🐱 Did Jon Really Drink Dog Semen In This 1990 Garfield Comic?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/garfield-creator-jim-davis-denies-that-he-made-jon


Garfield creator Jim Davis says a 1990 comic strip has been widely misunderstood, and that it does not show Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, drinking a cup of dog semen.
The infamous comic has long befuddled fans.
It ran May 30, 1990, and that entire week's strips were devoted to Jon and Garfield's trip to the veterinarian's office, where Jon repeatedly and unsuccessfully hits on the vet, Liz.

The strip in question shows Jon grabbing a cup on the counter and taking a big swig, apparently in the belief that it's filled with coffee.

"Congratulations, Mr. Arbuckle," says Liz. "You are going to give birth to a fine, healthy litter of puppies."

A 2006 Straight Dope message board discussion about the comic "where Jon drinks dog semen" suggests it has been an obsession among some fans for quite a long time.

There have always been doubters, but it's never been clear what Davis's punchline really meant.


This week, Twitter user @realnutsling tweeted a photo of a signed copy of the comic, with Davis seemingly sanctioning the dog semen interpretation.

"These events are canon," says a note from Davis.

Twitter user @realnutsling declined to speak with BuzzFeed News.


But Davis says people have it all wrong.


"On the farm, we used to give first-calf heifers a high protein supplement to help them deliver healthier calves," he said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. "The supplement was provided by our vet."

Since Liz is a vet, "I assumed that there would be a similar supplement for dogs," Davis said.

"So Jon is drinking a protein-enriched drink formulated for a pregnant dog."

That's why Liz mentions the "healthy" litter Jon would have — because he had just drunk a supplement for pregnant dogs, not dog semen.

"There you have it!" Davis said.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Jon, an incel? Nope. Even he gets laid sometimes.

>A successful and intelligent veterinarian engages in a relationship with a milquetoast "cartoonist" who frequently harasses her and lives alone with his cat
>A cat she has every reason to assume he neglects because it's morbidly obese and she routinely manages its health problems
>When she finally relents and lets him take her out, he shows up in his Geo Storm wearing a lime green plaid jacket and the faggiest tie ever worn by a human being.

Liz must have been molested or something because that's the only way she can have such shit standards.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

>A successful and intelligent veterinarian engages in a relationship with a milquetoast "cartoonist" who frequently harasses her and lives alone with his cat
>A cat she has every reason to assume he neglects because it's morbidly obese and she routinely manages its health problems

Liz must have been molested or something because that's the only way she can have such shit standards.

Oh this is just too much. Everybody is just going to ignore the fact that Liz has a mug full of dog jizz in her exam room? If the punchline is Jon mistakenly drinking the spooge, the subtext is that Liz is a degenerate interspecies jizz junkie.

And the moral of the story is Jim Davis hates women.

 

[Dysnomia]

Honestly, my first thought was that Jon drank dog urine from a pregnancy test.

I don't know if they have special formula food for pregnant dogs. But I imagine those fancy breeders use some sort of supplements when they inbreed all those sad, deformed pugs and chihuahuas.

 

[Morose_Obesity]

You’d think Jim Davis had enough “fuck you” money to go “yep, he drank dog jizz. Deal with it, fuckers!”

 

[Taily Puff]

You’d think Jim Davis had enough “fuck you” money to go “yep, he drank dog jizz. Deal with it, fuckers!”

If I were Jim Davis, even if I hadn't written the joke to be about dog sperm when I'd first penned it all those years ago? I'd tell everyone it was now just to try to make a hassle for whoever was running the franchise in my absence.

 

[AnOminous]

Why do so many Garfield news stories end up here? Garfield has nothing to do with gamers.
I'm not complaining, just curious.

Garfield is DEAD. Just don't let Peter Guerin know this.

 

[Muncie Anderson]

To be honest, I always found this strip from 1990 more surprising than the one where Jon apparently drinks semen.

Of all letters to highlight in black in Garfield's onomatopoeia, why 'K'?

Watch, some bored millennial will see this cartoon and publish a news "story" accusing Jim Davis of secretly being part of the Ku Klux Klan.

 

[Doug_Hitzel]

Wait, why would a cat be smoking a pipe?

 

[Orkeosaurus]

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/garfield-creator-jim-davis-denies-that-he-made-jon


Garfield creator Jim Davis says a 1990 comic strip has been widely misunderstood, and that it does not show Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, drinking a cup of dog semen.
The infamous comic has long befuddled fans.
It ran May 30, 1990, and that entire week's strips were devoted to Jon and Garfield's trip to the veterinarian's office, where Jon repeatedly and unsuccessfully hits on the vet, Liz.

The strip in question shows Jon grabbing a cup on the counter and taking a big swig, apparently in the belief that it's filled with coffee.

"Congratulations, Mr. Arbuckle," says Liz. "You are going to give birth to a fine, healthy litter of puppies."

A 2006 Straight Dope message board discussion about the comic "where Jon drinks dog semen" suggests it has been an obsession among some fans for quite a long time.

There have always been doubters, but it's never been clear what Davis's punchline really meant.


This week, Twitter user @realnutsling tweeted a photo of a signed copy of the comic, with Davis seemingly sanctioning the dog semen interpretation.

"These events are canon," says a note from Davis.

Twitter user @realnutsling declined to speak with BuzzFeed News.


But Davis says people have it all wrong.


"On the farm, we used to give first-calf heifers a high protein supplement to help them deliver healthier calves," he said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. "The supplement was provided by our vet."

Since Liz is a vet, "I assumed that there would be a similar supplement for dogs," Davis said.

"So Jon is drinking a protein-enriched drink formulated for a pregnant dog."

That's why Liz mentions the "healthy" litter Jon would have — because he had just drunk a supplement for pregnant dogs, not dog semen.

"There you have it!" Davis said.

I'm guessing the Buzzfeeders are disappointed that they'll have to look elsewhere for inspiration for the inevitable cooking with dog semen article.

A good joke is one your audience can relate to, Davis. Many of your readers may not have grown up feeding pregnant livestock high protein supplements.

Of course they're going to think it's dog cum.

you'd be right if his target audience wasnt kids at elementary/middle school Scholastic book fairs.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Jon is gay for Odie confirmed

That must be why he murdered Lyman. Got rid of the competition.

 

[Pepito The Cat]

Self insert fetish if I ever saw one.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

Maybe they both bonded over their bestiality fetish

 

[Coldgrip]

I can't wait for those faggots to discover Heathclif.

 

[Traditional Tet]

Wait, why would a cat be smoking a pipe?

Because he's a god damn commie

Spoiler

He is a fat cat and I would not have sex with him.