5808: Paw Substitute
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Paw Substitute |
![]() Made by: Josep Nollette |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
In the original strip, Garfield, on a diet, hallucinated Odie turning into a mishmash of food items. In this strip, the Odie hallucination is instead portrayed as a statue Garfield made to ease his loneliness, but, as he says, it doesn't quite fulfill that purpose.
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Original strip: 1983-05-04.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Garfield sits alone}
Garfield: Odie's been away for a while
{Garfield looks at the viewer}
Garfield: So I did a sculpture of him to keep me company until he comes back
{Garfield shows off said sculpture, made of food. A roasted chicken represents the head, a stack of donuts the neck and mouth, a banana the tongue, a steak the head, two tomatoes the eyes, and two celery stalks the ears}
Garfield: But it's not quite the same...