5335: A guilty pleasure of mine

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A guilty pleasure of mine

Made by: Trevor

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The author writes:

Said film has a lot of flaws (for one, it would've been a lot better if it were another Austin Powers movie and not based on any Dr. Seuss property), but I personally find it a guilty pleasure. Nostalgia, maybe?

Original strip: 2023-01-11.

Transcript

{Garfield Arbuckle, the Monday-hating (even though he has no job or education), food-loving, owner and dog-tormenting feline James Robert Davis created when the American media was making Americans feel guilty for eating a lot and sleeping a lot, and when there weren't as many cats as there were dogs in the funny papers, sits on a chair, in front of a TV. I recommend reading Garfield's lines in the voice of the late, great Lorenzo Music}
Garfield: All the critics hated the Cat in the Hat movie...
{Repeat first panel, really common with Garfield since the strip went digital}
Garfield: They called it sophomoric and raunchy
{Now Jonathan Q. "Jon" Arbuckle and Odie Arbuckle are sitting on either side of a now enthusiastic Garfield, with Jon, Garfield's ditzy, dorky, scatterbrained, formerly single owner and bachelor who is supposedly a cartoonist but said occupation hardly ever being mentioned in the strips (though he does work sometimes in the cartoons) and one of Garfield's main targets, eating from a bowl of popcorn. And Odie is ready to see this movie too, being the dog who formerly belonged to Jon's old roommate and friend, Lyman, a man whose surname is unknown and was around for Jon to talk to before Garf started filling that role more, and soon, Lyman gradually showed up less and less. Then in 1983, he was gone. Only in the tenth anniversary strip of ’88 and in a 2013 strip does he make brief cameos. (He also appeared on The Garfield Show in a multi-part episode, but that's just Mark Stephen Evanier's amateur story, and who gives a damn about that show anyway? Even though it's another guilty pleasure of mine, but I digress.) As for Odie himself, he makes Homer J. Simpson look like Albert Einstein by comparison, since he's so dumb he can't even speak. And you gotta feel bad for him, since one of Garfield's favorite pastimes is kicking him off the table. Oh, and did I mention he was originally called Spot, before Mort Walker pointed out that he had a dog named Spot in his Boner's Ark strip? Anyway, enough with all the pointless rambling for one three-panel strip}
Garfield: So you know it's gotta be good!
{Running gag time: Oh hai Creator!}