Munch Squad: Garfield Eats (MBMBAM 462)

[@paddington2063]

This place is 30 seconds away from where I work and I'm in disbelief of its existence. Just FYI: the full tagline is "love me, feed me, dont leave me". SURREAL

[@stefanalexanderlungu1503]

That's not the tagline, that's the owner calling out for help

[@nicbawesome]

@Paddington Okay but here’s the thing, are you from Canada or Dubai?

[@0average_enjoyer044]

Nick Brajevich his name is paddington, i think the the answer is pretty obvious

[@nicbawesome]

Lucky 22 There might be Canadian Paddington fans you don’t know.

[@coffin7904]

Have you tried it yet?

[@jamesrichie7844]

"A Garfield Shaped Pizza" is my favorite Radiohead album.

[@lv.2073]

James Richie You will never know how much joy this gives me on a daily basis

[@Ingestedbanjo]

It's also my favourite Nirvana song.

[@calebduarte5255]

@Patrik333 “I’ve been trapped inside your magnet Garfield trap...”

[@TalexTheLich]

This comment is fucking fire well done

[@eliwixson8863]

What a coincidence, “Enter the Garfuccino” is my favorite Wu-Tang album.

[@Trick.Sparrow]

*none* *pizza* *garf* *beef*

[@scrungly]

i hate this

[@afeatherinthewind]

thank you

[@CheetahsArePrettyCool]

FOR A HOT SECOND I THOUGHT JIM DAVIS TALKING WAS JUST JUSTIN DOING A GOOFY VOICE

[@AceAttorny]

I mean yes but the thing is that Justin actually is and has always been Jim Davis, brainchild of Fabulous Funny Garfield.

[@senandevitt706]

ill never forget the day my father told me that i, like my brothers before me, had to enter the garfaccino and transition into adulthood.

[@faroshscale]

"Enter the garfaccino" is the single funniest thing I've ever heard on munch squad

[@Mothmaninist]

Also my favorite Metallica song

[@criticalcards4577]

Yeah, so maybe an old person wrote this ad copy. When Justin thinks "this fabulous funny" is a typo and they must have meant "feline" they were using the old timey nomenclature of calling comics "funnies" or "funny". Hence the term, funny pages of a newspaper. Back when we had newspapers...

[@BeccaMoses]

i thought the same thing and I’m half their age lol

[@pseudophori6541]

it was especially weird to me that they made this mistake because I’ve definitely heard them use that term before in an earlier episode

[@saber1epee0]

I assume it's a regional thing?

[@RunikaMori]

My grandpa always gave me "the funnies" to look at as a kid, which since they included things like Family Circus an d Sherman's Lagoon weren't actually all that funny.

[@bustedkeaton]

I read funnies in the 2000s it doesnt mean id ever call a singular character from a strip a "funny"

[@Lucy-ip6gl]

The best thing is the full tag line is love me feed me don’t leave me

[@Sammie1053]

Love me feed me if you wanna reach me *Kim Possible theme plays*

[@fuddmuggler]

Enter the Garfaccino.

[@andrewbrowning1931]

"Enter the Garfaccino" was the worst Bruce Lee film by far

[@shinydino]

Andrew Browning 🤣

[@nicbawesome]

They somehow topped the “Al Pachino Dunkaccino “ scene from that one Adam Sandler movie as the worst coffee-adjacent thing in the world.

[@lv.2073]

8:23

[@clanofclams2720]

My favorite Noe film

[@davidrowland902]

A Garfield Modified Organism basically describes Magnus, if we're being honest.

[@saber1epee0]

O.0

[@colinhale7378]

As in the Primarch Magnus?

[@autisticautomaton]

@@colinhale7378 I'm assuming magnus burnsides, travis' d&d character in the first arc of the adventure zone

[@rachelutzig1959]

7:54 the heartbreak in Griffins voice was real and I felt it too

[@bustedkeaton]

Do you mean 8:02??

[@Fiona-West]

i quote this so often when i’m utterly disappointed and no one knows what i’m talking about 😭

[@lucadefranco3420]

@@bustedkeatonI hate you

[@artstsym]

While it is incredibly sad that Garfield Eats had to shutter its doors, I still pay my tribute by coming back to this once a year.

[@danistine765]

jon and garfield as old victorian lovers killed me that joke is under appreciated

[@hambor12]

coming back immediately after hearing the news that the Toronto location is shutting down as many restaurant casualties due to the COVID-19 pandemic R.I.P. Garfield Eats Toronto, 2018 - 2020 You've Loved Us, You've Fed Us, and Now You're Leaving Us

[@nat-xo5xn]

believe it or not this was the first mbmbam episode i ever listened to. i'm so goddamn proud that my first mbmbam episode was the one where they talked about garfield for almost half an hour.

[@mistertwister2000]

I love that the Jim Davis bit sounds like he’s being held at gunpoint

[@camwoodstock]

Apparently, GarfieldEats shut down on Christmas Eve 2021. It is now GarfieldAte.

[@cfontana3890]

This and Thought Slime's video on Garfield Eats have given me so much joy

[@angeloabbatiello4755]

Do we enter the Garfaccino or does the Garfaccino enter YOU?

[@radioreprise]

0:09 that's what my thoughts sound like when i dissociate

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

I want to see them bust out Goupons the next time they get to visit Fantasy Costco.

[@TeapotBird]

'member how its a resamaunt?

[@Summer-it3wh]

Apropos of nothing I am happy to inform you that the guy who made garfield eats now thinks coronavirus is a hoax and/or made of 5g towers lol. Extremely normal fast food franchise.

[@Robocopnik]

That is great.

[@Ipherix]

And now he's a champion of celibacy!

[@Sandux930]

Can we get it update, still celibate and anti tech tin hat shit??😂😂😂🤷😂😂😂

[@averytrashmouth]

@azmuho yup. He also has a podcast now where his Garfield based fursona teams up with God to fight a "pig troll redditor" (who is based on a real guy that left a negative review on reddit).

[@jogiff]

@@averytrashmouth the artwork of Bill the Pig is also based on DSP for some reason

[@perrilewis180]

I had a vivid image of Garfield hanging out with Bruno Buccellati's Gang.

[@TurboBlaze244]

Garf Experience

[@thefunniestvalentine4789]

Garfield Garfovanna

[@GeminiRosche]

I, Garfield Gattovanna, have a dream. To become a Lasagnstar

[@laurenharradine8233]

Came across this again in 2021 and the one in Toronto closed in 2020 :( Rip Garfield Eats

[@girbaudfernandez1925]

Travis. Garfield was BORN in an italian restaurant.

[@RadioactiveCheese0]

He was conceived in one too

[@tyetnic]

They call him a Fabulous Funny because his comic was in the "Funnies" section in the newspaper.

[@bustedkeaton]

Its still cracked to use "funny" as a noun for a singular character

[@bridgethildebrand4468]

I remember when this episode released and this segment consumed a half of the length and I thought to myself 'this podcast is finally spiraling'.

[@kirstenerikapaulson2574]

McElroys are fake Garfield fans. Garfield was literally born in an Italian restaurant AND has been shown with Jon in a fancy restaurant multiple times AND there's at least one strip saga where he gets lost in the city and finds the restaurant, where his family still lives.

[@TeapotBird]

To be fair Travis was pretty much just trying to get some jokes in I think. You can tell during a Munch Squad when he and Griff really working hard to get in goofs but the copy is just too fucking WILD for them to keep up.

[@nicbawesome]

I felt like I was Disassociating when I read this, so now I will be forever haunted by Garfield’s origin story on how he was born in an Italian Restaurant!

[@tbotalpha8133]

Wait fucking what is that why Garfield loves lasagna?

[@lionsforscottie]

TBot Alpha yes he associates the smell of it with his home and mom + it was the first thing he ate

[@snoixalicious]

YEAH!! exact same thought, smh fake garf fans

[@k.a.u.4599]

That fact that until about age 11 I was an unironic Garfield superfan and literally had read every single Garfield book multiples times now makes me feel very weird. Like, it started as wholesome "life as a cat owner" humor but it turned into something so weird. When Liz actually got with Jon and Jim Davis fully bowed out of the writing process it all went to shit.

[@Myzelfa]

I think I've just had either a fever dream or some kind of bizarre stroke.

[@Soupigeon]

Strange Æons did a video on this and it’s golden

[@w3stipher]

it's an INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR!!!

[@samwaldron1204]

absolutely baffled that they wrote an entire press release for a garfield promotional event in the united arab emirates and didn't mention abu dhabi once. what the fuck.

[@very_tired_child]

14:37 Justin’s laugh gives me so much life

[@ectoBiologist]

I watched this on June 19, apparently the anniversary of Garfield.

[@RadioactiveCheese0]

I was laughing to myself at work today thinking about "fabulous funny"

[@blahblahblahEMILY]

E. Healy I’m pretty sure “fabulous funny” was intentional...”funnies” is another word for comics

[@faroshscale]

FEED THE FABULOUS FUNNY! LOVE HIM!

[@bustedkeaton]

@@blahblahblahEMILY yea but it still sounds insane to call one character a "funny"

[@acornpockets7244]

but when they played the video of the guy talking about the restaurant and he was saying how it was garfield's dream come true it make my soul a lil bit happy

[@matthewseltzer5982]

Love the Garfield, feed the Garfield

[@SongbirdFlying]

I always come back to this bit because not only is the fact that this place exists absolutely wild but when Travis says what's the venn diagram of people who fuck with Garfield but only want to eat at sustainably-sourced eco-friendly places I always want to say "it's me." I loved Garfield as a kid and I'm a huge proponent of eco-friendly practices. I'm convinced this entire restaurant was created exclusively for me, so of course it is only located in two countries where I do not live.

[@betheydocrimes]

This is linked on Nathen Mazri's brands page on his website

[@maxmaus9888]

0:10 sounds like there is a rock and roll bumble bee buzzing by my ear

[@pankakemancer4952]

I feel like they didn't spend enough time talking about how somebody had this idea, and the very first place they decided to try it was _fucking Dubai_

[@happyconstructor]

Ok. Bear with me. You get hired at GarfieldEATS. They’re showing you around the kitchen on your first day. Eventually, you get to the ovens. But you have one question. Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?

[@MoldyWarts]

I wanted to hear Travis talk more about Steampunk

[@TurbopropPuppy]

10:10 so like not to expose myself as a diehard Garf fan and dig into deep cuts of lore but yes, Garfield is canonically a fan of Italian food lasagna, as everyone knows, but also pizza (the Cartoon Network Garfield Show has an Italian restaurant as a recurring location and its owner as a regular cast member) and spaghetti also, Garfield has visited restaurants, both dingy and fancy, repeatedly throughout the comic's run

[@BioYuGi]

Also I feel like if you do like lasagna there is a 99.9% chance that you'll likely Italian food in general because of the same ingredients just arranged differently

[@grimbithefloob3251]

My favorite Mbmbam episode hands down holy shit

[@ksochia12]

an amazon button with the picture of a garfield-shaped pizza is so funny

[@Mothmaninist]

Can’t wait for the sister restaurant, Dilbert Delivers

[@lucystarlight8887]

Just checked out the website and found out one of the videos on the site is blocked on copyright grounds, which is extremely good

[@jasonfenton8250]

Love me. Feed me. Don't meme me.

[@averytrashmouth]

Nathan Mazri has a link to this video on his website.

[@thunderwolf1151]

they actually didn't mean feline! a "funny" is actually a word often used to describe comic strips, so for example one might call the comics section of a paper, "the funnies."

[@bustedkeaton]

Yea, the comics section, not one character from a comic.

[@midosaka9253]

it pisses me off that nobobdy realizes the tagline is a quote from the garfield movie with bill murray "love me, feed me, never leave me."

[@lv.2073]

*_Enter the Garfaccino_* had me *SCREAMING*

[@thedman-zx1ip]

RIP GarfieldEats. Gone too soon

[@jamdeluxe7456]

feed the fabulous funny, love him!

[@JakeNubbin]

So when will The Adventure Zone introduce the Garfaccino Elemental

[@taakotuesday]

this entire bit is iconic

[@shinydino]

This was a journey.

[@slevemcdichael4481]

14:21 JUSTINS LAUGH MID SENTENCE

[@bustedkeaton]

14:41 his wry disbelief turned him into taako for a sec

[@UsotheMarshmallow]

this was a fucking experience to listen to

[@2fortsmostwanted]

5:21 "OWO"

[@AlyssaRueckert]

thinking about how this was one of the first mbmbam episodes i listened to.... what an introduction

[@totz_the_plaid9625]

"You can use voice recognition to order." Yeah. It's called TALKING TO A PERSON AND TELLING THEM YOUR ORDER.

[@maddiemeep]

I can not believe it is in Canada, of all the things to be in Canada and not the U.S

[@pyritepaladin5647]

god hell yea i sent an email abt this....... so glad its hers

[@Kane_the_Newschool_DM]

Thought Slime and McElroy crossover when

[@risipieces]

whenever thought slime wears a haunted doll watch shirt i immediately go *!!!*

[@Kane_the_Newschool_DM]

@@risipieces BRO SAME

[@Lolo50000]

My PC screen went to sleep as soon as the slowed down reverb 'gaaaarfieeeeeld eeeeeats' played and I am now preparing an exorcism

[@franklinbarnes7329]

Sad to say everyone, but all GarfieldEATS locations have shut their doors.

[@LuckyRabbit234]

“I don’t know that he’s a fan of Italian-“ HE WAS BORN IN AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT, YOU SACRILEGIOUS SWINE! (love you trav)

[@sam3851]

I'm Canadian, I live near this place, and all my (American) friends have been asking me recently is if I've gone to Garfield Eats. It's torture, please send hello

[@NietSUPTG]

Hello

[@shinydino]

Hello

[@risipieces]

hello

[@lolshark33]

Auto captions at the very beginning of the vid is great!

[@zeldaglitchman]

I thought this was gonna be about the deals warlock lol

[@skeledaddy]

the fact that this bit is over twenty minutes long is utterly fucking demented

[@luvlylilplnt]

little do the boys know the boys are reading the english translation.....

[@weavery4292]

That is ~exactly~ what I would imagine Jim Davis sounds like

[@gdragon521]

I thought for sure this was some sort of elaborate april fools prank. I'm still not convinced that it isn't.

[@eviebuggs886]

This place really has a 'garf'iccino need I say more

[@GeminiRosche]

So the birth of Garfield is what Juneteenth also celebrates? Bizarre

[@FullonPepeSilvia]

4:00 what 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 FUCK👏🏻

[@ChemicallAli]

They need to do a fucking goof on the CEOs instagram page... by the way CEO stands for " Chief Entergage Officer (CEO)" OMFG this might be the single most disengaged person from the any reality. Between the personal quote "Youth is not a liability, it is an asset.", his ridiculous head shots or his fake not magazine covers for "Entergage Issue #_" this guy is fucking insane. It's amazingly tragic and it will brighten up your day cause at least you dont have this guys Garfield fetish haha

[@ManyMonstersMedia]

Love me, Feed me, Don't leave me

[@thisisrenren3657]

I've seen the pictures from the place in Toronto, and it's a lumpy mess of burnt crust and almost no toppings. It is in the shape of Garfield's head, tho.

[@7th_phoenix546]

They were saying “fabulous funny” because it was originally a comic and a page of comics can sometimes be called “the funnies” and a specific comic referred to as a “funny” At least I hope, because if not, that just adds to the amount of other grammar errors those people made, which is already quite a big list lol

[@bustedkeaton]

The amount of replies trying to justify "fabulous funny..." yall work for Big Garfaccino?

[@MaximumDracula]

I want to go on record and say I have nothing to do with this business.

[@yourhighschoolenglishteach8405]

i will admit, i am not a huge garfield fan, but i did not know he is a fan of coffee

[@anonymousyoutuber1405]

Garfield was born in an italian resteraunt! Thats why he eats lasagna!

[@matrixiekitty2127]

The Garfield team talks about Garfield a though he is God

[@skyrimpro117]

garfield restrant bad >:0

[@calebduarte5255]

*No.*

[@cheer90099]

rest in peace garfield eats

[@partlyironic]

This was the first munch squad I ever heard.

[@megadestroyer454]

Justin says they must have meant funny feline. But newspaper comics are called funnies so saying the fabulous funny wouldn't be incorrect.

[@Sandux930]

Garfelon 😂

[@veronicadow1407]

who else is here from strange aeons's video

[@pippa1206]

rip Garfield Eats 😢

[@leschaps2387]

Still slaps

[@leaffinite2001]

Wild