4978: I'm Gonna Miss Her

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I'm Gonna Miss Her

Made by: Sloublues

Explanation

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The author writes:

I check in on a week's worth of Garfield for the first time in forever and I'm hit with a wall of LAME.

There is a famous/notorious one-liner, suitable for bumper stickers, that goes, in effect, "My wife told me to choose between her and fishing . . . I'm gonna miss her." Some creatively bankrupt country singer* actually tried to turn that into an entire song. I guess you do what it takes to fill out an album.

Here, some unpaid intern tries to "write what you know" to fill out a week of strips, chooses to rip off a meme, and doesn't even get an actual joke out of it. But hey, getting to write a Garfield strip is something you can tell the grandchildren about, so good for you, intern.

• Last-minute research indicates this was Brad Paisley, who is a famous country artist and presumably had some talent at some point, but my opinion on the song stands.

Original strip: 2021-09-07.

Transcript

{A meme picture of a woman and man on their first date}
Woman: Name a book that made you cry...
Man: Algebra I, Math for the Modern World
{And now, the Arbuckle household}
Jon: I remember Miss Jackson's class...
Jon: Reading her textbook always made me cry...
Jon: "Algebra"
Garfield: And the tearjerker sequel, "Algebra 2"