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Jon (garfield)

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Jon (Jonathan Q. Arbuckle) is Garfield's owner, usually depicted as an awkward geek who has trouble finding a date. Jon loves (or occasionally hates) Garfield and all cats. Many gags focus on this; his inability to get a date is usually attributed to his lack of social skills, his poor taste in clothes (Garfield remarked in one strip after seeing his closet that "two hundred moths committed suicide" in another, the "geek police" ordered Jon to "throw out his tie") and his eccentric interests which range from stamp collecting to measuring the growth of his toenails to watching movies with "polka ninjas". Other strips portray him as having a lack of intelligence (he is seen reading a pop-up book in one strip).

Jon was born on a farm that apparently contained few amenities; in one strip, his father, upon seeing indoor plumbing, remarks, "Woo-ha! Ain't science something?" Jon occasionally visits his family (consisting of his mother, father, and brother) at their farm. ( Edited by Schligge)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield#Jon_Arbuckle

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