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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
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The thing I like about that one, and other references like that in comedy shows (especially animated) is that often you don't need the pop culture reference, it fits with the zany comical nature of the show. It's not outside the norm, or at least not far.
And with the comic above, I didn't NEED to hear/know the song to get the joke. I didn't think it was "you'll find your drill on blueberry hill" but I figured it was something about a song and something that rhymed with "hill".
It was easy to search, too.
My wife has been watching some of the shows I loved growing up, and she's only 2 years younger than me, but because she watched modern kid shows as a kid and I watched old stuff with my parents, I get a lot of references she doesn't.
As long as you can show it to someone without the pop culture knowledge and they still find it funny, it's still a successful joke.
The issue with this comic is that it's a reference more than a joke. You can see why it would be funny, but that's not the same thing as being funny. You have to dissect the frog.
The gags that stand up are ones where ten years later you watch an old movie and go "Oh that's where that's from!"