539: Garfield Menus Garfield
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Explanation[edit | edit source]
Yet another pudding pops strip, this time with Garfield being replaced by a Windows drop-down menu that appears to be for inserting characters, as well as dictating their actions and emotions (a possible jab at the samey nature of Garfield).
Of note is that "Lyman" (infamous for abruptly disappearing from the strip in its early years) is grayed out, and that the second through sixth emotions are the same as the Seven Dwarfs (sans Doc and Happy, the former of which would not fit in a list of emotions) from the Disney version of Snow White. The seventh, "Lawsey", became infamous once Peter Paltridge posted an article about baffling Garfield comics on his site. (For the record: as attested to on SRoMG much later, it's a Indiana-specific variant of "lordy".)
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
The emotion of "Lawsey" comes from the 1978-08-08 strip - and to this day, it seems that nobody except Jim Davis is sure of what it could possibly mean.
Original strip: 1978-08-08, 2001-11-28.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: {reading newspaper while Garfield sits nearby} The world is constantly changing.
{Garfield disappears and the frame is nearly covered by drop-down menus for selecting characters etc.}
Garfield: {reappearing} They haven't stopped making frozen pudding pops, have they?
Trivia[edit | edit source]
The credit for 1978-08-08 in the current strip crediting system is presumably unintentional; earlier versions of the author's notes had that strip linked in the author's notes (what is now "the 1978-08-08 strip" unlinked was previously "this strip" linked to the strip in question) and did not formally include it among the original strip credits. It is presumed that the transition between crediting systems looked through the entire author's notes and not just what corresponded to the old crediting system, saw a link to the strip in the author's notes proper, and interpreted it as a strip to credit, and an even later cleanup of the author's notes failed to detect the original intention and left the current strip crediting system as is.
