5562: CHOCOLATE!

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CHOCOLATE!
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Made by: Trevor


Explanation[edit | edit source]

In the original strip, Jon was cooking steaks and listing the ingredients he used to make them, only to be informed that he forgot to put charcoal in the grill. This edit changes the dialogue so that Jon now appears to be preparing ice cream sundaes (on a grill, for some reason) and forgot the chocolate.

Jon screaming "CHOCOLATE!" in the final panel is a reference to the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Chocolate With Nuts", in which SpongeBob and Patrick get jobs as door-to-door salesmen selling chocolate bars. The first customer they speak to, whom the author and the SpongeBob wiki refer to as "Incidental 6" but is actually officially named Tom, goes into a seemingly angry rage upon hearing that they're selling chocolate, scaring them off, and he repeatedly pops up throughout the episode to chase after them. At the end of the episode, Tom finally catches up with the pair and reveals that he actually wants to buy their entire supply of chocolate.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

I read today's comic (at time of submission) and was instantly reminded of one of SpongeBob's most iconic scenes. So I changed the foodstuffs being served, and added a little reference to Patrick's line immediately before Incidental 6 screams his famous line.

Original SpongeBob SquarePants episode: 2002-06-01.

Original strip: 2022-07-03.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

{Title card}
{Cut to perennial feckless loser Jon Arbuckle with a bowl containing a tasty dessert next to a picnic table}
Jon: Hey, guys! Check it out!
{Liz, Garfield and Odie walk in, and Panel No. 2 (not counting the title panel) also has The Creator’s signature and the original strip's date}
Jon: I really outdid myself for the cookout this year!
Jon: For this treat, I used a good amount of strawberries, with Pocky sticks and wafer bars. Then I seasoned them with sprinkles!
Jon: I gave the banana split a nice amount of drizzle with cherries on top. How sweet is THAT!
{Jon now has a puzzled expression as Liz, Garf and Odie are surprised. Here comes Epic Fail...}
Jon: But something's wrong here...
{Liz grabs a hastily, crudely-drawn banana, with a deadpan expression. Garf and Odie look at each other, knowing what to do}
Liz: Where's the chocolate?
Jon: Chocolate?
{This next panel, Liz looks at the camera and Jon screams his line. Garf and Odie have a phone, going "BIP BIP BIP"}
Jon: CHOCOLATE!
Garfield: With or without nuts?
Odie: Urf