36 Years Later, The Far Side’s Biggest Mistake Remains The Funniest Moment In Comic Strip History

Even though Gary Larson’s The Far Side provided readers with some of the funniest comic strips ever written, the funniest moment in the history of the iconic strip happened entirely by accident. Around the same time that The Simpsons was revolutionizing cartoon comedy on TV, paving the way for later primetime animated sitcoms like South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, and Bob’s Burgers, Gary Larson’s offbeat masterpiece The Far Side was providing newspaper readers with some of the weirdest comic strips in the medium’s history.