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No. 4337: A Point For A Big Guy

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A Point For A Big Guy

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4337

Strip by: Chaosvolt

{Garfield is sitting in front of the TV, with Jon sneaking about behind him}
Garfield: THREAD
{Garfield heads to bed, to find it occupied}
Garfield: Bedtime
{Garfield finds someone occupying his bed}
Garfield: What is it?
SFX: Z
Garfield {poking the occupant of his bed}: Well, Eau de Toi, to go to the music!
SFX: TOUCH
{Jon gets up from under the blanket}
Jon: When I extinguished, I think about going to sleep here
{Garfield fainted; Jon is revealed to be hiding under the table the bed is on, having sawn a hole to poke his head through}
Jon: A point for a big guy

The author writes:

Having been on a recent archive binge, I eventually decided to try my hand at a submission.

This one was done by Google Translating the text from English, to Japanese, back to English, then to Russian, then back to English, then to Spanish, then finally back to English. I suspect that it would've been even more jumbled up if I went English-Japanese-Russian-Spanish-English, but even this result is more absurd than expected.

On a related note, I was tempted to translate the "Jim Davis" at the bottom. The former method left his name unaltered, while the latter would've yielded "Magnetic meters Davey 8 -5" and thus would've been hard to fit down there.

Original strip: 1990-08-05.