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No. 5478: Just Another Saturday Night

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Just Another Saturday Night

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5478

Strip by: shiningpikablu252

{Cue Garfield and Jon drinking from a coffee cup while listening to a radio. Jon is wearing a bandage on his cheek throughout}
Radio Announcer {on radio}: You're listening to WGARF Old-Time, 108.2 FM-HD6, Muncie.
Singer {on radio}: Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
Singer {on radio}: I got some money 'cause I just got paid
Singer {on radio}: How I wish I had someone to talk to
Singer {on radio}: I'm in an awful way
Jon {in a panel-obstructing shout}: Objection!
{cut to the radio having been smashed and Jon having left the room}
Garfield: Hey, I like that song!

The author writes:

Don't know about you, but I feel the punchline from a certain strip from 2008 hit like a brick joke which needed a payoff... The song itself isn't actually bad (I'm with Garfield on this one), I just felt it to be an appropriate piece to pay off said brick joke, apologies to Sam Cooke's estate if I rubbed you the wrong way...

Also, think you can figure out a pop-culture reference I placed into the radio station's frequency? There are three parts to this reference (each part in brackets): [108].[2] FM-HD[6]. The second and third parts are figured in the same fashion, the first part is figured out differently, all resolve into a singular date. Hint: 17 dynamite.

[Note: The reference to the station's HD subcarrier may fly over the heads of most readers outside North America, as most digital radio implementations outside the North America region opt for systems other than HD Radio.]

Original strip: 2013-12-22.