Running Gag / Square Root of Minus Garfield

• Garfield Linus Garfield began a series of derivatives featuring Garfield replaced in the middle panel by someone or something (usually) rhyming with "Minus".This has since been inverted, subverted, parodied, deconstructed, averted, played for laughs, lampshaded, defied, discussed, and exploited. Needless to say, it's seen very extensive use. It was even made into #625 in an impressive Shout-Out to Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
• However it's started all over again with "I glued a blender to my face." Which is itself crossing over with the "pudding pops" strip used for the "Garfield ___ Garfield" meme^note The SRoMG authors tend to refer to the site' running gags as "memes".
• Also beginning to trend is "Garfield's X Theater"
• Another recent one is Changefield, which resulted in this hilarious blend.
• Several running gags were combined in Strip #1049.
• Now the "Garfield smashes Jon's phone with a sledgehammer to shut up the ringtone" strip is reaching this point. This has been lampshaded more than once.
• Along with the "Stephano has entered the chatroom" strip, as seen here and here and here.
• "Two Often Used Square Root Of Minus Garfield Memes Combined To Make a Strip of Square Root of Minus Garfield" combines the Donut Wars and Stephano memes.
• Garfield Minus Panel Boundaries, editing the 2012-01-02 comic, in which Garfield declares "I seek truth, but a cookie will do.", has started "Uncomfortable Truths". #1440 even declares it's now a meme in the title.
• Subversion: The title and author's notes of Found By: Zalgo implied the author was either going to or trying to make a running gag editing a strip where Jon's father finds him and Garfield hiding in the closet so that various fictional characters found him instead. However, nothing came out of it for six years until someone else finally decided to finally do something else with it.
• How misanthropic can Garfield be?
• One common joke is to take something from the original strip and invert it: for example, Jogging edits this Garfield strip so that Garfield is jogging and he takes a break from that by sleeping, instead of the other way around, Jon's Chat Screen Negativia has Jon's "Stephano" persona fill a chat room instead of emptying it, and Making Garfield Slightly Weirder: It's All Russian Gravy From Here has Jon refer to a kiddie pool as a gravy boat while Garfield calls it a kiddie pool, swapping their dialogue◊. A fan wiki has documented a few instances of this.
• One strip where a dog had a sign labelled "Beware of Doog" received a few edits in a short amount of time. First all the O's in the strip were duplicated, then all the O's in the strip were removed, then the dog and the word "dog" were removed from the strip, and then finally everything was removed from the strip besides Jim Davis's signature and the 2 thought bubbles in the last panel.
• Another running gag is taking a strip and making an Overly Long Gag out of one or more of the panels from it, such as in Slow Jog (an edit of this strip), where Garfield runs around the block for a very large number of panels.
• "You may as well laugh/stop reading now, it's not getting any funnier than this" and some grammatical variants.
• The Linguistics with Liz series, in which the nonsense Liz says is changed to a different language with Jon's line changed to match.
• The "double espresso" comic, where Garfield's eyes grow exaggeratedly big after he takes a sip. Remixes range from making his eyes even bigger, having the cup be empty, or his eyes shrinking instead.
• The "Pizza Cam" comic was a meme in 2018, with remixes either changing Garfield's response or making him watch other things instead.
• The "Can you say détente?" comic became a meme in 2015, mostly with commentary on how the strip barely makes sense, and attempts to fix it through changing the context or rearranging panels.