About

Lasagna Cat is a YouTube channel devoted to publishing parodies of Garfield comic strips by reenacting them as low-budget, live-action skits, followed by a short music-video parody of the comic.

Origin

Lasagna Cat is created by the sketch comedy group called Fatal Farm.^[1] On November 8th, 2007 they posted the trailer for the series^[2] to the lasagnacat YouTube channel. The channel then posted all 27 episodes to on January 14th, 2008. The first, with the traditional ending montage set to "Final Fantasy VI Medley" by Nobuo Uematsu, gained over 1.1 million views in 9 years (shown below).

A website for Lasagna Cat^[3] also hosts all of the episodes.

Spread

Lasagna Cat has been fondly remembered as one of the best products of the early days of YouTube.^[1][4] TV Tropes also devoted a page to the series.^[5]

2017 Return

On February 6th, 2017, the Lasagna Cat channel posted its first video in 9 years, claiming to be a "teaser" for an upcoming video.

On February 9th, the channel posted a video in the style of a mock-action movie trailer, announcing upcoming new episodes (shown below). The video gives a number to call, 1 (800) 591-3274, which is a working phone number related to the return of the show. The video gained over 28,000 views in one day.

The release of the trailer drew lots of media attention, getting articles from Consequence of Sound,^[6] Polygon,^[7] New York Magazine,^[8] and more.

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References