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* The 1984 [[Story Arc]] in which Garfield wanders away from home while Jon's at a convention and ends up stumbling upon the abandoned Italian restaurant where he was born. The strip has several tear-jerking moments, such as Odie trying to console Jon by abusing him like Garfield did; Garfield discovering that the restaurant is now abandoned; and finally coming home just in time for Christmas. It also subverts this trope on the December 23 strip, with Garfield collapsing dramatically in the front door; Jon asks if Garfield's okay and he replies, "Actually, yes, I just thought it would be more dramatic this way."
* After Lorenzo Music died, Davis made a drawing of Garfield, and his thought bubble read, "I'm speechless."
* When Charles M. Schulz, creator of [[Peanuts]], passed away, there was
* Sometimes [[Garfield Minus Garfield]] gets like this.
* There was one 5 or 6 strip comic where Garfield wakes up to find his home abandoned for years, and Odie and Jon are long gone. What really got me was, in 1 of those strips, when Garfield hears Jon saying, "Dinner's ready!" and Garfield rushes in to find Jon and Odie in the kitchen, but they disappear in the next panel. It redeems itself by having a [[
* Garfield's Christmas Special, as Jon's Grandma reminisces about her late husband, and how on Christmas eve she misses him the most.
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