You favorite "The Far Side" cartoon strip... - Page 2

I know the quotes aren't exact since I'm going from memory:

2 crocodiles lying on a river bank. Both with their bellies full. Mangled canoe and safari gear all around them. "Man, that was incredible. No antlers or tusks or nothing. Just soft and pink."

A dog in a moving car talking out the window to another dog on a lawn. "We're gonna have a great day. First I'm going to the park, and then to the shopping mall, and then I'm going to the vet to get tutored."

A dog hiding next to an open clothes drier. A cat is looking at the drier. There's a sign with an arrow pointing into the drier. The sign says "Cat Fud". The dog is thinking "Oh please, oh please, oh please,..." First you think the dog is smart for setting up the trap, but then you think he's dumb for misspelling Food. But is the cat dumb enough to fall for it. So deep...

I always loved the animal ones.

It's a shame these guys get tired of doing these strips. I also miss Calvin and Hobbes. It was sad when Berke Breathed got bizarre with his Bloom County reprise. I can't remember what it was called.

[Edited last by Denward on October 30, 2001 at 05:15 PM]

There was a "companion" one for this that shows what we say to cats ("Bad cat", "Stay off the furniture", "No!") followed by a panel showing what cats hear. The dialog box is blank! How true! Darn cats.



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My fave is the prehistoric courtroom: "Is this your atlatl Mr. Og?!"

The cartoon is titled CATTLE HUMOR. A cowboy is seen in the midst of a large herd. On his back someone (somecow??) has pasted a note which reads TRAMPLE ME. How sweet it is.

The one that caused me to laugh the hardest of them all was the one where we see a tower (like a lighthouse or something) and all the way down it, wrapping around it, is "WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP". It goes all the way around it until finally at the bottom of the tower, we see a scientist has tumbled down a spiral staircase.

I don't know why that was so funny to me, but even now, it brings a big grin to my face. Anyone else remember this one?

Two Honorable Mentions:
When Popeye is on the stand in a courtroom being charged with something and he replies "I yam what I yam!"

I also really like the "Grizzlies From Hell" one.

[Edited last by Wes Ray on November 01, 2001 at 02:05 AM]

I like the companion strip to that one:

What we say to dogs: "You stay off the furniture, Ginger, or else! You hear me, Ginger? ..."

What they hear: "Blah blah blah GINGER blah blah GINGER..."

I also like the one captioned "Clumsy ghosts". Shows a staircase with nothing visible, but you see "Whoa! WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP!" and the cat getting flattened.

Another "whump" one: Old lady shouts "Knick knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone!", then in the next frame an old man is rolling home, going "WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP". You have to know the song to understand this one.

I also like the "Ghost Newspaper" one, with a ghost (invisible), with glasses on, holding a newspaper to the comics page, with the strips titled things like "Doonesburied" and "The Other Side" and all you see in the frames are speech bubbles but no characters.

Woman on phone: "Hi, Doreen? I'm fine, how are you? Say, do you think you could go to your window and describe what's in my front yard?" All you can see in the window is a huge eye looking in.

"Things that go bump in the night". Shows a monster who just bumped his head on the door frame.

Colonel Sanders at the Pearly Gates, decorated with the figures of chickens, and he's thinking to himself, "Uh oh".

"Through an unfortunate celestial error, Ernie is sent to Hog Heaven". Shows one guy in heaven with a bunch of pigs.

Cows in a room, with the phone ringing. "There it goes again, and here we sit, with no opposable thumbs."

Cavemen working on a wheel, sign reads "Zog's Weel Repare". Zog holding up a rock, and saying "No no! This regular rock! Me need Phillips!" Another similar one: "I need a crescent wrench, wait, maybe this is the crescent wrench! Dang these stone tools!"

And, probably the best "propaganda" Far Side cartoon ever made: "The real reason dinosaurs became extinct". Shows a prehistoric scene with the dinosaurs smoking cigarettes.

Primitive UFOs: Cavemen are pointing toward the sky, with surprised expressions, and there is a flying saucer made out of straw, sticks, and stones.

This one needs no caption: Frog hanging by his tongue from the belly of an airplane.

KJP


[Edited last by Kevin P on November 01, 2001 at 07:49 AM]

I just remembered another one...

Husband bear comes home to wife bear. He's got a numeric tag stapled to his ear, radio tracking collar around his neck, etc. Wife demands excuse for why he's late.

My all time favorite is the "So then I say to Borg, `You know, as long as we're under siege, one of us oughta moon these Saxon dogs." http://www.ucom.net/~kschmidt/moral.html
(not my web page)

Other greats:
A little weiner dog is standing up, getting an expresso in the kitchen. The caption reads, "While their owner sleeps, nervous little dogs prepare for the day." http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/00/10/2usa/ (half way down)

Two spiders have a web across the bottom of a playground slide. Caption: "If we pull this off, we'll eat like kings." http://indigo.ie/~ciand/im/spider.gif

Caption: Lady calling her dog, "Here Fifi! C'mon! ... Faster, Fifi!" The dog door is blocked and nailed shut. http://members.fortunecity.com/tiffanyg/


I love 'em

Ok, this is my last post to this thread, I promise!

Sometimes Gary would use other people's comic/cartoon characters in his strip. Examples:

"What happened to Tinkerbell" - shows a frog in swamp with a light coming from inside.

Two pre-historic predators (bears? sabertooth tigers?) licking their chops, and one is saying to the other: "I've heard lots of strange sounds from those things, but 'Yabba dabba do' is a new one to me."

Elmer Fudd, in screwdriver factory, called into his boss' office. The boss says to him: "You're an excellent worker, Mr. Fudd, but there is a problem. You've been having a subliminal effect on the staff here. You know no one else makes a finer skwoo dwivuh... dang! now you have me doing it!"

The Red Baron is shown with his plane, which has painted on it little airplane symbols representing the planes he's shot down... including an image of Snoopy on top of his dog house.

KJP

"Ship Of Fools/Car Of Idiots"

Sincerely,

John Kilduff

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"Who makes it happen?"
"I make it happen"-
Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith in "Working Girl"

I love this one: Two fisherman are out on a lake. Nuclear blast takes place. One fisherman says to the other, "I’ll tell you what this means, Norm — no size restrictions and screw the limit."

Cheetah Wheelies.

My favorite shows a view from inside of a cockpit looking out. The captain saying to the FO "what's a mountain goat doing way up hear". Picture shows a goat in the middle of clouds. Cracks me up everytime.

The rooster stared back at me, his power and confidence almost overwhelming. Down below, a female paused warily at the coop's entrance. I kept the camera running. They were beautiful, these "Chickens in the Mist."

My favorite: "We're gettin' old, Jake."

(two dogs sitting on a porch, not chasing the cat/mailman)

I too miss the Far Side and especially the "Boneless Chicken Farm". When I first saw it I remember I laughed so hard - I will only eat boneless chickens!! *lol*

This is probably my favorite one of all. A guy I worked with had it pinned to the outside of his cubicle and to this day I still laugh when I think about it.

It shows how timeless some of his comics can be, don't know when the comic first appeared, but the post I'm quoting is 11 years old.

Leona Helmsley meets The Three Stooges - showing Moe Larry and Curly shown doing some work in her house and making a complete mess of things. I had that cut out and hanging on my refrigerator for years.

I think we all miss those strips, but I commend Larson and Watterson for knowing when to quit. Charles Schulz kept churning out Peanuts long after it had sunk into vapidity.

Excellent comment Robert. Certain things just need to come to an end, rather than getting worse and fading away slowly as the fans lose interest and the authors put out lower quality material.