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7''[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/ Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' is a subset of the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Mezzacotta}}''. Essentially, it's ''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield'' turned up to eleven: 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.
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14* AbsurdlyBrightLight: Jon's smile in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1430 Zadie Smithfield]], complete with a ShoutOut to ''Literature/WhiteTeeth''.
15* ActorAllusion:[[invoked]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2105 Voice Actors Garfield]] replaces the names of the characters with the first names of their respective voice actors for ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' and the Garfield specials.
16* AllLowercaseLetters: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3002 Garfield in Lowercase]], barring the title.
17* AmbiguousSyntax: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1805 Garfield plus Labour Retention]] exploits and discusses this by using the original strip's ambiguous text to make a joke.
18-->'''[=unstattedCommoner=]:''' Having submitted an earlier modification of this strip, it then occured [sic] to me that "ways to keep the house cleaner" is ambiguous.\
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20Thus here Jon and Garfield are discussing ways in which they might retain the services of the cleaning lady.
21* AndCallHimGeorge: Parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=840 Of Mice and Garfield]] when Garfield squeezes his pet chicken to death. It was only a rubber chicken.
22* AnimalsSeeInMonochrome: Discussed but ultimately [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by the author of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2052 this]] strip, which recolors [[http://strips.garfield.com/iimages1200/1993/ga931010.gif this Garfield strip]] as a dog would ''realistically'' see it. The author adds as a bonus the greyscale image that most people would expect from this trope.
23* AntiHumor:
24** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=364 Keep Off the Grass]] has Garfield come across a Keep Off the Grass sign, to which he just turns around and walks away. (Compare to the original where he decides to walk ''above'' the grass.)
25** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=919 Garfield Plus Willpower]]. The original comic rode on Garfield wanting to save a cookie, which he managed to do for about 5 seconds. In this comic, Garfield doesn't eat it at all.
26** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1007 Invisible Jon]]. Garfield is no longer joking, because Jon really is invisible.
27** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1367 Garfield Minus Humour]]. This edit is identical to the original ''Garfield'' strip, because [[spoiler:[[DontExplainTheJoke the original had no humour]]]].
28** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2067 Choose Your Own Garfield Book 3: The Anti-Humour Equation!]], as the title implies, has multiple Anti-Humorous punchlines to the same strip.
29* AprilFoolsDay: The [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2509 April 1, 2016]] strip features several strips ([[StylisticSuck badly]]) edited to contain blatant ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' references.
30* ArmlessBiped: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=22 Garfield-Star Runner]], the author lampshades this trope while talking about ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''.
31* ArtEvolution:
32** The art evolution of the ''Garfield'' strip is lampooned in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=613 Constantly Changing]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1215 Constantly Changing V2.0]], wherein the first two panels use the 1978 and 1979 designs, and the last one is the 2000s design.
33** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1818 Jon's Evolution in Reverse (including Garfield)]] sees Jon's design regress from how he is currently drawn to his original character model, with each panel approximately sized to compare the size of his eyes.
34* TheArtifact: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/special/ The "Special Strips" page]] was originally meant to be a page for "strips that are too short-term topical or otherwise unsuitable to be queued in the standard strip archive.". However, only two strips, both about the 2010 UsefulNotes/FIFAWorldCup, were on there for many years, with most strips that fit this definition being published exclusively on the forum. The only time anyone ever thought about it again was the author's notes of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=496 this strip]] (which was made by one of the page's only two contributors, no less), as a {{pun}} because the strip was a ShoutOut to Music/TheSpecials.
35** It was also bought up one other time when [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1942 No. 1942]] was submitted. David questioned the author on whether it should be added to the specials page (since it was done InMemoriam to Creator/RobinWilliams) or to standard strip archive.
36** 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, 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.
37* ArtShift:
38** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1178 Draw Me]] was drawn by hand on a piece of paper and scanned digitally.
39** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1387 Clip Artfield]] replaces Garfield, Jon, and Garfield's dish with stock clip art.
40** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2425 A different artist invades]] is drawn in a more simplistic style with a lack of outlines.
41** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3374 Atarifield]] takes a video game-themed comic and makes it into Atari-style pixel art.
42** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4315 "[=GarfieldWare=]: D.I.Y."]] was drawn using the comic maker in ''VideoGame/WarioWare: D.I.Y.''.
43* AscendedMeme: Dan Walsh, creator of ''Garfield Minus Garfield'', submitted the strip [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=435 Jon Plus Cohen]]. Also counts as a ThrowTheDogABone, because Jon is no longer lonely, as he had been in ''Garfield Minus Garfield''.
44* AsideGlance: The verbatim title of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3011 this strip]], which removes a thought bubble from Jon in the last panel.
45%%* AssPull: InUniverse example: The ShowWithinAShow in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2381 WHAT A TWIST!]]
46%%* AssShove: The last panel is censored, but it's certainly obvious that that's what happened [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1949 here]].
47* AuthorAvatar: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5010 Jon As _________]] replaces Jon with the submitter's persona.
48%%* AuthorTract: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2395 "Nostalgiafield"]] is one against [[NewMediaAreEvil modern technology.]]
49* BaitAndSwitch: The description for "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2129 Without Me]]" implies that the author listened to the titular song by Music/{{Eminem}} to get the idea for the strip... only to link to a cover done by [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fz4OELrr6A Henry the Green Engine]]]].
50* BeatPanel:
51** There's one in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=10 Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel]]. This strip now has four panels instead of three. The author's note links to TV Tropes.
52** There are ''27 beat panels'' in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1253 We Got the Beat(s)]].
53** Then there's [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=462 Garfield Plus Beats in the Beat Panel]], where a video game-related strip is edited to put [[VideoGame/MegaMan three]] [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou different]] [[VideoGame/EternalSonata Beats]] in the beat panel.
54** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1905 This comic]] has ''twenty-two'' beat panels.
55** The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly-titled]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2218 34 Beat Panels]].
56** We are up to ''37 beat panels'' in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3525 this comic]] while [[TakeThat taking a shot]] at what seems to be a [[RecycledScript recurring problem]] with the source material lately.
57* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
58** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2257 Pie Form Coming Right Up]] has Garfield state he prefers "surprise" apples in pie form. He takes it back when he sees a [[PieInTheFace giant apple pie flying toward his face]].
59** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2553 Tener Cuidado Con Lo Que Deseas]][[note]]"Be Careful What You Wish For" [[BilingualBonus in Spanish]][[/note]] was done in response to [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2290 Duplifield]][[note]]specifically, that strip's author's desire to create a lazy edit meme[[/note]].
60--->'''Jon:''' ([[CutAndPasteComic without changing expression]]) You know what the world needs more of? Lazy edits. Oops.
61* BeigeProse:
62** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=109 April of No Sundays Collection]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=610 Random No Sundays]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1028 Seven More No Sundays]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1466 April of No Sundays: 2006]], and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1560 May of No Sundays 2013]] condense several 7-panel Sunday strips into 3-panel weekday strips while preserving the original gags.
63** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=227 Less Humor, More Story!]] condensed 15 panels into 10, removing some gags but preserving the story.
64*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=754 This follow-up]] does it the other way around, leaving just the gags.
65* BlackComedy: In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=650 Odie's Secret to Happiness]], the secret is a guillotine.
66--> '''Garfield:''' You may prefer to remain unhappy
67* BlahBlahBlah: Exaggerated 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.
68* BlindIdiotTranslation: Parodied in strips with an intentionally bad translation from English to English.
69** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=567 Garfield Happily Lost in Translation (Japanese)]]: "Did you say happy or stupid?" became "You say or, happy hippopotamus kana?"
70** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=733 Badly Translated Garfield]]: "I wonder if there's a place to go buy a life" became "If you know you live forever to get".
71** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=813 Babelfishfield]]. Jon's dialogue was translated from English to Spanish and back again.
72** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2146 Trilingual Garfield]] has the original comic translated from Chinese, Hebrew, and Italian.
73** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2651 Galfierd]] is meant to resemble a badly-translated game script. Garfield and Jon are NES-style sprites, and the dialogue is translated from Japanese.
74** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2652 Grafiedl]] was translated from Japanese to Chinese to English.
75** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2653 加菲猫平衡]] is two collections of mistranslated Garfield comics.
76--->'''Garfield''': ''[horrified expression]'' We chookies!
77** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2654 Badly Translated Garfield 2: The Crocodiling]]: "Krock!", a sound effect for Garfield hitting Jon's hand, becomes "Crocodile!"
78** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2655 There must be a higher Category Bo Mot ja palauttaa]] uses 12 levels of Google Translation.
79--->'''Garfield''': ''[playing a game of poker with mice]'' Finally, the sauce yourself.
80** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3521 John, Who Died]] uses 20 levels of Google Translation.
81** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3522 Hanging Lamp Shade]] is a meta take on this, with the dialogue put over the Pudding Pops comic.
82** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4337 A Point For A Big Guy]] was Google Translated a few times.
83** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4552 Googlefield Part 1]] was inspired by Trilingual Garfield. The author's note says that machine translation has probably gotten too good to make much of a difference for such short and simple texts as ''Garfield'' comics.
84* BlueLiquidAbsorbent: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1555 Blue Monday]]". Garfield chases a fly and jumps into a toilet, with a blue "SPLOOSH" panel before it. In the original comic, the panel is yellow. The author notes that Garfield landing in an unflushed toilet is more disgusting than the ambiguous original comic, which would have been black-and-white when it was first printed, and colored blue "in accordance with TV adverts where any bodily fluid is always represented by blue liquid".
85* BolivianArmyEnding: "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4770 How Will You Be Able To Tell?]]", which concerns Jon going insane after a fly goes up his nose, [[spoiler:sees him murder the mailman, prompting a swarm of armed police to surround the house. The strip ends with him charging out the front door in a blaze of glory. "Hard cut to black. [[NothingIsScarier It can be inferred what happens next.]]"]]
86* BoltOfDivineRetribution: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=27 Garfield Meets Zeus]] changed a sign from "Beware of Dog" to "Beware of God". Then the god zapped Garfield.
87* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1452 #1452 "Names"]].
88--> '''Jon:''' ''[reading from book]'' Jon Arbuckle: idiot, moron, idiotic moron[...]
89* BrickJoke:
90** The apteryx from [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=250 2010-01-22]] reappears in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=871 2011-10-07]].
91** Parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=514 Brickfield]], when Garfield kicks Odie into 1984 from 1983.
92** Both parodied and played straight in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1076 Brickfield 2]] from 2012-04-29. Brickfield 2 edits [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1978/06/19 Garfield 1978-06-19]] to reference [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1 SRoMG 2008-11-05]]; these are the very first strips of ''Garfield'' and ''Square Root of Minus Garfield''.
93** In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=625 Garfield Skynet Garfield: Judgement Day]], published 2011-02-03, Film/TheTerminator says that the "Garfield [something that sounds like "minus"] Garfield" meme will become self-aware "three years from now, on August 29th". 2014-08-29 rolled around, and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1928 this happened]].
94** A completely coincidental one, pointed in the editor's note, is formed with [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2234 Spritefield]] and [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2238 Garfield Entertainment System]]. Both comics were drawn in pixel art and published four days apart from each other, but created by different people. In the former, Garfield goes to look for a present that Jon has hidden; in the latter, he surprises Jon by beating a video game, which was apparently his present.
95** "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4658 No. 4658: Really...]]" is a "Snails are Slow" edit where the snail says nothing throughout the entire strip, with a large ellipsis next to the comic, and the annotation appears to trail off. [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4661 Three days later...]]
96** "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4979 The Pass]]" sees Garfield circumvent Jon's attempt at getting him to eat a carrot [[TakeAThirdOption by merely]] [[RealityWarper making the carrot vanish]]. "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5344 Show Don't Tell]]", [[OverlyPrepreparedGag uploaded exactly one year later]], sees the carrot suddenly appear next to Jon.
97--->'''Jon''': Oh, Garfield, may I have a word with you?
98--->'''Garfield''': (offscreen) Nope. A magician never reveals his secrets...
99* ButterflyOfDoom: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=672 Dismal February]]" is [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1989/02/11 the February 11th, 1989 strip]][[note]]where Garfield attempts suicide with the recliner[[/note]] but with Garfield managing to [[DrivenToSuicide go through with it]].
100-->In February of 1989, Garfield attempted suicide. Fortunately Jon was there to stop him. [[WhatIf But what if Jon had been one panel too late?]]
101** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2385 For Want of a Grip]]" starts with [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1978/06/27 a 1978 strip]][[note]]Garfield trying to reach out for a ham[[/note]], but has Garfield fall to the floor instead of grabbing the ledge; WordOfGod is that [[DisneyVillainDeath he died as a result]]. It then goes to 1991, with Garfield [[RippleEffectIndicator fading from existence]], much to his shock.
102%%* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=389 One strip]] creates a coherent horror story out of several such panels.
103* CallBack:
104** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1574 Memorable Record]] edits a strip with a bland age joke into a call back to a strip featuring a [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch skipping record]].
105** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1939 Followup]] is one to [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1913 Garfield Plus Cleaning Supplies]].
106** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2812 Meta Commentary]] framed a comic edit of Garfield demonstrating his "time machine" as Jon creating a [=SRoMG=] strip and realizing it was terrible, reflecting the author's opinion of the base edit at the time. Over six years later, the comic is republished without the FramingDevice as [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5261 Death of the Author]], as the author's view of the edit had changed in the intervening years.
107* CallForward: A panel from [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1419 Grafield & Maynard]] appeared in the earlier strip, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1397 Spot the Difference]].
108* CartoonBomb:
109** Blows up a pool in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=265 "Garfield Shrink & Re-enlarge, Part 4"]].
110** Appears in the aptly titled [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=298 "A Bomb"]].
111** Blows up Garfield in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=818 "Jumpy Cat"]].
112** Explodes in his bed just as he gets back to it in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1994 "16th Birthday Special: Surprise Package"]].
113** While Garfield is taking a selfie, a spider plants one on Garfield's thumb, thus "photobombing" in ''two'' senses, in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2047 "Mad Photobomber"]].
114** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2966 Garfield shares an idea]] for some wintertime fun.
115** You just never know where Garfield [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3053 will strike next]]
116* CensorDecoy: How [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=875 Arugulafield]] got past the self-imposed radar, according to the annotation. The author had also submitted an [[http://i.imgur.com/4MA5S.png even more outrageous]] comic, so the former was published and the latter was a forum exclusive.
117* CensoredForComedy:
118** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=54 Censored Garfield]]
119---> '''Jon:''' Belinda Gilzone... I [[spoiler:had]] a [[spoiler:mad crush]] on her. \
120'''Jon:''' She was head cheerleader.\
121'''Jon:''' Ever had an entire pompon shoved up your [[spoiler:nose]]?\
122'''Garfield:''' Let me think .....no.
123** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1949 CENSORED]]. Garfield gets stuck in the pet door, and Odie tries to free him. The second to last panel shows Odie charging at Garfield’s rear at full speed, and the last panel is censored, suggesting an AssShove for poor Garfield. [[spoiler:The last panel originally showed that all Odie accomplished was tearing the door off of the house.]]
124-->'''Author's note:''' It’s amazing what can be done simply by blacking out one panel and marking it “CENSORED”.
125* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase:
126** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=828 Invisifield and the Pudding Cup]]
127** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1462 Darkfield: Odie and the Murder]]
128** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1728 Garfield and the Oobleck]]
129** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1814 Garfield and the Cursed Mirror]]
130** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2350 Indiana Mouse and the Repast Crusade]]
131** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4235 Gartholemew and the Arbleckle]]
132* ChristmasEpisode: Four so far:
133** 2010: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=585 It's the Thought That Counts]], which takes the infamous "Googly-eyed Garfield" edit and makes it so Garfield has a present for the head and makes Jon the same, instead of them having googly eyes.
134** 2011: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=950 Christmasfield]] which pasted one panel from every December 25th at the time together.
135** 2016: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2776 Wishmas]], which looks at the "What do you want for Christmas?" question.
136** 2017: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3129 White winter hymnal]] shows what happens when Jon goes caroling.
137* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Parodied by [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1328 Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Good Reasons]]. In the second panel, Creator/JimDavis orders ''[=SRoMG=]'' to stop using the ''Garfield'' characters. The third panel has no characters.
138%% Jon does not qualify as a Complete Monster. Please discuss any new additions in the clean-up thread.
139* ClusterBleepBomb: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2967 This strip]] transplants the "Gazorpazorpfield" skit from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' into a regular Garfield strip. Due to the SROMG guidelines, however, it had to be censored, turning it into this. [[http://imgur.com/vzuWOWV The author created an uncensored version, however.]]
140* ContinuityCavalcade: The track list in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5190 MOUSECROSS 82-99]] is based on various running gags and earlier strips, including [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2954 Birthday Rant]] (an analysis on the 2016 birthday comic) and [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4507 Grande Jatte]] (referencing an earlier comic punning on ''Art/ASundayAfternoonOnTheIslandOfLaGrandeJatte'').
141* CouldSayItBut: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5276 "The Fallacy of Glass Houses"]] attempts to be coy with the fact that it's clearly [[TakeThat a stab]] against [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5017 a certain other strip]]: Not only does [[AllThereInTheManual the transcript]] mention that Garfield [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext got turned into a phone]] because [[{{Hypocrite}} he had no room to talk]] about ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' supposedly selling out, but also:
142-->[[WhatCouldHaveBeen I had a different idea in mind]], but I decided to scale it back as to not start anything.\
143What can I say? [[StealthInsult I felt sentimental.]]
144* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Odie accuses Jon of not knowing any information about the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, aside from the common claims of the media, in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=150 No. 150: Is that just cool or what?]], since Jon made the false claim that all furries do is have sex. Garfield shows up later to back up Odie's comments. [[invoked]]
145%%* CrowdedCastShot: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1689 #1689: I Want Everyone In It!]]
146* CulturalTranslation: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1416 This strip]] mirrors the original horizontally to make more sense to people who live in countries who drive on the left side of the road (the author is Australian).
147* CutAndPasteComic:
148** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1018 Cut and Paste Comic]] uses the exact same panel six times in a row, only with different text.
149** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2553 Tener Cuidado Con Lo Que Deseas]], [[InvokedTrope intentionally]].
150* {{Cyclops}}: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=123 Cyclops Garfield]] shoots his EyeBeams at a pizza.
151* DadaComics: Some strips are straightforward enough. [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2828 Some...aren't.]]
152* DarkerAndEdgier:
153** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=51 Dark Side of the Lasagne]].
154--->'''Jon''': Hey! Why is Odie's bowl covered in blood?\
155'''Garfield''': He makes a lovely fire.
156** And [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=178 Darkfield]].
157** Too many to list, really. But [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2587 the occasional inversion]] is certainly notable.
158* DeathOfTheAuthor: {{Invoked}} in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5261 this]] strip aptly named "Death of the Author", which simply consists of the strip Jon made in "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2812 Meta Commentary]]". The author admits that "death of the author" may not apply given they originally wrote the strip in question, but decided that enough time had passed, [[IHatePastMe and that their original opinion no longer mattered.]]
159* {{Deconstruction}}:
160** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=926 Of the blender]] RunningGag.
161** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2018 Too Much Carbon]] changes the ending of a strip where Garfield drinks a whole bottle of soda in a gulp so that instead of burping loudly, he explodes.
162** Played for laughs: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2788 The Dead Past]]" does this to "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=470 The Dead Future]]" by showing how predicting the past ''is'' easy.
163* {{Dedication}}: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1896 Jim Davis as Jon (Happy Birthday, Jim Davis)]], which came out on Jim Davis' 69th birthday.
164* DelayedRippleEffect: Played with in "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2385 For Want of a Grip]]" in that we only see ''1991''!Garfield begin to fade out after 1978!Garfield's death.
165%%* DemBones: Garfield becomes this after Jon [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=685 unknowingly boils him]].
166* DialogueTree: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=284 Cats of the Old Republic]] replaces Garfield's original line with five options, in a ShoutOut to the video game ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''.
167* DinnerDeformation: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=966 Pan of Lasagna]] shows the pan stuck in Garfield's stomach.
168* DiscreditedMeme: [[invoked]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2353 Discredited Memes]] is composed of {{averted|Trope}} and {{defied|Trope}} versions of [=SRoMG=] memes, including Jon decreeing he's never gluing another blender to his face, the final episode of Garfield's Horror Theater, Garfield not killing anything, Garfield deciding we ''don't'' need to make some changes around here, Jon's Donut remaining uneaten, and Jon's guacamole remaining unwalked-in.
169%%#* DisneyVillainDeath: How Garfield winds up dying... [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2385 in 1978]].
170* DisproportionateRetribution: "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4786 Adding Fuel to the Fire]]" has Jon put Garfield inside a fireplace after he realizes that Garfield mocks him for his fear of not being good enough for his girlfriend Liz.
171* DoubleEntendre: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1582 Pulled off by]] ''a flower''.
172-->'''Flower:''' Hey bee, come get some sweet nectar! Let me rub my pollen all over you!
173* DreamWithinADream: Exaggerated in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=493 Recursive Nightmare]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1188 Y Combinator Garfield]], which enter an infinite loop. Whenever Garfield wakes from his dream, he has the same dream again, then wakes again.
174* DrivenToSuicide: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=385 There]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=672 are]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=726 several]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=934 strip]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1405 edits]] where Garfield kills himself or threatens to kill himself.
175* EarthAllAlong: Apparently [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2162 Garfield lives on Mars]].
176* EarWorm: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2297 "Garf Done Gone"]] changes the original strip's non-specific melody to the opening riff of "Love Done Gone" by Music/BillyCurrington, which the author cites as an example in its own right.
177* EditedForSyndication [[invoked]]: Parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1275 SRoMG #1275]], a rerun of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2 SRoMG #2]] that is missing one panel. It also changed the title to ''Square Root of Minus The Arbuckle Family''.
178* EasterEgg: [[https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3248 "Applied Probability"]] is an interesting case, in that it was a test of the reading audience to spot such an Egg--unmentioned in the transcript or the Author's Comments, and obfuscated as part of the stated modification, there is also a sign attached to the donut in the original strip, in reference to the "Donut Wars" meme. The stated intention of the author, once this was brought up, was to test whether people would notice such a modification, thereby making the title more direct: "What is the probability of people noticing I did this?"
179* EitherOrTitle: In a ShoutOut to ''Film/DrStrangelove'', we get [[Film/{{Inception}} "Donutception]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1442 Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Donut (Wars)"]].
180* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
181** One particular [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2227 Garfield in 2053]] strip was made with this in mind.
182--->'''[=Crazy56U=]:''' I've noticed that the "2053" series of comics mainly make fun of [[FranchiseZombie Garfield's stagnation]]. Not once have I seen one that takes advantage of [the] supposed setting of [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the year 2053]]. [[AssPull So, naturally, I made a strip implying the world ended in said year.]]
183** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5327 No. 5327: Christmas]] depicts ''Garfield in 10078'', which is just a disembodied voice in a desolate, barren field. Global war had apparently wiped out all possible life by 2027.
184* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: [[invoked]] Parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1436 SRoMG 2013-04-24]], an edit of [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2003/07/26 Garfield 2003-07-26]]. In the original ''Garfield'' strip, Garfield decides that a picture of a cow, with the word "cow" and an arrow, is a "clever use of symbolism". In the edit, the strip itself has arrows with the words "Jon", "Garfield", "Table", and so on, so the strip is also a clever use of symbolism.
185* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped:
186** Every strip has a transcript of the events of the strip. The transcript for [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=521 Nightmare Fuel Garfield]] simply said "{Oh, lord, I dunno how to describe this...}", although this was eventually removed and replaced with an actual transcript.
187** The transcript for [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=856 Tragedy]] states "Jon has [[Music/TheBeeGees Barry Gibb, or perhaps Robin Gibb, or maybe even Maurice Gibb]], glued to his face.".
188** The transcript for [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1010 Lyman Minus Lyman]] states that in the third panel, Jon is "looking at nobody, or possibly at Jim Davis' signature".
189** [[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1895 "Manyhills: ?"]]
190** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=73 Garfield Minus Garfield, Value Added: Mysterious]]" featuring a ''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield'' comic edited to have Jon fade away, and the transcript is confused about whether he's gone or invisible.
191** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2112 No. 2112]] describes Jon's sweater as "white/gold, or blue/black, or white/black, or blue/gold, or ???".
192** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2372 Monday Night Football]]" mentions that Jon ran in and startled Garfield "having heard [him complain about Mondays]... [[MindScrew somehow]]".
193** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2711 {Papyrus... I dunno. Stumped transcripter.}]]"
194* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Many strips. We'll only list a few that play with ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
195** Downplayed in "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1421 Two Often Used Square Root Of Minus Garfield Memes Combined To Make a Strip of Square Root of Minus Garfield]]". Self-explanatory enough, but it's a Donut Wars strip with "Stephano" being the donut-eater.
196** Zig-zagged in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1711 The Product of Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes over Happy Days]]. It is a crossover with ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', but has nothing to do with ''Series/HappyDays''. The reason it's called that is because the comic of both used involve a character talking about days of the week.
197%%* ExplosiveBreeder: Occurs in ([[DiscussedTrope and noted to be]] an original Garfield joke) in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1938 Inani-mates]].
198* FacePalm: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=525 SRoMG #525]] is a collection of face smacks from ''Garfield'' strips.
199* FailedASpotCheck: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2404 Turn Around, Bright Eyes]]" alters the [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2015/08/09 08/09/2015]] strip so that Lisa ''isn't'' freaking out over seeing Jon, but rather [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/WeBareBears the bear]] behind him and Garfield]].
200* FanDumb: {{Invoked}}, like so many other tropes, in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1546 Fan Dumbfield]] where Garfield discovers the comic and goes into an [[WallOfText extremely long rant]] about it.
201* FauxHorrific: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1371 The Most Horrific Theatre of All]]. [[spoiler:They stopped making frozen pudding pops.]]
202* {{Feghoot}}:
203** The annotation of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=141 this strip]] goes on a horribly long overanalyzation about whether or not you should be bothered by the author's [[RaceLift changing of Garfield from orange to grey]] just to lead up to the punchline [[spoiler:"But eventually we'll all just have to come to terms with the fact that there is more than one way to skin a cat."]]
204** All "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3688 364 Days]]" consists of is a picture of a calendar entry for January 2001, with January 22nd being removed. [[spoiler:[[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2001/01/22 It wasn't a day at all.]]]]
205* FlippingTheBird: Implied in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5355 Finger]], which changes the punchline so that, instead of Jon's date slashing his tires, she is instead waving, with "only one finger" as Garfield points out.
206%%* FlowerPotDrop: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1092 How Do You Like Them Petunias?]]
207* FootnoteFever: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1436 Here]], where every object in the strip has one explaining what it is, and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1565 here]], which has one in the last panel explaining the joke.
208* ForcedMeme:
209** Done in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=724 Kill Liz]], where the author's notes reads: "I hope this makes a new ''Square Root'' meme." This forced meme was parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=772 Garfield = Mass Times Acceleration]], which changed Garfield's victim from Liz to a "forced meme".
210** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1440 #1440]] declares it's now a meme in the title. It was the fourth strip in a RunningGag.
211%%* ForScience: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=361 Used as a title]].
212* FormulaBreakingEpisode:
213** 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.".
214** [[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.
215** [[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.
216* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou:
217** The ending of "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2918 Pupilfield]]". [[spoiler:After apparently turning Jon and Liz into frozen, wide-eyed zombies, the final panel is Garfield staring directly at the reader.]]
218** "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3878 Cat Garfield vs. The World]]" has Garfield gradually walking up to the reader, to Jon's alarm.
219* FranchiseZombie: [[invoked]] InUniverse in the "Garfield in 2053" series, in which the comic is still continuing long after Jim Davis is dead, but the current editor refuses to put any effort into it, letting it devolve into a CutAndPasteComic in which recycled strips are reinterpreted with a single image of Garfield.
220* FunWithAcronyms: The official page for ''Garfield'' on [=GoComics.com=] shows links to the series' Website, Website/{{Facebook}}, and Website/{{Twitter}}. [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1427 This strip]] reverse the latter two's order to reveal an interesting message...
221* FunWithSubtitles:
222** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=998 Horror Theatre: Blender Pudding Pops!]] has a transcript that gives the strip, which appears to just be a nonsensical mash up of three memes, a coherent story. [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1208 Horror Theatre: Jon, the Blender Prophet, episode 2]] has a standard transcript, but it also has an alternate one similar to the other strip's transcript.
223** The transcript of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1357 Garfieldseed]] deviates from the traditional format and is written poetically.
224** Both the transcript and authors notes of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1940 Garfield Plus an Even Spicier Pepper]] are written in a narrative format.
225** Taken to an extreme with [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2794 Garfield plus flavor transcript]], in which the comic is almost unchanged but the transcript is especially story-rich.
226* FutureImperfect: The premise of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=17 The Garfield Code]] is that [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]] belonged to the [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Boston Red Sox]], and that Einstein and [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] memorized ''Garfield'' strips. ''The Garfield Code'' is future fiction from 2529, and will ignore real history as much as ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' does today.
227[[/folder]]
228
229[[folder:Tropes G-L]]
230%%* GenderFlip: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1226 Lioness Garfield]]
231%%* GenreSavvy: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1003 Genre Savvy Garfield]]
232* GISSyndrome: Sometimes viewers Google an image and add it to the strip. Frequently, it's to make a ShoutOut.
233* GotMeDoingIt: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1087 Know Your Rights]]" alters the end of the 2010-04-08 strip so that Garfield ends up mixing up the words "right" and "wrong" himself.
234* GratuitousSpanish: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=532 ¡Garfield Mexicano!]] Due to the original's BlindIdiotTranslation, it was improved by a bilingual fan in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=641 ¡Garfield Mexicano, La Versión Mejorada!]] ("The improved version").
235* GreenBoyColor: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1156 Game Boy Garfield]] has a comic recolored with the Game Boy's green palette.
236%%* GroinAttack: Implied [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1775 here]].
237* HalloweenEpisode: Two for 2013: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1625 Donut Wars Made Even More Disturbing]], which has the sign say "Jon ate Garfield" and recolors Jon to be a zombie with a square root written in blood, and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1626 Garfield Meets the Thin Man]], a crossover with Franchise/{{The Slender Man|Mythos}}.
238* HateFic: [[invoked]] While the Author doesn't go into much detail, it ''is'' made clear that [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3215 the #3215th strip]] (where Jon and Garfield get banned from a restaurant after they uproariously laugh over a stupid joke) was made "in a bad mood". In fact, it was ''originally'' going to end with Jon and Garfield '''being arrested'''.
239* HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee: "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3048 I was struck]] by how much [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2003/02/14 the original]] is framed like a Congressional inquiry."
240-->Mr. Garfield: {testifying before Congress} People from all across the world seek me out for political advice!\
241[[BeatPanel {beat}]]\
242Senator Jon: Did you recently sell a plan for a coup d'état to a Middle Eastern colonel?\
243Mr. Garfield: I need to consult with my lawyer
244* HaveANiceDeath: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2357 Garfield Quest 1: The Lasagna Encounter]] has a Creator/{{Sierra}}-style death message appear after Garfield kicks Jon.
245* HereWeGoAgain: Just as it seemed the pudding pops meme was finally over, the blender meme had to purge the strip buffer.
246* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: [[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=993 This strip]], in which Garfield kills Hitler and finds out that they've stopped making frozen pudding pops.
247* HollywoodBoardGames: In the 1381st strip, Jon and a pissed (probably losing) Garfield are playing ''TabletopGame/{{Battleship}}''. Garfield then steps over the [[ArtStyleDissonance rather realistic board]], which breaks it in half. Jon then complains that he "sunk his battleship", just like the people in the commercials. Garfield snarkily rebukes him that he should have put it on the edge of the grid, which is generally a bad strategy. In the original strip, Garfield ruined Jon's guacamole.
248%%* {{Homage}}: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1896 Jim Davis as Jon (Happy Birthday, Jim Davis)]]
249%%* HurricaneOfPuns: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=268 Garfield Linus Garfield]] and the RunningGag it spawned.
250* ImpossibleTheft: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3551 This strip]] has Garfield somehow steal an old man's pacemaker.
251* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: [[InvertedTrope Inverted:]] As it happens, the creator behind [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3997 "Nothing Unusual Here"]] ''legitimately forgot'' they made it.
252-->[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4194 Gonna be real here.]]
253-->[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I don't remember making this.]]
254%%* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2718 About the most literal example possible.]] As per custom, a link to the trope page is included.
255%%* {{Invisibility}}: Jon [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1007 here.]]
256* InterruptedByTheEnd: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1549 Backfield Minus Back]] removes the word "back" from the original strip, thus resulting in the snail only saying three words of the original four before the comic ends.
257-->'''D. Gates:''' The original crammed a four-word phrase into three panels. [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1445 Backfield]] improved it by substituting a three-word phrase. Then I thought to myself, "Is a four-panel punchline in a three-panel strip a problem... or an opportunity?"
258* InTheStyleOf: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1817 1988 to 1979]] redraws the 1988-11-20 strip into the style of the 1979 strips.
259* {{Irony}}: The date when Garfield [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2385 begins to fade out]] after his 1978 self died? ''[[LuckySeven July 7th]]'', 1991.
260* ItBelongsInAMuseum: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2350 When]] a mouse in an Franchise/IndianaJones hat walks by, this is what Garfield guesses regarding their food.
261* ItMakesSenseInContext: Utilized in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1397 Spot the Difference]]. Of these weird panels, some are from real ''Garfield'' strips, and some are edits. The real ones seem weird here, but they make sense in their original strips. [[spoiler:All panels but one are real, and the one that isn't (the fifth one) has a relatively minor change.]]
262* JennysNumber: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=58 867-5309/Jonny]]"
263--> '''Jon:''' (''on phone'') Hello, is this Jenny? / I got it in the wall, why? / Jenny, don't change your number!\
264'''Garfield:''' 867-5309!
265* JumpingTheShark[[invoked]]: Parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2568 Garfield In 2053 Jumps The Shark]], a continuation of the "Garfield in 2053" series, which [[TheBusCameBack reintroduces Lyman to the comic]].
266-->'''[=MadDogBV=]:''' After all these years, there aren't very many sharks left for Garfield to jump, but I presume this would be one of them.
267* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: The TropeNamer, with [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=310 this strip]], where Jon hides the cookie jar, then [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1389 Garfield's Christmas presents]].
268* KeepItForeign: In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1455 Frenchfield]], the original strip is rewritten in French. In the original, Jon thinks that the menu for a restaurant is in French. It's changed from French to English here.
269* LampshadeWearing: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1342 Lampshadefield]] changes the reason that Garfield wears a lampshade. In the original ''Garfield'', "What broken lamp?" In this strip, "What party?"
270* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2255 Not So Grump?]]" features three WebVideo/GameGrumps-esque edits to "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2230 Grump Out!]]". The first two have the same edit[[note]]Replacing Jon and Grump Garfield's heads with Grump Jon and Grump Arin's, respectively.[[/note]], while the last one just replaces Grump Garfield's head with Grump Jon's... and replaces Garfield's dialouge at the end with "[[WebVideo/JonTron ECH]]".
271* LaughTrack: The Author's Notes for [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2087 Pudding Pops Gag Minus Base Jokes Plus Dedication]] has the line, "*People laugh like they are in a comedy club.*", after the author mentions the amount of frozen pudding pop strips submitted to the site.
272* LemonyNarrator: A few strips have transcripts written like this:
273** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1633 De-Wrech]]:
274--->''{Garfield is performing on the fence again. Why does he do it? It normally results in him getting hit with things.}''
275--->''...''
276--->'''Garfield:''' Okay... Who faxed the wrench?
277--->''{This proves Garfield did not slip off the fence, but instead was hit by a somehow-sent-through-the-fax wrench}''
278** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1703 Galloping Alien]]:
279--->''{Garfield cranes his neck around in a alarming fashion whilst holding a container of an unknown substance that is entirely unrelated to this plot.}''
280--->'''Garfield:''' It's a space alien!
281--->''{Jon looks on amazed as Garfield has resigned calmly to the facts of the situation}''
282** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1777 Calvin Makes an SRoMG Strip]]:
283--->''{ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes are making a strip using scissors and glue instead of on a computer}''
284--->''...''
285--->'''Hobbes:''' {he hasn't been able to get any sleep, so he's pretty annoyed} It had sure better.
286--->''...''
287--->'''Mom''', most likely {off-screen}: Nope.
288--->''...''
289--->''{[[LopsidedDichotomy Calvin has either run off to check his e-mail or spontaneously combusted from the sudden excitement]]}''
290--->''...''
291--->''{Calvin checks from a mailbox maladroitly edited to look like a desktop computer}''
292** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1849 Sour Milk-Chan]]:
293--->''{Jon then comes in the room with his tongue and hair sticking out, almost looking like [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]] without make-up}''
294** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1895 "Garfield is surprised]], as indicated by the clearly visible surprise on his face - annotated here with the words "SURPRISED EXPRESSION" for the benefit of the viewer."
295** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1949 {Fancy two-panels-wide Garfield title banner. Won’t be described here as it’s irrelevant to the joke}]]
296** In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2130 a strip]] where Garfield dances on and slips off of [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the Grinch]], the narration notes he's dancing on him "for some unknown reason". When Garfield falls, the narrator goes on to say, "This could have been avoided very easily. [[WaxingLyrical He's a bad banana with a greasy black peel]], after all."
297** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2129 Without Me]] ends with the following comment by the narrator:
298--->''{apparently, [[TakeThat Garfield hates Eminem]]}''
299** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2460 VHSfield]]:
300--->''{[Garfield] seems quite happy, despite the fact that "Jim Davis 6-9" has been written on the side of his chair}''
301** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2372 Monday Night Football]]:
302--->''{Jon, having heard Garfield... somehow, rushes in while yelling, startling Garfield}''
303--->''...''
304--->''{Garfield has been tackled to the ground by Jon, and has been really messed up by the ordeal. Trust me.}''
305** After two Garfields walk by in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2456 Ice Ice Baby]], dressed as the VideoGame/{{Ice Climber}}s:
306--->'''Jon:''' And no, you're not getting into [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Smash 4]]!
307--->''{Rub it in, why don't ya...}''\
308''{...}''\
309''{...jerk...}''
310** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2692 Once Again, Your Guess Is As Good As Mine]] deserves special mention:
311--->''{Garfield stands over a sleeping Jon, angry and with cheeks puffed up}''\
312''{slowly, as if to be an affront to nature itself, Garfield's head starts expanding}''\
313''{[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou apparently having heard that previous comment]], Garfield's head proceeds to take up the entire panel and then, presumably, the world}''\
314''---''\
315''{[[Series/{{Dinosaurs}} And taking a look at the long-range forecast, continued cat hair, darkness and extreme fat.]]}''\
316''{[[{{Homage}} This is Crazy56U.]]}''\
317''{[[SuddenDownerEnding Good night.]]}''\
318''{[[{{Beat}} ...]]}''\
319''{...goodbye...}''
320** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3397 Muppetfield (or Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sedentary Street?)]]
321--->''{Cuts away to a vexingly strange segment featuring Jon Arbuckle and some mice singing about the letter S, thankfully not shown}''
322** As if you needed more proof that the author had made the strip while in a bad mood, the transcript for [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3215 #3215]] includes the following:
323--->''{Jon and Garfield look at each other in wide-eyed shock, because apparently that one question was the most mind-breaking, Earth-shattering question of all time}''\
324''{Jon and Garfield start violently laughing, because either that one question was the funniest thing ever of all time, or comedy is now dead}''\
325''{Suddenly, waiter}''\
326''{The waiter looks at them while Jon and Garfield have stupid grins on their faces, as if prodding the waiter to take part in their nonsense}''\
327''...''\
328''{Count your lucky stars I chose to go soft on you guys in this strip, Jon. The alternate ending sees you and Garfield getting ''arrested''.}''
329** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3880 The Personification of Hubris in an Uncaring World]]:
330--->''{amidst a sea of hubris, a man speaks to his cat}''\
331'''Jon:''' You know what the world needs more of?\
332'''Jon:''' Conceptual art\
333''{No}''\
334''{It does not}''
335** [[invoked]] A particularly egregious example can be seen in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4843 Strip #4843]], as the Author had decided [[SelfImposedChallenge (apropos of nothing)]] to make a strip [[NoDialogueEpisode entirely without dialogue]].
336--->[[ThisIsGonnaSuck {Just as a warning, there is no dialogue in this strip, and I'm being extra descriptive. Buckle up}]]
337--->[[Series/QuantumLeap {Sam Beckett]] [[Recap/QuantumLeapS5E22MirrorImage is at a bar,]] enjoying a beer in the morning, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance proving he is currently in the past.]] The bartender is putting away some money in a cash register}
338--->[...]
339--->[[DidntThinkThisThrough {The transcript's author is now probably regretting doing an eight-panel comic with no dialogue}]]
340--->[[ItCantBeHelped {C'est la vie}]]
341* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: [[invoked]]
342** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=35 This]] gold embossed version of the very first strip of ''Garfield''.
343** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1202 This]] strip (containing a DVD exclusive) is named so. They also linked back to the page of this trope in the author's note.
344*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3371 High-Definition Remaster]] of the aforementioned strip.
345* LiteralMetaphor: Discussed in the author's note of [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4570 Jon's Revenge]], a strip that involves Garfield exploding after eating too much food.
346-->'''U. N. Owen:''' I think a lot of ''[=SRoMG=]'' strips can be made by thinking, "what if they meant that literally?"
347* LoopholeAbuse: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2143 Garfield Discovers]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=967 "Loud Commercial"]]
348-->'''[=Crazy56U=]:''' This immediately jumped to my head when I discovered [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=967 the titular]] ''[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=967 SROMG]]'' [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=967 strip]]. After all, [[ExactWords it's not a "Garfield Linus Garfield" joke]][[note]]The description for "Loud Commercial" asks for no "Garfield Linus Garfield" jokes.[[/note]], so I'm justified in doing this. Loopholed!
349[[/folder]]
350
351[[folder:Tropes M-R]]
352* MadeOfExplodium:
353** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1864 Volatile Odie Minus Everyone Else]] has Odie explode after falling off a table.
354** In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2111 Armchair Warrior]], Garfield scratching a chair makes it blow him up.
355** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3328 Jon Explodes Easily]] is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
356** Garfield in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4122 this comic.]]
357** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5342 T-Balloon!]] has a balloon that literally blows up after smiling at Jon.
358* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1330 Choose Your Own Garfield #2]], where choosing to not taking a break leads to ''everything exploding.''
359* MayanDoomsday: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=581 End of the Worldfield]] is inspired by the author's attempt to view a ''Webcomic/{{Mezzacotta}}'' strip taking place on the day after the alleged apocalypse. [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1687 2012-12-21]], meanwhile, edits the actual ''Garfield'' strip that fell on the "apocalypse" to have Jon say, "Besides, the world is ending today."
360* MeaningfulReleaseDate[[invoked]]:
361** A few strips with {{Shout Out}}s have the release dates of the original strips be relevant to the thing being referenced:
362*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=511 Garfield Plus 88 MPH]], in which Garfield throws [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture the DeLorean]] on Nermal, is made from the 10/25/1985 strip, the date it was successfully tested in [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 the first movie]].
363*** In a similar vein, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3570 Director's Cut]] combines the script of the [[http://strips.garfield.com/iimages1200/1990/ga900525.gif 05/25/1990]] strip with ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', which released the same day.
364*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1860 I know that was then but it could be againfield]] contains one panel from every Garfield corresponding to a date the England men's national football team was eliminated from a major tournament since the strips debut captioned with the lyrics to "Three Lions" by Baddiel, Skinner & the Lightning Seeds, a song about still having faith in the team despite their constant failure.
365*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2032 Pac-field]] recreates the 5/22/1980 Garfield strip, the date ''VideoGame/PacMan'' was first released, with sprites from the game.
366*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2830 Garfield vs Lemmings]] edits the Garfield strip that was published on February 14th, 1991, which is the release date of the first ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}'' game. Instead of Garfield being grumpy because he's good at it, he's grumpy because [[ThatOneLevel/{{Lemmings}} he can't beat Mayhem 29]].
367*** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4975 All]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5007 ten]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5036 strips]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5068 in]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5099 the]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5131 "Garfield]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5162 Numerosity"]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5194 comic]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5226 strip]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5257 series]] were published throughout 2023, with the month and the day representing the number being featured. For example, the first one was published on January 1st (01-01), while the tenth was published on October 10th (10-10).
368*** One actually ''not'' relevant to the strip: The leader of the RoundRobin [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1229 Total Substitution Garfield]] said he found the date of the strip he used by starting at the strip published the release date of "Your Woman" by White Town (1/23/1997) and working forwards until he found a strip with a good amount of dialogue and some interesting visuals, resulting in the 2/13/1997 strip being used.
369** Some other strips instead alter the strip that was published on the author's DOB. One example of this played straight is [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2020 Fishing trip]]. A few contributors have put their own spin on this idea:
370*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=107 Birthday Garfield]] had this as its whole premise, with one panel from the strips corresponding to the DOB of the author, his wife, and his daughter.
371*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=367 ASCIIfield]] was done with the strip of the date of the author's first kiss.
372*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=733 Badly Translated Garfield]] was done with the strip of the DOB of the author's sister.
373*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2936 The Garfield Story]] saw the Author pull together every strip that was made from his DOB to the (at the time) present, took from that the strips with increments of 5 ("for simplicity"), and then pulled out random panels from each in order to cobble together a narrative of [[ItMakesSenseInContext Garfield falling into a life of crime]].
374*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3638 Z is for Zaragoza]] changes Garfield's snore from a picture of a log being sawn in honor of National Cartoonists' Day to a picture of the Mexican flag -- cut into a Z so it's still Garfield snoring -- in honor of Cinco de Mayo, the publication date of both the original strip and the ''Square Root of Minus Garfield'' edit.
375*** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5010 Jon As _________]] was published on the submitter's birthday, and likewise uses six strips that came out on their birthday during six different years.
376** On the other hand, certain strips utilize publishing dates of Garfield strips in interesting ways:
377*** The "Birthday Special" series of strips is each based on a birthday strip, tying into the publishing order of the ''[=SRoMG=]'' strips. For example, the [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1978 1978th strip]], published on October 18, 2014, is based on Garfield's first birthday strip, originally published on June 19, '''1978''', while the [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2014 2014th strip]], published on November 23, 2014, is based on Garfield's latest birthday strip, originally published on June 19, '''2014'''. These strips are the fruits of [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/draakslair/viewtopic.php?t=7592 a collaborative project]] [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/draakslair/viewtopic.php?t=7725 by the Comics Irregulars]]. [[spoiler:Then there's [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2015 a REAL final strip of the series]] where Odie attempts to access the 2015 birthday strip.]]
378*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=470 The Dead Future]] takes the [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2003/11/15 2003-11-25 strip]], in which Jon wonders what they would see five years from now, and replaces the last panel with the one for the [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2008/11/15 strip]], published five years from that day.
379*** Likewise, there's the two response strips [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2788 The Dead Past]] and [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2902 The Dead Future Redux]]. The former changes the strip into being about looking five years into the ''past'', and as such replaces the last panel with [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1998/11/25 the one for the 11/25/1998]] strip, and the later replaces the 2008 Garfield panel used in "The Dead Future" with the last panel of [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5 "Qwantzfield"]], which ''also'' was published 11/25/2008.
380*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1687 2012-12-21]] has the strip of the MayanDoomsday altered so Jon mentions it.
381** Played straight ''and'' (unintentionally) subverted in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2094 Disaster Days]]. The author's intent was to use panels from the dates of the ''Challenger'' explosion, [[TakeThat the premiere of]] ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks: The Squeakquel'', and the beginning of the ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill; the correct dates were used for the first two events, but the wrong year was used for the third. The author felt it ''apropos'' to leave it, as it had something in common with the three disasters now.
382** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2348 Twin Peaksfield]]: In honor of the return of ''Series/TwinPeaks'', the author took its first panel from the day the original show premiered, its second panel from the day the show ended, and its third panel from the day its movie came out.
383** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3557 "Jon's Boo-Boo, Reversed" Remake]] came out on the three-year anniversary of [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2461 the strip that it remasters.]]
384* MediumBlending:
385** Both "Plush Garfield" comics are photos, of various plush toys and David Morgan-Mar himself, edited to recreate Garfield comics.
386** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3369 Plushfield]] has a comic recreated with plush Garfield and Odie toys, the comic being real-life pictures with text bubbles overlaid.
387* MilestoneCelebration:
388** "1000th Root of Minus Garfield" celebrates the comic's 1000th strip, with a mosiac made out of previous submissions.
389** Comics 1978-2015 are celebrations of Garfield's birthdays, each one being based on the birthday comic (June 19th) that released that year.
390** Comic 3000 is "Mystery Science Garfield 3000", an adaptation of the 1989 Halloween arc with a spectating audience making fun of it.
391** Comic 3467 is "''[=SRoMG=]'', Vol. 1", pictures of a real-world book with a compendium of ''[=SRoMG=]'' comics inside.
392** Comic 4000, "Memes Are Bad", is a frozen pudding pops variant in which Garfield yells at Jon for letting the 4000th milestone be ruined with a meme.
393** Comic 5000 is "We Didn't Write The Garfield", a parody of [[Music/BillyJoel's "[[WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies We Didn't Start The Fire]]" that highlights a recap of past submissions from the history of the comic itself.
394* MindScrew:
395** Weird art and total nonsense in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=440 GARFFITI]].
396** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1638 One Warped Wish]]. No summary can come close to doing it justice. All that can be said is that it involves the fabric of reality being destroyed.
397** Neither of these hold a candle to [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2020 Fishing trip]], though.
398** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2168 Your Guess Is As Good As Mine]]
399%%* MonsterClown: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2708 Binky, on Ratings Week.]]
400%%* MuggedForDisguise: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2570 Garfield does this to]] [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Ness]] of all people, so he can get into a bakery.
401* MultipleEndings: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4 Choose your own Garfield]] brings together every version of the RunningGag where Jon sees Garfield's tail coming out of his fern. The first two panels play out exactly the same in every strip involved, and thus are only shown once; then the final panels for each version branch out, as if indicating to the reader to choose the strip's ending.
402%%* MundaneMadeAwesome: Jon Arbuckle wearing - against all odds - a ''[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3992 clean white shirt]]''.
403%%* MustHaveCaffeine: An [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=712 occasional]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=739 theme]], just like in the real strip.
404* MyBrainIsBig: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1911 Huge Ugly Heads]] gives Jon a simply enormous cranium, and links to the page.
405* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=689 this one]], Jon locked himself out of the house naked. Garfield walks away and tells him to use the pet door. Which is boarded in.
406* {{Narm}}: [[invoked]] The original Narm scene is parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3255 Six Layers of Lasagna Under.]]
407* NegativeContinuity: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aplty-titled]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3214 Negative Continuity]] features a strip where Jon can hear Garfield's thought-speak, right above a strip where he can't.
408-->'''[=KelpTheGreat=]:''' It's almost as if Jim Davis just makes up the rules of his strip to tell whatever joke he wants to tell. Either that, or Jon developed hearing loss in the eight months between these two strips.
409%%* NetworkDecay: Parodied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1640 The Garfield Channel]], featuring a hypothetical merger between HGTV and Creator/SyFy.
410%%* NewMediaAreEvil: Garfield ([[AuthorTract and the author]]) believe this to be the case in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2395 "Nostalgiafield"]].
411* NewYearHasCome: Starting with 2016, some comics celebrate New Year's and New Year's Eve. Of course, they're posted on the appropriate day in real life.
412** NYE 2016: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2783 Boring New Year]], where Garfield, Odie, and Jon are bored while waiting for the ball to drop.
413** 2017: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2784 2017 Will Be Better]], where Garfield says, "It hasn't even started yet, and it's still better than last year." The author notes that everyone hated 2016.
414** 2018: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3149 So This Is The New Year]]. Garfield walks off a table after showing that the new year is on a Monday.
415** 2019: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3514 Feels About The Same]], which mixes panels between the 1980 and 1981 ''Garfield'' New Year's comics.
416** 2020: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3879 1980]], a SpiritualSequel to Feels About The Same. This time, Garfield wakes up and explains that he likes 1981 because it's not 1980.
417** 2021: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4245 Every single time]], where Jon gets confused between 2020 and 2021. Garfield responds, "I'm just glad we're not in 2020 anymore!"
418** NYE 2021: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4609 Be it resolved]], which has Jon giving up on his New Year's resolutions before he can even think of any.
419** 2022: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4610 New Year, New Start, New World, Same Traffic]]. Jon dashes out of his house to celebate the new year, only to run into traffic.
420* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=210 Telepathic Pirate Garfield]].
421* NoDialogueEpisode: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4843 "From the Network That Couldn't Be Bothered to Spell "Beckett" Correctly In The Closing Minutes"]] consists of eight ''Series/QuantumLeap'' screencaps, with no one speaking in any of them, [[DidntThinkThisThrough much to the chagrin of the Author when they had to write the transcript.]]
422* NonIndicativeName:
423** Among others, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1626 Garfield Meets the Thin Man]], actually a crossover with Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos. The strip was specifically named to avoid spoiling Slendy's presence.
424** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3104 Alphabetical Blender]] has nothing to do with blenders. The author explains that he confused this comic for the [[RunningGag "I glued a blender to my face"]] one, but [[ThrowItIn kept the title because of how strange it is]] and felt it made his submission funnier.
425* NonSequitur: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1584 Reverse Alphabetical Ordering]]:
426-->'''Jon:''' You know, Garfield... I've made a few mistakes in my life. I mean aardvark.
427* NoodleIncident: In the author's note of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2724 Teaser]]:
428-->...but apparently the original comic confused some people when it came out. One thing led to another, and now I rule the state of Montana. Which is kind of strange because I don't actually live in Montana.
429* NoTitle: Strip [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1527 #1527]] is the only strip with no title, even though every other ''[=SRoMG=]'' strip has a title. (Original ''Garfield'' strips have no titles.) {{Lampshade| Hanging}}d.
430-->'''Garfield:''' They didn't even title this strip
431* NoteFromEd: The author's notes occasionally contain messages from the people who approve the strips.
432-->([[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2384 #2384]]) Nonetheless, I wager it'll be a cold day in hell before this strip sees the light of day. ''(Ed: It's certainly a cold day in my apartment.)''
433-->([[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3687 #3687]]) This one's for you, DMM. And to a lesser extent*, the new handler of the ''[=SRoMG=]'' strips. [...] [''*Ouch! -Ed'']
434-->([[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3952 #3952]]) [''I feel obliged to share that the image for this submission was sent with filename [[TakeThat "why would you willingly buy crash bash.png"]]. -Ed'']
435* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The author's note to [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4237 Milk and Cookies]]:
436-->'''[=MichaelSar=]:''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY7gsUL9Xkk Theodore Rex]]'', for those unaware, is a 1996 direct-to-video buddy cop film starring Whoopi Goldberg and a dinosaur who loves milk and cookies. I did not make any of that up. The film actually exists.
437* ObfuscatingStupidity: {{Discussed|Trope}} in relation to Odie in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=114 this strip]].
438* OddballInTheSeries:
439** Doubling as a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming moment]], amidst the usual fare of [[MindScrew inexplicable]], abstract (whether mathematically or otherwise), [[ShoutOut/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield reference-laden]] and [[TakeThat/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield snarky]] strips, there's the LighterAndSofter "[[https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1902 Garfield comic by Skye]]"[[note]]made by a young girl[[/note]] which was ultimately posted on the site despite being made with an official Garfield comic creator that prohibited the distribution of comics made with it.
440* OriginalFlavour: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5228 Odie's Least Favorite Dog Story]] is a wholly-original strip, emulating Garfield's artsyle from the early 1980s, concerning Garfield [[KickTheDog using the threat of reciting]] ''[[KickTheDog Greyfriars Bobby]]'' in order to force Odie to make him a sandwich.
441* OrSoIHeard: In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1487 "Blubber Lumps! They're chewy!"]], Garfield says that certain types of lumps of blubber can go for a pretty penny on Ebay. Or so he heard...
442* OutOfOrder: [=DanielBT=]'s three-part "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=372 Manga Garfield]]" series ended up being published in the wrong order, with [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=458 the final part]] coming before [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=749 the middle]]. [[http://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2011/06/ordered-manga-garfield.html According to Daniel's blog]], he had submitted so many comics that they had to be rotated for variety, resulting in the mix-up.
443* OverlyLongGag: Happens when someone [[CutAndPasteComic cuts and pastes]] the same thing again and again.
444** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=139 A Strip. With. A Snail.]] Who does nothing for 13 panels.
445** Invoked and defied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=339 Déjà Vu All Over Again]], which repeats the joke only 5 times. It comes complete with a link back to us.
446** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=164 Jon's Chat Screen]]: Too many users leave the chat room. "[=OverlyLongGag=] has left the chat room".
447** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=302 Looky Looky]]: "Looky, looky, looky, looky..."
448** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=839 Overly Long Walk]]: "More trees... more ferns... more trees... more ferns..."
449** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=947 Dull and Repetitive]]: Jon repeatedly tells Garfield that they are dull and repetitive.
450* OverlyPrepreparedGag: [[https://www.irregularwebcomic.net/draakslair/viewtopic.php?t=13826 As confirmed on the forums]], "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4979 The Pass]]" and "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5344 Show Don't Tell]]"[[note]]a pair of strips involving Garfield making a carrot disappear]][[/note]] were structured to be uploaded [[BrickJoke exactly one year apart]].
451* OverusedRunningGag:
452** The voluminous number of "Garfield (pun for Minus) Garfield" comics are referenced in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=625 these]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1422 two]] strips as being way too overbearing.
453** The "frozen pudding pops" strip[[note]]When Jon reads the newspaper and remarks, "The world is constantly changing," prompting Garfield to reply, "They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops yet, have they?"[[/note]] has been edited so often (usually with Garfield or the "pudding pops" line being replaced with something else) that the mods are deliberately slow to publish any more edits of that strip, and most modern strips that ''are'' published just lampshade how overdone the parody is. [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4404 This strip]] and its description bemoan how often this strip is parodied.
454-->"Contributors, it's time to end this rampage of strips. [=SRoMG=] is a beautiful website, and this meme has done nothing but corrupt its splendor. The extra-slow queue has done nothing. There are still many, many strips in it. Manyhills, you're delaying the inevitable. After this strip goes in, I urge you to not even put the pudding pops strips in a separate buffer. Unless they're very good, I urge you to warn the contributor and then straight up delete them. This madness must end."
455* PaintingTheMedium:
456** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=276 Small Talk]] (which prints the text [[ExactWords very small]]), [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=198 Variations on a Haircut #1]], and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=523 Melt]] (wherein the comic itself melts)
457** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1394 Unfini]] takes a comic about an unfinished show and does this to i
458** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=604 The Problem with Webcomic Buffers]] was posted on ''[[Webcomic/{{Mezzacotta}} Lightning Made of Owls]]'', while the real ''LMOO'' strip, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1693 Web Affair]], ended up on ''[=SRoMG=]''.
459* ParanoiaFuel: [[invoked]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=262 Jon, Paranoid]]
460* ParodyCommercial: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=263 Garfield Shrink & Re-enlarge, Part 3]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=265 Garfield Shrink & Re-enlarge, Part 4]] are joke commercials for the "Cat-onball", just a live bomb one puts in their pool.
461* PokemonSpeak: This trope is lampooned in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1023 Pokémon Speak]]:
462-->'''Odie:''' Dog dog.
463-->'''Garfield:''' Cat cat.
464-->'''Jon:''' Man man man man.
465* PunctuationChangesTheMeaning:
466** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4106 He may move slow, he can't jump high]] edits in a wrapped [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 Chunky Kong]] and has Garfield ask about it, and removes the comma from Nermal's "it's a gift, chunky", so that instead of Nermal snidely talking about his gift of being cute while calling Garfield "chunky", he's giving Garfield a "gift Chunky".
467** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4384 This strip]] removes the comma from the original strip to turn Jon's snarky "It's time for you to eat, your majesty" into "It's time for you to eat your majesty." To complete the edit, Jon is dressed up in a king, with the implication that Garfield's going to eat ''him.''
468%%* PuppyDogEyes: Garfield to Jon in [[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2364 Feed Me!]]
469* RaceLift: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=141 Garfield Recoloured]] makes Jon black and, as a ParodiedTrope, makes Garfield grey instead of orange, which [[{{Feghoot}} leads up to a pun]].
470* RealityBreakingParadox: In [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4361 The Burp That Was Giant]], Garfield lets out a burp so big that it breaks the laws of physics, distorting reality and ripping open a hole in space and time to reveal Lyman in a dungeon.
471* 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 how creepy the live-action Genie looks, as he pops out of the cookie jar and Garfield runs screaming.
472* RecursiveReality: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=40 Recursive Thinking Garfield]] uses [[MatryoshkaObject nested thought bubbles]], and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=100 Recursive Garfield Redux]] depicts Garfield drawing a copy of the strip. There might be no true Garfield, if each Garfield is always a drawing made by the next outer Garfield.
473* RecycledINSPACE: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=110 Garfield IN SPACE!]] takes a strip where Garfield uses the word "space" multiple times, and changes the scenery to make him appear as if he's actually in space.
474* RecycledScript [[invoked]]:
475** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=416 This]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=793 webcomic]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=889 has]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=890 noted]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=902 and]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=911 mocked]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=959 a]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1194 large]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1243 quantity]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1316 of]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1392 recycled]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1519 scripts]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1852 from]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1857 the]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2346 original]] ''[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2483 Garfield]]''. It's a RunningGag at this point! The standard technique is to take two similar ''Garfield'' strips and swap parts of them.
476** Also parodied when four months after each other, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1193 a pair]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1314 of strips]] by the same author ran that both involved Garfield randomly attacking an empty table, causing Jon to comment "I ''liked'' that silence.". The author then commented "If Jim Davis can recycle gags, so can I".
477* RecursiveTranslation:
478** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=131 Garfield: Lost in Translation Minus Garfield]], [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=381 Lost In Translation 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]].
479** Although not as mangled as any of the above, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1514 Reunion]] is a case of this as well, via Hungarian.
480* ReCut: In-universe, "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3570 Director's Cut]]" concerns a very questionable one of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' where [[http://strips.garfield.com/iimages1200/1990/ga900525.gif Marty and Mad Dog eat a cat]].
481* ReferenceOverdosed: Many ''[=SRoMG=]'' strips insert references to other works. See [[ShoutOut/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield the list of Shouts Out]].
482* RemixComic: One of many ''Garfield'' remixes.
483* RepetitiveAudioGlitch: There are several edits of ''Garfield'' [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1985/06/30 1985-06-30]], which originally featured a record player stuck in a loop.
484** Garfield upgrades to a CD player in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=159 urururururururur]], but the CD player is skipping.
485** The record player returns in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1034 Jaggerfield]], just with a different song.
486** Played with in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1247 Black Eyed Garfield]] by way of Music/TheBlackEyedPeas' "I Gotta Feeling". There's no glitch; the song really does repeat itself like a BrokenRecord. Which in turn spawned [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1691 this derivation]] using "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" by Music/TheBeatles.
487* ReRun: A somewhat interesting case: The [[https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4277 February 2nd 2021 strip]][[note]]Note the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day date]][[/note]] was the first intentional full repeat of a previous strip, as a ShoutOut to ''Film/GroundhogDay''.
488* {{Retconjuration}}: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4903 Earth Angel]] has Jon using his power to alter the timeline and erase the day of August 5th, 2009.
489-->[[IronicEcho So you're saying it wasn't a day at all?]]
490* RetGone: Garfield inadvertently does this to himself (and presumably Jon and Odie as well) in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2014 this comic]]. (An edit of [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2014/06/19 this comic]].)
491%%* {{Retraux}}: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=6 Silent-Era Garfield]].
492* RippedFromTheHeadlines: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5135 This strip]] is inspired by Creator/BillMurray (who voiced Garfield in the live-action films) dating Kelis (who's best known for her song "Milkshake").
493* RocketJump: In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2625 Rock-cat Jumps Aren't Cute]].
494-->'''Nyperold:''' Why should we assume that his ''landings'' are causing minor seismic events? Let's make it his ''propulsion method''!
495* RoundRobin: Several:
496** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=98 Exquisite Garfield]], in which one contributor removed the dialogue from three strips of Garfield watching TV and and gave each panel for a different contributor to put dialogue in. Each contributer was only allowed to see their blank panel (and the one before it for every second and third). The results were Garfield viewing a documentary about mutant grass, an infomercial for a machine that lets you enjoy your favorite meal by putting your finger into it, and a cliched show about blowing up lasagna.
497** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=199 Garfield Replacement]] where the first panel was deleted from a comic and given for one contributor to fill in. The edited version than had its second panel removed, and so on. This resulted in [[http://garfield.com/comic/2009-01-08 a strip where Garfield celebrates being elected into "The Bad Habits Hall of Fame" by crumpling and tossing the certificate]] becoming Garfield reviewing Jon's anti-littering tract.
498** "Garfield Shrink & Re-enlarge", in which four participants work with reinterpretations of the same Sunday comic, first compressing it into a daily comic, then further compressing it into a single panel, and finally reversing the process for the last two comics. The catch? No one is allowed to view the original Sunday comic. This resulted in [[http://garfield.com/comic/1999-07-04 a strip where Garfield dives into a pool Jon is in]] being turned into [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=265 a commercial for the explosive "cat-onball"]].
499** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1229 Total Substitution Garfield]], where a strip with deleted dialogue was sent to one contributor, and the transcript to another. Each person than made something to fill in the missing part, and both of their creations were combined into one strip. The result wasn't as radically different as the others, it was [[http://garfield.com/comic/1997-02-13 a strip where Jon proves that everything you want, you can get in the city by buying a bad suit from a hitman]], into that same hitman disproving Jon's point about neighborhood walks being quiet and peaceful. Garfield is also more excited about being in the city in the new art.
500* RubeGoldbergDevice: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=442 This comic]] has Garfield rig an elaborate device made of household items to wake up Jon and seal him into the ground with cement. Unfortunately for Garfield, Jon wakes up early.
501* RunningGag: Now has [[RunningGag/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield its own page]].
502* RunningGagged:
503** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=625 Garfield Skynet Garfield: Judgement Day]]. After endless variations of the discredited Pudding Pops meme (including five consecutive ones before this), the joke was finally killed off. Following a two-month break, [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=700 We Needed Some Change]] announced that Pudding Pops comics ''would'' be allowed again, but only interesting parodies and subversions, and they'd be released very infrequently to avoid oversaturating the site.
504** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2353 Discredited Memes]] does this with the Blender, "Garfield's (sounds like horror) Theater", "I must kill something!", "Changefield", "Donut Wars", and "Bad Mood" strips.
505** After a string of five "Doog" jokes over a month, "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2628 Another Step Further]]" marked the official end, with the mod asking people not to make any more variations on it. However, it came back in "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4529 ne]]", after a five-year absence. Another [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4765 Doog joke]] was published eight months later.
506* RussianReversal: Not one, not two, but ''three'' Donut Wars strips in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1490 "Donut Wars In Soviet Russia"]] alter the original strip to say "Jon's Donut/Ate Garfield".
507[[/folder]]
508
509[[folder:Tropes S-Z]]
510* ScienceMarchesOn:[[invoked]] The "Garfield Plus Updated Palaeontology" series updates [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1996/01/13 this Garfield strip]] to be more accurate.
511%%* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=526 Garfield Leaves]] ''Garfield''
512* ScunthorpeProblem: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=806 Here]], wherein "classics" becomes "clbottomics".
513* SdrawkcabSpeech: Used in [[https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3275 Sdrawkcab]], where a punchline about talking backwards is read backwards and then reversed.
514* SeasonalRot: Invoked by the author of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1527 #1527]], who linked to the trope page. InUniverse, Garfield complains, "this comic is going downhill", and lists the problems with the day's comic.
515* SelfDeprecation:
516** [[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1100 Attack of the Memes]] mocks the large number of strips which are just memes.
517** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2117 Self-Deprecation]].
518--->''And now, a list of the funniest [=SRoMG=] strips ever shown on this website!''\
519[=*=]two beat panels*
520** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2404 Turn Around, Bright Eyes]]" is an interesting case: the author admits that when they got the idea for it, they realized it was stupid... and made it anyway.
521--->True story, after reading this strip for the first time and coming up with what you see before you, I said to myself "Wait, no, that's stupid". But being stupid never stopped me before!
522** Similarly, from the same author, there's "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2812 Meta Commentary]]", as it is a strip built around a ''different'' strip that was intented to be submitted before they realized it was bad.
523--->'''Jon''': (at the computer, talking to Garfield) Check out this [=SRoMG=] strip I made, Garfield!
524--->(cut to the strip, where Garfield enters his "time travel machine", causing the strip's date to change... and nothing else)
525--->'''Jon''': (blankly staring at the computer) No, wait, this is terrible...
526*** [[DatedHistory And then almost seven years later]], the author resubmitted the strip without the FramingDevice as "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5261 Death of the Author]]", purely on the grounds that they no longer care about their original stance on the comic.
527** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3687 SRoMG Plus My Attention Span]] is a jab at the author's forgetful nature.
528** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4061 This comic]] pokes fun at the comic itself, particularly at how enormous of a backlog of submitted comics the comic has, via ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo''.
529** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4106 He may move slow, he can't jump high]] has Manyhill's author's note, done to [[WaxingLyrical the tune of]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 the DK Rap]]:
530--->This comic may not be strong, but it definitely isn't funny.
531** "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4363 I'm beginning to worry about SROMG]]"
532* SerialEscalation: Some of the comics do this with the removal of characters. The pinnacle is (possibly) reached in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=152 strip #152]], Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon Minus Odie Minus Nermal Minus Arlene Minus Lyman Minus Liz Minus Pookie, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin removes every recurring character]], leaving only the dog from one strip. (Although, of course, the joke there is that the only recurring character to appear in the original strip WAS Garfield.)
533%%* {{Shipping}}: [[invoked]] Joked about quite disturbingly [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=658 here]].
534%%* 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]].
535* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield A whole page of them.]]
536%%* SilenceIsGolden: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=28 Garfield Without Words]]
537* 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.
538* SphereEyes: Lampshaded in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=873 2011-10-09]]: "Your eyes look like hard-boiled eggs."
539* SpinOff: ''Webcomic/{{iToons}}'', which is the same idea, except you can now use (almost) any other comic strip, newspaper or web, instead of Garfield.
540* SplashOfColor:
541** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1441 "Colour, coming through."]] Though ''Garfield'' is a color comic, many newspapers print it in black and white from Monday to Saturday. This edit just mixes the two formats.
542** An earlier strip, [[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=129 "Frank Miller's Garfield"]], is a more usual example. The strip is grayscale, except for anything red or yellow.
543* SpriteComic:
544** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=36 Garfield: The Video Game]] uses [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=21 sprites]] from a Japan-only Platform/{{Famicom}} game, ''Garfield: A Week of Garfield''.
545** The sprites also appear in two {{crossover}} strips: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=822 #822]] with ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'', and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=933 #933]] with ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''.
546* 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 '''''the same day'''''...
547** There have been other examples ([[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1045 For]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1046 example]]), but "Not So Grump?" takes pride of place for being the strangest idea multiple people had at the same time.
548** Sort of topped (in numbers, if not in strangeness) by ''[[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3234 Look Back in Languor 2: Look Back-er]]'', a strip which turned out to have been submitted by no less than ''five'' people independently of each other.
549* StealthInsult: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3310 Catch-22 (Is Not The Film Being Referenced)]]" not only uses a similar joke as "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=879 Garfield Minus Garfield Plus John Garfield]]" (but with a bigger photo), but it also has the same description... minus one change.
550-->John Garfield was a movie actor famous for films such as ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'', ''Humoresque'', and ''Gentleman's Agreement''.\
551He also wasn't squished.
552* StealthPun: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2303/ The Pinnacle of Wit]]" is a list of U.S. presidents in reverse order... [[spoiler:minus [[UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield Garfield]].]]
553* StylisticSuck:
554** Downplayed with [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2170 Another Reason To Have Adblock]]: it recreates the "[[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trainers-hate-him Dermatologists Hate Him]]" meme, and intentionally includes an error in it through its use of a screencap from "[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends Fair Exchange]]"[[note]]the "ad" assumes Jon's head turned into Garfield's, when in reality Garfield (in taking on Jon's role) gained Jon's body[[/note]].
555** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3570 Director's Cut]] 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.
556** The "Garfield Minus Any Kind of Artistic Talent" series consists of poorly-drawn recreations of ''Garfield'' comics.
557** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4475 Paintfield]] (#4475) is the first comic remade in Microsoft Paint.
558** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5200 AIfield]] has Jon remark that everything is made by AI, and tell Garfield the chicken was made with AI. The last panel shows Garfield (whose face and arms are now disfigured) burping, with the thought bubble showing a deformed version of the word "burp".
559** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5280 shirt]] was created entirely with Microsoft Paint.
560* SubvertedTrope:
561** Discussed in the author's note 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:
562-->"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 ([[FridgeLogic and, come to think of it, my cat doesn't even have elbows]])."
563** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=497 "Wait, why didn't Linus show up?"]]
564** Also used as the title of #1011 [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1011 Subverted Trope]]. (This strip subverts the RunningGag started by [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=557 Eyeballfield]] where Jon's face is altered to match Garfield's; this time, it's ''Garfield's'' face which is altered.)
565* SuddenlySpeaking: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=151 Talking Garfield]]" replaces Garfield's ThoughtBubbleSpeech with actual speech in the name of improved execution of the punchline.
566* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
567** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2276 Garfield Minus Toon Physics]] edits [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1989/04/16 this comic]] to remove the AmusingInjuries, namely those inflicted when the refrigerator falls on Garfield. The result is...[[NightmareFuel rather frightening]].
568--> '''Jon''' (holding Garfield's flattened mishapen body): GARFIELD! SPEAK TO ME! SPEHEHEHEAK!!
569** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3215 Instead]] of Jon and Garfield's loud laughter prompting the waiter to join in, they are forced to leave the restaurant [[ZigZaggedTrope and are]] [[PersonaNonGrata banned for life]].
570** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4601 This comic]] takes [[http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/ga/2017/ga171223.gif the 12/23/16 strip]] and has Jon do a DoubleTake and scream after seeing Garfield and Odie's exaggeratedly excited expressions.
571* SurrealHumor: The comedy is as likely to come from a weird mismatch of setup and punchline as anything else.
572* SymbolSwearing:
573** Grawlixes make the dialogue in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=548 Grawfield]]. This trope is also used [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1377 here.]]
574** Averted in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1970 this one]], which keeps the "ass" uncensored while reprinting the lyrics of Chase Rice's "Ready Set Roll".
575* TakeAThirdOption:
576** For "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2147 It's Fun]]", the strip's author stated that they saw two ways [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2013/08/14 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.
577** "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4663 Four Times the Comedy]]", by the same author, acknowleded there were only two ways to do a follow-up to "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4487 Triple Espresso]]"[[note]]itself a follow-up to "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4258 Double Espresso]]", ''itself'' a follow-up to a comic where Garfield drank espresso, only for his eyes to get big; each follow-up opted to make Garfield's eyes ''bigger'' per incriment of espresso[[/note]]: leaning further into absurdism[[note]]making Garfield's eyes bigger than the Earth itself[[/note]] or [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome leaning into realism]][[note]][[SuddenDownerEnding Garfield dying from too much caffeine]][[/note]]. They instead chose [[spoiler:AntiHumor]].
578--->'''Garfield''': I wonder why they call this a quadruple espresso? (sips)
579--->([[SmashCut cut to black]])
580--->([[{{Beat}} blank space]])
581--->[[spoiler:'''Garfield''': (looks at cup) I never filled this, did I?]]
582* TakeOurWordForIt:
583** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1971 You Know WHO ELSE Is Slow!?]]" claims to feature "a real-life Sonic with the shell of the original snail", but the SlowLoadingInternetImage breaks before we get to see even part of it.
584** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2372 Apparently,]] Garfield got "really messed up" from Jon tackling him.
585--->Trust me.
586** "[[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 fraction as large as the last. The transcript claims that the strip supposedly ends with this:
587-->{In the final panel Garfield completes his walk around the block}\
588 Garfield: [[{{Punchline}} In a finite amount of time!]]
589* TakeThat: [[TakeThat/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield Enough for its own page.]]
590* TakeThatScrappy:
591** [[invoked]] Referenced by name in the title of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1369 this strip]]. The dog's name is changed to "[[TheScrappy Scrappy]]".
592** Subverted in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4061 this strip]], which depicts Scrappy-Doo himself stuck having to sort through the comic's rejected strips, but the comic treats this as an unhappy fate for him rather than a deserved one.
593* TechnologyMarchesOn:[[invoked]] Noted in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1358 #1358]], which shows Garfield's mechanical scale from 1998 next to his digital scale from 2012.
594* TemptingFate:
595** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1499 Going with the Flow]]. "Come on, world! Whatever happens, happens!" Cue the house crashing on top of Garfield.
596** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1811 Also used as a title.]]
597* ThatCameOutWrong: [[invoked]][[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5337 This comic]] edits the [[AccidentalInnuendo infamous "who greased my wiener?" comic]] so that Jon {{facepalm}}s in embarrassment after he realizes what he just said.
598-->'''Jon''': Clear your head, Jon. There has to be a logical explanation for this, other than the comment that came out of my big mouth.
599* 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. It's done again here [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1395 here]].
600* ThrowTheDogABone: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=595 These]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1386 two]] alter a strip when Garfield almost falls off a table trying to get some food so he actually gets the food. In the first, he launches it in the air by hitting the plate, climbs back up, and catches it in his mouth. The second is the same, except he gets back on the table using VideoGame/{{portal}}s.
601** KickTheDog: Meanwhile, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2385 one particular strip]] went in the ''[[DisneyVillainDeath opposite]]'' [[RippleEffectIndicator direction]].
602* TimeBomb: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1414 Time Bomb]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1423 Blowing Out the Bomb]]. In both cases, we don't see the bomb, but the characters see the timer. In both cases, the bomb blows up!
603* ToiletHumour: In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=894 Potty Humour]], the brown stuff in the toilet is a copy of Garfield's ''food'' from [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2004/06/03 Garfield 2004-06-03]].
604** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1578 Toilet Humour]] gives us the [[ThisIsGonnaSuck dread]] felt by Jon's Sentient Toilet.
605* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pudding pops for Garfield, who's constantly worried about their removal.
606* TooDumbToLive:
607** Well, at least Jon ''did'' learn [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1423 not to put out a bomb by blowing on it.]]
608** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3251 "Happy diet, Garfield. Here's a handgun for breakfast."]] (We don't actually ''see'' Garfield shooting Jon, but he holds it out and thinks "Bang!")
609* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun:[[invoked]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3932 #3932]] and its author's note are about a hypothetical conclusion to ''Garfield'' where Jim Davis, knowing he's not long for this world, decides to end the strip on his own terms. The author's note describes a sequence where Jon and Liz's relationship falls apart throughout the first half of 2027 and she breaks up with him. Jon ends up distraught, culminating in a WhamEpisode on June 19th (the strip proper) where instead of the usual annual birthday celebration, Garfield and Odie find [[DrivenToSuicide Jon's hanging body]]. The comic ends the following Sunday with Garfield and Odie deciding to pursue a new life as stray animals.
610* TropeName:
611** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=163 Meta-Garfield]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=713 Garfield Abridged]] parody the StrictlyFormula nature of the original strip.
612** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=478 Garfield [something that sounds a bit like "minus"] Garfield]] does this to the Garfield Linus Garfield meme; it features an "image related to [the] middle word of the title".
613** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4564 Comic title]] simplifies [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2021/02/07 a strip about Jon playing on the ice]] down to the general vibe of each line, and also replaces the name in the header panel with "COMIC TITLE".
614* UnsoundEffect:
615** A strip which uses "Hammer" as an Unsound Effect gets turned on its head in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=858 Garfield With Even More Inappropriate Sound Effect]].
616** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=944 Two Words from Our Sponsors]] uses the sound effect "*sasquatch*" when Garfield leaves to get food during a commercial break.
617** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2079 If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You]] uses the sound effect "NOPE" for orange pop coming out of a bottle.
618** In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2454 Make It Big]], the sound effect "HAM!" is used to denote Garfield garnishing his salad with a ham.
619* UrExample: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=179 Garfield Minas Garfield]] predates [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=268 Garfield Linus Garfield]] by about 4 months. The latter one definitely counts as the [[TropeMaker Meme Maker]] and the [[TropeMaker Meme Codifier]], though.
620* UrineTrouble: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2375 You're in Trouble, Jon]] removes Garfield, his thought balloons, and the water balloon, and reuses the first panel's version of the lower half of Jon's body, leaving only one source for the yellow-recolored liquid puddling on the floor around his feet... (Well, two, but the puddle is colored yellow, not brown.)
621* VersusTitle:
622** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=144 Garfield vs. the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats]], in which a giant Garfield appears to challenge the protagonists of ''Laugh-Out-Loud Cats''.
623** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=297 Garfield versus Odie's Dark Abyss of a Soul]]. Garfield loses.
624** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=695 Garfield vs. Garfield]], a take on MAD Magazine's ''Spy vs. Spy'' comics. A black-hatted Garfield rolls a snowball down a hill, which hits a white-hatted Garfield.
625** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=994 Garfield vs. Laser]], where Garfield chases a laser point relentlessly.
626** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1774 Garfield versus Zombies]], in which a group of three zombies grab Garfield's leg.
627** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2830 Garfield vs Lemmings]], where Garfield destroys Jon's PC because he can't beat a [[ThatOneLevel hard level]] in ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}''.
628* VisualPun: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=679 Square Root of Minus Garfield]] is a square ''tree''-root of a color-inverted "minus" Garfield.
629* WallOfText:
630** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=484 Spoilerwarningfield]], where the TV recites Website/{{Wikipedia}}'s summary of ''Literature/MobyDick''.
631** The comic and the annotation [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1546 here]] have one praising Garfield and [=SRoMG=], respectively.
632* WaxingLyrical: Several strips engage in this. See the "Music" section of [[ShoutOut/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield this page]].
633%%* WellExcuseMePrincess: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1038 Referenced.]]
634* WriterOnBoard: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2954 No. 2954 Garfield's Birthday Rant]] is essentialy the strip's author using Garfield as a mouthpiece to complain about how underwhelming [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2016/06/19 Garfield's 38th birthday strip]] was.
635%%* YourHeadASplode: This happens to Garfield at the end of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=739 Coffee!]]
636* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1469 NESField 3]], Garfield goes to a castle find frozen pudding pops, only to find Jon has gotten there first.
637* 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.
638%%* YouTalkinToMe: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=801 This strip]] [[ShownTheirWork accurately quotes the original film for once.]]
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