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* BrokenRecord: Played with in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1247 this]] strip by way of TheBlackEyedPeas' "I Gotta Feeling".

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* BrokenRecord: ~~Played with~~ Garfield upgrades to a Broken CD in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=159 urururururururur]]. Broken Record returns in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1034 Jaggerfield]]. Played with in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1247 ~~this]] strip~~ Black Eyed Garfield]] by way of TheBlackEyedPeas' "I Gotta Feeling".

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* SphereEyes: Lampshaded [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=873 here]].

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* SphereEyes: Lampshaded in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=873 ~~here]].~~2011-10-09]]: "Your eyes look like hard-boiled eggs."

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* SymbolSwearing: {{Lampshaded}} in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=548 Grawfield]].

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* SymbolSwearing: ~~{{Lampshaded}}~~ Grawlixes make the entire dialogue in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=548 Grawfield]].

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* ToiletHumour: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=894 Potty Humour]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naturally.]]
* TropeName: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=478 This strip]] does this to the "Garfield X Garfield" meme.
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=163 This one]] does it to Garfield as a whole.
* VisualPun: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=679 Square Root of Minus Garfield]], of course.

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* ToiletHumour: In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=894 Potty Humour]], ~~[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naturally.]]~~
the brown stuff in the toilet is a copy of Garfield's ''food'' from [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2004/ga040603.gif Garfield 2004-06-03]].
* TropeName: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=478 ~~This strip]]~~ Garfield [something that sounds a bit like "minus"] Garfield]] does this to the ~~"Garfield X Garfield" meme.~~
meme; it features an "[image related to middle of title]".
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=163 ~~This one]]~~ Meta-Garfield]] does it to Garfield as a whole.
* VisualPun: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=679 Square Root of Minus ~~Garfield]],~~ Garfield]] is literally a square ''tree'' root of ~~course.~~a color-inverted "minus" Garfield.

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* WereStillRelevantDammit[[invoked]]: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=346 Mentioned]] and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d.

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* WereStillRelevantDammit[[invoked]]: Mentioned and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=346 ~~Mentioned]] and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d.~~iField]].

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* AndCallHimGeorge: Parodied [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=840 here]].
* AscendedMeme: Dan Walsh, creator of GarfieldMinusGarfield, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=435 submitted a strip]].

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* AndCallHimGeorge: Parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=840 ~~here]].~~
Of Mice and Garfield]] when Garfield squeezes his pet chicken to death. It was only a rubber chicken.
* AscendedMeme: Dan Walsh, creator of ~~GarfieldMinusGarfield,~~ ''GarfieldMinusGarfield'', [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=435 submitted a strip]].

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* BasedOnADream: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=278 This strip]].
* BeatPanel: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=10 Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel]].

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* BasedOnADream: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=278 ~~This strip]].~~
Garfield Dream]] started as a ''Garfield'' strip in a dream.
* BeatPanel: There's one in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=10 Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat ~~Panel]].~~Panel]], and ''27 beat panels'' in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1253 We Got the Beat(s)]].

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* BrickJoke: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=250 The]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=871 apteryx]].
** Also [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=514 parodied]]
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1 Also both parodied]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1076 and played straight]].

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* BrickJoke: The apteryx from [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=250 ~~The]]~~ 2010-01-22]] reappears in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=871 ~~apteryx]].~~
2011-10-07]].
** ~~Also~~ Parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=514 ~~parodied]]~~
Brickfield]], when Garfield kicks Odie into 1984 from 1983.
** Both parodied and played straight in [[http://www.mezzacotta.~~net/garfield/?comic=1 Also both parodied]]~~ net/garfield/?comic=1076 Brickfield 2]] from 2012-04-29. Brickfield 2 edits [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1978/ga780619.gif Garfield 1978-06-19]] to reference [[http://www.mezzacotta.~~net/garfield/?comic=1076~~ net/garfield/?comic=1 SRoMG 2008-11-05]]; these are the very first strips of ''Garfield'' and ~~played straight]].~~''Square Root of Minus Garfield''.

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A subset of the webcomic ''{{Mezzacotta}}''. Essentially, it's GarfieldMinusGarfield turned UpToEleven: a collection of humorous ''{{Garfield}}'' edits made by viewers.

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A subset of the webcomic ''{{Mezzacotta}}''. Essentially, it's ~~GarfieldMinusGarfield~~ ''GarfieldMinusGarfield'' turned UpToEleven: a collection of humorous ''{{Garfield}}'' edits made by viewers.

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* BrokenRecord: Played with in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1247 this]] strip by way of TheBlackEyedPeas' "I Gotta Feeling".

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* NotableCommercialCampaigns: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=346 iField]] features a dancing silhouette of Garfield with an iPod. This will look familiar to anyone who saw those iPod commercials.

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* GenderFlip: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1226 Lioness Garfield]]

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* HurricaneOfPuns: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=268 Garfield Linus Garfield]] and the RunningGag it spawned.

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* {{Pun}}: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=268 Garfield Linus Garfield]].

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* WellExcuseMePrincess: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1038 Referenced.]]

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** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=164 OverlyLongGag has left the chat room]]

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** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=163 This one]] does it to Garfield as a whole.

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* CartoonBomb: In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=265 this strip]] and, of course, the aptly titled [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=298 "A Bomb."]]

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* SeriesMinusSeriesCore: Taken UpToEleven. There's been [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=48 Garfield Minus Jon]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=53 Garfield Minus Jon (again)]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=77 Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=82 xkcd Minus Garfield]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=104 Garfield Minus Characters]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=124 Krazy minus Kat]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=189 Hark! a Vagarant minus Garfield!]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=296 Nermal Minus Garfield]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=357 Odie Minus Garfield]], and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=635 Garfield minus Liz]].

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A Worldwide Punomenon is now World Of Pun; generic in-universe puns should link to Pun

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* {{Pun}}: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=268 Garfield Linus Garfield]].

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* RunningGag: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=268 Garfield Linus Garfield]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=332 began]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=335 a]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=337 series]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=398 of]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=411 derivatives]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=486 featuring]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=487 Garfield]] replaced in the middle panel by [[AWorldwidePunomenon someone or something (usually) rhyming with "Minus"]].

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* RunningGag: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=268 Garfield Linus Garfield]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=332 began]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=335 a]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=337 series]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=398 of]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=411 derivatives]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=486 featuring]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=487 Garfield]] replaced in the middle panel by ~~[[AWorldwidePunomenon~~ [[{{Pun}} someone or something (usually) rhyming with "Minus"]].

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* AWorldwidePunomenon: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=268 Garfield Linus Garfield]].

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* RecursiveTranslation: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=131 Garfield: Lost in Translation Minus Garfield]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=381 Lost In Translation Garfield]], [[Garfield Happily Lost In Translation (Japanese)]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=733 Badly Translated Garfield]].

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* RecursiveTranslation: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=131 Garfield: Lost in Translation Minus Garfield]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=381 Lost In Translation Garfield]], ~~[[Garfield~~ [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=567 Garfield Happily Lost In Translation (Japanese)]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=733 Badly Translated Garfield]].

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* MustHaveCaffeine: An [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=712 occasional]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=739 theme]], just like in the real strip.

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* MustHaveCaffeine: An [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=712 occasional]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=739 theme]], just like in the real ~~strip.~~ strip.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=210 Telepathic Pirate Garfield]].

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* GratuitousSpanish: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=641 ¡Garfield Mexicano!]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=641 La Version Mejorada!]]

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* GratuitousSpanish: [[http://www.mezzacotta.~~net/garfield/?comic=641~~ net/garfield/?comic=532 ¡Garfield Mexicano!]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=641 La Version Mejorada!]]

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-->"The purpose of a joke like this, as used in many other strips, not to mention almost ubiquitously in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', is setting up an expectation and then humorously defying it. Jon's nonsensical statement about Garfield's "pointy elbows" sets up no expectations to defy in the third panel ([[FrideLogic and, come to think of it, my cat doesn't even have elbows]])."

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-->"The purpose of a joke like this, as used in many other strips, not to mention almost ubiquitously in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', is setting up an expectation and then humorously defying it. Jon's nonsensical statement about Garfield's "pointy elbows" sets up no expectations to defy in the third panel ~~([[FrideLogic~~ ([[FridgeLogic and, come to think of it, my cat doesn't even have elbows]])."

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* SubvertedTrope: Discussed in the authors notes to [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=233 #233]], as to why a strip beginning with "Your pointy elbows give me a headache" just doesn't work:
-->"The purpose of a joke like this, as used in many other strips, not to mention almost ubiquitously in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', is setting up an expectation and then humorously defying it. Jon's nonsensical statement about Garfield's "pointy elbows" sets up no expectations to defy in the third panel ([[FrideLogic and, come to think of it, my cat doesn't even have elbows]])."

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** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=567 This is]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=641 a reoccurring theme.]]

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** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=567 This ~~is]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=641 a reoccurring theme.~~too.]]

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** Mentioned by name [[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1147 here]].

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=350 Referenced here]].

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* TropeName: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=478 This strip]] does this to the "Garfield X Garfield" meme.

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* BasedOffADream: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=278 This strip]].

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* ~~BasedOffADream:~~ BasedOnADream: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=278 This strip]].

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* BasedOffADream: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=278 This strip]].

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* SelfDeprecation: [[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1100 Attack of the Memes]].

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* YourTelevisionHatesYou: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1099 This strip]], where Garfield watches TV and every show on is something that has been referenced at least once in an earlier [=SRoMG=] comic.

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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: It was more common in the early days of the strip, but there are a few strips that are not Garfield edits: Edits of other comics (''{{xkcd}}'' [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=82 here]], ''KrazyKat'' [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=124 here]], ''BobAndGeorge'' [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=142 here]], and ''HarkAVagrant'' [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=189 here]].), unedited pages about Garfield from comic books or magazines ([[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=301 this]] from a ''RenAndStimpy'' comic book, and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=824 this]] from a ''TheElectricCompany'' magazine), and, on [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=102 one occasion]], a printing error a newspaper made when publishing a Garfield comic. Possibly lampshaded in the author's notes for the Krazy Kat strip, which said about the strip "This one may be too meta to fly.".

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A subset of the webcomic ''{{Mezzacotta}}''. Essentially, it's GarfieldMinusGarfield turned UpToEleven: a collection of humorous ''{{Garfield}}'' edits made by viewers.

View it [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/ here]].

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!!This webcomic contains examples of:
* AndCallHimGeorge: Parodied [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=840 here]].
* AscendedMeme: Dan Walsh, creator of GarfieldMinusGarfield, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=435 submitted a strip]].
** May also count as a ThrowTheDogABone.
* BeatPanel: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=10 Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel]].
* BlackComedy: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=650 "You may prefer to remain unhappy."]]
* BlindIdiotTranslation: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=733 If you know you live forever to get.]]
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=567 This is]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=641 a reoccurring theme.]]
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=27 Garfield Meets Zeus]].
* BrevityIsWit: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=109 April of No Sundays Collection]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=227 Less Humor, More Story!]]
* BrickJoke: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=250 The]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=871 apteryx]].
** Also [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=514 parodied]]
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1 Also both parodied]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1076 and played straight]].
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=828 Invisifield and the Pudding Cup]]
* DadaComics
* DarkerAndEdgier: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=51 Dark Side of the Lasagne]].
** And [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=178 Darkfield]].
* {{Deconstruction}}: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=926 Of the blender]] RunningGag.
* DialogueTree: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=284 Cats of the Old Republic]].
* DinnerDeformation: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=966 Somewhat.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=385 Used]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=672 a]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=726 few]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=934 times]].
* FacePalm: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=525 A collection.]]
* ForScience: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=361 used as a title]].
* FutureImperfect: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=17 The Garfield Code]].
* GenreSavvy: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1003 Genre Savvy Garfield]]
* GratuitousSpanish: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=641 ¡Garfield Mexicano!]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=641 La Version Mejorada!]]
* HereWeGoAgain: Just as it seemed the pudding pops meme was finally over, the blender meme had to purge the strip buffer.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=310 The author made the trope, plus a]] ShoutOut.
* LongTitle: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=152 Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon Minus Odie Minus Nermal Minus Arlene Minus Lyman Minus Liz Minus Pookie]] [sic].
* MilestoneCelebration: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1000 1000th Root of Minus Garfield]]
* MindScrew: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=440 GARFFITI.]]
* MustHaveCaffeine: An [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=712 occasional]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=739 theme]], just like in the real strip.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: {{Discussed|Trope}} in relation to Odie in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=114 this strip]].
* OverlyLongGag: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=139 A Strip. With. A Snail]].
** Invoked and defied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=339 Déjà Vu All Over Again]], complete with a link back to us.
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=302 Looky Looky]]
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=839 Overly Long Walk]]
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=947 Dull and Repetitive]]
* PaintingTheMedium: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=276 Small Talk]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=198 Variations on a Haircut #1]], and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=523 Melt]].
* ParanoiaFuel: [[invoked]] ([[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=262 Jon, Paranoid]])
* RaceLift: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=141 Garfield Recoloured]], which leads up to a pun.
* RecycledINSPACE: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=110 Garfield IN SPACE!]] [[ShamelessSelfPromoter They even linked to us!]]
* RecycledScript: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=416 Duly]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=793 noted]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=889 and]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=890 mocked]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=902 several]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=911 times]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=959 over.]]
* RecursiveReality: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=100 Recursive Garfield Redux]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=40 Recursive Thinking Garfield]].
* ReferenceOverdosed
* RemixComic
* {{Retraux}}: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=6 Silent-Era Garfield]].
* RunningGag: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=268 Garfield Linus Garfield]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=332 began]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=335 a]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=337 series]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=398 of]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=411 derivatives]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=486 featuring]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=487 Garfield]] replaced in the middle panel by [[AWorldwidePunomenon someone or something (usually) rhyming with "Minus"]].
** [[PlayingWithATrope Has since been]] inverted, subverted, parodied, deconstructed, averted, played for laughs, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=478 lampshaded]], defied, discussed, and exploited. Needless to say, it's seen ''very'' extensive use.
** OverusedRunningGag: The voluminous number of "Garfield (pun for Minus) Garfield" comics has now reached this, to the point of SeasonalRot for some.
*** Hopefully as of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=625 strip 625]] we should be seeing far less of them now.
*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=755 But]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=836 however]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=783 it's]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=791 started]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=777 all]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=774 over]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=817 again]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=774 with]] [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2008/ga080426.gif "I glued a blender to my face."]] Which is itself crossing over with the "pudding pops" strip used for the "Garfield ___ Garfield" meme.
*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=975 Also]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=826 beginning]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=908 to]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=939 trend]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=867 is]] "Garfield's X Theater"
*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=392 Another]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=404 recent]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=767 one]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=413 is]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=564 Change]][[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1036 field]], which resulted in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=820 this hilarious blend]].
** All the running gags were combined in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1049 Strip #1049]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=526 Garfield Leaves]] ''{{Garfield}}''
* TheUnsmile / SlasherSmile: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=272 These]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=662 are]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=764 rather]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=683 disturbingly]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=865 common]].
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield A whole page of them.]]
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=552 Butterfield]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=905 Butterfield]].
** Also, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=266 Mirror Universe Garfield]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=819 Mirror Universe Garfield]].
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=329 Smile]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1035 Smile]].
* SlowLoadingInternetImage: While there's no punchline, and it's a non-pornographic image, the spirit is certainly there in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=214 this]] strip.
* SphereEyes: Lampshaded [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=873 here]].
* SpriteComic: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=36 Garfield: The Video Game]].
** Also used [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=822 here]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=933 here.]]
* SymbolSwearing: {{Lampshaded}} in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=548 Grawfield]].
* ThatsWhatSheSaid: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=875 Rubbery Arugula]].
** Comes with a [[http://i.imgur.com/4MA5S.png bonus strip]] that the editor deemed too risqué.
* ToiletHumour: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=894 Potty Humour]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naturally.]]
* VisualPun: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=679 Square Root of Minus Garfield]], of course.
* WereStillRelevantDammit[[invoked]]: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=346 Mentioned]] and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d.
* AWorldwidePunomenon: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=268 Garfield Linus Garfield]].
* YourHeadASplode: This happens to Garfield at the end of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=739 Coffee!]]
* YouTalkinToMe: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=801 This strip]] [[ShownTheirWork accurately quotes the original film for once.]]
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