Lasagna Cat: Ego Stripping for a Fractured Psyche
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
- There's no better way to kickstart Cabin Fever Dreams than with this recently revived monstrosity. Lasagna Cat is an entertainment acid trip you didn't know you wanted... and didn't know would hurt so much.
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This discussion reminds me of Garfield Minus Garfield, where they take Garfield out of the strips and you're left with the depressed, bipolar, horribly lonely Jon. Just another weird way of looking at the comic strip.
I agree. Even when I was a little, innocent, and naive kid, I never liked Garfield, because it gave me an uncomfortable, anxious feeling. Later, when I was older, I recognized those unpleasent emotions as being sympathetic depression for Jim's worthless, low self-esteem, self hate fueled life.
Is it weird I consider Garfield minus Garfield the Garfield comics
I loved them tbh
@@se.224 GARFIELD! SPEAK TO ME!
And once again Garfield is only made interesting/funny by altering it
This....is pretty depressing...
I expected a scary arg....not a direct hit on my feels
Rapaiz até a senhora aqui
Yeah. I was expecting something more cryptic or twisted. But it's just an eulogy.
Matthew Grigorian oh no..
D:
Why?
ZANHORIAS
"We don't know how many pieces of paper he's put his pencil on"
nick please nick why
how many pieces of paper he rubbed with his eraser :D
How many porn mags he’s left his juices in.
and it would be rude to ask 😤
That was a dodgy one
Now that innuendo even Moxxi would be proud of.
I mean this in the kindest way possible, but the way you speak makes you sound like a villain in an action movie going on a monologue and ready to kill the hero.
g33k_ d4sh yfw Nick is actually the hero the world isn't ready for
g33k_ d4sh my girlfriend is creeped out by his voice, but I find it relaxing
g33k_ d4sh I know, right!
thanks, now I can't stop thinking about how night mind is a real life skelethor
Night Mind is the Anti-villain.
"Spooky Man Roasts Cartoonist for Thirty-Eight Minutes"
Sion Allona nice pfp
It's better then Garfield
By Fall Out Boy
Oof
And a half
The anthropomorphic Garfield whispers "You are not funny" to Jon.
OOoOoOooOoOOoOooOoOOooooooOoOoooOOOOOOOOOOOOoOoOoOoOOoOOoO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only funny when Garfield minus Garfield
@@emperortrevornorton3119 Funnily enough I am pretty sure Jim Davis really liked that series
you're KNOT funny.
Why did you ever make me think about Jim Davis's sexual history
I'm not complaining
I kind of dislike the focus on the amount of sexual partners = worth (but I’m asexual so it might just be me...)
Tilda Adade Aye! Me too!
oh dear god
@skullpull 101 *v o m i t* o k
"a preacher in the church of Garfield" is the best thing I've heard anyone described as in my entire life
omg there’s 666 likes and i don’t wanna ruin it 😂😭
Are ya a pope yet?
I'm your 1,000 Like!! Congrats. Awesome comment
Lasagna cat message to garfield:
NOT FUNNY
DIDN'T LAUGH
I was a huge fan of Garfield as a kid. I even practiced drawing him and created my own cat character inspired by him. I would go onto the website and read through the entire archive of comic strips from the beginning. The fact that Jon was a cartoonist amazed me because that's what I still aspire to be to this day. A cartoonist in a cartoon strip blew my kid mind with how meta it was. And I always felt sympathy for Odie.They'll have a special place in my heart as a memory even though I don't find the comics funny anymore.
Honestly same. I used to love Garfield as a kid quite a lot. I even had DVDs for that "Garfield and Friends" cartoon (which is waayyy funnier than the strips)
I never found the strips funny, didn't even know they were supposed to _be_ funny tbh. ^^ and I second that, Garfield & Friends is definitely funnier than the comics.
hey, hal, have you heard of Quinton Reviews? i know its been like two years, but i think youd enjoy his garfield videos.
Dude had a Garfield oc
Same. Though there are still a handful of old strips that will still get a laugh out of me. But even though I don't really enjoy Garfield today, I can sincerely say that there was a period in my life in which the comics brought me loads of laughter and joy. (I can't comment on any media other than the comic, though.)
imagine jim davis watching this
Probably almost a nightmare...
I do.
And he will.
Someone close to him, a coworker, a friend or a family member will find it, secretly make a big thing out of it, 'Whatever you do never tell Jim!' Which will spread it like fire. Then one day, someone close to him, at work, at Christmas, or any other big family event will vaguely, perhaps jokingly, refer to it just loud and pointedly enough for Jim to notice, followed by shocked silence, alerting Jim that something is awry, it'll pique his interest, he will either learn of it directly or through some cursory information and one day, quietly, perhaps thinking he's doing it just for a laugh, to be 'in' on the joke, so that maybe he can confidently and humorously acknowledge it the next time it comes up, shocking the person who mentioned it, turning the tables. Whatever it is, he'll find some rationale to search for it, that's a sure thing.
If you thought there was a big secret joke at your expense, would you just ignore it? No, you wouldn't. As soon as someone tells you there is something you don't want to know, it's all you want to know. As soon as you realise there is a secret about you that nobody will mention to your face, it's all you will want to know about. Jim will find this. It's a certainty.
Paddy Mc sure you wrote enough? Wanna write another few paragraphs? Jesus. You really let your imagination run off on you don't you...
Haha, that was the concise edition, you should've seen the stream-of-nonsenseness that I originally had... Opiates are wonderful things.
Timothy, you just watched a video with over half an hour of some dude prattling on about someone else's work, exactly what Paddy was doing. IN what way did his short paragraph upset you any more than essentially doing the same thing for 33 minutes in video?
Jon, I’ve broken through my mortal shell Jon. This world cannot sustain me Jon.
Bullets don't work Jon, neither lasagna nor bullets
I hate mondays
I love your pfp
Dr Ghost Duck by any chance are you and Chris related?
Bullets made from lasagna work
I went into this thinking Lasagna Cat was just a blown out of proportion "garfelf" meme
Me too... then stuff hit the fan.
Purple Psychotic Lasaga hit the fan
What is traspiring with you LASAGNA CAT
C e a s e
JunRAR WHERE ARE THE SELF CONFIDENCE PIZZAS
You are not the only one.
Honestly the "Mr. Funny Man" loop is terrifying to me. Something about it is just, VISCERALLY uncomfortable. Maybe it's his super fake legs behind his head, or the way it seems a little sped up so it makes the movements a little... wrong? Jankey? Just, like... *shivers* it somehow hits every one of my buttons just right, and no matter the amount of context I get, it leaves me feeling real unsettled.
I believe it's called the "uncanny valley" because I just feel the same way.
Same.
winryhater: I think I get what you mean. Kinda like the old films its aesthetic's styled after like "The Man Who Laughs" or "The Astronomer's Dream"?
It's sped up because that's how movies were in the 40s and 50s.
Keep in mind that none of the people in the audience clips, find it funny
Am I the only one who had a thought draw out when the poorly-aged taxidermy cat was drawn out? All I could hear in my head (with perspective of Arbuckle/Davis) was:
"This is it. This is your legacy to the world. This is all you could bring. This is all you could construct. This is the entirety of your human life concentrated into one, singular form. You didn't save anyone. You didn't heal anyone. You didn't help anyone. You didn't create marvels, explore the corners of the earth, nor bring enemies together. Your legacy is this cat. Are you happy?
Do you hear that? It's rotted stitches are popping."
That's simultaneously beautiful and fucked up. I love it.
jesus did yku just write that out yourself?
@@nachosNipples
Yes. It's how my brain works.
Epic
dang dude calm down and eat some pancakes
" The laugh track you hear in a comedy thats despretly trying to tell you its funny"
*cough*
Big Bang Theory
*cough*
Thank you are my Hero i have a d degree here one in Eu and don t find him funny e boring Eu use it when there s no tv program
Bazinga
Oh God, my parents seem to think that damn show is funny. They even used to regularly compare me to Sheldon. 90% of the "humour" in that fucking show is either "aren't smart people so dumb" or "Ha Ha NERD".
@@Nukestarmaster So...they're basically stating that their own child is like a narcissistic, inconsiderate smartass on TV. What a loving family.
BradicalTS you ever see those edits where it’s an episode without the laughtrack? It’s actually funnier due to how awkward it is XD
Okay, completely unrelated to the video, the real Garfield, the fluffy fat orange tabby, is really cute and I wanna cuddle it.
yes
Isn't he a serval cat
Mega Megan the real Garfield died like over 30 years ago
Gibbie Chibi that's the grey cat that annoys Garfield.
Let's cuddle, hun hun
‘There is a man who is willing to sit there for an hour, and tell you how this comic strip, this one, single Garfield comic in three panels, the pipe strip, is a work of true modern art that speaks volumes on level of Shakespeare and The Odyssey.’
Jokes on you Night Mind, I watched that full hour and enjoyed it.
i did too, i couldnt stop. i was so amazed that it was one take
i love that video with a burning and fiery passion, ive seen it at least 3 times now and i know i will see it more
Exactly.
And it was worth every goddamn second
It was the most stunning bullshittery I've ever listened to. Dunno about the strip, but that video is art.
NOW WHERE COULD MY PIPE BE
Revolver Ocelot What did he mean by this?
NOW WHERE COULD MY GARFIELD BE
DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THIS?
The CAT has your PIPE!
Revolver Ocelot Garfield = The Anti-Christ???
now where could my pipe wrench be???
The first Garfield comic was posted on my birthday. That same day also happens to be the birthday of Shadow the Hedgehog. Why must my birth be so very cursed.
So on your birthday, a popular comic strip premiered, and a fictional character was born? _And you continue to live with this knowledge?_ Your bravery is inspiring. Share your story. *Share it with the world.*
One of my best friends was born on that day too. She was not super excited to find out about it.
It’s better than having Peter Griffin’s birthday.
You have an anime profile pic, you deserve this.
You have an anime profile pic, you deserve this.
Better title: “Man hilariously criticizes Jim Davis for about 38 minutes”
attack_celery Years. This series lasted... years.
@Daniel Jordan she
@@artgenix8052 Monday
@@artgenix8052 jon
Hillariously? Heh, I think it's a combination of funny and unsettling. I love it!
I really like Garfield. The comics aren't funny... at least, not often enough to be considered good. But I still like him. In the rare occurrences when I encounter the comics in a newspaper, I check out Garfield. I don't laugh, but I'm glad to see he's still there. Garfield is cartoon comfort food: nothing of any value and leaves me feeling guilty for enjoying it.
Though the 80s-90s cartoon was pretty good.
Johnny Crayfish If you still read it, has there been a new character added or something?
Blake Gilbert Jon and Liz have been dating for a few years now. That's about it.
Johnny Crayfish Ah. At least it's a bit less static than I thought it would be.
Do you ever think of the possibility that Jim has a ghost writer/artist at Paws Inc?
Blake Gilbert He has had limited involvement for several years now.
Johnny Crayfish I can see that. He is getting pretty old.
Or, how about an episode of Tom and Jerry where, at the end, both of them are sitting on the train tracks hoping to die.. a train whistle blowing in the distance?
Oh.. wait.
i actually saw that episode on tv when i was little, i somehow, at that time, thought it was pretty funny
It's okay to laugh since they are cartoons and they will live and not be in real pain in the next scene.
AgapeForgotten No no no, you don't understand. There was no "oh there okay" scene afterward. This scene of them on the tracks depressed with the train approaching in the distance is the last Tom and Jerry scene ever. It's the last scene of the last episode.
Sketch Hawk wrong. The last episode was of them trying to look after a baby
David Bird yeah I realized that afterwards but forgot about this comment. Thanks!
Eventually Jim Davis will find that video.
Someone close to him, a coworker, a friend or a family member will find it, secretly make a big thing out of it, 'Whatever you do never tell Jim!' Which will spread it like fire. Then one day, someone close to him, at work or at Christmas or any other big family event will vaguely, perhaps jokingly refer to it just loud and pointedly enough for Jim to notice, and there will be shocked silence, alerting Jim that something is awry, it'll pique his interest, he will either learn of it directly or of some cursory information and one day, quietly, perhaps thinking he's doing it just for a laugh, to be 'in' on the joke, so that maybe he can confidently and humorously acknowledge it the next time it comes up, shocking the person who mentioned it, turning the tables. Whatever it is, he'll find some rationale to search for it, that's a sure thing.
If you thought there was a big secret joke at your expense, would you just ignore it? No, you wouldn't. As soon as someone tells you there is something you don't want to know, it's all you want to know. As soon as you realise there is a secret about you that nobody will mention to your face, it's all you will want to know about. Jim will find this. It's a certainty.
Paddy Mc
So?
Eh, the guy's a comic artist, and Jon Arbuckle is the butt of a lot of jokes in the comics. I think he knows pretty well how to laugh at himself.
Then it would be less meme and more harassment.
Then it would be less meme and more harassment.
i am uncomfortable with how sultry and seductive your voice gets sometimes
in the best way
*shivers*
Umm..... this giy might be obssesed
Kid
I'm not uncomfortable with it by any means... ;)
Perhaps you just didn't want to include it, but, much like an Alan Resnick project, there is a HUGE amount of supplemental material you didn't mention. All of the URLs that appear in any of the videos work, which lead to things like a fake malware site and a creepy porn gallery based on Jon's shampoo bukkake. But the real prize is two extra UA-cam channels Fatal Farm created with dozens of extra videos: lazycat619 and darthmauldog1125, the usernames of Garfield and Odie when they were watching their awful action movie attempt.
The other two channels are pretty much the polar opposite of Lasagna Cat: parodies of the low effort, no talent videos you'll find when you stumble on those channels that never get more than 100 views on a single upload. Garfield makes a video unboxing a cat toy and attempts a bad Let's Play, and Odie runs embarrassing "special effects tests" and showcases himself falling off a skateboard repeatedly...then begging for a sponsorship. They also let slip that most of act 2 of Lasagna Cat was actually made years ago, such as the unboxing video showing a receipt with a date from 2012. (It was actually an open secret in Hollywood that Fatal Farm never stopped making Lasagna Cat and was just sitting on dozens of videos. I don't think anybody actually expected a giant release like this.)
The sex survey results video is definitely the centerpiece of the new content, but there's so much more Lasagna Cat than what they put on the channel and everyone should take a look.
Hero of the Beach Right? I wish lasagna cat had gotten more attention before the sex survey results. Especially for that 8 year hiatus pay off, there's a lot of good stuff to find in this series if you do some digging
Hey, what's your profile pic? Do you have a link to the image? Thanks. @Hero of the Beach
roktopus No hero of the beach. You're profile pic is cool too though
roktopus Are you mad at me?... What did I do?
roktopus | ok...
Hey, here's something fun.
Jon used to have a roomate/friend named Lyman(the original owner of Odie) which was made to talk with Jon, since Garfield can only "speak" throught thought bubbles.
He grew pretty quick in popularity, close to Garfield.
But...
Since it's called "Garfield", Lyman appeared less and less in the comics, until disappearing completly (apart from a cameo in a flash game and a recent episode of Garfield) to put more spotlights on Garfield.
Odie still lives with Jon.
Jim willingly decided to remove an interesting character to focus on... a selfish cat obsessed with lasagna that keeps abusing Jon and Odie...
Nice job, Jim...
Atleast, Liz is still alive... and now lives with Jon.
I actually always wondered where he went. I own a bunch of collection books. It was weird how he just left.
@@shadow_shine3578 in that one garfield halloween flash(?) game you can find him in jon's basement, likely as just a gag about how everyone is like "where the hell is lyman"
@@hershelroswell weird
another funny thing is that lyman's actually based out of Jim's best friend and college roomie, and is NAMED lyman
I eat, John, It's what I do.
DonutKop *BRUUUP*
I eat Jon, it's what I do.
The difference in syntax is subtle but the difference in meaning is huge
I'm am hungry. I want some lasaga.
*I A T E T H O S E F O O D*
This sentence has new contexts when hes talking about bringing women home to rub in the cats face
STUFFING YOUR FACE AS USUAL
I GOTTA HAVE A GOOD MEAL
GARMFIELF
GARFIELD YOU FAT CAT WHY ARE SO BIG AND FAT!
GAAAaaaAaAaAaaAaaAAAaarfied
Paul Smith I LOVE LASAGA
Paul Smith i hate alram clocks
i woke up to the middle of this video playing and "jon arbuckle is actually a self-insert character" hit me like a truck
*I SURE DO LOVE LASAGA*
Gary k
Gary
L🅰️S🅰️🅱️🅰️
Gary L A S A G A, N O T L A S A G N A
Gary D O I G E T L A M B S A U C E
I can see your profile picture saying that.
wait wait waIT YOU'RE TELLING ME THIS ISN'T AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE THAT NIGHT MIND MADE UP? THIS IS AN ACTUAL THING THAT'S BEEN ON FOR *9 YEARS?! WHAT?!?*
Wait a sec I recognize that cat's voice
HAS HE BEEN MAKING THESE VIDEOS FOR NINE YEARS *JUST FOR THIS?*
well, he took a break for 9 years. but otherwise, yes
aidan burgess Listen. We were all surprised by the foul acts of rotten necromancy required to revive this nine year old video series. And, I was never happier than when it returned.
Yeah, it's been around.
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Explain this!
You probably wrote real good essays back in school. You manage to explain everything and come to what seems like a conclusion but then if you check the video length, theres still like 10 mins left. Good job
You don't need to scratch the surface of paint of Rugrats for it to be dark. The parents are super neglectful most of the time and let the babies get into life-threatening situations.
jjmblue7 That’s stupid, if the parents weren’t neglectful the show would be boring. The point of the show is the kids going on adventures with the perspective of babies, in a way that they are easy to fool and have active imaginations. If the parents acted like real people than the show would be about their diaper being changed. Not to mention that their dangerous situations are basically them ruining around a building
@@papasmurfsmurfy6360 That's not mutually exclusive to what he said, though. The intent of the story doesn't magically make the implications of the story go away. Yes, the show would be boring if the parents weren't neglectful (well, at least without making major changes) but that doesn't change the fact that they _are_ neglectful. That's not an indictment of the show, that's just the natural consequence of simplistic and unnuanced worldbuilding because the real world is not simple, and so looking at a simplistic fictional world under a realistic lense will essentially always reveal dark implications. Again, that's not a judgement, that's an observable fact.
But is rigth is purgatory and hell angelica demons i was l'u ky all you i grew in a cult was onlu cartoon they let me Watch to explain me this
it was the 90s
I think it's more like Courage where everything is enhanced because it's from a babies perspective.
THE CAT HAS YOUR PIPE
THE CAT HAS YOUR PIPE
THE CAT HAS YOUR PIPE
Super Eyepatch Wolf actually did a whole analysis on the idea of Garfield as this Lovecraftian entity that was given form by the internet, and he uses Lasagna Cat as a major part of his evidence. Both are incredible works, and I can safely add this analysis to the list. I'll never look at Garfield the same way again
I was going to say this - that Garfield video is amazing. Also seriously horrifying. But I also recommend it (and the rest of his stuff) highly.
That moment when its late at night but Night Mind makes a new video.
Plasmatic Let his voice educate you as you drift to sleep.
Plasmatic where are you it's like 8:30 here lmao
Plasmatic live near SF and its alost 5:30 pm
lol Belgiums
it's 2:54 here in Denmark... isn't time zones fun y'all!!!
I like that the beginning of this video can be taken as a bash of like half of Game Theory's videos.
But that's just a theory.
Ellie Gray judging by his tumblr, he REALLY does not like matpat. i wouldn't be surprised if he was channeling some of that in the beginning.
a GAmE ThE0Ryyyyyy
no thank you Oh, I didn't know he had a tumblr! What did he say about matpat?
whats your profile picture xd
Okay, I just watched the last few minutes. Here’s my take. “Lasagna Cat”’s main thesis is “Garfield is not funny”. Everything about the last few minutes of sex survey is not funny. But it’s also really, REALLY cringey forced experimental film imagery in the most eye rolling way conceivable. And I think the creators meant it that way.
This is no high artistic statement. It’s a mockery of those who would shit on Garfield for not being “high art” as opposed to the simple act of failing to be a funny cartoon strip. Otherwise, the creators would compare the comic to something other than what an eye rolling aesthete would compare a Garfield comic strip to: an abortion.
I am literally years late but you’re kind of right. In an interview with the creators they talked about the ending to sex survey and it doesn’t really have any meaning, it’s just as over the top and artsy as possible because they just felt like making some weird shit and seeing how people pick it apart.
I feel as if Lasagna Cat is ultimately critical of both sides. It repeatedly insults Jim Davis for having a massive ego despite just getting lucky with a generic cartoon strip with no real talent (Hence why in the RPG parody he has no skills), but it also is insulting fans who expect Garfield to become some pretentious "high" form of art. The final episode is basically just stating how Garfield strips reuse the same jokes over and over, but does it in a way where the gore and unusuality makes the message incoherent. Hence it's basically mocking all the people who make "Kaiju Garfield" or "Garfield Minus Garfield" trying to find something deeper.
Ultimately, as a comic strip, Garfield should just be actually funny and memorable. No need to be "artsy", just have some skills and effort put into proper comedy that doesn't do "I hate mondays" or "I'm fat" or "Jon is a loser" again, and again, and again.
"We don't know how many pieces of paper this cartoonist put his pencil on"
Oh my fucking god
brilliant
+Uptomyknees 89. Nice
Night Mind lovely
fantastic
Uptomyknees go away
Favorite screenwriter on favorite channel... K
I want to expand on your theory a bit. I saw this interpretation as more about the ‘shadow’ and ‘ego’ in psychology, as well as the ‘true self’ and the ‘false self’.
The short version is that the shadow is the aspect of ourselves that contains things were ashamed of, have been told are bad, or that we reject, but are nonetheless still a part of us. The ego is a mask that we wear to convince others we aren’t those things. However, when we identify with only these positive qualities, and disassociate with our negative qualities, a ‘false self’ is created, and the ‘true self’ is suppressed.
The true self never goes away, but the ego can “die” in a sense, in that it’s only an illusion. The ego is fragile because its a lie, a false front masking our deeper insecurities. So it does anything to survive. The true self is constantly trying to push itself to the surface from the subconscious, but the ego, the self we choose to identify with, fears others seeing us as we truly are, failures and all. So we abuse it; we call ourselves names, put ourselves down, or even harm ourselves to shut it up.
As a result, we suffer. The only way to fix this is to overcome our darkness by facing it, and embracing it and accepting the truth of what we are. We can work to change ourselves, but first we must know ourselves.
In this film, we see that Jon and Garfield are nothing more than Jim Davis Ego and Shadow respectively. Jim sees himself as ‘Jon’, a lovable, goofy, kind, creative, and unsuccessful bachelor. He plays it off like he doesn’t care by joking about it; after all, Jim sees himself and tells himself that he’s funny.
In reality, Garfield is the side of Jim that he rejects: his shadow. He hates these aspects of himself, that deep within he’s cynical, has a love of laziness and food, which he uses to fill a void in him, and is overall just bitter and disenchanted with life. Through conditioning, most likely by others, he rejected these aspects, and “convinced himself” (ego) that he was funny.
The desert scene represents a moment of self awareness and ego death. Jon, the illusion, dies and Garfield, his true animalistic inner self, comes out and is freed. The shadow and ego become one, and the true self emerges. This all as a result of Jim looking back on his creation and waking up, realizing it wasnt funny, and that hes not who he thinks he is.
The final scene represents the human condition. That all humans must go on a journey through life, where the cruelty of the world forces them to hide behind a mask, a lie, and become a fragmented being, until they become strong enough to face their own darkness and become whole again. This is the curse the woman speaks of, and why there isnt just a child, but also his shadow: the cat.
Sorry, that was long, but its a fascinating topic. If you want to read more, check out stuff about the true and false self online. Its helped me so much in my life.
Jesus Christ you know your stuff here's a like
It is an interesting topic. I also find it strangely comforting. I’m a perfectionist, so the fact that I even have a flawed ‘true self’ usually makes me feel terrible. Even just knowing that everyone else is flawed, and that they’re also pretending they’re not, just makes living a bit more bearable.
Also, have you heard about a game called Persona 4? It’s a JRPG based around a murder-mystery, but a lot of the game’s built on the Shadow and Ego concept.
typ0z
I just thought Jon was Garfield’s straight man.
The Jim stuff is kinda shite.
take a shot everytime he says "Arbuckle"
CarterSauce Only if you want to die. 😂
and/or "Cat"
CarterSauce no! Evil
Shot gun a beer when he says jim davis
That's called alcoholism
Truly disturbing. There was actually a storyline from the real Garfield comic strip, October 1989 or round about there, where Garfield is starving to death in an abandoned house, and Jon & Odie are just figments of his imagination. Look it up!
I read it when I was 7 and had nightmares about it
I'm curious about 2 things:
1. Would it be possible to save Garfield/make it a better comic?
2. How would you, random comment reader, make it a better comic?
add different scenes, and age garfield, jon, and odie. also explain Lyman's abscence
Truthfully, it isn’t a bad comic. If someone out there likes it, it’s done it’s job.
Well, it needs change, i mean there's a whole before and after of Jon actually dating Liz, and is a property that has had a strip every day for 20+ years, it needs to follow a mlp idw comic formula instead of strips, one thing that i remember when reading all those Garfield volumes is the "oh crap, it comes another garfield watches tv week"
New formats At Least
Make Garfield a cult leader.
Would be interesting to see an NM + Internet Historian collab.
Sheila Allen How that would work, I don't know...... Maybe they could talk about the grifter?
Glow in the dark CIA videos.
S.J 'Squid' Blazkowicz If something can be both a meme and a mystery/horror
This would be so entertaining
@@ThemedNumber02 so like talking about momo stories?
The end was so damn inspiring, and I'm not even being sarcastic.
wtf
GnomoP good one Mr.FunnyMan
Me and my sister actually used to love Garfield. We would hunt through the library for the compilation books, read all of them in like a day and be back for more. I couldn't tell you why. I just think it's really funny and a huge power move that the creators of lasagna cat were so fed up with the comics and how much the creator pat himself on the back for them that they made a multiple hour long series with high production quality just to tell him to shove it.
This brings to mind how Bill Watterson specifically wished that his creation, Calvin and Hobbes, never be monetized into a brand. He didn't want it's "lifespan" to be artificially prolonged; to watch his creation be corrupted by commercialism and time. The very thing that happened to Garfield.
Somebody tell these guys about Heathcliff. If they think Garfield is soulless and uninspired....
I've never seen a newspaper comic strip that wasn't bland and boring like Heathcliff and Garfield.
you described the scene at the end of the sex survey a lot more chill than it actually was
night mind with his normal narrating voice: "precisely what you'd expect is happening as she gives birth into the toilet"
Honestly this fucked me up more then the horror content you've covered. Maybe it's because I'm an artist but damn.
The point being
Garfield
is
ETERNAL
兔子黑与白 hell naw nigga
And not funny.
Dickhead Johnson NOOOOOOOOO
Dickhead Johnson not funny
ETERNAL ETERNAL eternal
"Garfield is only a shadow of what he once was."
Well yea he skinny now
I would like to add something. You discussed the party video with the mouse stripper one that was also named a "Tribute to Jim Davis", where Jon is portrayed as just another partygoer - one who throws up in the bathroom. Yeah, it seems like it's Garfield's party since the focus is on him. But what if it was Jon's? Since it's, y'know, a "Tribute to Jim Davis" and Jon is a self-insert? Not to mention the "Congratulations for your cat cartoon" message that pops up? Then it would serve as another dig saying Jon, pictured as a loser (despite being a stand-in for Jim Davis), is overshadowed by Garfield no matter what he does. Even in his own party.
31:55 I think this shot just does not have enough layers. We have the night mind logo, the baby blurred out in the toilet, jon talking to himself at the door, and then we have a growing picture of the lasagna cat face. But I think it could use just a few more layers to be honest.
Yeah, I'll add a few more next time :^)
WE MUST GO DEEPER!
Nick Lemke More layers of Lasagna.
Jon Arbuckle, 2
HA! John Arbuckle, 0.
What I love about the guy monologuing is how our reaction to him literally plays in to the joke. We say "how can someone be so invested in Garfield" when we see this, fueling the message while also going beautifully over the top. I love it
9:40 the other article, "Paws, Inc. wins landmark copyright infringements case against dumb internet video makers." This is also commentary on something, isn't it?
I feel like i can answer your question, you see there is one lasagna cat video that is on the website instead of youtube (note. people have uploaded that video to youtube) but anyway what happened was that there was one video that lasagna cat made, that was copyright striked by paws, inc because in that one video, people were asking paws if they could have breakfast with garfield which prompted paws to copyright strike the video and i think that is why it says that in that one part
i may be wrong but ehh
I'm probably late but it's because that video had an address for PAWS, Inc.
There's a reupload of it here with the address intact though.
The funny part, which the makers of Lasagna Cat didn't know, is that if you look at the next day's strip after the Pipe strip, it's a follow-up and actually makes the strip funny (well, relatively funny anyhow).
Yeah, that's what I was thinking while watching the Pipe video.
Considering how much time & effort went into Lasagna Cat, they surely DID know, and deliberately chose this day's strip instead of the followup. Their point is much stronger when you don't know the second half of the joke.
When Jon appeared at Jon's door all i could think of were the lyrics "Hello me, meet the real me" from Sweating Bullets
This is the best dissection and and criticism of all the "dark theory" content out there. I remember that the first few times I heard stuff like that, with the coma and apocalypse theories, I thought it was cool. It got old very quickly, and now it's irritatingly common and terribly unoriginal. I feel like it's too often a response to taking an otherwise positive show and trying to make it "edgy" for edgy's sake. When you can't make one theory about a show remotely attractive (ex. apocalypse theory for Adventure Time when the setting is already post-apocalyptic), just make another dark theory about it! I know that the need to contrast entertaining media with its opposite is appealing but when it's one edgy and overdone theory after the other you end up wanting to block everything out and enjoy the show/comic/book/etc. for what it is rather than reading ten more Squidward's Suicide clones. I hadn't heard of Lasagna Cat before this and I think this is the first time I've seen a piece of well-known media actually taken and made to become creative, original content that benefits off of previously understood material while bringing something fresh to the scene and actually does the "dark theory" thing right. Not gonna spend a day of my life to watch hours of the show, though.
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This hooman knows what's up.
Nick, did you just straight up imply SpongeBob isn't funny? That hurts, Nick. That hurts me right in my childhood.
Honestly, the best thing I learned from this video is that Jon Arbuckle is a self insert. That is genuinely so funny to me.
Quote from the website: "One man lives with the burden of making the world laugh every day... It's time we showed him how much we cared."
I watched the ending of the actual video. Never again. Never again. Never again. Never again. Never. Again.
BioBroly what was it like
CurledSun 6062 pretty gross
The very end was honestly one of the scariest jump scares I've ever seen.
describe it,! what is it?
I tripped acid for the first time while watching this video, thanks for that wild experience.
Great idea
Now i want to know what's the deal with Gazoroazorpfield and his fucking enchiladas
Foop I'm gazorpazorp-fucking-field bitch
Now give me my fucking enchiladas.
Wasn't that the planet with the sex robots?
*weak*...white guilt... milquetoast... white guilt
You know, Gazorpgazorpfield you are pretty mean to me, but that take the cake.
What if Jim Davis is the brain behind Lasagna Cat?!
you've created a hypothetical critique paradox
The sun will implode
Nick: "Garfield is eternal...eternal...eternal..."
Me: "thanks, i hate it."
Garfield and Friends was lit.
Ikr
yee
I never got why they created those long books with hundreds of Garfield strips in them.
[ Hush. ] cause they're awesome
I own two of them
Ngl I used to love tf outta Garfield, and so did alot of other people i know. The movies did it so wrong though omg. I was mortified. I'm glad they never made Calvin and Hobbies a movie, or TV show. Garfield, Archie, e.c.t. people are dragging tf outta my childhood.
@@artycantparty lucky
@@artycantparty Did you get them at scholastic book fairs? I used to see them in the catalogs as a kid.
Lasagna Cat is the most malicious thing I've seen in my life.
Yeah jesus fucking christ
Thank God I’m not the only one, it’s really weird. I mean, it’s an ARG, and apparently the creators themselves said they were messing around and the ending doesn’t have a particular meaning. It brings up interesting questions, but Idk, I don’t really understand the point of it.
is it weird that nick saying "not sexy at all" at 16:41 was somehow the sexiest thing in this video
actually the baby was the sexiest thing
You do realize your name in text is "×Qª¨V" Right?
Melon Man i didn't thank u
Melon Man i guess that is my name now sick
No problemo.
An original Night Mind theory would be amazing to read. I vote Always Sunny for an in depth analysis. The show is completely nuts and having someone piece together its darker undertones would make for a very cool perspective.
Versacesnakpak yes yes yes!!!
The most depressing part about it, is that the creators of Lasagna Cat are now in the exact same position, forever bound to their creation, which will surpass them and live on when they are long forgotten.
maybe they knew it all along
I actually just finished binge watching lasagna cat
now for the obligatory quote
"THAT'S A PRETTY FUNKY DANCE YA GOT THERE GARFIELD!"
That is is a pretty funky meta meme ya got there
WTF IS A MEME
magic
idk I didn't know what word to use to describe what i was thinking so I just said it, just don't look into it.
I don't understand how you your voice can be both extremely calming and extremely unnerving, frequently at the same time.
I keep waking up in cold sweats for the past 15 years.
Jim Davis truly is a genius and his genius truly shakes my soul awake each night
I am so glad you shouted out Riiser from the Webcomic Relief. He's truly underrated amongst most other reviewers and he makes some incredibly insightful reviews on both the bad and the good of webcomics.
Thanks man! Really apreciate that! :D
Seriously, I don't know how anyone could grow up in the 80's and NOT know that John is supposed to be Jim Davis. I figured that out at 8 years old.
JamiMichele
I know, right?
And Garfield never "overshadowed" Jon, he was always supposed to be the popular one. The comic strip is named Garfield, for crying out loud.
Jim Davis be watching this and is just like "Bruh-"
"We don't know how many pieces of paper he has put his pencil on" A+
this shit better than netflix
Dylan it's on UA-cam
Night Mind and chill?
*"...and even for all his faults, human feelings are very endearing in an animal."* *"...nobody likes failures in a human being."*
these two quotes together have been stuck in my head for awhile now, and when they would pop up in my head, they always got me thinking about non-human characters and they are able to get away with the most mess up shit, even if it's for a little bit, and how this isn't even specific to animal characters either, but also stuff like robots.
The one example I can think of up the top of my head is Serial Designation N from Murder Drones for example, he has a cute, friendly, nice, and loveable exterior, but then incomes the realization that he's pretty much a psychotic, mass murdering vampire that has killed innocent Worker Drones by possibly the thousands and is very much likely to kill again when the time comes, if he was human, those nice, friendly qualities that he has would make him out as a sadistic nightmare that no one would want to touch with a 10 foot pole, but because he's a cute looking robot, those qualities all the sudden become endearing! Nevermind the fact that he has a horrifically high body count, just watch him in a cute little suit and tie hang around with his Worker Drone friend that he is likely going to try and kill later down the line, look at him! What a *g o o f b a l l .*
Another example I can think of is the cast of Aggretsuko, yeah sure they're cute, anthropomorphic animals, but beyond that, they are very much human, they have dreams and ambitions, they get stressed, they suffer from hardship, they go through the hell of a boring, dead end office job just to get little pay, they get fucked over by others, they face harassment, they scream into a void hoping to god someone, *anyone* hears them. If these characters were human, sure it would still be fascinating to watch, but It certainly wouldn't be as interesting to watch if they were were human, and so the next best thing was to make cute, recognizable animals that simply acted human, Problem solved!
There are, of course, a multitude of examplee of this, but I'm gonna stop at that since I think y'all get the point by now.
I legitimately do love Garfield. The comics are a good start to the day and the cartoon and animated specials still hold up as funny and entertaining. Jim Davis wanted to tell a story and he's done it well. The stories are timeless and Garfield is an icon for a reason. I enjoy the wit and humor that comes with the characters. Some people may not find them funny, but Garfield still appeals to a lot of people, myself especially
What "story" did he tell? Do you know what a story is?
@@definitelynotanAIchatbot that's sort of the point.
@@definitelynotanAIchatbot It's another look at Id, Ego and Superego in constant orbit around each other.
I love the animated series.
i thought this was gonna be an april fools joke but NOPE
I think the April fools joke is that this isn't an April fools joke.
Maybe, he went almost all the analysis with such pessimistic tone basically telling that Jim Davis' work is useless. Then, in the end he states that not quite... Also the last 30 seconds.
this whole thing is just a really deep roast on jim and it has to be the moodiest mood
This is one of the best videos you've released for a while, the amount of research and fact delivering is what made me subscribe to this channel in the first place
The only video I saw today that wasn't an April Fools Joke.
SomeRandomGuy same
This is funny because you thought about the idea of Jim Davis/Jon Arbuckle being somewhat disappointment that Garfield was his successful comic/the real star without covering or knowing about Davis' earlier work, including a series that basically was proto Garfield and lasted a year before syndication and renamed into what we know now. The 1976-1978 comic strip, Jon. Originally, Jon was not just the title character but the focus of what was going on and Garfield was just a side character. But overtime, the cat became the real master and Jon was reduced to a fool to always be abused and mocked by his own pet.
UM...your 'discovery' that Jon was a surrogate for Jim Davis is something that everyone with a passing familiarity with the strip assumes. What's more interesting, is that Jim Davis says some weird stuff suggesting he feels disconnected from Garfield, when it's obviously the other face of the same coin. Garfield doesn't represent Jim Davis's cat at any point in his life. Jon is Jim and Garfield is also Jim. It seems silly to explain that, or take a stab at a guy who, let's be honest, was paid to fill 3 panels worth of space in the sunday paper. Like, 3 inches worth of extra space in the expanded sunday edition. It was all a vacuum of garbage content that had to be churned out once a week. People expect an orange tabby to say his catch-phrases, and that's what he was paid to provide. Tasty, vanilla, pointless. I mean, it's surely kinda garbage, but you don't blame the garbage-man for the garbage. Garbage doesn't exist for the sake of the sanitation workers that handle it.
I see the point, but I still found garfield comic strips funny when I was younger.
can't believe this is already 7 years old. wow. time has passed too quickly.
Yup
Tbh, despite this brutal beat-down, Jim Davis seems like an alright guy.
a 38 minute video on a meme, thank you night mind
This right here is why Nick is a god
i watched that whole video, pure...bliss
ＮＯＷ ＷＨＥＲＥ ＣＯＵＬＤ ＭＹ ｐｉｐｅ ＢＥ？
the whole thing could just be poking fun at the fact that paws inc is milking garfield like a prized cow,
Welp. My childhood is ruined. Maybe I'll watch Garfield's Nine Lives again.
every piece of work with genuine effort put into it has an audience somewhere
:(
You had me hooked on this channel after the first 90 seconds... subscribed on a whim... but staying for the long haul...