Transcript:
Garfield: I declare this chair the sole property of Garfield the cat.
Jon: Move it, Garfield. That’s my chair.
Garfield: My chair.
Jon: MY CHAIR!
Garfield: MY CHAIR!
Jon: MY CHAIR!
Garfield: MY CHAIR!
KICK!
Jon: My chair.
Garfield: My cushion.
Looking back, it’s genuinely weird to see Garfield comics that have an actual attempt at humor and were written without regard for being able to reuse the same drawing in every panel. Just most of them.
1980s Garfield is a cat, and most of the humour is based in his behaviour as a cat, and his relationship with his human Jon, and a few other animals and people.
2020s Garfield doesn’t really do anything cat-like, and in 99% of the newer comics, could just be replaced by “a wisecracking guy who talks to the reader and delivers the punchline”. You could swap him for a weird old man or child who lives with Jon and it would basically be the same.
