# Funniest single panel cartoon (part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [March 17, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307 "2023-03-17T21:57:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/101 "2024-08-20T00:59:26Z")
It’s… a man playing the cello? What am I missing? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/102 "2024-08-20T01:00:18Z")
It’s one of those cartoons you have to stare at for a few seconds before you realize why it’s funny. Nothing to be embarrassed about; it took me a while too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/103 "2024-08-20T02:08:11Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > I’m curious why upthread people were able to put the comic in their post, but then it devolved into links. I don’t want to click links. I just want to see the cartoons. Not all image formats are recognized - don’t know whether it’s Discourse or this board in particular. ,jpg seems to work every time, but .jpg/bunchofcharacters may fail entirely. I’ve never had a problem with .png, but I have with .img . ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/104 "2024-08-20T02:09:42Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It’s… a man playing the cello? What am I missing? > [@terentii](#): > > It’s one of those cartoons you have to stare at for a few seconds before you realize why it’s funny. You may also have to be looking at it on a device that’s large enough that you can see the detail. If possible, try enlarging the image and looking at the hole in the cello. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/105 "2024-08-20T02:42:29Z")
Just look where the guy with the cello is looking. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/106 "2024-08-20T02:59:02Z")
Still… what’s the actual joke? There’s an eye of something, like maybe a cat or other small animal. Is the guy supposed to be concerned? Maybe I’m just used to it, having a black cat that will pounce out at me from unlikely locations in the middle of the night, and whom I can only spot by his eyes or because he’s darker than the background even at midnight with no room lights. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/107 "2024-08-20T03:13:34Z")
It’s a _person_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/108 "2024-08-20T03:21:57Z")
A person with a head/eye that’s like 1/3 the size of the cellist’s? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/109 "2024-08-20T03:26:50Z")
That’s what is so startling. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/110 "2024-08-20T04:48:23Z")
⬆ [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTW1cQdIof9pZ5obzVF3A09QxHlUILxDYtKDA&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTW1cQdIof9pZ5obzVF3A09QxHlUILxDYtKDA&s) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/111 "2024-08-20T04:51:09Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Still… what’s the actual joke? Are you not familiar with Addams’ work? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/112 "2024-08-20T05:17:18Z")
It’s creepy that something he obviously didn’t know about is lurking in his cello. Could be anything, but it certainly doesn’t belong there. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/113 "2024-08-20T05:44:11Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Are you not familiar with Addams’ work? As a cartoonist, no. Had no idea until this thread that there was a comic that predated the TV series. I suppose it makes more sense in that context. Still, other works of his are funny without the extra context: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/QnmZqPO.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/QnmZqPO) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/114 "2024-08-20T06:08:42Z")
Addams’s cartoons were a regular feature in _ **The New Yorker** _ magazine starting in the 1930s. The members of “The Addams Family” weren’t given names until the TV series was in development in 1963 or '64. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/115 "2024-08-20T06:12:12Z")
We don’t know what it is. All we know is that it’s really creepy, and the cellist thinks so too. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/116 "2024-08-20T07:01:48Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > other works of his are funny without the extra context: The cello one is hilarious just by itself, IMO. Just the look on the guy’s face… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/117 "2024-08-20T08:01:55Z")
Right. As if he just discovered the … _thing_ … in his cello. Addams did a good job of using the cello player’s eyes to indicate where the viewer should look. That’s what led me to the punchline, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/118 "2024-08-20T11:10:58Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > > [@MrDibble](#): > > > > Are you not familiar with Addams’ work? > > As a cartoonist, no. As opposed to…? ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/119 "2024-08-20T12:33:26Z")
The most famous cartoon from the First World War, by Bruce Bairnsfather [![](https://i2-prod.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/incoming/article2196493.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200e/0_BruceBairnsfather1.jpg) ](https://i2-prod.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/incoming/article2196493.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200e/0_BruceBairnsfather1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/120 "2024-08-20T13:22:07Z")
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