Another stupid way to entertain oneself

[jwgh]

One day while diddling around on the Web I happened across a site which explained a new way to think about Garfield. In Garfield, the cat's lines always appear in thought balloons -- Garfield isn't really talking. So the site asked, what do you get if you remove all of Garfield's thought balloons? What you get is this.







and this last one, which I call 'Why am I bragging to a cat?'



I don't think these revised cartoons are noticeably worse than actual Garfield cartoons, and the last one might be an actual improvement.

Oh, hey, I found the original discussion of this! It's at http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 . Lots of good examples there.

Comments

[penelope-arcade.livejournal.com]

i think these are actually funnier than regular garfield cartoons.

[jwgh]

They often are! Here are some from the original discussion that I like:







and, of course:

[penelope-arcade.livejournal.com]

LOL! i love the last one.

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

It's been taken one step further here. The strip is redrawn in a realistic world, to make the cat an ordinary animal, and thus make Jon that much more pathetically loony. Anybody can submit an Arbuckle strip (which is why a few seem to miss the point...)

For anyone with multiple cats,

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

the exaggerated expressions are realistic enough. Once you get up above 4 or 5 cats, their personalities really do start to become extreme as they form their own little society. Heck, the two we have now picked up some of that exaggerated personality development just from a year's exposure to the last two of our former brood of ten. And their responses to things are just as baffling as in those blanked-out cartoons.

Re: For anyone with multiple cats,

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

You mean, when we had three cats, their personalities were not extreme?

Please stop. You are frightening me.