Joust posted:

Squashing Machine posted:

I've thought long and hard on this subject.

1) It's dog semen
The prevailing theory. However, there are many problems with this theory. As Garfield is at least a family-friendly comic strip, if not expressly produced for the consumption of children, then why would Jim Davis expect his audience to know that it's a cup full of semen or to even know what semen is? Additionally, why would the semen be stored at room temperature in an open container? Was Liz planning on artificially inseminating a dog immediately after giving Garfield his checkup and just letting the semen warm up in the meantime? Finally, ingesting semen does not cause dogs or humans to become pregnant. Totally bogus.

2) It's medicine for pregnant dogs
Somewhat more plausible. Despite the same questions raised over Liz storing the liquid in an open, unrefrigerated container, it's possible that it could be some sort of medication or nutritional supplement, also implied by Liz specifically saying that Jon was going to have a litter of "healthy" puppies.

3) It's cold coffee and Liz is loving with Jon
Jon says it's a "cup of coffee," and from the angle he should be able to see it's a black or brown liquid. Drinking unexpectedly cold coffee could cause the reaction Jon displays in the third panel, because people generally find room-temperature coffee to be unpleasant. And, historically, Liz has regarded Jon with a kind of withering amusement, and it would fit with her character to make up something to shock and humiliate him.

4) Jim Davis doesn't know how babies are made
Jim Davis has made a media empire out of the comedic and artistic equivalent of unflavored yogurt. He's a dim, simple man who tapped into the collective consciousness of a dim, simple people. It's entirely possible that he has no concept of how puppies are conceived. Maybe the joke makes complete sense to Jim. Maybe Garfield operates in an alternate reality where insemination is not only possible orally, but across genders and species. If nothing else, Jim Davis is likely some kind of sex pervert. Just look at how the lady with spiders for eyes is posed. She's practically presenting. She reads as the kind of sexual freak who would leave a coffee cup full of dog cum just sitting around her workspace. Maybe she jacked off Odie immediately before Garfield's appointment. The fact that this comic strip---which has haunted me ever since I read it in Garfield: Life in the Fat Lane: His 28th Book as a child---still runs in syndication is a cruel joke. When Jim Davis is finally tried and executed for corrupting the nation's youth, I hope that there's huge crowd of spectators and that they greet him with howls of execration.

ProfessorMurder posted:

The vet had a cup of puppy eggs sitting there and Jon drank them. They're gonna hatch and grow in his belly before tearing through his stomach and eating his body. I'm pretty sure that's the joke here.

El Boot posted:

KomodoWagon posted:

What the actual Hell

Don't Americans learn what mammals are in grade school?

Sole.Sushi posted:

The platypus is a mammal that lays eggs, but to answer your question no, we don't.

KomodoWagon posted:

Platypuses

myDad posted:

Squashing Machine posted:

I've thought long and hard on this subject.

Boz0r posted:

Platypi, please.

Joust posted:

Gridlocked posted:

Where do you get these amazing gifs from and how can I also get them to edit?

Wizard Master posted:

Normally I wouldn't do this but I don't understand what the joke is supposed to be.

Joust posted:

Shadow0 posted:

Platypodes.

Clamps McGraw posted:

This is a p good start towards a PhD thesis tbh

Shadow0 posted:

Platypodes.

Even if the lady was only pretending it was semen, it wouldn't change the fact that the joke revolves around the guy drinking dog semen, so that doesn't solve the problem of would the artist really put a dog-semen-drinking joke in a newspaper or whatever. Which leads me to believe there's no point in her joking about it (and there's really no suggestion of it being a joke either in the comic), so I'd say he definitely drank dog semen.

Though that guy a few posts back did mention it's part of some greater context so maybe I'm wrong.

JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

But then why is it in the mug???