2530: Disaster Days with Comedic Ending
| Disaster Days with Comedic Ending |
 Made by: Nyperold |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
Lubaf's original idea was to use panels from three different strips, based on their dates being the dates of different disasters. The first panel was from the Challenger disaster, the third panel was from the beginning of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and the second panel was the premiere of Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel. This author felt a little rearranging was warranted, because you'd really have to have a low opinion of the movie to place it in the same league as disasters which actually claimed lives (as opposed to, at worst, disappointing and/or disgusting movie-goers). The rearrangement orders the panels in accordance with the comedy trope Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking, in which you put the least serious one last. (He also used the correct date on all three, as opposed the the original SRoMG strip, where one panel was from the wrong date... a mistake Lubaf left in so his strip would have something in common with the disasters (namely, poor quality control).)
Additionally, the author of this strip made a pun on the trope name by using the name of the U.S. Acres/Orson's Farm character "Orson"; following that, he made an additional version of the strip in which he used a panel from that comic for the Deepwater Horizon date, though the strip the panel came from first ran not long after the Challenger disaster. This had the effect of mixing the dates even more.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
While I respect Lubaf's decision to assemble the comic from panels arranged in chronological order, I feel the idea could use a little...
...Orson, Murder, and Jaywalking.
Of course, if I really want Orson, Murder, and Jaywalking -- and willing to mix up the order a bit more -- then perhaps it should look more... like this:
Original strips: 1986-01-28, 2010-04-20, 2009-12-23.
Original U.S. Acres strip: 2010-04-20 (rerun date; originally run on 1987-04-20; no noteworthy disasters on that date, either).
Transcript[edit | edit source]
1st comic
{Garfield is lying on his back}
Garfield: It's fun to lie here and muse on the meaning of life,
Jon: {typing angrily} Who knew that my cat was capable of such an evil and unspeakable deed?
Jon: {covering the receiver as he talks to Garfield} The rooster has strep throat.
Garfield: Chicken soup is good for that.
2nd comic
{Orson is being propelled forward jarringly}
Orson: Hic-SNORT! Hic-SNORT!
{Garfield is lying on his back}
Garfield: And muse on the myriad of solutions to the world's woes,
Jon: {covering the receiver as he talks to Garfield} The rooster has strep throat.
Garfield: Chicken soup is good for that.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
The link to the U.S. Acres/Orson's Farm strip went dead with the removal of its comic strip archive from the garfield.com site. Although GoComics offered U.S. Acres/Orson's Farm in the past, that strip has since been removed from that site as well, leaving the link to the U.S. Acres/Orson's Farm strip hopelessly dead at least for the time being; nonetheless, the strip in question has been preserved on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here.
