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The Perky Pervert Friday, November 30, 2007 • read strip Viewing 218 comments:

The things I could do with a good pair of Garfield eyes.

you could look left, right, up, down. Think of the possibilities.

INCORRECT! You must choose a direction and stick with it! This isn't some fancy liberal arts college!

The ocular shenanigans continue.

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you sound uncomfortably like my father

But what if you hold the eyes upside down?

... I just checked. You can look like you're wearing a massive turtleneck.

Garfield was just explaining to lyle the concept of stage direction.

You could even do the Konami code it seems.

so you press on the pupils for select and start?

You could be bored, unimpressed, tired, or if you're lucky, startled!

Or hungry, don't forget hungry.

Garfield is always hungry. Regardless of emotion.

Rumour has it that Garfield's actually dead or dying in his home, and every strip after that moment in 1989 is him in denial of this, imagining life how he likes it.

I hope Jim Davis means it to be interpreted that way. It would render obsolete any dark comedic parodying of his creation.

Huh. Sort of a Jacob's ladder, but instead of Tim Robbins a fat orange cat.

Holy shit . I remember being a kid (I enjoyed it as a kid, fuck you for judging me) and reading those strips in the paper and thinking the worst.. I even wrote a letter to Jim Davis (which actually got a reply from whom I must assume was his 'people') asking him what the fuck was going on. My child's mind was relieved when things returned to 'normalcy', Now though... I like the spin that puts on that really mediocre comic.

That's one interpretation, there are two others that I know of.

1. My favourite. You remove all of Garfield's dialogue and replace him with a perfectly ordinary (realistic) cat. According to canon, John cannot actually hear Garfield speak, so these new strips show life from John's point of view. You realise that John is a very sad, lonely man.

2. Less of a favourite but still results in a few laughs. You remove garfield ENTIRELY.
Now John is insane.

You can also do the same with the Calvin and Hobbes strips, replacing all instances of Hobbes with the stuffed tiger toy.

Garfield has neither emotions nor a Soul.

I'm more interested in what Lyle can do with a good pair of Garfield eyes. Look what he did with a dildo. And maybe a small business loan.

put them on Garfield to see what he looks like?
[IMGS OFF]

might as well do this while I still have photoshop open

[IMGS OFF]

oh man that is mega nasty

You still get a chubby, though.

Is this a record for most chubbies on a single post? Probably not. But still, damn. And deserved.

First post on this strip , at least at current time of reading (above post has 72, referred post has 75).

75 Chubbies? Are Salma Hayek's glorious tits forgotten so easily? They have well over twice that many.

I like how since you made this comment, Salma has gotten an increase of chubbies.
(the choice of words was deliberate, i'm a comic genius)

yet, not enough

On April 13 in the Year of Our Lord 2009, mega-nasty Garfield has 334 chubs, Glorious Salma has 370.



i really wish i knew what that picture was

Oh man it was awesome you're missing out

oh man, thank you for the chubbies, i love you all

p.s. i am drunk

that is the best state to be in (note: am drunk, may be biased)

one chubby for you since you are drunk too. woooo

oh man i am hella blitzed on j.d. nice work on the photoshop

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TJD is hell of lame. Drink a real bourbon!

suggest one and i will! gosh!

Some are not Bourbons but Old Grandad, Ezra Brooks, Evan Williams, Knob Creek, Maker's Mark are all better choices. Check out the Old Grandad 100 Proof bonded and drink it neat with a drop or two of water.

*takes notes furiously*

Also, can't go wrong with Jim Beam and some good ol' Wild Turkey.

Those vary so wildly in price, quality, intended purpose, and popularity that I must either conclude that you have carefully considered and refined whiskey tastes or are completely full of shit. And since they are, in fact, all bourbon, I'm going to have to guess the latter.

Tim, Maker's Mark is pretty classy if you can afford it. The heavy bourbon drinkers I know tend to drink Jim Beam, which is not substantially different from JD. Evan Williams is classy for mixin', but has its own flavor which some people do drink straight. I've never done Ezra Brooks or Knob Creek, though I assure you that they are bourbons. Through most of the US, whiskey is either scotch or bourbon, and the two can't be confused. Rye, which you'll find in the southwest, is closer to bourbon -- JB makes one of them, too.

I'm not a huge fan of bourbon by any means, but my one time run in with Knob Creek was good. Strong, but not to the point of knocking you onto your feet.

Yeah, Maker's Mark is my Bourbon. Sweet and classy. Like Scarlett Johansson. Or Evan Rachel Wood.

If you notice I am a damn youngin, it makes sense. I know what I have tried and like but I don't know a lot and I'll cop to it.

AGH! I gamble, I lose.

Beam is substantially better than TJD as it has an actual proof unless you get White Label and why would anyone ever do that?

Knob Creek is my personal favorite, which is good, because they stepped up production and now the price has dropped like ten bucks over the past few months. Beam is the only Rye I had, but after a shot or two, it was I blinked and all of the rye was gone and also my pants or any cognizance of my whereabouts.

I'll jump in here and say that Knob Creek is always a good choice for a bourbon, but you won't want to mix it at all. Or shoot it, for that matter. Drink it neat or, if it's too strong for your tastes, on the rocks. No statement on masculinity implied.

Also, I'll go ahead and recommend Woodford Reserve. Full-bodied and a little easier on the palate than Knob Creek. And it comes in a bottle that just screams classy. No statement on irony implied.

I like knob creek, but I don't think it's something that's not friendly to the rocks. But then again I only start getting pick about neatness when it's scotch on the line.

If'n we're gonna whip out the Reserve then I need to say a word or two about Eagle Rare. While we're at it, these are more on the pricy egde but hey. Can't take it with you. Basil Hayden is all kinds of incredibly delicious, but the grand-daddy (literally) is Booker's. It's the only widely-available bourbon that I know of that's bottled at cask strength, which varies from vat to vat between 120 and 130 proof. Despite the strength, it's smoother than most of the bourbon's mentioned here.

It indeed is a good state. It is my status at all times.

Its like he goes from an everyday normal cat to a huge douche.

He photoshops what we're all thinking!

The very concept of Garfield is dog shit. And mega nasty.

as I post, 223 chubbies. Is that a record on achewood?

302 Chubbies? Holy shit!

Poor Garfield, he wants his coffee dildoed, but it's just not to be. Since our tiger buddy Lyle runs the shop, Garfield must belong to the LNCFU (Lame Newspaper Comic Felines Union).

No way! This is a first, isn't it? Onstad hasn't included characters from other strips before, has he? I mean images; I know Ray ridiculed Garfield, Marmaduke, and Cathy on the phone.

He made fake webcomic characters using the images of real webcomic characters once.

Oh, right. But the alt-text said he got them en masse off some webcomic site, and he did not even know the names of the characters or the strips they were from.

Now I'm thinking there was an arc once with Charlie Brown in a dream sequence with Ray. So I was completely wrong up above.

Yes, it was the death knell of Charlie Brown .

One of the en-masse characters was a character from a horrible furry webcomic (I know, repeating myself) whose main themes were incest, hard-right conservativism, and characters with one expression (seen in the Achewood comic). His actions are indeed poorly conveyed.

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https://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=01172005

There is also, of course, the Calvin-peeing-in-the-toilet decal on Philippe's car.

He was peeing on the stultifying compositions of Edvard Grieg, wasn't he?

only on pat's car, the calvin sticker has appeared twice

You Did Not say that the guy who wrote the music for Peer Gynt was "Stultifying!" Man, don't you know those Norweigans GET it about sadness and despair? And the Mountain King?

Missing the point

Garfield = Leander?

Hot Damn, you could grate cheese on that cat's abs.

If he's so goddamn rich, how come he's paying with strip props?

You must be forgetting about Garfield's terrible cocaine addiction.

imagine him and Todd getting together and doin' rails.

That was Bill the Cat . . . "Death by acne, they said."

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we'll never erase this image from our minds

Yeah! Just look at those abs!

You don't get THOSE programming a computer!

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Gayness doesn't necessitate wanting to freak with an anthropomorphised version of The Great Orange Monday.

I guess you're right, and chubbs on "The Great Orange Monday"
(ps- sorry! I totally didn't mean to call people gay :0)

This just reminds me so strongly of Stewie and Rupert.

thanks

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First lame!

I guess you kind of picked that out as being a lacklustre quasi-contribution stuck onto a self-gratifying declaration of posting speed. Clever.

Today, internets, I am the villain.

Also, "he is so rich that his pockets are made of commas" is one of the funniest nonsensical statements I've seen in the strip.

god i want to see garfield's comma pants appear in the shop.

Most cats can only afford periods.

I did not understand this joke, and reading it while having the flu is sort of taxing me incredibly.

Up yours Garfield.

I am NOT imagining this.
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neither was I...

That guy must also hate Mondays.

Can I dildo up that aging rock star for you? Only a buck?

Someone with better Photoshop skills than I, live my dream! Give Iggy those eyes!

seconded!

I gotta say that one picture of a shirtless 60-year-old man per month is plenty.

So it shall be.

[IMGS OFF]

I don't have skillz per se, but no body else would...
[IMGS OFF]

I'm sorry, everyone, for some reason dovey's post did not show up when I posted. I hereby withdraw my candidacy

I hope so, for I am out of chubbies, and ill-equipped to give your efforts the one-eyed applause they deserve.

Bug-eyed Earl?

oh man that is mega nasty
that is dog shit

Dude, Iggy's hot. Now and forever.

Is that Iggy Pop?

Sexy veins.

Apparently Garfield's spent more time in a fat suit than Eddie Murphy.

garfield looks like the methadone clinic doesn't open until 10 and a coffee will have to do.

In the strip, Garfield is addicted to Lasagna, In real life he is addicted to black tar heroin. They can only shoot three panels a day before the orange bastard passes out.

And you don't even want to know what kind of shit Nermal is into off-camera. It just isn't natural.

Nermal, like most child stars, quickly developed a serious substance abuse problem. After a string of public fights with a rotating menagerie of "who's who" in Hollwood men, several notorious traffic accidents, and finally a tragic miscarriage, she went into Buster Brown's Home for Damaged Kitties and underwent serious therapy. There she found the Lord, and now lives in Bumeh, New Mexico at a commune for abused cats. She says she has forsaken the spotlight for good. Godspeed, Nermal.

Nermal is male. I'm embarrassed to know this. Forgive me.

That makes the miscarriage all the more tragic.

...

Wait, a male cat has THOSE eyelashes? Seriously?

That cat's got some estrogen problem.

Nermal is the Birdo of Sunday comics.

HAHAHA

Apparently, I can only give like three chubbies per page (wtf?), or I'd chubby this.

The estrogen problem is linked to the substance abuse. He also developed six enormous breasts, but they were Photoshopped out.

Much to the dismay of furries everywhere.

I have always had a problem with Nermal being male. There is absolutely nothing masculine about that cat. On the cartoon series he even sounded like a girl.

Nah, he's just off this morning to read scripts for crazy Indie comic strips that he's thinking of doing to earn back some street cred but knows he never will.

He said he'd just do the big ticket Jim Davis script for a few years, then he'd find some creative projects, but the money was just too good!

Also, apparently at some point he met Lyle.

Knowing this would make me 100% more interested in reading Garfield.

If I were 100% more interested in reading Garfield, I still would not be very interested in reading Garfield.

Someone please explain to me how Onstad is not going to get sued here?

That's like asking why Vito the Squealer isn't going to get sued for exposing trade secrets on running numbers. PAWS, Inc. doesn't need to sue , capiche?

Chris Onstad is a brave, brave man. That, or he's already assumed his new life (and mortgage) as Chis Onstead.

It's satire? (in the same vein as MAD magazine spoofs but actually not lame and shitty)

This character's name is not Garfield but "Gar-fucking-field" and any other similarity is purely coincidental?

I don't know if either is a valid reason. I sincerely hope they are.

In the Orbison vs. 2 Live Crew case (around '91? Can't remember), the US Supreme Court held up the existing convention that parody was acceptable under Fair Use guidelines. Some guy off the Internet told you.

It was also quite astonishing to hear the legal precedents of 2 Live Crew for the first time.

I spent a lot of time thinking about what those judges said.

One month later, I'm hitting "random comic" and remember where this comes from. Well played, Troll Collins. You are my new beverage of choice.

This is awesome. I'm laughing about it. I am out of chubbies, though.

Garfield has apostrophes on his pants. I wonder what they are for.

Let's find out!

Ah see this is what I get for forgetting to read the alt-text.

It could really go either way. Couldn't it guys?

... Please?

chubbied for learning something new.
education should be rewarded.

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Who lamed a teacher? That's horrible.

The legislators. Weren't you listening to the teacher?

There are State Legislators reading Achewood and they give out lames. I think this fact just deprived me of my last hopes.

we really must address this frightening anti-intellectualism. open your mind! it starts with just one dildo on your coffee table.

EDUCATION.

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Craptacular! My first BBCode failure!

Second and last try: [i]He was outed by Berkeley Breathed just last week.

Got the url to work, screwed the pooch on the italics.

Well, anyway, the joke is about Garfield being gay. He can't have his cappuccino dildoed because the union won't let him be voluntarily out.

I am so pathetic.

Oh my god THANK YOU for explaining the "union" joke. I would have taken years and a Japanese robot doing research in a lab to get that joke.

Take that, Japan!

P.S: The above comment is sincere thanks, not sarcasm. Except about the robots, I guess.

but if he's gay unwillingly ...

it is so fucking weird to see opus talking about current events
also it is fucking weird the way berkeley breathed draws himself

It's Bond. James Bond. Note the martini.

Is it my imagination, or did Breathed draw himself with the head of the Sean Connery James Bond? (AKA The REAL James Bond)

take cover, Garfield...if Ray finds you're around...man, can't dare to think about it.



I wonder if Garfield is still pissed about this prank call?
https://achewood.com/index.php?date=05222003

Yeah, maybe a dildo in his coffee was too close to cold having a peter in his mouth.

The Garfield personality is just for the strip, he's not like that in real life. Actually, he gets a bit sick of people thinking he does nothing but sleep and eat lasagne. It's like Andy Kaufman and the Latka character - popular, but the dude can do so much more.

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the rebellious thing to do would be to choose the one that accurately reflects your opinion of the strip.

I don't think we'll really know what to make of this comic until we see what comes from it... but I gave it a 4, just for Garfield's lowrise pants.

Now, a choice: will you use your powers for good, or for awesome?

I can choose whether your post has 3 lames, or four depending on what button I press

It is my choice!

I wonder what kind of bakery he's got.
Don't get the danish with the creme anglaise.

Also, is the Perky Pervert sign a speech bubble or steam off a cup of dildo'd latte.

I like the little steam-trail on the upper right of Lyle's sign. Kinda makes it look like a word balloon, and God is saying "The Perky Pervert, Java for Freaks" every panel. Just because.

Garfield seems less effeminate these days.

Garfield looks like Pat in this strip for some reason. I think it's the eyes and they way he holds his head in the 2nd panel. Is he on his way back from drowning Jon in a pond?

Thanks for explaining the joke, Garfield.

Nailed it. That is exactly why Garfield is terrible.

Thanks for explaining the joke, guys! No, seriously, I have not read Garfield to any great extent, so I would not have gotten this.

In every Garfield strip, instead of just saying the joke and finishing the comic, they say the joke, and then go on to explain to the audience why the joke is so funny.

Sorta like this comment.

And if anyone's coming late to the party, there's been an effort to reclaim Garfield by the masses by removing all his (completely unnecessary) thought bubbles and letting the fucking strip speak for itself.

garfield has the same eyes as roast beef did when everyone dressed like cheers

No, those are Garfield eyes. Beef had Pacmans for eyes.

(Yes, I maintain that Pacmans is the plural of Pacman, and not Pacmen.)

no, i mean garfield's real eyes.

otherwise, shyeah, obviously it's pacmans, no question.

Oh, THOSE eyes. Whatever the fuck was I thinking, dude. You're right. I apologize.

Oh you mean these eyes

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yep

haha, now let's hope you don't get sued

Where was Garfield keeping that pair of strip eyes?

That's none of your damn business, Sam!

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nope

read the alt-text.

This is serious business!

I wonder if the Wizard of Id out of costume sort of resembles Sir Ian McKellen. It is also a dream of mine. This is a week of dreams.

All wizards look like Ian McKellen.

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I wonder if Ray is going to show up and be a cock to him.

ALT TEXT AND FREAKISH CAT MAKE ME HAPPP-PPEEEE!!

Okay, so, I managed to read today's strip without reading yesterday's.

Think of the implications

Wow. Lyle's "Dildo it" must have totally rocked you world.

Same here. Somehow I think "Dildo It" was funnier coming completely out of the blue.

This reminds me...does anyone here read Ink Pen?

every lyle strip is the best achewood strip hands down

b-but that math doesn't work at all *nervously punches keys on calculator for a few seconds before head explodes*

This seems mathematically improbable.

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I give you a 4.7 on the annoying avatar scale...but I refuse to reveal what range that scale covers. Is it 0-4.8? 0-547,663? You'll never know. The only hint I'll give is that your score doesn't come anywhere near the guy with the buzzing fly avatar.

5'd for verbing "Garfield."

Verbing weirds language.

Calvin and Hobbes reference, hella-chubby

I was struck by the phrase "hella-chubby," and I couldn't figure out why. Then I realized that it rhymes really well with Teletubby. Now I can appreciate the hella-chubby more fully.

This overly-friendly C&H freak gives mad props.

Wait, does Lyle know what Ray said to Garfield? Could this be a thing?

As a seasoned pro, Garfield must explain the nuances of the strip eyes. Left and right are often confused by amateurs.

It's like stage left and stage right versus house left and house right , only for cartoons.

All performers already know this.

Also everyone else knows this. The only thing performers have kept halfway-secret about their craft is that orchestral musicians are more sexually deranged than rock drummers, and everyone who's gone to a liberal arts college knows that .

Am I the only person who likes Lyle more with the glasses on? Maybe. Maybe.

I'm with you. He looks so much like James Hetfield, which I think is the desired result. It fits him well.

oh god you made me google image pictures of Het with glasses and you're sort of right

Yeah, the last time Garfield got involved with a vibrating dildo and piping hot coffee, McDonald's got hell of sued. Luckily he wasn't wearing pants, or it would've burned his commas right off!

I laughed about as much as I ever have at Achewood when I learned that cat was indeed Garfield.

Soon to be a comic book character union strike until dildo coffees are accepted.

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dear livejournal, I

Can we talk about the alt-text? The comma-pockets? WHAT THE FUCK IS A COMMA POCKET HOW DO YOU DO THAT

its a pocket made of snoopy's and woodstock's eyes.

They fell on some hard times after the strip ended. Most of the cast wound up selling any belongings related to the strip. I think I heard that Lucy started stripping somewhere in Sante Fe.

I dunno -- Garfield's final bubble just seems kind of forced. Like, it's clearly "Achewoodesque" dialogue, but self-consciously so.

You're right, I've never heard dialogue like that in a Garfield strip.

I wish I was rich enough to afford all of those commas. Dude's got at least six I mean goddamn.

What I wanna know is, why is Garfield ripped in real life. How does he make himself fat for the comic?

I dont know why I love this strip so much.

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