3791: Too Many Collars

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Too Many Collars

Made by: Nyperold

Explanation

In the original, Odie's problem was fleas, and then, that the one collar wasn't strong enough to keep them away. Here, there are no fleas, so Garfield says Odie has a design problem, and corrects it first by putting one collar on him, then five more on various parts.

The title is a reference to the design trope Too Many Belts; Garfield's mention of "Nomura" is a reference to Tetsuya Nomura, who is famous in video game circles for putting functionally superfluous belts on characters he designs.

The author writes:

Original strip: 1984-11-16.

Transcript

{Garfield is holding a flea collar}
Garfield: You have a pretty grim design problem there, Odie
{He puts it on Odie, and examines his work critically}
Garfield: Hmm, that's not Nomura enough
{At another part of the ledge, Jon turns his head, and is surprised to see Odie hopping along with not only a collar around his neck, but around his ears, his snout, his tongue, his legs, and two around his torso}