929: Orson and Friends
| Orson and Friends |
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Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip intermixes similar strips from Garfield and the feature more commonly known as U.S. Acres in the United States and Orson's Farm in most other parts of the world; the name Orson's Place indicates that these strips were sourced from Canadian copies of the strip, Orson's Place being what the comic strip was known as in Canada.
The author's sources for the Orson's Place-branded strips indicate that Canadians were given an additional extra panel in their versions of the Sunday strips that are not on the copies of the same strips on more common repositories; the extra panel of the 1986-04-06 strip was included in this Square Root of Minus Garfield strip. (The content sourced from the 1986-10-05 strip matches the content available on the more common resources.)
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Just combined two Orson comics (the Fun Farm Fact was for a different Sunday) with the relevant Garfield theme. Ironically enough, while I had the rare originals of two U.S. Acres comics for reference, I didn't have the Garfield Sunday comic here. None of the libraries had it, interlibrary loans turned up nothing, and the libraries that did have it wouldn't accept membership from anyone not living nearby. I had to resort to copying a French version and superimposing dialogue from my black and white copy.
Original Orson's Place strips: from here, and here.
Original strip: 1986-06-01.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Caption: Fun Farm Fact 5. Of all farm animals, pigs are the most intelligent.
Cow: Hey pig, where are you going?
Pig: To the Opera.
Chickens: Whoopty doo!
Orson: It says here, pigs are smarter than any other farm animal.
TV 1: Here comes someone down the street now... Ma'am, which are smarter, cats or dogs?
Roy: Chickens are smarter than pigs.
Orson: Oh yeah?
TV 2: Why, cats, of course!
SFX: smack!
Roy: Yeah!
TV 1: And what do you think, sir?
TV 3: I think dogs are smarter.
SFX: poke
Orson: Oh Yeah?!
TV 1: How about you, little boy?
TV 4: Pigs are smarter than cats or dogs
Garfield: Pigs are smarter than we are? That's hard to accept.
Roy: YEAH!
Orson: OH YEAH?!
Garfield: Come on, Odie, let's go discuss this over a ham sandwich.
Roy: YEAH!
Orson: That's cheating!
Trivia[edit | edit source]
The links to the original U.S. Acres/Orson's Farm--or, in this case, Orson's Place--strips on Square Root of Minus Garfield itself lead to a source blacklisted by ShoutWiki without easily known whitelisted alternative ways to link. Due to this, the links have been substituted with direct links to the images of the strips used, the first "here" corresponding to 1986-04-06, the second "here" corresponding to 1986-10-05.
