1170: Updates
| Updates |
 Made by: Sir Bacon |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip edits Garfield's tattoo into an operating system bubble icon, then rewords Garfield's dialogue into telling Jon that his computer needs an update. The author's notes sufficiently explains the reasoning for these edits. Jon still sees that icon as a tattoo and tells Garfield off accordingly.
The word "tattoo" looks unusual and may imply that it was edited into this remix; that unusual-looking wording was, ironically, part of the original strip itself. It is unknown why the lettering there looks a bit unusual, but it could imply a very late change to the strip before it originally ran.
4372: updates would edit this strip to further the premise.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
I hate to do a joke based on an operating system because it means a significant amount of the audience won't get it. For that matter, I'm not sure if this icon or its message were changed in Vista/7 or not, so this joke may be even more obscure than I had originally thought.
Original strip: 1998-09-28.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Garfield walks in with a yellow shield icon on his chest}
Jon: {reading} "Updates are available for your computer."
Jon: That had better be a temporary tattoo!
