361: For Science!

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For Science!

Made by: Quaternion

Explanation

This edit rewrites the dialogue of several panels, creating the story of Jon conducting an experiment involving Nermal, possibly throwing him through a door, with Garfield as Jon's assistant. Jon's data is plotted on an unlabeled graph using a repeated picture of Nermal as the dot; this provides an opportunity for the author to use the term "Nermal curve", a pun on "normal curve", another word for a normal distribution or bell curve, in the transcript.

The author's note links to the TV Tropes trope page For Science!, as well as the Wikipedia article on the central limit theorem. Jon's lunch is probably a reference: chicken, lettuce, tomato; central limit theorem.

The author writes:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForScience.

SPOILER

Original strips: 1980-03-05, 1990-05-05, 1997-06-18, 1999-07-01, 1999-07-02.

Transcript

Jon: Now, Garfield, Nermal came to help with the experiment.
Jon: Keep going! {Garfield has thrown Nermal through the front door}
Garfield: Hee, hee, ha, ho, ha, ho.
Jon: I need more data!
Caption: 6 hours later...
Jon: Okay, Garfield. I've done all the math.
{A plot showing a Nermal curve}
Jon: Fascinating!
Garfield: Fascinating is not the word I would use. Interesting should suffice. So what do we have for lunch?
Garfield: What else? Chicken, lettuce, tomato.