Garfieldfamously loves two things more than anything else : solid food and quietus . However , time and again , he ’s proven to bed at least one other thing just as much : messing with Jon Arbuckle . More often than not , every interaction Garfield has with his owner , Jon , ends with Jon on the receiving end of one of Garfield ’s cruel hardheaded jokes , making pranking one of the groundwork of their entire human relationship .

However , sometimesGarfield ’s ‘ pranks ’ on Jonare pretty harsh , even downright cruel . Garfield will do thing to his owner like scare him with spidersor trick him into eating cat food . But then , the mean orange cat will cross the rail line , shatter Jon ’s already low self - esteem . In fact , in the crop ofGarfieldcomics that just plow 30 , an example of the latter is featured , and it stands as Garfield ’s harshest ever combust on Jon .

10Jon Just Accepts that He Can’t Have Nice Things with Garfield Around

Garfield- October 1, 1994

While Jon is sitting by his counter , show the newspaper , he try nothing but the sound of scratches , as if something is being rip up in another room . Then , Garfield walk up to him with a very satisfied look on his nerve , and Jon enquire , " You like my newfangled chair ? " and Garfield answer , " ' New ' is scarcely the Christian Bible " . In other Word , Garfield totally pan Jon ’s young chair , and Jon has already accept it .

Even as it was happening , Jon accept the fact that his new chair was going to be ruined by Garfield . And that ’s just a fraction of the wider acceptance Jon has come to adopt when it come in to his possessions : so long as Garfield is around , he ca n’t have nice things .

9Garfield Knows the Value of a Good Book (& It’s an Insult to Booklovers Everywhere)

Garfield- October 3, 1994

While Garfield is sit in his chairman watch out television , he plough to the reader and breaks the fourth wall to tell them , " volume are very important " . Kind of a random thing to say give that he ’s see TV , but Garfield ’s message is reliable , specially for all the booklovers read this comic strip . But then , Garfield takes a hard unexpended turn when he pulls a book out from under the death chair ’s tooshie cushion and says , " I ’m sitting on one to get a well eyeshot of the TV " .

Garfield is n’t just not reading a Word of God , and he ’s not just sit on a book , but he ’s using a Koran to prop himself up to more well watch idiot box . In other words , Garfield ’s use of this book is an absolute contumely to booklover everywhere .

8Garfield Has an Existential Crisis While Breaking the Fourth Wall

Garfield- October 7, 1994

The wall ofGarfield ’s fictitious domain start to crumble under the realization that he ’s just a mirthful grapheme . Characters who bust the quaternary wall ordinarily have intercourse that they ’re fancied , and they ’re either too gaga or too intelligent to like ( like Deadpool and Rick Sanchez ) . But here , it seems Garfield was coming to that horrific realization for the first metre , and it ’s true jolly funny to see .

7Garfield Hilariously Over-Reacts When He Thinks He’s Spotted His Arch Enemy: a Spider

Garfield- October 16, 1994

While he ’s sitting in a chair next to Jon , Garfield bet down at the rug and cogitate he ’s spotted a spider . Garfield straightaway starts freaking out , shaking and climbing all over Jon , screaming about how he want to kill the spider before it bites them . After Garfield composure down , he takes a closer smell at the ' spider ' and regain that it ’s nothing more than a opus of lint .

Garfield ’s response to the possibility of seeing a spider was decidedly a bit extreme , but in his case , not unreasonable . Garfield has a long history of endeavor to swat spiders , so much so that he even has a reputation in the spider community as a ' bringer of last ' . In other actor’s line , Garfield hat spiders , and they detest him , so it ’s in all likelihood a beneficial affair that he keeps his safety equipment up at all metre .

6Garfield Gets Jon with an Absolutely Classic Prank

Garfield- October 23, 1994

As Jon is lying in his bed , tight asleep , Garfield walks up and stands directly on his owner ’s chest . Garfield then make a scary typeface , and stare at Jon , hold his position until Jon inevitably wakes up . Finally , Jon open up his eyes , but rather than a log Z’s African tea by his side , he only ascertain the terrific face Garfield is making at him . Startled , Jon leaps out of his bed , let out a shriek of terror as he does so , leaving a very slaked Garfield in his point .

galvanize someone who was n’t expecting it with a scary case is an absolutely classic japery , and Garfield pulls it off to perfection . The orangish cat even hold back a salutary amount of time for Jon to wake up , and as he repoint out himself , it totally ( uproariously ) pay off .

Garfield- October 30, 1994

Garfield is sound asleep until he is awakened by the wraith of a Carassius auratus . Not just any Carassius auratus , but one that he had eaten the summer before . The goldfish ghost tells Garfield that he ’s there to obsess him , though Garfield is less than impressed . Garfield mocks the goldfish by pretending to be scared while wee-wee it obvious that he is n’t . However , when the Carassius auratus allege that he ’s not the only one there to ghost Garfield , that ’s when Garfield take off to take this specter in earnest - and it ’s clean to see why .

There are a few chickens , a anuran , mountain of fish , and an real horse ( how did Garfield eat a sawhorse ? ! ) . And now , they’re all back to make Garfield give , meaning his insatiable appetency is literally make out back to obsess him .

4Garfield Confirms an Age-Old Childhood Myth

Garfield- October 26, 1994

Garfield excitedly demonstrate Jon what he and Odie have been doing all day : making shady faces . Garfield stretches his backtalk over his massive dentition , contorting his typeface until it ’s nothing more than a gargantuan smile . Meanwhile , Odie ’s face has been alter as well , with his head elongate , his ears all wonky , and his tongue for good sticking out of his mouth . After he experience this , Jon warn Garfield that if he and Odie keep it up , their faces will stay that way - and that ’s on the dot what happen .

It ’s an years - honest-to-god puerility myth tell to Thomas Kid by their parents , teachers , and old siblings that if they make amusing faces , their faces will get stuck that way . While that ’s obviously not rightful in real lifespan , it ’s a foregone conclusion in the world of Garfield , something the orange cat himself confirms .

3Jon Has Some Twisted Fun with His Funny Face That’s ‘Stuck That Way’

Garfield- October 28, 1994

Even thoughJon warned Garfield and Odie that if they made risible case they ’d be stick that way of life , he get ahead and makes a queer face himself , only to suffer the same fateas his two pet . So , rather than just mope around the house , the three of them go out on the town . Jon runs into a random charwoman on the street , and he decides to ask her out on a engagement . Of course , she runs by screaming , just as Jon hoped she would .

dash random char for fun is a pretty big cherry fleur-de-lis , and does n’t assist Jon ’s case when it hail to sure sports fan - made allegement . It ’s wide been joked about that Jon is secretly a serial sea wolf , with one of his first victims being Lyman ( Odie ’s original proprietor ) , whose eubstance is allegedly rot in Jon ’s cellar . While that ’s a hilariously absurd charge , this comic does n’t exactly make Jon seem reasonable .

2Garfield Does Not Help Jon’s Low Self-Esteem

Garfield- October 6, 1994

As Jon is look at himself in the mirror , he tells Garfield that looks are n’t everything , and that personality is where it really count . But then , after smiling at himself , Jon comment something in his teeth , and admits that personal hygiene is also fairly important . At that stage , Garfield sarcastically asks Jon , " You gon na floss your way into some babe ’s heart ? " .

It ’s deplorable enough that Jon has such low self - esteem that he ’s already decided that he ’s ugly , and take to make up for it with his personality . But bring to that his lack of desire to take care of himself ( which include brushing his teeth ) , andGarfield ’s constant negativism and criticisms , and Jon is stuck in a real tough post in respect to his ego - respect and mental health- and Garfield does n’t help in the fragile .

1Garfield Delivers the All-Time Harshest Burn on Jon

Garfield- October 5, 1994

While the two are hanging out at the menage together , Jon casually ask Garfield if he thinks he ’s lived any past life . Jon is intelligibly harbour the idea of reincarnation , and wonder if Garfield has any persuasion on the thing . Rather than employ in meaningful conversation on this subject , Garfield opts to be incredibly cruel , as he respond to Jon , " I doubt it . You ’re not even living this one " .

There ’s funny , and then there ’s one ’s cat differentiate its owner that they ’re not living their life sentence - which definitely crosses the course into fell . It ’s well notable thatGarfield sleep together pranking and diss Jon , and he ’s by all odds not good for Jon ’s ego - esteem , but this remark is just mean , and certainly goes down in account as Garfield ’s all - metre harshest burn mark on Jon , especially when compared to the rest of the 10Garfieldcomics that just turn over 30 .

Garfield is the central character in Jim Davis ’s comic funnies , which officially begin in 1978 under the same name . Garfield is an orangish tabby cat with a love of lasagna and a condescension for Mondays . He tends to torture his proprietor and dog while sample to fix more food - and subdued .

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Garfield smacking Jon in the face.

Garfield shredding Jon’s new chair while Jon reads the paper.

Garfield is the central character in Jim Davis’s comic strip, which officially began in 1978 under the same name. Garfield is an orange tabby cat with a love of lasagna and a disdain for Mondays. He tends to torment his owner and dog while trying to secure more food - and quiet.

Garfield sitting on a book to watch TV.

Garfield questioning his own reality while breaking the fourth wall.

Garfield freaking out after he thinks he’s spotted a spider.

Garfield pranking Jon by startling him with a scary face.

Garfield being haunted by animals he’s eaten.

Garfield and Odie making funny faces at Jon.

Jon, Garfield, and Odie walking around town with permanent funny faces.

Garfield insulting Jon while his owner is looking at himself in the mirror.

Garfield telling Jon that he’s not living his life.

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Garfield is the central character in Jim Davis’s comic strip, which officially began in 1978 under the same name. Garfield is an orange tabby cat with a love of lasagna and a disdain for Mondays. He tends to torment his owner and dog while trying to secure more food - and quiet.

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