2295: Eleven Seconds
Eleven Seconds |
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Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip essentially reverses the premise of the original Garfield strip's joke; in the original Garfield strip, the cat food supply was intended to last an entire week, but was finished off within the space of the day's allocated panels, Garfield stating it took just eleven seconds. This strip makes enough duplicates of the middle panel of the original strip to fill enough panels to last an entire week's worth of strips; the duplicated middle panels were reformatted to look like equivalent panels of hypothetical strips taking place on the intervening days, even making use of a Sunday strip setup for one of the intervening days (the original Garfield strip ran on a Tuesday, thus this strip placed the Sunday setup as the sixth "line" so the last line would represent the following Monday). It is unknown which Sunday Garfield strip was sourced to provide a Sunday title panel. As a final touch, the original first and last strips of the original Garfield strips had their lines modified to swap the two lengths of time so that the intended life of the cat food supply became 11 seconds and the actual life of the cat food supply became a week.
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Original strip: 1984-12-04.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: I'm leaving for the cartoonist's convention now, Garfield. There's 11 seconds' worth of food for you.
Garfield: 11 seconds' worth, huh?
{Garfield eats for an entire week}
Garfield: It was more like a week's worth.