Was Garfield ever funny?

nope.

He was, when you were too young to try to be hip on the internet.

>>81408134
I don't know anon, do you find lasagna being murdered hilarious?

i ate those food

>>81408174
Do you like awake at night, knowing all of the lasagna you just fucking murdered like Garfield?

>It must be my birthday, because now i get to kill all of you

>>81408174
Bastard! How much lasagna did you eat to heal those wounds?

Infinitely funnier than Heathcliffe

>>81408235
>>81408284
Do you perhaps, masturbate furiously when imagining the lasagna you love to eat is alive and you are eating it alive.

>>81408326
I know I do, it's the circle of life. I wonder if Garfield cums on his Lasagna before devouring it.

>>81408392
When I was younger I always had the feeling that Garfield did this, I'm not sure why. So every time my mom served lasagna I became aroused.

>>81408425
So in the end, yes I do find Garfield funny but only because he made me feel funny.

>>81408134

I remember really enyoing an old cartoon of garfield, it was nice, that's it.

>>81408183
where did all the hamburger helper go

>tfw if garfield is based on a real cat, that fuckers been dead for 50 years

>>81408134
No. He's always just been a shitty Heathcliff knockoff.

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>>81408134
Yes.

>>81408297
This nigga gets it

Back when he used to say stuff like "people who do X should be dragged out into the street and shot"

>>81408134
Yes. The first ten years or so of Garfield had a very dry and cynical sense of humor. He was like if Daria was a cat. Jim Davis was great with words and could have you chuckling just from one of Jon's dumb, meandering stories about life on the farm. Now obviously it is pretty different but if you like sarcastic humor then yeah it was good. Once.

>>81408134
When you were a kid.

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>>81408134
No. Pearls Before Swine is best comic

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Garfield was hardcore.

>>81410986
i doubt davis personally does any of the writing or drawing on garfield anymore

>>81411902
Man, Garfield and his 9 life is really fucked up, both the comic and the cartoon

It was something we really liked as kids - a friend of mine even bougth a bunch of them.

>>81411821
That one actually has jokes and self-awareness though.

>>81410986
This.

There are still flashes of the original wit in the current strips with Liz. That's about it.

>>81408457
9/10

>>81412462
Which is exactly why it is best comic strip

You are now aware that tomorrow is Monday.

>>81408134
you just posted what he looked like when he was funny, so I think you know the answer

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>>81408134
Yes. Still is, actually.

>>81408183
it's what I do

Lasanga Cat was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhx9_NSPwgI
NEXT EPISODE WHEN?
I NEED MORE FIST OF THE BORF STAR IN MY SOUL

>i was so hungry john

>>81412545
I love Mondays

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I bet OP is odie irl

I eat OP, it's what I do

>>81408134
Kind of. There's definitely good jokes here and there, but generally it's consisted of...
>Jon, I ate your lasagna
>GAAAAAAARFIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEELD

>>81408134
Was, is, and will be. Davis knows funny.

>>81415112

>tfw you will never be that happy

This may be a longshot, but does anyome recall a book of collected comics in the same format as those garfield 5x7 books, but it was about dogs and dog humor, might have been from Farside, but the cover had some aborigine-looking dogs in a jungle with a human tied to a post and a large volcano with a dog face chiseled into it?

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>>81408134
its been 80% dull misses, 18% amusing nicks, and probably about 2 percent strips that cause genuine audible laughter. Thats what you get for running several decades with no break.

Whats really funny is what you can do with something so ingrained in public culture

>>81415971
can someone edit jons hat to say make america great again

>>81408134
It was decent entertainment back when we didn't have internet

>>81416457
Oh I want this

jim davis literally has said multiple times that garfield was just for profit/commercialization - see: repetition, universe of merchandising, spinoffs, movies, etc

so youd expect it to be pretty shitty most of the time

he's the anti-watterson

>>81416930
>inserting watterson in this thread as it matters

fuck OP for trying to start a heathcliff meme too.

>>81416930
has the man done anything original in his spare time?

>>81414942
I still don't understand how these literal powerpoint presentations with shitty ms paint drawings are more entertaining than garfield itself

>>81409494
I ate those food

>>81416930
>shitting on davis while praising watterson

get out reddit

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It was more disturbing than it was funny, and you can count the times it was disturbing on a hand.

If it's a visual gag, then yes. If it's just Garfield being Garfield, then no.

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I unironically like U.S. Acres

It's obviously a similar style of art/humor but i thought the characters were better

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Heathcliff is always better.

>>81417678

Despite all of the mispelling and all that shit, there's a coherent storyline and character arcs throughout the entire thing. Plus, there's plenty of good and well-timed sound effects and all that.

It's not preachy, and it isn't trying to desperately mimic or recapture what the original garfielf video did. It uses the same elements, but expands upon them and sets them in a new genre.

As one anon said: despite all of the attempts to make it horrible, it has become something unironically enjoyable.

>>81408134
The cartoon Garfield and Friends was good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELOiYgR2aI

Required listening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3apwRVz2Yk8

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>>81408297
delete this

>>81410986
This right here. Most people think Garfield has always been the same drivel it was during the 90's, that it only had some art shifts. Go back through and read it for yourself, and you will see that isn't the case. From the start to the end of the 80's, Garfield was all over the place. Humor, drama, random disturbing bits, it had it all. Characters were introduced and changed, like Jon's friend, that cat Nermal, Garfield's stormy relationship with his GF, and various members of Garfield's family like his grandfather and mother. Then in the late 80's when Garfield really started getting popular, Jim Davis handed off writing duties to some other writers. From that point until the late 2000's when Jon finally managed to get with Liz, it was just generic newspaper comic humor with a never-changing universe. Occasional visits to Jon's family, but you really could take any year's worth of strips and exchange them with any other year's worth and not notice a difference. Then sometime in late 2000 or so Jon got with Liz and things have actually been somewhat different. Still somewhat stuck in the 90's to late 2000's generic slog, but at least something actually changed.

Garfield's 9 Lives was both disturbing and depressing, and I think it serves as a good idea of what early Garfield was.

>>81415744
That definitely sounds like Farside to me.

>>81420573
That's not really praise for watterson, it's just stating the undeniable fact that watterson wanted nothing to do with merchandising because of the effect he felt it would have on the value of the comic, or characters.

Personally, I think Watterson was wrong on that.

>>81413272
it gets better and better

Oh hey, do they still make The Garfield Show episodes? Last I heard it was stuck between seasons YEARS ago. I heard it might've been developing into a half hour series with some sort of plotline, but fuck it I don't care to look it up, though again has anyone heard anything?

>>81408134
I grew up in the late 80's to early 90's. We didn't have the internet like you do today. Most people and most of your free time you didn't have the internet at all. What remained was small town bullshit. In such a slow, unfunny, lets-be-like-road-rules-on-mtv-because-we-don't-know-better context, yes garfield could have been funny

it's been so long I don't actually remember though

it was a meme that us smol people clung to, until we could quickly cast it off in favor of someting awful, rathergood, 4chan, and the inevitable death of our soul

>>81409672
Morris the cat has been dead for longer

at least the original Morris, they keep naming a new Morris, at least I think they still do

>>81410894
back then nobody meant it literally

>that they would ever let on

>>81426484
I dunno what drugs you're on, but I want some.

>>81411902
wha... was he talking abut my life?

>my life is shit and it's all my fault

>ok it's not that bad but I really tried to make it that bad didn't I?

>>81417678
because Garfielf is a conversation

Garfield is just a corporate mouthpiece

>4chan hates Watterson now
I never thought I'd see the day

As for Garfield, I think it's alright. He's bitter, that's for sure, and I like that. But most comics just fall flat, especially the ones that involve him eating or being mean to Odie. The less happy Garfield is, the funnier the comic has a chance of being.

The bigger problem Garfield has is the commercialization of the comic strips. Christmas strips have ten strip countdowns, as do birthday strips, which is just annoying since it means ten days wasted on unfunny non-jokes. All because he's a "household name."

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Peanuts was at one point

>>81408297
>too much of a pleb to appreciate Heathcliff

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>>81427097

>>81426675
my only drug is alcohol and newsreels from '89

>>81425598
>From the start to the end of the 80's, Garfield was all over the place. Humor, drama, random disturbing bits, it had it all.

Yes—it actually deserved its early success and was marketed quite firmly to adults (and not just as a symbol of cuteness). The early TPB collections were, famously, bestsellers.

The downswing came when Davis teamed up with cowriter Brett Koth, who improved US ACRES dramatically but turned Garfield into a weak tea of sight gags and spider-squashing. Any of the Garfield birthday books has Davis praising Koth through the roof for his visual humor—but actually, Koth's effect on Garfield was really bad.

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Garfield was actually good until the early/mid 90s.

Then it got bland and boring.

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This is not fucking comedy. One of the most standard joke conventions is setting up an expectation, and then defying said expectation.
In this comic, the dialogue essentially reads like this:
"X"
"X is false."
AND THEN LAUGHTER HAPPENS
?????????

>>81427744
I'm not gonna try to argue it's funny but clearly the joke is that Jon doesn't work hard

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>>81410812
/thread, but all the underage b& fags here didn't notice because they're underage b&.

Well, I thought the cartoon was funny.

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So, lets get posting those greats from the Random Garfield Generator! They've made me laugh more consistently than real Garfield. I've got a folder full to share.

>>81427983
All I remember about that show was some song about Abu Dhabi. And considering this was before 9/11 I found that very confusing because I didn't know the middle east existed

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>>81428166

>>81427983
>>81428106
>>81428139
>>81428166

These are great.

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>>81428318

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>>81428343
DANCIN FINGERS!

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>>81428364
This one almost feels like it could be a real strip.

>>81428318
Is that a real panel?

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>>81428396

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>>81428419
I think they were at the beach, and Jon was talking about sunscreen. But yes, real panel.

>>81428396

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>>81428486
This one is a little dark.

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>>81428508
I've got a few that are a bit more odd than funny.

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>>81428563
Like this one.

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>>81428585
And this.

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>>81428583
I like it.

I wonder if the comic strip would have been any different if Garfield loved pasta bolognese instead of lasagna.

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>>81428641
You bastard, I was about to post that from my collection.

Have another.

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>>81428707
I like the faces in this one.

>>81428636
what if Garfield was exactly the same but instead of lasagna he loved suckin dick

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>>81428744
And the next one I'm going to post I think is actually a real strip.

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>>81428765
At least, I think this one is a real strip. I think Garfield's dialogue was edited out.

>>81428752
Jon would be a lot happier

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>>81428794

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>>81428836
Some of these feel like they could have been real strips.

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>>81428891

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>>81428106

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Garfield can be funny even without randomizing it. Just look through the early strips, up to 1992-3 or so they are great.

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>>81428918
It's amazing easy to make a "Jon rapes Garfield" strip with the generator.

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>>81429035

Garfield is meh, but what's the worst newspaper comic?

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>>81429035
She beat him up so badly that his suit bled and his tie turned into a bruised bowtie too

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Some of the early strips were surreal in just how much Jon was suffering.

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>>81428997
but how quickly can the table turn?

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>>81429067
Good.
>>81429107
Very nice, that one's going in the collection.

>>81429096
And that's about all I have.

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>>81429184
Does Irma even appear anymore?

Or Lyman, Helen (garfields girlfriend, whatever she is called), Pookey (the teddybear), or Garfields grandpa?

>>81429232
Irma, Arleen(garfields GF) and Pooky still appear I think, but I can't remember the last time any of garfields family made an appearance outside of the 80's.

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>>81429299
What about Jons family? Do they still visit the farm?

>>81428707
>>81428641
Fuck I laughed

>>81429329
Yep, every now and then you see Ma, Pa, and Doc Boy, but I'm not too sure about grandma. Haven't seen Jon's aunt since the 80's either as far as I know.

>>81427286
>The downswing came when Davis teamed up with cowriter Brett Koth, who improved US ACRES dramatically but turned Garfield into a weak tea of sight gags and spider-squashing

Also Jon got Flanderized hard.

>>81410812
This was entertaining, but not "funny" and OP is asking if he was every funny

I didn't like the farm portion of the show that much though but it was okay

>>81408134
>Was Garfield ever funny?
>>81411902
>this comic
AHAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY OH MAN!! 10/10 RELEVANCE TO THREAD!!! HILARIOUS!!!!!

>>81428166
This is hilarious because it makes Garfield look like he killed himself.

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>>81429598
You'll love this one

>>81429409
Dunno why this makes me laugh.

>>81429582
You should get to bed, you have school in the morning.