How Garfield Lost His Magic
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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"There's more to life than socks."
"There's underwear."
Best joke 10/10
U joke no funny
Wait im blind its funny
VXN RARE indeed
That killed me. I laughed hard!
the sock has no space but the underwear has alot of space so you can us it for a double wide suprise! *Wait...*
Garfield is basically the cat version of "Sir this is an Arby's."
Yes
I Love Garfield, what's wrong with Arby's
@@jeffreyandrewwinters3719 nothing
Turned the 999 to 1K just now...
Achievement Unlocked
@@soggy_lasagna Love Garfield !!!
_"Garfield, I want to save the world!"_
*_"Jon, I'm a cat"_*
Your basically plagiarizing the most popular comment (Plagiarism means copy if you didn’t know). >:(
It may but the reason would be my kind, CATS!
more like... *JON, IM A LOVECRAFTIAN CREATURE, JON*
"your crazy jon".
I'm also right here
Garfield died with Lorenzo Music. It was never the jokes for me, it was his vicious deadpan delivery.
Lorenzo Music could read the phone book and I'd laugh, he was that great
Lorenzo Music was the best Garfield in my opinion. His voice was amazing.
He got hit in the leg when Garfield and Friends ended.
Garfield no longer is a cat
He's a Lovecraftnian deity
*Bullets don't work Jon*
*demonic background hiss-whispering*
I knew this would be in the comments somewhere.
@@kirkbupkis fate is inevitable
*JON,I REQUIRE LASAGNA*
@@literallyglados r/imsorryjon
I agree
Garfield is meant to be a slice of life comic. Sure he can go outside, but not an adventure...like
Garfield can go to the park and make fun of the people.
Not save a baby from a kidnapper
I believe garfield can be in exciting stories just that it has to be rather completely accidental or he is being dragged through the story without any say or wish to continue save for maybe the end for some moral.
so if he does save a baby from a kidnapper he didn't mean to do it and hates the baby every step of the way as he tries to dispose of his burden every chance he gets. ironically this would lead to him getting into more complicated situations.
Alan Hagerty agreed
The franchise at its best seems to work as a sitcom...
@@notaraven Unintentional heroics/doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. I could totally get behind that!
What about a road trip? Does that count as an adventure?
Lyman may be gone, but he's still in our hearts.
And Jon's basement.
lmao
Oh my God. Lyman was tied up on the wall in the basement in that old Garfield haunted house game, wasn't he? You've just unlocked an ooold memory.
I still theorize that the main reason Liz started dating John was to figure out the secret to Garfield's abnormally long life, despite his poor diet.
Damn, that's a good theory :0
11:09 Once I realized Jim Davis himself wrote that movie, it became overwhelmingly obvious to me that Garfield's thoughts and feelings are the exact things Jim Davis himself must have been feeling at that point in time. I think Davis was jaded with having to do Garfield for a living, and in spite of his own success, was wondering what the point of all of it was. He likely wanted to do something different creatively, and Garfield as a comic strip and as a business empire was standing in the way of that. Of course, ultimately he got to have newfound enjoyment out of Garfield that he had struggled to find before. Have a good day, my fellow commenters.
:D
@@diskdem0n that's deep, now pass me the pipe
@Pragmaticist Than light up a joint. lol
Does anyone remember "us acres" it ran in some paperd
Possessions enslave us, you must let go of your attachment to them
No style, no people skills, owns an overweight cat.
Yep, that is also my life.
And smokes
Do you even sexually harassed your veterinarian like in 3:25?
Same here - minus the cat....
@@kouham420 OH SHIT
**Go abuse Table**
im sure ur a nice guy
Damn i didn't realise how blessed we are that Calvin and Hobbes was never marketed heavily and didnt have any awful reboots, it aged like fine wine compared to Garfield.
Yeah, I mean Calvin and Hobbs probably could have continued to this day, and Watterson left 10's of millions maybe 100's of millions on the table never licensing it out (with a few tiny exceptions). But there is definitely something special to it that has come from it never getting over exposed, compromised his vision, or sticking around long enough to wear out it's welcome.
No kidding. The humor of Garfield has never really seemed to stick with me, and I tend to skip it anytime I see it in a newspaper. Calvin and Hobbes though was like a right of passage. It seemed everyone I knew picked up Calvin and Hobbes at least once sometime in Junior High or High School and voraciously read it. Its amazing that a comic strip, nearly two decades after it was cancelled like Calvin and Hobbes still resonates so strongly a generation after it was written; while the ongoing Garfield really seems to only be celebrated (or spoofed) via the internet shitposting community. Kudos to Mr. Watterson.
Absolutely! Watterson did the right thing.
I have a great deal of respect for Bill Watterson for valuing the artistic integrity of his creation
Hobbes and Bacon was kind of nice, though, sadly only very few strips exist and it's not really official.
"I need a life."
"Yep."
"There's more to life than socks!"
"There's underwear."
I don't know why, but I laughed really hard at this. Guess I still have somewhat of a sweet spot ever since I found my first Garfield way back in my formative years.
im glad i discovered this years ago, it was hilarious and idk why it was in the school library
Nah, that was genuinely funny. It's good comedic timing.
The reason Garfield lost his magic was because he no longer needed it as he has ascended and become an eldritch god of death
yes
YOU WONT ESCAPE MY WRATH JON.
I STILL REQUIRE MY LASAGNA. THOSE BULLETS WILL NOT WORK ON ME.
more like. l. B. mor. more l
more liken
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*EHEM* That’s the Monday universe. Like the other me said
*LASAGA*
2018: Garfield lost his magic
2019: Gorefield and Garfield Gameboy’D
Where’s my lasaga, Jhorn?
Bullets don't work, Jon
2017: odd1sout makes garfild.
Jon the world is going to end Jon
2030: *GARFIELD IS THE WORLD. EVERYONE WORSHIP GARFIELD*
Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes creator) refused to merchandise. He turned down hundreds of millions of dollars to keep the integrity of his comic strip.
AlpacasMafia He’s also quite the recluse.
It's understandable since merchandising can make people loose sight of the source's material's purpose. Though, there not really anything bad about merchandising. Even Charles Schultz had done some for "The Peanuts". Granted he had some hiccups here and there but still, merchandising isn't bad as long as you remember to put creativity first.
Though he DID do a few pieces as a guest artist in Pearls Before Swine recently. :D It was pretty great.
It was a year or two or three ago, I b'lieve.
Kizul Emeraldfire Yeah I remember those sold for a shit-ton of money
lose - to lose a bet or to lose a sock in the wash
loose - synonym for easy or the opposite of tight
*slams fist on table*
I demand a gritty live-action Garfield where the entire movie is Jon slowly delving into insanity and I want Garfield to constantly be smoking a pipe
Quinton kind of did that.
"Now where could my will to live be?"
"F E L I N E ."
where tube
Then lasagna cat is for you. 🐱
lasagnacat
Fair enough. But Garfield and Friends was incredible and I will fight anyone that disagrees.
Before this video I was watching your mac tonight video
Garfield was good... the "& Friends"... not so much. (But thats just how I felt, anyway ;D )
Defunctland YOU SAID YOU WOULD FIGHT ANYONE WHO DISSAGREES!!!!!
VinnieDog yes, he did say that.
Fight me
I think it's important to remember that Garfield is a 40-year-old comic, and in 1978, a comic strip that employed sarcasm and snark in the way that Garfield did was really not the norm. It was really quite funny because it was different, and that continued through much of the 1980s, but the late 80s and early 90s brought sarcasm/snark into the forefront of comedy, especially children's comedy, and Garfield became pretty tame as a concept, and thus was then thought of as bland.
The fact that it continued past 1986 or so is a minor miracle, considering how 1970s hip it started out.
It's a lot like the Simpsons that way. The Simpsons was super edgy in the 1990s, but now its really pretty tame.
The Simpsons changed the landscape of American comedies forever. Tho, it was far from edgy. Duck Man was 50x more edgy than Simpsons.
88michaelandersen Victim of Success. Happens to the best of us.
88michaelandersen Simspons became edgy when they started competing with Family Guy.
What about the national lampoon mag? I mean I know they’re definitely different but Garfield just seems like a more one noted version of that type of humor
Jon: "A blind date at a monster truck rally, what was i thinking?"
Jon: "She had long, red hair, running down her back."
Jon: "None on her head.... Just on her back."
Garfield: "Okay, you can stop right there."
*I C O N I C*
man i hate monday
Daddy meme meister Okay that’s funny
I don't get this please help
@@shigeon2668 blood
My favorite Garfield quote is -"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."
YES COMRADE
@@verbulent_flow6229 gay
My favorite is, "All your fears about socialism have been realized under capitalism" Garfield is WOKE.
@@SandsBros how did you know?
@@alexcarter8807 jon: Garfield do you think Liz likes me?
Garfield: Jon the bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.
One of the best strips from Garfield is a black and white strip where Garfield wakes up, surly as ever, and discovers that Jon and Odey are not there. He looks around for them, but the house is empty. The windows are boarded up, there are holes in the walls, cobwebs on the couch. The fridge is completely empty. He goes outside, and it is dark out. The grass is tall and has not been mowed in a long time, and you can clearly see the state of disrepair that the house is in. The whole neighborhood is completely in a shambles, and there is no one for Garfield to "talk" to at all. He panics, and tries to find someone, runs around screaming.
Then he wakes up from the nightmare, tangled in his blanky. He immediately goes and hugs both the dog and the human, and is awarded for his gratefulness with cuddles and petting. It's just about the one time in like 40 years in which the fat cat is nice to his family, but it sticks with me to this day. That strip (or series of them) scared the hell out of me as a kid, and it actually made me realize I needed pay more attention to the people I love because one day they will be gone.
I love this comic, even if it has aged about as well as milk left out on a sunny sidewalk.
Brigand Boy you might like the story Garfield’s Judgement Day. Davis originally intended to make it into a movie around 1988-89, but it was rejected for being too dark and it was turned into a kid’s book instead. I met Desiree Goyette (the original voice of Nermal and song writer for the Garfield TV specials) earlier this month and asked her about GJD and she added that a lawsuit over the rights to Garfield between Davis and CBS also contributed to preventing the movie.
GuineaPigDan Interesting.
@@GuineaPigDan I remember that the Garfield 10th anniversary special had a segment advertising this movie, and even had a demo of a song that was to be included in it. I was always confused as a kid as to why it was never mentioned again, aside from the publishing of the book. It's unfortunate, because not only would it have seen the return of Garfield's brother Raoul, it would have also featured the animated debut of Arlene, who, for whatever reason, was never in Garfield and Friends.
Do you remember that episode of "Garfield & Friends" in wich Garfield says that the people who produce the cartoon are implementing a system for the audience to decide the plot of the episodes, and the joke is that Garfield is a lazy coward who only wants to stay at home but the public wants him to go on adventures and fight bears and whatnots? ... Modern Garfield movies remind me of that episode for some reason
Oh my god! That sounds so surreal. What’s the episode called?
The Human Trash can Star Struck
Unlike Garfield and Friends, those weren't funny
"There's more to life than socks"
"There's underwear"
Logan Hoffner and undershirts
I understood :
Jon : 'There are more things than life which sucks'
Garfield (to the audience) : 'His underwear'
Garfield And Friends was my introduction to Garfield, so I always hear Garfield speak in that voice, even reading the comics.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Literally every garfield comic
Garfield: i hate mondays
Jon: Why doesn't liz like me garfield?
Garfield: shut up and make me lasagna jon
literally
Yup.
it’s time to kick odie off the table
@@nicegoatdoctor8224 dont do it garfielf thats our pet dog odie
@@brandonleemadison garfielf*
“Where smoking tube???” “ORANGE FELINE!!!”
That’s some SROMG content right there
Lasanga cat
JON WAS THE ORIGINAL NICE GUY
OH MY GOD HE WAS DRJKYDGSFGHJGDFBGFFGNHGF
He's make the ultimate Tik Tok Bad Boy
man i hate monday
Jon was the original incel
M'garfield
Personally, if I could reboot Garfield, I think I would make him a therapy cat that absolutely HATES being a therapy cat for a nobody called John. John is a complete nervous wreck that had no people skills and he needs a fuzzy companion to feel "normal" in this reboot. This would explain Garfield being taken EVERYWHERE with him and most people find this very weird. Then he get Oddie, who is a therapy dog in training and Garfield doesn't like the idea of being replaced, thus a lot of infighting.
HLeeV99 That's a good idea for a reboot.
dark but that could work
HLeeV99 I was thinking a "faithful" Garfield live action movie would be a romantic comedy about Jon and Liz with Garfield being the audience surrogate.
There is reportedly already an animated Garfield film in the works for theaters.
Pretty good! lol
“Our only thought is to entertain yo-“
*FEED ME*
-John And garm 1978 ish
Hey look its GARFILD in the background
GARFILD THAT'S NOT PEA SIZED
BattleUp Saber YES IT IS
WHERES THE FIER
Just my cat havn a bday
Quinton Reviews minus Garfield plus Garfield?
That "I need a bigger cat suit" joke is pure genius, it caught me so off guard
The garfield silently judging you in the back debunks the whole video.
This is the most anyone has ever thought about Garfield, including the people who write Garfield
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No. Look up lasagna Cat. Watch any of their videos and you’ll be changed.
@@daman7805 *laughs in 1 hour long pipe strip documentary
And that's kinda sad, isn't it. I don't want Garfield to disappear, but his presence in the world today is already thread thin.
Garfield just became Western Hello Kitty. You could say that it's a backwards Hello Kitty and also a mirror image of it. Hello Kitty was a design made for merchandise which eventually became a character and Garfield is a character which devolved into a merchandise design.
I've hardly ever read Garfield in the newspaper. I got the books of all the comic strips in chronological order when I was a kid and really enjoyed them because the strips actually tied into one another and made basic storylines
Garfield has actually gotten so stale in recent years that he's been pulled from the local funnies. The same local funnies that continued to publish Peanuts reruns for a few years after its ending (and for some godforsaken reason continues to publish Family Circus).
MediaMunkee That's to be expected
I remember discovering 'comic books' for the first time and I checked out the Garfield books in my school library. It's what got me interested in comic books in the first place.
I remember once when I was a very, very young child (I'm talking like between 5 and 7 years old - I'm 36 now), I was at my grandfather's house with my mom and sister and I found a bunch of Garfield books that were collections of some of the earliest strips, but I didn't realize back then how old Garfield actually was, and initially was really confused about how different the art and tone were, but when I realized that all of the strips connected to each other and formed a sort of story, I got past that and really enjoyed them.
That just makes the empty, soulless shell that modern Garfield comics have become all the more sad and depressing.
I own the first 41 books. I love 80's and 90's Garfield. But by the turn of the millennium I was getting fewer and fewer laughs out of each book. Eventually I stopped buying the new ones so that I can hold onto the good days only.
I think Garfield is responsible for about 50% of my sense of humor.
Same. Growing up my parents never had less than 10 or 12 Garfield strips on the fridge that they found particularly funny or relatable, and I know seeing those constantly every day during my tender developmental years had an impact.
Then it appears you sire have a crappy sense of humor.
Cat God Humor is subjective tho
lasaga
Tem bobs and lasagna
I'm actually dying over, "oh no, it's Splut Week," but probably not for the reason that was intended.
But let’s be honest, those Chia Garfields were scary af
Those were freaking terrifying
Chia Garfield? Can I have a timestamp if it's in the video lol
18:29 18:28
*oh no, it's splut week*
PyroTheCat oh no it’s the *school shooter*
man i hate monday
*oh no, it's no nut november.*
No splut November
damn it i was gonna say that
The Lasagna Titans episode I’ve been craving
Yo that's finna woke
Eyyy just came from your newest vid!
Stop stalking creators i like and start making a video!
Jkkk
So when you gonna do thot patrol on Quinton?
*Lasaga
"that cat is the only person"
Say that again, but slower
"that cat is the only purrson"
nO wHy
The cat is a god, Jon, your bullets won't work
*B R U H*
that cat is the only *paw*son
*"where pipe?"*
*"CAT."*
Sexhaie "location of smoke apparatus"
"FELINE"
| | ( -?) O- (o!)
Cherry Black "placement of device used to inhale the plant called tobacco into the lungs and exhale smoke"
"DOMESTICATED FURRY ANIMAL"
This shit is getting out of hand
“Pipe?”
“Oh!”
So it turns out that all of those _really bad_ comic strips from back in the day, like the cat-smoking-pipe strip, were just the author making fun of in-the-day cartoon marketing gimmicks and were actually really clever?
If you look at Peanuts, it's often not exactly laugh out loud funny. It's just kind of bleak, wry, cute and vaguely mirthful. It has a lot of stale jokes replayed endlessly. Like Garfield, it was merchandised to death, and has TV/Movie adaptions that vary from "Vaguely off, but nice in its own way", to "completely off the charts terrible".
I think Garfield was always a sarcastic piece of performance art. Like all notable modern art, the artist getting rich was part of the plan.
Yes.
Just look up the hour long video of a guy analyzing that same strip
No work of art has influenced me more than the "Pipe Strip". I can't grasp how deep just that one garfield strip comments on things like life and reality itself.
This is true art.
Thank you Jim Davis, thank you.
Garfield lived longer than any cat so far. This confirms my theory on Garfield being a secret god of destruction evil that will bring the end of the world as we know it
Naa he just used his lasagna as extra lives.
Lasagna god
gorefield and garfield gameboy’d
Universe 7 God Of Destruction Garfield
So, Garfield is Stitch?
You missed the perfect opportunity to title the video “How Garfield lost his groove”
SirPonicus haha yeah cuz Garfield will never get his groove back
Excellent analysis. I remember being so invested in the "Jon and Liz finally get together" arc that I cut out all the daily strips from the newspaper and taped them together until it was complete. I thought that was such a fulfilling conclusion to Garfield... and then it kept going.
That would have been a good place to end it tbh
Maybe it IS the conclusion, and the rest are Jon and Liz’s future child spending their early years trying to make comics based off of their father’s silly stories about his past, thus the general degradation of quality.
@@nicholaspeters1400 that probably wasn’t intended, but the good thing about books is that they’re open to interpretation, so it’s canon to ME.
"This cat has had a major glowup and no one has the compassion to tell him" is forever my favorite Quinton joke
“WE GOTTA SAVE THE UNIVERSE GARFEILD”
“Jon I’m a cat.”
“There’s more to life then socks”
*”There’s underwear”*
I just watched a 18 minute video about Garfield.
how about a nearly 1 hour video about a single garfield comic strip?
How about 5 hours repainting that comic strip?
man ih ate monday
@@CONGTHEGUERILLA Did it taste good?
*an 18 minute video.
Hey, but you can’t deny the voice actor for Garfield Gets Real and the Garfield Show is pretty perfect
That’s exactly how I would imagine he would sound like
I unironically loved the Garfield show
@@gman4736 the nostalgia
I'm sorry, but compared to Music's work in Garfield & Friends, it's kinda meh.
@@Imfernolistico Lorenzo Music WAS Garfield to me, and when he passed, so did the magic of the character
the new york sounding text to speech voice a lot of people use for garfield seems to fit really well to me
When I was in elementary, they had books full of Garfield comics at the school library, and I think they had the older comics from the 70s and 80s. I would read them and I remember thinking they were so funny. Later, in about high school in the early 2010s, I would sometimes read the comics in the paper (yes, my parents still get the paper) and I thought Garfield was terribly unfunny. I was kind of embarrassed at my younger self for thinking it was funny, but I’m glad to see that it was the humor of the comics that changed, not my own sense of humor
8:14 - That time lapse of Garfield changing is pretty insane tbh
"That joke didn't age well"
Yeah I remember being a kid in middle school and reading that and saying that's not okay lol
I remwber these long panel comics where garfeild went camping fighting a panther THAT is worth reading
I watch so many garfielf memes that youtube is now recommending me actual garfield vids...
Tis' the natural order of things
OMG IT'S COOP
ProjectJ, I was watching a lot of LasangaCat videos for a whole week and by the following week I was recommended a video of some guy playing around with the Garfeild comic maker.
The video had 2,000 views
Ya'll mind if I T-POSE?
6:26 - the pipe strip, that pipe strip.... I was 18 when it all began
So Garfield likes to smoke Jon's pipe...so THAT explains why he's always hungry.
On the "elongated feet" thing. Cats and dogs when they "sit" are actually kneeling. In ths REAL early days, Jim Davis wanted Garfield to walk and stand like a real cat, but he thought it looked strange. So he called up Charles Schultz and ask him for advice. CS told Jim that he too had the same problem when developing Snoopy. His final solution was to make the foot from everything below the knee. It worked for Snoopy and Garfield. On other famous drawn felines such as Heathcliff and Hobbes, where the front of the foot is not so pronounced, they compensate by having a larger "heel" which is actually the animal's knee. When they walk there may be some bending but that is to avoid the "Southpark Effect".
"There's more to life than socks" (there's underwear)
That one really got me. The voice acting in those old cartoons were spot on.
"Garfield peaked 6 years in production."
I would say some point in the early 90s it started to go down. The whole 80s decade was solid for Garfield.
Also, the old cartoon is awesome - lots of quotable material.
Garfield and Friends is awesome
Garfields change in his design makes him look like hes evolving into a human
Oh god
Check out13:30
He is evolving into satan boys
@Adartho You ruined it by saying that...
Whats this? Your Garfield is evolving!
13:28 - "All these poor filmmakers going out of their way to try to insert this orange cat into places where he doesn't belong."
PHRASING
lana
Wonder if Quinton is aware of “Garfield becomes god and vores the universe”
I'm sorry, Jon... I was so hungry.
Jon, You have to let me rest! Cats dont live for 40 years. Im sorry Jon
Or when he becomes a lovecraftian creature that tortures jon
vore
Its older than gorefield became real ( lovecraft garfield)
Honestly your punchline in the cartoon you drew is funnier than any Garfield strip I’ve seen in years.
in the 1900s:
Garfield: Where is my Lasagna??? Man I hate Monday's. Jon give me food.
Garfield in 2017 - 2018:
Garfoild: JoHn WhErE iS MY LagAnaSanaGAnA?!!???
JoHn: *throws it to him with some Monday's as well*
Garfoild: *OOF*
Garfield in 2019:
Garfield: *BULLETS WON'T WORK, JON ARBUCKLE...*
2013: I ate those food.
Fucking saw this twice in the comments
@@leketeke10 Where are the 3 cheese burgers?
Everything has it's natural end.
The Simpsons, Garfield, and even Family Guy are past their life span.
A good cartoonist knows when to quit. Mike Judge is a perfect example , and so is Gary Larson. Even Bill Waterson knew when to quit.
The difference is the Simpsons is still hilarious, and garfield was never funny. The only funny thing about garfield is the lasagna cat UA-cam channel created to make fun of it.
@@CW-up7xv The Simpsons haven't been funny in fifteen years. The only reason they are still on is because Groening is very heavily connected into the in group.
The creators of Family Guy want the show to end but Fox wont let them. It makes them too much money
-The Simpsons- Futurama
CarterK25
Futurama ended years ago.
*Notices the Garfild plush in the back*
Me: Ahh I see you are a man of culture as well.
Odd1sOut
*yee*
Yes it is
I was looking for this comment.
@@preston_gaming6203 haw
He might've lost his magic, but he never lost his godlyness.
Garfield Gets Real seems based off of an old Garfield and Friends episode where he gets tried of the old jokes and tries to write new episodes but keeps falling back into old habits and realizes that eating lasagna and sleeping *is* who he is.
EDIT: The episode's called "Star Struck"
if someone remembers the name of this episode, i'd appreciate it :)
I looked it up, it's called "Star Struck"
Interesting observation.
Idk if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I miss the original style of Garfield. To me, the rough, roundness is extremely charming. I believe it also adds more to the humor
Yeah, same
yup, I like Garfield more when he actually looks like a fat cat
Isn't the current style too round? I like how misshapen the older designs are, but they're bulkier. Now Garfield looks like a Disney character along the likes of Mickey Mouse.
17:39-17:41 is best Garfield
BlueDiamond That is the talented Brendaniel speaking.
Not gonna lie 90% of the girls I know would absolutely love if I brought my large orange cat to a date!
Alex Healy
Best idea ever
Where are these girls
Kalle72 murdered by words
comeback was 6/10
Bc he should have pulled a "no u"
I always really liked Jon, especially in the early days. Because I find him to be very relatable. He’s lonely, awkward, & has cat who is best friend who probably doesn’t even like him lol
*Jon has no style, Jon has no grace*
Raph c-j this John has a funny face
I KNOW WHERE YOU GOT THAT FROM
Zachary Silviera my man
HE HANDSTAND WHEN HE NEEDS TO AND STRETCH HIS ARMS OUT
JUST FOR YOU
INFLATE HIMSELF
JUST LIKE A BALLOON
THIS CRAZY JON JUST DIGS THIS TUNE
HUUUUUH
Coconut gun
John has no GREECE
I wish Garfield & Friends lasted just a little longer. One of the few cartoons that was ended of the creator's own volition. Not due to low ratings.
Medachod by the final season it has some of the highest ratings too
I like The Garfield Show
Medachod i liked Garfield and friends too , along with the comics...just didnt care for the cgi toon or the movies
actually, if i recall, CBS wanted to cut the budget and so they dropped the show
i hate mponday
Bro, your Garfield comic from when you were a kid is funnier than Garfield itself has been in decades.
Take a bow.
“Garfield is a constant that will never burn out”
I’m eternal, Jon
“Like a lot of you I grew up totally obsessed with the Garfield comic strip”
Several people are typing.
Calvin and Hobbes is the antithesis of Garfield: a non-merchandised comic strip that had a limited run, but was super imaginative and filled with passion.
Dude, that Garfield evolution montage towards the end was brilliantly put together.
Sure, there are a lot of good things about this video, but that was what stood out to me, how you went through the trouble of matching up the poses from hundreds or even thousands of strips so that we could see the gradual changes in Garfields design.
Garfield in animation I think is much more funny than the comic, as it can have the intonation of voice, and snappy timing can be controlled, so it's almost in a subtle way.
Hey jon, I acquire some L A S A G A
A y y o s u p b
H E Y J O N,
I
R E Q U I R E
*L A S A G N A*
Losogni
Garfield,I'm a human.
L A S G A N A N A S A G A N A S A
Considering what Garfield has become now, I can't say that I blame Bill Watterson for not wanting to license Calvin and Hobbes.
He knew he didnt ant the integrity of the tone he intended to have the comic in for its meta use, get downplayed for marketing to children. Garfield was a prediction.
Jim Davis has a net worth of 800 million dollars.
@@100sonicdash True. I mean different priorities, money isn't everything and obviously Bill Watterson didn't think it was a game of making as much as possible. Some it would be nice to (I assume in Davis's case) not have to have worried about paying your bills for decades now, if you got more then you would ever spend what is the point to making even more? But can't say most would not gladly be in Davis position, he may have "sold out" but when he goes home to his family and loads of money I doubt he had many regrets.
DanTheMan I think Davis' goal the entire time was making a brand whereas Watterson wanted to tell stories.
@@100sonicdash I can see that, although doubt he ever expected what happened. But either way he did something right. But I agree if there is one thing that is definitely been shown to be true, Watterson was not in it to make a brand.
I prefer the original, sarcastic and kind of depressing tone of the comics. Now most of the jokes are about Mondays and lasagnas instead of focusing on Garfield's dark humor. Not to mention when the first comic strip came I was a 10 year old, since I was born in 1968.
51 year old technically because my birthday was in September.
Mathias Voorhees I can totally blame Garfield and invader zim for giving me my cynical dark sarcastic sense of humor that I have now
@@satluszair7858 My brother was born in that year.
@Mac Loud Why? Was that a joke?
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I still occasionally go read Garfield strips in the newspaper. I don't really find it that funny anymore, but I enjoy it in that, "Oh, that's what Garfield and Jon are up to," kind of way.
Damn this is the first time I've ever seen someone talk about Garfield Gets Real.
Excited for your next vid man.
I dunno if we watched the same video, what SJW shit did he talk about?
That was the movie that really made me realise that garfield as we know it is dead and nothing more than a milking cow to big corporations
MultiTarded yeah, err sure if you want to project some of your fantasies on this video then freely do so but please dont write this in the comments and show that you dont watch the same video as the rest of us.
but if you accuse someone of doing something then why not write some examples or is that too productive?
Obeycap sorry, forgotten this as well.
but you can say that garfield has cartoons as well and i dont know the age of Quinton so yeah but still another stupid things in this comment
but honestly this comment from that guy/girl shouldnt be taken seriously.
_Lasaga_
Is that what a French Viking calls his Sage?
Lasaga Continues...
BEST BY 07 SEP 18
*_I ate those food_*
"Hey John! Whats gucci my niggah?"
After No Nut November comes Splut Week.
Only one week?
lol gross
Ok then December
Your dislike button is golden for some reason
YoungsterNegative you have a really good taste in music
"Jon, why would you bring your cat on dates?"
You gotta know upfront. If the cat is a dealbreaker, find out on date 1.
I have a pet rabbit. I love her very, very much. When looking for an apartment, you might be shocked how many places cannot tell you if they will accept a pet rabbit or not ("I'll have to ask my manager") but will continue to try to convince you to rent from them. Like, seriously lady, I don't care if you have a pool, tennis court, golf course, and clubhouse: no rabbit, no deal.
One landlord asked "is this a prank?" No dude, I seriously do have a pet rabbit. He thought it was hysterical.
Oh, I won't even get started on the assholes who think it's funny to "joke" about killing and eating my pet.
Garfild, that's not pea sized!
*yes it is*
* *YES IT IS*
*Ý˧ ĮŤ ĪŞ*
*SI LO ES*
Ÿęš Īt įś
Garfild that's not pee sis
Where are the three cheese pizzas?
Dr Shaym i ate those food.
Are you talking to the possums again?
The Real Delphox 616 where are the taco shells?
Son Of Huehuecoyotl i ate those food.
The Real Delphox 616 where did all the Hamburger Helper go?
garfield and friends was such an amazing cartoon, and Lorenzo Music will always be the voice of Garfield for me
RamZaes To this day, I think I owe a lot of my sense of humor to that cartoon. His quips were well written and well performed, on par IMO with Tiny Toons or Animaniacs.
RamZaes text to speech Brooklyn ganger voice will always be Garfield to me personally
That cartoon was almost as good as the pipe comic
Yikes.
Go watch the Garf Gab series on UA-cam. That's all I'm gonna say about that.
Can we all just reflect for a moment about how perfect Lorenzo Music was as the voice of Garfield?
He is *the* Garfield. In my opinion, at least
>Mentions commercialization
>Ad plays
Wilster Wonkels
You too?!?!? Cool.
It seems like Quinton knows about every phase of entertainment. UA-cam, comics, movies, tv shows. Next week I'll be disappointed if he doesn't review hentai
I'm not MamaMax
Come on Quinton, we all know you want to.
Like... Internet art exhibition? Brendaniel got that covered for you :)
The transitions from the somewhat bizarre hentai of the 70's, to the badly-drawn (and often with "cute" and "innocent" cover art that probably fooled a few unwary buyers) but prolific crap of the 80's and early 90's, to the high-quality art of today probably have an interesting story behind them, actually.
Speculation:
>First hentai comics come out with competent, though still second-rate art. Also heavy fantasy, crime or horror elements
>Sleazy publishers realise "sex sells", pay the cheapest possible artists to churn out any old crap as long as there's sex in it. Put on suggestive, but not obscene, covers to try and get it into regular bookshops
>Sleazy publishers get rich, bigger publishers get in on the action. Now they can afford better artists, get the comics into porn shops and the (then) newly-emerging dedicated otaku shops, so can make the covers as explicit as the contents.
I KNEW Garfield Gets Real existed! I vaguely remember watching it on a plane when I was like 6 or something
yeah i remember watching it too. like, more than i remember actually seeing pretty much anything else garfield. i know i never saw the comics or the commercials. then there's that new Netflix series, that's just kinda bland and non-sensical.
maybe the tale of Garfield has shown how we cant seem to have a cartoon comedy without making it wacky and unrealistic in modern times.
How could you forget such a masterpiece of a movie?
there is also the sequel "Garfield fun fest"
we also have "garfield pet force"
it had a plot thats pretty disturbing
Your going mad then, thats just quinton
This video made me look up "Tom&Jerry The magic ring" and I've never seen a Wikipedia page with a more detailed plot "summary"
6:25
When I was 18... 18 years old, I saw for the first time in my life... I saw an image of clarity. I saw a comic strip... a three panel comic strip that, though simple as it seemed, changed me... changed my being, changed who I am... Made me who I am...
Enlightened me...
The strip, Garfield, the comic strip was new... no more than maybe a month and a half since inception, since... since coming into existence... and there it was before me in print, I saw it... a comic strip... What was it called?
Garfield.
The story here is of a man, a plain man. He is Jon, but he is more than that... I will get to this later, but first let us say that he's Jon, a plain man.
And then there is a cat... Garfield.
This is the nature of the world, here. When I see the world, the politics, the future, the... the satellites in space, and... the people who put them there...
You can look at everything as a man and a cat... two beings, in harmony and at war...
So, this strip I saw; this man, Jon, and the cat, Garfield, you see...
Yes... hmm...
It is about everything. This... little comic is, oh, lo and behold... not so little anymore.
So yes, when I was 18, I saw this comic... and it hit me all at once, its power. I clipped it, and every day, I looked at it, and I said "Okay... let me look at this here. What is this doing to me? Why is this so powerful?"
Jon Arbuckle, he sits here, legs crossed... comfortable in his home, and he reads his newspaper... The news of the world, perhaps... and then he extends his fingers lightly, delicately... he taps his fingers on an end table, and he feels for something...
What is it? It is something he needs, but it is not there.
And then he looks up, slightly cockeyed, and he thinks... His newspaper's in his lap now, and he thinks this...
Now where could my pipe be?
This... I always come to this, because I was a young man... I'm older now, and I still don't have the secrets, the answers, so this question still rings true, Jon looks up and he thinks...
Now where could my pipe be?
And then it happens... You see it, you see... it's almost like divine intervention, suddenly it is there, and it overpowers you...
A cat is smoking a pipe.
It is the man's pipe, it's Jon's pipe, but the cat... this cat, Garfield, is smoking the pipe... and from afar, and someplace near, but not clear... near but not clear... The man calls out... Jon calls out, he is shocked. "Garfield!" he shouts.
Garfield. The cat's name.
But, let's take a step back... let us examine this from all sides, all perspectives... and when I first came across this comic strip, I was at my father's house... a newspaper had arrived, and I picked it up for him, and brought it inside.
I organized its sections for him and then, yes, the comic strip section fell out from somewhere in the middle, and landed on the kitchen floor... I picked up the paper pages and saw, up somewhere near the top of this strip... just like Jon, I was wearing an aquamarine shirt.
So I thought, "Ah, interesting. I'll have to see this later." I snipped out the little comic, and held on to it... and five days later, I reexamined it... and it gripped me, I needed to find out more about this. The information I had was minimal, but enough...
An orange cat named Garfield...
Okay, that seemed to be the lynchpin of this whole operation, yes. Another clue... a signature in the bottom right corner, a man's name...
Jim Davis.
Yes, I'm on to it for sure.
So... one: Garfield, orange cat, and two: Jim Davis, the creator of this cat...
And that curiously plain man.
I did not know, at the time, that his name was Jon. This strip, you see, had no mention of this man's name, and I'd never seen it before.
But I had these clues; Jim Davis, Garfield.
And then I saw more, I spotted the tiny copyright mark in the upper left corner. Copyright 1978 to... what is this? Copyright belongs to a... PAWS Incorporated...
I use the local library and mail services to track down the information I was looking for...
Jim Davis, a cartoonist, had created a comic strip about a cat, Garfield... and a man, Jon Arbuckle. Well, from that point on, I made sure I read the Garfield comic strips, though as I read each one, as each day passed... the strips seemed to resonate with me less and less...
I sent letters to PAWS Incorporated, long letters, pages upon pages... asking if Mister Jim Davis could somehow publish just the one comic, over and over again... "It would be meditative," I wrote, "the strength of that."
Could you imagine?
But... no response... The strips lost their power, and eventually I stopped reading, but... I did not want my perceptions diluted, so I vowed to read the pipe strip over and over again... That is what I call it, "The Pipe Strip."
The Pipe Strip.
Everything about it is perfect. I can only describe it as a miracle creation, something came together... the elements aligned... It is like the comets, the cosmic orchestra that is up there over your head... The immense, enormous void is working all for one thing, to tell you one thing...
Gas and rock, and purity, and nothing.
I will say this... When I see the pipe strip... and I mean every single time I look at the lines, the colors, the shapes that make up the three panel comic...
I see perfection.
Do I find perfection in many things?
Some things, I would say... Some things are perfect... and this is one of them. I can look at the little tuft of hair on Jon Arbuckle's head... it is the perfect shade... The purple pipe in Garfield's mouth...
How could a mere mortal even MAKE this?
I have a theory, about Jim Davis...
After copious research and, yes, of course, now we have the internet, and this information is all readily available, but...
Jim Davis, he used his life experiences to influence his comic...
Like I mentioned before, none of them seem to have the weight of the pipe strip... But you have to wonder about the man who is able to even, just once, create the perfect form, a literally flawless execution of art, brilliance! Just as in a ward... I think there is a spiritual element at work...
I've seen my share of bad times and... when you have something... Well, it's just... emotions, and neurons in your brain, but... something tells you that it's the truth...
Truth's radiant light.
Garfield, the cat? Neurons in my brain, it's... it's harmony, you see? It... Jon and Garfield, it's truly harmony, like a... continuous, looping, everlasting harmony... The lavender chair, the brown end table, the salmon-colored wall, the fore's green carpeting, Garfield is hunched, perched... perhaps with the pipe stuck firmly between his jowls... His tail curls around. It's more than shapes too, because... I...
Okay, stay with me... I've done this experiment several times.
You take the strip. You trace only the basic elements. You can do anything, you can simplify the shapes down to just... blobs, just outlines, but it still makes sense...
You can replace the blobs with magazine cutouts of other things, replace Jon Arbuckle with a... car parked in a driveway sideways, cut that out of a magazine, stick it in... Replace him there in the second panel with a... a food processor... Okay, and then we put a picture of the planet in the third panel over Garfield...
It still works.
These are universal proportions. I don't know... how best to explain why it works, I've studied the pipe strip, and analyzed Jon and Garfield's proportions against several universal mathematical constants.
E, Pi, the Golden Ratio, the Feigenbaum Constants, and so on... and it's surprising... scary even, how things align. You can take just... tiny pieces of the pipe strip, for instance, take Jon's elbow from the second panel... and take that, and project it back over Jon's entire shape in the second panel, and you'll see a near perfect Fibonacci sequence emerge...
It's eerie to me... and it makes you wonder if you're in the presence of a deity, if there is some larger hand at work...
There's no doubt in my mind that Jim Davis is a smart man...
Jim Davis is capable of anything to me... He is remarkable, but this is so far beyond that, I think we might see that... this work of art is revered and respected in years to come.
Jim Davis is possibly a new master of the craft, a... a genius of the eye; they very well may say the same things about Jim Davis in five hundred years that we say about the great philosophical and artistic masters from centuries ago... Jim Davis is a modern day Socrates, or... Da Vinci... mixing both striking visual beauty with classical, daring, unheard-of intellect...
Look, he combines these things to make profoundly simple expressions...
This strip is his masterpiece... The Pipe Strip is his masterpiece... and it is a masterpiece and a marvel...
I often look at Garfield's... particular pose, in this strip. He is poised, and statuesque... and his cat stare is reminiscent of the fiery gazes often found in religious iconography... But still, his eyes are playful, lying somewhere between the solemn father's expression in... Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son," and the coy smirk of Da Vinci's "Saint John The Baptist".
His ears stick up, signifying a peaked readiness... It's as if he could, at any moment, pounce; he is, after all, a close relative and descendant of the mighty jungle cats of Africa that could leap... after prey. You could see the power drawn into Garfield's hind quarters, powerful haunches indeed.
The third panel.
And I'm just saying this now, this is just coming to me now... The third panel of the pipe strip is essentially a microcosm for the entire strip itself... All the power dynamics, the struggle for superiority, right?
WHO has the pipe? WHERE is the pipe? All of that is drawn, built, layered into Garfield's iconic pose here. You can see it in the curl of his tail... Garfield's ear whiskers stick up, on end, the smoke billows, upward... drawing the eye upward... increasing the scope...
I'm just... amazed... really, that after 33 years of reading, and analyzing the same comic strip, I'm able to find new dimensions. It's a testament to the work...
For six years, I delved into tobacco research, because... can a cat smoke? This is a metaphysical question... Yes, can any cat smoke? Do we know? Can just Garfield smoke?
The research says no. Nicotine poisoning can kill animals, especially household pets. All it takes is the nicotine found in as little as a single cigarette.
[ *Okamoto M, Kita T, Okuda H, Tanaka T, Nakashima T (Jul 1994). "Effects of aging on acute toxicity of nicotine in rats". Pharmacol Toxicol. 75 (1): 1-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0773.1994.tb00316.x. PMID 7971729 ]
Surely, Jon's pipe hold a substantial amount of tobacco, and it is true that pets living in the homes of smokers are nearly 25% more likely to develop some form of cancer... most likely due to secondhand smoke... but these are facts of smoking, its tolls on our world.
But after visiting two tobacco processing plants in Virginia... and the Phillip Morris cigarette manufacturing facility, I came no closer to cracking the meaning. I was looking for any insight. A detective of a homicide case has to look at every angle, so I'm always taking apart the pipe strip.
I focused on every minutiae, every detail of this strip.
Jon Arbuckle's clothing... I have replicas. I'm an expert in textiles... so, you see, this smoking thing was a hang-up for me... but it was the statement here... until...
This is key, this is the breakthrough.
The pipe is not a pipe, really.
Obviously there is symbolism at work here... I saw that from the beginning, and I looked at the literal aspects of the strip to gain insight into the metaphors at play... I worked at a newspaper printing press for eighteen months, in the late 1980's... I was learning the literal to inform the gestural... the subliteral, the in-between...
Jon reading this newspaper means so much more than just... Jon reading the newspaper... but how could you ever hope to decipher the puzzle without knowing everything there is to know about newspapers?!
Okay... for example... Jon holds his newspaper up with his left hand, thumb gripping the interior. I learned that this particular grip here was the newspaper grip of nineteenth century aristocrats... and this aristocrat grip was a point of contention that influenced the decision to move forward with prohibition... in the United States, in the early twentieth century!
So Jon's hand position is much more than that, it... it is a comment on class war... and the resulting reactionary culture... but I didn't know about the aristocratic newspaper grip until I came across some microfiche archives at the printing press.
It's about information. You have to take it apart.
...and the breakthrough on the smoking cat came late... just eight years ago, actually. "Smoking cat" is an industry term. It's what the smoking industry calls a tattletale teenager who tells on his friends after they've all tried smoking for the first time... and it is actually a foreign translation, bastardization of the term "smoking rat"... But the phrase was confused when secret documents went back and forth between China and America...
These documents are still secret, and the only reason I know about the term is because I know a man, my friend. Let's call him "Timothy," yeah... yes, it's a fake name, for his protection. Timothy worked for Phillip Morris for sixteen years, and he had seen the documents... and when he told me, it was an Aha moment... and he said, "But how? How could this cartoonist, Jim Davis, know about this... obscure term from the mid-70's, used exclusively by a few cigarette companies!?"
This is still a mystery to me... but I connect the dots by noting Jim Davis' childhood experiences on a farm. He must have seen something...
What could it be?
Timothy went on to tell me there was one particular smoking cat, a boy, from... yes, Indiana, a boy named Ernie Barguckle, who became a thorn in the side of the tobacco companies for a couple of years... He did more than tattle to his parents; he and his family took legal action, and they eventually received a huge settlement payout...
But that name is too similar... Ernie Barguckle...
Jon Arbuckle.
Jim Davis must have used this.
There's more here. Ernie Barguckle spent nearly half of that settlement money on experimental medical procedures to cure his... impotence. He was impotent.
So... he was a smoking cat with a... a metaphorical pipe, that did not work... Are you starting to see the layers here? This is exciting stuff, you start to get a whole picture here, and it informs the work! It's... it's just remarkable.
Jim Davis took these raw ideas, these... pieces, and he transformed them into smart social commentary that is... all so ravishingly beautiful.
I have cried.
I've cried, I've cried... I've cried, cried over this piece. It just... gets in my soul.
I try to explain this to people, I have... the newspaper articles about Ernie Barguckle... People have fought me on this, they don't see it, or they're close-minded, "How could a comic strip about a cat smoking a pipe mean any more than that?"
But it is more... and when I feel spiritual, or start to think existentially, I still see this comic.
Here's something from 1981 that I wrote in thinking about the implications of this strip; this is just an excerpt here... there's more before and after, but this part is the essence to me... If a comic about a cat smoking a pipe can be the only thing in the universe... then maybe this is the strongest evidence for that.
*fumbles with tattered sheet from 1981*
"Many of you say, 'Oh, but I am not blind. I have never been blind,'... But when you truly see, you will understand just how truly blind you once were to even think it right to say you were not blind.
What does a blind man see?
Blackness.
Darkness.
Blankness.
Blank darkness.
Dark blankness.
The absence of things, quite literally NO thing. No things. Nothings.
So, you see nothing, and I bring you into the light. A cat has your pipe! You've been blind, do you understand this!?
The cat has your pipe.
You can't fully immerse yourself, you don't have the light. You don't have the radiance, the radical light, the radically radiant light of truth and truth's belonging love, and nature of light, and loving truthful radiance.
So don't be bold, and make bold statements. I know of you.
The cat has your pipe.
The.
Cat.
Has.
Your.
Pipe.
Remember that."
*puts paper back in pocket*
That writing, well... It's kind of rough... Kind of an... early eighties feel... and I see that, but I'm still... I'm still proud of it.
Sometimes I imagine that it is the editorial column in the newspaper Jon Arbuckle is reading. It's an exercise in recursion, it's like a vortex opens up... It's like you hold two mirrors up to each other, one is reality and the other is a cartoon strip.
Let's see here... Oh yes, I must bring this up, because I think, surely, Jim Davis is again speaking on multiple levels by including the details set before us in the comic.
Notice the glimpse of Jon Arbuckle's foot in the first panel. The size of the shoe would indicate that maybe the man just has small feet... but a deeper investigation takes us to the footbinding rituals of certain Asian cultures. Inflicted usually on women for the desire of men, this practice was incredibly painful and crippling...
Aha! Mister Davis is, here, presenting us with a man, or rather... "man", who engages in footbinding, a body modification for women, on top of "being without his pipe"... or impotent. This is a man facing extreme inner turmoil, the panels tell that story... subconsciously.
Notice the background wall shading of the first panel points inward toward Jon in the second panel... and the sharp tapered end of the purple pipe in the third frame also points at John in the second panel, inward; the eye is drawn to the center panel. You can connect these points and draw a triangle across the panels, and this triangle will align with the reoriented points of Jon's collar! This, this is majestic artwork!
...and to uncover this hidden order is... bliss like I've never known.
Comforting, in an empty world.
I can't help but read the thought bubble, over and over again.
Now where could my pipe be?
Now where could my pipe be?
It is a profound question.
Why am I here? What is my purpose? It is reflection and self-examination here. It is facing the dust, the misery of a cold, careless universe. You can feel the weight of it.
But where could my pipe be?
One imagines the author, Jim Davis, teetering on the edge of insanity... his rationality, his lucidity, hovering over the void... and he seeks the truth.
You can see it in the line quality of the drawings; the thoughtful, controlled outlines mixed with the... occasional, chaotic scribbles at work in the shadows and Garfield's dark stripes.
It's almost as if Garfield is chaos himself.
Yes, he is the embodiment of chaos, disorder, hatred, fear... Thievery, death, destruction, desolation!
These are the things Garfield represents; HE stole the pipe, HE sits with his back to Jon, Garfield... Garfield, this chaos cat, Garfield has turned his back on everything, everyone!
One recalls the great existential forces in literature... Camus' Meursalt, Kafka's Gregor Samsa, or Sartre's Antoine Roquentin... Garfield the Cat sees the hopelessness of life, which...ah, yes...
This is why Jim Davis has chosen smoking. It represents a recklessness, a... a disregard for what some would define as the beauty of life. Garfield may die from the nicotine, he may not... He defies life; he sits defiant, saying nothing, but looking as if he could say... "Then let me die... it does not matter."
It does not matter.
...and we are faced with this; Could Jon behave the same? Is Jon the glimmer of hope?
He seems to be unsure. Again, his question... "Now where could my pipe be?" indicates that he is wrestling with his own existence. The center panel centers the issue, and again, this hearkens to many of the great religious works of art.
I'm talking about the Pipe Strip in relation to religion. It's... it's interesting to assign the roles of God... and anti-God, or, as many know him to be, the devil... or on a much larger scale, simply the forces of... good and evil. Garfield, the thief-cat, evil and malicious... He is the devil, placed to the right... and note, the two forms of Jon; the Jon on the left, still innocent, still draped in the... delight, of the lack of knowledge. He is... the humans in the Garden of Eden. He feels for his pipe... but he has yet to eat from the tree... and Garfield, the sinister serpent... and notice, notice how Jim Davis has framed this... The center Jon is locked in a struggle, between his innocence, and his knowledge of the truth... knowledge of the existence of evil.
It is stunning. The great struggle, the struggle that transcends time... and Jim Davis floats over all this, as creator... the God, of sorts, in his own right.
... and he presents this cautionary message to us all; it is as if he is speaking from high and... he is saying, unto our awaiting ears...
Where will you be, when the cat reveals himself? [-Jim 7:27:78]
I can tell you where you'll be. You will have a choice; you can face endless suffering, and eternal misery... You can be forced and beaten down with barbarians, who claw at each other just for a view of salvation. They'll tear your eyeballs out, and rip your gizzards from end to end. They worship this cat, this... this false idol! This evil, horrible cat, do not be seduced by the cat and the pipe!
Garfield... thy name is a mark of the demons of hell. Something like this, and to those listening, it is a stark reminder to follow the path of the first panel Jon; be humble, be grateful, honor the law, and honor thyself. Be true, and be good, and no harm will come to you... Pray for salvation, and it will be granted unto you. Be like Jon Arbuckle, as he lowers his head. Be like Jon Arbuckle as he lowers his paper, as he turns his head. Bow with Jon Arbuckle, and praise unto the creator, Jim Davis... and banish demon Garfield from your life.
So, what is all this? What am I saying? Aha... hmm... What does all this mean? Why is this one comic strip so important to me... and why do I feel the need to share this?
Obligation. I have an obligation to you all. This is a redemption, this is a belief in redemption, a sacrifice of all the obvious trappings of this false modern life.
Look at the simplicity in this strip, in the pipe strip. Look at the simple clothes Jon wears, look at his simple, basic furniture... No adornments on the wall, even the very pipe his cat Garfield stole; it is a plain, modest pipe... and I have adapted this way of life, it speaks to me.
In our times... well... you don't need me to point out the hyperbole of our times; you have children being born eight or nine at a time, you have more money being spent on a single Hollywood movie than some nations can spend... feeding their starving people. Torture, distrust... Look around you, it's overwhelming.
What can you contribute?
...and every day, I look in the mirror, and I hold this comic up to the mirror, and I look into the mirror, and at this little comic strip.
Be humble.
Be thankful.
It is a reminder, be respectful.
You are a statue. You are fragile... and when you break, when you shatter... Where will those pieces go?
Ask... ask, ask, ask this question. Will you ask?
Humankind is only as great as you, YOU, the individual, it begins and ends with you! You must treat this expedition, this search, this... life, with a reverence and intensity found only in the smallest sticks. The littlest leaf, the tiniest stone! The most miniscule grain of sand... on a beach of billions!
This is the secret.
Do you want the pipe?
Do you want to know where the pipe has gone?
You ask yourself, you ask... you ask... you ask...
Now where could my pipe be?
When I was a young man... remember, now, I first saw this comic when I was eighteen years old... Ages ago... but I was youthful, vibrant. For weeks, I didn't hide that a comic strip was having such a profound effect on me.
I was much like Jon Arbuckle. In this middle panel, he says, "Now where could my pipe be?"... you could look into his eyes, his half-lowered eyes, and think to yourself... "Now, surely, Jon... Surely, you cannot be this naive... This is nothing new for you..."
And if you've read more of the Garfield comic strips by Jim Davis, you understand what I am saying now; Garfield the cat does things like this all the time. He will take things from Jon; food, items, anything... This is his very nature.
So you see this, and you want to say, "Jon Arbuckle, come now. You are lying to yourself. You are lying to yourself, and to all of us, if you pretend to have not... any idea of where your pipe has gone. Perhaps you think you've left it somewhere else, but... hmph, you're not so forgetful. You are lying to yourself, ah... yes...
You are lying to yourself, Jon Arbuckle. You know that Garfield has the pipe... somewhere, deep down, you know this. You don't even need to think the question."
And that was me when I saw this strip. One week passed, and each morning I'd open my drawer and slam it shut again. I would go to look at the comic... but I'd pause, and think... "Oh no, I don't need this comic, I don't n... I don't NEED to look at it..."
But there I was, lying to myself.
I DID need to see it, and so I did, it's... cathartic. You give in, and that is the transition, from the second panel of life, to the third panel of life! It is a simple story structure, the passage from the second act to the third, the twilight of things. Jon gives into his suspicions; he knows the truth, he's ALWAYS known the truth, he yells out, "GARFIELD! GARFIELD! GARFIELD!"
It is like... pressure from a steam valve, being released; the buildup is unbearable, and then... PSSHHWW, it's gone.
So it is like this... when I speak about the truth... the truth, the light, the radiance, this... this is the kind of thing I'm talking about. This is the essence of this brilliant work of art, the practical mixing, meeting, agreeing with the spiritual, it is all HERE.
...but spirituality is not an easy thing to confront. You might find yourself able to wrap your mind around a simple math problem, or a basic newspaper article, or... but intellect... is much less subjective.
What is spirituality... and how have I found spiritual peace and serenity in Garfield?
A long time ago, after I encountered the Pipe Strip... I spent some time, as I mentioned before, soul-searching. When something impacts you, or alters your very perception so greatly, there is a long period of confusion, recovery time...
It's as if you don't know who you are, and that can be a... a very scary prospect, especially if you thought you had a good grasp on that sort of thing.
Imagine if Jim Davis did not know who he was. Would he be capable of shaping the cultural landscape as he's done?
No. No, of course he wouldn't.
...and how about his characters? Jon... what if Jim Davis suddenly woke up, and didn't know who Jon was? What if he couldn't make the informed decisions to accurately depict Garfield's personality, because of... he could no longer specify, or demarcate the boundaries of Garfield's behavior?
What kind of comic would THAT be? You see?
So draw the parallel. I saw this comic and, yes, I was disoriented... and if I didn't reconcile this issue with myself, what kind of person would I be?
Undoubtedly dire circumstances, but remember; this was not a math problem, this was not an article, this was not something I could just... figure out... and as skeptical as I was, I realized that faith and spirituality were avenues that... required exploring.
At first I tried... long nights, reading Garfield by candlelight, or... aromatic meditation settings, while thinking of Garfield, but... nothing snapped. Nothing clicked, I still felt lost... but I kept it up, I hired a shaman, and a young... personal Yogi Sikh Guru; Avram Dahb Singh Sahib. I pushed and pushed, determined to find myself.
And then, a miracle happened.
Upon retrieving my morning paper, to clip the Garfield comic... I noticed a young girl, selling lemonade two houses down. She sat, occupied at her stand. She had no customers in sight.
So, I approached, and saw that she was coloring. I looked at her drawing...
Three rectangular boxes.
A man, in a blue shirt. An orange cat.
I knew what this was. Even in her crude scribbles, I knew EXACTLY what this was.
She was drawing a Garfield comic.
W H E R E I S M Y P I P E ?
Garfield!
Sucky Egg THE CAT HAS YOUR PIPE!
Location of smoking apparatus
WHERE TUBE
Cue 1-hour long video describing how the strip impacted a man's life
"I don't want to live in a world where Garfield doesn't exist. " that's how I feel about the Simpsons even if I think the quality has dipped.
That voice for Garfield is absolutely Perfect.
Also, "Oh no, *I T ' S S P L U T W E E K* "