
Titanic is a 1997 film (assuming Negative N didn't mean the 1915 silent Italian film, the 1943 German film, or the 1953 film) whose climax is the wrecking and subsequent sinking of the RMS Titanic, an event that took the lives of more than 1,500 people. In the film, this includes Jack, who died so that Rose would live. To say that Titanic has an unmitigatedly "happy" ending would definitely mark one as misanthropic.
By contrast, the original strip's joke was about Old Yeller, which ends with the death of one dog, demonstrating his general dislike of dogs.
==The author writes:==
In retrospect, it is a bit of an Outside Joke.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield reading letter}: Dear Garfield, What is your favorite all-time film?</br>
Garfield: It's "Titanic".</br>
Garfield: I love movies with happy endings.
==Later references==
* No. 1656: Really Misanthropic Garfield and No. 2058: Extremely Misanthropic Garfield were directly inspired by this strip.
Category:Negative N
Category:Film references
1534: Lyman?

==Explanation==
This strip takes the original Garfield strip and rewords the third panel so that Jon recognizes the Lyman cameo and Garfield implies Lyman had something to do with the newspaper's story from the first panel. The author's notes also run along with Lyman having to do with the newspaper's alien story.
==The author writes:==
Lyman was an alien advance scout sent to see if Earth was habitable for his people to begin a full invasion. However, after seeing the terrible living conditions of Jon and Garfield, he soon returned to his alien superiors and reported that Earth was completely inhospitable. Odie was left behind to spy on Earth in case things changed. This explains Lyman's sudden appearance in the strip as well as his sudden disappearance.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: {reading newspaper} "If space aliens were to invade Earth, they could take the form of animals."
{beat}
Jon: {Seeing a photo of Lyman on the front page} Is that Lyman?
Garfield: He was one of them.
Category:Densetsu Bros
1535: Colour-Averaged Garfield: 2053

== Explanation ==
The author's notes below already sufficiently explain the context of the strip, although it seems to imply that the editor who runs Garfield in the theoretical timeline of the 2053 comics will decide to actually feature a character other than Garfield -- while still using the basic gimmick, of course.
== The author writes ==
A crossover of the two series referring to Garfield's adherence to formula ("Garfield in 2053", #1494, the satire; and "Colour-Averaged Garfield", #9, the demonstration) was almost a requirement in my mind.
== Transcript ==
{A colour averaged strip of all the Garfield comics published in the year 2053.}
Original strips: , .
Category:Whimsical Calamari
Category:Garfield in 2053
Category:Color-averages
153: Garfield Is the Perfect Disguise

==Explanation==
This is an edit of a Laugh-Out-Loud Cats strip. For those unaware, the comic's gimmick is that it pays homage to early 20th century comics but juxtaposes 21st century slang (in this cast, LOLspeak). In the original, two cats had dressed up as humans (the text, obviously, being a pun on the term "incognito"). Here, they're dressed up as Garfield.
On another note, the author's note links to a blog post about how one Laugh-Out-Loud Cats strip may have borrowed a punchline from him. Whether or not this is true remains to be seen.
==The author writes:==
More from Adam Koford's Laugh-Out-Loud Cats, because I like them (and not because of a little personal feud over a borrowed punchline*), and because when they're hiding out from the authorities, how better to get in your cognito?
Original Laugh-Out-Loud Cats comic: #406, 2007-10-17
* The original link doesn't work.
==Transcript==
Pip (in Garfield disguise): Cognito. We R In It.
Category:Craig Wittler
Category:Webcomic references
Category:No original strip
1542: The World Revolves Around Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I'd change the dialogue, but I think it's funnier if they both assume that since the small planet that's orbiting Garfield is always facing the viewer, that means that it is tidally-locked to the viewer (or at least, something in the viewer's direction), and thus revolves around the viewer, rather than Garfield.
Picture of Earth is Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike by Wikimedia user Azcolvin429 from Wikimedia commons.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: The world does not revolve around you.
Garfield: {Ignores the planet revolving around him} You got that right, pal.
Garfield: Because I told the world not to.
Category:Lubaf
1545: Mook

==Explanation==
The alien that replaces Jon here is a Mook from the Mother video game series. It's most likely intended to reference EarthBound, the second game in the series and (for a long time) the only one officially released in the West. The choice of a Mook was inspired by Garfield's line "Mon't mook at meef.", but as a happy coincidence, certain varieties of Mooks can drop PSI Caramels, making them a perfect fit for a comic concerning caramels.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
Clay Mook from the Earthbound (Mother) series, from the Nintendo Wiki.
==Transcript==
Mook: Oh, Garfield</br> 
Mook: What happened to my candy caramels?</br>
Garfield: Mon't mook at meef.
Category:Nyperold
Category:Video game references
1549: Backfield Minus Back

==Explanation==
This take on "Backfield" changes the joke somewhat drastically. In the original, a four-word phrase was awkwardly jammed into three panels. "Backfield" trimmed it to three words so it would fit. Here, though, the humor is derived from the snail's words not fitting, preserving the notion that it's slow.
==The author writes:==
The original crammed a four-word phrase into three panels. Backfield improved it by substituting a three-word phrase. Then I thought to myself, "Is a four-panel punchline in a three-panel strip a problem... or an opportunity?"
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Snails are slow. 
Snail: You 
Snail: take 
Snail: that
Category:D. Gates
Category:Snail
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
154: Garf-life

==Explanation==
In broad terms, half-life is the amount of time it takes for something to a quantity to half its value. It is usually used in the context of unstable atoms undergoing radioactive decay - a part of nuclear studies, not quantum studies, as it is implied here. (The author's note has an excuse - this was the most relevant Garfield strip he could find.)
Thus, this strip has been altered to fit this subject matter - it is halved every few moments, and the half is halved, and so on until nothing is left - upon which it restarts.
==The author writes:==
I originally searched for strips with 'atom', 'nucleus' or 'decay' in them, but there was nothing relevant. Imagine my surprise, therefore, that I was able to turn something up for 'quantum'! I don't think half-life necessarily counts as a quantum topic, but it was good enough for me."
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
TV: Welcome to "Quantum Physics And You".
SFX: click, click, click {Garfield desperately changes the channel} 
Garfield: Whoa! Look out! 
Garfield: Whew! I almost saw something worthwhile.
Category:Manyhills
Category:Animated comics
Category:Painting the medium
Category:Science-based comics
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
155: It's Just One of Those Days

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield wondered where his ball of yarn was, only for a lone string of yarn to ask, to Garfield's surprise, if he means its dad.
Here, the yarn is gone, a stream of color the same color as the wall flows through the ledge and out the bottom of the panel, well into the whitespace beyond (which, itself, goes even father beyond), Garfield's eyes have gone loopy, a new word balloon saying "OMGwall p'wn table" has appeared, and the copyright text is there twice.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: 
==Transcript==
Garfield: {looking confused} OMG wall p'wn table.
{The colour of the wall is spilling on to the table, and out of the comic frame.}
Category:Myke Metyll
1563: Rare Sentence Garfield 2

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 1563: Rare Sentence Garfield #2.
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==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
I Googled "a phrase you don't hear every day" and this was my first result. Inspired by SRoMG #1206.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: {eating} Tase me in the face.
{Garfield looks surprised}
Garfield: There's a phrase you don't hear every day.
Category:tardis2334
1565: Donut Wars: Donuttate

==Explanation==
This author's entry in the Donut Wars series involves him placing the blame for Jon's missing do(ugh)nut put on the residents of Annot, then using a footnote to explain what Annot is. Since a footnote is a way to annotate something, the sole reason for him doing so is to make a pun on the word "annotate".
==The author writes:==
Note from the first line in the Wikipedia article about Annot as of the date I looked at it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{a lone donut sitting at the table}</br> 
Sign: Jon's donut</br> 
{Garfield walks past the donut}</br> 
Sign: Jon's donut</br> 
{Jon sits beside the empty plate where the donut was}</br>
Sign: Annot* ate</br> 
Sign: Jon's donut</br>
Footnote: *Annot is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Category:Donut Wars
Category:Nyperold
156: Square Root of Negative Garfield

==Explanation==
The choice of comic (or perhaps the choice of processing) is undoubtedly based on Jon's last line, "Complex little creatures, aren't they?"
Mention of the "throwaway first row" is a reference to the row in Sunday strips containing the title image and a panel that doesn't strictly need to be there for the sake of the joke, in case one publication or another needs to throw it away. The author of this strip chose to dispose of it for his purposes.
==The author writes:==
Okay, this is just silly.
I first inverted the pixel values within each panel, producing a photonegative effect. Then I applied the complex square root function as a coordinate transform.
Original strip from , minus throwaway first row. (Throwing it away is what it's for, right?)
==Transcript==
Jon: It's Garfield!</br>
Garfield: Oh sure, lay the pressure on me!</br>
Garfield: Do you realize all the responsibility that is attendant to being Garfield?!</br>
Garfield: The eating of food?! The taking of naps?! The kicking of Odie?!</br>
Garfield: Why can't I be you?... All carefree and silly?</br>
SFX: {Garfield does a bizarre dance} hyuh! hyuh! hyuh!</br>
Jon: Complex little creatures, aren't they?
Category:Henning Makholm
Category:Math-based comics
1577: Scary Jon

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Garfield misses Jon, he even misses the laughter and kindness. He should let him out of the closet. Jim Davis couldn't show Jon in the closet in this comic. 
Here, Jon misses Lyman, he even misses the laughter and kindness. He should let him out of the basement. Perhaps this is why Jim Davis has joked, "Don't look in Jon's basement." The author couldn't show Lyman in the basement in this edit. He used Jon from this comic, , and found a good place to put it. He didn't draw the speech bubbles though so they're only thought bubbles.
==Transcript==
Jon: I hate to admit it, but I miss Lyman.
Jon: I miss the Laughter…the kindness…
SFX: Thump! Thump! Thump!
Jon: Maybe I should let him out of the basement.
==The author writes==
Original strips: 
Category:Kazthor
157: Garfield Meets Unauthorised Calvin

==Explanation==
The original comic stopped at the third panel, leaving us with only Garfield's explanation for this extremely localized weather effect. The author added a black/white inverse version of the (in)famous car decal depicting Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame urinating, often on a thing that the one who had it applied doesn't like (a sports team, a racer's number, an organization... custom decals may also be purchased). Bill Watterson neither makes nor endorses these decals, and United Press Syndicate tried to stop them at one time. But their popularity (and the fact that they're made by many small bootleggers rather than a single company) makes that sort of thing hard to do.
At any rate, perhaps an unauthorised image of Calvin is just the thing for a strip edited for a site not sponsored, endorsed, or authorised by Paws, Inc.
==The author writes:==
Original Garfield: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield is looking upward.}</br>
SFX: SPLAT {A stream of water drops in front of him.}</br>
Garfield: A very short but neat rain shower.</br>
{Panning back, we see a giant "Calvin Pees" decal standing behind Garfield causing another "SPLAT" in front of him.}</br>
SFX: SPLAT
Category:Craig Wittler
Category:Comic strip references