3646: Hotlyman Bling

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Hotlyman Bling

Made by: Rand al'Thor

Explanation

The core premise of this strip is unchanged from the original Garfield strip, still dealing with digital assistants misunderstanding voices and initiating unintended actions. This strip makes only a single, minor edit near the end; instead of the original strip's Lorenzo Nevermind, Jon ends up connected to the voice mailbox of Lorenzo Music, Garfield's voice actor from the 1980s Garfield specials and the Garfield and Friends television series along with other Garfield-related works. Such a voice mailbox would not have been replied to personally since 2001, the year Mr. Music died; this strip went up eleven days after what would have been Mr. Music's 82nd birthday.

The author writes:

I'd not be surprised if there were multiple submissions with these ideas, these are obvious edits to this comic.

Original strip: 2019-03-24.

Transcript

{Jon is looking at his phone; Garfield is sat watching}
Phone: WHAT CAN I HELP YOU WITH?
Jon: Call Liz
Phone: CALLING FIZZ
Jon {annoyed}: No, call Liz
Phone: CALLING WHIZ
{Garfield looks up}
Jon {angry}: No... look, call Doctor Wilson
Phone: CALLING DOCTOR THREESOME
Jon {screaming exasperatedly}: NO!! NEVER MIND!!
{Phone rings twice, clicks. Jon and Garfield are shocked}
Phone: YOU HAVE REACHED THE VOICE MAILBOX OF LORENZO MUSIC
{Jon's emotion is flat. Garfield smiles}