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Garfield Menus Garfield
Garfield Menus Garfield.png
Made by: Andrew Kepple


Explanation[edit | edit source]

Yet another pudding pops strip, this time with Garfield being replaced by a Windows drop-down menu that appears to be for inserting characters, as well as dictating their actions and emotions (a possible jab at the samey nature of Garfield).

Of note is that "Lyman" (infamous for abruptly disappearing from the strip in its early years) is grayed out, and that the first six emotions are the same as the Seven Dwarfs (sans Doc) from the Disney version of Snow White. The seventh, "Lawsey", became infamous once Peter Paltridge posted an article about baffling Garfield comics on his site. (For the record: as attested to on SRoMG much later, it's a Indiana-specific variant of "lordy".)

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

The emotion of "Lawsey" comes from this strip - and to this day, it seems that nobody except Jim Davis is sure of what it could possibly mean.

Original strip: 2001-11-28

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Jon: {reading newspaper while Garfield sits nearby} The world is constantly changing.
{Garfield disappears and the frame is nearly covered by drop-down menus for selecting characters etc.}
Garfield: {reappearing} They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?