Square Root of Minus Garfield

A subset of the webcomic Mezzacotta. Essentially, it's Garfield Minus Garfield turned Up to Eleven: a collection of humorous Garfield edits made by viewers.

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 * And Call Him George: Parodied here.
 * Ascended Meme: Dan Walsh, creator of Garfield Minus Garfield, submitted a strip.
 * May also count as a Throw the Dog a Bone.
 * Based on a Dream: This strip.
 * Beat Panel: Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel.
 * Black Comedy: "You may prefer to remain unhappy."
 * Blind Idiot Translation: If you know you live forever to get.
 * This is a reoccurring theme.
 * Bolt of Divine Retribution: Garfield Meets Zeus.
 * Brevity Is Wit: April of No Sundays Collection, Less Humor, More Story!
 * Brick Joke: The apteryx.
 * Also parodied
 * Also both parodied and played straight.
 * Character Name and the Noun Phrase: Invisifield and the Pudding Cup
 * Dada Comics
 * Darker and Edgier: Dark Side of the Lasagne.
 * And Darkfield.
 * Deconstruction: Of the blender Running Gag.
 * Dialogue Tree: Cats of the Old Republic.
 * Dinner Deformation: Somewhat.
 * Driven to Suicide: Used a few times.
 * Face Palm: A collection.
 * For Science!: used as a title.
 * Future Imperfect: The Garfield Code.
 * Genre Savvy: Genre Savvy Garfield
 * Gratuitous Spanish: ¡Garfield Mexicano!, La Version Mejorada!
 * Here We Go Again: Just as it seemed the pudding pops meme was finally over, the blender meme had to purge the strip buffer.
 * Just One Second Out of Sync: The author made the trope, plus a Shout-Out.
 * Long Title: Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon Minus Odie Minus Nermal Minus Arlene Minus Lyman Minus Liz Minus Pookie [sic].
 * Milestone Celebration: 1000th Root of Minus Garfield
 * Mind Screw: GARFFITI.
 * Must Have Caffeine: An occasional theme, just like in the real strip.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Discussed Trope in relation to Odie in this strip.
 * Orange-Blue Contrast: Invoked in #2052 "Dog Vision". Canine deuteranopia is depicted as a world of blues, grays, browns, and golds.
 * Overly Long Gag: A Strip. With. A Snail.
 * Invoked and defied in Déjà Vu All Over Again, complete with a link back to us.
 * Looky Looky
 * Overly Long Walk
 * Dull and Repetitive
 * Painting the Medium: Small Talk, Variations on a Haircut #1, and Melt.
 * Paranoia Fuel: (Jon, Paranoid)
 * Race Lift: Garfield Recoloured, which leads up to a pun.
 * Recycled in Space: Garfield IN SPACE! They even linked to us!
 * Recycled Script: Duly noted and mocked several times over.
 * Recursive Reality: Recursive Garfield Redux and Recursive Thinking Garfield.
 * Reference Overdosed
 * Remix Comic
 * Retraux: Silent-Era Garfield.
 * Running Gag: Garfield Linus Garfield began a series of derivatives featuring Garfield replaced in the middle panel by someone or something (usually) rhyming with "Minus".
 * Has since been inverted, subverted, parodied, deconstructed, averted, played for laughs, lampshaded, defied, discussed, and exploited. Needless to say, it's seen very extensive use.
 * Overused Running Gag: The voluminous number of "Garfield (pun for Minus) Garfield" comics has now reached this, to the point of Seasonal Rot for some.
 * Hopefully as of strip 625 we should be seeing far less of them now.
 * But however it's started all over again with "I glued a blender to my face." Which is itself crossing over with the "pudding pops" strip used for the "Garfield ___ Garfield" meme.
 * Also beginning to trend is "Garfield's X Theater"
 * Another recent one is Changefield, which resulted in this hilarious blend.
 * All the running gags were combined in Strip #1049.
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Garfield Leaves Garfield
 * Self-Deprecation: Attack of the Memes.
 * Series Minus Series Core: Taken Up to Eleven. There's been Garfield Minus Jon, Garfield Minus Jon (again), Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon, xkcd Minus Garfield, Garfield Minus Characters, Krazy minus Kat, Hark! a Vagarant minus Garfield!, Nermal Minus Garfield, Odie Minus Garfield, and Garfield minus Liz.
 * The Un-Smile / Slasher Smile: These are rather disturbingly common.
 * Shout-Out: A whole page of them.
 * Similarly Named Works: Butterfield and Butterfield.
 * Also, Mirror Universe Garfield and Mirror Universe Garfield.
 * Smile and Smile.
 * Slow-Loading Internet Image: While there's no punchline, and it's a non-pornographic image, the spirit is certainly there in this strip.
 * Something Completely Different: It was more common in the early days of the strip, but there are a few strips that are not Garfield edits: Edits of other comics (Xkcd here, Krazy Kat here, Bob and George here, and Hark! A Vagrant here.), unedited pages about Garfield from comic books or magazines (this from a Ren and Stimpy comic book, and this from a The Electric Company magazine), and, on one occasion, a printing error a newspaper made when publishing a Garfield comic. Possibly lampshaded in the author's notes for the Krazy Kat strip, which said about the strip "This one may be too meta to fly.".
 * Sphere Eyes: Lampshaded here.
 * Sprite Comic: Garfield: The Video Game.
 * Also used here and here.
 * Symbol Swearing: Lampshaded in Grawfield.
 * That's What She Said: Rubbery Arugula.
 * Comes with a bonus strip that the editor deemed too risqué.
 * Toilet Humour: Potty Humour, naturally.
 * Visual Pun: Square Root of Minus Garfield, of course.
 * We're Still Relevant, Dammit!: Mentioned and lampshaded.
 * A Worldwide Punomenon: Garfield Linus Garfield.
 * Your Head Asplode: This happens to Garfield at the end of Coffee!
 * Your Television Hates You: This strip, where Garfield watches TV and every show on is something that has been referenced at least once in an earlier SRoMG comic.
 * You Talkin' to Me?: This strip accurately quotes the original film for once.