4579: I Hope You're Prepared For An Unforgettable Christmas

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I Hope You're Prepared For An Unforgettable Christmas
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Made by: Levy Martinez


Explanation[edit | edit source]

The original strip ended with Jon saying he accidentally set the oven to "broil" and reporting how many cookies were lost as a result, with Garfield replying "Oh, the humanity."

Here, Jon and Garfield's lines in the last two panels are changed to be a reference to "22 Short Films About Springfield", an episode of The Simpsons featuring multiple vignettes focusing on specific characters. One segment, famously nicknamed "Steamed Hams", focuses on Principal Skinner inviting Superintendent Chalmers over to his house for lunch. Unfortunately, the roast that Skinner was cooking burns up in the oven, so Skinner instead goes out to get food from a nearby Krusty Burger and serves it for their lunch, all the while insisting to Chalmers that it is in fact his own cooking (and also trying to ignore the fire now spreading in his kitchen).

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Original strips: 1985-08-08, 2012-12-23.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Jon: I'm baking Christmas cookies for Liz!
Jon {out of frame}: Ow! Ow! Ow!
Jon {out of frame}: Hot! Hot! Yaah! Fire!
Jon: Egads, my cookies are ruined
Jon: But... What if I were to purchase gingerbread and disguise it as my own baking?
Garfield: Delightfully devilish, Jon