History WebComic / SquareRootOfMinusGarfield

** Comic 5000 is "We Didn't Write The Garfield", a parody of [[Music/{{Billy Joel}} Billy Joel's]] "We Didn't Start The Fire" that highlights a recap of past submissions from the history of the comic itself.

** Comic 5000 is "We Didn't Write The Garfield", a parody of [[Music/Billy Joel Billy Joel's]] "We Didn't Start The Fire" that highlights a recap of past submissions from the history of the comic itself.

* StealthPun: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2303/ The Pinnacle of Wit]]" [[spoiler:is another "minus Garfield" strip]].

** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2840 Supertaskfield]]" is a demonstration of one of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes Zeno's paradoxes]] in comic form, where there are a supposedly infinite amount of panels, each a quarter as large as the last. The transcript claims that the strip supposedly ends with this:

** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2840 Supertaskfield]]" is a demonstration of one of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes Zeno's paradoxes]] in comic form. The transcript claims that the strip supposedly ends with this:

** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3251 "Happy diet, Garfield. Here's a handgun for breakfast."]]

* TooDumbToLive: Well, at least Jon ''did'' learn [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1423 not to put out a bomb by blowing on it.]]

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

''[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/ Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' is a subset of the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Mezzacotta}}''. Essentially, it's ''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield'' turned UpToEleven: a collection of humorous ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' edits made by viewers. These edits often change the dialogue, or combine artwork from multiple ''Garfield'' strips. Some of the contributors read Website/TVTropes and use the tropes in their strips.

* BlahBlahBlah: Turned UpToEleven on [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1501 Blah]], where the entire text, ''even the title, copyright date, and signature'' of the comic are turned into the word.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2255 Not So Grump?]]" shows that ''three separate people'' got the idea to make [[WebVideo/GameGrumps a certain edit]] to "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2230 Grump Out!]]"... and two of them went about it '''the same way'''... And those two were submitted '''''[[UpToEleven the same day]]'''''...

''[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/ Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' is a subset of the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Mezzacotta}}''. Essentially, it's ''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield'' turned UpToEleven: a collection of humorous ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' edits made by viewers. These edits often change the dialogue, or combine artwork from multiple ''Garfield'' strips. Some of the contributors read Wiki/TVTropes and use the tropes in their strips.

** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=484 Spoilerwarningfield]], where the TV recites Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'s summary of ''Literature/MobyDick''.

* RebootSnark: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3658 Garfield Plus Another One of Disney's Live-Action Remakes]]" takes a jab at [[Film/Aladdin2019 the 2019 live-action remake of]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and [[UncannyValley how creepy the live-action Genie looks]], as he pops out of the cookie jar and Garfield runs screaming.

* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Parodied by [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1328 Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Good Reasons]]. In the second panel, Jim Davis orders ''[=SRoMG=]'' to stop using the ''Garfield'' characters. The third panel has no characters.

* RunningGagged: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=625 Garfield Skynet Garfield: Judgement Day]]. While the Pudding Pops gag still exists in other creative subversions and lampshades, this marked the official end of played straight examples.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** It was more common in the early days of the strip, but there are a few strips that, while still at least weakly related to Garfield, are not Garfield edits: Edits of other comics (''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=82 here]], ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=124 here]], ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=142 here]], and ''Webcomic/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 ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' comic book, and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=824 this]] from a ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' magazine), a [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=661 slightly altered verion of a]] Music/SimonAndGarfunkel album cover, 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.".
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3644 #3644]] is just a screenshot of ''[[VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack Bracketeering]]'' where "Garfield" happened to be the winning play of a round.
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3170 No. 3170: Embryonic Garfield]] is just an unaltered ''ComicStrip/{{Jon}}'' comic, with the author noting it would get a PopularityRedo as a syndicated ''Garfield'' comic. Since ''Jon'' was still deep in obscurity at the time (it won't get any larger recognition until ''WebVideo/QuintonReviews'' covered it in July 28, 2019, while this ''[=SRoMG=]'' strip was published in January 22, 2018), the author admits he had no idea where he found it.

** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3570 Director's Cut]] [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent is stated to have the Closed Captioning on]], and as such in a few of the panels, part of the captioning from the previous panel remains on screen.

* TakeAThirdOption: For "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2147 It's Fun]]", the strip's author stated that they saw two ways [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2013/ga130814.gif the original Billy Brick comic]] could've gone differently[[note]]They don't go into any further detail, but just by looking at the strip one can guess the two options.[[/note]]. They chose both.

** Eventually, a few more strips were added to the page. One was a strip based on [[WebVideo/GamesDoneQuick Summer Games Done Quick 2017]] (inspired by the ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' Low% race, [[Funny/GamesDoneQuick in which 2 of the 3 racers got wiped out by Phantoon and the last one continued on his own]]). Others were based on the 2019 Super Bowl and the purchase of the Garfield IP by Viacom.

* HighConcept: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1989 11th Birthday Special: High Concept]] describes itself this way, with the concept being SubvertedTrope.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The aptly named "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1773 Is Everything Better With Monkeys?]]"

** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4315 "[=GarfieldWare=]: D.I.Y."]] was drawn using the comic maker in ''VideoGame/WarioWare: D.I.Y.''.
** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1387 Clip Artfield]] replaces Garfield, Jon, and Garfield's dish with stock clip art.

* ArtShift: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4315 "[=GarfieldWare=]: D.I.Y."]] was drawn using the comic maker in ''VideoGame/WarioWare: D.I.Y.''.

* CutAndPasteComic: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2553 Tener Cuidado Con Lo Que Deseas]], [[InvokedTrope intentionally]].