613: Constantly Changing

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Constantly Changing
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Made by: Peter Makholm


Explanation[edit | edit source]

Instead of changing Garfield into something else, and only on the second panel, the author replaced Garfield as he was drawn in 2001 with Garfield as he was drawn in the late 1970s for the first two panels. Indeed, the first two source strips are almost a year apart.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

The initial idea was just to replace Garfield in the second panel with Garfield from the first Garfield strip and call it Garfield Garfield Garfield. But then I read the dialogue and this became obvious. Even though Garfield seems to be constantly changing, the change seems to be asymptotic. The Garfields in the two first panels are a year apart, the third panel is 22 years later.

Original strips: 1978-06-19, 1979-06-06, 2001-11-28.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Jon: The world is constantly changing.
{Garfield looks shocked}
Garfield: They haven't stopped making frozen Pudding Pops, have they?

Later references[edit | edit source]

The very next strip is called Garfield Garfield Garfield.