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Garfield Minus Garfield

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775 points mike1o1 | 2 comments | 10 Apr 25 17:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nickvec ◴[10 Apr 25 17:40 UTC] No.43646286[source]▶
> Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

Did not think I would be relating to Jon on a Thursday morning.

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m463 ◴[10 Apr 25 22:27 UTC] No.43648608[source]▶
Now it makes me wonder what would happen if you did something like removing all the superheroes from a movie.

or took soem movies and made all the villains super-attractive and the heroes ugly and dressed in black.

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minikomi ◴[10 Apr 25 22:53 UTC] No.43648738[source]▶
One of my favorite additions by subtraction:

https://youtu.be/jKS3MGriZcs?si=RRlSVL0jwi5sDl3f

Removing the laugh track from the big bang theory

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1. plorg ◴[11 Apr 25 00:00 UTC] No.43649107[source]▶
You won't find me defending The Big Bang Theory, but it's worth noting a lot of actually funny television would have this kind of dead energy if you removed the laugh track, because it's both written for that environment and paced and acted for the audience reaction breaks.
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2. skeaker ◴[11 Apr 25 23:25 UTC] No.43659798[source]▶
True, the awkward long pauses between each beat are there specifically for the laugh track and if they had gone without the track they wouldn't include the pauses either.