Line #90 TakeThat/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield


1	With so many {{Shout Out}}s in ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'', quite a few were bound to be [[TakeThat negative]]:
2	* In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=57 No Time for the Dog!]] (a strip originally created for the now defunct webcomic ''Social Networking''), Jon says that they will need to go somewhere where they will appreciate their particular brand of repeated identical gags and two-dimensional characters. Garfield's response? "Of course! To ''Series/{{Friends}}''!".
3	* The aptly named [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=247 Oh Snap!]], which invokes NerdsAreVirgins:
4	-->'''Jon:''' I'm a computer programmer.\
5	'''Woman:''' How about a date?\
6	'''Garfield:''' Such unrealistic writing.
7	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=738 Jon and Lyman #5: Scary TV Show]] shows Lyman screaming so loud at his TV that Jon is ejected through the ceiling. The description states "Maybe Lyman caught a glimpse of ''Film/{{Garfield}}: The Movie...''".
8	* The description to [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=743 Garfield Goes Green]] states "I'd make a joke about how this is as eco-friendly as Creator/{{NBC}}'s "Green Week", but nobody watches NBC even here in America so it wouldn't make much sense".
9	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1037 "She Makes Me Wanna Garfield"]], on the BoyBand JLS, gives a TakeThat to them and another group: "Owners of ''Now That's What I Call Music! 80'' will be aware that [JLS's] output pales in comparison to that of Music/OneDirection, whose début single 'What Makes You Beautiful' would be perfect if not for the presence of One Direction on it."
10	* Two different contributors submitted two different takes on the "I ''liked'' that ringtone!" RunningGag showing the ringtone as being a particularly bad ringtone/song. [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1084 Manyhills' take]] had it being the Music/CrazyFrog making motorcycle noises ringtone, and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1085 Colin Foster's take]] had it be [[Music/KatyPerry "I Kissed a Girl"]]. As a bonus, David's notice pointing out the coincidence ends with "If only Music/JustinBieber would write a song about pudding pops...".
11	* In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1118 Jon's Twilight Saga]], when Jon hears over the phone Bella dumped him for Jacob, Garfield snarks "Still better than [[Film/{{Twilight}} the movies]].". Further hammered in by the description, which calls the whole franchise a "lingering nightmare".
12	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1164 Barneyfield]], in which Garfield accidentally turns himself into [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]]. It appears to be a mere ShoutOut until the annotation makes it quite clear: "I actually hate Barney like everyone else does in the world. Wanted to make that clear because this could be construed as a pro-Barney strip.".
13	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1191 Bryan Adams-field]], which is an installment of the BrokenRecord gag with Music/{{Bryan Adams}}' "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?". Similar to the above example, it doesn't appear to be a negative reference until the annotation states "Oh, how I despise that song".
14	* The description to [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1224 Awful Show]] jokes that the titular show Jon and Garfield are watching is ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' (the author is a brony).
15	* Also playing on the ringtone gag with Music/CrazyFrog, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1308 Scat Talkin']], where Garfield smashes Jon's phone playing the Crazy Frog version of Axel F before the scatting, because the author personally hates the scatting but loves the music in the song. He flat out states this, ''[[NoFourthWall mentioning the author]]''.
16	* The aptly named [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1319 Take That]], where Garfield watches a Music/{{Nickelback}} concert consisting of nothing but fart noises.
17	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1367 Garfield Minus Humour]]. [[spoiler:[[DontExplainTheJoke Nothing is changed from the original strip]].]]
18	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1428 Nick-ah-lo-dee-yun!]] contains a potshot to ''WesternAnimation/{{CatDog}}''. (Although it's then subverted in the description, which claims the show wasn't that bad and the theme tune rocked.)
19	* The author's note for [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1524 Skeleton in the Closet]] says this:
20	-->'''Andrew Kepple:''' It bears repeating that when asked about the disappearance of Lyman as a character, [[http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/Lyman Jim Davis has joked "Don't look in Jon's basement"]].\
21	\
22	I apologise in advance for any [=SRoMG=] readers confused by the phrase "Creator/JimDavis has joked".
23	* There's a "The world is constantly changing" edit that involves Jon talking about how the world is constantly ''crashing'', following by an error message box. The title of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1636 the strip?]] "[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Field]]".
24	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1785 Fan FictionField]] is a Take That towards ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'' It shows [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]] standing next to a cupcake while saying "cupcakes" in a freaky sort of way. Garfield then says "Sorry you had to see that."
25	* The 2013-12-22 comic, in which Garfield gets upset at hearing the same Christmas song over and over on the radio and smashes it to bits, much to Jon's annoyance, inevitably became another stock source for these. The first one, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1792 Insert Your Own Take That Here]], made it TropeName by inviting the viewer to put in the name of their least favorite pop artist, complete with a CallBack to the earlier Nickelback example. The second, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1798 Do Wah Diddy Diddy]], put in Manfred Mann's "There She Goes (Do Wah Diddy Diddy)" as the song.
26	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1797 Down, Down]] is one to the official banning of strips generated by [[http://joshmillard.com/garkov/ the Garkov website]].
27	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1810 Reedfield]], in which Jon listens to Music/LouReed's infamous ''Metal Machine Music'' album. The author's description of the strip ends with "(fill in your own Justin Bieber joke here)" after mentioning that the album inspired other artists to make their own music in the same vein.
28	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1838 Garfield in LA]], in which Garfield violently coughs at air polluted by smog. Although the author states "The air's not ''that'' bad in LA...usually" and explains the events of the strip as "probably a large wildfire".
29	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1859 Vegan Garfield]] shows Jon converting Garfield to veganism and bragging about it on Website/{{Tumblr}}. The author states he does not support "the (eventually) lethal practice of enforcing a vegan diet on obligate carnivores".
30	** Then followed with [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1904 a sequel]] wherein Jon has a literal SockPuppet account on Tumblr. The annotation goes even further: "Keep your sock puppet accounts off Tumblr and check your thin privilege, Jon! Don't bring the Social Justice League into this!"
31	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1970 Ready Set Roll]] does it to CountryMusic singer Chase Rice (specifically his song "Ready Set Roll") and "bro-country" in general.
32	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2030 Garfield Plus Fan Rage]] references the notorious Creator/JoeQuesada quote "It's magic, we don't have to explain it" in regards to why a cupcake appeared out of thin air. (The title is what gives it away as a TakeThat, rather than a ShoutOut, although whether it was aimed at Quesada or his detractors is unclear.)
33	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2034 Zappin' T-Shirt]] has Garfield {{spit tak\|e}}ing at a shirt of ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''.
34	* A title-only TakeThat: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2046 Garfield: Greg Land Edition]] consists of a traced strip, tracing being a frequent accusation hurled at Creator/GregLand.
35	* [[http://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2094 Disaster Days]] is a collection of panels from strips that ran on the dates of certain disasters. The first and third of them are the ''Challenger'' explosion, and the ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill; the second is the premiere of ''[[Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel]]''.
36	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5219 Disaster Days 2: Electric Boogaloo]] uses a similar setup involving industrial disasters, but with ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit Part 3'' as the punchline.
37	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2129 Without Me]] has an InUniverse example pointed out by [[LemonyNarrator the transcript]]:
38	-->''{apparently, Garfield hates Eminem}''
39	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2213 Garfield Plus an Absolutely Horrible Movie]] is one to ''[[WesternAnimation/FoodFight Foodfight!]]''
40	* The description for "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2170 Another Reason to Have Adblock]]", when asking why Jon! was wearing a bowtie in "[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends Fair Exchange]]", ends on this note:
41	-->***[[BreakingTheFourthWall Okay, whoever just said]] "[[Series/DoctorWho Because bowties are cool!]]", go stand in the corner.
42	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2278 Day Tripper]]'s description contains two potshots at ''Film/ProjectAlmanac'': referencing the possibility of [[spoiler:Garfield [[RetGone erasing himself from the timeline]] by seeing his past self]] as "some ''Project Almanac'' nonsense", and even outright saying:
43	-->Trust me, we don't want another ''Project Almanac'' on our hands. One is enough, and that is already bad.
44	* The description of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2279 Joe Root Of Minus Garfield]] contains a minor one:
45	--> ''This was originally longer, but really the entirety of the joke is in the title so I didn't see any point in just repeating it over and over. This isn't Website/TheOnion.''
46	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2412 #2412]] has a kid say Garfield made a [[TitleDrop Stupid-Looking Snowman]]. Once it changes into [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Olaf]], Garfield agrees.
47	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2488 The title]] of strip #2488 is kind of self explanatory...
48	** However, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2489 #2489's]] was more tongue-in-cheek given how [[spoiler:both strips had the same general idea, were made independently, and yet were released '''back to back''']].
49	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2633 "Darn!"]] hypothesises that Garfield [[TitleDrop chose "Darn!"]] as his last words because he realized he was in a Creator/MichaelBay film.
50	-->Quite frankly, I don't blame him for his reaction.
51	* What can you really say about [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2714 this one]] that the Author's note didn't already say?
52	-->I could've made this about VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys, VideoGame/{{Undertale}}, [[NeverLiveItDown or the Pope]]. [[StylisticSuck I instead decided to make it terrible.]] That, really, is a more straightforward WebVideo/GameTheory reference.
53	* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2811 Take That Bait]]".
54	** And then deliberately subverted in a strip based on it, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2973 Garfield Minus Snark]].
55	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3147 Uninspired Comedy Sequel]] has this to say in the author's note:
56	-->A common complaint about comedy sequels is that they tread tiredly over the same ground the original covered (frequently even reusing the same jokes), which is made worse when the original wasn't all that great in the first place. So, consider this my ''Film/{{Porkys}} 4'', or my ''Film/WeekendAtBernies 3''.
57	* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3148 Mail Time]] has [[WesternAnimation/BluesClues Steve]] receiving a letter containing a ''Garfield'' comic. The author's note has this to say:
58	-->Originally, Steve was going to get the pudding pop strip. But then I realized that by doing that, I would be torturing him.
59	** The strip also doubles as a stab at [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2014/ga140619.gif the original strip]], as Steve closes the letter in disgust right in the middle of the punchline.
60	* "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3310 Catch-22 (Is Not The Film Being Referenced)]]" is a [[StealthInsult subtle stab]] at "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=879 Garfield Minus Garfield Plus John Garfield]]", which used a super compressed image of John Garfield as part of the joke.
61	-->John Garfield was a movie actor famous for films such as ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'', ''Humoresque'', and ''Gentleman's Agreement''.
62	-->He also wasn't squished.
63	* "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3479 You Ever Sat Down and Read This Thing?]]" [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/draakslair/viewtopic.php?t=11295 was made]] in response to "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3314 1 Corinthians 13:11]]"'s "slight against ''Series/SesameStreet''".
64	-->Don't diss Sesame Street. That's the moral for today.
65	* "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3643 No. 3643: Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his Odie]]" shows Odie watching the HD remaster of one of the first thirty episodes of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', only to be horrified that the TitleSequence has been reanimated in UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash (which the author's note describes as being "''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest''-level").
66	* "[[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. Specifically, it takes [[http://strips.garfield.com/iimages1200/2001/ga010213.gif this strip]] and has the live action Genie pop out of the cookie jar, resulting in a terrified Garfield running away screaming.
67	* "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3875 Liz, the Filthy Interlinguist]]" takes a crack at the {{conlang}} Interlingua, with Liz's claim of "Interlingua es superior" being met with hostility and Garfield remarking in Esperanto, "Mi alportos la flamĵetilon."[[labelnote:Translation]]"I'll fetch the flamethrower."[[/labelnote]]
68	* As pointed out in an added note, the image used for "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3952 GAME]]"[[note]]Garfield keeping a tally of the games he has[[/note]] was sent in with the filename "why would you willingly buy [[VideoGame/CrashBash crash bash]].png".
69	* "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3960 I Said]]" is this to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and its overexposure in news and social media.
70	* "[[https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4157 Ease on Down the Road]]" is pretty obviously a stab against ''Series/TheHitchhiker'', with both Garfield rebuking it for attempting to be associated with "Garfield's ''Horror'' Theater"[[note]]causing the titular Hitchhiker to ''cry''[[/note]], and the Author's Note directly calling the show bad.
71	-->I didn't think it ''was'' possible to make a bad anthology series... but, hey, shows what I know...
72	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4314 Two similar]] [[https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4359 strips]] have Garfield {{facepalm}} after a show he's watching announces its sponsor--''VideoGame/RaidShadowLegends'' (an otherwise undistinguished MobilePhoneGame that gained a brief but intense period of notoriety as an ''extremely'' aggressive Website/YouTube sponsor that enforced laughably formulaic plugs). As if that weren't enough, the former strip is titled "Scamfield", in reference to ''Raid''[='s=] {{allegedly free\|Game}} nature.
73	* "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4393 What About You?]]" uses ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' (specifically, its "What About You?" segments) for a similar joke at the expense of the [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2014/ga140619.gif 06-19-2014 strip]] as "Mail Time" above.
74	* "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4666 I Hate NFTs]]" is this to, well, [=NFTs=], as when Jon suggests selling Garfield's artwork as an NFT, Garfield immediately shreds the art and states his dislike for damaging the environment; the author also makes their dislike for [=NFTs=] very clear in the Author's Note.
75	-->I hope to god this strip doesn't become an NFT itself...
76	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4720 "Not Cool, Jon"]] and [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4799 "Not Cool This Time Either, Jon"]] deconstruct the "Jon and Liz getting together" arc, which, as the author points out, uses "a lot of outdated and problematic tropes". The latter has the author chew out Jim Davis in the Author's Notes.
77	-->Not cool, man. Not cool.
78	* Right out of the gate, the ''title'' of "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4843 From the Network That Couldn't Be Bothered to Spell 'Beckett' Correctly In The Closing Minutes]]"[[note]]a strip based on ''Series/QuantumLeap'''s [[Recap/QuantumLeapS5E22MirrorImage series finale]][[/note]] is a direct stab towards the fact that the [[ExecutiveMeddling inserted-at-the-last-minute]] info card that closed out the show[[note]]"Dr. Sam Becket never returned home."[[/note]] misspelled Sam Beckett's name with ''one'' T, not two.
79	** Later on, in the Author's Note, after openly admitting the strip was only created because of them having [[MandelaEffect a potentially-false memory]] of a ''Quantum Leap'' strip already being made for the site:
80	--->But hey, at the very least, I still put more effort into this ''Quantum Leap'' comic than [[OffModel Innovation did]] [[http://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/comics/ for its]] ''[[http://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/comics/ Quantum Leap]]'' [[http://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/comics/ line.]]
81	* [[https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4865 Garfield's Punishment]] is an unsubtle TakeThat against the Sequel Trilogy of ''Franchise/StarWars''. The Author's Notes go further with a jab at ''[[Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy Space Jam 2]]''.
82	-->'''Garfield:''' I still think Jon's being a bit excessive. I mean, I did shred his curtains and all...\
83	'''Garfield:''' ...but forcing me to watch Disney's Star Wars trilogy? Too far, man.
84	* Invoked in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4870 Heavy Meta, Or Choose Your Own Punchline]], which invites the reader to insert their own Take That. Mentioned possibilities include ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' and ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', along with the Haskell programming language. It also mentions Rudy Giuliani's book ''Leadership'', stating that he earned his Take That in the years since his book was written.
85	* After then-Creator/{{Disney}} CEO Bob Chapek made [[https://www.cbr.com/bob-chapek-animation-comments-anger-disney-pixar/ comments]] implying that [[AnimationAgeGhetto only children care about animation]], a contributor responded with [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4939 this comic]], showing Chapek (as played by Jon) using quotes from his controversial interview in question in a phone conversation and then expressing disbelief that the woman on the other end loves animation despite being an adult. Incidentally, the comic would be published on the site very shortly after it was announced that [[https://www.cbr.com/bob-iger-returns-as-disney-ceo/ Chapek would be ousted as CEO and that previous CEO Bob Iger would return to his position]].
86	-->Yup, imagine being so inept at your job they have to lure the guy you replaced out of retirement. That's what I call the CEO equivalent to New Coke.
87	* As its author notes, [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4947 Fat Cat Pride]] was made to vent their frustration over the United States government's treatment of "certain groups", comparing it to when Garfield was created during the fitness craze of the late 1970s.
88	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4978 I'm Gonna Miss Her]] delivers a barb at Music/BradPaisley and his song of the same name, and compares [[http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/ga/2021/ga210907.gif the original strip]] to the line "My wife told me to choose between her and fishing . . . I'm gonna miss her" from said song.
89	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5017 Set It To Reverse, Jon]] was made as a response to [[http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/ga/2022/ga221126.gif the November 22, 2022 strip]] (which was made to commemorate Creator/CharlesSchulz' 100th birthday); its author explains that they detest sentimentality and how said strip was too sentimental, and therefore decided to go the complete opposite route. It jabs at ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' by calling it unfunny and bland, and accuses Schulz of "selling out".
90	** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5269 You Redeemed Yourself, Jon]] was made as a direct response to this strip, this time roasting Brooke [=McEldowney=] and his strip, ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'' (which was dropped by the ''Los Angeles Times'' at the end of 2021), with Jon gleefully saying "[[WesternAnimation/TheCritic And nothing of value was lost!]]" and Garfield telling Snoopy, "Thank goodness we have decorum" as they and Odie celebrate the strip's cancellation. The author (being a fan of ''Peanuts'') argues that there are worse strips to mock; it also doubles as a jab at the original strip's author, who is described as "the sort of person that blatantly desecrates Charles M. Schulz and tries to get away with it", and is alleged to be a fan of either the aforementioned strip, ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', ''ComicStrip/MallardFillmore'', or ''ComicStrip/{{Crankshaft}}'' (all of which have attracted controversy as well).
91	** Meanwhile, [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5276 "The Fallacy of Glass Houses"]], ''also'' made in response to "Set It To Reverse, Jon", points out the hypocrisy of using ''Garfield'' to accuse ''Peanuts'' of selling out:
92	--->''{He then becomes a phone, [[LaserGuidedKarma because Garfield doesn't get to disrespect Peanuts in such a manner]]}''
93	--->''{And, [[{{Hypocrite}} you know, Garfield has sold out worse]]}''
94	--->''{[[CouldSayItBut Cough.]]}''
95	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5048 In Which Pooky Gets Banned From The Oscars]] satirizes the controversial incident during [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward the 94th Academy Awards ceremony]] in which Creator/WillSmith (represented by Pooky) smacked Creator/ChrisRock (represented by Jon) on stage for cracking a joke about [[Creator/JadaPinkettSmith the former's wife]], resulting in Smith [[PersonaNonGrata getting banned from the Oscars for ten years]].
96	* Invoked in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5050 Garfield's Hot Take, Pt. 1]], in which Garfield considers ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' a terrible movie due to Darth Vader inviting the heroes for lunch but not feeding them, and what Luke has to eat on Dagobah. The author explains that Garfield's lines are taken word-for-word from a post in a thread prompted by the aforementioned "Garfield's Punishment", and expresses their belief that Take Thats are funnier when they're against well-received works, proving their point with this jab in the Author's Note:
97	-->Could be worse, though. He could have watched ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' instead.
98	* Invoked again in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5100 Garfield's Hot Take, Pt. 2]]. There, Lyman expresses to Jon that he dislikes how ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' had NoEnding, not even credits. The author points out that contemporary moviegoers were confused, expecting a historical drama rather than a slapstick comedy.
99	* In the author note for [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5140 Fat Cat]], the author compares the repetitiveness of ''Garfield'' to the ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' series since 2013.
100	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5154 When it's time to party we will always party hard]] sees Garfield cover his eyes in horror when "We're Ready to Party" (the second theme song to ''Garfield and Friends'') starts playing.
101	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5220 A Pebble's Worth of Free Advice]] is essentially [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3511 "A Nickel's Worth of Free Advice"]] [[SpiritualSuccessor under the filter of]] ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin'', where an unnamed player tries to tell [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Not]] [[WebVideo/CowbellyTV Cowbelly]] to abandon the game while he can, before it is replaced with ''Club Penguin Island''.
102	-->'''Orange Penguin''': (to Not Cowbelly) [[CallBack Quit while you still can. This game is only going to get worse from here. You still have a chance.]]
103	-->'''Not Cowbelly''': (to Orange Penguin) [[CharacterCatchphrase How about no, you {orange} raisin.]] (gets right in Orange Penguin's face) [[TemptingFate There is no way that this game will die.]]
104	-->[[GilliganCut (Meanwhile in the future...)]]
105	-->(Orange Penguin is now shilling Club Penguin Island as a pirate, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext don't ask]])
106	-->'''Orange Penguin''': [[CassandraTruth I tried to warn him.]]
107	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5259 Garfield Minus Any Kind of Save Functionality]] has this to say in its author's note:
108	-->This is one demonstration of the game's wacky nature, as no-one would ever willingly warp to 2022 in real life.
109	* Doubling as SelfDeprecation, [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5261 Death of the Author]] is an edit of the creator's earlier submission [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2812 Meta Commentary]] in order to restore the original strip as intended.[[note]]Upon creating the strip edit of Garfield sleeping for a day, the author concluded it was bad, and added some BookEnds where Jon was the one making the strip, only to reach the same conclusion.[[/note]]
110	-->Now, keep in mind, [[LampshadeHanging I don't think "Death of the Author" applies]] given how ''I'' was the original author, but whatever, enough time has passed. [[IHatePastMe Past me's opinions don't matter anymore.]]
111	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5263 Moving on]] satirizes both the closure of [=GarfieldEats=] (a ''Garfield''-themed restaurant founded by Nathen Mazri) and the founding of WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo Eats (a ''Scooby-Doo''-themed frozen food line also founded by Mazri). It depicts Mazri as waiting for (nonexistent) outrage, prompting him to create the latter, in a parody of [[https://garfield.fandom.com/wiki/File:Chicago_exclusive_comic.jpg a bonus strip]] Jim Davis produced about the outrage sparked by the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' briefly dropping ''Garfield'' from their papers.
112	* [[invoked]] [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5228 Odie's Least Favorite Dog Story]], per the author's admission, was made in response to an old Garfield magazine claiming that Odie's favorite dog story is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby Greyfriars Bobby]]... [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer even though]] the story is about [[UndyingLoyalty a dog being so attached to his owner, he stands vigil by his grave]] [[DownerEnding until he himself dies]], and a kindhearted puppy like Odie ''[[HarmfulToMinors would not]]'' like such a story. As such, in this OriginalFlavor strip, Garfield makes Odie get him a sandwich by threatening to recite the story.
113	-->'''Garfield''': [[{{Jerkass}} I hate having to do that to him, but it works.]]
114	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5392 The Last Action Hero]] rips apart Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery (referred to as [=WarnerMedia=], one of its corporate predecessors) and Creator/{{Netflix}} for canceling various completed projects. The strip has Jon [[TemptingFate telling Garfield he could be an action hero]], then several months later, reading a newspaper article stating that ''Loserman'', a project he starred in, has been shelved as a tax write-off despite being 98% finished, never to be shown. Garfield [[WhatTheHellHero chews out a crestfallen Jon]] for trusting Warner to release it.
115	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5408 Garfield Goes to Willy's Chocolate Experience]] mocks the infamous ''Theatre/WillysChocolateExperience'' and what a disaster it was; it's more obvious in the author's note.
116	-->PROTIP: When you want to capitalize on a hit movie (i.e. the recent ''Film/{{Wonka}}'' movie starring Creator/TimotheeChalamet), it's best you do so with love and care, and not try and bait people with AI-generated images and then whip out a fraudulent "event" that will go down in history right alongside the Fyre Festival. Otherwise, it won't go unnoticed.
117	* In [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5423 Mighty Kongfield]], Garfield watches the 1998 animated DirectToVideo film ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyKong'', bemoaning when King Kong [[DisneyDeath doesn't actually die, but performs a musical number instead]].
118	* [[https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5426 An Even Uglier Fish]]: The "uglier fish" in question is [[WesternAnimation/SharkTale Oscar]].
119	* [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5454 Garfield Suffers From Success]] is a satire on how heavily ''Garfield'' has been licensed over the years. Specifically, Garfield walks to a mirror, but instead of a reflection it displays the text "Sorry! Product temporarily unavailable; check back later!", implying that ''his own reflection'' has become a product due to the extensive licensing, and that his image has become so popular he couldn't get a copy for ''himself'' for the strip.

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