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.
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This is awesome. God, now I want to run a cartoon like that in my college paper. If only Davis had the balls. posted by klangklangston at 1:19 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
I'm imagining Cathy without the dialog balloons... posted by mischief at 1:40 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
Wow, Garfield became funny. Neat. posted by reklaw at 2:20 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
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
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
> 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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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