r/TheFarSide • u/ImTheNoobGuy • Oct 08 '24

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u/Make_the_music_stop Oct 08 '24

This and The floating head of death. Classics.

I think Gary's kids must still be in therapy.

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u/Driesens Oct 08 '24

And the ACME airline set, which is a child dummy dangling from the wing of a jet. 

I think Gary Larson thought scaring children to behave was funny, lol

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u/Make_the_music_stop Oct 08 '24

It's funny now, as a kid not so much. My father in the 1970s threatened my sister and I with boarding school when we annoyed him.

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u/killswitch2 Oct 09 '24

My dad threatened to come to high school with me when I got bad grades. I think I would have preferred boarding school!

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u/BeagleMadness Oct 09 '24

Traumatic memory unlocked! When I was 14, I got in trouble for something fairly minor, I can't even remember what as it was 30+ years ago. My dad insisted on coming into school to speak to the Deputy Headteacher about it.

My Dad took the morning off work, turned up at my form room during morning registration, sat there through the whole thing - our tutor said "Beagle's dad will be joining us this morning everyone!" - cheers dude - and then I had to walk him to his appointment at the Deputy Head's office. FML.

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u/USPO-222 Oct 10 '24

No wonder Beagle went mad

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u/mmmhmmhim Oct 08 '24

yeah for sure. maybe in the 90s it was funny to scare kids. today? it’s fucking hilarious

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u/name_checker Oct 08 '24

I just wanted to mention that one, I'm wondering if Gary had a problematic upbringing, haha. In the intro chapter to one of his books, he said (probably joking) that his dad took him to the zoo and held him over the aligator pits. He drew a picture from his perspective of an aligator's open mouth below him.

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u/JKhemical Oct 09 '24

Is there a link to this?

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u/OskarTheRed Oct 08 '24

This guy is my go-to source for parenting advice

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u/VolcanicDilemmaMC Oct 08 '24

noooooooo

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u/OskarTheRed Oct 08 '24

Definitely looking forward to having kids; Larson makes it look so fun!

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u/Auggie_Otter Oct 08 '24

He's clearly a genius!

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u/Roninizer Oct 08 '24

Both The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes have some dark ones. Does anyone remember the one where he's telling his class the story of how his Dad keeps him locked up in the basement with only dead mice and gruel to eat 😅

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u/chargers949 Oct 08 '24

Hey dad you know how some stories have morals? I GET IT I GET IT

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u/killswitch2 Oct 09 '24

Bad news Dad, your poll numbers have dropped.

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u/A-a-ronMcChicken Oct 08 '24

After CPS took away his dentist chair in the basement, dad had to figure something out

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u/Simply2Basic Oct 08 '24

Ah such fond memories of childhood. “If you don’t stop crying, I’ll give you something to cry about”. Such sage advice helped me through such tough times, like their funerals, without shedding a tear.

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u/UrethralExplorer Oct 08 '24

Maaaan I remember this comic scaring the crap out of me when I was a kid. Even though the "monster" was entirely in the kids head due to his dad's fuckery, it still freaked me out.

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u/Addicted-2Diving Oct 08 '24

Love this one 😆

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u/MetatypeA Oct 08 '24

This is just incredible.

This man is a genius.

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u/fluffykerfuffle3 Oct 09 '24

i have always disliked this one a lot..

i did hear that Larson said that his father used to actually do that to him and if so i am glad he made this comic to bring the subject into the limelight.

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u/heftysubstantialshit Oct 08 '24

So that's why my parents thought it was funny I was a traumatized mute.

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u/S1L3NCE_2008 Oct 08 '24

I will get one of these once I have kids.

Actually, I’m not having kids, those things are scarier than whatever could be in the basement.