5775: What year is it? plus repeating calendar

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What year is it? plus repeating calendar
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Made by: twinec


Explanation[edit | edit source]

This strip exaggerates the original Garfield strip's key joke in a similar yet different fashion to 2511: "What Year Is It?" Plus Accuracy (itself done in response to the inaccuracy of 2415: What Year Is It?); whereas #2511 kept #2415's attempted punchline but adjusted the month to where a Sunday-first calendar with the month beginning on Tuesday would make sense in regard to 1978, this strip keeps the calendar on a December page but adjusts the year to the earliest year during Garfield's run where December began on Tuesday on a Sunday-first calendar setup--in this case, 1981. (1981 is, in fact, the earliest possible year where any Jim Davis-authored vehicle had this potential December possible--prior to that year, the previous time December began on a Tuesday was in 1970, still a few years away from Gnorm Gnat's debut.)

The punchline tweak could've also conceivably worked adjusted to 1982; this would've shifted the calendar style to that of a Monday-first calendar with the month in question beginning on Wednesday (by way of explanation).

The author writes[edit | edit source]

By way of explanation.

Original strip: 2014-12-30.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Jon {looking at a calendar that is on December}: 1981 sure has been a long year
{Garfield looks at the calendar, then at the fourth wall}
Garfield: We gotta get a new calendar