1109: Burgerfield
Burgerfield |
Made by: NES Boy |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
This strip borrows from a particular Berke Breathed work that cropped up in The Academina Waltz, and twice more in Bloom County. (I've read it even reappeared a few more times in Opus.) Basically, a customer tries to order a carbohydrate-free Whopper, arguing about rights when his order is challenged. He finally gets his order, is asked for anything else, and now he wants just milkshake sans cup, thus making the concept of the bunless Whopper silly.
Here, however, is a different approach. If you've read through the Garfield archives, you'd know that Irma the waitress, whom Jon and Garfield are known to visit occasionally when going out to eat, is pretty eccentric. She had spanked a potato for being bad, forgot her place in the diner, grinds her own beans with golf shoes, and even surprises customers in a chicken mask, just to name a few examples. By now, Garfield's probably so used to her antics, he'd be making a game out of the whole thing. So when Jon gets a burger without a bun, Garfield decides to take a page out of Breathed's book, only without the nonsense about liberals imposing upon our consumer rights (it's just not his comic's thing, and Irma probably wouldn't care about such concepts anyway).
Original strips: 1979-06-09, 1985-05-21, 1988-09-17, 1988-11-09, 1999-07-17.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Irma: Here's your burger.
SFX: plop {Irma flips the burger patty, without a bun, on to the counter}
Jon: Uh, don't I get a bun?
Irma: {writing on her order pad} What else would you like, hon?
Garfield: Milkshake, hold the cup.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The links in the first paragraph of the author's notes no longer work as originally intended. The strips in question can be read as follows: The Academina Waltz, Bloom County 1, Bloom County 2.
- Most of the credited strip dates in the line used by the current crediting system likely weren't intended to actually be credited strip dates; only 1988-11-09 was credited in the leftover coding of the older crediting system. The other four strips in question were linked to in the author's notes proper; the transition between crediting systems likely looked at the entire author's notes for Garfield strip links, not just the part corresponding to the old crediting system, and credited the strips in the author's notes proper accordingly.