# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/141 "2025-12-16T00:41:48Z")
I always think “Elmer Fudd” when I see that panel. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/142 "2025-12-16T02:23:56Z")
Friends would always say “you want to get some fud?” when this cartoon came out. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/143 "2025-12-16T05:15:15Z")
Continuing the dog theme … [![](https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/far-side-dog-alien.jpg) ](https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/far-side-dog-alien.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/144 "2025-12-16T12:28:44Z")
I don’t think I’d ever seen that one. Great cite! Thank you. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/145 "2025-12-16T15:51:43Z")
Friction! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/146 "2025-12-16T17:27:07Z")
More dog… [![](https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1pLv2Z.img?w=768&h=912&m=6) ](https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1pLv2Z.img?w=768&h=912&m=6) ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/147 "2025-12-16T20:04:20Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The dog hiding badly, the cat not seeing, … But also, the “Oh please, oh please!” I recognize that feeling of when your plan is _almost_ working, _just a little closer…_ ETA: And also the implication that the cat can read, but doesn’t spot the poor spelling… ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/148 "2025-12-16T20:07:51Z")
Also, what’s the plan? Just to torment the cat? What’s the dog gonna do with him after he gets the cat locked in the dryer? ETA: I feel comfortable calling the cat a ‘him’, a girl cat would be way too wary to fall for that. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/149 "2025-12-16T20:09:19Z")
Well, the laundry soap is out of the cabinet, so there’s the implication that he really is going to run the cat through a washing cycle. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/150 "2025-12-16T20:09:31Z")
The implication is something like turn it on and be rid of the cat forever. Just an unfortunate household accident where curiosity did for the cat. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/151 "2025-12-16T20:13:53Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Well, the laundry soap is out of the cabinet, so there’s the implication that he really is going to run the cat through a washing cycle. Excellent observation! And adds a layer of darkness to that cartoon. Now it’s not as funny as it is cruel. ETA: Yes, I’m a cat owner. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/152 "2025-12-16T20:34:44Z")
The box of detergent is sitting on a machine that opens from the top. It’s more likely that’s the washer, while the front-loader is probably the dryer. My old apartment had precisely that kind of arrangement. I guess it’s easier to just dump the laundry to be washed into a top-loader than a front-loader. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/153 "2025-12-16T20:36:04Z")
Nahh, the laundry soap is just a background prop. The dog can stand on two legs and write… but just barely. It can also theoretically choose a setting and push a start button, but that’s something the viewer isn’t supposed to think about – it strains the suspension of disbelief. And reaching the cabinet, pulling down a box of detergent and placing it on the washer is outside the dog’s capabilities in that cartoon’s universe. There’s also the issue that Larsen had a _wonderful sense of What Is Funny_. A dim witted cartoon cat suddenly spinning in a dryer is funny in the same way a python full of babies is funny. A cat buffeted by an agitator while it slowly drowns is unfunny in the same way that an actual python swallowing an actual baby is hideously unfunny. But, I could be wrong. Another possibility is the box is cat kibble, although it probably wouldn’t be stored in the laundry cabinet, and Larson probably would have put kitty art on the box. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/154 "2025-12-16T21:57:12Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Also, what’s the plan? Just to torment the cat? What’s the dog gonna do with him after he gets the cat locked in the dryer? > > ETA: I feel comfortable calling the cat a ‘him’, a girl cat would be way too wary to fall for that. What about the time my mom was doing a load of laundry, and she closed and started the dryer, only to hear “Meow … thump … meow… thump …” (The cat (who was female) was not harmed, but it’s kind of scary to think about what could have happened if she had not been heard.) ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/155 "2025-12-16T22:40:24Z")
And now back to early man … > **[The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson from Tuesday, December 16, 2025 |...](https://www.thefarside.com/2025/12/16/4)** > > A cartoon from The Far Side® comic strip by Gary Larson from Tuesday, December 16, 2025 | Transcript: ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/156 "2025-12-17T00:02:36Z")
My wife will not even _think_ about starting the dryer unless she finds the cats first - even though you can look in and clearly see there is no cat in there. Not that our cats have ever even been in there to begin with. > [@Askance](#): > > And now back to early man … I’ve never seen that one but it is funny. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/157 "2025-12-17T01:18:16Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > What about the time my mom was doing a load of laundry, and she closed and started the dryer, only to hear “Meow … thump … meow… thump …” Some cats do love crashing in the dryer and other dangerous places. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NifY-3AEDUU/maxresdefault.jpg "Cat hates the cold.🥶🤣#cat #catsoftiktok #funnycat #funnyvideos #funnytiktok #fyp") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NifY-3AEDUU) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/158 "2025-12-17T01:21:29Z")
I saw a woman bring in a cat to the emergency room because it had been in a running dryer for about twenty minutes. We should really get back to those funny cartoons. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/159 "2025-12-17T01:28:07Z")
We used to have a fat cat who could flow her fat exactly into the shape of the big square floor vent in the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307/160 "2025-12-17T01:37:50Z")
Real cats in real dryers are a real thing. And depending on how full the dryer & how large the cat, looking in through the hatch isn’t necessarily definitive. But as @Baal_Houtham so wisely said, Larson had the gift of funny harmful but not unfunny cruel. It paid well. @Askance: Great cite. I’d not seen that one that I recall. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon-part-2/981307.md?page=9)