4319: NAKED LASAGNA
| NAKED LASAGNA |
 Made by: ZenoZaat |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
The title is a reference to "Naked Lunch", a book by William S. Burroughs. It's structured as a series of routines, not ordered by time. Many of them follow William Lee. The last panel's dialogue is based on a quote by Burroughs, possibly as uttered by the character William Lee.
As Burroughs has been dead since 1997, if he and Jim Davis haven't already met, it's too late for them to do so.
The centipede in question is, in "The Naked Lunch", a delicacy known as the Black Meat, which some people gorge themselves on, vomit up, and eat some more.
Presumably, the connection to the very first Garfield strip is that the character introduces himself, his profession, and... says the word "thought"?
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
There's no reason for Jim Davis and William S Burroughs to ever meet, and yet I was compelled to make it happen. No more chewing on this aquatic, Brazilian centipede for me.
No original Garfield strip referenced, but very loosely based on 1978-06-19.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{William Lee looks at the audience; he holds a spray nozzle in his hand while a beetle sizes him up}
Lee: My name is Lee
{Lee begins to spray insect repellent onto the beetle, who disappears into the cloud. Lee's face begins to distort}
Lee: I'm an exterminator...
{Lee reaches full distortion; the panels begin to shift as his eye escapes and insects ooze from his thought balloons}
Lee: I exterminate all rational thought
