The Bizarre Lore of Garfield
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- The lovable goofy cat Garfield has been infecting our world for over 40 years! In this video, I talk about where he comes from (and some other stuff I guess.)
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⭐️Music Used (In Order)
~Training Ground (Timesplitters 2)
~Grocery Store (Octodad: Dadliest Catch)
~Cutting Station (Papa's Pizzaria)
~Route 201 (Pokémon DP)
~Lost Impact (Shadow The Hedgehog)
~Smart Race (Deltarune)
~Yoshi Island (M&L Partners In Time)
~Snowdin (Undertale)
~Rage Awakened (Kingdom Hearts 2)
~Fourside (Earthbound)
~Main Menu (Sonic Riders Zero Gravity)
~Select Theme (Mario Kart Wii)
~Air Rally (Rhythm Heaven Fever)
~ Surface Tension (Risk of Rain)
~Path of Pain (Hollow Knight)
~(Outro) Battle Against a Mobile Opponent
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I'm going to watch this and post corrections as I notice them
Garfield did not premiere in comics on June 19, 1978. That was the premiere of his nation syndicated run. He previously appeared in the Indiana newspaper The Pendleton Times.
3:43 What you say here isn't inaccurate, but I do want to correct that the general internet understanding of this isn't correct.
Jim Davis joked in an anniversary book ONE TIME that Lyman might be in Jon's basement. The game you see here, Garfield Scary Scavenger Hunt 2, is NOT set in the Garfield home. It is set in a creepy haunted house, and every character from the franchise is depicted in some creepy way. For instance, you can find Liz' head hidden in the kitchen. But no one says Liz is dead!
4:14 This is an edit, the original comic does not depict Garfield being decapitated
8:05 Garfield hates mondays because mondays hate Garfield. Mondays are implied to be a cosmically powered force that have a vandetta against Garfield, and Garfield always has bad luck on Mondays.
In July 1986, it was Monday for a week. Mondays hate Garfield so much that they rewrote time itself just to torment Garfield for 8 days straight.
I’m a failure to the Garfield knowledge-master I’m so sorry Quinton
Going from "Jon is a socially awkward cartoonist that lives with his fat cat" to "Garfield is a celestial being that is has met God and is just one of many in the Garfield multiverse" is insane
It feels like a very familiar insane
Why just recently I met Ninja Turtles who practice ninjitsu and eat pizza after being mutated by chemicals. They fight ninjas, mutants, and even aliens. Did you know they’re only 4 of many in the Turtle-Verse?! Few times even 5.
Jesus loves you and died and rose again for your sins. He wants to save you, all you have to do is ask Him to and trust in Him, and you will live with Him forever in paradise.
John 3:16
Romans 8:35-39
If you get any character to survive long enough, he eventually becomes cosmic.
As someone who believes in the Garfield multiverse theory I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees it.
"Monday is an entity that, logically, appears on Mondays, where it harasses Garfield through a combination of bad luck and practical jokes." - Garfield Wiki
no wonder bro eats out his troubles and sleeps all day, Garfield living with a damn scp bruh
But sometimes Monday moves or forgets
@@audiovisualcringe It’s also well-established that Garfield himself is an SCP. Perhaps he had to become one in order to fight the Monday entity.
Monday is the Garfield species's natural enemy.
Excuse me?????
We don’t know when Garfield will end, but Garfield knows when we will
True no matter how bizarre
He is immortal, and I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
@@Prettycoolpeashooter19uh oh
In a different garfverse there’s Garfield without Garfield, where it’s mostly just Jon spiraling into madness and odie spontaneously experiencing pain
There's also Garfield without Jon, which is what he would have if Jon had a regular Job.
"im in my bunker and the end of days has come" is absolutely what i expected to hear before you talk about garfield
I love how this video slowly goes from "Garfield is a silly orange cat who hates Mondays" to "Garfield is God"
Garfield is a silly orange Cat God who hates Mondays
My brain started bleeding the second I heard "Garzooka"
fun fact: garfield has confirmed that he (and every other cat) can actually speak, but doesn't because "everyone would hate cats"
I feel like a lot of people already hate cats.
Holy shit which comic??
@@WiiFan-1300 idk, I found it in a big book with tons of other strips, it just says "Jim Davis 7 - 2" it could be July 2nd but idk which year
@@heitorsant17591992
it reminded me of an family guy episode where meg gets a cat that tells brian that all cats can talk and wants to rule the world or smth
According to Jim Davis, Lyman was drafted into the Vietnam War and died on the front lines.
The idea that Jon isn't able to understand Garfield's thoughts doesn't hold up to scrutiny. They do actually sometimes directly respond to each other. It's possible he has an extremely refined sense of Garfield's body language, but there are times that Jon does things that would _require_ him to understand the exact wording of Garfield's thoughts. Garfield is unknowable, inevitable, and terrifying.
I remember as a real little kid first getting into Garfield, thinking that he could talk and everyone understood him. The fact that his lines were in a thought bubble while everyone else had speech bubbles didn't connect with me (I mean I was only like 5 or 6 at the time). Then one day after reading hundreds of Garfield strips by that point, I read a comic where Jon says something like, "Don't you just wish you could understand your pets?" After he found Garfield in some bizarre situation. And I remember how that one strip shook my whole world. Everything I thought I understood about Garfield had been flipped on its head. I started to reread comics I had already read and I suddenly was finding completely different ways to look at all of them. I'm not lying when I say that was a moment I'll never forget where my mind was blown, and by this dumb comic strip about a fat lazy cat of all things.
Vietnam ended in 1975 yet Lyman appeared in the strip up until 1983. What if Lyman and Jon were both in Vietnam together and Lyman is just a manifestation of Jon's PTSD?
@@tpir0426 interesting.. But I still don't understand right I read your comment several times and I don't understand.. sorry.
Damn thats sad
Actually in the Garfield show thats not what happened. There's this episode on what happened to Lyman and I don't remember what happened to him, but he got separated from Jon and got lost
There several comics where Garfield just hangs out with his 1978 self with no given reason. The effect this has had on the Garfield Timeline is currently unknown but is being researched by several prominent Garfologists.
Theory, Garfield hates Mondays because it reminds him that if Jon had a normal job he would leave him alone all day 5 days of the week. Mondays are a reminder of the freedom he could have but doesn’t. He wishes that Jon would leave for work
Well, there’s also the fact that Garfield gets bad luck, it’s like Friday the 13th for Cats.
its because mondays hate garfield
@@ImTheOfficialFox lol
@@hexorth3580 it makes sense.
@@diamanteazul85bluediamonts72 bruh I checked the wiki and my shock that Monday actually physically manifests itself at times was palpable
Im surprised you didnt mention Garfield's judgement day and that really freaky series of strips that was done where everything he knew was gone and the house was abandoned. It ends with with him waking up and everything back to normal
People forget that Jim Davis started out as an underground cartoonist doing some pretty dark shit. Every now and then that leaks through in Garfield.
I remember finding the book with those in my school's library. Jim was clearly in a REALLY weird mood when he did those.
I was thinking the same thing!
@@SamtheBravesFan i found the book with the stips in my local public library.
Maybe that was the first time Garfield slipped into a parallel universe.
"It's quite complicated, isn't it?"
-German Garfield
You failed to mention that, according to The Garfield Show, Garfield knows where you live.
💀
i loved when Garfield said "its Garfin time" and then he garfed all over the lasagna
Haha... Classic 😺🚬
Ewww.
Truly one of the Garfs of all time
@@maruchan_3479 the garfiest
3:10 “I think its funny how Garfield pulled a girlfriend before half the people watching.”
Dang, bro got us there.
@@LookToWindward Then that ain't a pull, that's a drag. Maybe date someone you like instead
Don't know if you still read the comments here, but you could follow this up with Heathcliff since he's canon to the Garfield lore (specifically, he is addressed by Garfield in an intro to Garfield and Friends).
Garfield has been breaking the 4th wall forever. He regularly comments about the script and sometimes you see the filming equipment in the original animated series.
I used to get Garfield compilation books at the library and read them for hours. I love Garfield.
(Also you forgot to mention the Garfield x Grumpy Cat comic)
'Monday' in the garfield universe was shown to be more than the day of the week. It's a supernatural phenomenon that occurs on mondays and simply makes harmful forces come to garfield on its own. For example, in one of the comics, Garfield wishes for a (1-10?) ton lasagna and that lasagna tray falls on him for absolutely no reason apart from the fact it's 'Monday'.
'Monday' just has the power to manifest things in motion such as cream pies and saws. If I recall correctly, which I probably don't, 'Monday' also has a visible, physical form.
The only competition garfield has in being the most recognizable cartoon character in the world is like mickey mouse
Even then, Mickey is more famous as an avatar of Disney Studios than as an actual character.
Most people below 30 can tell you Garfield hates Mondays, loves lasagna, and is fat & lazy. How many can tell you anything about Mickey as a character beyond "has a high-pitched squeaky voice"?
6:41 it was so scary to see that this video was infected by the garfield.exe demon, im so glad cats arent real
Nice, you actually talked about the direct-to-DVD movies. For some reason, most people don’t even acknowledge their existence. It doesn’t make sense to me that such a unique and meme-able trilogy has not sparked any discussion on the internet.
Also, bonus points for not making fun of the art style/animation. TH-camrs do that all the time with movies like Hoodwinked, and I think it’s low-hanging fruit and not very funny.
This video feels like Sam O'Nella and Scott the Woz had a forbidden baby, and auntie Izzzyzzz helped with raising him.
Garfield and Friends is the most realistic portrayal of a cat in all of television
There's just something about Garfield that is so enthralling.
We all like the funny cat that hates everything and eats lasagna. And we all love Jon for how wacky and normal he is.
It's the perfect duo. Also Odie is there too, but I don't think that's relevant.
I'm struggling to write this btw. The loss of the Pacific Ocean has already done a number on my daily life.
Well, with the benefit of a weeks hindsight, we now know that the Pacific Ocean wasn’t so much destroyed as turn into a giant vat of marinara sauce. So there are some pros and cons to that.
11:42 It's-a me, A-Garfield.
I genuinely almost cried when watching the nine lives segment where Garfield’s owner plays piano.
13:22 Bro not Sealed Vessel Playing behind this section with the slow progression to the climax the further down the rabbit hole you go dude 😭
Listening to an existential crisis about Garfield’s status as a deity while sealed vessel plays is something I never knew I needed
There used to be a ride when I was younger at my local amusement park that was Garfield themed. It was a boat ride, and there were little comics all throughout it, but over time, the eyes of Garf went black, and it was one of the most creepy things. But overall it was a really fun ride. I’m sad they took it away.
11:00
what the two pokemon see during a trade
Pure vessel being played behind a Garfield rant is strangely fitting.
Garfield is an eldritch terror, impossible to fully describe,without digging too deep
6:31 it says: pretty complicated, right?
I'm still a beginner in german and I thought he said something narcissistic because of "schön". thank you for the translation.
I'm very surprised that when talking about the time loop theory, you didn't mention how every year on the anniversary of his comic debuting, Garfield canonically gets a year older. He's currently in his fourties. Not only is that more than twice as long as a normal house cat lives, but he's also *older than Jon now*, despite being younger than Jon during the earlier years of the series (since, y'know, Jon is visibly in his late twenties whenever any piece of Garfield media shows him buying Garfield).
Also, WOW, what are the odds you'd post lore videos for Flipline _and_ Garfield? I don't know how much overlap there is in that Venn diagram, other than me, but count me impressed. Next thing I know you'll be doing a video on the lore of Cool Spot, and then I'll know I'm dreaming.
And people wonder why, at least in terms of internet culture, Garfield's went from a fat cat who dislikes the first workday of the week to a Lovecraftian deity.
4:39 “ how about a date my little kitten
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john discord mod confirmed
7:40 how does he do that cool effect with the captions? I really like that!
I really don’t know how but I would love to use it
@@Laspher_ same
he writes OH MY GOD to appear for a split second in position a and then for another in position b an so on.
@@Thaereos12 oh thanks
In one of the older comics, I think his weight is implied to be either 24 or 27lbs. He lost a (lasagna?) eating contest of some kind -- possibly an appearance on TV (??) where he was supposed to eat 10x his own weight in food -- because he had been practicing (eating a lot) shortly before. It's been so many years. @Quinton Reviews may know for certain.
6:38 He says something like "Pretty complicated, right?"
3:21 I’m surprised you didn’t mention the strip where, as soon as Jon and Garfield leave the house, Odie is shown smoking a pipe, listening to classical music, and reading War and Peace.
Garfield is a one to one accurate representation of living with a cat. You assume they can talk, you treat them better then you'd treat most other humans and most times if you own a cat, its because you either dislike human contact or you don't have any social skills
14:34 You’re aware of Gilbert Garfield. I can die happy.
same
12:26 Aye I loved tht movie back then😂😂
Found your channel a couple days ago, and am loving your quality content, keep up the good work. Also you deserve way more subs.
P.S a bit of unofficial Garfield headcannon I have is scp-3166
You know, I remember growing up an avid Garfield fan, watching Garfield and Friends and a few of his specials and collecting his books for a decade or so before eventually wandering away from it. It was a normal franchise at the time. Coming back to it years later, the internet has... *done things* to Garfield that I would have never thought would ever happen to it. I'm not complaining; it's fascinating, but also really weird so see how warped Garfield has become. You're probably right, too, in that he'll likely outlive us as individuals. He'll likely still be altered long after Jim Davis dies. It's truly wild to think about.
A youtuber called supereyepatch wolf has a good video about how how weird garfielf is
5:20 idk why I like seeing him like this. He's looks so cool
Probably the reason why The Garfield Show has strange dialogue is because it was originally in French and dubbed into English later. Also could explain why it’s CGI
15:26 i just want to Say the Super eyepatch Wolf video is my favorite
10:38 Looks more like a Sonic Forces character
"Garfield and Friends Garfield is probably the prime Garfield in the eyes of many. I wouldn't know. I grew up with these."
Oh, you poor, deprived child.
You seem pretty wholesome which is rare today, thanks for the video! Love the beginning about Italy too! God bless you
Odie doesnt talk because garfield isn’t talking, we are reading his thoughts and cats communicate with body language so thats why we understand them, we are seeing from garfields pov. Cats and dogs cant talk, cats and humans cant talk, cats and cats can. His mouth doesnt move in the comics, only the newer cartoons and i think live action movie, but mot og cartoons either.
Garfield and Friends was surprisingly a well written tv show. Good parodies and references. The last few seasons suffer creativity though.
Oldie is actually smart and distinguished in canon. He just acts dumb when people are around
Um ACTUALLY Odie does say things, he said "I'm hungry" on June 15th 1980, therefore its canonical that he can speak, he just chooses not to speak.
Another weird thing is when you look at the back of Garfield books from the 2000's it has a website you can go on to play games and order more Garfield books, but every time I typed in the URL it brought me to a website called professor Garfield and I think it was like a calculus tutorial, but since I was like in eighth grade I didn't care and was annoyed at it
There will never ever be another character like Garfield
Idk how you stretch something as simple as Garfield and make it this massive chaotic video, but I love it. I think you should’ve focused on Garfield and friends a bit more as it has some weird stuff in it
15:00 Garfield, the only fictional character to become more real than reality.
Lyman in the basement is very much a real thing btw, just to clarify. It's from a point-and-click Halloween Flash game.
Finallyyy someone said it
@@MaryamAlbinali was watching someone play old flash games and it came up, we were all like "what the fuck???" lol
Holy shit, this is really bizarre. I just went down a rabbit hole of my own. I made that Garfield with the pipe image. The real one has "Garfield!" in a speech bubble. The one you used is the exact one I made. You can even see the lines in the background I left because I was too lazy to fix it in Photoshop. I was printing it out on a canvas because I'm a huge Garfield fan. It's hanging on my wall right this second. I also have the original photoshop file from years ago. (I have a digital hoarding problem.) The bizarre part is, I'm sure you Googled it to find the image. I don't remember ever sharing that image anywhere that anyone could find it. I googled it as well, and I found Garfield Minus John, and I'm sure that's where you got it from. But where on earth did THEY get it? And how??? It is the EXACT one I made. I'm hella confused.
2:58 love that you mentioned him.
However he is very different from Garfield
You forgot to mention how everything in the Garfieldverse is alive because inanimate things like yarnballs,leaves and even food have thought bubbles.
I did not know this much.. but I remember stumbling upon a game on the internet where I saw this Lyman 3:40 locked up in a basement. The game was very creepy and was un-Garfield-like
13:30
I never expected to hear the soundtrack Sealed Vessel from Hollow Knight play while someone wildly rants about Garfield being a celestial being
Yes, as someone who has a hyperfixation on this game, I have to point it out
You just reawakened some repressed memories in me or something because now i vividly remember watching the old cartoons, the tv show, and all three of the CGI movies!!!
Garfield’s 9 lives will forever be one of the most bizarre but fantastic specials ever
8:36 why is the outrage so funny pls
"this is my body and i'm a cat" is just so funny for no reason
The only character that i think gets close to everthing Garfield is and represents is Sonic, as both have so little and so much to them, while being some of the most know characters around
This video is the most succinct summary I've yet seen of why "Gorefield" is popular. Garfield is terrifying. Omnipresent, yet rarely acknowledged. He's everywhere and nowhere. He's the unseen god that subtly, imperceptibly, controls our lives.
Never thought sealed vessel would go so well in the last part
Dude the Garfield multiverse is just our multiverse, this is just a reality where he thankfully doesn’t exist. There will be a day where a version of him comes here and none of us are prepared for that eventuality and I don’t know if I’m ready either.
I had the Garfield hero movie in 3D which had pink and green glasses unlike the more commonly seen red and blue ones. It’s funny to me most of the “fuse zombies” are regular ass folks, like if they wanted to have some of them talk just skibidy toilet them or stick em in a mailbox stop replacing heads with items
My little brother, for 6 months straight, would watch nothing but the Garfield show, at first I hated it...but then I started to grow to love it and it reminds me of that villain quote...
garfield is a secret deity who lives longer than regular cats, can eat more food, can't suffer any side effects from said food, and can be surprisingly quick and agile, claiming jon is raising a being that transcends this mortal plane.
also he has opposable thumbs.
Just the lore of _Garfield and Friends_ would be enough to fill and entire video (did you know that cats came from space and gaslighted humans into servitude? Or that Wyoming is a hoax by map-makers?) The most relevant piece of data (aside for confirming again that parallel universes exist) is that an strong enough imagination can alter reallity. This is important because of the infamous Halloween 1989 series of comcistrips in wich Garfield wakes up in an abandoned house without trace of Oddie or Jon, and in its desperation, brings them back into existence with his imagination. That's why no character has aged in decades, Garfield is keeping everybody alive with his powerfull imagination... he's basically like that mutant kid from the "Legends" two-part episode of the _Justice League_
Oh boy! These past few days have been pretty great! I can’t wait to see what’s in store for the future (Monday is coming)
Wasn't there a Garfield comic where he woke up in an empty house and all those he knew and loved were dead and in the end, it's uncertain whether or not it was just a bad dream he had or if the life he's currently living is the dream since the real world is gone?
And of course there is a universe in the Garfield universe where there is no Garfield. Just Jon. Garfield Minus Garfield.
Dude the Garfield nine lives special is literally adventure time distant lands and the end is literally just together again.
As a person who attends the college Jim Davis went to there’s also separate local lore that we love, like the Garfield statues and how one of them holds a sign reminding you get your annual mammogram 🫶what a king
8:06 The reason Garfield hates Mondays is because he has to have leftovers and not freshly baked lasagna
Garfield's stomach is an abyss. Stare into it.
While the 2000's Garfield movies probably aren't great on rewatch, I do like the concept of all the Sunday Comics characters filming their strips on one set (I remember getting a kick out of the Dagwood (Blondie) cameo, since I recognized him from a restaurant based on him in my area).
Also can we just agree that The Garfield Show's theme slaps?
As a local Garfield Fan, I approve
To make it clear, Garfield can’t speak to humans in The Garfield Show.
In both life action Garfield Movies, Jon goes out of his way to save Garfield and Odie from a rich guy
Choopo
A man stuck in his bunker makes deep dives on the internet of the most simple things while the world is in ruin
the "straw man, anything" was literally so funny
SUPER NICE, the captions are really well made too
I hope your channel really blows up, truly underrated content.
forgetting about that one holloween comic where its implied that garfield is schizophrenic, living in an abandoned house, and john and odie aren't real.
that last rant with Hollow Knight’s Sealed Vessel OST playing in the background did something to my brain chemistry
These videos are like pseudo-iceberg videos and I can’t get enough
That little Gilbert Garfield cameo at the end made me really happy.
i woke up to a new choopo vid, perfect
I honestly didnt even know this was possible with captions. Bravo, and good video.
love the octodad music. they don't get enough love imo.
awsome vid too, you get a gold star sticker!