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The Far Side
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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!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:
Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
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Where would a young person even encounter Bewitched and actually watch it these days?
It's on various streaming services, and maybe that sitcom/classic TV channel on digital broadcast
You'd actually have to seek it out to watch it, as opposed to coming across it when channel surfing.
Another American cultural reference that will be lost to technology...
Yeah it was different as a kid, I had Nick at nite before it was it's own channel so the cartoons rolled into I dream of genie, bewitched, Mary tyler moore, dick van dyke. Welcome back cotter, happy days
I've seen pretty much every episode of these shows even though they were an easy 20 years before my time.
You can stumble across it on Pluto or tubi but who would bother when YouTube exists and these shows... I'm not sure they hold the test of time even though I look back on them fondly.
I’m a child of the 80’s and still have the theme songs for Mr Ed and My Three Sons because of that channel.
Who even channel surfs anymore? You have to seek out everything now. I find myself watching Pluto just because you can find random shows without having to know about it already.
I think it’s on Tubi which is free and young people can figure it out. But they won’t stumble upon it like you said
I've never actually watched an episode but do know about the general premise somehow, I think through references to it in other media. I was able to figure out most of the joke even though I don't know the character names.
Jack Sparrow is one of my favourite characters.
You mean Major Healy
Or maybe it's because it's a 60 year old sitcom and not every reference has to be fresh forever?