History ComicStrip / Garfield

** Played straight in another strip where Jon and Garfield begin poking each other with sticks and ordering each other to do things. The sticks keep getting bigger until Garfield finally [[SeraialEScalation uproots an entire tree and brings it into the kitchen]] to try and poke Jon with, until he finally tires out and the tree squishes him.

* PoundAreAnimalPrisons: [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1981/01/page01 A 1981 story arc]] had Garfield being sent to the city pound, which was portrayed this way. (He escapes when Fluffy, another cat there, smashes him through the wall) It was even parodied in one of the strips:

* HatingOnMondays: Garfield may just as well be the TropeCodifier.

** Played straight in another strip where Jon and Garfield begin poking each other with sticks and ordering each other to do things. The sticks keep getting bigger until Garfield finally [[BeyondTheImpossible uproots an entire tree and brings it into the kitchen]] to try and poke Jon with, until he finally tires out and the tree squishes him.

* LiteralJunkFood: Garfield eats an apple from a trash bag in [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1983/02/26/ this]] ''{{Garfield}}'' strip.

* CoolOldLady: Jon's grandma, who rides a motorcycle, boogies down on the piano, and is just an out-and-out badass grandma.

''Garfield'' is a [[LongRunners long-running]] (since June 19, 1978) {{newspaper comic|s}}, written by Jim Davis. It stars Garfield, a [[IntellectualAnimal sarcastic]] cat famous for his [[HeavySleeper laziness]], [[BigEater gluttony]], occasional spurts of [[CatsAreMean evil]] and [[KarmaHoudini avoiding of karma]]; his owner, Jon Arbuckle, a cartoonist who dresses badly, [[LethalChef cooks badly]] and [[CasanovaWannabe was long a complete failure with females]] (until, 28 years later, the veterinarian Liz finally gave in); and Odie, a [[RalphWiggum really dumb]] {{dog|sAreDumb}} with a penchant for licking, and the only animal who doesn't have "thought speech".

* HeroicSociopath: Garfield displays tendencies of this.

Jim Davis has stated that he created Garfield [[MoneyDearBoy with the sole intention of making money]]. He decided to create a strip that would be popular with the masses, in order to be commercially successful. The fact that he succeeded says one of two things, depending on how [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism cynical]] one is. On the other hand, at least he was willing to admit it.

** In the [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1983/ga830425.gif April 25, 1983]] strip, Garfield says ''OldYeller'' is his all-time favorite movie, because "I love movies with [[ShootTheDog happy endings]].

** In the [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1983/ga830425.gif April 25, 1983]] strips, Garfield says ''OldYeller'' is his all-time favorite movie, because "I love movies with [[ShootTheDog happy endings]].

* DoomItYourself: This occurred in one strip when Jon and Doc Boy tried setting up some Christmas lights when Jon visited the family farm for the holidays. They ended up both getting entangled in the lights:

* EmbarrassingNickname: Jon's farmhand brother, whom Jon always calls "Doc Boy". Still better than [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1989/ga890711.gif "Iguana Gums"]].

** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1984/ga840329.gif Quite]] [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1989/ga890217.gif a]] [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1988/ga881114.gif few]] [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2010/ga100212.gif to]] ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.
** [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1994&addr=940717 More Calvin and Hobbes]]

* ShoutOut: The logo boxes in Sunday strips featured many, including ones to StarTrek ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1987/02/01/ here]]), TheHoneymooners([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1987/10/18/ here]]), TheWizardOfOz([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1988/05/29/ here]]), StarWars([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1988/06/05/ here]]), TheThreeMusketeers ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1988/07/31/ here]]), TheFlintstones ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/04/02/ here]]), ThePhantomOfTheOpera ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/06/11/ here]]), LaurelAndHardy ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/06/25/ here]]), FantasticFour ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1997/01/05/ here]]) and TheAndyGriffithShow [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1988/06/12/ here]].

* ShoutOut: The logo boxes in Sunday strips featured many, including ones to StarTrek ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1987/02/01/ here]]), TheHoneymooners
([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1987/10/18/ here]]), TheWizardOfOz ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1988/05/29/ here]]), StarWars
([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1988/06/05/ here]]), TheThreeMusketeers ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1988/07/31/ here]]), TheFlintstones ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/04/02/ here]]), ThePhantomOfTheOpera ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/06/11/ here]]), LaurelAndHardy ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/06/25/ here]]), FantasticFour ([[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1997/01/05/ here]]) and TheAndyGriffithShow [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1988/06/12/ here]].