"I like The Far Side" can be said in 5 seconds at most.

There is also the one where a ship finds a dog in an emergecy raft and they comment on how happy and healthy this good boy is after all this time lost at sea. Then we notice the glasses, watch and so other evidence that there was person in the raft for a while too.

I have so many favorites. One that always makes me laugh where a kid is holding a leprechaun and the leperchaun says, "Well you caught me, but I've never been very lucky as leperchauns go" as we see that he has an eye-patch, a hook hand and a peg-leg. I always wondered what kind of treasure/reward you would get from capturing this leperchaun, I doubt it is a pot of gold. I think that is another aspect of Gary's brilliance that the intial joke is so funny and then more layers of humor unfold as you think about it.

The Far Side was genius

fun fact: my grandparents knew gary. they grew up together

Don't stop doing this!

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Guys, I’m gonna say it, I think dit zijn geen ajuinen.

Chuck Jones and Fred Quimby shaped my childhood.

It's the blank expression on the faces of his characters that get me. Very comedically candid.

Read (and enjoyed the memories) of many of these comments. But, having not seen it (yet), have to post this one: Who can forget "Things that go bump in the night" with the monster wincing after banging its head on the (too low) top of the basement door frame?

I’ve always noticed the background settings, specifically the roadrunner ones of the American SW. something about the abstract remoteness and vibrant colors really caught my attention and is kinda how I think about that region to this day.

Please do more on graphic design!

Beautifully told story. A reminder of the importance one person can play in another's life, often without even knowing it.

It’s a bit of a stretch to label him a naturalist

My favorite was the Iceman book signing. The caveman-looking guy is signing his book titled, "It Was Very Cold and I Couldn't Move".

3:35 i dont get it?

An early Freak-off party.

Dogs going to work. On a bus all sticking their noses out of the windows. I love that so much.

Im going be honest that story is cool but im American and I've litteraly never seen or heard of that photo in my life

He has a mike judge influences even looks like him

farside made looking forward to the next day on a calendar mean something

I can't believe I'm cracking up here 4 years after this came out and 30 years after Larson retired!

One of my favorites: a snake is face down in the dirt and the caption reads, "When snakes trip".

His sense of humor is spot on for us. We're all Fools In Paradise.

You didn't get it either. Cheers honored The Far Side by doing the same humor.

dude, i havent even watched the video yet but tysm looney tunes background art is *everything*

So good, somebody has talent! 👍

Loved that cartoon in the newspaper!!

the late, great Thag Simmons!

I've always been fascinated how they did the door crushing. If you playback in slow-mo at 10:10 and freeze just before he hits door you can see they switched out the doors for ones with crushable metal.

Even with a relatively simple style of artwork he was so good at conveying facial expressions on animals.

Gary’s stuff was huge in my home in my teens through adulting. My mom absolutely loved him.

Farmer milking a cow who is standing on two feet. Farmer thinks to himself: "I hate when they stand like that."

Cow tools

I think you just don't get it about the cows. When people are alone they act one way. When others are around eeehh

Mr Parks was extremely talented

I've never seen this photo. Thank God that America is no longer like this. ❤

I have to look up more works by Parks now....

The 'original' American Gothic had a different name...the public nickname became the known monicker. Thank you...I had seen the photo, did not know this story. Gunnar Myrdal's 2 volume history of 'Jim Crow' , 1930s, and Europeans seeing segregated troops were factors in the much delayed applications of 'freedom'. Black literature grew from the 20s... Well done, all involved here. New Zealand 'gave' vote to women 30 years before US. Complexities abound in reality, where fantasy and fable and gross simplisticisms inhabit brains.

You're suffering from VVS, Vertical Video Syndrome. Google it. Know the symptoms and avoid spreading the disease.

I agree with all you have said in this video. Great one by the way. I like Vincent too and may of his works of art.

Someone got me a Far Side day calendar. Everyday at work, we got to see a new Far Side. For that whole year, we never laughed once. Guess we just didn’t understand it

A very good and so meaningful tribute to the genius of GL. His work is both inspiring and humble. At whatever age humans (and who knows, other species) will start reading him, there is wisdom and philosophical substance to grab. So glad to learn his wit could be officially honored twice thanks to discerning scientists with a sense of humor. A warm thank you for passing this necessary memory.

Only Far Side and Wizard of Id scratched my itch so well..

Just started. You read too much in to the vulture/cowboy cartoon. But…great video. You nailed everything else. Thank you.

"I don't think you heard me right stranger,i said I'd like to buy you a Chicken leg!"

I had never seen the Cat & Piranha panel before, and having a cat it made me chuckle. Then I paid more attention to how far away the cat actually IS from the fish and the expression, and that is what made me fully laugh out loud. The subtle difference between being a cat with no legs nearby and a cat scowling from a far is a tiny but really accurate detail in the behaviour of a cat.

Catchy, but sadly this video is afflicted with VVS, Vertical Video Syndrome. Google it. Know the symptoms and avoid spreading the disease.

They were the best cartoons ever.