"Nermal, I'm taking away your internet access. You are way too dumb to use it." "But some Prince from a far away country wants to give me money. I just need to give him my credit card info." "That's it! You can go to a far away country yourself as I'm mailing you to Abu Dhabi."
"Yes that's exactly what I'm thinking. Let's go eat and let Nermal kill himself." "I fucking love you." Honestly that might be one of the most wholesome Garfield moments ever. Especially the part about Nermal dying.
The backstory is that Nermal "accidentally" leaked Jon's private info on the dark web, and then some sketchy men asked him to get in their van and he hasn't been heard from since
*Garfield:* Modern technology is a wondrous thing! *Jon:* I'VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO TURN THE COMPUTER ON!!! *Garfield:* But it will never replace good old fashioned dumb. 2013-11-05
Or he meets Trekkie Monster from Avenue Q who causes Nermal to lose his innocence after the Monster sends him some *very* “special” photos of his neighbors.
I can't get over how they made Garfield the responsible one. The setup for these comics is like if The Simpsons tried this and made Homer the smart one teaching Lisa how to be safe online (and they kept Skyping Professor Frink for no reason), the character dynamics have just never been that way. Just as well they didn't include Jon or they'd probably have made him the vet and Liz the hapless oddball.
@@furonguy42 and yet I'd watch that ten times more than any Simpsons short that Disney spits out... or that crappy cameo at the Disney Legends awards...
These came out in the 2010s/2020 but the graphic design work on the covers screams "late 90s". Until I noticed the smart phones on the one cover I thought they *were* that old. Between Flash and PDFs it's kind of impressive how Adobe has not one but TWO perfect examples to it's name of why it's a bad idea to allow non-open-source formats to become industry standards.
@@windowcreeperbird9669 "PDF files can be infected with viruses, Trojans, and other malware. They can have hidden JavaScript code that might exploit vulnerabilities in a PDF, hidden objects executed when the file that hides them is opened, and, less commonly, a malicious PDF can launch malware" also reader and Acrobat have had issues and editing pdfs is only with acrobat
This is an offshoot of Garfield’s Infinite Learning Lab, which itself is a reskin of Pokémon Learning League, which ran from 2006-2009. Probably explains it.
Man, I sure do miss the old internet before the SJWs and karens ruined practically everything. Flash games, YTPs, logos, collections, sprites, and VHS openings for days on end!
The funny thing is: a few months ago, I asked in a comment to another Phelous video: what if Garfield's an anime character? Would he say "too bad it's Monday" to censor murders? Would he say "this lasagna is great" while holding rice balls? Would he... OK, I wasn't able to write a shout out to Foodwars because I'm not interested in Foodwars. Anyway. And now, here we go: Garfield. Eats. Jelly donuts. And I write a comment with a shout out to Pokémon that gets 100 "👍" 🥲 (despite my incorrect use of the word "how") Peter Venkman: "it wasn't that funny"
Dr. Cybrina: "[Sigh] It's always 'Hey we're calling so you can help educate Nermal about Cyber Security', never, 'We were just wondering if you wanted to hang out with us and smoke Catnip and fill our bellies with chocolate milk and play CheeseQuest Revenge for the PS:2"
As a 90s kid who loved Garfield back in the day, I love the deep dives into these obscure, BIZARRE products, especially those from WAY after the franchise was popular
My grandma was born in 1919 and about 20 years ago she looked up from her newspaper and said, "Garfield just isn't funny anymore." It was amusing to hear someone who doesn't even know how to turn on a computer have the same opinion as everyone on the internet at the time.
Garfield probably had a veggie pizza left, that why he gave it away. These stories are Garfield nightmares, he’ll get the girl but all his kids will be nermal 😂
I kinda find it funny the moral of the final one contrasts with the others. Comic 1 and 2 boil down to "Don't post Too much Information, or you can hurt yourself" Comic 3 is about "Don't tease/bully people, you'll hurt them" And then we have comic 4 and it's moral "don't download movies, or the government will hurt YOU"
And several times in the animated specials and Garfield and Friends. Phelous HAS to know this, so I guess he meant that you rarely ever see Jon actually working.
So weird to see Garfield genuinely care for Nermal (I can buy him being that way to Odie but NERMAL???). If anything, Garfield would likely encourage Nermal to give out his password.
Gets even worse in that certain states in the U.S. are effectively forcing people to submit state IDs to even use social media, which on top of the invasive nature of it all is a recipe for identity theft waiting to happen considering data breaches aren’t uncommon
Forget the fact that canon Garfield has the same amount of parental instincts as a particularly filicidal rock. What about the fact that it's been implied in the comics that Nermal is older than he looks and is just exploiting his kittenish appearance so humans will fawn over how cute he is?? Nermal isn't even a kitten anymore! Why doesn't he know the basics of internet-- /glances around at some of my coworkers/ ...Never mind, this is accurate. Carry on.
In this universe.... is Jon Arbuckle their pet? Does he sleep in the yard or... is he just a stray? I never expected Dave Coulier to play the role of James Sunderland... but well if that's the worst Bloober can do to the remake we can count ourselves lucky.
Yeah, he sounds more like an older Chester McBadBat than Nermal. Granted, afaik, there's only been two voices for Nermal, not counting the Bill Murray movie, and I feel Goyette's performance is more iconic.
Okay, your edits had me rolling on the floor in this one. I think it's because the source is already so bonkers and off-brand that I can legit believe half of them. 😂
2:57 I actually remember taking part in this as a kid in elementary school in 2009/2010, really weird hearing somebody bring up Professor Garfield 15 years later. Also I remember the plots of a ton of the webtoons, crazy to think that most of it is now lost media.
I remember it as well- So seeing a print version of it is strange and yet familiar. In fact, there's a chance this was one of my first exposures to Garfield, alongside the CN Garfield show. So it's like the Flash was well before 2020. Unfortunate it (especially the Dr. Nova episodes) wasn't saved.
It would make Garfield's past attempts to mail Nermal to Abu Dhabi a little strange. But hey, the fandom for MLP FiM thinks every character is or has an illegitimate pony child.
@@loneshewolf74 But its completely normal for cats to understand what the US Post Office and Abu Dhabi are and try to mail their owner's parents' kitten there.
Garfield and Nermal being father and son adds some serious tragic weight to their relationship. All those times of him attempting to send Nermal to Abu Dhabi? That’s the kind of thing you’d call child services about…. 😳
I honestly prefer him talking normally every time he "thinks"(talks without moving mouth but every animal can hear him) it feels like Jeff Bezos from South Park
It's funny, with the way the actual comic is written, there are points where I can't tell if the edited dialog is something you added or from the actual comic.
This stuff's from 2020 ?! Talk about being some 15 to 20 years too late, especially the last one about illegal downloads... This one really feels like something that should have been released in the days of Napster and Lime Wire.
I wanted to add that I feel Nermal should have had his computer blocked by a ransomware spoofing the police when he downloaded the movie. Seems like a more realistic outcome, though it could have been redundant with the first story and the data theft. (Answered my own comment rather than editing it because of the ❤️... BTW, thanks Phelous. 😃😉)
6:54 "Online friends are not real friends"? Tell that to my partner whom I met online 4 years ago who flew across the continent to meet me in person, and we loved every moment of it. The Internet can be a powerful tool for good more then a weapon for evil.
Nermal: "Garfield! My Catbook account just posted a video of Odie dying by itself and I can't remove it!" Garfield: "It must be possessed by the internet ghost of Ot to, you shouldn't have posted about the party you didn't invite him to." Nermal: "Oh no! Now I have less than 500 friends on Catbook!"
Jon should have been the doofus doing dumb stuff online instead of Nermal. It would totally be in character. Though Jon would logically be the one being cyberbullied, and Garf would be the one cyberbullying him.
@@andreasnickmann370 oro- yee we can solve this problem with science* flying around then eating* the other Dingo pictures characters* Dundee- * muffled voice what's a matter with me * wa wa noise plays*
“Hrmm…. a letter from a Nigerian Prince, and he wants to give me *DIAMONDS* ?! Mew Mew, give me your credit card!” “Dad, I’m too young to ha-“ “MEW MEW!!”
I personally love this because Garfield and Arlene taking a parental role over Nermal. Not actually his parents but just taking on the role and it’s wholesome. 🩷🧡🩶
I wouldn’t marry someone I’ve never met IRL :P There are different kinds of friendships though and I don’t know why online friendship would somehow be the only one that’s not ”real”
@@limalepakko6074 I mean, the two of them definitely interacted a lot in real life before they got married. I was just pointing out that Phelous met his wife online, sort of, they both worked for the same website. I don't know if they interacted online before they interacted in real life, and it's honestly none of my business. I just thought it was funny that Phelous was pointing out the problems with "Online friends and not the same as real friends," when he met his wife by working for the same website.
Just like Tails, I thought for the longest time that Nermal was female. The eyelashes and voice in many of the Garfield & Friends episodes made it harder for me to tell. Ah well. Good old Garfief. Good old lasag.
you think thats bad? back in the day when me and my friend were playing a brand new Mega Man X game we thought Zero was a girl.. what with the pony tail and all :B
Nermal seems way more annoying as a social influencer in the 2020’s than he was just being cute to onlookers back in the 1980’s. That seems about right…
I know your Garfield voice is just you being silly, but it's still better than the 2004 one, and the...ugh...2024 one. Great entertainment as always, Phelan, take care.
Wait, so Garfield lives in this very modern house with Arlene and Nermal, and not Jons run down old house? I think Garfield got Jon to apply for life insurance and then made him an addition to his families haunted mansion
He worked on the original Garfield and Friends TV show. In “Garfield Goes Hawaiian” he voices a parrot and does an impression of Lorenzo’s Garfield at one point (as well as some…problematic celebrities-fair warning).
See, just like irl if you make fun of somebody on the internet, simply reply later with something positive and all the cyberharassment will be reversed immediately.
I gotta say, the messages in these comics are well-intentioned and delivered pretty well, but it's kind of odd seeing Garfield as the face of these PSAs. It’s not that it doesn’t work, but it’s definitely not something I would have expected.
Jon: "Garfield, why did you take apart my computer?!"
Garfield: "You lied to me. You said there was Spam in the email and Cookies on the browser."
"The files...are IN...the computer!"
I could actually see this in a Garfield comic
I cant wait for the long awaited sequel where Garfield warns us against Deepfakes and AI generated voices and images
Nermal: Wait... You mean Taylor Swift didn't endorse me for president?
But Ai can do such great things. Like make Garfield sing shake it off by Taylor Swift.
"Garfield, I asked the CatGPT to create a picture of a female cat, but it generated this horrible monstrosity with pink fur and giant human lips!"
I'm looking for the one where Swat Kats makes a cameo.
That would honestly be a good thing. Not only would it get older people who find Garfiled funny get more informed, kids might like it as well.
"Nermal, I'm taking away your internet access. You are way too dumb to use it."
"But some Prince from a far away country wants to give me money. I just need to give him my credit card info."
"That's it! You can go to a far away country yourself as I'm mailing you to Abu Dhabi."
I miss the days when Garfield tried to mail Nermal to other countries.
Now he'd just email him.
@@phelousthat or he would install a VPN so Nermal would be browsing from the Middle East.
I'd assume he still tries, but next-day delivery means Nermal can just get home really easily.
Who said he ever stopped
@@phelousand TikTok himself doing it…..
I Hate Cyber Mondays
"Yes that's exactly what I'm thinking. Let's go eat and let Nermal kill himself."
"I fucking love you."
Honestly that might be one of the most wholesome Garfield moments ever. Especially the part about Nermal dying.
The backstory is that Nermal "accidentally" leaked Jon's private info on the dark web, and then some sketchy men asked him to get in their van and he hasn't been heard from since
😂😂
Just like lyhman
Nermal is sponsored by Surfshark, which is actually just a shark who surfs, who knew
*Garfield:* Modern technology is a wondrous thing!
*Jon:* I'VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO TURN THE COMPUTER ON!!!
*Garfield:* But it will never replace good old fashioned dumb.
2013-11-05
Because of how Phelous voiced his lines, to me Otto now is the Baltard of the Garfield universe.
@@animewolfOtakuwolf *OTTO* *THE* *OCTOPUS!!!* THE MOST BALTARD GARFIELD CHARACTER!!!
But Baltard!
But Otto!
*OTTO* *THE* *OCTOPUS!!!* THE MOST [REDACTED] GARFIELD CHARACTER!!
Yes because when I think of cyber safety to connect with the fellow kids , I entrust Garfield to protect the youth in 2020.
I don't even know what would be a good 2020s icon towards children. Can Baby Sharks go on cyber adventures? Can toilet-people?
Right? I thought this was gonna be some special from 1997. Not *2020.*
I find it funny considering Gorefield existed during that time 😂
@@eIchristoBaby Shark DOES have a TV show…
It's all fun & games until Nermal accepts a friend request and is cursed to become Ner Mal
Ooh, Faced! ...book.
Or he meets Trekkie Monster from Avenue Q who causes Nermal to lose his innocence after the Monster sends him some *very* “special” photos of his neighbors.
I can't get over how they made Garfield the responsible one. The setup for these comics is like if The Simpsons tried this and made Homer the smart one teaching Lisa how to be safe online (and they kept Skyping Professor Frink for no reason), the character dynamics have just never been that way. Just as well they didn't include Jon or they'd probably have made him the vet and Liz the hapless oddball.
I could see Homer trying to do that, but failing miserably cause of his own incompetence
To be fair, I can see Garfield being more responsible than Nermal.
garfield would be more likely to trick nermal into selling his organs on the darkweb
@@furonguy42 and yet I'd watch that ten times more than any Simpsons short that Disney spits out... or that crappy cameo at the Disney Legends awards...
@@delanceallen8827 Wasn't that the Season 1 dynamic?
These came out in the 2010s/2020 but the graphic design work on the covers screams "late 90s". Until I noticed the smart phones on the one cover I thought they *were* that old.
Between Flash and PDFs it's kind of impressive how Adobe has not one but TWO perfect examples to it's name of why it's a bad idea to allow non-open-source formats to become industry standards.
Having out of touch Gen Xers try to teach technology to the youth gets you results like this.
What happened with pdfs?
@@windowcreeperbird9669 "PDF files can be infected with viruses, Trojans, and other malware. They can have hidden JavaScript code that might exploit vulnerabilities in a PDF, hidden objects executed when the file that hides them is opened, and, less commonly, a malicious PDF can launch malware" also reader and Acrobat have had issues and editing pdfs is only with acrobat
I also thought these were from the 90's. I'm genuinely shocked they aren't.
Thanks Garfield! That's why I look for romance the old fashioned way - by meeting people in bars and clubs, where they would never lie to you.
The way the internet and social media is depicted is like 15 years out of date
You wouldn't download a lasagna, would you?
This is an offshoot of Garfield’s Infinite Learning Lab, which itself is a reskin of Pokémon Learning League, which ran from 2006-2009. Probably explains it.
Isn’t it always though???
@SuperCosmicMutantSquid Can I 3D Print it? 🖨
Man, I sure do miss the old internet before the SJWs and karens ruined practically everything. Flash games, YTPs, logos, collections, sprites, and VHS openings for days on end!
7:58 THAT'S how jelly donuts look like?!
That means: Brock lied to us!!!!!!
Beauty: gasp
You kidding me? I thought Garfield was munching down riceballs!
I KNEW it, Stupid American Censorship Keeping us from Learning some Japanese STUFF, Good thing we have the Internet with our Anti-Virus Programs.
The funny thing is: a few months ago, I asked in a comment to another Phelous video: what if Garfield's an anime character? Would he say "too bad it's Monday" to censor murders? Would he say "this lasagna is great" while holding rice balls? Would he... OK, I wasn't able to write a shout out to Foodwars because I'm not interested in Foodwars. Anyway.
And now, here we go: Garfield. Eats. Jelly donuts. And I write a comment with a shout out to Pokémon that gets 100 "👍" 🥲 (despite my incorrect use of the word "how")
Peter Venkman: "it wasn't that funny"
It gets better-this is an offshoot Garfield’s infinite learning lab, which itself is a reskin of Pokemon Learning League.
Dr. Cybrina: "[Sigh] It's always 'Hey we're calling so you can help educate Nermal about Cyber Security', never, 'We were just wondering if you wanted to hang out with us and smoke Catnip and fill our bellies with chocolate milk and play CheeseQuest Revenge for the PS:2"
I got that reference
"We're not friends Cybrina. I don't know you in real life, and I suspect your real name isn't 'Cybrina'."
Nermals Stupidity probably almost made Garfield want to drink Chocolate Milk☠️
@@KasumiKenshirou,, Online Friends aren't real Friends"
,,ok, bye"
Digital citizenship? Back in my day we just called it Netiquette.
"Stop questioning things, citizen 2-4601"
Can Phelous be hired to rewrite all the dialogues in those comics and do all the new ones onwards?😂
Honestly down for him to start doing comic reviews if he just alters dialogue without addressing it like he does in this video.
Garfield just casually telling me that I have ZERO friends. 🥺
@@Annausagi2 that means: you must haunt the internet now
@@andreasnickmann370 *Sees my Facebook friends number ticking away on the screen* Nnnnnnnoooooooooooo~
Maybe you have friends, maybe you don't. Stay safe person I don't know 🙂
The reason Jon isn't in this is because Gorefield ate him after saying "Bullets don't work, Jon."
"We _tried_ dragging him out into the street and shooting him."
So, looks like this kitten ended up with some... NerMalware.
I'll just see myself out...
So true to life. Those kids are playing the video games to beat their high scores. Yup, high scores are so relevant in modern video games.
I have a slight suspicion this comic was written by boomers.
You skipped right over "Nermal should only have gotten a B+ on his report."
That was savage. XD
As a 90s kid who loved Garfield back in the day, I love the deep dives into these obscure, BIZARRE products, especially those from WAY after the franchise was popular
29:00 "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Lasagna Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday."
"...but you never did." 🥺
Nermal looks into the camera, sighs deeply, then picks up his ukulele.
Too bad Garfield’s cyber safety adventures don’t involve going into Mainframe to check out Dot’s Diner.
wow somebody else knows what ReBoot is
Megabyte is gonna dox nermal.
Sadly Nermal was ignorant of how to properly erase internet history, traumatizing Garfield when he found the Bo and Lanalyn Rule 34 pages.
you don't wanna know what Discord servers nermal hangs outs on.
Were those the two sheep characters? Weren't they brother and sister?
@@Morgil27 Yes. Never underestimate the degeneracy of the online art community, probably
DEAR GOD!
@@kaijukidsamI like how you say ”never” and ”probably”, lol
Between this and the new movie kids are going to start thinking of Garfield as "that unfunny cat that tries to teach us things"
it's up to internet artists to keep revitalizing garfield through increasingly absurd means.
The obvious example of that being Lasagna Cat.
That unfunny cat's material somehow got EVEN LAZIER
My grandma was born in 1919 and about 20 years ago she looked up from her newspaper and said, "Garfield just isn't funny anymore." It was amusing to hear someone who doesn't even know how to turn on a computer have the same opinion as everyone on the internet at the time.
or jon's mental case figment
Responsible, intelligent Dad Garfield is not MY Garfield.
Can’t believe Phelan didn’t mention that emotional part of CheeseQuest 7 where CheddaRoth stabbed Aeris with a cooking knife.
I took too long to realize that some of these panels were photoshopped
In this episode Nermal doxes himself, leading to someone to send him multiple religious pamphlets in the mail.
"This is Garfield's doppleganger from the black lodge" I'd like to see Garfield talk backwards and grin creepily... well nevermind.
This feels like something that would've came out in 2003
Even 2003 feels late to the punch. This feels like 1999 preYk2 panic stuff.
“Garfield’s Cyber Sex Adventures.”
Wow, Phelan. Just wow.
That's a Phreudian sliplous.
Garfield probably had a veggie pizza left, that why he gave it away.
These stories are Garfield nightmares, he’ll get the girl but all his kids will be nermal 😂
I kinda find it funny the moral of the final one contrasts with the others.
Comic 1 and 2 boil down to "Don't post Too much Information, or you can hurt yourself"
Comic 3 is about "Don't tease/bully people, you'll hurt them"
And then we have comic 4 and it's moral "don't download movies, or the government will hurt YOU"
Jon Arbuckle does technically have a job, he’s a cartoonist. It was established in the comics.
Yup, and after the 1st comic, it took a real long time to see him working again.
Plot twist: all the Garfield comics we've read in the papers were made by Jon this whole time.
Maybe Jon wrote these cybersafety comics lol
And several times in the animated specials and Garfield and Friends. Phelous HAS to know this, so I guess he meant that you rarely ever see Jon actually working.
@@ShayLaLaLooHoo That sounds about right. He is pretty dorky and out of touch.
So weird to see Garfield genuinely care for Nermal (I can buy him being that way to Odie but NERMAL???). If anything, Garfield would likely encourage Nermal to give out his password.
Online friends are totally not like "real" friends, they don't constantly try to rip me off or get me to smoke pot.
"Don't give out personal info" while every social site requires as much info as the DMV from you in order to sign up. Getting mixed signals there.
especially since UA-cam asks for a Driver licence to view age-restricted videos
@@gracekim1998 What?! I've never had to do that.
@@gracekim1998since when has this been a thing? 😂
Gets even worse in that certain states in the U.S. are effectively forcing people to submit state IDs to even use social media, which on top of the invasive nature of it all is a recipe for identity theft waiting to happen considering data breaches aren’t uncommon
Forget the fact that canon Garfield has the same amount of parental instincts as a particularly filicidal rock. What about the fact that it's been implied in the comics that Nermal is older than he looks and is just exploiting his kittenish appearance so humans will fawn over how cute he is?? Nermal isn't even a kitten anymore! Why doesn't he know the basics of internet-- /glances around at some of my coworkers/ ...Never mind, this is accurate. Carry on.
In this universe.... is Jon Arbuckle their pet? Does he sleep in the yard or... is he just a stray?
I never expected Dave Coulier to play the role of James Sunderland... but well if that's the worst Bloober can do to the remake we can count ourselves lucky.
It fells so weird when Garfield is so much about safety and caring while originally he is not any of that.
This is where Jon and Odie would have been helpful. On the shows, they usually function as the moral compass that forces Garfield to fix the problem.
I'm really curious what market research lead to people deciding that Garfield was the best way to teach young kids to not give their passwords out.
Nermal being voiced by Jason Marsden always threw me off. I got so used to Desiree Goyette, it just never sounded right.
Yeah, he sounds more like an older Chester McBadBat than Nermal. Granted, afaik, there's only been two voices for Nermal, not counting the Bill Murray movie, and I feel Goyette's performance is more iconic.
@@Shades14 Well there's a reason for that, lol.
I was wondering why Nermal's voice sounded so familiar
Okay, your edits had me rolling on the floor in this one. I think it's because the source is already so bonkers and off-brand that I can legit believe half of them. 😂
Oh hi, Toon. Fancy seeing you down here. xD
"Food should be the one thing that Garfield should be interested in."
HIS. Interested in HIS food.
You are half-correct while Garfield is interested in his food in the comics also steals other people's food all the time.
@@powerstones7722
... and in doing so, it is now HIS food.
😉
2:57 I actually remember taking part in this as a kid in elementary school in 2009/2010, really weird hearing somebody bring up Professor Garfield 15 years later. Also I remember the plots of a ton of the webtoons, crazy to think that most of it is now lost media.
I remember it as well- So seeing a print version of it is strange and yet familiar. In fact, there's a chance this was one of my first exposures to Garfield, alongside the CN Garfield show.
So it's like the Flash was well before 2020. Unfortunate it (especially the Dr. Nova episodes) wasn't saved.
I'm always surprised when what seem like they would be the laziest productions go out of their way to animate Garfield's mouth moving.
Maybe they should have swapped animators with the ShiftyLook Mappy cartoon.
Nermal's going to have to be careful with online friends. His real friends might die or, worse, get unfriended!
Garfield being Nermal's father. That would be an interesting theory.
It would make Garfield's past attempts to mail Nermal to Abu Dhabi a little strange. But hey, the fandom for MLP FiM thinks every character is or has an illegitimate pony child.
@@loneshewolf74 But its completely normal for cats to understand what the US Post Office and Abu Dhabi are and try to mail their owner's parents' kitten there.
As someone who has to study Animal Behavior in college, Garfield treating Nermal like crap makes so much sense.
Garfield: I have no son.
*mails him to Abu Dhabi.*
That's right, Nermal, don't trust strangers who want your personal information. Trust Garfield, who's literally mailed you overseas myriad times.
Garfield and Nermal being father and son adds some serious tragic weight to their relationship. All those times of him attempting to send Nermal to Abu Dhabi? That’s the kind of thing you’d call child services about…. 😳
Seeing Garfield’s mouth move with his lines is a lot more cursed than I would have expected.
@@theoneguyoverthere uncanny...
I honestly prefer him talking normally every time he "thinks"(talks without moving mouth but every animal can hear him) it feels like Jeff Bezos from South Park
It's funny, with the way the actual comic is written, there are points where I can't tell if the edited dialog is something you added or from the actual comic.
This stuff's from 2020 ?! Talk about being some 15 to 20 years too late, especially the last one about illegal downloads... This one really feels like something that should have been released in the days of Napster and Lime Wire.
I wanted to add that I feel Nermal should have had his computer blocked by a ransomware spoofing the police when he downloaded the movie. Seems like a more realistic outcome, though it could have been redundant with the first story and the data theft.
(Answered my own comment rather than editing it because of the ❤️... BTW, thanks Phelous. 😃😉)
THANK YOU!
6:54 "Online friends are not real friends"? Tell that to my partner whom I met online 4 years ago who flew across the continent to meet me in person, and we loved every moment of it. The Internet can be a powerful tool for good more then a weapon for evil.
At least Nermal didn't go on the Dark Web and find a Red Room and now the evil Dark Web Baddies are knocking at his door despite him using a VPN.
Nermal: "Garfield! My Catbook account just posted a video of Odie dying by itself and I can't remove it!"
Garfield: "It must be possessed by the internet ghost of Ot to, you shouldn't have posted about the party you didn't invite him to."
Nermal: "Oh no! Now I have less than 500 friends on Catbook!"
Well, I guess the lack of Jon explains Garfield minus Garfield.
Jon should have been the doofus doing dumb stuff online instead of Nermal. It would totally be in character. Though Jon would logically be the one being cyberbullied, and Garf would be the one cyberbullying him.
Online safety with Diego pictures. King ma god - your giving you being a dummy on line Robbin MY GOD! Wabbu - being unsafe online is so stupid.
Kree: "you'll get a damn good beating LOL"
MEAN COMMENTS INTERRUPTING BEAR
Aladin: "that bastard LOL"
Hunchback nun: It belongs in a great, big flame war!!!!!
@@andreasnickmann370 oro- yee we can solve this problem with science* flying around then eating* the other Dingo pictures characters* Dundee- * muffled voice what's a matter with me * wa wa noise plays*
“Hrmm…. a letter from a Nigerian Prince, and he wants to give me *DIAMONDS* ?! Mew Mew, give me your credit card!”
“Dad, I’m too young to ha-“
“MEW MEW!!”
Georg Feils: "Start posting your SSN" *insert JPEG of a gun pointed towards the viewer*
I personally love this because Garfield and Arlene taking a parental role over Nermal. Not actually his parents but just taking on the role and it’s wholesome. 🩷🧡🩶
The whole thing feels like a strange Garfield fan fiction rather then something official.
Your repurposed comic bubbles made my day. My daily snark intake is now fully sated 😂
Garfield: Online friends are not the same as real friends!
Phelous: Umm, Garfield, I met my wife online.
Garfield: She's not real!
I wouldn’t marry someone I’ve never met IRL :P There are different kinds of friendships though and I don’t know why online friendship would somehow be the only one that’s not ”real”
@@limalepakko6074 I mean, the two of them definitely interacted a lot in real life before they got married. I was just pointing out that Phelous met his wife online, sort of, they both worked for the same website. I don't know if they interacted online before they interacted in real life, and it's honestly none of my business. I just thought it was funny that Phelous was pointing out the problems with "Online friends and not the same as real friends," when he met his wife by working for the same website.
Guess Garfield finally killed Jon in this continuity.
Love the text edits in the panels you show sometimes. I got a whole belly-laugh out of "Ebay, here I come!" "DAMMIT! Not again!"
Honestly, it would be very IC of Nermal to be Instragram Famous, considering he is "The World's Cutest Kitten!"
I'd love to see an alternate version where garfield teaches you how to pirate movies and hide it from your isp
The speech bubble edits are hilarious
So, since US Acres apparently also exists in this bizarro animal world... is calling someone a pig racist?
Otto the Octopuss sounds like Bat Hero.
How come the joke panels fit in well with the real ones 😂😂
Litter is the social media app? Well I mean the IRL parallel IS full of shitposting, so it makes a ton of sense.
You editing those comic panels with jokes feels like something you could have been doing on this channel for years, lol. Fits in very well.
Maybe Dr. Cybrina should adopt Nermal, due to their shared love of gaming
Interesting Garfield AU
Just like Tails, I thought for the longest time that Nermal was female. The eyelashes and voice in many of the Garfield & Friends episodes made it harder for me to tell. Ah well. Good old Garfief. Good old lasag.
you think thats bad? back in the day when me and my friend were playing a brand new Mega Man X game we thought Zero was a girl.. what with the pony tail and all :B
and the chest lights...
I thought Freeza on DBZ was a chick for the longest time, also didn't realize Moose on Pepper Ann was a girl at first.
This feels like a comic that would have been developed in 1996. Not 2020.
Nermal seems way more annoying as a social influencer in the 2020’s than he was just being cute to onlookers back in the 1980’s.
That seems about right…
I know your Garfield voice is just you being silly, but it's still better than the 2004 one, and the...ugh...2024 one.
Great entertainment as always, Phelan, take care.
Odie living with Otto silently whispers *"Call the Police..."*
Wait, so Garfield lives in this very modern house with Arlene and Nermal, and not Jons run down old house?
I think Garfield got Jon to apply for life insurance and then made him an addition to his families haunted mansion
As usual, Phelous is leagues funnier at adapting Garfield than any of the modern media thats come out in the past 20 years
It's always a good sign when Phelan uploads a new video, but now with more Garfield!
It's nice that Welker seems to be emulating Music as Garfield.
He worked on the original Garfield and Friends TV show. In “Garfield Goes Hawaiian” he voices a parrot and does an impression of Lorenzo’s Garfield at one point (as well as some…problematic celebrities-fair warning).
I would love a Dingo picture how to be safe online with Wabuu the cheeky raccoon.
a very simple PSA blown out into a weird fan fic AU with OCs.
See, just like irl if you make fun of somebody on the internet, simply reply later with something positive and all the cyberharassment will be reversed immediately.
Hey, I wouldn't mind a Garfield, Arlene and Nermal sitcom like this one, just lose the octopus and bring Odie as Garfield's boss and I'm in.
Otto the octopus? What the hell you mean they couldn't get anyone from us acres?
I wouldn't mind seeing what Roy the roosters Twitter use looks like.
He went offline permanently after everyone called him "Banana Nose" on social media.
Everyone gets an alert from him on Litter every morning at 5am and he gets blocked for doing what Roosters always do.
I would assume Garfield had eaten 15 _boxes_ of donuts.
hey phelan my mom has ALL of that and yes she put the toilet set out every xmas!
33:10 now that's the Garfield comic I'm interested in.
and then Cybrina became a super villian
And would later marry Hacker from Cyberchase.
I was going to say something mean about Dr Cybrina's creepy lips, but fortunately Garfield taught me about not being an asshole online.
I gotta say, the messages in these comics are well-intentioned and delivered pretty well, but it's kind of odd seeing Garfield as the face of these PSAs. It’s not that it doesn’t work, but it’s definitely not something I would have expected.