the far side strip showing humpty dumpty
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Gary Larson's The Far Side loves nothing more than turning a familiar idea on its head, so it's no surprise the series found so much inspiration in traditional nursery rhymes. While intended to comfort and entertain children, these songs - often stretching back centuries - include bizarre imagery and nonsensical narratives, making them perfect for Far Side-style twists.
9 The Cow Jumps Over the Moon Gary Larson Was Never Going to Be Able to Resist This Hey Diddle Diddle Moment The bizarre image of a cow jumping over the moon was basically made for The Far Side to parody, both because Gary Larson loves mundane characters performing bizarre feats and because The Far Side is already the go-to franchise for comics about cows.
7 Row, Row, Row Your Boat Far Side Imagines the Pleasant Nursery Rhyme in the Darkest Circumstances Despite its family friendly reputation as a goofy newspaper comic, The Far Side has always had a major dark side. Indeed, one of the reasons Gary Larson didn't want to use recurring characters in his strip is so he could abuse them as much as he wanted without readers feeling sorry for them.
6 Old MacDonald Had a Farm The Far Side Mixes Nursery Rhymes and Murder The Far Side often adopts the perspective of animals over humans, and many of Larson's comics set on farms play out as a war between livestock and farmer. In the case of Old MacDonald Had a Farm, The Far Side presented readers with two separate comics where the titular farmer's animals kill him off.
In real life, there's no consensus on what the 'pop' is actually supposed to mean, especially because there's no record of what 'the weasel' originally referred to. Nursery rhyme scholars have speculated that the weasel may be literal, but could also be a spinning device known as a 'spinner's weasel,' which makes a distinctive sound when a given measurement of yarn has been spooled out.
Close In the case of Humpty Dumpty, Larson imagines his childhood, his funeral, and even his mortal remains being served up as a giant omelet. There are so many bizarre details for Larson to pick at - from a character who's a giant egg to Humpty Dumpty inexplicably perching on a wall to a group of horses trying to put him back together.
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10 Far Side Comics That Prove Gary Larson Preferred Animals Over HumansAndrew Mordkoff is a Comics List Writer for Screen Rant. Whether it’s Marvel, Star Wars, or anything Horror, comics have always been his greatest escape. Prior to Screen Rant, Andrew worked on-set for major studio productions and reviewed films for local festivals.
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