2193: All You Need is Me
| All You Need is Me |
 Made by: Gooby |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
In the original strip, Jon asked Garfield what the world needs more of. Garfield answered "me!" Jon answered "love!" and Garfield said "The world loving me!".
This strip flips around and exaggerates the premise of the 2015 original strip, here Jon asked Garfield what the world needs more of. Jon answered "Me!" And suddenly Garfield turned into another Jon. Elements from a 1982 strip were brought in to punctuate the strip.
Unknown to the author and other SRoMG readers at the time, this strip wound up being the unwitting instigator of doom as far as a Square Root of Minus Garfield running gag would be concerned--this innocuously remixed strip proved to be the progenitor of a trend of so-called "lazy edits" designed to lampoon lazy edits. The author of 2290: Duplifield would credit this Square Root of Minus Garfield strip in their own remix of the premise and challenged others to create a trend of subsequently "lazier" edits; three different strips after that--4160: One Even Better/Worse (dispensing with the joke's setup), 4704: One-downsmanship (dispensing with the effort), and 4897: Going deeper into lack of effort (dispensing with the text aesthetics)--would all claim to be the ultimate culmination of the trend, but the actual culmination of the trend ended up proving to be 4898: nothing dispensing with a strip altogether; #4160 inspired several other branches of the trend, including a branch that came after #4898.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Original strips: 1982-10-08, 2015-01-06.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Garfield and Jon are talking, as usual.}
Jon: You know what the world needs more of?
Jon: Me!
{Garfield is suddenly another Jon.}
Garfield: Oh, shut up.
