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
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This should fill in any cultural/temporal gaps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Ed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cI-LXMyyDo
tl/dr: Mr Ed was a talking horse that had a sitcom in the '60s. It was still playing in syndication by the '80s, so it would be known to most people in the US at the time.
Mr Ed was a talking horse that had a sitcom in the '60s
Let's not give people the wrong idea here. Mr Ed was a sitcom in the '60s about a talking horse.
Don't get this one. I see the lion but I'm not sure how this correlates to the horse taking
Yeah, the key phrase here is “made to talk” as if he’s being threatened or intimidated into talking.
I’m not sure but maybe it’s “talk or we’ll let the lion eat you”.
That's exactly what it's implying.
So Mr Ed was in danger then!
Not if he read his lines he wasn't.
He's a smart horse. He did the right thing.
I’m guessing it means the horse is going to talk, in an interrogation sense. I don’t know for sure though.
I don't mean to be old-splaining here, but familiarity with Mr. Ed helps. It was in syndication during the '80s, so I remember it as a hokey show with a pretty catchy theme song. The question of "how did they get that horse to move his lips" in time to the voiceovers was a valid question. (Answer: mostly peanut butter).
In the Larsenverse, however, the horse requires no voiceover. He just needs to be properly motivated.
I know what Mr Ed was. My question was specially about the Lions role
Scare the horse via threat of attack, speak or die essentially.
It was peanut butter, and sometimes fishing line, btw.
Set is quiet as they are waiting for Mr. Ed to say his line.
"Do you need the Lion Mr. Ed?"
Some potential other context for this: https://nitratediva.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/margaret-obrien-tcmff/