1650: Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network |
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Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip takes the original Garfield strip and switches out the flag graphics and relevant parts of the mouse's dialogue so that the mouse was claiming the house in the name of Cartoon Network; the third panel has been replaced with the backdrop of a Cartoon Network show and a slew of other Cartoon Network characters speaking the original strip's dialogue. At the time this Square Root of Minus Garfield first ran, Cartoon Network's flagship American feed was the first-run network for the English-language dub of The Garfield Show.
Despite the network's name including the word "cartoon", the network throughout the years has incorporated some fully live-action programs to varying degrees; none of those programs are depicted in the third panel, and the inclusion of the cartoon references category among this very wiki page's categories is derived from the represented shows as opposed to the network as a whole.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Based on how #981 was published first, then #1027 and #1528, and then #1529, and now this, I sense a new meme here.
Original strip: 2011-11-19.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Jon looks surprised, Mouse is holding a flag with Cartoon Network's logo}
Mouse: I declare this house the property of Cartoon Network!
{Mouse walks away, still holding flag}
{Various Cartoon Network characters replace Jon}
Grim Reaper: Gumball....
Gumball: Shh! Don't let them hear you!