[Humor] How to make Garfield funny

[Iron Sky]

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]

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]

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]

M
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]

And then there's this:

Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Cthulhu

 

[Iron Sky]

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]

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]

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]

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]

My sense of humor runs more Campbellian.

 

[Diamond Cross]

Garfield's nothing more than a bully.

Sorry, but I just hate him to no end.

 

[Holy Bovine]

Garfield's nothing more than a bully.

Sorry, but I just hate him to no end.

what - really? I mean that's just...oh my

 

[TarionzCousin]

Garfield's nothing more than a bully.

Sorry, but I just hate him to no end.

If only someone would make up stats for him, we could kill him.

 

[Relique du Madde]

If only someone would make up stats for him, we could kill him.

Can't use a unmodified house cat because then it could kill a commoner in combat without using a smothering attack.

 

[Tewligan]

Garfield's nothing more than a bully.

Sorry, but I just hate him to no end.

Dude, I know. Every Sunday, I write a letter to the newspaper complaining about their tacit support of his mean-spirited "humor", but so far they have yet to do anything about it.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Dude, I know. Every Sunday, I write a letter to the newspaper complaining about their tacit support of his mean-spirited "humor", but so far they have yet to do anything about it.

You should start mailing them dead cats, maybe then they will get the point.

 

[Diamond Cross]

what - really? I mean that's just...oh my

Really.

He's constantly kicking the dog all to hell.

He won't let Jon have any dates.

He eats Jon out of house and home.

The only time he does anything is to get himself out of troublle.

I don't understand why people find this kind of thing funny.

 

[surfarcher]

Because that's exactly what cats are like.

 

[Diamond Cross]

Not really. People have cats like that they're doing something wrong. Most cats I've known have been very affectionate towards me and pretty considerate too.

And that's a cartoon cat as well. I just can't imagine a cat going up to a Pitbull and kicking him off the table. Sorry.

 

[surfarcher]

Not literalyl like that I meant it's kind of a cat's attitude towards everything in caricature.

Like - Feed me! Cuddle me! Let me outside! For a cat everything is about the cat and anything else is secondary, if it registers at all. Our own needs and desires often aren't worth noticing. "What's that, boy? You are having a heart attack? I said I'm hungry! Now feed me!" LOL

Cats think they are the master. We call our ginger cat "your majesty" because of this LOL.

Odie's no Pit Bull. It's some annoying little yappy thing. The kind of thing my cat chases off if it comes into our house LOL. It doesn't take a swipe at our 40kg furry mutt that doesn't feel pain when it's pissed