Shocker headline: Garfield made funny!
Some people have discovered a method for doing what has been thought to be impossible fordecades: making Garfield funny. It involves an ingenious, apparently foolproof method of simply removing all of Garfield’s thought balloons.
It’s kind of amazing how well this works. It takes a strip that has always been flat, tasteless and embarrassing and fills it with tension, sadness and mordant humor. It’s easy, fun and much less time-consuming than placing the panels in a random order.
Oh, but could it be made even better?
http://blog.org.es/realfield
Speaking of the orange cat, have you ever seen Garfield: His Nine Lives? Between that and the creepy Halloween strips, it’s almost like Jim Davis had a shred of creativity…
Ya beat me to it! Realfield is very funny and very very sad.
That meme has been along for a long time. It started at castlezzt.net.
I didn’t know I was supposed to be the “new meme guy.” My apologies.
You should hang out more on http://www.4chan.org
Or maybe you shouldn’t. It is certainly soul destroying.
Yeah, I was saying to myself that this was an old meme from SA/4chan
Huh. Is this where the kids hang out these days? Because I don’t get it.
Now I’m going to go eat some oatmeal.
Hm, 4chan is hard to describe. Maybe SA came first but 4chan is more based on a Japanese Imageboard called Futaba.
The beauty of 4chan (and also the fatal flaw) is that everything is completely anonymous. No handle, no email, no name attached to your posts. This allows for a complete flow of ideas and images with no consequence. It’s beautiful and horrible.
4chan is made of many boards, some of which are safe for any viewer like Photography, Animals and Nature, Anime, Video Games, and Technology. You post images to start threads, and then anyone can reply with more images or text. Then there are adult boards like Sexy Women, Hentai, and Yaoi. Then there’s /b/ (Random).
/b/ has a complete mind of it’s own and many people refer to it as if it is a living breathing thing. I would argue that it is. The interesting thing is, /b/ kind of developed it’s own language, it’s own way of speaking, and it’s own mythology. Much like the Japanese Futaba. You might be familiar with the term “lolcats”. That “lolcat speak” is sort of what goes on in /b/.
Really, from a pop culture or visual studies or media studies point of view, it’s very fascinating, though not as funny as it used to be. I would suggest just lurking some Friday or Saturday night (away from the eyes of small children) and see if you can’t keep up with the language, memes, and images.
Sorry to ramble! I’m just very excited to share the ideas of what a website like 4chan could be.
Well, the concept is new to me. And it’s HILARIOUS.
I used to be a garfield fan. What killed it for me is when I read a strip where Jon heard Garfield thinking, “Did they just forget the rules in the strip?” That started me seeing how badly it was written
I honestly think Garfield without thought bubbles is a huge improvement from “tell the same joke three or four times in the same strip.”
In case you hadn’t seen these
The googley eyes take it all the way to disturbing.
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This is about the fifth time I’ve come across these googley eyes Garfield strips and every damn time I laugh hysterically. I can’t even explain why I find them so damn funny but every single time I’m giggling like a Japanese schoolgirl.
So it turns out the internet is filled with self-conscious ugliness masquerading as flip hipness. What a disappointment.
It’s interesting because these forums have evolved along the lines of the internet; beginning with an elite few compu-dorks, then open to everyone, with EVERYONE whining about ‘the good old days’ whether they were there or not.
And the fact that it’s 99% male presents an anonymous way for me to observe such things as male posturing and mentality, even if it is in a tiny subset of humanity.
I love it. 😉
Pretty much. “Internet culture” is by its very nature a self-devouring beast. There’s something peculiarly Gödelian about a lot of it.
4chan is a spinoff, and so is ytmnd.
Several other key subculture sites are as well.
Well, you can’t expect “guy who wrote Antz” to be up on anything called “subculture.” I just found out about lolcats.
AWWWWWWWWWWW. 🙂
Soon you’ll learn about “all your base”, etc.
I’m in your subculture, gettin’ hip to your memes.
Wait, when did Garfield stop being funny?
…and SCENE.
Ok, I know Scene was called and all that, but did anyone notice how Garfield sans script somewhat resembles Ricky Gervais?