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The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
- jboggan 10y agoNo, this is the best Lasagna Cat, complete with FF6 mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELOiYgR2aI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELOiYgR2aI
- eridius 10y agoWow, that Jim Davis tribute was impressive. And had a nice little jab at the guy right at the end :)
- Yhippa 10y agoWhat ever happened to the guy who made those? These were so well done. Got me into the GI Joe parodies too. I honestly haven't run into anything on YouTube this good in over 5 years.
- evan_ 10y agoThey were made by FatalFarm which has done a lot of really great stuff in the last few years, including some absolutely brilliant work for Key & Peele. Most of their work is online: http://fatalfarm.com/ http://fatalfarm.com/ They have a series of "alternate TV intros" you need to watch right now: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL92CAF6B8AE655C2C https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL92CAF6B8AE655C2C The "Ducktales" one is the best. Probably NSFW.
- jboggan 10y agoThe Ducktales one is definitely the best, I can no longer hear the theme music without thinking of it. The Robocop one has got to be the absolute boundary of what is allowed on YouTube.
- astronautjones 10y agoFWIW, DJ Douggpound (Tim & Eric, Pound House, et al.) did some editing and voices on those. His new stuff is brilliant - https://youtu.be/sNhB9dr9U0c https://youtu.be/sNhB9dr9U0c
- artur_makly 10y agoYES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ2q9NmYf6g&list=RDyELOiYgR2aI&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ2q9NmYf6g&list=RDyELOiYgR2...
- scrollaway 10y agoI'm surprised Silent Garfield wasn't mentioned: http://www.silentgarfield.com/ http://www.silentgarfield.com/
- vinceguidry 10y agoWeird, Garfield minus Garfield has the same premise, and was mentioned. http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ Wonder which came first?
- goda90 10y agoAt least in Silent Garfield Jon is talking to something instead of nothing which leads to hilarious and depressing scenarios.
- dri_ft 10y agoSilent Garfield was invented first, on a forum called Truth and Beauty Bombs, which was the fan forum of a webcomic called Dinosaur Comics, though the discussion thereon tended to be only tangentially connected to Dinosaur Comics. The thread in which it was invented became a big deal and "went viral". I think Garfield Minus Garfield was also invented later on in the same thread, as well as some other variants. But Silent Garfield is funnier and has a better rationale than Garfield Minus Garfield, so it's always to my chagrin that Garfield Minus Garfield is better-known. (That "better rationale" being the fact that in the original, Garfield's "speech" is always shown in thought bubbles, so removing those thought bubbles should theoretically how the strip's events would appear to an outside observer/Jon/anyone without access to Garfield's internal monologue.) Source: I was there. The PhpBB for the old forum seems to be busted, and I don't think the thread is accessible any more.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoDC being what it is, this makes a lot of sense. I only showed up on the xkcd forums, which can go from full of cool people to full of assholes at any moment. It's better now some of the particularly bad trolls have left. Criticising the strip is cool. Being an idiot douchebag isn't.
- onetwotree 10y agoAnd of course, the XKCD: https://xkcd.com/78/ https://xkcd.com/78/
- Cpoll 10y agoAnd Kate Beaton: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php/index.php?id=134 http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php/index.php?id=134
- protomyth 10y agoWhat's with the starting diss of Charles Schulz?
- davidw 10y agoSome people (myself included) find Peanuts insufferably boring and not all that funny.
- protomyth 10y agoOk, much as I find Charlie Kaufman's films the same, but why bother? Do people not get that you whittle down your audience when you go out of your way to insult things people value.
- knieveltech 10y agoPerhaps there are individuals that don't feel the need to cater to a broad audience?
- sp332 10y agoTry http://3eanuts.com/ http://3eanuts.com/ which is Peanuts with the last panel cut off.
- mhurron 10y agoWow, some of those are absolutely astounding.
- jerf 10y agoThere's a decent 5 years of strips in the run of 50 years, scattered but mostly front-loaded, though you also have to skip the first couple. But even the decent strips are low-key and subtle, and you may have needed to be able to connect to some of the characters more than you may have been able too. (I wasn't "Charlie Brown" as a kid per se, but I connected more than others might have.) I know this because I read them when I was younger, pre-internet. Peanuts can't compete in a world of abundant webcomics. They range from the top to the bottom of quality, but given their sheer quantity, that means there's an awful lot of the "top" out there. The only syndicated strip I know that can stand up next to the top webcomics is Calvin and Hobbes. (And even then, while the line art stands up, many webcomics' coloring blow away what Mr. Watterson was capable of doing in newspapers. Please note my phrasing on that; I'm blaming technical limitations, not Watterson's ability. IIRC he had some watercolors or something like that he'd done in the back of some of his books... his skill was beyond what newspapers of the day were physically capable of showing.)
- protomyth 10y agoPVP did a sendup of the whole industry http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2009/03/02/ombudsmen http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2009/03/02/ombudsmen
- fenomas 10y agoThat was brilliant, thanks for posting!
- acomjean 10y agoI read Garfield when I was a kid. I have some books. It's strange but there were characters, a roommate, a dog (odie),a cute kitten that was resented, trips to a farm. Those things were written out, and it became sameness all the time. I'm surprised it's still being written. I love the remixes. Garfield minus Garfield is fascinating..
- ocschwar 10y agoIt's still being written because Jim Davis's chief motivation in starting Garfield was to do something about the struggling economy in his home town of Muncie, Indiana. The strip's mediocrity is a secure source of income for two dozen people in a struggling town, and thus also a source of income for everyone who pumps their gas, buses their diner tables et cetera.
- Bromskloss 10y ago> and thus also a source of income for everyone who pumps their gas, buses their diner tables et cetera. I'm not sure, and I have other things to think about right now, but this smells of a broken-window fallacy.
- ssalazar 10y agoThis is pretty much the basis of any discussion on jobs creation. In this case there is no destruction of property stimulating economic activity, which to my understanding is the crux of the broken window fallacy.
- Bromskloss 10y ago> In this case there is no destruction of property stimulating economic activity, which to my understanding is the crux of the broken window fallacy. You have a point there. I think what I'm getting hung up on is that it's not so much a creation of value as a redistribution of value (from the comic strip workers to the gas station attendants, and to the government collecting taxes). Of course, there should be _some_ creation of value involved for the buyers and sellers of the gas pumping service, other wise they would abstain from it, and maybe it is this value that the parent comment referred to, and all is well. > This is pretty much the basis of any discussion on jobs creation. Actually, I'm uncomfortable with many discussions of "job creation". It often seems that the number of people hired, i.e. the number of "jobs created", is all that is considered, even if the work done is not useful, meaning that a job-creating action is seen as a success even if it comes at a cost greater than that of just gifting the same people the money and leaving them available for useful work.
- jecyll 10y agoEven if Garfield Minus Garfield is a little weird, I think it's fascinating how the absence of the cat creats such a obscure melancholia. Some of the stripes even become philosophical.
- rglover 10y agoIt's beautiful.
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoOr conversely shows how easy it is to make non-sense that can be interpreted as deep or meaningful. Makes me think of India's guru culture or the US's new age stuff. Its like our minds are hardwired to trip a fuse when we see something on the level of zen koan or similarly weird or meaningless. Another example is 'cut up books' where you randomly paste together strips of sentences from other books or newspapers and eventually get something interesting. Maybe its a side-effect of being a novelty seeking species. Who knows.
- aab0 10y agoI think it's more than that. The Minuses have a definite air that the others, more randomized, don't. I think it's a little Andy Kaufman like - much humor is ultimately malicious, and when you strip out the punchlines, you're left just with the setup in which Jon's loserdom can't be ignored.
- coldtea 10y ago>when we see something on the level of zen koan or similarly weird or meaningless. Zen koan are anything but meaningless. They are in fact purposefully designed to evoke certain meanings...
- rcpt 10y agoGarfield Minus Garfield plus 4chan is weirder still https://m.imgur.com/a/0AAA5 https://m.imgur.com/a/0AAA5
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- tekklloneer 10y agoThis reminds me of The Dilbert Hole, a profane take on Dilbert's watercooler mirth. Scott Adams didn't take too kindly to it.
- Yhippa 10y agoIf you can find the strips and aren't easily shocked it's quite the interesting read.
- Camillo 10y agoIt's just profanity. I wouldn't bother.
- siegecraft 10y agoThe Dilbert Hole ruined Cards Against Humanity for me... it's just too tame in comparison.
- minikomi 10y agoAlso, MRA Dilbert - Dilbert with quotes from the author himself. http://mradilbert.tumblr.com http://mradilbert.tumblr.com
- phjesusthatguy3 10y agoI ran across The Dilbert Hole strips embedded in some guy's weird webcomic where he took photographs of Plasticine animal characters and pasted them over photographs of the real world. I can't think of the name of the strip, the only title I remember is "Winter Pageant". At one point the Dilbert strips got replaced with redrawings of them (probably when SA "didn't take too kindly to it") and then I totally forgot about it until today.
- neekered 10y agoThat sounds similar to leisure town http://www.leisuretown.com http://www.leisuretown.com
- DrBazza 10y agoAnd of course, Hetfield the Cat, http://hetfield-the-cat.tumblr.com/ http://hetfield-the-cat.tumblr.com/
- dmd 10y agoWhy even bother, when Jim Davis himself is already as existential-despair as you can get? http://youtu.be/mMz-2oUDSas http://youtu.be/mMz-2oUDSas
- girvo 10y agoJesus H. Christ that was horrifying and I'm not sure why.
- ZanyProgrammer 10y agoSurprised no one has mentioned Rick and Morty yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM_XPZH6QE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM_XPZH6QE0
- jerf 10y agoIn a video I never would have expected to be on topic here, see also "Gazorpazorpfield Minus Gazorpazorpfield": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R56aB9GxAzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R56aB9GxAzM The mere fact that somebody did it is more amusing than the final result.
- bdrool 10y agoThere's also this crudely drawn but shockingly engrossing series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHKuF51aPFaq-2UvU-HkSMbOKhWdHy7Dw https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHKuF51aPFaq-2UvU-HkS... As well as all the follow-ups and side stories by the same person (check their channel for the rest).
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoCool, but if you've seriously been on the web for about 5 years, this is nothing new.
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y agoAmazing- someone found a way to post memes on HN and get upvoted :) (Garkov is very HN, I admit)
- caf 10y agoThis seems like perfect fodder for an RNN.
- eganist 10y agoThe best musical analog I can think of to this would be Simpsonswave (as compared to the whole of the vaporware genre).
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