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> Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr

> Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb. Did not think I would be relating to Jon on a Thursday morning.

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system2 1y ago
I was about to bash before I read this. Now I feel depressed.
- mrexroad 1y ago
  Try zsh instead!
  - foobahify 1y ago
    Oh my!
    - s1mplicissimus 1y ago
      grml!
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 1y ago
  You'll feel worse if you use tcsh
  - gorjusborg 1y ago
    It could be worse: csh
    - flysand7 1y ago
      ♩ Don't cry, I am just a fish
erk__ 1y ago
Its also pretty interesting given that the original title for the comic that would become Garfield was simply "Jon" There was a small YouTube documentary about finding the old comics in libraries and scanning them in. I the description of the video there is links to scans of all the ones they were able to find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxiwjaUSYJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxiwjaUSYJM
- gwern 1y ago
  Google Docs PDF mirrored at https://gwern.net/doc/anime/2020-hoover-theevolutionofjimdavis.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/anime/2020-hoover-theevolutionofjimdav...
m463 1y ago
Now it makes me wonder what would happen if you did something like removing all the superheroes from a movie. or took soem movies and made all the villains super-attractive and the heroes ugly and dressed in black.
- minikomi 1y ago
  One of my favorite additions by subtraction: https://youtu.be/jKS3MGriZcs?si=RRlSVL0jwi5sDl3f https://youtu.be/jKS3MGriZcs?si=RRlSVL0jwi5sDl3f Removing the laugh track from the big bang theory
  - mathgeek 1y ago
    This is the first thing that came to mind for me as well. Have always loved how mean everyone seems without the canned laughter to tell us "hey, this is funny!"
  - plorg 1y ago
    You won't find me defending The Big Bang Theory, but it's worth noting a lot of actually funny television would have this kind of dead energy if you removed the laugh track, because it's both written for that environment and paced and acted for the audience reaction breaks.
    - skeaker 1y ago
      True, the awkward long pauses between each beat are there specifically for the laugh track and if they had gone without the track they wouldn't include the pauses either.
  - Agentlien 1y ago
    I've never really enjoyed this show but I found myself liking this clean version much more. It feels slower and more natural. It also helps because I wouldn't have laughed at any of those spots with it without laugh track.
- Henchman21 1y ago

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system2 1y ago

I was about to bash before I read this. Now I feel depressed.

mrexroad 1y ago
Try zsh instead!
- foobahify 1y ago
  Oh my!
  - s1mplicissimus 1y ago
    grml!
0xdeadbeefbabe 1y ago
You'll feel worse if you use tcsh
- gorjusborg 1y ago
  It could be worse: csh
  - flysand7 1y ago
    ♩ Don't cry, I am just a fish

erk__ 1y ago

Its also pretty interesting given that the original title for the comic that would become Garfield was simply "Jon" There was a small YouTube documentary about finding the old comics in libraries and scanning them in. I the description of the video there is links to scans of all the ones they were able to find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxiwjaUSYJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxiwjaUSYJM

gwern 1y ago
Google Docs PDF mirrored at https://gwern.net/doc/anime/2020-hoover-theevolutionofjimdavis.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/anime/2020-hoover-theevolutionofjimdav...

m463 1y ago

Now it makes me wonder what would happen if you did something like removing all the superheroes from a movie. or took soem movies and made all the villains super-attractive and the heroes ugly and dressed in black.

minikomi 1y ago
One of my favorite additions by subtraction: https://youtu.be/jKS3MGriZcs?si=RRlSVL0jwi5sDl3f https://youtu.be/jKS3MGriZcs?si=RRlSVL0jwi5sDl3f Removing the laugh track from the big bang theory
- mathgeek 1y ago
  This is the first thing that came to mind for me as well. Have always loved how mean everyone seems without the canned laughter to tell us "hey, this is funny!"
- plorg 1y ago
  You won't find me defending The Big Bang Theory, but it's worth noting a lot of actually funny television would have this kind of dead energy if you removed the laugh track, because it's both written for that environment and paced and acted for the audience reaction breaks.
  - skeaker 1y ago
    True, the awkward long pauses between each beat are there specifically for the laugh track and if they had gone without the track they wouldn't include the pauses either.
- Agentlien 1y ago
  I've never really enjoyed this show but I found myself liking this clean version much more. It feels slower and more natural. It also helps because I wouldn't have laughed at any of those spots with it without laugh track.
Henchman21 1y ago