You’re still a fly?"

when she comes down to tell him “lunch is ready.”

Far Side’s “Cumulative Attack of the Willies” cartoon perfectly illustrates how asking “What if?”

Far Side wide-eyed man (color, foreground) and a man terrified of snakes (right, background.)

was foundational to Gary Larson’s writing process.

8The Far Side’s Scientists Were All About “Can We?”

Not “Should We?”

A cow grilling while Big Bird lies dead behind her in The Far Side.

Where’s my body?

What have you done with my body?"

Here’s the funniest times it’s done just that!

Far Side grinning man (left, foreground) & wolves dipping sheep in bowls at a party (right, background.)

Far Side wide-eyed man (foreground, color) with scientists observing a melted colleague (background, b/w)

Far Side, March 10, 1983, a woman yells down to her husband in his basement lab, irate that he is ‘still a fly’

Far Side, November 27, 1986, depicting an experimental procedure for treating multiple phobias

Far Side, February 23, 1988, scientists testing whether a rhino always lands on its feet

Far Side, March 18, 1988, a scientist bonks his disembodied head

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Far Side, September 22, 1988, an alien scientist tells its colleague they mixed their bear and human specimens

Far Side, October 30, 1990, a scientist’s colleagues find him melted at his work station

Far Side, November 23, 1990, surgeons accidentally ‘arm’ a skunk while trying to remove its odor gland

Far Side, March 19, 1991, a disembodied head in a lab tells a scientist it had an out-of-head experience

Far Side, March 25, 1992, a scientist walks down the street wearing a dog bark translating helmet

Far Side, March 26, 1993, the ruler of a country is revealed to be an man from Long Island being experimented upon

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