4053: Hey, Jon, Garfield Eats Houseplants

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Hey, Jon, Garfield Eats Houseplants
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Made by: Nyperold


Explanation[edit | edit source]

Jon has had Garfield as a pet for a month and eight days shy of ten years as of this strip. Garfield's insistence upon at least attempting to eat houseplants -- as well as his larger unwillingness to change behaviors that annoy or cause injury to Jon -- is well-documented, even given that period. So for Jon to not only continue to buy houseplants (only occasionally making purchases that hurt Garfield if -- or rather, when -- he tries to eat them), but take someone else's prized houseplant into his care in the vain hope that Garfield will not do anything to damage it is incredibly naïve.

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Original strip: 1988-05-11.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

{Jon returns to the fern and finds what he should have expected all along: it's been eaten}
Jon: ARRRRGH!
Garfield: Burp
{Jon buries his face in the ledge, puts his hands on the back of his head, and emits water from it}
Jon: You ate the neighbor's prize fern! What am I going to do now?!
{Garfield leans on the pot, nonchalantly p(l)icks a stem...}
SFX: PLICK
{...and picks his teeth with it}
Garfield: Try to learn something from the past ten years
{Jon raises his head some and looks angrily at Garfield}