[Humor] How to make Garfield funny

Iron Sky · Aug 28, 2010

So, elsewhere on the forum, my roommate posted a link to Realfield, to which another poster countered with the Garfield Randomizer. I thought they were hilarious, so I thought I'd share some of the ones it came up with for me.

Enjoy!

AdmundfortGeographer · Aug 28, 2010

Meh, the randomizer doesn't seem particularly funny to me. Ever.

Realfield seems to be a knock-off of garfieldminusgarfield, but instead of removing garfield, they substituted in a realistically drawn cat instead. I prefer garfield minus garfield.

MarkB · Aug 28, 2010

Call me a heathen, but compared with any of those, I think I prefer Garfield. At least, a few of those raised a mild snigger.

Relique du Madde · Aug 28, 2010

Eric Anondson said:
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I prefer garfield minus garfield.

Some of the ones on that site were decent at best, but I thought they mostly weren't.

Remus Lupin · Aug 29, 2010

And then there's this:

Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Cthulhu

Iron Sky · Aug 29, 2010

I think what gets me about the random Garfields is that it's emergent humor. Some computer algorithm is churning some images around and suddenly humor arises. You'll get 10 that don't make any sense at all, but that makes them even more entertaining to me when they do.

Obviously humor is subjective, not objective so maybe you weren't as entertained as I was. Let me have my wrong-bad-fun(ny)!

I can't remember the last time an actual Garfield strip made me even chuckle...

Dannyalcatraz · Aug 29, 2010

How to make Garfield funny?

Make him a Rakshasha*, keep the rest. The thought of a powerful, evil cat-being who is so lax that it acts like a common housecat (with an abnormal taste for lasagna) amuses me.

Clearly, he's a societal exile.

* or if you prefer sci-fi to myth and legend, make him Kzinti

AdmundfortGeographer · Aug 29, 2010

Relique du Madde said:
Some of the ones on that site were decent at best, but I thought they mostly weren't.

Well, yeah. But they are a step up the humor chain from the original.

ssampier · Aug 29, 2010

Garfield has never been laugh-out-loud funny. Garfield is usually entertaining in very small doses.

For comics, I usually read Baldo, Dilbert, Luann, and Pearls Before Swine daily.

I'm A Banana · Aug 29, 2010

My sense of humor runs more Campbellian.

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