498: Blindfolded

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Blindfolded
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Made by: FroggoFan64


Explanation[edit | edit source]

In the grand tradition of swapping dialogue, the author did so with two strips with oddly similar premises (and unusually close dates for being so similar): Garfield blindfolds someone, then downs Jon's meat, buttered mashed potatoes, and peas in one go. This, however, creates a couple of oddities of its own in the first strip: Garfield implies that he will be blindfolded, yet he blindfolds Jon; and though he therefore can see, he cannot identify Jon.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

I figured the best strips to go with for my first submission to Square Root of Minus Garfield would be a pair of strips I've always found odd. I refer to the strips published on 1991-06-07 and 1991-06-29, which were barely three weeks apart and featured the same basic punchline of Garfield eating Jon's food while one of the two is blindfolded, with Jon giving the same reaction both times. So I figured, what better way to mash the two than to mix their dialogue around? (Or at least Garfield's dialogue, since Jon's lines didn't need changing.)

Original strips: 1991-06-07, 1991-06-29.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Garfield: {running up to Jon with a blindfold} Blindfolded, I shall now identify things I cannot see.
{Garfield eats Jon's lunch while Jon is blindfolded}
Garfield: FOOD!
Jon: I hate you.
Garfield: Who's that?!
Garfield: {wearing the blindfold} Blindfolded taste test!
{Garfield eats Jon's lunch}
SFX: GULP!
Jon: I hate you.
Garfield: Thank you for your opinion, sir!