Far Side favorites

Yes! I love those. As a migraine sufferer, I also liked the one where the Grim Reaper is leaving a house, where a woman can be seen through the window sitting in a chair holding her head with her hands. Instead of a sickle, the Grim Reaper is wearing a boxing glove. The caption reads “The Angel of Migraines”.

Cat taking a shower. The shower consists of a glass box with a large tongue in it.

Another vote for “cat fud”.

Some of my favorites : A janitor walks into a large room with a giant, nasty looking robot. On the other side of a window are some scientists. One is saying “Well, well. Looks like our test run just got a little more interesting…”

A pair of antropomorphic moose in a living room. The male has a beer, beer gut and is watching TV. The female has a nightgown and a shower cap, and is holding a phone. “Dear ? It’s the call of the wild.”

Two medieval soldiers on a wall. First panel, one points and screams “Ghengis Khan !! It’s Genghis Khan !!” . Second panel, the second solder has whipped around with a shocked expression; the first says “Made you look !” .

A woman in mourning garb rushes out of a house while a cloud sucks up furniture, a piano and a dog. The caption is “It’s Harold ! He’s taking it with him !”

A bunch of guys in Hell and a dog. One of them is saying "Him ? I don’t know. I always assumed he was just a bad dog. "

Three guys and a dog in a lifeboat. Two of the men and the dog are staring at the shocked looking third. “Sorry Bob, but we don’t have enough food and you drew short straw.”

A teacher announcing that “Little Bobby want’s to show us something he found on the beach last summer”; walking in is a kid with a jar containing a human head.

An enormous crowd of identical penguins; one is dead with a knife in its back. One comments “We need to identify the suspect”.

Two cavemen in a cave, one is approach a pterodactyl on a crude perch with a hand held out. The other is say "It OK Og, me teach him sit on finger "; his arms and legs have been replaced with sticks.

A cow driving a van labeled " Al’s Meats" past a field of cows, who glare at her. “And the other cows never spoke to Bessie again”.

A crazed looking fellow on a soapbox on a crowded street corner, raving about “Vampires, beware the vampires !!”. Some workers are carrying a pane of glass past him; he is the only person with a reflection.

A guy looking out of a window at a crowd, full of people waving signs like “Down with Wayne” and “Wayne you nerd”. The caption : “The world needed a scapegoat; they found Wayne”.

“Nature Scenes You Seldom See” : A stag is jumping dramatically over a fallen log - and is just about to clothline his antlers with a branch.

A butcher shop, with the butcher, a fat little boy assistant, and a huge, lumpy figure in a trenchcoat and hat. The butcher is saying “Well, I never thought about it before, but I guess I’d let him go for 2, maybe 2.99 a pound.”

Martha! It’s a Poultrygiest!

Immediately comes to mind:

A guy is driving his car; he looks at his rear-view mirror perplexed. It says, “Objects appear closer than they appear”… there’s a huge squashed bug above the message. :confused:

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“Birds of prey know they’re cool.”

Man and woman in a car. Caption: “Harold, we’re driving against the arrow, we’re DOOMED.”

There’s one I don’t get: father and son outside a bike shop, the father says, “Okay, Jimmy, you can have that new bike if you can answer just one question: What’s the average rainfall in the Amazon Basin?” Next panel just shows the father looking down at his son, who’s facing the bike shop window, then next panel the father says “Time’s up!” and they both walk into the shop.

WTF?

The way I recall it, the father says “Time’s up!” and they both walk away.

Second that! A classic.

My all-time favorite (but it’s damn hard to narrow it down to one) is the guy who’s just washed up on a tiny island. Guy #2 is sitting there already, with a ventriloquist’s dummy on his knee. Guy #2 says something like, “So, what’s your name, friend?”

The dummy says, “Get out of here, buddy! This guy is crazy!”

Guy #2 says, “Oh, don’t pay any attention to him.”

The dummy says, “No kidding! He ate that German guy last month!”

(Forgive the paraphrasing)…

I don’t remember that one. Please describe!

  1. Two nervous-looking guards standing on a parapet are looking down at a man who says, “No, no…I’m Al Tilley, the Bum.”

  2. The inside of a courtroom with a dog sitting on the witness stand. The defendant turns to his lawyer and says, “My friends warned me that this breed will turn on you.”

A man is underwater in a shark cage with a tag “Al’s discount shark cages.” There’s a gigantic shark with the wreckage of several shark cages stuck to its body. All the ruined shark cages have the same tag.

Two spiders at the bottom of a playground slide building a web. One says to the other:

“If we pull this off, we’ll eat like kings!”

News anchorman is beginning an interview with a mafia informant who is in a darkened room, and displayed on the screen over the anchorman’s shoulder. It is right at the introduction of the informant when the janitor comes into the room with a mop bucket and switches on the light.

Caption (sort of): “We now take you to the informant, whose identity is concealed for his protection.”

Two words:

Tyrannosaurus Mex

Got the cartoon here – it isn’t terribly clear whether the door to the store is meant to be right beside the window, or out-of-frame. What you say makes sense, Dung Beetle, thanks – but man, that’s a cruel cartoon, then.

Two of my favorites:

“The Sacred Elephant Aerial Grounds”, with the panel having elephants landing and taking off into the air.

“Primitive UFOs”, with cavemen pointing in awe at a flying saucer made of sticks and rocks.

In addition to enjoying pretty much every cartoon mentioned in this thread, I’ll provide two others.

  • Three fish are swimming right next to a beach, one holding a baseball bat. A baseball lies several feet up the beach, out of the water.

Caption says: Great Moments in Evolution

  • Albert Einstein has written on his blackboard and then scratched out several equations: e = mc^3, e = mc ^5, e = mc^8, and so forth. Meanwhile the cleaning lady looks at the desk and says, “Now that desk looks better. Everything’s squared away. Yessir, squaaaaarrrred away.”
    Was this guy the great comic genius of his generation, or what?