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Gary Larson's The Far Side ran from 1980 to 1994, and yet in its final year it was still pumping out absolute classics. Here are the 10 funniest comics from July 1994, which just turned 30 years old in 2024.
Close Indeed, Larson's knowledgeable use of insects endeared him to many real-life entomologists, leading to multiple insect species being named in his honor. This includes the louse strigiphilus garylarsoni and the butterfly serratoterga larsoni, though in The Complete Far Side, Larson shares a letter from the discoverer of the former admitting that naming it for Larson is something of a "dubious honor.
Related 15 Funniest Far Side Comics That Prove Gary Larson Is Bizarrely Obsessed with... Milk?! In a comic so full of cows, it's no surprise that many of Far Side's funniest jokes are about milk, and we've collected the very best. Close Crushing isn't the only way in which The Far Side uses elephants - Larson also has a great running gags about 'hidden' or disguised elephants, playing on how impossible it would be for the giant pachyderms to pass unnoticed.
Gary Larson had two rules for depicting God in The Far Side, crediting them with preventing a backlash from religious fans. First, I made God look the way I think most of us are pretty sure he looks. Secondly, I made sure he was really winning hands down. Even if Norman had only ten points it would have meant that he beat God to the buzzer at least once, and someone would have gotten mad.
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