I can read VERY slowly
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
I’m a few several months late on this one, but thanks to the kids at the OE Message Board for cluing me into the fact that Garfield is much, much funnier if you remove Garfield’s thought balloons; the strip’s original tired, empty humor is replaced by the simple pleasure of watching a deeply deluded man talk to his cat:
There’s a lot more where this came from, and boy is it worth it — hell, that one isn’t even my favorite. I’ve compiled some of the best after the jump.
Can’t get enough? The charlatans who came up with this gag regularly post more in this thread, and there’s an even larger collection here.
Adam wrote:
Does using the phrase “after the jump” make me kind of a douche? I rather think it does.
Posted on 05-Dec-06 at 3:25 am | Permalink
kevin wrote:
i am responsible for over one quarter of those comics. i’m famous!
Posted on 05-Dec-06 at 3:43 pm | Permalink
Adam wrote:
Oh cool, Kevin. Are you one of the guys posting in the Truthandbeautybombs thread?
Posted on 05-Dec-06 at 3:57 pm | Permalink
farsheed wrote:
This stuff is great. Ran across these two articles in that forum thread. Interesting stuff…
http://www.wondermark.com/tcsd/stripdoc_12.html
http://www.wondermark.com/tcsd/stripdoc_5.html
Posted on 06-Dec-06 at 1:50 am | Permalink
kevin wrote:
adam, i’m not sure if you were joking, but i posted five of those on the oemb. if you were, in fact joking, then i just totally crapped all over your joke.
Posted on 06-Dec-06 at 3:53 pm | Permalink
Adam wrote:
Oh, sorry Kevin, I didn’t realize I had lifted that many from the OEMB thread, and I also wasn’t sure which of the ones of the OEMB thread you had created and which you had just reposted. Sorry for the confusion! Please feel free to take one quarter of the credit for yourself.
Posted on 07-Dec-06 at 3:21 am | Permalink
kevin wrote:
you owe me a quarter of all the money you make off of this blog post. plus tax.
Posted on 07-Dec-06 at 3:31 pm | Permalink
todd. wrote:
The song in the hampster game sounds really familiar. Was it possibly related to the dungeon theme on one of the Gameboy Zeldas, or something?
Posted on 09-Dec-06 at 1:24 pm | Permalink
Adam wrote:
Huh?
Posted on 10-Dec-06 at 9:13 pm | Permalink
todd. wrote:
The live action hamster game in your link blog. The song sounds familiar, though I’ve never played a C64 game. (I owned one, but it was defective & had no games.)
Posted on 11-Dec-06 at 5:03 pm | Permalink
Adam wrote:
Ah — it could have been. Rob Hubbard was a pretty influential composer in early game music, so there could certainly have been some cross-pollination going on — the song wouldn’t have been directly lifted into a Zelda tune, though.
Posted on 14-Dec-06 at 3:07 am | Permalink
caroline Roszell wrote:
I miss you adam
Posted on 17-Dec-06 at 11:35 pm | Permalink
Buttoned-Up.com wrote:
The world is much funnier if you pretend that Kevin and Adam are actually the same person.
Posted on 15-Dec-07 at 4:12 pm | Permalink
whatever. wrote:
Only the last one is funny.
Posted on 15-Dec-07 at 6:57 pm | Permalink
Jason wrote:
Kind of like Arbuckle. http://tailsteak.com/arbuckle/
Posted on 18-Dec-07 at 6:10 pm | Permalink
Ege wrote:
it really is funnier without Garfield’s thought balloons!
Posted on 23-Dec-07 at 4:19 am | Permalink
nishu wrote:
nice idea you came up with .. but a better idea was to remove the cat completely symbolizing a loner in modern culture
Posted on 27-Dec-07 at 5:28 am | Permalink
Mike wrote:
I’ve seen another site where they remove garfield all together. It’s even funnier in a schizofrenik (?) kind of way.
Posted on 29-Dec-07 at 7:59 pm | Permalink
Snake wrote:
Imaginary date,Garfield imaginary too…ROFL ROFL
Posted on 30-Dec-07 at 6:28 am | Permalink
madville wrote:
I don’t understand why people give Garfield so much crap. Personally, I find the strip to be quite funny.
Posted on 05-Jan-08 at 5:39 am | Permalink