5263: Moving on

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Moving on
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Made by: John Murtha


Explanation[edit | edit source]

This strip satirizes the closure of GarfieldEats, a ghost restaurant serving Garfield-themed food, in 2020, which was due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rent disputes, and current Garfield owner Paramount Skydance taking a chainsaw to anything that previously obtained a Garfield license. It depitcs Nathen Mazri, founder of GarfieldEats, as waiting for angry demands for the restaurant to reopen, but no such demands came. Mazri eventually got a Scooby-Doo license, which he used to create a frozen food line named Scooby-Doo Eats.

The strip itself is a parody of a bonus Garfield strip made in commemoration of Garfield returning to the Chicago Sun-Times during the year Garfield debuted, running in place of the general Garfield strip for 1978-10-16. The Sun-Times dropped Garfield on October 2, 1978, but unlike GarfieldEats, the demand for Garfield was high, and angry responses to the removal led the Sun-Times to reinstate Garfield two weeks later; the comic continues in the Sun-Times to this day. The edit uses the colorized version of the bonus strip, as featured in 4222: Lost and Restored.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

The Garfield Eats restaurant has closed. Mastermind Nathen Mazri was waiting for the outrage, but none arrived, prompting him to pitch Scooby-Doo! Eats.

Original strip: 1978-10-16.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Caption: November 12, 2020
{Garfield is carrying a suitcase walking out of Garfield Eats; a man in a visor is pointing for him to leave}
Caption: Later...
{Nathen Mazri sits by phones}
Caption: December 2, 2020
{Scooby-Doo! Eats splash image}