# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/202 "2014-08-13T02:35:47Z")
A panel showing an automobile stopped at a double-tracked railroad crossing. On the track nearest the automobile, the last car of a train stretching away to the horizon is passing. The caption gives the automobile driver saying “Finally! I thought that would never end!” What the driver can’t see is that on the far set of tracks, another train just as long coming the other way is about to block the crossing again. This more or less is my outlook on life. ---
**Author:** ![Geezer1948](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Geezer1948](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geezer1948)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/203 "2014-09-10T19:04:18Z")
I confess to many years as a Martini drinker (up and dirty) and I remember a cartoon from way back, where a guy is sitting at a bar with a dozen or so empty martini glasses in front of him, a fierce snow storm raging outside. He is plucking an olive out of his current drink and dropping it into a jar. The caption went something like “That’s the last time she’ll send me out on a night like this for a jar of olives.” ---
**Author:** ![QuarkChild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c5a1d2/32.png) [@QuarkChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuarkChild)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/204 "2014-09-10T19:45:25Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Unless you’re not from America, you will recognize “Kill-ku-lon” as a stereotypical robotic-sounding name. The same way people say Spot or Fido and people will instantly recognize that as a dog’s name. Killkulon needs no explanation. Its a robotic name and there’s a robot in the panel, it makes perfect sense. > > Why would you think the robot is the artist? > > I would wager that most people got that the robot was Killkulon, and most people got that Mary referred to the girl in the panel. I’m a native speaker of English and have spent my whole life in the US, but I didn’t get that Killkulon is a “robotic” name. For some reason I also thought that in the original post, it was the name of the artist. I did, however, get the joke. I thought it was funny. “Tobor” would be the stereotypical robot name, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Geezer1948](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Geezer1948](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geezer1948)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/205 "2014-09-10T20:44:17Z")
Or “Gort,” if you are a “Day the Earth Stood Still” fan , or “Robby the Robot” for “Forbidden Planet” fans, or…Well, just Google “famous movie robots” and you’ll find a ton of them. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/206 "2014-09-10T20:57:33Z")
> [@Geezer1948](#): > > Or “Gort,” if you are a “Day the Earth Stood Still” fan , or “Robby the Robot” for “Forbidden Planet” fans, or…Well, just Google “famous movie robots” and you’ll find a ton of them. R2-D2, got it. 1A, good. Gigantor, sweet! _Jenny Wakeman?_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537.md?page=10)