# Bloopers in comic strips and other unusual places... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034 "2004-07-20T18:10:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/1 "2004-07-20T18:10:29Z")
I was just in the Comics section at the King Features site and clicked on [Sally Forth](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/sforth/about.htm) by mistake. Then I noticed another mistake - in the first panel of the strip for 7/5 (strips there are posted two weeks after they appear in the news) the Forth car was drawn backwards! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/2 "2004-07-20T18:55:26Z")
Yesterday’s Six Chix (not available on the King Features site yet) showed the full moon appearing in front of a cloud. (The joke even depended on this image.) The previous strip referred to Superman hanging around Gotham City; presumably it should have been Metropolis. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/3 "2004-07-20T19:59:57Z")
In Gary Larson’s _The Prehistory of The Far Side_, they showed a few mistakes that had been made either in the drawing, the coloring, or the printing. The printing errors were the funniest. One was an instance when a newspaper transposed the captions for one day’s Far Side and Dennis the Menace strips with suitably f’ed up results. Another was when the paper ran the day’s cartoon with the previous day’s caption, which made it even more surreal than the Far Side normally was. The book is at home or I’d provide a more specific reference, but I remember them being really funny. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/4 "2004-07-20T20:16:37Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > In Gary Larson’s _The Prehistory of The Far Side_, they showed a few mistakes that had been made either in the drawing, the coloring, or the printing. The printing errors were the funniest. One was an instance when a newspaper transposed the captions for one day’s Far Side and Dennis the Menace strips with suitably f’ed up results. I have this book, and I know precisely the comic you’re talking about. _The Far Side_ comic for that day showed a caveman consulting a fortune teller, who was gazing into her crystal ball. The _Dennis the Menace_ comic (same day) showed Dennis talking to his mother, while she looked at him with a rather bemused expression. The caption for _The Far Side_, which got transposed with _Dennis the Menace_, was, “I see your little shrunken head sitting on a shelf.” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/5 "2004-07-20T20:31:58Z")
Somewhere, in one of the many boxes of crap that I can’t seem to figure out why I keep, is a _Hagar The Horrible_ comic I cut out of the paper roughly 20 years ago. The opening panel has Hagar walking in from yet another long sea voyage, and asking his wife what’s new since he left. “A young woodcutter is dating Helga”, she replied. Ummm…hey lady? _You’re_ Helga. I believe you meant _Honi_, your daughter. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/6 "2004-07-20T22:56:04Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > Another was when the paper ran the day’s cartoon with the previous day’s caption, which made it even more surreal than the Far Side normally was. I can catch this one. The first cartoon showed a bunch of slugs surrounding a saltshaker, as if in worship. The caption was the non-sequitor, “Looks like an infestation. We’re going to have to spray.” or something along those lines. Kinda made sense, in a certain way, but not really funny. The second cartoon showed a guy in an exterminator’s uniform next to a woman. The man is pointing at several children climbing in a tree. He is announcing: “Eeeeeeeeewaneewaneenu!” Transcendent. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/7 "2004-07-20T23:06:20Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > I can catch this one. > > The first cartoon showed a bunch of slugs surrounding a saltshaker, as if in worship. The caption was the non-sequitor, “Looks like an infestation. We’re going to have to spray.” or something along those lines. Kinda made sense, in a certain way, but not really funny. > > The second cartoon showed a guy in an exterminator’s uniform next to a woman. The man is pointing at several children climbing in a tree. > > He is announcing: “Eeeeeeeeewaneewaneenu!” > > Transcendent. THAT’S THE ONE! For some reason that tickled me very, very deeply. I laughed until I gave myself a coughing fit. I’m laughing now. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/8 "2004-07-20T23:07:05Z")
Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaars ago, when **Brenda Starr** had her baby (Starr Twinkle??), in one panel, the artist drew the baby with three legs. According to an interview, she had sketched several positions of the legs kicking, but had accidentally left an extra one in, and everything was inked in as she drew it. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/9 "2004-07-21T01:22:22Z")
The other _Denis the Menace_ and _Far Side_ caption switch resulted in the following. A picture of a bunch of snakes sitting around a table with a bowl of unidentified something, one snake is saying “Well, if I hadn’t learned to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, we’d have starved by now.” The other showed Denis’s mom in the foreground looking annoyed and showed Denis and \ eating sandwiches with Denis saying “Aw, not hamsters, _again_” ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/10 "2004-07-21T02:00:16Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > I was just in the Comics section at the King Features site and clicked on [Sally Forth](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/sforth/about.htm) by mistake. Then I noticed another mistake - in the first panel of the strip for 7/5 (strips there are posted two weeks after they appear in the news) the Forth car was drawn backwards! It’s the 7/6 strip, actually. Here I was, staring at the 7/5 cartoon thinking, “What’s backwards? All that’s shown of the car is the trunk lid.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/11 "2004-07-21T02:06:00Z")
[Farside vs Dennis](http://www.lycanthrope.net/~YBK/yumblie/farsideswap.jpg) [Exterminator Chant](http://www.lycanthrope.net/~YBK/yumblie/farsideswap2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/12 "2004-07-21T02:58:44Z")
[Rob Liefeld’s Captain America.](http://ape-law.com/GAF/Page06/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/13 "2004-07-21T03:05:00Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > It’s the 7/6 strip, actually. Gah! Forgot I changed the date prior to posting. Would a wondering Mod please fix my OP so as not to confuse anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/14 "2004-07-21T12:55:48Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > I was just in the Comics section at the King Features site and clicked on [Sally Forth](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/sforth/about.htm) by mistake. Then I noticed another mistake - in the first panel of the strip for 7/5 (strips there are posted two weeks after they appear in the news) the Forth car was drawn backwards! It looks like it was the 7/6 strip. But its even more screwed up than you make it out to be. At first to me, it looked like it was just colored wrong. Like someone put headlights where the taillights should be. I thought this, because you can kind of make out the outside mirrors in the position that would indicate the car’s orientation is correct. They’re – at least – definitely missing if the car was drawn facing the wrong way. But, if you believe that theory, then the trunk is longer than the hood, which isn’t true in real life OR the third panel. Also, the design of the side-windows makes it look like the car is facing the wrong way in the first panel. On top of all this, the first panel makes it look like there are 3 side windows. In the last panel, there are clearly only 2 side windows. It’s a mess. ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/15 "2004-07-21T15:27:58Z")
Another car mistake, from this past weekend, in _Luann_: [Luann and Aaron Hill drive in England](http://www.comics.com/comics/luann/archive/luann-20040718.html) ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/16 "2004-07-21T16:10:07Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > [Rob Liefeld’s Captain America.](http://ape-law.com/GAF/Page06/index.html) F’ing Liefield. The only blooper made was any comic publisher ever hiring him. Calling him a hack is an insult to actual hacks. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/17 "2004-07-21T17:58:29Z")
Not sure if this qualifies as a blooper, but I think it’s a mistake. This [Bazooka Joe](http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jimmyk/bazooka_html/baz11.html) comic just shouldn’t have been drawn that way. I mean, what is that monster DOING to Joe, anyway? thwartme ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/18 "2004-07-21T21:23:27Z")
> [@thwartme](#): > > I mean, what is that monster DOING to Joe, anyway? Speaking of the Far Side, that reminds me of the Far Side where a dog was on top of a flipped-over car which looked…interesting. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/19 "2004-07-22T01:32:05Z")
_Hagar The Horrible_? Sheesh, that strip is nothing but bloopers. Just start with the horns on the helmet wind your way into completely ludicrous and insulting world. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034/20 "2004-07-22T01:48:09Z")
> [@thwartme](#): > > I mean, what is that monster DOING to Joe, anyway? Well, duh, they’re telling secrets! 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloopers-in-comic-strips-and-other-unusual-places/256034.md?page=2)