# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/162 "2014-08-05T22:01:12Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > As long as we’re talking Far Side,[I’m a cowboy!](http://www.pulse.org.za/pulse/farside.html) > > And while I can’t find a link to the actual cartoon, I loved the old National Lampoon cartoon of the waiter announcing, “It’s a fried telephone book. We gave it a fancy French name and you ordered it!” What do you know ![I finally found it.](http://www.painting-with-numbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/fried-telephone-book-cropped.jpg) And [here’s another](https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5162/5312215207_c0ffeaaba0_z.jpg) by Barsotti. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/163 "2014-08-06T00:21:29Z")
National Lampoon had some peaches! One I loved: Two water pollution authority inspectors come upon a bearded guy, sitting at his typewriter, obviously writing his next novel. Filth is dripping out the back of his typewriter, and oozing away into the creek. One of the inspectors says something like, “Over here, Bert, I think I found the problem.” (Caption approximate from memory.) I had that one taped to the side of my typewriter all through my college years. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/164 "2014-08-06T00:59:01Z")
I don’t remember where I saw this one. In my mind’s eye, it looks like something Gahan Wilson would have drawn, but I’ve never seen it when looking for his cartoons. Two guys in lab coats are walking down a hall and are at a T intersection. From the left runs another man in a lab coat with an expression of terror on his face. A sign pointing left says something about a genetics engineering lab. The caption (VASTLY paraphrased) has one dude saying to the other, “Didn’t Bob say something about crossing a cockroach with a ???” (I don’t remember, some large animal). I’d love to see it again. Anyone know who might have drawn it, or what the caption actually was? ---
**Author:** ![Geezer1948](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Geezer1948](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geezer1948)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/165 "2014-08-06T04:33:29Z")
Okay, friends, this goes back a-ways. Late 60’s or early 70’s, and I think either NatLamCo or Penthouse (but it also could have been Hustler or Playboy). Black & white, drawing style very much like Rodrigues: Shabby little news-stand kiosk-like place, with a sign that read: “Joes Jokes & Novelties,” or something like that. Joe (the proprietor) is behind the counter, looking like your typical grinning, drooling porn-shack purveyor. In front of the stand, one customer is shown with a packet of matches tumbling from his hand while the upper half of his body is totally engulfed in flames. The other customer, looking on in obvious delight, is saying: “Hey!. I’ll take some of those!” In some 6 decades of appreciating cartoons, it is easily in my top ten, if not five. Many thanks to anyone who has a lead. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/166 "2014-08-06T05:12:20Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Now I get it. Ha ha! Link to the panel? ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/167 "2014-08-06T05:44:30Z")
> [@FrankJBN](#): > > A couple of notes: Frank and Earnet is IMO very much under appreciated. Likewise perhaps surprisingly Mother-Goose and Grimm. > > That alleged non-Kliban linked above does look and sound rather Klibanish. > > “School for the Gifted” - didn’t even have to click the link, instantly came to mind. I think I may be the only Frank and Earnest Fan in Australia - I found one of their books in a second-hand shop once and loved it. No one else seems to have heard of them. I think School for the Gifted is probably the greatest one-panel cartoon - it’s hard to think of one that has embedded itself into the culture so deeply. Now, if anyone in the office pushes a door the wrong way, someone will always chant ‘School for the Gifted’ - with no further explanation needed. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/168 "2014-08-06T05:46:18Z")
[This Far Side](http://www.nemof.org/tag/farside/) has always struck a chord with me… …because somewhere, somehow, they’re always watching us. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/169 "2014-08-06T06:18:59Z")
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.” What I love about it is that it shows two people who really are in love with each other, confessing their little deceptions (which wouldn’t fool a four year old!) in hopes of saving their relationship. It’s a deeply loving cartoon, for all its vulgarity. Caldwell is good that way: his cartoons are whimsical and goofy and kind-spirited. ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/170 "2014-08-06T12:46:36Z")
My father had a cartoon from the now extinct Punch pinned above his desk for years of two tigers dancing cheek to cheek in a cruelly small old-fashioned zoo cage. The caption read, “Well, it sure beats just pacing up and down”. It somehow summed up the very British post-war sense of making the best of things in a rather pathetic manner. If not funny then, I guess, maybe wry? ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/171 "2014-08-06T13:14:16Z")
I guess this thread isn’t exactly a zombie, but it was on it’s way. It was resurrected from Feb 2013. Can any of you help me find a ‘lost’ single panel cartoon from 25 years ago or so. My brother gave it to me when I got my first computer programming job, and I’ve lost it. It shows a guy with one foot on his desk chair looking at his computer monitor holding his keyboard like a guitar. His boss(?) is saying to him something like “Can’t you just use your keyboard like everyone else?” ---
**Author:** ![Geezer1948](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Geezer1948](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geezer1948)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/172 "2014-08-06T15:57:02Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I don’t remember where I saw this one. In my mind’s eye, it looks like something Gahan Wilson would have drawn, but I’ve never seen it when looking for his cartoons. > > Two guys in lab coats are walking down a hall and are at a T intersection. From the left runs another man in a lab coat with an expression of terror on his face. A sign pointing left says something about a genetics engineering lab. The caption (VASTLY paraphrased) has one dude saying to the other, “Didn’t Bob say something about crossing a cockroach with a ???” (I don’t remember, some large animal). > > I’d love to see it again. Anyone know who might have drawn it, or what the caption actually was? I’m also a huge Gahan Wilson fan. (The Miss Emily & Santa Claus is probably my all-time fav.) This was much more Rodrigues-like…his kind of scratchy, but very detailed style. At least I’m not crazy if someone else remembers it. A great friend of mine who passed away several years ago had nearly every Lampoon ever published, and he remembered it, as well. Anyway, thanks for the reply. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/173 "2014-08-06T16:01:41Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > I guess this thread isn’t exactly a zombie, but it was on it’s way. It was resurrected from Feb 2013. > Can any of you help me find a ‘lost’ single panel cartoon from 25 years ago or so. My brother gave it to me when I got my first computer programming job, and I’ve lost it. > > It shows a guy with one foot on his desk chair looking at his computer monitor holding his keyboard like a guitar. His boss(?) is saying to him something like “Can’t you just use your keyboard like everyone else?” Is this it? [![](http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/Keyboard-Good.jpg) ](http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/Keyboard-Good.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/174 "2014-08-06T16:04:54Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > Is this it? > > [http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/Keyboard-Good.jpg](http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/Keyboard-Good.jpg) Why, Yes, I believe it is! Thanks! How did you find it? My google-fu failed me. ---
**Author:** ![ethelbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ethelbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ethelbert)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/175 "2014-08-06T16:11:24Z")
There is one cartoon that still sticks in my mind even though I haven’t seen it in 50 years. I’m pretty sure it was in the National Lampoon. It shows a young child asking his father (I’m paraphrasing here); “Dad, did you ever get a big weeping sore on your dick after fucking the cat?” ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/176 "2014-08-06T16:16:10Z")
> [@ethelbert](#): > > There is one cartoon that still sticks in my mind even though I haven’t seen it in 50 years. I’m pretty sure it was in the National Lampoon. It shows a young child asking his father (I’m paraphrasing here); > “Dad, did you ever get a big weeping sore on your dick after fucking the cat?” LOL. You’re on your own, buddy. I don’t think I want to search for that while I’m on my work computer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/177 "2014-08-06T19:09:36Z")
Hal Briston might like this one [Mildly unsafe for work](http://www.sheepjokes.co.uk/images/SheepCartoon11.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/178 "2014-08-06T19:33:05Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Why, Yes, I believe it is! Thanks! How did you find it? My google-fu failed me. I googled what you thought the caption was, and added cartoon at the end. I am happy it’s the one you wanted! ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/179 "2014-08-06T19:55:58Z")
I had to go thru the entire thread to make sure I didn’t post [this one](http://weknowmemes.com/2012/01/premature-ejaculators-anonymous/). ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/180 "2014-08-06T20:07:24Z")
[This is a cheat, but funny.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/d6274db253c2c3fc855f0d34a4a5a7e8/tumblr_mqkjaukNn71qc351po1_500.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537/181 "2014-08-06T20:34:05Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > I googled what you thought the caption was, and added cartoon at the end. > > I am happy it’s the one you wanted! Hey! Don’t go gettin’ all technical on me! My God that’s embarrassing! :smack: Thanks again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-panel-cartoon/649537.md?page=10)