5475: The World's First SRoMG (and Igdoof's Return)

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The World's First SRoMG (and Igdoof's Return)
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Made by: Muk


Explanation[edit | edit source]

The upper half of this strip is a presumably unedited Igdoof strip in which its characters took three other comic strips--Garfield, Peanuts, and Marvin--and portrayed them with fart joke dialogue. This strip's author noted that Igdoof based at least the Garfield portion of the third panel on an actual Garfield strip; it is unknown if the same is true for Peanuts and Marvin. The lower half of this strip recreates the Garfield strip within Igdoof using the actual Garfield material. The Igdoof strip's premise, as stated by the author, is essentially Square Root of Minus Garfield fifteen years before Square Root of Minus Garfield began and iToons twenty-two years before iToons began.

Neither an original Peanuts strip nor an original Marvin strip were identified anywhere within the author's notes. The depicted Peanuts strip, if indeed real, should be easily locatable, as GoComics has a complete archive; the depicted Marvin strip, on the other hand, if indeed real, would be difficult to locate, as Comics Kingdom's archives for that strip only go back as far as January 1996 for Sunday strips and October 1998 for weekday strips, and this Igdoof strip predates those dates.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

After SRoMG #5140 Fat Cat, I went back to Igdoof and came across this one. The thing is, Jeff picked an actual Garfield comic to rewrite this time! And Peanuts, too! So that makes these the earliest Square Root of Minus Garfield and iToons comics ever made.

Original Igdoof strip: unknown (sometime in 1993).

Original strip: 1993-09-22.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Title: Igdoof
Title: Jeff Kinney
{Igdoof is drawing something. His roommate, Ralph, is nearby}
Igdoof: Hee hee hee!
Ralph: What're you doing over there?
Igdoof: Making improvements to the comics page! These cartoons were so sophomoric that I decided to erase the text and put in my own... now they're so funny you'll fall on the floor laughing!
Ralph: Let me see...
{Three cartoons are shown}
Garfield: Guess what Jon
{Garfield smiles}
Jon: You farted in my face
Garfield: Yep.
{Various Peanuts characters are asleep}
SFX: Z
Snoopy: I knocked them out with my supersonic fart
{Marvin the baby sits in a diaper}
Marvin: Now that's...
Marvin: What I call...
Marvin: A fart!
Igoof: Hmm... You're still standing up.
Ralph: Life must be amusing indeed to someone whose mental age hasn't quite caught up with their chronological age.
{A Garfield strip}
Garfield: Guess what Jon
{Garfield smiles}
Jon: You farted in my face
Garfield: Yep.