5805: Garfield's Nightmare About Pizza But With Actually Atrocious Pizza

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Garfield's Nightmare About Pizza But With Actually Atrocious Pizza
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Made by: csroberto2854


Explanation[edit | edit source]

This strip takes the original Garfield strip, originally about Garfield being faced with a choice between kale or tofu for a pizza topping within his nightmare, and switches them out with a more believable pizza topping and a reference to cost-cutting.

The pineapple pizza--visually replacing the tofu pizza, but taking the kale pizza's place in the order of Jon's speech bubble--is included primarily due to the Pineapple Ruins Pizza trope; that choice of scrappy pizza topping was likely chosen due to pineapple being plant matter that Garfield's digestion is unable to properly process, whereas anchovies are a type of fish that Garfield's digestion is able to properly process and thus potentially an attractive choice to Garfield.

The pizza from Montoni's--visually replacing the kale pizza, but taking the tofu pizza's place in the order of Jon's speech bubble--is explained in detail within the author's notes themselves. The storyline of Montoni's did not actually end with the end of Funky Winkerbean, as at least one storyline in still-running (as of this writing) sister strip Crankshaft made use of that business as an event sponsor.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

Montoni's is a fictional pizzeria from comic strip Funky Winkerbean (which ran from 1972 to 2022) created by Tom Batiuk. The fact I added it was because there was a 2008 storyline (the year prior, there was a timeskip after one of the characters (Lisa Crawford-Moore) died of cancer) where the original owner (Tony Montoni) came back from Florida to find out that Funky (the current owner) did cost cutting for the pizzas, making them taste awful, which leads to Tony arranging a intervention for Funky's workaholic tendencies.

I replaced the tofu pizza with pineapple pizza because most people hate it.

Original strip: 2024-02-13.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

SFX: ding dong
Jon: The pizzas are here, Garfield. You get your choice
Garfield: Yes!
{Jon walks to the door, and walks back with two pizzas that make Garfield's hair stand up in terror}
Jon: Pineapple or Montoni's?
{cuts to Garfield in his bed, revealing the last two panels to be a nightmare}
Garfield: Worst nightmare ever