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Far Side Classics Quiz

By Brian | January 29, 2009 | Share on Facebook

Wil Wheaton was blogging about The Far Side the other day, and he (and some of his commenters) mentioned some of their favorites. It occurred to me that although Gary Larson stopped drawing the cartoons more than fourteen years ago, and although they didn’t always have official “titles,” I was able to picture some of the classics right away as soon as I saw their unofficial titles referred to in the text.

So, here’s a quick & somewhat rudimentary quiz. The links below each take you to the cartoon itself. See if you can picture the cartoon in your mind and then click on the link to see if you were right (honor system required here, folks). Then post a comment and tell us how you did:

High scores reflect kudos to Mr. Larson for not only creating such indelible images, but embedding them so far into the cultural zeitgeist that we can recall them instantly with the slightest provocation.

If you did well, here’s your prize: a Flickr group containing live-action re-enactments of Far Side cartoons.  (No fair clicking if you failed the quiz!)

Topics: Random Acts of Blogging | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Far Side Classics Quiz”

  1. Ilya says at January 30th, 2009 at 1:50 pm :
    Interestingly, I could picture a couple (what dogs hear, how birds see), even though I have not been exposed to them enough to know either the name of the author or that they have a collective name.

  2. Brian says at January 30th, 2009 at 4:50 pm :
    Well, OK, Ilya – you get bonus points for never having heard of Far Side and still getting two correct. Feel free to claim your prize. ;-)

    Anyone else?!?!?!?

  3. jason says at February 5th, 2009 at 10:59 pm :
    I’m a little late to the party here, but just had to say that I really miss the Far Side. Larson’s vision of the world is weird, but so on-target, too. It’s like a fun-house mirror that somehow reveals the truth by forcing us to see the world in a different way.

    For the record, the Midvale School for the Gifted cartoon has always cracked me up, because we have a town called Midvale here in the Salt Lake Valley; as luck would have it, it’s kind of a disreputable area, with a higher-than-usual proportion of trailer-park dwellers…

  4. Jim says at August 31st, 2011 at 3:31 pm :
    The Far Side is part of the Golden Age of cartoon strips, along with Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes.

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