History ComicStrip / TheFarSide

* BlackComedy: The strip loves to show characters getting hurt, killed, or eaten- implying it is just as funny, too.

** A third with two cowboys in high heels about to face off-- the joke being that, regardless of outcome, the Boot Hill will be irrevocably changed.

** Dog to sheep: "Confession time Mona: [[IncrediblyLamePun I've led you astray]]."

** Another cartoon sticks the standard fruit hat on a cow, who was, of course, named [[IncrediblyLamePun Cowmen Miranda]].

** In ''The Prehistory of the Far Side'', there was a strip that had a snake inside a baby's crib, and a gigantic bulge in the middle of the snake (presumably the baby) rendering the creature unable to exit the crib, with the snake looking annoyed. Immediately following, Larson says "[[MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere You didn't see this. Turn the page.]]"

** One of the most controversial comics featured a female gorilla finding a blond hair on her mate and accusing him of doing "research" with "that Jane Goodall tramp". The intended joke is that the female is making a hilariously incorrect assumption as to what Goodall's research involves, but many readers thought it was implying actual bestiality on Goodall's part and were outraged. Goodall herself was said to have found the strip ActuallyPrettyFunny.

* BarBrawl: PlayedForLaughs in one comic. A group of cowboys is having a ChildishPillowFight inside a Western bar and someone outside says "Somone better run fetch the sheriff" as if it were a real bar brawl.

* InTheLocalTongue: The Lone Ranger discovers that "kemosabe" is an "Apache expression for a horse's rear end".

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* ArtEvolution: The art started out a bit more grotesque. When he first started the strip, he also apparently didn't even know about the existence of White-Out, and so to avoid making mistakes had a habit of not filling all of the backgrounds in (like a bulls-eye patterned rug that mysteriously vanished halfway across the panel) -- he admitted that he preferred to "touch up" older strips to fill in half-completed background elements when they were published in collections.

* StoppedClock: In one cartoon, police are investigating a shooting at a clock store. The place has been shot to pieces, all clocks are reading the same time as each other, and the detective is wondering: "Well, we've got the weapon, a list of suspects, and their motives. Now if only we could determine the time of death...."

** One strip has an old crocodile calling an old man (with an eyepatch and a hook for a hand) and saying "Tick-tock" over and over again. This is a reference to ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', which had a crocodile that pursued Captain Hook (who had an eyepatch and a hook for a hand). The crocodile had an ticking alarm clock inside of him that always alerted Hook that the crocodile was approaching.
** One strip has a cleaning lady in a primate research laboratory jumping up to try to get a banana hanging on a rope from the ceiling. This is a reference to a scene in ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'' where Dr. Zira (a humanoid chimpanzee) is given a test of her intelligence by primate researchers that involves getting to a banana hanging on a rope from the ceiling.

--->''Every Saturday morning, while his playmates patiently waited, little Normy Bates]] would always take a few extra minutes to yell at his “dog.”''

* PsychoPoodle: Two examples:

** One strip has a group of boys waiting for their friend to come join them.
-->''Every Saturday morning, while his playmates patiently waited, little [[Film/{{Psycho}} Normy Bates]] would always take a few extra minutes to yell at his “dog.”''

** One comic has a horse walking out of a theater showing ''Film/TheGodfather'' looking terrified and a person with them saying "Get ahold of yourself! It was only a movie, for crying out loud!" This is a reference to the scene in the film where a horse's head is left on Jack Woltz's bed to scare him.

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