The Far Side - Two questions

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

As you can see from my avatar I'm a huge fan of the comic strip. It so closely matches the more subversive aspects of my sense of humor.

1. What is your favorite/ least favorite panel?

2. Anyone know how I can watch the two animated specials Larson did?

 

[Small White Car]

It's impossible to chose an actual favorite, but for some reason I tend to think of the one where the dog, cat, and owner all go for a ball and their heads collide, making the sound of a coconut. The sound secretly amuses the pet bird in the cage who thinks "all right!"

It's one of the tamer, simpler strips, but I did love it.

It occurs to me that there are now people old enough to not remember reading these in the newspaper. Do you think these people can ever lead normal lives?

I mean, if they buy all the books, they'll probably survive...but man, there's got to be some poor kids out there who don't know they're supposed to buy them all!

 

[Amaris]

My favorite was and has always been the one where God was a contestant on Jeopardy, and the guy at the other end believed something was just wrong with his buzzer.


J.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I like Luposlipophobia, the fear of being chased by timberwolves while wearing socks on a newly waxed kitchen floor

 

[AstroSmurf]

I love the Farside. I am still sad that they stopped making the desk calenders. This is the first year in more than a decade that I don't have one on my desk.

Anyway, my favorite (if I was forced to choose) is the one where the cows have found their way into the farmer's house and one of them finds something in the freezer. I don't know why I find that one so funny but I do.

I also enjoy the one where the cows are standing on their hind legs having a conversation beside the road and they have a look-out for approaching cars so they don't get caught.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Cows seem to be a reoccurring theme here. My favorite is the one where the cows are sitting around their human house and the phone rings. The cow looks at it and says "Oh great there it goes again and here we sit without opposable thumbs".

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Don't forget the infamous "Cow Tools"

 

[tharpdevenport]

Too many to name.


Both episodes were released on VHS, through a FS calender years ago, but they are now legally on DVD:

https://farsidecatalog.orderport.net/22226664/productpage.asp?title=Gary%20Larson's%20Tales%20From%20The%20Far%20Side^®%20I%20and%20II%20NTSC%20DVD

 

[Mike Farley]

My favorite strip showed an astronaut standing on the moon reading a note while his lunar lander flew off into the distance headinf for the Earth: "Dear Buzz...we waited and waited, but you never showed up..."

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

how about the one where all three astronauts are rushing out of the lunar lander, and only one of them is able to say "FIRST!"

 

[JustKate]

Oh, so hard to choose...

It might be one of the evolution ones - there were 3 or 4 I think, including the one where the fish-creature's baseball has landed on dry land, and he's there at the water's edge looking up at it longingly. The cow ones are all great, too.

Oh, but I think my all-time favorite shows a Far Side woman looking out of her window while she's on the phone, and seen through the window is this eNORmous eye that fills the window, and she says into the phone something like, "Hi, Edna, this is Myrtle. Fine, thanks. Say, would you mind taking a look at my house and let me know if you see anything?" CRACKS me up!

 

[John Picard]

The Far Side and Bloom County were absolute works of genius.

 

[HIj'Qa]

My fave: "The Real Reason Dinosaurs Went Extinct"

Everyday at work I have to go in the 'employeee entrance' through the gaggle of smokers standing out in the cold/snow/rain. Makes me think of that one everytime, and sometmes I say to them - "Ah, the real reason dinosaurs went extinct!"

 

[TGTheodore]

Two favorites:

1. We're looking through the scope of a rifle. One bear is grinning nervously and pointing for the hunter to shoot the other bear. (I still have that mug)

2. The family of cows posing for a picture at the Grand Canyon. Over half of the people who see it to this day don't get it. It's VERY subtle.

--Ted

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Some of my faves:

- Two aliens are standing in front of a crowd of people. One looks embarrassed and is holding a book. The other, angry, says: "'Take me to your stove'? You idiot! Give me that book back!"

- A group of Indians are on top of a cliff, watching a train go by in the valley below. The chief turns to the rest of the group and says "Pardon me, boys...is that the Chattanooga Iron Horse?"

- A boy is standing before his teacher's desk. The teacher has his back turned so he can't see that there is a very large, scary, mean-looking robot behind the boy. The boy says to the teacher: "My project's ready for grading, Mr. Big Nose...HEY! I'm TALKING to you, squidbrain!"

- A teenage girl bug has brought her boyfriend bug (who is obviously not yet fully developed) to meet her parents. She says "Listen, we may be young, but we're in love and we're getting married...I'll just work until Jerry pupates."

- An African warrior is talking on the telephone. He has corralled a young boy who is obviously trying to run away from home. The warrior says on the phone: "Mrs. Harriet Schwartz? This is Zathu Nananga of the Masai...Are you missing a little boy?"

 

[gorn_to_be_wild]

2. The family of cows posing for a picture at the Grand Canyon. Over half of the people who see it to this day don't get it. It's VERY subtle.

As subtle as a cow's hoof or a hair bow,yes yes!

 

[Dale]

Cat fud.

"Oh please oh please oh please..."

 

[D Man]

A man is sitting in an empty room, and the door opens revealing all of his furniture and appliances saying "We're back!"

 

[Wally]

Pilot looks to his pilot at the scene ahead: "what's a mountain goat doing way up here on a cloud bank?" Just about died laughing.

 

[Kirby]

Pilot looks to his pilot at the scene ahead: "what's a mountain goat doing way up here on a cloud bank?" Just about died laughing.

That was the first one that crossed my mind

One of the Far Side books had some cartoons that were never published, the one that stands out is a kid sitting by an outhouse playing a tuba and one the opposite side of the outhouse is a woman standing there with a horrified look on her face.