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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
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I remember watching some bewitched reruns and they only had a few plots.
It’s a comedy so nobody ever thinks to use magic in a way to help society or something, so that’s ok. But it’s very noticeable how mundane the plots are. Also I think there were a few other old shows where the characters were in the advertising business or television business. I bet this was done to pander to the people who were paying for the show.
I think the characters are in those careers commonly because it's what the writers know.
Close but it's because if the husband is an advertiser, then it's REALLY easy to slip product placements in. It was part of the transition from the actors just blatantly looking at the screen and advertising the product to making it more subtle.
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So many of the plots are of the form "housewife disobeys husband" that it's seriously hard to watch.
Watching old media is painful sometimes because of how much inherent misogyny there is.
Like the times the wife has a valid disagreement and the immediate response is for her to "stop being hysterical."
Or you watch even older films and the response is physical abuse.
On The Honeymooners his catchphrase was "one of these days Alice, bang zoom straight to the moon." He was going to hit her so hard she flew to the moon. The height of comedy at the time.
But it's nice to see how much progress we're making as a society
Eh, it doesn't bother me, but it's probably because I grew up with it. I'm quite capable of separating that nonsense from the rest of the show, and not being misogynistic toward others (or so my wife says).
Even some not so old. JAG is a show I loved as a kid. I tried to watch it again a couple of years ago and was shocked at how much misogyny was portrayed in it.