2415: What Year Is It?

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What Year Is It?
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Made by: Negative N


Explanation[edit | edit source]

This strip attempts to exaggerate 2014-12-30's key joke by invoking the year Garfield began; however, this attempt at exaggeration falls flat due to December 1978 having begun on a Friday, thus no common style of calendar would depict December 1978 in the fashion shown. (The type of calendar shown would work as a Sunday-first style with the 1st on a Tuesday [first possible during Garfield's run in 1981 as shown in the later 5775: What year is it? plus repeating calendar], or a Monday-first style with the 1st on a Wednesday [first possible during Garfield's run in 1982].)

2511: "What Year Is It?" Plus Accuracy would work off this attempt at exaggerating 2014-12-30's key joke, but adjusts the name of the month to one that made sense on a Sunday-first calendar in 1978.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

The cool thing about Garfield strips is that it's always easy to find an obvious joke. In the original strip, Jon thought that the year was 2009 (the strip was published in 2014). I'm using the date the comic premiered, and letting extensions and alterations occur naturally.

Original strips: 2003-06-20, 2014-12-30.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Jon: 1978 has sure been a long year.
{beat}
Garfield: We gotta get a new calendar.