{ "id": "ep5hfwy0xj", "slug": "lasagna-cat", "title": "Lasagna Cat", "updated": "2026-10-25", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries", "label": "Comedy, drama, and general-genre web series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries.yr-1999-2016", "label": "Premiered 1999 to 2016", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries.yr-1999-2016" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries.yr-1999-2016", "label": "United States · 2001 to 2020: Premiered 1999 to 2016", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries.yr-1999-2016", "path": [ { "id": "geo.us", "label": "United States", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001", "label": "United States · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries", "label": "Comedy, drama, and general-genre web series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries.yr-1999-2016", "label": "Premiered 1999 to 2016", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries.yr-1999-2016" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Lasagna Cat is a YouTube channel created by the comedy duo Fatal Farm that parodies Garfield via low-budget live-action strip reenactments, returning in 2017 after nine years.", "snippet": "Lasagna Cat is a YouTube channel created by the comedy duo Fatal Farm that parodies Garfield via low-budget live-action strip reenactments, returning in 2017 after nine years.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.comedy_general_webseries.yr-1999-2016", "markdown": "# Lasagna Cat\n\n**Lasagna Cat** is a YouTube channel devoted to parodying the comic strip *[Garfield](https://www.edgepedia.org/garfield)* by reenacting its strips as low-budget live-action skits, each followed by a short music-video parody of the comic. It was created by the sketch comedy group Fatal Farm, whose trailer appeared on YouTube on November 8, 2007, and whose first full season of 27 episodes was posted on January 14, 2008.[1](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/subcultures/lasagna-cat) After nine years of silence the channel returned in February 2017 with a second season that retained the live-action Garfield strip recreations and surreal musical interludes while also featuring longer pieces, drawing coverage from Consequence of Sound, Polygon, and New York Magazine.[1](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/subcultures/lasagna-cat) • [10](https://www.avclub.com/mondays-still-bad-as-the-surreal-lasagna-cat-returns-to-1798258343)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Creators | Fatal Farm, the comedy duo Zachary Johnson and Jeffrey Max, film school graduates[2](https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/meme-review/fandom-in-context-garfield-memers-are-having-a-nermal-one) |\n| First run | Trailer November 8, 2007; all 27 episodes of season 1 posted January 14, 2008[1](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/subcultures/lasagna-cat) |\n| Format | Live-action reenactment of a specific Garfield strip with a laugh track, then a music-video remix of the same strip[3](https://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-culture/how-garfield-got-his-groove-back-the-garfield-remix-phenomenon-100343.html) |\n| Second run | Teaser February 6, 2017; new episodes from February 23, 2017, including the roughly 4.5-hour \"Sex Survey Results\"[1](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/subcultures/lasagna-cat) • [4](https://www.solasnua.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/The%20Stinging%20Fly%20Issue%2051%20Winter%202024_2025.pdf) |\n| Channel size | 43 videos, about 299,000 subscribers, and over 40.6 million total views as of October 2026[5](https://socialblade.com/youtube/handle/lasagnacat) |\n| Episode data | TheTVDB lists season 1 at 27 episodes, season 2 at 12, four February 2017 specials, an average runtime of 5 minutes, and genres of comedy and horror[6](https://thetvdb.com/series/lasagna-cat) |\n\n## Format\n\nEach episode follows a fixed structure. An actor in a Garfield costume interacts with an actor playing [Jon Arbuckle](https://www.edgepedia.org/jon-arbuckle) in a faithful reenactment of one dated Garfield strip, the performance closes with an excessive laugh track, and the video then launches into a clip of the comic re-imagined as a music video tribute to Jim Davis, the strip's creator.[4](https://www.solasnua.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/The%20Stinging%20Fly%20Issue%2051%20Winter%202024_2025.pdf) Cartoon Brew described the series as \"almost certainly the most elaborate Jim Davis remix,\" starring \"a guy in a mildly unsettling Garfield costume,\" with each adaptation later remixed into a music video or, in one case, a [Final Fantasy](https://www.edgepedia.org/final-fantasy) parody.[3](https://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-culture/how-garfield-got-his-groove-back-the-garfield-remix-phenomenon-100343.html) The first episode's ending montage is set to \"Final Fantasy VI Medley\" by [Nobuo Uematsu](https://www.edgepedia.org/nobuo-uematsu), and that video had gained over 1.1 million views in nine years.[1](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/subcultures/lasagna-cat)\n\nThe music beds drew on mainstream pop and rock. WIRED's January 15, 2008 write-up described \"creepy live action actors clad in oversized cartoon costumes, acting out various Garfield comics set to songs from the likes of Billy Idol, Mariah Carey, Pat Benetar, NIN and Fischerspooner.\"[7](https://www.wired.com/2008/01/live-action-gar/) Every episode stars Garfield, Odie, and Jon except \"06/15/2007\" and \"06/19/2002,\" which feature Liz and a mouse instead.[8](https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Lasagnacat)\n\n## Origin\n\nJohnson and Max began experimenting with online video after finishing film school. After coming across a worn-out Garfield costume and drawing on the blog \"Marmaduke Explained\" for inspiration, the pair set about turning Garfield comic strips into fully produced video shorts that matched each beat and line of the originals, aiming to show just how humorless they considered the comic to be.[2](https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/meme-review/fandom-in-context-garfield-memers-are-having-a-nermal-one) The team initially aimed to shoot 100 shorts based on 100 strips. After shooting 70 and editing a handful, they concluded the strict recreations were boring; as Johnson put it, \"This is not fun to watch,\" and as Max put it, the early versions were \"about as funny as the comic itself.\" They therefore began building out the jokes they found in the comics, taking them to absurd, psychedelic, and sometimes disturbing heights.[2](https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/meme-review/fandom-in-context-garfield-memers-are-having-a-nermal-one)\n\n## The 2008 season\n\nThe lasagnacat channel posted its trailer on November 8, 2007, and all 27 first-season episodes on January 14, 2008; a companion website also hosts the episodes.[1](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/subcultures/lasagna-cat) Episodes are titled with the dates of the strips they adapt, from \"08/18/1978\" through \"04/20/2007\" and beyond.[8](https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Lasagnacat) Three videos were later removed from the channel: \"05/20/2005\" and \"8/14/1986\" for copyright reasons, and \"11/19/1979\" for containing personal information belonging to a Paws, Inc. employee.[8](https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Lasagnacat)\n\n## The 2017 return\n\nOn February 6, 2017, the channel posted its first video in nine years, a \"teaser\" for upcoming content. On February 9 it posted a mock-action-movie trailer announcing new episodes, giving a working phone number, 1 (800) 591-3274, related to the show's return; the trailer gained over 28,000 views in one day and drew articles from Consequence of Sound, Polygon, and New York Magazine.[1](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/subcultures/lasagna-cat) On February 23, Fatal Farm uploaded the new episodes.[8](https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Lasagnacat)\n\nThe second season kept the dated-strip titles but changed the scale and tone. Its centerpiece, \"Sex Survey Results,\" presents the results of a telephone survey of viewers and loops for more than four-and-a-half hours as the survey results play out.[4](https://www.solasnua.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/The%20Stinging%20Fly%20Issue%2051%20Winter%202024_2025.pdf) The season's episode list runs from \"07/27/1978,\" a parody of the *Miami Vice* episode \"Brother's Keeper,\" through \"Sex Survey Results.\"[8](https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Lasagnacat) TheTVDB catalogs the 2017 material as a 12-episode season 2 plus four specials, with the most recent episode dated February 23, 2017.[6](https://thetvdb.com/series/lasagna-cat)\n\n## Reception and influence\n\nLasagna Cat has been remembered as one of the standout products of early YouTube; Know Your Meme cites a Daily Dot piece calling it \"the first true masterpiece of weird YouTube\" and a Consequence of Sound headline naming it \"the Greatest Web Series of All Time.\"[1](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/subcultures/lasagna-cat) An academic study of online deadpan humor uses the series as a case: live-action reenactments accompanied by a laugh soundtrack are supplemented by music-video footage, and the work is \"not only bereft of standard textual markers of humour but paratextual markers as well,\" shifting the determination of comic meaning toward the audience.[9](https://nicholasholm.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/deadpan-humour-the-comic-disposition-and-the-interpretation-of-ironic-ambiguity-online-accepted-version.pdf) The same essay reads the series as pointing at the disproportion between *Garfield*'s cultural and economic success and what its parodists see as the strip's vacuous artistry.[4](https://www.solasnua.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/The%20Stinging%20Fly%20Issue%2051%20Winter%202024_2025.pdf)\n\nThe series also seeded later Garfield remix culture. Know Your Meme's editorial credits it with inspiring \"a wave of mutant Garfields\" over the following decade, including \"Garfielf,\" PilotRedSun's crudely absurd 2013 animation that turned the strip's subtext into text.[2](https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/meme-review/fandom-in-context-garfield-memers-are-having-a-nermal-one) The channel has been inactive since February 23, 2017, but its catalog remains substantial: 43 videos with roughly 299,000 subscribers and more than 40.6 million cumulative views as of October 2026.[5](https://socialblade.com/youtube/handle/lasagnacat) • [8](https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Lasagnacat)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Lasagna Cat, Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/subcultures/lasagna-cat)\n2. [Fandom in Context: Garfield Memers Are Having A Nermal One, Know Your Meme editorial by Matt Schimkowitz](https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/meme-review/fandom-in-context-garfield-memers-are-having-a-nermal-one)\n3. [How Garfield Got His Groove Back: The 'Garfield' Remix Phenomenon, Cartoon Brew, Neil Emmett](https://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-culture/how-garfield-got-his-groove-back-the-garfield-remix-phenomenon-100343.html)\n4. [The Stinging Fly, Issue 51, Winter 2024/2025](https://www.solasnua.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/The%20Stinging%20Fly%20Issue%2051%20Winter%202024_2025.pdf)\n5. [lasagnacat's YouTube Statistics, Social Blade](https://socialblade.com/youtube/handle/lasagnacat)\n6. [Lasagna Cat, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/lasagna-cat)\n7. [Live-Action Garfield Videos Are a Half-Baked Tribute to Jim Davis, WIRED, January 15, 2008](https://www.wired.com/2008/01/live-action-gar/)\n8. [lasagnacat, Wikitubia (Fandom)](https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Lasagnacat)\n9. [Deadpan Humour, the Comic Disposition and the Interpretation of Ironic Ambiguity Online, Nicholas Holm](https://nicholasholm.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/deadpan-humour-the-comic-disposition-and-the-interpretation-of-ironic-ambiguity-online-accepted-version.pdf)\n10. [Mondays still bad as the surreal Lasagna Cat returns to the internet after nine years away](https://www.avclub.com/mondays-still-bad-as-the-surreal-lasagna-cat-returns-to-1798258343)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Comedy, drama, and general-genre web series › Premiered 1999 to 2016*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/lasagna-cat", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/lasagna-cat.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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