Line #12 YMMV/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield


1	* AccidentalInnuendo:
2	** Lampshaded in the author notes of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2723 this comic]], which takes the first ever ''Garfield'' comic and replaces Garfield with Liz while keeping the dialogue mostly intact. (Thus Liz asks Jon to "Feed me" at the end.)
3	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=79 Liz and Jon's Father Minus Jon but Plus Each Other]]. The author says that he hopes it doesn't seem vulgar.
4	--->'''Jon's father''': I GOTTA MILK SOMETHING!
5	--->'''Liz''': Could you make it through the night if I said no?
6	--->'''Jon's father''': Yes.
7	--->'''Liz''': No.
8	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
9	** Lampshaded in the notes for [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2468 Coffie]].
10	--->'''Xindaris''': And note the subtle change of calendar between the first half of the strip and the second. Did these events really take place on a Monday, or did Jon just want to enjoy a little bit of coffie [sic] for once? You Decide.
11	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=410 Deep Throat Diet Check]] offers four explanations for Garfield's behavior in the author's notes.
12	* ArchivePanic: 5100+ strips and counting, with a new comic uploaded daily. Hope you have a lot of time on your hands.
13	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3697 Subbly Nugmare Garfield]], Garfield's head erupts into smoke in the middle panel.
14	* BizarroEpisode:
15	** In a sea of pop culture references, satire, and [[DadaComics just plumb absurdity]], there's [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2395 Nostalgiafield]], an out-of-nowhere NewMediaAreEvil-fueled AuthorTract. (And tops it all off with the author also mentioning the fetish for crying Garfield they ([[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial claim to not]]) have.) Even for the "anything goes" nature of ''Square Root of Minus Garfield'' it really stands out. According to "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4166 Garfield Takes a Dip]]", the author considers it an OldShame.
16	** "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=155 It's Just One of Those Days]]" has Garfield with crazy eyes commenting "OMG WALL P*WN TABLE" as the wall color goes onto the table and into the strip's border. No author's notes are provided.
17	** "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1258 Return of Mind Screwfield]]" has aspects of a single Garfield comic flipped around and placed randomly throughout the comic. The transcript simply refers to it as a "bizarre mess." Its distant follow-up, [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4612 Return of the Son of Mind Screwfield]], which distorts a different comic in a similar manner, is just as bizarro.
18	** "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2020 Fishing trip]]" features Jon speaking backwards, an inverted image of Woody from ''Toy Story'', Garfield thinking in static, a "666" drawn poorly in red marker, and ProductPlacement for the author's webcomic.
19	** "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3995 Untitled.png]]" is a warped, distorted, miscolored mess that ends with a [[ProductPlacement Burger King advertisement]].
20	** "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4874 gar]]", which plays out more like a WebVideo/{{Garfielf}} video, and ends with Jon questioning "why is the table var(y)ing in height so often". Like strip#155 above, no author's notes are provided.
21	* CrossesTheLineTwice:
22	** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1222 "Separation".]] Jon talks about how he's going to "put the black ones on the end and the white ones on the other" (in the original comic, he's talking about organizing his socks). Cut to a segregated drinking fountain.
23	** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1242 One Little Letter]], in which Garfield and Odie alternate between vibrating rapidly. Jon yells at them to stop sexting each other.
24	* DiscreditedMeme:
25	** The "Garfield [something that sounds like minus] Garfield" bit after one use too many. It was officially axed when they made a [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=625 strip]] with the Franchise/{{Terminator}} going back to stop the meme's creation.
26	** Linguistics with Liz has "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3910 Enough is Enough, Take Two]]". Liz is threatened at gunpoint to not deliver the punchline, while the author's notes goes into a long analysis of why the idea behind Linguistics with Liz is uncreative and could be easily done by a computer program.
27	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
28	** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1945 Hug?]] Garfield and Jon separately ask to be hugged, but then join and hug each other.
29	** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2793 This strip]] removes Odie from [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1993/ga930227.gif Garfield 1993-02-27]], making Garfield and Arlene kiss each other directly.
30	** In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2665 Garfield's Ballet Saga]], instead of making fun of his male cat for wanting to have a stereotypically feminine hobby, Jon encourages it, even buying Garfield ballet slippers.
31	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2615 "Garfield is a cat".]] After an extended period of complaining about everything stressing him out, Jon tells Garfield that "at least I have you to comfort me." The final panel is them hugging.
32	* HilariousInHindsight:
33	** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=994 This strip]] became this when the real strip really did have [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2012/ga120429.jpg a strip]] about Garfield chasing a laser pointer two months later.
34	*** Similarly, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1098 this strip]] features Garfield paying Odie like a hitman to knock the head off a snowman, which became much less absurd when [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2013/ga130908.jpg the actual canon]] featured Garfield doing the same to an unnamed dog to sic Nermal, complete with MakeItLookLikeAnAccident line.
35	** The annotation of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=88 #88]], a recreation of a ''Webcomic/{{Mezzacotta}}'' comic, states "The next trick will be turning Garfield and Jon into Lightning Made Of Owls characters." They don't turn into them, but [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=445 this]] comic was made a year later, and then [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1693 this extremely meta one]] a few years after that.
36	** In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1528 this strip]], the author points out that, despite his expectations, editing the strip where a mouse declares Jon's house part of "the Empire of Mice" to have the mouse representing various other fictional empires looked like it would never become a meme. The very next day, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1529 this]] was posted. ''And both author's notes end with a slogan praising the ruler of the empire featured in the strip''. (In case you're wondering, the second strip couldn't have been made in response to the first due to the lead time caused by the StripBuffer).
37	*** Even better, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1541 this]] contribution was posted a few weeks later, which had been submitted before either of the above.
38	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2160 Warning! Challenger Approaching!]] imagines a fake reveal of Garfield as a ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' character, a good five and a half years before he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZE5QZofYGw became a playable character]] in ''VideoGame/NickelodeonAllStarBrawl'' (which is more or less a Nickelodeon-themed Smash clone; Nick acquired the ''Garfield'' franchise two years prior to his inclusion there).
39	---> '''Manyhills, on the forums:''' I guess this was inadvertently kind of prescient.
40	** In [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=675 Jon and Lyman #1: How it began]], Jon welcomes Lyman to his house, and thinks "but my sandbox is off limits". In [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=760 Jon and Lyman #7: How it ended]], Jon locks Lyman in the basement with his dead cat. The author's notes speculate that "maybe Lyman used his sandbox". Eight years later, in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3669 Carnivorous Lyman]], Garfield attacks and tries to kill Lyman for having used his sandbox.
41	* HoYay: In [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1242 this strip]], Jon has to yell at Garfield and Odie to stop sexting each other.
42	* MemeticMutation: Many strips from the original ''Garfield'' have become memes within the [=SRoMG=] community and have gotten much more remixes than others.
43	** The "Garfield [something that sounds like minus] Garfield" strips typically remix the [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2001/ga011128.gif "The world is constantly changing"]] strip. The phrase "The world is constantly changing" and the "frozen pudding pops" that are mentioned by Garfield in the strip have also become memes.
44	** The "Garfield in 2053" series usually uses the [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2013/ga130117.gif "Milk. Some people read expiration dates. And some don't."]] strip.
45	** Jon [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2008/ga080426.gif gluing a blender to his face]] is a running gag too.
46	** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1999/ga991203.gif My name is Stephano. I am very rich and macho. Anyone want to chat?]] (Nobody can empty a chat room like Stephano.)
47	** "Changefield" strips use the "We need to make some changes around here!" panel from [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2004/ga040625.gif this strip]] as well as the "POW!" from [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1984/ga840812.gif this strip]].
48	** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2012/ga121106.gif Bad mood, coming through (you stepped in my guacamole)]] is another popular candidate.
49	** The Donut Wars usually use [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2012/ga120409.gif this strip]] where Jon labels a donut with the sign "Jon's Donut" and Garfield eats the donut and adds another sign above the other reading "Garfield ate".
50	** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1985/ga850630.gif I'll sure, I'll sure, I'll sure, I'll sure, I'll sure, I'll sure, I'll sure, I'll sure, I'll sure...]]
51	** "Linguistics With Liz", which takes Liz's gibberish in [[http://strips.garfield.com/iimages1200/2017/ga171117.gif this comic]] and replaces it with a different (real or fictional) language (and occasionally changing Garfield's punchline along with it).
52	** "Snails are slow," a comic in which Garfield calls a snail slow, to which it replies "you take that back" over three panels. Remixes often make the snail unreasonably fast, such as speaking before Garfield gets there.
53	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
54	** [[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=625 Strip 625]], which took an OverusedRunningGag and effectively [[{{Franchise/Terminator}} terminated]] it.
55	** [[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2564 Strip 2564]] has Jon delivering an epic comeback line (even though the author, for some reason, claims that it "makes no sense") to a lover who rejects him, in contrast to the original strip where Jon thinks of the comeback [[ComebackTomorrow after it's too late]].
56	** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3055 "Yeech!"]] is a point for point recreation of [[https://www.madcoversite.com/mad083.html the cover of]] [[Magazine/{{Mad}} the 83rd issue of MAD]], this time using [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1100 memes]] as the attention grabber instead of sex.
57	* TearJerker:
58	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2276 Garfield Minus Cartoon Physics]] is a positively miserable {{Deconstruction}} of cartoon physics, where Garfield ''doesn't'' survive the fridge falling on him like the original comic. Jon's reaction is what pushes it into tear jerker territory.
59	** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2942 Garfield Minus Garfield Plus A Tragic End]] takes the already depressing aspect of Jon contemplating suicide and makes it worse by having him actually act on it.
60	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3932 The End of ''Garfield'']] details a hypothetical situation of how ''Garfield'' will end: with Jon hanging himself, and Garfield and Odie being unsure of how to deal with it.
61	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4945 Cat Destruction is Now Our Slogan]] shows Garfield's memories of Jon getting increasingly negative thanks to Jon constantly insulting him unprovoked, wanting him gone and later dead, and even inciting physical violence, and [[CerebusRetcon explains]] that Garfield's motive for his laziness and gluttony is to escape Jon.
62	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5044 I Made June 19, 2022 Strip Different]] is a heartbreaking {{Deconstruction}} of the June 19, 2022 strip. According to the author, this is what happens "if parents give their kids (and daughters) surprises, only for them to find out that their parents have a dark side for something".
63	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5138 And leave us nought but grief and pain for promised joy]] shows a mouse telling Arlene that Garfield had died of intestinal cancer and that his funeral will be held in a few days. A lonely Arlene sadly says "But I love you so..." to the moon. The author noted that they were feeling "very sick and sad", and created this strip as a result.
64	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5193 RIPee]], a tribute to Creator/PaulReubens made after his death, involves Garfield sadly looking at Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse, which has gone quiet on the inside.

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