Rule 34G: if it exists, no matter how obscure or ill-fitting it is, a Square Root of Minus Garfield comic will reference it. Bloons? Check. Spy vs. Spy? Check. Wander over Yonder? Check. Rhythm Heaven? Check. Blue's Clues? Check. Schoolhouse Rock? That one's still stuck in the backlog, but wait a few months and you'll see it for sure.
— Author's comments on Feeding the Cat, which references the Henry Stickmin Series
Given Square Root of Minus Garfield's Reference Overdosed nature, this page is grouped by category.
See also this page for the various Take Thats of SRoMG.
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- The Burger King: wakeupwiththekingfield. replaces the dinosaur in this◊ strip with the Burger King.
- Burma-Shave: Both Garfa-Shave and Donutshave imitate the distinctive rhyming style of the old signs.
- Empire Today: You could have it all, my empire of carpet uses the carpet company's jingle and a drawing of founder/spokesman Lynn Hauldren.
- Hyundai Motor Company: The special strip Cat Watching England Vs USA uses a screenshot of a Hyundai commercial to reference an infamous transmission error that occurred on ITV during the 2010 FIFA World Cup (the station cut to commercials right before the first goal).
- This is Your Brain on Drugs: Web shows a spider's web being messed up because it was high. The annotation of course makes this joke, linking respectivly to a normal web for "This is your web" and a similarly messed-up one for "This is your web on drugs".
- Will It Blend?: Does it Blend? is based on the Comics Irregulars' podcast of the same name, itself based on the campaign.
Anime and Manga
- Chi's Sweet Home: Manga Nermal takes a section of the manga and edits dialogue from these◊ two◊ Garfield strips into it.
- Doraemon: June 19, 2014 strip but something happens has Garfield change the year on the calendar, only to be replaced with two robots who looks like Doraemon from the chapter "The 100 Years Later Appendix". As for Garfield, he turned into a unknown dot outside the panel.
- Fullmetal Alchemist (2003): Wench Wrench has Garfield dancing on a picture of Winry Rockbell to lead up to the punchline "Okay...who waxed the Wrench Wench?".
- Jojos Bizarre Adventure:
- These two strips switch Jon with Jolyne Cujoh for a referential joke. The latter also puts Pucci in place of Garfield.
- Jon's Mouse Problem? has Jon have the Stand Cheap Trick on his back as he turns instead of mice behind him.
- Arbuckle's Bizarre Fashion replaces Jon's getup in this◊ strip with Yoshikage Kira's.
- Kemono Friends: Zoology with Liz: Leptailurus serval*
- Neon Genesis Evangelion:
- Misanthrope Supreme Garfield contains a rather in-jokey reference.
- IT AAALLLL RETURNS TO NOTHING...
- One Piece:
- Garfield Hat Pirates (Or: 'One Garfield') has the Straw Hat Pirates take over Jon's house (and causing Garfield and him to wear straw hats by the end).
- Jon Piece has Jon get an argument with Luffy.
- Literally the next day, Jon Arrrbuckle has Jon trying to solve those vicious "one piece puzzles"
- Pokémon: These Doughnuts Are Great! has Garfield stealing Jon's jelly-filled doughnut being changed to him stealing onigiri, a type of Japanese rice ball, leading Garfield to quote Brock's infamous "Nothing beats a jelly-filled doughnut" line.
- Pom Poko: Tanukifield shows Garfield attempting to shapeshift into a tanuki. The annotation says "I wouldn't really recommend Pom Poko as a date movie.".
- Sailor Moon: Sailor Jon.
- Sherlock Bones: Mangafield edits Sherdog smoking Sherlock Holmes' pipe into the Pipe Strip◊.
- Whats Michael: The Manga Garfield trilogy edits six pages from the manga (two per strip) with dialogue from Garfield.
Art
- Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision:"Sir Nicholas Serota Makes a Syndication Decision" uses the painting (already about "worthless replicas") to lampoon the Garfield comic switching to digital art (and becoming a literal Cut and Paste Comic).
- Andy Warhol:
- Andy Warfield edits a strip◊ with Garfield dreaming in several artists' styles* to make it solely a replica of Andy's famous multicolored painting.
- I Made Andy Warhol Upset similarly uses Garfield to recreate Warhol's multicolored painting style, but instead uses a panel of Garfield T-posing.
- Claude Monet: Impressionist Garfield takes a panel from this strip◊ and renders it in Claude's Impressionist style.
- Damien Hirst: The Physical Impossibility of Garfield in the Mind of Someone Living is a reference to the famous British artwork The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. The original featured a tiger shark floating in a tank; the SRoMG version substitutes a strip involving Garfield pretending to be a shark.◊
- John Duncan:. The strip itself changes a strip about dunking donuts in coffee to a pun off the name of the 19th century artist John Duncan, with Jon freaking out after seeing the painting Merlin and the Fairy Queen.
- Vincent van Gogh: Garfield Plus High Art Minus Good Taste edits a strip◊ referencing Vincent cutting off his ear to actually involve him.
- Leonardo da Vinci: Vitruvian Tongue turns Odie's multiply-positioned tongue into a Vitruvian Man reference.
- Get the point? references the pointilist style of Georges Seurat. "Grande Jatte", and the author's note, refer to A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
- "Garfield with Balloons" is a homage to Love is in the Bin, a painting of a girl with a balloon that was put into a paper shredder after being purchased at an auction.
Comic Books
- Batman: The Why So Serious? series has Odie paraphrase The Joker from The Dark Knight, to differing results.
- Captain America: As a Vet has Captain America bringing up his veteran status to back up his advice on pet health.
- Cerebus the Aardvark: Cerebus Meets Garfield
- Chick Tracts: Garfield Undergoes Chickification
- Doctor Strange: Cloak of Garfield Impersonation FAIL takes a strip where Jon says "You're strange" to Garfield and makes it so that Garfield turns into Doctor Strange when he says that.
- Fantastic Four:
- Frank Miller:
- Omaha the Cat Dancer: OmahaField
- The Punisher: Jon's Punishment
- Teen Titans: Garfield at the Zoo
- The Mighty Thor: Mighty Thor
- X-Men:
Events
- 2010 FIFA World Cup: Cat Watching Sport
- Chilean Mining Accident: Garfield (Rescued Chilean) Miners Garfield substitutes the middle panel with a photo of the miners after their rescue.
- The Flubber Fiasco: Flubber
- Great Chicago Fire: Mr Arbuckle's Cat
Film — Animated
- An American Tail: An American Tale features a song from the film with Garfield acting out the lines.
- Beauty and the Beast: Gaston's Chat Room edits the Stephano strip to change Jon's alias to Gaston, leading Garfield to quip, "Nobody empties a chat room like Gaston."
- Toy Story: My Name is Talking Tabby has Garfield's pull-string food dish spew phrases from Woody's voice-box.Bowl: Somebody's poisoned the waterhole!
Film — Live-Action
- Annie Hall: Gallusfield
- Back to the Future: Garfield Plus 88 mph
- Captain America: Civil War: Action Hero 2.0 has Jon joining Team Iron Man at the airport.
- Click: The strip of the same name changes why Garfield is acting A God Am I over a TV remote. In the original, "Two new AA batteries always go right to his head", in this version "The movie Click always goes right to his head".
- Cloverfield: Garfield Divided by Cloverfield
- Forbidden Planet: Forbidden Cat
- Forrest Gump: Bubba replaces the Bubba in the original comic with the character of the same name from Forrest Gump.
- The Fly (1958):
- Glen or Glenda: Mildly Obscure Reference Time!
- Harpo Marx: Garfo Marx
- Help!: You're Gonna Lose That Garfield
- Home Alone: Garfield's Horror Heater
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Indiana Mouse and the Repast Crusade has a mouse in a mouse-sized version of Jones' iconic hat, and Garfield making a reference to a line from the film.
- James Bond: In Blowing Out the Bomb Garfield sarcastically calls Jon this after a bomb explodes in his face.
- Les Misérables (2012): Garfield Miserables Garfield has Inspector Javert interrupt the very first Garfield strip.
- The Lord of the Rings:
- Garfield Minas Tirith
- The Return of the King, in addition to being named after the third film, has the Kings of Gondor take over Jon's house.
- The Matrix: The Catrix has Garfield describe jogging in the same way Agent Smith describes humans at one point.
- Max Manus: Garfield Manus Garfield
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
- The Cat Who Says "Ni!"
- Garfy Peaton's Frying Seacus
- Bunfield
- The punchline of Monty Garfield's Flying Circus is a reference to the Dirty Fork sketch.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street: Strip of the same name
- Planet of the Apes: In Really Misanthropic Garfield Garfield says Beneath the Planet of the Apes is his favorite film, since he loves movies with happy endings.
- The Princess Bride:
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Real Horror Show
- Star Wars:
- Yoda Garfield has both Garfield and Jon speaking in Yoda's known "backwards speak".
- Yodafield has Garfield using "the force" to push Jon out of the room while speaking backwards.
- Starfield
- Don't Make Me Kill You
- Jon Skywalker vs Darth Garfield has a strip where Garfield advises Jon to go to "the dark side" of eating cookies and watching TV, and says "Yes, come to me, my son" when Jon does so. Jon is colored like Luke Skywalker and Garfield is wearing Darth Vader's helmet.
- Garfield Mynocks Garfield does the "something that sounds like minus" Running Gag with a mynock.
- A Star's War has Garfield run into Greedo and "hit him back" first.
- Superman: The Movie: 27th Birthday Special: Supercat features Garfield reversing the Earth's rotation, as Superman does, in an attempt to stop aging.
- Taxi Driver: Garfield, Scorcese Style
- Terminator:
- Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: Two Short Films About Garfield
- Titanic (1997): In Misanthropic Garfield, Garfield states that this is his favorite movie, because he loves movies with happy endings.
Light Novels
Literature
- Alice in Wonderland:
- Bartholomew and the Oobleck: Garfield and the Oobleck
- The Buck Book: Mad Photobomber has the "Jim Davis" signature of the comic being replaced with "Phony Mazuma", which originates from a fake dollar bill from this book.
- Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other ObservationsMischief
- The Cat Who... Series: Cat Among the Pidgins
- Choose Your Own Adventure:
- The Church Mouse: The Pacifist Cat
- Cthulhu Mythos:
- The Necromicon
- Cthulhu Dreamin'
- Cthulhu Cereal is about a cereal that says "CTHULHU FHTAGN" when milk is poured on it.
- The Doubtful Guest: Edward Goreyfield
- The Fire Cat: Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Pickles
- Frankenstein:
- The Great Gatsby: The Great Gatsfield
- Greek Mythology: Garfield Midas Garfield
- Harry Potter: 23rd Birthday Special: Garfield Potter has Garfield using the fictional spell "Solamnibus" to send himself, Jon and Odie into sleep.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Garfield has Garfield referring to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
- Honor Harrington: Torch of Garfield
- House of Leaves: Garfield of Leaves
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: Grinch plays on the Running Gag of correcting the "Fench" typo by having Garfield dance on the Grinch. The transcript additionally says "This could have been avoided very easily. He's a bad banana with a greasy black peel, after all."
- It: Kiss Me Fat Cat
- The Lorax: Loraxfield is a strip with The Lorax agreeing with Jon that you can't improve on nature, unless they put a hot dog stand in it.
- Mesopotamian Mythology: Garfield Minus Nermal Plus Nergal replaces Nermal with the similarly-named Mesopotamian god Nergal.
- Mr. Men: Mr Grumpy has Jon seeing Mr. Grumpy in place of Garfield, who badly beats him up after Jon makes fun of him.
- The Odyssey:
- Poisoned Watermelons joke: Donut Wars: Toxicity
- Struwwelpeter: Suppenkasparfield features Suppen-Kaspar, the boy who didn't eat his soup, in place of Liz in this strip◊, as well as replacing the donuts with a bowl of soup (which may be lasagna soup◊). He claims that he would indeed LIKE some soup, he just doesn't WANT any. Ultimately, Garfield eats all the soup.
- "This Is Just To Say": Garfield Carlos Williams uses the words to this poem, which is fittingly about eating another person's food, as Garfield's dialogue.
- The Wasp Factory: The Garfield Factory has Garfield giving Esmeralda a kite.
- Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?: Garfield Bookplug Garfield
Live-Action TV
- 30 Rock:
- 30 Garf reenacts Tracy Jordan's Garfield movie from the episode "Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land".
- Snartfield has Garfield sneezing and farting at the same time, or "snarting" in reference to the episode "Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning", and asking Liz Lemon's question "Don't you want to know what a snart is?"
- Banzai: Place Your Bets Now! references the show in the title, while the strip itself is an unrelated montage of Garfield's Abandoned Catchphrase, "BANZAI!"
- Battlestar Galactica: Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Six
- Bill Nye the Science Guy: Garfield Plus Bill Nye, The Science Guy has Jon giving Garfield hot coffee and then becoming a Bill Nye-like character and says "Careful, it's hot" in a cheerful manner, while Garfield says "Thank you, Bill Nye".
- The Colbert Report: Garfield the Colbert Fan has Garfield watching the show.
- "Once Again, Your Guess is as Good as Mine": The transcript references the last lines spoken in the finale of Dinosaurs.
- Doctor Who:
- Jon's New Outfit
- Are You My Mummy?
- Doctor Whofield
- Garfield Who
- Extremely Misanthropic Garfield: Garfield says "The Pandorica Opens" is his favorite episode of a TV show, as he loves shows with happy endings.
- I'm Alan Partridge: Where the now commonplace British term used in Ahaafield, "monkey tennis", originated from.
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Gang Gets Sued By Jim Davis has Charlie Kelly revealing that humanity now has the technology to let spiders talk with cats, before cutting to a Garfield comic.
- Life On Mars: Life on MarsField
- Lost: Lostfield
- Mork & Mindy: This Is Garfield Calling Orson, done In Memoriam to Robin Williams has Garfield finding Mork after going on a journey through the galaxy.
- The Muppets:
- Swedish Chefield has both Jon and Garfield speaking in Swedish Chef-esque gibberish.
- No he's-a not, he's-a wearing a neck-a-tie! takes a strip◊ in which the sound effect "waka waka" is used, and edits the final panel so that Odie's face is replaced with Fozzie Bear's. The title is a reference to the "Good grief, the comedian's a bear!" sketch from The Muppet Show.
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: Mystery Garfield Theater 3000, and MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 INCOMING! Mystery Science Garfield 3000, which ran on subsequent days.
- Oobi:
- Garfield Plus Oobi has Garfield shredding Jon's puppet to reveal that Jon's hand has eyes.
- Double Shred is the same as the one above, except this time, Garfield also shreds the eyes on Jon's hand.
- Parks and Recreation: Ron Swansonfield has Jon giving Ron Swanson a salad, the latter retorting "There must be some mistake. This is the food my food eats.".
- Seinfeld:
- Garfield Is Unfunny, in addition to being named after "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny, the old name of a trope about the show, features Garfield declaring "NO SOUP FOR YOU!" after being given soup.
- A Newman edits Newman's face over Jon's and changes the original's dialogue from "new man" to "Newman".
- Sesame Street:
- Sherlock:
- No Bleep, Sherlock... er Garfield
- Garfield plus Jon plus Liz plus Sherlock text messages takes a strip where Jon and Liz text each other and redoes them to resemble how they appear in the show.
- Six Feet Under: Six Layers of Lasagna Under
- Square One TV: Patterns That Repeat has a song from the show which Garfield and Jon show the patterns in the song in their own way, while Garfield swats spiders in the "Patterns" part.
- The author's note for Fibbon' Fishy, in its entirety, is a recurring line from the Mathnet episode "The Case of the Willing Parrot".
- Star Trek: The Original Series:
- The Prisoner: Jon - The Prisoner
- The Twilight Zone (1959): 37th Birthday Special: 404 Error shows Odie attempting to get access to the 37th birthday strip of Garfield a year early. He gets a 404 error homaging this show, showing Garfield in a suit next to text saying "I'm afraid you've crossed over into...The 404 Zone", with the last three words in the style of the show's logo. (Debatable, since the reference in the comic was from the official Garfield website)
- Too Many Cooks: Smarfield
- Twin Peaks: Who Killed Garfield Palmer series
Magazines
Memes
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us:
- Keyboard Cat: Garfield, Supported by Keyboard Cat
- The Game: Gamefield
- He-Man Sings: HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA edits a strip featuring a "He-Man Burger" to have Garfield sing the song from the popular He-Man meme.
- Indestructible Nokia: Indestructible Phone
- My Parents Are Dead/Batman Slapping Robin: Batmanfield
- Pingas: Pingasfield
- Smile.jpg:
- Smile.cat
- The Dark World of the Dog has it appearing in a strip where Garfield declares "look, if you dare, into the dark world of the dog...good luck sleeping tonight".
- U Jelly?: Garfield Plus Meme
- Weegee: Weegeefield
- Well, Excuse Me Princess: Excuuuuuuuuse Me, Garfield
- Zalgo:
- Zalgo Garfield
- Zalgo Garfield 2
- Found by: Zalgo
- Zalgo Garfield 3 has Garfield receiving Zalgo by an email message.
- Zalgo Garfield 4 has him taking the form of a carrot.
- Zalgo Garfield 5 has him at a restaurant.
- Zalgo Garfield 6 has Zalgo Garfield taking over Jon.
- Zalgo Garfield 7 has Zalgo Garfield not taking over Jon.
Music
- 2ne1: Garfield: His 2ne1 Lives, in reference to their song "I Am the Best", has 2ne1 taking the place of Garfield saying "I'm the best!"
- Aqua: Sliding Doorsfield
- The Beach Boys: In Nostalgiafield, "Caroline, No" plays on the record player.
- The Beatles:
- The Bee Gees: Tragedy
- Billy Bragg: Brewing Up With Jon Arbuckle
- The Black Eyed Peas: Black Eyed Garfield
- Blur: Garklife
- Bob Geldof: Boomtown Cats
- Bruce Springsteen: Garfield Springsteen Garfield
- The Byrds: Byrdfield
- Cam Watch out, you might get what you're Garfield. The strip references her song "Burning House", but the title is from the lyrics to "Burning Down the House" by Talking Heads
- Cher: Jon Gone is a continuation of Sliding Doorsfield, but using the lyrics of Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time" instead of Aqua's "Turn Back Time".
- Chicago: The title of #1205, Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is, Garfield? is essentially the title of a song by the band.
- Counting Crows: Joni Arbuckle is based on the lyrics to "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell, particularly the line "they paved paradise, put up a parking lot."
- Coupons: Coupjons uses some of the lyrics of "Mardi Gras" in its dialogue. Additionally, the background and table colors are changed to match the cover of the Wasted Intimacy album. The author's note is a reference to their song "Japanese Whiskey".
- Culture Club: Monday would be easy if your colors were like my dreams is based on a line from "Karma Chameleon": "loving would be easy if your colours were like my dream." Garfield's description of himself in the last panel is changed from "social chameleon" to "karma chameleon."
- Billy Currington: Garf Done Gone
- Daft Punk: Daft Punk-field
- Def Leppard: Photograph quotes the titular Def Leppard song.
- Elvis Presley: Elvield presents gist of the original dialogue in the style of "Blue Suede Shoes".
- Frank Zappa: Slightly Saner Garfield changes "Moon Unit" to "Dweezil", another one of Zappa's children.
- Genesis: It.
- The Grateful Dead: "U.S. Blues"
- Gym Class Heroes: Gym Class Garfield does the Broken Record Running Gag with "Stereo Hearts".
- Ice Cube: Cubefield has Jon saying that "today was a good day", which leads to Garfield quipping "Man, I didn't even have to use my AK".
- Jandek: Experimental Music Garfield 2
- The J. Geils Band: The annotation of Centrefurld states "I bet Jon's blood runs cold. His memory has just been sold."
- Jimi Hendrix: Arbuckle Haze edits the 1989-07-01 so that instead of saying, "I can't believe I kissed the doorbell!", Jon laments, "I can't believe I kissed the sky!", alluding to the lyrics of "Purple Haze".
- JLS: She Makes Me Wanna Garfield
- Justin Bieber: Jon Bieber
- King Crimson: Elephant Talk
- Leonard Cohen:
- The Lightning Seeds: I know that was then but it could be againfield captions a panel from every Garfield corresponding to a date the England men's national football team was eliminated from a major tournament since the strip debuted with the lyrics of "Three Lions".
- Limp Bizkit: Limp Biscat has Garfield identifying the "song" he played by shattering several wine glasses as "Break Stuff", and the title makes a pun on the band name.
- Lorde: Grammy-Winning Garfield has the singer join in a strip showing Garfield, Jon, and Odie howling.
- Macross 8299: "MOUSECROSS 82-99" features a recreation of the A Million Miles Away album cover. Two songs from the album are also referenced: the mouse is singing "Horsey" and Garfield namedrops "Grandlife, Highlife".
- Maroon Five: Jaggerfield
- Meat Loaf: Sex & drums & rock & rollfield
- Merzbow: Experimental Music Garfield 1
- Michael Jackson: Animated Jon was originally a YTMND movie that set it to "Thriller".
- Milli Vanilli: Milli Garfilli references their infamous lip syncing.
- Motörhead: Lemmy Arbuckle Minus Garfield
- Negativland: Freedom's Waiting series
- Oasis: Gallagherfield uses lyrics from the song "Digsy's Dinner". The title comes from Noel Gallagher, a former member of Oasis.
- Origami Angel: "Origarfield Angel" uses lyrics from "Ruby".
- Pet Shop Boys:
- Jon Gets Introspective
- West End Garfield has the characters acting to the first verse and the chorus section of "West End Girls".
- The Police: Love In the Time Of Coof has Garfield sing "Don't Stand So Close to Me".
- Prince: The title Purple Stain is a pun on the song and movie "Purple Rain".
- The Red Flag: IWWfield
- Chase Rice: Ready Set Roll
- Shakira: Lucky that my Nermal's small and humble so you don't confuse him with Garfield edits Shakira's face over Garfield's in the final panel. The title is a reference to a lyric from "Whenever, Wherever".
- Simon & Garfunkel:
- Simon
- The Big Bright Green Garfield Machine puts Garfield panels to the lyrics of "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine".
- Steam: Hockey Theme
- The Specials: A Message to You, Odie
- Stealers Wheel: Clowns
- Stock Aitken Waterman: M|A|R|R|F|I|E|L|D
- They Might Be Giants: Particle Man captions some panels with the lyrics to the eponymous song.
- Tom T. Hall: Jon T. Hall
- Tommy Tutone: 867-5309/Jonny
- Tom Waits: Tom Waitsfield
- Trout Fishing in America: Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits
- U2: Odie (in the Name of Love)
- "Weird Al" Yankovic: Garfield's D-Leif Rag
- The Who: Townshend Garield Townshend
Newspaper Comics
- 9 Chickweed Lane: 9 Garfield Lane
- The Angriest Dog in the World:
- B.C.:
- Square Root of Garfield Multiplied by B.C. has Garfield seeing a fish gasp for breath and B.C. noticing a clam walking with legs. This lead to Garfield saying "Fish breathe!" and B.C. shouting "CLAMS GOT LEGS!".
- Beware of Apteryx
- Bloom County:
- Un-Kawaii Garfield has Garfield wolfing down food and then popping up with the head of Bill.
- Burgerfield
- Brevity : Garfield plus Brevity(?)
- Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!: Garfield Plus Brewster Rockit has Garfield encountering the doughnut people.
- Calvin and Hobbes:
- Garfield & Hobbes
- Garfield minus Jon plus Calvin
- Garfield Meets Unauthorised Calvin
- Garfield Plus Jon Plus Jon Plus Jon
- Calvin And Garfield has Garfield and Rosalyn smacking a dog and Calvin with towels soaked in water.
- Change The Channel has Garfield accidentally switching the comic.
- Square Root of Garfield Multipled by Calvin and Hobbes
- Garfield plus Calvin's Snowmen
- In the annotation of Spotting the Difference, the "Newspaper Comics are just a bunch of talking heads" strip is used to demonstrate the copy-paste outline tool.
- Calvin Makes a SRoMG Strip
- Calvin And Garfield (yes, again) has Garfield wearing a sombrero in an attempt to look cool along with Calvin, only to get told off by him.
- Dilbert:
- Garbert, Evil Director of Human Resources
- Garbert
- Garfbert
- Dilbfield
- Snaketie combines a Dilbert comic of Dogbert and a garbage man discussing a snake that disguises tiself as a tie. Turns out this exact same thing has happened to Jon.
- Doonesbury: Garfield Plus Doonesbury Minus Newspapers
- Editorial cartoons: Politigarfield
- The Far Side:
- Funky Winkerbean: Funky Winkerfield has Garfield accidentally changing the comic to "Funky Winkerbean".
- Get Fuzzy: Garfield Gets Fuzzy
- Hägar the Horrible: Obvious Crossover (Hagar the Horrible)
- Heathcliff:
- Herman: Hermanfield
- Igdoof: Fat Cat recreates a fake Garfield-like comic seen in Igdoof.
- Krazy Kat: Krazy minus Kat
- Le Chat: Garfield le Chat
- Little Dog Lost: Little Garfield Lost
- Mother Goose and Grimm:
- Recycled Script Garfield has an exchange from this comic put into Garffield (with a mention of their syndicate appropriately being changed from "King Features in New York" to "Andrews Mc Meel Universal in Kansas City, Missouri"), as a parody of the Recycled Script phenomenon.
- Mother Goose and Grimm plus Garfield is a collage of every time the strip referenced Garfield.
- Mr. Potato Head: Garfield Plus Mr. Potato Head intersperses two a strip of this obscure Jim Davis comic with a Garfield comic, both about the main character scratching their back.
- Mutts: Garfield's Shelter Stories
- Over the Hedge:
- Square Root of Negative Over the Hedge?
- Pudding Pops Gag Minus Base Jokes Plus Dedication changes a strip where the characters are playing "Cartoon Jeopardy!" so that the questions and categories are about SRoMG.
- Peanuts:
- Garfield's Other Dog has Snoopy in place of Odie. Garfield kicks Snoopy off the table, but Snoopy manages to get back on.
- Garfield Meets "Happiness is a Warm Puppy"
- Garfield Linus Garfield
- Good ol' Garfield Brown
- Garfield Plagiarizes Peanuts
- Garfield Plagiarizes Peanuts - Again
- Loud Commercial has Linus listening to loud commercials and crying out "Help!".
- Garfield Plagiarizes Peanuts - Yet Again
- Of Spiders and Woodstock
- Strip Exchange has Garfield and Schroeder both switching comics. Charlie Brown finds Garfield laying on top of Snoopy's doghouse, while Jon finds Schroeder playing his piano in the living room.
- Jon's Chat Screen Negativia Reversed Peanuts Garfield Remix Remix
- Garfield Plagiarises Peanuts Differently
- Pearls Before Swine:
- Pooch Café: Pooch Cafield
- The Timid Soul: Mildly Obscure Obvious Crossover (Caspar Milquetoast) has Milquetoast as Garfield in a strip where Jon discusses pretending to be doormats.
- U.S. Acres:
- Tulip Tiptoe has both Garfield and Roy stomping on flowers while referencing the song "Tiptoe Through the Tulips".
- Orson and Friends
- U.S. Acres Plus Spontaneous Garfield
- Lady of Spain has Booker and Odie singing "Lady of Spain" while Booker plays an accordion (which is actually a worm that was squished and turned into an accordion)
- Smile has Garfield and Roy trying to figure out if the world smiles with them if they smile first. The results don't turn out that good.
- Synchronized U.S. Acres and Garfield
- As a bonus in Shifting Mid-Point 2, the no longer shifting, since it has ended, mid-point of this comic is determined.
- Spot the Difference with Garfield and Orson compares two nearly-identical strips of both comics.
- Zits: 13th Birthday Special: Inhale edits a birthday strip where Garfield eats his birthday cake in one gulp so he literally inhales it with the Unsound Effect "INHALE!", parelleling something Jeremy did in one strip.
Real Life People/Animals
- Allen Ginsberg: Garfield Beat Garfield
- Dewey Readmore Books: Dewey Readmore Books has Garfield acting out the life of the famous library cat.
- Julius Caesar: Caesarfield (This comic was actually written by the GoComics user Alanorei)
- Geroges Perec: Perecfield
- Gerald Scarfe: Gerald Scarfield
- Gustaf V of Sweden: Gustaf som Gustaf series
- Hugo Ball: Gadjifantolim
- James Garfield:
- John Garfield: Garfield Minus Garfield Plus John Garfield
- Jon Cryer: Garfield, starring Jon Cryer
- Kazimir Malevich: Nermalevich The World's Cutest Kitten is a strip consisting of nothing but the word "Garfield". This is in reference to a statement by Kazimir: "Instead of drawing the huts of nature’s nooks, better to write ‘Village’ and it will appear to each with finer details and the sweep of an entire village.". This, this statement is being applied to Garfield by just writing the word "Garfield".
- Leonardo da Vinci: Quote Mine has a quote from him to set up the joke, which is otherwise irrelevant to him.
- Lyman Hall: Garfield Plus Lyman Hall
- Queen Elizabeth II: Swanfield
- Ray Ozzie: Tie Stain has Garfield sucking on Jon's tie to find out if the mysterious stain is Ray Ozzie.
- René Descartes: Descartesfield, in reference to "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), has Garfield disappearing from existence when he says "I think not".
- Richard Sherman: Richard Shermanfield is Garfield and Jon reenacting the notorious "Don't you ever talk about me!" interview with Michael Crabtree, with Garfield as Richard and Jon as Michael.
- Sergei Eisenstein: The annotation of Montage Theory states "Is panel 2 an Imagine Spot or really happening? Don't ask me, I'm too busy reading about Eisenstein.".
- Soren Kierkegaard: Kierkegaarfield series
- Stanton Barrett: Stuntmen have Feelings Too references him as a possible stuntman for a movie about Jon's life.
- Tardarsauce/Grumpy Cat: Garfield meets Tardarsauce
- Vernor Vinge: A Garfield Upon the Deep
- William Shakespeare: Shakespeare's (Way With) Words has Jon asking what he should compare Liz to in his love letter. Garfield suggests a summer's day. Also, the annotion contains a few Garfield-fied lines of Sonnet 130.
- Zack Ryder: Woo Woo Woo!
Theatre
- Hamlet:
- Madame Butterfly: Pinkerfield
- Waiting for Godot:
- Waiting for Garfield has Jon and Garfield playing the role of Vladmir and Estragon. The dialogue quoted in the first panel is from the end of the first act. The next two lines are from the very end of the play.
- Godotfield
Traditional Games
- 7 Wonders: Bauzafield
- Battleship: You Sunk My Battleship
- Dominion: GarfIED note
- Dungeons & Dragons:
- Verin's Chat Screen
- Garfield Plus The Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual
- Garfiend Folio - using the same creature as the above strip, nonetheless.
- Conway's Game of Life:
- Magic: The Gathering:
- Richard Garfield
- Magic Garfield has Garfield playing the game with a ball of yarn, with Jon realizing something's up when the ball of yarn permits Garfield to play more than one Black Lotus.
- UNLOCK!: UNLOCK! Cartoon Adventures: The Monday that Wouldn't Die depicts a series of cards from a fictional game in the UNLOCK! series.
- Warhammer 40,000: In the author's commentary for Steak Sauce, mention is made of "Grimdark" being an "unregistered trademark of Games Workshop, Limited".
Video Games
- Baba is You: Baba Eat Lasagna reenacts a strip using Baba and Keke as Garfield and Jon respectively, with Baba leaving once the rule "Baba is Move" is constructed.
- Bioshock Infinite: JonShocked Infinite has Jon and Liz reenacting the "Are you afraid of God?" exchange.
- Bloons Tower Defense 5: Bloons Tower Defensefield puts in a game over screen after Garfield lets a mouse pass.
- Command & Conquer:
- Franchise/Danganronpa: Garfieldronpa: Lasagna Goes Forward! features Monokuma presumably executing Jon off-screen.
- Donkey Kong: He may move slow, he can't jump high is a brief series of Donkey Kong 64 jokes, starting with quoting Chunky Kong's verse of the DK Rap.Manyhills: This comic may not be strong, but it definitely isn't funny.
- Emerald Mine Club note : Garfield Mine Club features Garfield digging through grass, collecting a pair of lenses, and then smacking into a formerly invisible wall, with the lenses and invisible wall being depicted with the in-game sprites. The comic description even lampshades Rule 34G.
- Eversion: The eyes in the last panel of #234 are from Eversion.
- Final Fantasy: NESField 2 (Final Fantasy - Garland + Garfield)
- Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: Garfield Emblem edits this◊ strip so that the TV says "This is a message from Lord Nergal. 'I await you on the Dread Isle.'"
- Friday Night Funkin': Friday Night Garfin' edits Jon into Daddy Dearest in the blender strip◊, thus leading Garfield's "Saturday night" to be changed to Friday instead.
- Kirby: The hat reveals Zero's eye in Hat?
- The Legend of Zelda:
- Kooloo-Limpahfield changes the "dingle" sound of the ball Odie is playing with into "tingle", which is a pun leading up to the ball being replaced with the man himself, Tingle.
- Zelda II: The Adventure of Link: Garfield's Error Theater #2
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Beedlefield makes a pun on Garfield's phone notification sound being "Beedle" by having a dog text him a picture of Beedle.
- The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games: It Burns
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Action Kitton
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: The annotation of Detach, in which Garfield removes his own head, states how it was originally going to be a Majora's Mask reference.
- I coveted that lasagne, I suppose. is a selection of panels containing the words "Courage", "Wisdom", and "Power". This strip is also published on the release date of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
- Lemmings: Garfield vs Lemmings
- Mega Man 4: Mega Garfield's Planet has someone giving Garfield Rush Marine Adaptor after he tells you to feel free to give him things.
- Metal Gear Solid: 3rd Birthday Special: Metal Garfield Solid edits a birthday strip where Garfield describes the people about to say "happy birthday" as "sneaking up behind him, crouching, getting ready to leap" so Solid Snake appears behind him and Garfield goes into Alert Mode.
- Metroid: Mandibles Bite, Dog edits this strip◊ so that Old Bob the dog goes to be a Phazon test subject, causing Garfield to quip "And I'm Samus Aran."
- Minecraft:
- The Minefield series of strips
- Sunday Minefield Sunday
- Square Root of Minecraft Garfield
- Garfield Minecraft Garfield
- Hint Surprise points out that all the animals Jon imitates in the original strip are available in the game.
- Mother series: Mook
- Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl: As the name would imply, Garfield in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is a strip about him getting added to that game - specifically, receiving his invitation to the fight in the mail.
- Pac-Man:
- Pac-field is a recreation of the 5/22/1980 strip, the date Pac-Man was first released in Japanese arcades, with sprites from the game.
- Obvious Crossover (Pac-Man) has Pac-Man trying to fetch a stick.
- Garfield Miru Garfield is a Pac & Pal-themed recreation of this strip◊ where Garfield fools Jon with news about aliens, now about Miru fooling Pac-Man.
- Panel de Pon:
- Garflare takes a strip where Jon says "flare" and replaces Garfield with Flare from the game.
- Panelfield does a pun on a strip where Jon can't feel his lips with Lip.
- Papers, Please: Glory To Garstotzka has Garfield getting stopped by a dog who is apparently working the same job as the Inspector from this game, and even talks with the same font.MadDogBV: Enjoy the comic - but please produce ID, valid permit of entry, and valid passport prior to enjoyment. Glory to Garstotzka.
- Pizza Tower: "BREAKING: Local Italian Food Lover Has Pushed His Luck Too Far" has Garfield getting chased by Peppino Spaghetti.
- Plok: Garfield Minus Any Kind of Save Functionality has Garfield knocking on Plok, while wearing a costume that looks like his head.
- Pokémon:
- Pokemon Orange
- Garfield Minun Garfield
- Garfield Swinub Garfield
- Garfachu #1
- Pokemon Speak
- (Licki)tung
- In One Warped Wish, a news reporter is shown being eaten by a Elektross
- Garfield Plus Weedles
- Garfevolution shows Garfield sucking in his stomach and the fat going to his tail, with the captions claiming he evolved into a squirrel. (This was taken from a GoComics comment by vash_ts)
- Garfachu is the above strip, but with the "evolved" Garfield actually edited to have Pikachu's body shape.
- The author's note of Inverse Snark Field has the author muse on the possibility of a Psychic-type snail Pokemon.
- Hey! Garfield! Remember Me? - Jon used to have a cat that knew Teleport, Reflect, and Psywave.
- Portal:
- The Steak is (not)? a Lie! has Garfield use portals in order to get his meal.
- Gladosfield replaces the text of this◊ strip to reference some unused Portal 2 dialogue in which GLaDOS edits a Garfield strip.
- Bribe + Obligatory Meme edits this strip (in which Lyman bribes Jon with cake so that Jon will let him live in his house) and adds Garfield quipping that Lyman is obviously lying about the cake.
- Psychonauts: Square Root of Minus Brain was made in anticipation of Psychonauts 2, and depicts Jon in the same state as a brainless student from the original game.
- Rise of the Triad: Garfield's History of the Triad
- Robot Unicorn Attack: Harmony
- Scribblenauts: Scribblenaps has Garfield take a nap underneath an unused sleeping icon.
- Shining Force: Gongfield makes it so that instead of gunk, the ingredient in his cat food is Gong.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Garfield Minus Jon, Plus Dr. Eggman is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. The pictures were traced from Sonic Battle specifically.
- Garfield and Jon Plus 23 Years uses the Insistent Terminology of "Classic" and "Modern" Garfield and Jon to refer to the 1978 and present renditions of them in the transcript and annotation, because the author is a Sonic fan and they do the same.
- The Real #1971 is the strip You Know WHO ELSE Is Slow!? (discussed in "Strips with Multiple References"), but actually with an image of Sonic as a "blue-colored snail hog" instead of the fake Slow-Loading Internet Image crashing before we get to that part.
- Garfield Adventure 2 has Garfield quoting the song "Live and Learn" from Sonic Adventure 2.
- Suit Suit Jonic Borier has Garfield describe Jon's green checkerboard suit as him attempting to dress like Green Hill Zone. The title of the strip is in reference to the memetic "Toot Toot Sonic Warrior" lyric from "Sonic - You Can Do Anything", the opening theme to Sonic the Hedgehog CD in Japan and Europe.
- Space Quest: Roger Wilcat is named after Roger Wilco, and has a death message from the first game appear after Garfield gets eaten.
- Spelunky: Jetpack has Garfield using a jetpack taken from this game.
- Splatoon:
- Splatoonfield references one of the infamous North American commercials for the first game.
- Slappoon 3 is named after Splatoon 3, released before the game even came out.
- Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: Played for Drama
- Star Fox Adventures: The text of Garfield ad Dino, and the author's note, are translated into Dino, the language/substitution cipher used in the game.
- Street Fighter: Jon Arblanka takes a strip where Jon's hair is messy and recolors his skin and hair to make him look like Blanka.
- Super Mario Bros.:
- In Rice, the rice is transferred through a Warp Pipe system.
- In Mariofield, Garfield's Box O' Mystery is edited to be a ? Block with a Poison Mushroom inside.
- In Garfield's Past Made Disturbing, Garfield finds Mario's severed head inside an abandoned Italian restaurant.
- Shy Guy Field recreates this◊ Garfield strip with Lakitu, Shy Guy and Koopa replacing Liz, Garfield and Jon, respectively.
- Lost Two Men shows Jon's plumber telling him he lost the Mario Bros. while cleaning his bathtub, saying they were sucked down the drain a la their origin story in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.
- Super Mario 64: Super Odie 64 has a strip where Odie somehow travels inside a painting altered so the painting is Bob-omb Battlefield.
- Super Mario 3D World:
- Pasta Freak edits a strip where Jon pulls Garfield out of a supermarket's pasta section declaring him to be "one frozen pasta freak" so Jon pulls out Cat Mario.
- In Super Garfield 3D World, Garfield uses a few Double Cherries to duplicate himself and get more treats.
- Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins: In Super Garfield Land 2, Jon loses his Cheep-Cheep to Garfield, who, upon demand, puts it back... as a Honebon.
- Super Garfield Kart edits a comic where Garfield says "I'm the best!" and changes him into Toad's sprite from Super Mario Kart.
- Mario & Luigi series:
- The GarB System replaces the original barista with the one from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. The GarB System HD Remake does the same, but with the Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions sprite instead.
- Paper Mario series:
- Well, I'll find someone that's not going Cheep-Cheep in the sales includes Sushie, one of Mario's partners in Paper Mario 64. The title is a reference to the lyrics of "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" by Soft Cell.
- "It" takes a strip where Jon tells Garfield to "come and get it", leading to Garfield wondering what "it" is, and edits in "It" from Paper Mario: Color Splash.
- Just Another Picture-Perfect Night replaces the fence that Garfield dances on and slips off of with a row of Whackas from the first two Paper Mario games. The title refers to a quote from Whacka in Paper Mario 64.
- The Origarfield King is named after Paper Mario: The Origami King.
- Paper Garfield: Lasagna Splash takes a line where Jon calls for the Rescue Squad and edits in the Rescue Squad from Paper Mario: Color Splash.
- Super Smash Bros.:
- Warning! Challenger Approaching! includes a Super Smash Bros. Brawl DOJO!-style character card for Garfield, with panels from strips published on each game's respective Japanese release dates.
- Smashfield has Liz want to stay home and play Super Smash Bros. with Jon, Garfield and Odie.
- Tales of Symphonia: Fangs for the Memeries. See here for an explanation.
- Team Fortress 2:
- Garfield Fortress 2 takes a still from a TF2 trailer and places the heads of Garfield characters on each of the game's characters.
- Team Garfield 2 casts Garfield as a Heavy running away from a falling Sandvich, to the confusion of Jon (dressed as a Spy).
- Engineer Has Tools has Engineer and Spy substituting for Jon and Garfield in a strip about Jon having tools.
- Terraria: Terrariafield edits in the spawn message of Skeletron Prime: "The air is getting colder around you..."
- Touhou Project:
- Create.swf Garfield
- Sekifield
- Flandrefield has Garfield creating some doll replicas of Flandre Scarlet.
- VVVVVV: GGGGGG edits a strip◊ where Garfield hangs from the ceiling and replaces him with Captain Viridian, referring to the game's gravity-shifting mechanic.
- WarioWare:
- Mona Pizza. Mona is a character who has a different job in every game, the most consistent being her as the delivery woman for Mona Pizza.
- GarfieldWare: D.I.Y. was drawn using WarioWare: D.I.Y.
- Zero Wing: Beware of CATS takes a strip with a "Beware of CATS" sign and edits in CATS from this game.
Webcomics
- 1/0: Garfield Over Zero
- 3eanuts: 2field
- 8-Bit Theater: Garf-Bit Theater
- Arbuckle: Liz
- A Softer World: A Softer Cat
- Barfield Loses His Lunch: Jon Loses His Lunch has Jon telling Ellen that he only has a week to live, to which Ellen responds by saying "Bummer, dude."
- Bob and George: Bob and George featuring Odie
- Bob the Angry Flower: Jon the Angry Flower
- BoneQuest: agagag is an HD version of a strip from◊ Bone Quest (at the time known as Jerkcity), featuring Jon as Pants and Garfield as Deuce.
- Buttersafe:
- Butterfield
- Butterfield (yes, again)
- Concerned: Concerned Garfield
- Cowbirds in Love: UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE
- Ctrl+Alt+Del: CAD + Garfield
- Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: No Hug has Jon wanting a hug, only to have Nutmeg, a brightly colored furry fairy, accept it. He decides not to hug her.
- Dark Side of the Horse: Garf Side of the Horse
- Darths & Droids:
- Fall Of Flies
- Fly Fusion
- 15th Birthday Special: Fifteen Candles has Chewbacca praising Garfield for using Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
- Unlikely Statement is a take on the A Rare Sentence running gag with "Jar-Jar, you're a geinus!".
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Garfield Manny’s (Picture) Garfield shows Jon showing Garfield a picture he drew when he was little, which is Manny's picture of Rodrick and Greg yelling over the last pudding pop. This inevitably leads into "The world is constantly changing".
- Dinosaur Comics:
- Qwantzfield
- Is that just cool or what?
- Realist Garfield
- Garfield Dromiceiomimus Garfield
- Dinosaur Garfield
- And so it begins..., submitted by Ryan North, is basically an extra Dinosaur Comic that shows the characters inventing the [something that sounds like "minus"] Running Gag, causing the reality of the comic to fall apart.
- El Goonish Shive: Gracefield has Grace getting used to her new cat form, only to realize that her actions as a cat are similar to Garfield.
- Hark! A Vagrant: Hark! A Vagrant Minus Garfield!
- Hyperbole and a Half: Garfield and a Half, or, Garfield Is Better Than You At Everything is titled after "The Alot Is Better Than You At Everything", and the original food-covered Garfield was edited to look more like the alot. Also, the author's note is a reference to something Allie imagined her dog thinking after vomiting in "Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving".
- Irregular Webcomic!:
- Irregularfield
- Black shOps
- Interactive Garfield
- Rare Sentence Garfield references the "I only have one radiation suit" line from the author's note of this strip.
- Irregularfield 2, in a Call-Back to the first one on this list, has Jon declaring web comics have taken off in the past few years, but they're still a waste of time.
- Garfield Linus Garfield, Catholic Edition puts the LEGO Pope Linus in the "Garfield [something that sounds like "minus"] Running Gag.
- Irregularfield 3 has Jon's soul sent back to his past self, restarting the cycle.
- Laugh Out Loud Cats:
- Limerixkcd: Learfield
- Making XKCD Slightly Worse: Making Garfield Slightly Worse transplants the "It's better than Vista" micromeme into a Garfield strip.
- Maliki: European Nermal has Maliki as Jon and her playful kitten as Nermal. They both reenact a strip where Jon thinks he looks awful, but Garfield makes him look awful.
- mezzacotta:
- Garfield meets mezzacotta
- Mezzacotta Garfield
- Mezzafield
- Comments On A Postcard:
- Garfield on a Postcard
- Comments on a Garfield Postcard (That day's Postcard continued the crossover)
- Lightning Made Of Owls:
- Computer Science: A Garfield Introduction (corner case)
- Web Affair (that day's Owls continued the crossover)
- minus.:
- garfield minus. has Garfield using the powers of Minus to transform Jon into a mouse.
- Garfield, Minus, Garfield has the news telling that there was a meteor about to strike Earth, but Minus stopped it by sending it back into space with a baseball bat.
- MS Paint Adventures:
- Nedroid: Nedroidfield
- Nobody Scores!: Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Catface
- The Guy Who Can't Draw Comics: The Guy Who Can't Draw Garfield
- Permanent Monday: Garfield Plus Exegesis has the dialogue from their post on one strip injected into the relevant strip.
- pictures for sad children: Pictures for Sad Kittens
- Planet of Hats: Planet of Garfield, like most of the webcomic crossovers, is just a strip of this comic with Garfield dialogue.
- Pokey the Penguin: Pokeyfield places Garfield, Jon and Odie in a Pokey strip, and the description mimics the text on the Pokey the Penguin website.
- Schlock Mercenary: Outfield
- The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom): Garfield Plus Cthulhoo = Garfield Minus Garfield
- xkcd:
- xkcfield
- xkcd minus Garfield
- Garfield minus xkcd
- Scale
- Fun With Auxiliary Verbs
- Uncomfortable Truthsfield
- Catamari has a song from a strip as Jon's ringtone.
- Garfield Timus Garfield
- xkcd Randomiser is based on this strip, using the "random number generator" to "generate" a Garfield Randomizer strip.
- The Madness of the Orange Cat has the "The world is burning. Run." strip so the reason Garfield is going insane is because they stopped making frozen pudding pops.
- The Madness of the Orange Cat minus xkcd is the above, but with a recreation of the xkcd strip from an earlier strip instead of the original xkcd.
- Garfield in 2053, Part %%SYNTAX_ERROR%% uses the text of the same strip (along with the strip being heavily corrupted) to imply the world ends in 2053.
- Garfield plus Time has a lonely Jon in front of a few panels of xkcd Time.
- Pseudo XKCDfield, or Not-Garfield Minus Any Kind of Talent Of Any Kind Whatsoever
Web Original
- 4chan: Garfield for the Gold
- Behind the Name: All in a Name edits the site's definition of "Jon" to be the fictional definition in the 2010-03-16◊ strip: "He who gets beat up for his lunch money".
- Battle for Dream Island: Garfield Plus Budget Cuts references the "budget cuts" running gag from season one.
- The Best Page in the Universe: Jon's Chat Screen X
- bill wurtz: I'm a Garfcess is a lyrics comic set to Wurtz's song "I'm a Princess".
- Blockland: Blockland Multiplied by Garfield
- Brett Celinski (specifically his YouTube Poop of the same name): GARF
- Candle Cove: Static
- Camptown News: Camptown Garfield
- Club Penguin: Club Penguinfield shows characters in the game reenacting a Garfield strip.
- Cleverbot: Even Cleverbot doesn't like him...
- Crazy Frog: Garfield Plus Crazy Frog
- Cute Things Exploding: Cute Things Exploding - Nermal
- Garfielf:
- Garfield Plus Garfielf is this◊ strip done in the style of the video, ending with Jon's "last straw" rant quoted from the video.
- The very next strip, Garfielf'd, strings together a bunch of panels and adds in dialogue from the video, with the end result being how Garfielf would look if done with actual Garfield art.
- Homestar Runner:
- Garfield-Star Runner
- StinkoGarfield
- Exty Six has Stinkoman remark to Garfield that 20X6 has been a long year.
- Horse_ebooks: Horsefield
- Jerma985: Jermal replaces Nermal's face in the last panel with the infamous "when the imposter is sus" face.
- Lolcats: Lolfield
- Meme House: KEEP CRAWTCHSH A mouse announces that the house is now "Joel's House of Memes," and some of the cast enters the house, possibly referencing Garfield's inclusion to the series.
- Platypus Comix: Talking Garfield was created in response to the "World's Most Baffling Garfield Strips" feature.
- Rhett & Link: Have You Ever? shows the lyrics to the eponymous song with relevant Garfield panels.
- Simon's Cat: Simon and Garfield
- The Slender Man Mythos: Garfield Meets the Thin Man
- Something Awful: Random Fun Garfield
- Twitch Plays Pokémon: Lord Helix, as explained in the author's comments, refers to Twitch Plays Pokémon Red, where Lord Helix is the name of the Omanyte so heavily revered by Red.
- Vine: Vine changes the still photograph into a six-second video, and Jon's line "that looks like mine" into "that looks like a Vine".
- What If?: The Cat Who Walked Through... (see here)
- Wordle:
Western Animation
- Adventure Time: What Time is it?
- The Amazing World of Gumball:
- Animaniacs: I Am the Very Model of a Cartoon Individual has a poem from an episode of the show.
- The Angry Beavers: Spoot!
- The Ant and the Aardvark: Gaardvark
- Arthur:
- Garfthur and N.W. has Garfield in Arthur's sweater and glasses, and Nermal in D.W.'s outfit and hair. The author invites the reader to read (heh) Nermal's lines in D.W.'s voice.
- Binky Cereal: Binky Puffs Rule has the cereal singing the song from "Binky Rules".
- "A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K" has Jon admitting to Arthur that he's made a few mistakes in his aardvark... I mean, "life". The title comes from a song in the episode "Arthur's Spelling Trubble" that Arthur uses to help him remember how to spell the word "aardvark" (which he is, although he doesn't look like one).
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Garfield: the Last Bird-Sledder has Garfield telling Nermal about the time he went penguin-sledding. Nermal realizes he's making it up when Garfield mentions phoenix-sledding in the Fire Nation.
- Blue's Clues:
- Mail Time has Steve receiving a letter containing this◊ Garfield strip.
- A CLUE A CLUE! has Garfield throw a snowman's head into Jon with a bat. The snowman's body is revealed to have a blue pawprint, making it a clue. The description plays this clue out like an episode of the show.
- Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue: 18th Birthday Special: Garfield Minus Cake Plus Bong shows Garfield getting high. When Jon asks Garfield to pass the bong, the latter says "Here's a practical reply: NO!", referencing one of his lines from the Wonderful Ways to Say No song in this film.
- Casper the Friendly Ghost: Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Casper
- CatDog: Nick-ah-low-dee-yun! has Garfield tell the results of combining a dog and a cat:"You get a stupid Nicktoon."
- Chowder: Donut Wars: Chowder Edition
- Dexter's Laboratory: Spider Hair (see the video linked in the author's notes)
- Eek! The Cat: Eek!
- The Fairly OddParents!: Different Timmy has Garfield watching the show.
- Futurama:
- Garfieldarama
- From the minute I lay eyes on you, I knew you were a bender
- Garfield Plus Futurama
- Donut Wars... and Zoidberg does the Donut Wars Running Gag with Futurama characters, showing Zoidberg eating Professor Farnsworth's donut then blaming Fry for it in reference to "The 30% Iron Chef".
- Really, Erm... Dog-Hating, Cat. Meh., the continuation of the Misanthropic Garfield series of edits, has Garfield say that Jurassic Bark is his all-time favorite episode of a TV show, because he loves "movies [sic] with happy endings."
- Garfield and Friends:
- Garfield Photonovel (In the Style of photonovels)
- The Picnic Panic has a few ants singing a song from the picnic episode.
- Fair Exchange references the eponymous episode by swapping the heads of Jon and Garfield in one of the strips that was adapted into animation in the episode.
- Binky Puffs is about a cereal that sounds like Binky when milk is poured over it.
- Voice Actors Garfield has the characters calling each other by the given names of their voice actors in the show and specials.
- Horror show takes the "Garfield's Horror Theater" strip and inserts stills from the episode "Fraidy Cat".
- National Tapioca Pudding Day is named after an episode of the show.
- Ice Age: Garfield Plus Scrat has Scrat, the squirrel from the Ice Age movies, ask Garfield if "the ice age is over". Blue Sky Studios, the producer of Ice Age, has went defunct, meaning that the series really is over.
- Invader Zim: Another Garfield As _________
- Johnny Test: Obvious Crossover (Dukey Test)
- The Loud House:
- Mickey Mouse: Garfy Cat (Debatable, since all the references in the comic were from the actual strip (instead of being edited in))
- Milo Murphy's Law: Jon Arbuckle's Law has Jon singing a song made up by Vinnie Dakota from that show.
- My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Just Look At That Gorgeous Girl-field edits Sunset Shimmer in place of the sunset when Jon walks in, asking Garfield if he's ever seen a more beautiful sunset.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- My Little Garfield
- Bronyfield
- My Little Garfield 2
- Pony Friends
- Derpyfield has Jon asking Garfield who emptied the refrigerator, and it turns out, it was Derpy (who probably wanted to get a muffin out of the fridge). When Jon asks "Well?", Garfield says "I have no idea." as he does not want to tell Jon that a pony emptied the fridge.
- Lunafield has Jon giving Garfield two balls of yarn and Garfield responds by saying "Twice the fun." while Princess Luna says "The fun has been doubled!"
- Winter Wrap Up has Garfield singing the eponymous song and encouraging his audience to join in.
- 6th Birthday Special: Cooler Than a Rubber Chicken has Cheese Sandwich giving Garfield Boneless for his birthday, who Garfield then turns into the Key of Laughter by whacking it against the Tree of Harmony box.
- Arbucklean Cat: Garfield Rocks takes roughly one panel per word (minus a couple of kludges and the "Oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh") and erases the rest of the words, then assembles the panels into the first part of the theme of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks.
- Taco Tuesday has Sonata Dusk, a siren from Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks who was famously excited about it being Taco Tuesday, stalking a taco.
- Petless John has Jon watching the episode "Tanks for the Memories" while he's trying to convince himself not to worry about Garfield and Odie being missing.
- The Kitty Map edits Pinkie Pie into this strip◊, leading to her complaining about the premise of the original strip, "more phony smiles".
- Phineas and Ferb: It's Fun references the "Brick" commercial from "Toy to the World" with a strip where Garfield is harassing the ice cream man (or Jon, in this version) with "Billy Brick", a brick with a face painted on it.
- Pinky and the Brain:
- Rocko's Modern Life:
- Scooby-Doo: Take That, Scrappy!
- Spider-Man (1967): Amoeba-Man
- The Simpsons:
- The Garfield & Poochie Show
- Obvious Crossover (Homer Simpson)
- Donut Wars: The Sueing Saga
- Nobody Likes Jon!: Jon receives a recordable greeting card of Ralph Wiggum saying, "I choo-coo-choose you, Lisa!", based on the episode "I Love Lisa". The title is an allusion to the following line from the episode "Lisa's Date with Density" : "Nobody likes Milhouse!"
- The Other Thing Garfield Used The Phone For: The author's note quotes Moe's dialogue from the second act of "Some Enchanted Evening" (when Bart calls him for "Oliver Klozoff").
- I Think You've Gone Crazy features dialogue from "A Fish Called Selma".
- I Hope You're Prepared For An Unforgettable Christmas has Jon accidentally cause a fire in his oven, leading to the upper half of the room being covered in smoke. This results in a Christmas-themed parody of Skinner's dialogue from "22 Short Films About Springfield" about going to purchase food from elsewhere and disguising it as his own cooking (delightfully devilish, Seymour).
- Garf After Dark: Both the title and the new dialogue ("I told you last night, no!") are taken from "Bart After Dark". The original strip and the Simpsons scene being referenced both involved characters watching the "Do you know where your children are?" televsion PSA.
- Sonic Underground: "Garfield Underground" has Jon singing the theme song of the show to Garfield and Odie (who are edited to look like Dingo and Sleet) while driving his car.
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- The Ugly Garfield has Garfield and Jon reenacting a scene from "Something Smells" where Patrick tells SpongeBob the story of The Ugly Barnacle. A screenshot of Patrick from said episode was added into the strip.
- Garfield's Dessert has SpongeBob "exploding" at Garfield a la "Dying for Pie".
- SpongeField SquareCat uses a time card from the episode "Free Samples".
- Fools in April is named after the season 1 episode of the same name.
- Ear Wormy Pants has a fish singing the song from the season 7 episode "Earworm".
- Steven Universe:
- Off Route 109 is a reference to "Cookie Cat" from the first episode of the show, although only if you're aware of the title's referencing the ad for the fictional snack.
- Garfield, Amethyst and Pearl replaces Garfield with a chibi Garnet in this◊ strip.
- Garfield, Amethyst and Pearl Part 2 does the same, except with actual show art and a smiling Garnet.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): Mutagenfield
- VeggieTales: He Said, "I Am Extremely Hungry...", a comic revolving around a cheeseburger, is titled after a lyric in the song "His Cheeseburger", originally featured in the episode "Madame Blueberry". The author's comment finishes the lyric: "...but I guess I can wait until then!"
- Wander over Yonder: Family Hat
- Winnie the Pooh: Garfield Plus Square Root of Winnie the Pooh
Other
- Ceefax: GARFAX is the strip that was published the last date Ceefax was broadcast on British television converted into the teletext format.
- Comic Neue: Reincarnated Garfield has the rewritten text done in this Spiritual Antithesis of Vincent Connare's infamous "Comic Sans" font.
- Oblique Strategies: Obliquefield talks about Brian Eno in the description for the sake of referencing his Oblique Strategies series of cards.
- Scholastic's Comic Book Maker Featuring Garfield: Coffie features a strip created with this software, with the annotation describing how the author came across it, and his attempts years later to find his copy or evidence of its existence.
- Squigglevision: Squigglefield animates part of a Sunday strip with five identically drawn panels in this style.
- Wilford Brimley: Teenage Dirtbag turns Jon into Wilford Brimley and references that actor's commercials for Liberty Medical.
- Rat Fink: Garfield Minus Garfield, Value Added: Garfield Fink plays on the expression on Jon's Face having a passing resemblance to characters from Ed Roth's art by photoshopping Rat Fink's arm onto Jon in the last panel.
Strip Titles
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Jon's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent: Amnesia: The Garf Descent, as a play on the submitter forgetting they had submitted a prior strip.
- The Beatles: 10th Birthday Special: The Orange (Photo) Album to The White Album.
- Bill Withers: Lean on Me
- Bones: The Lyman Bones
- Cat Among the Pigeons: Cat Among the Pidgins
- Catch-22: The Cat Who Saw Everything Twice
- Chicago: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, Garfield?
- Desiderius Erasmus: Two-Eyed Man is King of the Blind
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer: 14th Birthday Special: Black Moon is named after a 1992 album of theirs.
- The Fairly OddParents!: Blubber Lumps! They're chewy! (That line was a Running Gag in the episode "Odd Ball", allthough it was originally "Blubber Nuggets".)
- Field of Dreams: Garfield of Dreams
- Frankenstein: Igorfield
- Frank Loesser: Baby, It's Cold Inside
- Garfield and Friends: The Webcomic That Lived on the Internet, Behind a Pop-Up, Next to the Scroll Bar, and to the Left of a Long Title has a version of "The Creature that Lived in the Refrigerator, Behind the Mayonnaise, Next to the Ketchup, and Left of the Coleslaw".
- George Michael: Ham Rap (Enjoy What You Do) (the original song being "Wham Rap")
- The Go-Go's: We Got The Beat(s)
- Got Milk?: Strip of the same name
- Greek Mythology: Garfield Meets Zeus
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: And I Must Scream
- Les Misérables: I Dreamed a Dream
- Like Colour to the Blind: Strip of the same name
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The Art of the Dress references a song from the show.
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: We've Got Donut Sign
- Nena: Garfield and I in a Little Toy Shop (referring to the first line of "99 Red Balloons")
- Night of the Living Dead (1968): Saturday Night of the Living Blender
- pannenkoek2012: But first we need to talk about parallel universes
- Persona 3: Cat Destruction is Now Our Slogan is named after a lyrics from "Mass Destruction" on the Reincarnation album: "mass destruction is now our slogan."
- Persona 5 Royal: You Can't Lose With Your Colors Flying High is named after a line in the game's opening theme "Colors Flying High".
- Prince: Party Like It's #999
- The Princess Bride: Rodents of Unusual Size
- Saturday Night Live: Blender, from New York, it's Saturday Night!
- Scott Joplin: The Entertainer
- The Simpsons:
- Do'h, Nuts!
- 32nd Birthday Special: Send in the Clones could possibly be named after one of the segments in "Treehouse of Horror XIII".
- Spencer Williams: I Ain't Got No Body
- The 6th Day: The Sixth Day
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Sweeney Garfield (aka Variations on a Haircut #3) is a strip where Garfield "gives Jon a haircut" by shaving off the entire top of his head.
- Tom Lehrer: My Pulse Will Be Quickenin', a strip where Garfield gets strychnine poisoning, to "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" from An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer.
- TV Tropes:
- White Teeth: Zadie Smithfield
- The Wolf Man (1941): The Wolf Dog (It could be any werewolf movie, but the title implies this is the particular werewolf being referred to)
- The X-Files:
- Colonel Beltfield (Referencing the lieutenant from the episode "Space")
- The X-Fields
- Red vs. Blue:
- Red VS Blue (The only connection is the fact that the colors are relevant.)
- Bad Santa 2:
- Bad 2 Santa (Garfield plans to do things to Santa that are essentially the opposite of the original strip's plans.)
- VeggieTales (The edit removed "cheese" and replaced "hamburger" with "cheeseburger"; that Garfield now said "his cheeseburger" was the inspiration for the title.)
- "What a wonderful Garf", they'll cry / If you stand too close, you'll die is taken from the Rob Cantor song "Cuckoo", with the original line being "what a wonderful song".
Strips with Multiple References (in order of appearance)
- Games Done Quick and Super Metroid: The Specials strip "Cat Watching SGDQ 2017" has Jon dying repeatedly to Phantoon, leading Garfield to quip "How's the Super Metroid race going?" This is in reference to SGDQ 2017, in which 2 of the 3 runners died to Phantoon.
- Pimp My Ride and the Yo Dawg meme: Pimp My Garfield's title references the show, and the strip contains Jon saying a Garfield-themed version of the meme ("Yo dog, I heard you like Garfield... so I put a Garfield on your Garfield so you can Garfield while you Garfield").
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and I Wanna Be the Guy: "I Wanna Be the Garfield" by Square Root of Castlevania has Garfield and Jon reenacting the "What is a man" dialogue. Then Garfield hits Jon in the face with his food bowl, resulting in Jon receiving the IWBTG Game Over screen.
- The Vampire Chronicles, The Twilight Saga, and Hellsing: The Vampire Garfield Chronicles
- Lasagna Cat (specifically 02/24/2006) and Melissa Etheridge: Lasagna Cat: The Comic
- The World Ends with You, Mega Man 5, and Eternal Sonata: Garfield Plus Beats in the Beat Panel puts a character named Beat from each of those games into a Beat Panel.
- Wavves, Best Coast, and Klaxons: Fork In The Road!
- The Chordettes and "A Dream of a Thousand Cats":Dream Me a Dream shows Garfield dreaming about eating Jon, with panels taken directly from The Sandman story.
- Peanuts, minus., Greek Mythology, Palulinus of Nola, Pliny the Elder, Minus and the Great Wide World, Jack Maness, The Lord of the Rings, The Transformers, Super Mario Bros. 2, and Dennis the Menace (US): Garfield turns into Linus, King Midas, Palulinus, Pliny, Minus, Maness, the Minas Morgul, Dirk Manus, the SMB2 bonus chance screen, and Dennis, in that order in They Just Won't Stop!
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day, xkcd, Dinosaur Comics, Peanuts, Prince William (His Royal Highness), Con Air, Thomas Aquinas, Sleeping Beauty, Jane Morris Goodall, Elvis Presley, and The Scream: Garfield Skynet Garfield: Judgement Day is a crossover with Terminator, Ryan North and Randall Monroe are mentioned to have sent the Terminator back in time, and the M-1000 turns into Linus, William, Cyrus "The Virus", Aquinas, Briar Rose, Goodall, Elvis, and The Scream, in that order.
- Iron Man and the Silver Surfer: Marvel-field
- Looney Tunes and Of Mice and Men: Of Mice and Garfield
- Several newspaper cartoon dogs: Garfield's Dog Day
- Constance Garnett, her son David, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, and Leo Tolstoy: Constance Garnett
- The Angriest Dog In The World and Red Meat: Punchline collation
- Little Shop of Horrors and Joe & Mac (where the sprites come from): Large Petshop of Horrors
- Every Square Root of Minus Garfield strip up to #1000: 1000th Root of Minus Garfield
- Marvin, Bloom County, and Waverly Films (specifically "Meet Catburg"): Plagiarism
- Max Payne ("Mirrors are more fun than television"), Twin Peaks, and Evil Dead (possession and mirrors being linked): Mirror Garfield
- Peanuts, The Boondocks, mezzacotta, Calvin and Hobbes, Pogo, xkcd, Spider-Man, For Better or for Worse, Dilbert, and If on a winter’s night a traveler: If on a Summer's Night A Cartoonist
- Pokémon, The Angry Beavers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Ren & Stimpy, Malcolm in the Middle, and The Amazing World of Gumball: Prevue Guidefield
- Family Guy and Road House (1989): Family Garfield (Technically, FG referencing Roadhouse)
- Doug, Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy'': Garfield plus three original Nicktoons has Garfield not sleeping, as Doug, the Rugrats, and Ren and Stimpy are partying in his room.
- CSI: Miami and The Who: Won't Get Fooled Acane
- Pokémon, The Simpsons and Jerry Lewis: Poke-G
- The Great Gatsby and Zack Ryder: Woo Fusion
- Pingu and Bloom County: Penguin Eater
- Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Keeping Up with the Kardashians: Garfield In Reality
- Inception and Dr. Strangelove (both only in the title): Donutception, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Donut (Wars)
- Doctor Who, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and Urban Dictionary: Cooler has Garfield telling Jon that his bowtie needs to be 20% cooler, a reference to Doctor Who's "Bowties Are Cool" meme and MLP's "20% Cooler" meme. The author's note for the strip quotes the Urban Dictionary definition of "20% Cooler".
- Bob Dylan and Citadels: All Along the Watchtower
- Haruhi Suzumiya and U.S. Acres: Garfield's Haruhi Theater
- Darths & Droids, Futurama, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Heathcliff, and Comments on a Postcard: Lasagnas and Litterboxes
- Various cat themed Internet memes: Cat Memes
- The Flash and The Wicker Man (2006): Bees!
- Hamlet, Henry VIII, and Masterpiece: Shakesfield
- xkcd, Peanuts, James Garfield, Dinosaur Comics, Mr. Men, Minecraft, U.S. Acres, Frankenstein, Doug, Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy: Fifth Anniversary
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, The Amazing World of Gumball, Adventure Time, The Powerpuff Girls, Regular Show, Sheep in the Big City, I Am Weasel, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, and Johnny Bravo: Cartoon Network
- Groundhog Day and Haruhi Suzumiya: Garfield Groundhog Day Garfield
- Dilbert, Mr. Men, Pokémon, Calvin and Hobbes, Doctor Who, Sonic the Hedgehog, CatDog, Peanuts, Doug, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Rocko's Modern Life, The Amazing World of Gumball, Futurama, and Jon Cryer: I Want Everyone In It! (aka: Continuity Nod)
- Platypus Comix and Calvin and Hobbes: The Product of Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes over Happy Days is a crossover with Calvin and Hobbes and is also inspired by World's Most Baffling Garfield Comics.
- Platypus Comix and Laurel and Hardy: Another Fine Mess, the third strip inspired by "World's Most Baffling Garfield Comics", has Guido and Fluffy's name being changed to Laurel and Hardy.
- Uncle Grandpa and Veggietales note : Square Root of Minus Grandpa
- Ruskin Bond and Calvin and Hobbes: A Tiger in the House is named for a story by Ruskin, and the actual strip is the first Sunday strip with Hobbes and Calvin in Jon and Garfield's roles
- Medley and Batman: Medleyfield has a woman being yelled at by a man with the "My Parents Are Dead/Batman Slapping Robin" gag, but without the slap on the face.
- Super Mario Bros. and Brawl in the Family: Waluigi Time has Jon's head randomly turning into Waluigi's, shouting "Too bad, WALUIGI TIME!".
- Super Milk Chan and KISS: Sour Milk-Chan replaces Garfield with Milk in a strip about milk, and Jon is described in the transcript as "almost looking look [sic] Gene Simmons without make-up".
- Batman, The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Peanuts, Leonard Cohen, and Bill Nye the Science Guy: SRoMG Compilation reuses panels from Why So Serious? - Final Take, Garfield Minas Tirith, Mirror Universe Garfield, Garfield Linus Garfield, Jon Plus Cohen, and Garfield Plus Bill Nye, The Science Guy, all featuring references to the aforementioned.
- AWOLNATION and Karl Compton: Kitty Corliss takes a strip where Garfield tries to jump over a gap, replaces the "CRASH!" sound effect with "SAIL" in reference to this video, and changes the line, "Your [sic] not a sailplane, you know," to, "This is how an angel dies."
- Regular Show and Sonic the Hedgehog: The title of You Know Who Else is Slow? references Muscle Man's Catchphrase "You know who else [blank]? MY MOM!", while the strip's annotation claimed it replaced a snail with Sonic. It didn't, it was a Slow-Loading Internet Image joke.
- Star Trek: The Original Series and Might and Magic: New World Empire has a mice holding a flag of the Terrian Empire believing it to be the defunct video game company New World Computing due to them having similar logos. When Jon points this out, Garfield says "Shh! I've got a cameo in the next Mice and Magic!".
- Toy Story and Skeeter: The nonsensical strip Fishing trip contains, among other random elements, the notorious "Hentai Woody" and some images from the webcomic Skeeter, which the author draws.
- Calvin and Hobbes, John Calvin, and Garfield Specials: Jon & Calvin is a crossover with C&H showing Jon dancing with Calvin, has a title referencing John Calvin, and contains some drawings of Jon dancing traced directly from Garfield Gets a Life.
- A Tale of Two Cities, The Great Gatsby, The Red Badge of Courage, and Slaughterhouse-Five: Garfield Plus Literary Pretensions shows a chained dog quoting passages from Cities, and the other three are mentioned in the commentary as possible alternatives for the dog's quoting.
- Magnum, P.I. and Hawaii Five-O: The Other Hawaiian Flu has Garfiled turning into Magnum from "Magnum P.I. Flu" (a play off the time he got "Hawaiian Cat Flu"), and discusses in the annotation how lucky we should be that the author did not make a "Hawaii Five-O Flu" joke.
- Caravan and Kenan & Kel: The title of If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You is the same as the second album of Caravan, while the bottle says "who loves orange soda" in reference to one of many Character Catchphrases uttered on Kenan and Kel.
- Siskel & Ebert and Addams Family Values: Mixed Reception edits a strip where Garfield gives a thumbs up and Odie thumbs down at the TV like Siskel and Ebert so they are watching Addams Family Values. That movie specifically because Ebert thumbs-upped it and Siskel thumbs-downed it on the episode of their show that ran the same date as that of the original strip.
- Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune: Garfield Would Like To Solve The Puzzle Now shows Garfield watching the opening of Jeopardy where all instances of the letters "RSTLNE" (the signature letters given automatically in the final round of Wheel of Fortune) are taken out, which was the work of Pat Sajak.
- Claude Monet and Zalgo: Garfield on Twitter Revised contains screenshots of the references from (respectively) #188 and #578.
- Eminem and PSPegasus: Without Me is a take on the ringtone Running Gag with Eminem's song of the same name, and the author states the idea of making it that song came from Pegasus' YTPMV sentence-mixing Ringo Starr's voice clips from Thomas & Friends to sing the song.
- Morris the Cat and Garfield: His 9 Lives: Morris: His 9 Lives, in addition to the title being a reference to His 9 Lives, has several strips where Garfield is finicky done so he is now Morris, with captains turning it into a 9 Lives commercial.
- Kansas and Supernatural: Carry on Wayward Cat is a Garfield strip where he does a fake "For those who came in late, here's what you missed" with that part replaced with "The Road So Far" and "Now" timecards, and the title references the Kansas song "Carry on Wayward Son" which the show uses during those sequences.
- Bhagavad Gita, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and "Weird Al" Yankovic: Your Guess Is As Good As Mine has (as the transcript describes him as) The Floating Disembodied Head of Garfield quote "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."note .
- Def Leppard and Nickelback: Photograph includes references to both bands' songs of the same name.
- Apocalypse Now and Army of Darkness: Apocalypse Meow's title refers to the former; the strip itself includes the alternate ending for the latter.
- Rush and Questionable Content: Try Not to Rush has a title and comments that obliquely refer to Questionable Content and its 2112th strip. The content of the strip refers to Alex Lifeson's speech at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, though buffer issues meant it was too late to be comic 2112, shifting its number to 2212.
- Donkey Kong, Expand Dong, BonziBUDDY and Vinesauce: Garfield Plus Donkey Kong references the Donkey Kong-based expand dong meme. The comments refer to the BonziBUDDY meme started by Vinesauce.
- Adblock, "Trainers Hate Him", Garfield and Friends, and Doctor Who: Another Reason to Have Adblock, aside from mentioning Adblock in the title, recreates the "Dermatologists Hate Him" version of the meme by using Garfield!Jon from "Fair Exchange". The description for the strip references "Bowties are cool".
- The Beatles and Project Almanac: Day Tripper, aside from being named after the Beatles song, (unfavorably) compares the time travel aspect of the strip to Project Almanac.
- Google, Gravity Falls, and "Dank Memes": The Pinnacle of Wit, due to it being a snapshot of a Googling session, reveals that among the author's other searches were "baby fights"note and... "dank memes".
- Zero Wing, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Cool Spot, and Dark Cloud: Video Gamefield adds a bit of dialogue from the Zero Wing intro to the first panel, and the other video game titles to the other callouts. (Well, not the full title of Amnesia, just that part.)
- Bonnie Tyler and We Bare Bears: "Turn Around, Bright Eyes" gets its name from "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and has Lisa freaking out over seeing Grizz behind Jon and Garfield. The author even goes out of their way to shamelessly plug We Bare Bears.
- Brawl in the Family, Kirby, and Super Smash Bros.: Brawl in the Family Minus King Dedede removes King Dedede from the very first comic of BiTF (a Super Smash Bros.-based comic), which starred both Kirby and Dedede.
- Vanilla Ice, Ice Climber, and Super Smash Bros.: "Ice Ice Baby", named after the Vanilla Ice song, features Garfield dressed as the Ice Climbers and references them getting cut from the fourth Smash game.
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Bonus Stage: The Might Ea Might Ea-Boss-t Ones's title references the Bosstones' name. While the author admits in the comments to a lack of familiarity with the group, he compares their music to the music used in early episodes of Bonus Stage or even its predecessor, High Score, in the process referring to the group's hit song, "The Impression That I Get".
- Duck Duck Goose and Question Duck: DuckDuckGarfield takes its name from the children's game, and edits the "Who gives presents to Santa?" comic to replace Garfield with the titular duck.
- A Perfect Day for Bananafish and The Catcher in the Rye: A Perfect Day For Lasagnafish is named for the short story written by J.D. Salinger. The comic itself contains Jon in a Holden Caulfield-like outfit, quoting the opening lines of The Catcher in the Rye.
- Pet Sounds and Fire Emblem Fates: Pet Sounds shares a title with the Beach Boys album, and the comic itself references the removal of the petting minigame from the Western versions of Fates.
- Game Theory and Lady Gaga: Garf Theory: Garfield Predicted Lady Gaga, ZOMG! more or less is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: a fake thumb nail for a "Garf Theory" video about how Garfield "supposedly◊" predicted Lady Gaga.
- Antonín Dvořák and the Dvorak keyboard layout: QWERTY's title is the name of a keyboard layout, as is Dvorak, which ties into the strip involving the word "humoresque" by way of Antonin Dvorak, a famous composer of a humoresque cycle.
- Super Mario Bros. 2 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: In Show Me, a mouser from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles note chases Mouser, a boss in Super Mario Bros. 2, past Garfield as he asks to be shown a good mouser.
- For Better or for Worse and The Comics Curmudgeon: Foobfield replaces the "Gar" in the title with Josh's "abbreviation" for the comic strip For Better or For Worse. The comic itself inserts Elizabeth Patterson from the aforementioned strip.
- Parks and Recreation and The Lion King: Garfield Lioness Garfield edits this◊ strip, replacing Jon with Ron Swanson and Garfield with Nala.
- The Bible and The Pretenders/The Smiths: Every Day Is Like Sunday, Or, The Parable of the Talents insists the title is a reference to the Pretenders cover of the Smiths song, and then asks asks if "buying a complete jerk of a fat orange cat [is] a better or worse use of money left in my trust than burying it in the ground?"
- Henry Stickmin Series and One Piece: Feeding the Cat is based on the game series, featuring Garfield attempting to reach a ham using one of four possible choices: reaching for it, using a bridge, using a stunt mouse, or using a teleporter. Like in the original strip, he attempts to reach for it, only to fall and get stuck. The ensuing FAIL screen references the anime/manga by asking "Who did you think you were, Kitty D. Luffy?"
- Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes: Linguistics with Liz: Graphic Fiction Double Feature replaces Liz's dialogue with excerpts from one of each of the aforementioned strips.
- The Wiz and The Hitchhiker: Ease on Down the Road, named after the titular song from The Wiz, is primarily about The Hitchhiker, and how it's a bad horror anthology series.
- The Cat In The Hat Comes Back and Bartholemew And The Oobleck: Gartholemew and the Arbleckle has Jon receive pink-stained snow in the mail, while Garfield receives oobleck.
- Nickelodeon GUTS and All That: "Garfield, but it's horribly drawn, and it has Nickelodeon references" has Jon threaten to throw Garfield onto the game show's Aggro Crag, and Garfield in turn threatens to put Jon in an episode of the teen sketch comedy series.
- Arthur and Carmen: "If you like those, then I'll be there". The title comes from a Carmen parody in the Arthur episode "Lights, Camera... Opera!" Muffy sings about her dislike of opera, with the lines "Boy bands are what I like to hear, ones with many different kinds of hairdos. If you like those, then I'll be there. If not, that's it, goodbye, you lose!" The lyrics the mouse sings are from the actual French version of the play.
- The Bible and Sesame Street: 1 Corinthians 13:11 (which has the passage itself quoted in the Author's Note for the strip, sees an obese Garfield idly rocking on his stomach while singing the Number Guy songnote before abruptly stopping and berating himself for singing childish things.
- The Simpsons and Sesame Street: You Ever Sat Down and Read This Thing?, meanwhile, alters the strip to instead have Garfield berate Sesame Street for having way too catchy songs, as he just got "Rubber Ducky" out of his head. Meanwhile, the title of the strip comes from the episode "Secrets of a Successful Marriage", and the scene where Reverand Lovejoy points out how flawed the Bible is in what it teaches.
- World of Goo, Realm of the Mad God: Rule 34G Double Feature has two strips. The first references the former game with a sign boasting the titular company's logo. The second references the latter, with Garfield dying after eating a cookie and receiving a gravestone from Mad God.
- Nancy, iToons: Garfield, but with Nancy replaces Garfield with Nancy in this◊ strip. The author's note mentions that it's a companion to an iToons strip, Nancy, but with Garfield.
- Thanos, Perfectly Balanced meme: Obvious Crossover: Thanos takes a strip where Garfield says "Balance is good" and replaces him with Thanos in reference to the meme, which is linked in the description.
- Quantum Leap, Peanuts, and the Mandela Effect: From the Network That Couldn't Be Bothered to Spell "Beckett" Correctly In The Closing Minutes is a reinterpretation of Quantum Leap's series finale, where Sam seeing his own reflection is determined to be because the mirror is out of ordernote . Meanwhile, the Author's Note openly admits that they had assumed a Quantum Leap-involved strip was already madenote , but then states it might have been a "potentially Mandela Effect-induced memory".
- Robot Chicken, StephenVlog, and Taco Bell: Tacos Rule, a reference to Robot Chicken's very first skit, sees Garfield at his computer, noticing Jon doing another "Stephano" chat. Here, he opts to take a page out of Stephen Georg's playbook, and do the "I AM DAN" Taco Bell routine.