![]() GASP! CHOKE! BRACK! COUGH! HACK! FLOP! Can the melodramatics, Garfield, and finish your liver.1 May 1979 |
![]() BURP! That was rude and crude, Garfield. Cats are more sophisticated than to submit to belching at the dinner table. BRAACK!2 May 1979 |
![]() Tell me what you think of my new poem, Garfield. "MY BUDDY" I have a buddy. My buddy's a toad. He's kind of muddy, he's flat on the road. But, he is my buddy, my buddy to stay, 'til he's peeled up and sailed away. Garfield?3 May 1979 |
![]() Uh-oh, here comes Jon! -4 May 1979 |
![]() Are you hungry, Odie? Here, have some celery and tomatoes and radishes. GARFIELD!5 May 1979 |
![]() PURRRR PURRR tappity tappity tappity tappity tappity tappity scratch! scratch! scratch! scratch! Good morning, sunshine. Welcome to another glorious, fun-filled day with your favorite pet! I'm so happy to own a cat, I could justthrow up.6 May 1979 |
![]() Hey, Lyman. Where's my bread knife? SLASH! Never mind.7 May 1979 |
![]() This is too good to be true. BOING! That WAS too good to be true.8 May 1979 |
![]() GOBBLE! GOBBLE! With all respect to Will Rogers. I never met a lasagna I didn't like.9 May 1979 |
![]() CRASH! Uh-oh! Here comes Jon. -10 May 1979 |
![]() Hello, Julie? How about a movie tonight? Oh, I see. Okay, goodbye. Darn, she said she was just walking out the door to visit her brother in Tokyo. That's what I call bad timing. That's called getting shot out of the saddle, you turkey.11 May 1979 |
![]() Garfield, you're getting too fat. I am NOT getting too fat. I'm just ready for the next size kitty bed, that's all.12 May 1979 |
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![]() Boy, what a great meal. Uh-oh! -14 May 1979 |
![]() It was bound to happen. My stomach finally outgrew my legs. Worse things could happen, I guess. Like this, for instance.15 May 1979 |
![]() Well, you've finally done it, Garfield. Your belly's bigger than your legs. Now what are you going to do? I'll show you what I'm going to do. If you'll just roll me over to that lasagna there.16 May 1979 |
![]() You're going to have to exercise that belly off, Garfield. Tell you what. I'll get a leash and take you for a brisk morning drag. If he had a brain, I'd say he was trying to make a funny.17 May 1979 |
![]() * boing boing boing18 May 1979 |
![]() At last! My feet can touch the floor once more. Never again will I allow myself to get that fat. And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.19 May 1979 |
![]() RIDE 'EM, COWCAT! BONK! OH, NO! Odie's hurt his leg! What'll I do? Shoot him.20 May 1979 |
![]() I think it's time we take Garfield and Odie out for something to do. Why do you say that? They're taking turns on the record player again.21 May 1979 |
![]() Cats can be very curious. SPLOOCH! Cats can also be very stupid.22 May 1979 |
![]() Did I ever tell you about my uncle Harry? He was a famous mouser at a glass plant in Gas City, Indiana. Legend has it that uncle Harry chased a mouse fight into tank #2 Now he's a paperweight in Bayonne, New Jersey.23 May 1979 |
![]() GRAB! BONK! Smooth, move, ol' buddy. have you no respect for the dead?24 May 1979 |
![]() Hello, Carolyn? Hey, now about taking in a movie tonight? Uh...oh sure, I understand. She said she would love to have gone out with me tonight. click But she had to stay home and pluck her eyebrows. Subtle.25 May 1979 |
![]() The darn lawn mower won't work. Let me try. brrr! If I could package that look, I'd make a million.26 May 1979 |
![]() DING DONG tug tug Good evening, Felicia, my dear. Dinner awaits. A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou (heh-heh) Oh, brother. WAHCHOO! I'm allergic for cats! Either he goes or I go. SNIFF! POOMP! Gee, and she was cute, too.Salud.27 May 1979 |
![]() Oh, goody. It's Monday morning. BRING! I love Monday mornings. You know why? Because *I* don't have to go to work.28 May 1979 |
![]() Ah, six A.M. Time to rise and shine. BRING! First, a light breakfast of juice and toast, then some jogging. HA-HA-HA! That was a good one.29 May 1979 |
![]() Z Z smack smack Oh my gosh! I slept through today's strip!30 May 1979 |
![]() There's only one drawback to spending a week in bed... SNIFF! This blanket is starting to develop a personality all its own.31 May 1979 |