5133: Zalgo Garfield Minus Garfield

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Zalgo Garfield Minus Garfield
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Made by: Tim Becker


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Parodies like Garfield Minus Garfield and the Zalgo meme, which are mashed together in this strip, were initially subversive of the banality of Garfield comics, injecting them with themes of existentialism and absurdity. These many years later, however, these tropes have been around so long that they have themselves become a cultural institution to be subverted.

As new Zalgo memes continue to emerge nearly twenty years after their initial coinage, I suspect that most new iterations are met with the same response as the Zalgoan tentacle emerging in this strip: a resounding silence.

Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2010-11-14.

Original strip: 2002-07-01.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

{Cookie jar sits on a table}
{Cookie jar rattles}
{Tentacle emerges from cookie jar}