5004: You said it, Jon
| You said it, Jon |
 Made by: Redgreen |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
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The author noticed a mistake in the original strip as it originally ran, that of Jon speaking with a clearly closed mouth, and sought to correct it with this submission. The Garfield wiki on Fandom preserves this mistake as originally presented on the former Garfield website.
The editor's note makes note of a different corrected version hosted on the now-busted unsecured "images.ucomics.com" domain; that link was functional and current when this strip first ran on Square Root of Minus Garfield and thus was used as the strip credit initially, but the link busted some months later. The secure-domain mirror of what the editor's note made reference to, which is still functional as of February 2024, still shows this fixed version, as does the link to GoComics the Square Root of Minus Garfield page currently presents as the original strip credit, suggesting that the different corrected version shown in the original strip credits is indeed an official correction of the error.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Jim Davis forgot to open Jon's mouth when he was talking*! Luckily, I'm prone to fixing problems like this!
[*In the ucomics version, Jon has an open mouth, but in for example the version preserved on the Garfield fandom wiki, his mouth is indeed closed. -Ed]
Original strip: 2019-05-16.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon {lifting up his left arm and sticking up his index(?) finger}: They say that to avoid burping, you should drink slowly
SFX: gluk gluk gluk gluk {Garfield chugs down a soda can}
SFX: BURP! {Garfield belches so forcibly, it blows back Jon's hair}
{Jon looks sternly aside, arm and finger still in place}
Garfield {pumping his fist in excitement}: Or you can just let 'er rip!
