3043: Actually Showing the Punchline
| Actually Showing the Punchline |
 Made by: MichaelSar |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip takes the 2017-03-21 original Garfield strip and expands the third panel to include animals taken from a selection of other Garfield strips, including a goat to punctuate the punchline.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Simply having Garfield point out that there's a goat in the living room is funny enough, I suppose, but it doesn't make for a very visually interesting comic strip. Thus...
In hindsight, I guess this is maybe a tad too similar to this actual Garfield strip, but hey...
Original strip: 2017-03-21, with help from 1995-12-31 (the goat), 2001-05-06 (the bear), 2001-04-23 (the rooster who may or may not be Roy from U.S. Acres), 2013-01-30} (the turtle), 2008-04-04 (the porcupine whose name happens to be "Ed"), 2013-11-20 (the plump little chipmunk), 1982-02-28 (the snake), and finally 1989-01-01 (the elephant whose name happens to be "Simba").
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: You know that nagging feeling, Garfield?
Jon: Like when you can't remember if you did something or not?
Jon: I wonder if I forgot to close the door.
{He did, as evidenced by the various animals that are standing in their kitchen}
Garfield: I don't know. Let's ask the goat.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
The original strip date line corresponding to the current crediting system includes 1987-08-25 in it despite it not being included in the original strip date line corresponding to the old crediting system; it is likely due to the logic filling the current-system line seeing all links to original Garfield strips throughout the entire author's notes section and crediting them accordingly, and 1987-08-25 was linked to from the author's note proper. (Due to the old crediting system providing key context, that was the system reproduced on this wiki; this very trivia point includes the code to included the credited attribution to 1987-08-25 the current crediting system includes on Square Root of Minus Garfield itself.)
