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While Garfield has spawned a massive meme subculture, the franchise has had Funny Moments of its own throughout its decades-long history.

In general:

• Whenever the talking scale speaks to Garfield.
• Anything involving the TV.
• Several jokes involving coffee, such every bit when information technology is too weak or as well stiff.
• Garfield's very loud burps are never not funny.
• Whenever Jon answers the phone just to find out that Garfield has been causing trouble.
• Nigh any gag involving the Spluts. One particularly impressive one is coupled with Medium Sensation.
• Many of Jon'due south choice-upwardly lines, with the crowner being, "Alibi me, I take salubrious gums."
• Whenever Jon has trouble setting upward Christmas decorations (such as lights and the tree).
• Anything involving the refrigerator and the mutated abominations that come out of it.
• Annihilation that happens to Garfield on Mondays.

Specific examples:

• Garfield'due south get-go cup of coffee, fashion back in 1978:

  Jon: (Takes cup) You tin't beverage coffee, Garfield. You lot'll stunt your, uh, your...
  (Jon looks at the reader equally he drums his fingers in idea)
  Jon: (Gives back cup, holds out sugar) One lump, or two?

• One comic has the fridge light burn out, and Garfield, thinking it was never bright enough anyway, replaces information technology with a HUGE Bulb. Soon, Jon is headed for the fridge looking for a midnight snack. The final panel has light shooting out of every window and the chimney and Jon yelling for Garfield.
• Jon'south jaw falling to the floor upon seeing what Garfield has done to his chair.
• Garfield apparently robbed a banking company thinking it was a bakery. Jon's reaction is what makes information technology.
• Jon asks Garfield if he'due south ready to eat, which for some reason causes Garfield to become actually upset at Jon. The over-the-top delivery of the last line is what makes the strip.
• Garfield watching a cheesy romantic movie that consists entirely of "John! Marsha!" for 4 panels straight. he changes the channel and facepalms when he gets "George! Shirley!"
• Two unlike successful attempts at randomness, both involving vines: one coming out of nowhere within the business firm, and some other being used to rescue Garfield from a ginormous basin of oatmeal.
• Garfield trying out a whole agglomeration of exotic bird calls. While it initially appears nothing happened, which gives Garfield the line "Maybe I 'nicked' when I should have 'greeeebeled,'" there's a whole agglomeration of exotic birds standing right behind him.
• In one strip, Garfield begs Jon for some of his dinner. Jon tells him to knock it off, saying he can have any food that falls on the floor. Garfield promptly tilts the tabular array, causing all the nutrient on it to fall off.

  Jon: I hate y'all.
  Garfield: I can live with that.

• A scene with Garfield watching TV: "The courtroom calls Gouda May Freegenweegenswallodribbenfraxenlaxenismabittle to the stand. Be seated, Mrs. Freegenweegenswallodribbenfraxenlaxenismabittle. Please state your name." Cue Face Palm in the tertiary panel.
• Garfield's "I hate..." serial of strips which lasted six days in February 1987.

  Garfield: [awakened past a loud ringing, he begins furiously smashing something simply off panel] I hate warning clocks. [pan out to reveal that the alarm clock is intact and that Garfield has unknowingly smashed the telephone instead]

  Garfield: [trying to jump on a spider] I hate spiders! [crashes through the floorboards, missing the spider] I detest hating spiders.

  Garfield: [after taking a bite of a doughnut from a plate left on the table] I hate wax doughnuts.

  Garfield: [while reaching for a doughnut, his chair collapses, smacking him in the face and throwing him to the floor] I hate folding chairs.

  Garfield: [subsequently a gust of wind splatters him confronting a window] I hate windy days.

  Garfield: [unable to get comfortable in bed, he collapses the human foot of the bed with his feet] I hate leg cramps.

• When Garfield's jealousy of Liz reaches new heights...

  Jon: [on the phone] Liz, I think Garfield'due south jealous of you.
  [Garfield enters wearing a bathrobe, house slippers, and hair curlers]
  Garfield: You're talking to that adult female once more, aren't you?!
  Jon: [deadpan] Liz, I know Garfield's jealous of you.

• Jon explaining a double date to his brother:

  Doctor Boy: What's a double date?

  Jon: That'south when yous and I proceed a appointment together.

  Doc Boy: Gee, it seems similar it would exist more fun if some girls came along.

• That time when Garfield deals with his Shoulder Doughnuts.

  Angel Doughnut: Don't swallow that poor caught doughnut!

  Devil Doughnut: Don't listen to him! Chow down, pal!

  Angel Doughnut: Do what is right! Exercise what's in your heart!

  (following a beat console where Garfield has a deadpan expression, the final panel reveals that Garfield ate the doughnut on the plate... plus the angel and devil doughnuts)

• Garfield is on a diet:

  Garfield: When I'g off this nutrition, I'thou going to consume lasagna, cake, ice cream, mashed potatoes..

  Garfield: (does a Face Palm) I just gained two pounds!

• Panel One: Jon sitting down enjoying a cup of coffee. Panel two: a deranged looking Garfield slamming his coffee loving cup down on the tabular array and yells ''Bean ME!" What sells it? Jon'due south deadpan reaction.

  "Something tells me this isn't your first loving cup today."

• Jon calls Garfield and Odie for dinner. He sees Garfield and Odie speeding towards him... then eats their food.
• Jon here is Actually drastic for a date.

  Jon: So, Bernadette, how nigh dinner and a flick? Luncheon and a wheel ride? A cookie and a crossword puzzle?!

  Garfield: (smirking at the reader) Toaster crumbs and a knock-knock joke?

• Jon'due south dancing in this strip is hilarious enough on its own, but the strip just keeps getting funnier from there.

• Definitely one of Garfield'south crabbier moments.

  Jon: Would puddy tat wike a bowl of milk?

  Garfield: (soaking Jon with the basin of milk) Would funny wooking man wike a milk bathroom? (to the audition) Never exist condescending to a cat.

• This Sunday strip.

  Jon: Hmm... It says here that cats are smarter than dogs...

  Garfield: Bank check.

  Jon: ...and that cats are smarter than humans...

  Garfield: Check.

  Jon: ...and that cats should be pampered...

  Garfield: Big bank check.

  Jon: ...and that cats are a gift to flesh, and should be worshipped...

  Garfield: Checkarooni.

  Garfield: Che...await a infinitesimal.

  [in the side by side panel, the newspaper is all shredded upwards with Jon holding up a remaining corner, and Garfield is absent]

  Jon: Oh, expect. It says that cats tin can't take a joke.

• "We'll be right back after this word from our sponsor!" "Sasquatch". "Welcome back!"
• It's incredible that that week of strips with the dog falling on Garfield never reached Memetic Mutation status.
• This strip has Jon seeing Garfield with what appears to be a big grin and comments almost how it'due south prissy to run into Garfield in a expert mood for once. As soon every bit Jon walks off...

  Garfield: I Saturday ON A MOUSETRAP!

• Jon scaring off his engagement by talking about stamp collecting.

  Waiter: I collect bottle caps.

  Jon: OH, Shut Upwardly!

• Jon and Garfield have gotten so used to Jon's mum'due south annual Bootleg Sweater from Hell, that when she makes Garfield a good sweater, Jon and Garfield become worried.

• The TV plays the "Piece of Dangling String" show. Garfield swats at the string after a Beat.
• In one Sunday strip, Garfield gets a phone telephone call telling him he can get a chiliad prize if he answers ii questions: what is the sound a cat makes, and what is the sound a domestic dog makes? Garfield answers the commencement 1 correctly, but the second one... he messes that one up deliberately.
  • DUHHHHHHH...

  Garfield: I dubiety if I was eligible anyway.

• When Garfield wakes upwardly 1 morn and Jon decides to go jogging...Garfield falls right back to sleep.
  • A later strip has Jon waking Garfield up at 5 in the morn to become jogging... and then promptly yawns and falls asleep adjacent to him in his jogging dress. "I knew that nonsense wouldn't final long."
  • Another strip has Jon waking Garfield at iv AM to lookout the sunrise. Garfield's response?
• A comic shows Garfield using the Puppy-Dog Eyes fox on Liz to get some cookies... simply just then, it backfires, making Garfield requite his food to her and caput over to Jon. The former's response?
• Jon is taking a maturity test. ◊

  Jon: Where are my crayons?

  Garfield: That's an automatic ten-point deduction.

• Jon is talking on the phone to a adult female and sees Garfield swiping his steak dinner. His reaction is to shout "You lot FAT GREEDY PIG! I OUGHTA SHAVE You lot Baldheaded AND PUT You lot OUT IN THE Cold!" The woman on the phone assumes that Jon is talking to her and hangs upwardly.
• Ane comic gives us Garfield using an ironing board equally a surf board in the shower stall, resulting in a very startled Jon as his cat shoots out of the stall on a huge wave shouting "COWABUNGA!" when he opens the door.

  Jon: Why tin't yous bat at a slice of string like other cats?!

• Some other example of Telly-viewing:

  TV vocalism: It'south the "Binky the Clown Show"!

  Television voice: Today is "Health Day," kids! Let's see who's at the door...

  TV voice: Why, it's "Petey," the bloated tick!

  Garfield: That is one ugly puppet.

• Garfield is served dinner:

  Jon: Oh, come on, Garfield. The cat food isn't that bad.

  Garfield: And then let's come across how Y'all like information technology! [shoves some of the food into Jon's mouth]

  Jon: Mmm, proficient.

• Jon refusing to empathize love stories don't have machine chases.

  Liz: This is a great love story.

  Jon: Are there auto chases?

  Liz: It's a beloved story.

  Jon: Practise they go over cliffs?

  Liz: It's a love story.

  Jon: Do the cars explode?

  Jon: Cool!

  Garfield: Turn information technology up!

• "Garfield, why don't you get up and do something?" Garfield jumps up and makes a Nightmare Confront, and Jon tells him non to practice it again.

• Jon and Garfield are stargazing, and Jon notices a meteor.

  Jon: Did you make a wish?!

  (Jon is pummeled by a giant pizza)

  Garfield: (smile) Yes.

• "In that location is a wise man on top of this mountain." The wise man then falls downwardly, accompanied by a scream and a thud, and Garfield says that he's not and so wise after all.

• Garfield tells Jon that he has never thanked Jon for all he has done, and that he doesn't plan to.
• Garfield uses willpower to resist eating a hamburger. He cries "Wah!" and Jon says, "I'k commencement to worry well-nigh Garfield."
• Garfield lets Jon accept the last of the ice foam. He replaced it with lard.
• This exchange with Irma:

  Irma: You didn't swallow your vegetables.
  Jon: What are you going to do, tell my female parent?
  Irma: I think I will.
  Jon: [Stuffing the veggies into his rima oris] Look! I'k eating 'em! I'k eating 'em!
  Garfield: Tell her he ate his dessert first!

• Jon becomes a mime, and flirts with a lady mime, whose jealous fellow beats him upward. In the last panel, Jon emits a tiny, "Ow..." and Garfield scolds him with, "Ah ah ah! Y'all're not supposed to talk!"
• The strip involving Garfield finding a giant hamburger, merely for the hamburger to tell him that Garfield is dreaming. Garfield responds that he assumed as such and leaves. Cue Garfield then leaping back into frame, bearing claws and fangs, yelling "NEVER ASSUME!"
• Garfield flushes the alarm clock downwardly the toilet before Jon walks into the bathroom. "The toilet is ringing! What should I do?" "Have a message."
• Jon decides to go to the embankment, only is shocked when Garfield inflates a pool toy and he doesn't encounter information technology happening.
• In ane Sun, Jon fashions a suit out of Sunday newspaper comics, which he thinks will help him pick up chicks. He finds a lady jogger, but before he can say anything, it begins to rain. A lot. When it clears, Jon'due south been reduced to his underwear.

  Woman: Your punchline is showing.
  Garfield: Now that's funny.

• "I couldn't determine what shirt to wear... So I put all of them on".
• Some fourth dimension subsequently they started dating, Liz joins Jon on a trip to the beach. Jon'southward mind nearly breaks when he starting time sees Liz in a bikini. Even funnier is the manner Odie tips up his shades in a double-take.
• Garfield becomes fed up with Jon's snoring and shoves a pillow in his mouth.

  Jon: GAHHHHFEE!!!

  Garfield: Oh, pipe down and gimme your pillow.

• Garfield hears some foreign noises at night.

  Garfield: The wind, the firm settling...

  Jon: Wha?!... HOOP! YAAAAH!!

  Odie: YIPE! YIPE! YIPE! YIPE!

  Jon: WOOOAAAHHH! (CRASH)

  Garfield: Jon getting upwards and stepping on Odie.

• Garfield names all the peaceful sounds of the dark... then he hears them all at in one case, prompting an Aside Glance. Much afterward on, the strip gets a Call-Dorsum when Garfield says that sometimes he can't slumber.
• Garfield and Jon's hot pepper eating contest. Jon wins past manner of Garfield giving in to a Peruvian death pepper...merely feels no satisfaction due to Garfield having incinerated Jon with his jiff. Four panels from this comic currently serve as the page image for Pyrrhic Victory.
• One comic has Garfield and Jon gloat National Drama Day, where they completely flip out over the smallest things similar burnt toast, the fridge light bulb going out, and running out of floss. They finally calm downwards...only for Garfield to calmly say that Jon's motorcar is on burn down.

• While they're out for a walk, Jon asks Garfield where he'd like to eat. Garfield chooses "Ernie'due south Eat Till You Explode Eatery".

  Garfield: Permit'southward just say I take a good feeling about information technology.

• Garfield's tap dancing is attracting a more sophisticated audience. How does he know? Somebody threw an Italian shoe at him.
• Jon made eggnog.

  (Garfield swipes Jon'south loving cup of eggnog and leaves)

  Jon: (angrily) WOULD Yous LIKE SOME?!!

  Garfield: Needs more nutmeg.

• Garfield struggles with a style-too-big Christmas sweater. Jon and Odie find information technology hilarious. Garfield'due south response is to forcefulness THEM into the sweater.
• On Jon'due south communication, Garfield takes a long, hard look at himself.

  Jon: I said...

  Garfield: (grin at his reflection like an idiot) Hang on.

• This strip has Liz telling Jon to throw out a shirt that he's wearing... that doesn't fit him anymore. Jon protests, so begs Garfield to help him out. Garfield's response?

  Garfield: (poking Jon in the breadbasket) Beep.

  • And in the NEXT strip nosotros see a now blank-chested Jon telling Garfield that Liz just doesn't understand how a guy FEELS most his favorite shirt. So he asks Garfield if HE understands. Garfield's response?

  Garfield: (poking Jon in the breadbasket once again) Beep.

  Jon: Volition YOU Cut THAT OUT?!!

• A human foot of snow fell... concentrated on a very pocket-size area. Specifically, a bored-looking Jon'southward caput.

  Garfield: (to the audition) Figures.

• Jon gets Garfield a matching accommodate.

  Garfield: (walking abroad) Information technology wasn't easy, just information technology did fit up his nose.

  Jon: NARFIELD!

• "Hey, Odie! Jon was just telling me he wishes you would bark maniacally in his confront."

  Odie: (doing just that)

  Garfield: Happy birthday, Jon!

• The buttermilk pancakes that Irma has served Jon and Garfield taste manifestly. As it turns out, this is because Irma put water in them... significant that the buttermilk went into the coffee maker. And Irma tells Jon and Garfield this WHILE THEY'RE DRINKING THEIR COFFEE.

• "If I turn my head just right... I tin can option up a radio station on my teeth!" What actually makes information technology is Jon's grinning like an idiot in the tertiary panel.

• This strip. All of it.

  (Garfield offers Jon some food out of a box)

  Jon: (eats it) Why, thank you, Garfield. (reads the box) DOG Nutrient?! QUICK! GIMME SOMETHING TO Drinkable!

  Jon: (afterwards drinking information technology) HOT SAUCE! I'M Called-for Upward!

  (Garfield brings him the fish bowl, which Jon drinks water from)

  Jon: GOLDFISH WATER! Antitoxin! Antidote!

  (Garfield offers Jon some anchovies, which Jon eats)

  Jon: AARGH! ANCHOVIES!!

  Garfield: (to the reader) This could go on for days.

• This strip consists entirely of Jon babbling on to an extremely bored Garfield about his days on the farm. His yammering is translated for the first few panels as "Apathetic blah blah blah blah..." Garfield hallucinates him as a pig, an alien, a rooster, and a bunny.

• Information technology turns out that Garfield and Odie are very enthusiastic for Liz and Jon spending time together.

• Jon'due south funny torso noises social club, everybody. The best part is Garfield'due south comment:

  Garfield: I dread the weeks Jon's club meets hither.

• This strip, role of a series where Garfield goes on a nutrition.

  Garfield: (enraged and belongings a celery stalk) CELERY! IF Science COULD FIND A USE FOR IT, We WOULDN'T Take TO EAT IT TO GET RID OF IT!

  (Garfield leaves)

• Jon'southward truly horrific suit gets him sent home to change. Garfield'south response to seeing it is to embrace his eyes and shout, "MY EYES!"
• This strip has Jon going on and on about Liz and how he can't become enough of her. Garfield then says that he feels the same way about cheese puffs.
• "Let the catsup festival begin!"

• Someone calls Jon to say, "I won't leave with you lot!"

  Jon: I wonder who that was?
  Garfield: (Smacks forehead) Rejected past wrong numbers!

• The first housefly of Jump is looking for a welcome:

  [SWAT]
  Housefly: I was hoping for something a petty more FESTIVE!
  [SWAT]
  Garfield: [throwing confetti while still wearing a deadpan expression] Huzzah.
  Housefly: I detest you!

• Jon's parents come for a visit ◊ and the father attempts to utilise a mod sink. Jon'due south panic and the father's triumphant look in the final panel are what really make it.
• Jon warns Garfield not to lay a hand on his pie ◊. Garfield enacts Exact Words and slams his face up into it.
  • Speaking of strips involving Verbal Words and pie, hither Jon tells Garfield not to hit him in the face with the pie that he is belongings. The result: "PIE DOWN THE PANTS!"
• During a power outage ◊ Jon asks Garfield to employ his "cat instincts" to lead them to the basement. Come sunrise, he's somehow led them upwardly a tree.
• Eating Garfield'southward food gets Nermal literally thrown out. The nonchalance on Garfield's face up is hilarious.
• In this strip Garfield and Odie drive Jon insane past eating his food backside his back.
• This strip has Irma answering that the diner's special for today is "Chicken Surprise", which Jon orders two for himself and Garfield. Cue Irma putting on a chicken mask and yelling "Surprise! Surprise!"

  Jon: (whispering to Garfield) Yous distract her. I'll call the infirmary.
  Garfield: Got it.

• The traditional "Family Effectually the Hearth." Followed past the traditional "Flaming Socks Dance."
• Jon discovers that Garfield has drawn a mustache on a framed photo of him ◊ and angrily tells him to fix it. Garfield complies... and promptly draws an identical mustache on Jon's confront.
• All of Jon's socks have holes in them? ◊ Sounds like a chore for the Masked Avengers!
• Jon tin't notice his bag of chocolate-covered coffee beans. ◊ Garfield zings across for a panel.
• Garfield asks Jim Davis ◊ if laziness is contagious, all while the art of the strip gets rougher and rougher. Jim'due south signature is even accompanied by a "Right!"
• Jon discovers that Ellen has no feelings toward him at all.

  Jon: How nigh compassion?
  Garfield: I thought hitting lesser would make a louder noise.

• In a couple strips, Jon yells "Burn!" to meet how Garfield would handle an emergency. He responds as simply Garfield would...by property up a hot canis familiaris on a stick.
• The first Christmas Eve strip. Santa drops by to bring presents for Jon, Lyman and Odie. He then stalls for a bit earlier coming to Garfield, considering he was the "only kid in the world to ask for xx pounds of lasagna."
• The logo box to this strip. Garfield has his name written across two big stockings with Santa giving an Aside Glance.
• This strip. Garfield watches as a UFO lands in forepart of him, and so two snowman aliens emerge and need that he surrender. The fact that the entire fourth dimension Garfield has a bored expression on his confront (he'southward not at all surprised past the UFO or the aliens) is already hilarious, only it gets even amend - the snowman aliens realize that information technology'due south the middle of summer and promptly melt.

  Garfield: Who schedules your invasions?

  Snowman Alien: (now a puddle) Oh, shut up.

• Jon walks in on his pianoforte playing by itself ◊.

  Jon: MY PIANO'South POSSESSED! THERE'Southward AN EVIL SPIRIT IN MY PIANO!
  Garfield: (pops out of the piano) You take that back!

• Garfield figures out why information technology'south called a "Double Espresso".
• Jon scolds Garfield for eating 1 of his ferns. Garfield stops, appearing that Jon's yelling did the fob. But...

  Garfield: (opens Jon's oral cavity) Let'southward see you make that piffling affair that hangs downward in the back of your pharynx trip the light fantastic toe around again!

• Garfield trying to mail himself to the Acme Lasagna Factory.
• Garfield sits on a high shelf considering high places reinforces the superiority of cats. When he realizes just how loftier it is...
• In an early Sun strip, Garfield terrorizes a dog, the mailman and the milkman. He likewise chases a car. In the last strip, Jon has put a sign in front of the firm saying "Beware of cat!"
• The Sunday Strip that begins Garfield's first diet arc. Garfield complains nearly the potential lack of food. Then he claims he's growing weak, and he faints. Jon and so starts clapping.
• Garfield'due south try to beat up the mailman is thwarted when he comes to deliver the mail in chainmail armor.
• During the get-go arc where Garfield catches a common cold, he has two sneezes of doom: the offset where he blows his food dish on Jon and the second where he propels himself and Jon out of the business firm. Jon's reaction each time is a deadpanned "Anoint you."
  • The arc ends with Jon catching Garfield's common cold.

  Jon: (sniffles) I thig Garfield gabe me a lawmaking.
  Lyman: He what?
  Jon: He gabe me a code!
  Lyman: Pardon?
  Jon: (while Lyman smirks) GABE ME A CODE! GABE ME A Lawmaking!

• Jon takes Garfield for a ride in his car:

  Jon: Go off the ceiling, Garfield. (shell) Leave of the glove compartment, Garfield.
  (Garfield has wrapped himself around Jon'south head in the terminal console)
  Jon: Get back in the glove compartment, Garfield.

  • On another strip later in the week, Jon moves upwards and downward while driving, his head hit his ceiling in the first and third panels. In the last panel, Jon reprimands Garfield for playing with his ability seat.
• The Caped Avenger calling his attacks when he pounces on Odie:

  Garfield: The Caped Avenger sees an evil dog. (Garfield leaps from the table) The Caped Avenger springs into action. (Garfield faceplants on the floor) The Caped Avenger hurts himself.

• While Jon eats breakfast, Garfield crashes through the ceiling.

  Jon: Adept morning, Fatso.
  Garfield: All I did was jump off the bed.

• Jon tells Garfield that 1 of the risks of being overweight is "getting harpooned."
• In one arc, Jon and Garfield sentinel a movie about a panthera leo who terrorizes a village.

  Jon: How tin an animal possibly prey on an innocent victim?
  Garfield: Explain that to the craven you lot had for dinner.

• Garfield unleashes a Sneeze of Doom which blows Jon, Odie and the furnishings against the wall. He also knocks a tree into a neighbor'southward house.

  Jon: Auntie Em! Auntie Em!
  Garfield: Yes, I got you my pretty. And your trivial dog, likewise!

• Garfield crushes a chair with his weight. He denies that he'due south too fat by saying they don't brand chairs the way they used to. And then, he accidentally pushes down the front door.

  Garfield: They don't make doors the style they used to either.

• Garfield tries to order Jon effectually with a stick. Jon came prepared, poking Garfield with a baseball bat. Garfield tries getting dorsum at him by bringing a tree into the house which crushes him.
  • In the last two panels, a bird in a tree's hole watches Garfield with a shocked expression... then glares at him when the tree pins him downwardly.
• Irma recommends the hamburger flambé, the french fries flambé, chili soup flambé and the peach pie flambé.

  Jon: What's with all the flambés?
  Irma: The kitchen is on fire.

• Garfield accidentally makes Pooky's head bigger later squeezing it too hard. Jon laughs when he finds out, only for Garfield to practise the same to his head.
• Garfield and Nermal having an intellectual chat.

  Nermal: Is information technology hard to talk with half dozen chins?
  Garfield: I hate you.

• Jon wonders why his blog isn't getting whatever hits. He tries to spice it up by taking pictures of Garfield since the Internet loves cats. He gets impatient with Garfield doing zilch and screams "COME ON!!" The last panel has a picture of Jon'southward wide-open mouth on his weblog captioned "Today I ate a smartphone."
• The logo box to this strip. In a Shout-Out to Wheel of Fortune, Odie has turned the messages to Garfield's name, just the "L" and the "D" are swapped. Garfield, in the host's spot, gives a disapproving Bated Glance.
• Garfield tries to steal Jon's nutrient by disguising himself as a mouth.

  Garfield: Feed the teeth!

• Garfield ties Odie'southward ears to a tree and teases him with a dingle brawl. In the final panel, Odie has gotten up with the tree still tied to him and is about to beat out a paralyzed Garfield confronting the house.
• Jon sees that women in the park are attracted to men with birds. He sees that Garfield has an ice cream cone and...

  Jon: Wanna pet my parrot?
  Adult female: Does it talk?
  Garfield: The stories I could tell, lady.

• Jon scolding Garfield for throwing rocks in the house.

  Jon: What did I tell you the terminal time you threw a stone in the house?
  Garfield: Lessee... don't help me... I can get this... Oh, yeah! Information technology was "YEEEEOW! Boy, that hurts!"

• Jon receives a complaint from a neighbor near Garfield'south behavior. The name doesn't come to listen until Jon says that Garfield noogied her schnauzer.
• Garfield watches a show called "Hit Me with a Hammer!" The host, Twink Winkerman gets hit in mid-judgement. And then, we get this:

  Guest: Suck information technology upward, Twink, you big babe!
  Twink: Oh yep?! Baby this!
  Guest: OW!
  Garfield: Television's finest hour.

• Jon accuses Garfield of eating his goldfish. Garfield tries to plead his example... but the goldfish emits a thought balloon from Garfield'southward abdomen, maxim "Did as well!"
• Garfield offers Jon a potato flake after he newspaper cuts his natural language licking an envelope.

  Jon: NYAAH GAAHH NYAH NYAH GAH GAH GAH
  Garfield: Fun with salt.

• Garfield watching "Collegiate Face Slapping". One contestant takes objection to a referee's ruling...

  Referee: Then sorry, contestant number ane, merely your terminal slap was, in fact, an eye poink. Two points off...
  Contestant: Two points!? That wasn't an eye poink, HERE'S an eye poink!
  (POINK)
  Commentator: And the ref goes down!
  Garfield: What did we ever do earlier 32 sports channels?

• Jon tricks Garfield into getting out of bed.

  Jon: Garfield! It isn't time to get up!
  Garfield: And so why yell at me?!
  Jon: That works.
  Garfield: Rats!

• Garfield watches a talk show where a guest plays the saw. The saw flips back and hits the guest.

  Garfield: Is at that place a carpenter in the house?

• Later that week, Garfield watches a show where a homo puts off getting married. As Garfield puts it...

  Ted: MUHWEE! COME MACK! COME MACK! MUHWEE!
  Garfield: It's tough to talk with a solar day planner up your olfactory organ.

• Jon writing Christmas cards all at once. His greeting is: "Happy Holidays, from Jon, Garfield and Odie". This then morphs into "Happy Jonnydays, from Hol, Odfield and Garie". Garfield sees Jon writing "Hippy Frollyjons" and suggests a break.
• Jon'southward answering machine greeting:

  Jon: Hi, this is Jon. I'm not home correct n—OW! Hey, that was my LEG! What exercise you think y'all're exercise—OW!!! STOP information technology with the claws already, or I'll—OWWWW!!! All right, that'due south it! Information technology's GO time, pal! you've had it northward—OWWWW (beeeeeeeeeeep)
  (Jon stands next to his phone in the last panel, bandaged upwardly with his shirt torn)
  Liz: I like your new message, Jon. It'southward funny.

• Jon takes Liz to a restaurant and thinks most ordering the chili.

  Jon: Is your chili spicy?
  Waiter: Not really.
  Customer: GAAAHH! MY THROAT! MILK! Ice WATER! ALOE VERA!!!
  Waiter: Unless you're a weenie.
  Jon: Bring it on!
  Liz: Joooon...
  Customer: I Tin can'T Run into!!!

  • The side by side day, after Jon eats the chili...

  Waiter: And how was your five-alarm chili, sir?
  Jon: Hhhambla na fa.
  Waiter: Sir?
  Liz: Uh... he's French
  Jon: Na nee waa noo.

• A spider sees the figurer on and clicks the mouse a few times. In the last panel, a delivery human being comes to drib off three tons of expressionless flies.
• Garfield watches a golf tournament.

  Commentator: This should be an easy two-footer... And... Oh, NO! HE Cruel IN THE Hole!
  Garfield: Elf golf

• Two skillful mouse strips in a row.
  • First, Jon discovers a mouse hole:

  Jon: Wall... Pigsty in the wall... MOUSE IN THE HOLE!
  Garfield: (stomps his feet and claps) Cheese in the mouse... mouse in the pigsty... Hole in...

  • 2d, Garfield tries to concur in his laughter at a mouse pantomiming Jon.

  Jon: I want that mouse caught! And I want it caught NOW! And WHAT are you SMILING at?!

• Jon answers the phone:

  Jon: Jon's love shack... Lip-lock Arbuckle speaking. Fine, Mrs. Feeny. And yous?
  Garfield: Blow her a kiss from me, Lip-lock.

• A story arc over the course of the week depicts Jon painting Garfield. On the Sabbatum strip, Jon claims to take captures Garfield's essence. He turns the canvas around to reveal that he painted Garfield's belly. Garfield just gives an Aside Glance.
• These two spider strips.
  • In the get-go, a spider thinks a hard hat volition protect him from Garfield swatting him.

  Spider: That worked out except for MY EARS!

  • In the 2d, a spider falls from the ceiling:

  Garfield: Perhaps you lot need to go on a diet.
  Spider: Oh, Yes?!
  (the third panel depicts a class of spiders)
  Professor: (side by side to a sign reading "Await who'southward talking, Fatso.") ...Perhaps we can all derive a measure of comfort from Larry'south last words...

• A mouse asks Garfield how he got to exist and so fatty. Garfield replies with "eating chubby mice."
• One spider who gets smacked by Garfield comes across another...
• December 18, 2010: Garfield's lying under the mistletoe, when a spider drops downward to osculation him on the nose. The resulting expression in the last panel is priceless.
• December 12, 2021: Garfield strolls through the house and sees Jon, Odie, Pooky and Liz wearing Santa hats. He's bellyaching as heck when he sees that even Squeak, a spider, the Big Vicious Dog, his ball of yarn and his nutrient bowl accept Santa hats on.

  Garfield: Oh, come up on!

• March 30, 2002

  Jon: (shouting at Garfield off console) Garfield! Get your hand out of the cookie jar! (beat) Who taught you that gesture!?
  Garfield: (off panel) You, in the machine, when you drive.

• Jon eats a os-shaped "cracker" that tastes funny:

  Liz: Jon, that was a dog beige! [pats his caput] And, if you lot're a practiced boy, you can have some other one.
  Garfield: I write her material.

For 2004 Live-Activity moving-picture show

• Garfield trying several attempts to wake Jon up.

  Garfield: Oh, Sleeping Beauty, wake up! You tin can end dreaming near me because I'm here. (pulls the covers off) Now merely wake upwardly. You've got work to do. You're non just my owner, you're my principal caregiver!
  Jon: Not now, Garfield. (rolls over, his arm squeezes Garfield's neck)
  Garfield: Ack! Cut the sweet stuff! Easy at present! (pulls his head gratis then saunters off Jon's bed) Trying to cuddle with me, huh? Trying to avoid your duties, huh? Well, that simply own't gonna fly! Isn't gonna work for me! (climbs upwardly a stack of books to become to the top of a cabinet but across from Jon'south bed) See, I'm getting my practise doing my job. Just one quick Missive! (leaps off the cabinet and onto Jon's stomach; Jon coughs) Morning!
  Jon: GARFIELD!

• Jon takes Odie on his date with Liz, leaving Garfield backside. Garfield begins chasing Liz's option-upward truck and manages to climb onto the bed. Then the traffic calorie-free turns red and Liz puts the brakes on, sending Garfield smacking into the back window, while Jon and Liz accept no notice of him.

  Garfield: [muffled] Oh, my poor nose...

• Meta-example: Bill Murray took the script because he idea information technology was by Joel Coen nevertheless it was really by Joel Cohen (one of the writers of Toy Story)

For A Tale of Two Kitties:

• The opening credits of the film evidence images of Garfield interfering with fairy tales and nursery rhymes in very Garfield-like means, such as knocking Humpty Dumpty off the wall and stealing food from Piffling Red Riding Hood's basket.
• Upon coming up to Buckingham Palace, Garfield tries to get a rise out of a traditional British Purple Guard simply was unsuccessful. Then Odie did the "Ugly American Matter", resulting in the guard chasing him and Garfield.

  Garfield: The British are coming! The British are coming! (To Odie) Well, you made him crack, anyway.

• Garfield getting stuck in the model of Carlysle castle.

  Garfield: Does this castle make my barrel look a trivial as well big?

• The scene where Prince tries lasagna for the offset time, specially when he holds up his empty plate and says "May I have some more", a la Oliver Twist.

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/Garfield

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