Square Root of Minus Garfield
A subset of the webcomic Mezzacotta. Essentially, it's a user-submitted Remix Comic inspired by Garfield Minus Garfield, turned Up to Eleven. Each strip is a remixed Garfield strip, but remixed in an entirely different manner to the previous strips. Launched on 21 November 2008.
View it here.
Tropes used in Square Root of Minus Garfield include:
- 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.
- Bolt of Divine Retribution: Garfield Meets Zeus.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: #1452 "Names".
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Jon: {reading from book} Jon Arbuckle: idiot, moron, idiotic moron, dork. @#$%?! |
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- Brevity Is Wit:
- Sunday strips condensed to three panels while retaining gags, such as April of No Sundays Collection, Random No Sundays, Seven More No Sundays, April of No Sundays: 2006, May of No Sundays 2013,Waste of Sunday Space, Garfield Minus Three Filler Panels, and Quicker Sunday Quickies
- Less Humor, More Story!
- Brick Joke: The apteryx.
- 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.
- Major-General Song: Animaniacs version, but with Garfield!
- Long Title: Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon Minus Odie Minus Nermal Minus Arlene Minus Lyman Minus Liz Minus Pookie [sic].
- Magic Ampersand: No. 2666: Lasagnas & Litterboxes Revisited, a retelling of a Garfield Sunday strip as a tabletop RPG session.
- 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.
- 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.
