# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/22 "2013-02-07T12:40:43Z")
[Midvale School For The Gifted](http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2541514/Midvale/). ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/23 "2013-02-07T12:58:54Z")
[This is good.](http://www.thefunnyblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/funny-instructions-waking-up-baby-yes-no.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/24 "2013-02-07T13:16:40Z")
So many great Far Sides to choose from…I’ll go with [this one](http://www.sir-ray.com/Microscope%20History.htm) for the moment. But the problem with thinking of a favorite Far Side is that every time you start thinking about it, suddenly you think of another, and another… Unfortunately, I can’t find an image link to another of my favorites, the pre-Far Side cartoon in which Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion are at the door of Dr. Frankenstein’s castle, and he tells them, “Sorry, I just used up my last heart and brain…try the wizard down the road.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/25 "2013-02-07T13:28:01Z")
[Cow Tools.](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/2347642183_91247aa0c8_o.jpg) 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/26 "2013-02-07T13:51:45Z")
I can’t find an image to it that’s not a coffee mug, but I’m certain most of you will know what I mean when you read: “I’ll tell you what this means, Norm. No size restrictions and screw the limit!” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/27 "2013-02-07T13:56:16Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > How about [this one](http://gianni-seeingthings.blogspot.com/2012/11/b-kliban-cartoons.html)? The blogger is mistaken about its origin. I had it on my dorm room wall in the early '80s and I’m pretty sure it was clipped from _National Lampoon_. Definitely from the Lampoon. My favorite Kilban was “The Victim’s Family,” though I’m sure there are few who remember it. [This is also a great one.](http://i.imgur.com/8XZPJ.gif) But Addams’s “Death Ray Fiddlesticks” is my favorite overall. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/28 "2013-02-07T14:06:44Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > But in the linked cartoon above, is 03-2011 the date it was actually created, not posted? If so, their joke is a ripoff of a [South Park](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_%28South_Park%29) from more than 10 years prior. The “Then a miracle occurs” cartoon originally appeared in American Scientist in 1977, which outdates the South Park “Underwear Gnomes” by a couple of decades. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/29 "2013-02-07T14:16:30Z")
Two of my four favorites (still looking for the other two): Far Side: [Professor Waxman](http://garretthestla.multiply.com/photos/album/4/far_side_favorites?&show_interstitial=1&u=%2Fphotos%2Falbum#photo=6) Gahan Wilson: [EAT](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PB-O1yT5EYg/SuJVv1pxZUI/AAAAAAAAuWg/ZHcN5gwrxDk/s1600/31_playboy_gahanwilson.jpg&imgrefurl=http://nomadicjoe.blogspot.com/2009/10/gahan-wilson-cartoons.html&h=1451&w=1048&sz=546&tbnid=jehL1jL_K3zevM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=71&zoom=1&usg=__wJZXNOmVo7OAGsodcLESa7GuIdU=&docid=CnahGgvgQ_vidM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hLMTUZ7XHbSv0AHOq4CgCg&sqi=2&ved=0CEoQ9QEwAw&dur=327) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/30 "2013-02-07T14:21:04Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Or [Charles Addams.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/4729420234/) My 2nd favorite Charles Addmas cartoon. [This](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0kKW1oi-jcY/TK5WS3wKASI/AAAAAAAAAfY/ScGgRiS8IUw/s400/addams+three.jpg) is my own favorite ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/31 "2013-02-07T14:58:54Z")
Beware of [Dog?](http://static.wix.com/media/2c7eb9_3285e972d02c0fd7e89f094b0626be32.png) ---
**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:** [February 7, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/32 "2013-02-07T15:09:23Z")
A Far Side: [http://lonestarpolitics.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/farside10093.jpg?w=468](http://lonestarpolitics.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/farside10093.jpg?w=468) ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/33 "2013-02-07T15:28:39Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > [Midvale School For The Gifted](http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2541514/Midvale/). 2nd-ed. ---
**Author:** ![Jimbabweosu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jimbabweosu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimbabweosu)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/34 "2013-02-07T15:28:40Z")
My absolute favorite Far Side cartoon: [http://www.google.com/imgres?q=far+side+we're+not+getting+through+to+that+guy&hl=en&sa=X&tbo=d&biw=1440&bih=732&tbm=isch&tbnid=6nH\_ZtpG5OoquM:&imgrefurl=http://www.lechatnoirboutique.com/proddetail.php%3Fprod%3DFSJNRG&docid=KGUxMXpkmd777M&imgurl=http://www.lechatnoirboutique.com/prodimages/Coffee%252520Mug%252520-%252520Far%252520Side%252520Just%252520Not%252520Reaching%252520That%252520Guy.jpg&w=441&h=400&ei=7scTUbPAKuz\_yQGoroGoAQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=2&vpy=124&dur=1188&hovh=214&hovw=236&tx=97&ty=113&sig=105473629598777639828&page=1&tbnh=157&tbnw=165&start=0&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:84](http://www.google.com/imgres?q=far+side+we%27re+not+getting+through+to+that+guy&hl=en&sa=X&tbo=d&biw=1440&bih=732&tbm=isch&tbnid=6nH_ZtpG5OoquM:&imgrefurl=http://www.lechatnoirboutique.com/proddetail.php%3Fprod%3DFSJNRG&docid=KGUxMXpkmd777M&imgurl=http://www.lechatnoirboutique.com/prodimages/Coffee%252520Mug%252520-%252520Far%252520Side%252520Just%252520Not%252520Reaching%252520That%252520Guy.jpg&w=441&h=400&ei=7scTUbPAKuz_yQGoroGoAQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=2&vpy=124&dur=1188&hovh=214&hovw=236&tx=97&ty=113&sig=105473629598777639828&page=1&tbnh=157&tbnw=165&start=0&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:84) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/35 "2013-02-07T15:48:57Z")
This is the one that has been on my classroom wall for years: [“Farmer Brown froze…”](http://twitpic.com/24kndb) As has [this one](http://mychinaconnection.com/english-proverb/if-you-cant-bring-the-mountain-to-mohammed-bring-mohammed-to-the-mountain/). ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/36 "2013-02-07T16:06:13Z")
There was one in National Lampoon many years ago. A guy with a fat bloated veiny face is sitting at a table in a restaurant and the waiter says “Frankly, for you sir, I wouldn’t recommend ANY kind of wine.” I’ll have to see if I can find a link later when I’m not on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/37 "2013-02-07T16:16:18Z")
[Dispoz-a-Dime](http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add_strip.php?iid=68202) ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/38 "2013-02-07T16:16:28Z")
[Another Far Side](http://www.lolroflmao.com/2011/09/07/spider-kings-slide-web-far-side/) ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/39 "2013-02-07T16:25:17Z")
Bizarro was an obvious Far Side knockoff, but it had its moments. One of my favorites (which of course I can’t find) had two people sitting in a car at an intersection. The driver is looking to the left, and the passenger is looking to the right at an 18-wheeler barrelling down towards them. The passenger says “Clear on my side.” The caption is (something like) “Why you shouldn’t drive with a suicidal person.” ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/40 "2013-02-07T17:20:27Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > Beware of [Dog?](http://static.wix.com/media/2c7eb9_3285e972d02c0fd7e89f094b0626be32.png) This is my favorite too. On the face of it, it’s not that funny, but I can’t help but to almost cry laughing everytime I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/41 "2013-02-07T17:26:46Z")
> [@CapnPitt](#): > > This is my favorite too. On the face of it, it’s not that funny, but I can’t help but to almost cry laughing everytime I see it. Me too. I think it’s the tense, anticipatory posture of Doug that really makes it. For a man with no art training who often referred to his cartoons as doodles, Gary Larson’s drawing had an amazing amount of expression and life to them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537.md?page=3)