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Garfield comics sans Garfield's thought balloons I find this hysterical. Reminds me of the Random Garfield strip generator that I can't seem to find anymore.
An interesting thing...if you remove Garfield's thought balloons, it goes from an unfunny comic to a rather sad, poignant story about a lonely man who has wasted his life talking to his cat. [via]
An interesting thing...if you remove Garfield's thought balloons, it goes from an unfunny comic to a rather sad, poignant story about a lonely man who has wasted his life talking to his cat. [via]
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Get these quick before inevitable the C&D hits.
posted by mullingitover at 1:21 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by mullingitover at 1:21 PM on March 14, 2006
Chris Ware, eat your heart out!
posted by sonofsamiam at 1:21 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by sonofsamiam at 1:21 PM on March 14, 2006
I thought Garfield comics were irredeemable. I was wrong.
posted by ericost at 1:22 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by ericost at 1:22 PM on March 14, 2006
Double. In fact, the other link is the only other link tagged Garfield.
posted by chunking express at 1:23 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by chunking express at 1:23 PM on March 14, 2006
darn... you guys are worse than the bullies in the schoolyard
posted by sswiller at 1:26 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by sswiller at 1:26 PM on March 14, 2006
Is it double-day today? Sheesh.
posted by Pontius Pilate at 1:27 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by Pontius Pilate at 1:27 PM on March 14, 2006
In fact, the other link is the only other link tagged Garfield.
If you've seen one Garfield...
posted by NationalKato at 1:35 PM on March 14, 2006
If you've seen one Garfield...
posted by NationalKato at 1:35 PM on March 14, 2006
For a second there, I got the same giddy feeling I got when I discovered the anti-humor of Jim's Journal.
I hate to admit it, but as loathsome as Garfield has become, I remember Garfield being so-so funny when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure it's not 100% youthful nostalgia, either.
posted by Skwirl at 1:42 PM on March 14, 2006
I hate to admit it, but as loathsome as Garfield has become, I remember Garfield being so-so funny when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure it's not 100% youthful nostalgia, either.
posted by Skwirl at 1:42 PM on March 14, 2006
sans means without
posted by nervousfritz at 1:45 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by nervousfritz at 1:45 PM on March 14, 2006
There was a thread on Something Awful a month or so ago like this. It was beyond brilliant.
The archives are down, though. :-(
posted by secret about box at 1:46 PM on March 14, 2006
The archives are down, though. :-(
posted by secret about box at 1:46 PM on March 14, 2006
sswiller: The Random Garfield strip generator that you can't seem to find seems no longer to exist.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:51 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:51 PM on March 14, 2006
Great, now it works.
posted by Johnny Assay at 1:55 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by Johnny Assay at 1:55 PM on March 14, 2006
Also related: Arbuckle, taking those same wordless Garfield comics and redrawing them as "Jon" comics.
posted by O9scar at 2:15 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by O9scar at 2:15 PM on March 14, 2006
The Comic Strip Doctor has some interesting commentary on Garfield and other lame comics.
posted by slogger at 2:18 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by slogger at 2:18 PM on March 14, 2006
and the idea is still ripped off from castlezzt, which has done it better than anyone else
posted by jimmy at 2:24 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by jimmy at 2:24 PM on March 14, 2006
There's something about internet humor that just always seems overdone and heavy-handed. Maybe it's because everybody is really sixteen in their head.
posted by nixerman at 2:30 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by nixerman at 2:30 PM on March 14, 2006
and the idea is still ripped off from castlezzt, which has done it better than anyone else
All I see at the website linked is a vaguely cool DHTML collage which doesn't seem to be quite working as intended. Is there a sub page that I missed the link to, or is there a connection between the FPP link and that webpage?
posted by illovich at 2:33 PM on March 14, 2006
All I see at the website linked is a vaguely cool DHTML collage which doesn't seem to be quite working as intended. Is there a sub page that I missed the link to, or is there a connection between the FPP link and that webpage?
posted by illovich at 2:33 PM on March 14, 2006
> if you remove Garfield's thought balloons, it goes from an unfunny comic to a
> rather sad, poignant story about a lonely man who has wasted his life talking to his cat.
I'm imagining someone who spends his life removing thought balloons from Garfield comic strips.
posted by jfuller at 2:41 PM on March 14, 2006
> rather sad, poignant story about a lonely man who has wasted his life talking to his cat.
I'm imagining someone who spends his life removing thought balloons from Garfield comic strips.
posted by jfuller at 2:41 PM on March 14, 2006
I'm imagining Cathy in a kicky new magnetic suit touring a razor blade factory.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:45 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:45 PM on March 14, 2006
Castlezzt.net used to have many edits of Garfield strips like this one and this one posted in a much more accessible way. Refresh the page a bunch of times and you'll eventually see some mixed into the collage.
posted by bubukaba at 2:47 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by bubukaba at 2:47 PM on March 14, 2006
In the future, computers will remove all the punchlines from cartoons. Ironically, the cartoons will get even funnier with this alteration.
posted by blue_beetle at 2:48 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by blue_beetle at 2:48 PM on March 14, 2006
I'm imagining Cathy in a kicky new magnetic suit touring a razor blade factory.
Yeah, but what's new?
posted by Wolfdog at 2:49 PM on March 14, 2006
Yeah, but what's new?
posted by Wolfdog at 2:49 PM on March 14, 2006
yeah, here's all of them. he's posted a few of the somethingawful strips on his own site, oddly enough.
posted by jimmy at 2:49 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by jimmy at 2:49 PM on March 14, 2006
I think it is only appropriate to contribute burn, garfield, burn to this discussion.
God, I hate that cat.
posted by hipnerd at 3:23 PM on March 14, 2006
God, I hate that cat.
posted by hipnerd at 3:23 PM on March 14, 2006
Skwirl, I used to have a Jim's Journal sweatshirt. I can't remember what was on it, though. Dikkers (using the pen name L.T. Horton) had another great strip in the Onion called "Plebes" that was also quite funny.
posted by schmedeman at 4:00 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by schmedeman at 4:00 PM on March 14, 2006
The Garfield cartoon show was a pretty good cartoon show. I never really liked the comic, even as a kid but I liked the show.
posted by I Foody at 4:09 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by I Foody at 4:09 PM on March 14, 2006
the cartoon doctor linked above made a remarkable comment about where garfield fails comedically (but succeeds commercial)...
Overkill. he talks about how most jokes are delivered twice in garfield comics, which actually ruins their comedic potential, but hits the lowest common denominator market pretty hard. I think that's remarkably astute.
posted by shmegegge at 5:23 PM on March 14, 2006
Overkill. he talks about how most jokes are delivered twice in garfield comics, which actually ruins their comedic potential, but hits the lowest common denominator market pretty hard. I think that's remarkably astute.
posted by shmegegge at 5:23 PM on March 14, 2006
Garfield gestalt, to the point I think it might even be intentional.Oh, and The Great Big Mulp, please never ever ever link to anything like that again: The midget-on-600-pound-woman snippet I saw in a peep booth 10 or so years ago didn't hurt as bad.
posted by phrits at 6:50 PM on March 14, 2006
posted by phrits at 6:50 PM on March 14, 2006
if you remove Garfield's thought balloons, it goes from an unfunny comic to a rather sad, poignant story about a lonely man who has wasted his life talking to his cat
um, wouldn't this be the case for pretty much any dialogue that you stripped one side of? I mean, monologues are typically pretty sad, and anything said that is self-revealing can be poignant. Admittedly, Garfield is a bit of an extreme case because a) (as other people have pointed out) Garfield is completely redundant and b) he talks to HIS CAT, but still.
Incidentally, i am now trying to imagine MeFi as a monologue ;o)
posted by nml at 7:52 PM on March 14, 2006
um, wouldn't this be the case for pretty much any dialogue that you stripped one side of? I mean, monologues are typically pretty sad, and anything said that is self-revealing can be poignant. Admittedly, Garfield is a bit of an extreme case because a) (as other people have pointed out) Garfield is completely redundant and b) he talks to HIS CAT, but still.
Incidentally, i am now trying to imagine MeFi as a monologue ;o)
posted by nml at 7:52 PM on March 14, 2006
Fine, I'll share mine--I removed all the animal bubbles.
posted by Citizen Premier at 6:42 PM on March 15, 2006
posted by Citizen Premier at 6:42 PM on March 15, 2006
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