# Funniest single panel cartoon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537 "2013-02-07T01:59:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![yorick73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5a626/32.png) [@yorick73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yorick73)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/182 "2014-08-09T00:16:00Z")
[One of my favorite Far Side cartoons](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/164874036332982603/) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/183 "2014-08-09T01:21:10Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Hal Briston might like this one > > [Mildly unsafe for work](http://www.sheepjokes.co.uk/images/SheepCartoon11.jpg) Crikey! I remember that one! Where was it published? Was that a NatLampCo cartoon? Re National Lampoon, you can get all 246 issues on disk (plus other bonus material0 pretty damn cheap, really. Someone just sat down and scanned every page of every issue of the magazine. Ads and all! (I have no idea what the legal status is on this project. When they did this with Dragon Magazine, they choked, and included some material that was not their property. Big oops, and there was the threat of a lawsuit.) ---
**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 9, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/184 "2014-08-09T01:38:44Z")
I’m surprised I didn’t think of this one a long time ago… From an old _ **Hustler** _ magazine (I, uh, found a few copies in the trash when I was a teenager :rolleyes: ). Gross, but still funny as hell: Two guys are lounging around in a living room, drinking beer. One guy sits back in his easy chair with a satisfied look on his face and his legs spread apart; the fabric on the seat cushion between his legs smoulders, like someone just took a blowtorch to it. His buddy grins and says “Nice rip, Fred!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/185 "2014-08-09T01:42:01Z")
> [@yorick73](#): > > [One of my favorite Far Side cartoons](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/164874036332982603/) I like that the dog’s tail is wagging. Also, the dog and the husband kind of look alike. ---
**Author:** ![yorick73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5a626/32.png) [@yorick73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yorick73)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/186 "2014-08-09T02:45:03Z")
[Remember this one](http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=17349.15)? Scroll down just a little ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/187 "2014-08-10T05:28:05Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Two guys are lounging around in a living room, drinking beer. One guy sits back in his easy chair with a satisfied look on his face and his legs spread apart; the fabric on the seat cushion between his legs smoulders, like someone just took a blowtorch to it. Check the last Kliban cartoon on this page: [And the Same to You: Kliban gags - 1972](http://chestyprevitt.blogspot.com/2014/02/kliban-gags-1972.html) ---
**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 12, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/188 "2014-08-12T03:04:06Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Check the last Kliban cartoon on this page: [And the Same to You: Kliban gags - 1972](http://chestyprevitt.blogspot.com/2014/02/kliban-gags-1972.html) Different composition, but yeah, that’s basically the idea. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/189 "2014-08-12T04:48:30Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > There’s an X-Rated Caldwell cartoon that I utterly adore. There’s a naked man with a trumpet fixed to his forehead, and a naked woman with a fish sticking out her derriere. > > They say (approximate from memory) “I have to tell you the truth; I’m not really a mermaid.” “That’s all right, I have to confess, I’m not actually a unicorn.” Actually, I remember that one pretty well. It’s a pantomime horse with a unicorn horn, facing a woman, naked except for a garter belt and stockings. The caption is “You a unicorn?” “Yeah. You a virgin?” “Yeah.” Pretty sure it was Kliban, possibly from _Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head_. ETA: Found it! [http://i.imgur.com/UAck4.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/UAck4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/190 "2014-08-12T04:58:55Z")
One that I can’t find on line, but I’m pretty sure it was Rodriquez in the National Lampoon. A “Help Wanted” sign in a store front: \*\*\*Help Wanted: \*\* 12 phone sex operators. No experience necessary, will train. Also needed, one foul-mouthed slut for supervisory position.\* ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/191 "2014-08-12T05:04:44Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Actually, I remember that one pretty well. It’s a pantomime horse with a unicorn horn, facing a woman, naked except for a garter belt and stockings. > > The caption is “You a unicorn?” “Yeah. You a virgin?” “Yeah.” > > Pretty sure it was Kliban, possibly from _Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head_. > > ETA: Found it! > > [http://i.imgur.com/UAck4.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/UAck4.jpg) Delightful! But not the same cartoon I had in mind! The John Caldwell cartoon definitely had a naked man and naked woman, she with a fish up her tuchis, him with a trumpet strapped to his forehead. “I’m not really a mermaid…” “I’m not really a unicorn.” National Lampoon, I think. It’s also in one of his paperback collections. (I just looked, but couldn’t find it. Ah, well!) ---
**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 12, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/192 "2014-08-12T05:09:31Z")
No commentary needed: [![](https://www.joelapompe.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/puppy.jpg) ](https://www.joelapompe.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/puppy.jpg) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Geezer1948](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Geezer1948](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geezer1948)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/193 "2014-08-12T06:44:05Z")
Another that I saved for years, but now have lost, showed a really nerdy guy in a shabby plaid coat standing on a street corner, looking very down and out, and over his head a huge hand is sticking out of a cloud with it’s finger cocked as if it’s ready to flick him in the head. No caption…none needed. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/194 "2014-08-12T07:10:42Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > No commentary needed: > > [http://www.joelapompe.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/puppy.jpg](http://www.joelapompe.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/puppy.jpg) > > :eek: Mentioned back at #84. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/195 "2014-08-12T07:59:30Z")
There was one comic that was a favorite but I’ve since lost. There was a man sitting at the kitchen table looking at a freshly baked pie. The caption said _“Well, that pie isn’t going to eat itself. Not without a little help from genetic engineering, that is.”_ I can’t for the life of me find that strip, or even a mention of the comic itself anywhere. It was a webcomic on keenspot, so you’d think it wouldn’t be that tricky. But alack and alas. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/196 "2014-08-12T07:59:44Z")
One of my favorites is a Bizarro cartoon: this poor dude called Larry is sat in a library, feverishly trying to study while the books on the shelves around him taunt him: ‘Give it up, Larry! You’ll never know it all, Larry! We could fill a library with what we know, and we have!’ That totally resonated with me in graduate school! I still think about it every time I start a new research project. I had it clipped out and in a book for years, but it’s been mislaid after several moves. I can’t find it online even after numerous Google GIS searches. If anyone knows what I’m talking about, I’d be grateful – Dan Piraro gave me permission to use it on my undergraduate home page, but he can’t find it in his archives without a date (I think it’s from the 1990s, which doesn’t really narrow it down!) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/197 "2014-08-12T08:05:53Z")
Shobba (mentioned a couple of years ago) also drew one of a Hell’s Angel standing at the Pearly Gates being signed in. In the background a big bearded dude with a gigantic halo is riding by on a scooter, and St Peter is saying to the disgruntled Angel “…Why, what did you think he rode?” ETA: embedded [here](http://650rider.com/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3940). ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/198 "2014-08-12T15:17:17Z")
For some reason I have never understood, I cracked up at an old Playboy cartoon. It showed a cowboy in a saloon groping a surprised saloon girl while another cowboy glared at him and said, “No, yuh durned idiot, I said we gotta grab us a POSSE!” I think it was the very expressive faces that made it work. I looked for it on several Playboy cartoon sites, which was fun, but which reinforced my notion that generally, Playboy cartoons relied on drawings of pretty women rather than actual humor. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/199 "2014-08-12T16:14:00Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > And my favorite [Addams Family cartoon](http://home.comcast.net/~pete_anderson/addamsxmas.gif). For the win. That is the quintessential Addams Family, right there. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/200 "2014-08-13T00:55:28Z")
This is basically how I remember [the first day back](http://imgc-cn.artprintimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/60/6006/HXGB100Z/posters/roz-chast-the-first-day-back-new-yorker-cartoon.jpg) each year. Remember to bring a coin to pay Charon. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/201 "2014-08-13T02:13:11Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > As long as we’re talking Far Side,[I’m a cowboy!](http://www.pulse.org.za/pulse/farside.html)" [There’s a moment](http://happiestdisneyblogonearth.tumblr.com/post/74324525726) in _Toy Story_ that I’ve sometimes thought might have adapted from that _Far Side_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537.md?page=11)