251: Beware

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Beware

Made by: Locodiablogato

Explanation

This is a compilation of most of the "Beware of X" signs from July 12, 1990 to November 12, 2007. As seen in the list of dates, Jim seems to have generally kept them days or even months apart. A few exceptions: August 29-September 1, 1994; February 10-12, 2000; March 22-23, 2002; March 4-6, 2003; October 25-26, 2005; October 9-14, 2006; and July 2-4 & 6-7, 2007.

A number of them are simple "Beware of dog" or "Beware of the dog" signs; the dog may or may not be present until a different panel from the one used, may or may not be considered threatening by Garfield, and in one case, is not even a dog, despite its insistence otherwise, but is a snake. One implies that the writer of the sign was taken near the end of making the "G". One has fine print. One implies that "Beware of dog" has become incorporated. A couple tell readers not to beware of the dog. One says to beware of puppies.

Some apply an adjective to the dog: Little (possibly a toy breed), willing-to-share-his-feelings, old, artistic (twice, with the second time written in a fancy font), shaggy, insulting, scary, vicious (four times), guard, ugly, shy, lonely, karaoke, suck-up, and farsighted.

Some tell readers to beware of something other than a dog: the dog's lawyer, the fence, the bird (who's apparently crossed out "dog" on the sign), the frog, gophers, a beware of dog sign (but since this is a "Beware of 'beware of dog' sign", that implies that this sign is not the one it's warning of), sign (in this case, it could be the "Beware of sign" sign itself), the cat, cats, bunny (though the animal next to it appears to be a dog), and cat on diet. There's even one with a blank space drawn under it, and another with absolutely nothing written underneath.

Your mileage may vary on the lameness of any particular gag.

The author writes:

I decided it would be interesting to put together all the lame "Beware of X" signs that Jim loves to use. I only used one from each comic, with one exception (the third row from the bottom), and only omitted one to keep things even.

Here's the big list of strips used: 1990-07-12, 1991-02-19, 1991-08-15, 1991-09-20, 1992-01-04, 1992-04-07, 1992-12-02, 1993-02-18, 1993-06-22, 1993-09-25, 1994-04-02, 1994-05-14, 1994-08-29, 1994-08-30, 1994-08-31, 1994-09-01, 1994-12-09, 1995-02-03, 1995-04-05, 1995-06-23, 1995-08-01, 1995-09-12, 1996-01-04, 1996-07-30, 1997-05-13, 1998-06-09, 1998-06-20, 1999-04-27, 1999-04-30, 2000-02-08, 2000-02-10, 2000-02-11, 2000-02-12, 2001-11-20, 2001-11-29, 2002-03-20, 2002-03-22, 2002-03-23, 2002-07-22, 2002-07-24, 2003-03-04, 2003-03-05, 2003-03-06, 2004-06-23, 2005-05-05, 2005-06-25, 2005-07-27, 2005-10-25, 2005-10-26, 2006-01-04, 2006-04-06, 2006-04-17, 2006-04-20, 2006-09-14, 2006-10-09, 2006-10-10, 2006-10-11, 2006-10-12, 2006-10-13, 2006-10-14, 2007-06-09, 2007-07-02, 2007-07-03, 2007-07-04, 2007-07-06, 2007-07-07, 2007-11-12

Transcript

Garfield: What makes you think I've been up to something? {holding sign saying "Beware of Dog"}
Sign: Beware of the dog's lawyer.
Sign: Beware of fence.
Sign: Please do not beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of the little dogs.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Do not beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of the
Garfield: Beware of dog?! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Sign: Beware of dog.
Garfield: Oh, really?
Sign: Beware of bird.
Sign: Beware of the willing-to-share-his-feelings dog.
Sign: Beware of frog.
Dog: Bark! Bark! Snarl, snarl, snarl. Arf! Arf! Bark!
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of the old dog.
Sign: Beware of the artistic dog.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Dog: Bark! Bark! Bark!
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of the shaggy dog.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Garfield: What's this?
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of the insulting dog.
Sign: Beware of the dog!!
Garfield: That's not scary.
Sign: Beware of the scary dog.
Dog: Grrr.
Garfield: That's a great sign!
Dog: Why, thank you.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Dog: Beware of the dog.
Garfield: How come?
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of the artistic dog.
Sign: Beware of the vicious dog.
Sign: Beware of dog!
Sign: Beware of gophers.
Garfield: {to dog} Is the dog here?
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of the guard dog.
Sign: Beware of the ______
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of beware of dog sign.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Garfield: The ruffles are all wrong.
Sign: Beware of the dog.
Dog: I can't escape the feeling there's something I should be doing.
Sign: Beware of the vicious dog.
Sign: Beware of sign.
Garfield: Oh, this isn't my sign.
Sign: Beware of the cat.
Dog: Pretty impressive sign, eh?
Sign: Beware of the vicious dog.
Garfield: Why does your sign say "beware of cats"?
Sign: Beware of cats.
Sign: Beware of ugly dog.
Sign: Beware of shy dog.
Sign: Beware of lonely dog.
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of bunny.
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of cat on diet.
Sign: Beware of karaoke dog.
Sign: Beware of suck-up dog.
Sign: Beware of dog.
Sign: Beware of puppy.
Sign: Beware of farsighted dog.
Garfield: You're not a dog.
Snake: Yes, I am. Like, bow wow.
Sign: Beware of the dog.

Trivia

• On the site, the big list of strips used includes two strips that weren't: 1994-05-29 and 2007-10-03.
• Beginning with this strip, Square Root of Minus Garfield updates daily.