The Far Side - Two questions

[John Picard]

My favorite has always been a panel of two snakes lying side by side in a bed together. The one on the left is asleep, and the one on the right has had a knot tied in him, and he's yelling "Charlie Horse!"

Snakes were another common Far Side theme. I remember one where an elderly, wrinkled snake is talking to two younger ones and it went something like this: "Well, it was a long time ago and I was sunning my self on old highway 37" and the old snake had to flat spots on his body that resembled tire tracks.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

God making snakes: "This is a cinch," and he is rolling pay-oh

 

[Vanyel]

It looks like the complete Bloom County is going to be available to buy too. Not sure what years Volume 1 covers but that is another one I'd like, along with the complete Far Side and the Complete Calvin and Hobbs.

 

[Vanyel]

God making snakes: "This is a cinch," and he is rolling pay-oh

The mom rattle snake and the dad rattle snake are on either side of their child who is shaking his head and not his tail like his parents. One parent says to the other, This is from your side of the family.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

there is one where a snake is at the bar. I forgot the joke, but it's funny when you realize that the snake is somehow able to hold up a newspaper and read it

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

I love the one in which two aliens are emerging from a flying saucer before a crowd of onlookers, and one alien has clumsily fallen to the ground. The other is saying something like, "Oh great. Just great. So much for instilling them with a sense of awe."

As for my LEAST favorite panel (the OP did ask), I suppose I'll agree with Larson himself. In the Complete Far Side Collection he said that he thought the worst one was the one in which a clown is saying to another clown something along the lines of "I'm warning you, I have friends in PIE places."

The OP also asked about Larson specials as well... but I don't have an answer. Sorry.

 

[Rincewiend]

2 deers...
"Bummer of a birthmark, Hal."

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

my least favorite is probably the one with the cows on vacation.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

A man has gotten up in the middle of the night and is obviously pissed. He says "I'll just take THIS, thank you! And knock off that music!"

Punchline: He's opened his refrigerator and pulled out a huge banner that says "CONDIMENT DANCE TONIGHT."

 

[Vanyel]

One I still haven't gotten the joke to, is the one where there are a about 4 rhino's and their owners. There is no caption or anything but the rhino and its owner at the front of the panel are getting a trophy for first place??????????

 

[The Great Meech]

My favourite? One simple phrase--"It was late and I was tired."

 

[Marie1]

I liked the one about the Dodo, something like, "unknown to most people, the dodo was really an advanced species, until it was wiped out by men, rats and dogs. As usual." And the dodo was doing math on a rock.

Or!! The bull sitting on the fence saying " if it was really electric, could I do this?" and the farmer has his hand on the switch, watching...

So many good ones...

 

[Colonel Midnight]

there is one where a snake is at the bar. I forgot the joke, but it's funny when you realize that the snake is somehow able to hold up a newspaper and read it

I always liked the one where the snake hung himself. His friend is looking at him, aghast, in the doorway, saying "Why, Elliot, Why????"...

FAR too many to list!

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Quo Vadimus]

My personal favorite involved two spiders, their web, and a playground slide. The caption: "If we pull this off, we will eat like kings!"

 

[Unicron]

The one tapping a bolt into a nuclear missile, while the other is behind him ready to pop a paper bag.

There was one with two guys trying to defuse a bomb, and one guy was telling the police how it was a complicated mechanism. And his partner wasn't really focused cause his wife had left him that morning.

Another one had a group of cowboys sitting around the fire, and one guy says (effectively) "Simmons here just uttered a discouraging word!"

 

[Kira's Mom]

A favorite music Far Side:

Oops.

 

[UssGlenn]

Two mosquitoes:
Pull out Betty! You’ve hit an artery!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Just remembered two more of my favorites. They both involve cavemen who inexplicably have modern sounding American names, which I thought was hilarious.

- A teacher is explaining to his students (cavemen, all) about a dinosaur. He shows a picture of the dino's spiked tail. "Now this end is called the thagomizer...after the late Thag Simmons."

- A set of really huge footprints is seen. One of them has a caveman in it who has obviously been squashed flat by something. "Gak Eisenberg invents the first and last silent mammoth whistle."

 

[CaptMurdock]

Cat fud.

"Oh please oh please oh please..."

Oh, gawd, that one kills me everytime. It's the dog's very subtle but hopeful expression that makes it funny.

My other fave: Anatidaephobia -- the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you. You see the poor guy in his office and, through the window, across the street to the other building, there is the duck and the guy knows it's there.

 

[Vanyel]

Ducks that are flying south for the winter are next to an airplane, and looking out them is a duck in the airplane making a face the ones who have to fly.

Another caveman one. Three cavemen are cooking there food by holding it over the fire in their hands. They are all in pain. A forth is looking at a nerdy caveman, and says "Look what Zog do." The nerdy caveman is wearing glasses and a pocket protector and is using a stick to hold his food out over the fire.