Honestly, this sounds like something my mother would have said. 
I’m a bit confused, is this supposed to be funny or motivational?
My all-time favorite Far Side (need to click through)
It’s similar to the cartoons of Bill Mauldin that were featured in The Stars and Stripes during WWII. His target audience was ordinary GIs, not officers or civilians. The cartoons aired common gripes in language soldiers could appreciate.
If you’re unfamiliar with the work of Bill Mauldin, I highly recommend you read Up Front, which he wrote while serving on the ground in Italy and France. It gives a lot of backstory for the cartoons and is a great read. You can access the entire book on the Internet Archive.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Video games, animated cartoons, toys, a musical…
Don’t forget the breakfast cereal.
When the musical debuted on Broadway, the audience immediately started snapping their fingers in time with the overture.
I interpret it as grumpy old soldier telling a new arrival that if he doesn’t like the hole they have both found themselves in, he is welcome to try to find a better one. (I doubt Bairnsfather realised this cartoon contained a possible double entendre; innocent times).
Bairnsfather’s grumpy cartoon character, ‘Old Bill’, became quite famous in WWI, and was the subject of a play and at least two movies. In the second one he was played by Charlie Chaplin’s brother, Syd.
Curiously enough this movie ‘The Better Ole’ was recorded using the Vitaphone system in 1926, and appears to have been one of the first films with a spoken word of dialogue - the single word ‘Coffee’ uttered by one of the supporting characters.
I can’t find it, but there is one very much like the frog in the wheelchair thing. Guy sitting with his back to the kitchen door, and the sign reads “Todays Special Flaming Chicken Suprise”
You’ll have to imagine the rest.
Probably not the funniest cartoon, but I’ve always liked this one:
Love it!
I remember one cartoon that I can’t locate. It showed a guy on a hang glider poised right in front of a gigantic aircraft bearing down on him from behind.
Far Side. Sorry, can’t link it right now.