Fridge / The Far Side

Fridge Horror

• One strip features anthropomorphic ketchup bottles at the movie theatre. The gag is that they're watching a horror film, in which an on-screen ketchup bottle is broken and oozing in the street. A father bottle tells his son, reassuringly, that "that's not real ketchup" in the film. Of course, in real life ketchup can be used as fake blood, hence the joke. This stops being funny, even by Gary Larson's morbid standards, when you think about it for a while and wonder what they're using INSTEAD of ketchup.
  • Wait, what's so morbid about strawberry jam?
    • Stage blood. Nobody uses ketchup in film or theatre.
  • If it was ketchup, the father could have been lying.
  • Red nail polish.
  • Strawberry syrup is used sometimes in movies.
  • Or it’s just funny anyway.
• One panel shows a police officer telling a visibly shaken female deer that a human hunter was within his rights to break into her home and shoot her husband, since he was "in season". Without the fact that he has been blown on his back with his hooves in the air, this scene is pretty dark. As the victim's wife is told there is nothing that can be done, while the murderer stands right in front of her.
  • And Adding Insult to Injury, the human police officer offers the doe to have her husband taken away and cleaned, as casually as if he were just asking her to come down to the station and bail him out.
• Related to the above, there are quite a few comics which show animals, typically deer and ducks, living like civilized people but still being hunted like common animals by human hunters. Once such comic has mother deer chastising her children for playing in front of a window, because human hunters are trying to shoot them!
  • Although, in one comic, a frog is shown having shot a chef who’d taken his leg, triumphantly saying, "Ha! I knew he’d be back for the other one!"
• In one strip, a caveman zoologist identifies a stegosaurus' tail spikes as the thagomizer, named after the late Thag Simmons. It's likely Thag received the honor because he got... um... thagomized.
• In one strip, a gorilla says to her mate, "Another blonde hair? Conducting more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?". This implies a human woman snogged (or worse, slept with) a gorilla.
• In one strip, an anthropomorphic chicken complains to a chicken waitress that he wanted his human babies sunny side up instead of scrambled. On his plate is a pile of mush out of which some human baby faces and limbs are sticking. Said mush is probably not scrambled chicken eggs... After all, what kind of screwed-up chicken would willingly eat their own period leavings and/or embryos?