The Top 10 Musical Far Side Cartoons

I think I've actually been to concerts when someone activated the 'suck' knob on the sound board.  The horror on the faces of the band members in this one is priceless.Apparently this old geezer who used to me a music teacher is still riding the ass of one of his worst students years after they parted ways.  Just simply outstanding.Apparently we are all given appropriate musical instruments when entering the afterlife; harps or accordions.  Larson did many cartoons dealing with heaven and hell, this being one of the best.View the list »
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From 1980 to 1995, Gary Larson's The Far Side was syndicated in almost 2,000 newspapers daily nationwide. Depending on one's sense of humor, it is arguably the best comic strip of all time. Larson brought us things such as wiener dog art, human-like cows and dogs, and funnier cavemen than Gieco could have ever dreamed. The Far Side pondered life and every social situation within it through people or his unparalleled anthropomorphic view of the world. The Far Side was truly an influence in my own life, as it literally shaped my own sense of humor as I was growing up with it.

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Of all of the subject Larson tackled in The Far Side, music was one of the best. Check out 10 of his best dealing with the subject of music.

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  • Apparently we are all given appropriate musical instruments when entering the afterlife; harps or accordions.  Larson did many cartoons dealing with heaven and hell, this being one of the best.
  • Apparently this old geezer who used to me a music teacher is still riding the ass of one of his worst students years after they parted ways.  Just simply outstanding.
  • I think I've actually been to concerts when someone activated the 'suck' knob on the sound board.  The horror on the faces of the band members in this one is priceless.
  • There is something about the banjo in which Gary Larson always saw humor.  He did several cartoons featuring the instrument, including this one with 'orchestral banjo.'
  • Cows are the one thing that Larson found funnier than anything else in the world.  He often humanized them.  From not being able to answer a phone due to the lack of opposable thumbs to this one; a cow in a jazz band.
  • What would be your least favirote musical genre that Satan himself could play to you if you were in hell?  New age is right up there on my list aside from boy bands.
  • Sometimes, no matter how much we prepare in our minds we still screw up.  Just ask Roger.  He has forgotten one of his cymbals.  It's going to make for a percussion-less concert...............
  • Man's evolution has been pondered for centuries with rivaling schools of thought on Creationism and Darwinism.  However, Gary Larson was the first to ponder the evolution of the cool guy playing in the jazz club.
  • Cavemen were also a big source of human in the Far Side.  The first orchestra depicted in this example has evidently discovered the first musical note.  And that's it!
  • Another classic Gary Larson banjo moment.  An uppity maestro has gone to hell and is forced to an eternity of teaching banjo to a room full of eager students ready to master the 5-stringed beast!
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Dustin M Pardue in an independent journalist and novelist currently dividing his time residing in Winston-Salem, NC and Baltimore, MD. He graduated from Appalachian State University in 1999. Dustin grew up in a musical family and continued that tradition from the time he was 6-years-old as a...

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