The Far Menance/The Dennis Side
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Far Side, written and drawn by Gary Larson, was a syndicated comic strip known for its surreal, at times subversive humor, all delivered on a daily basis in a single panel, most often accompanied by a caption composed of only one or two sentences. Several times throughout the comic's history, The Far Side's caption was transposed to an adjacent comic – something Larson believed was no "accident.
In The Prehistory of the Far Side, a retrospective collection put together for the strip's tenth anniversary, Gary Larson exhibited two examples of caption swaps. It was Larson himself who put quotations around the word "accidentally" to describe the 1981 mix-up of a Far Side panel with a Dennis the Menace cartoon – suggesting that he believes it was done intentionally by a mischievous, if creative, editor.
The Far Menace The Far Side first appeared in print in 1979. The first swapped caption incident detailed in Prehistory occurred in 1981, early in the strip's run. In typically bizarre fashion, The Far Side panel features a family of snakes at a dinner table, waiting for their meal. Dennis the Menace features Dennis and his brother chomping on sandwiches while their mother is on the phone. The Dennis caption is simply, "Oh, brother!...
Dennis Might Need To See A Therapist Gary Larson wrote in The Prehistory of the Far Side regarding the mix-up with Dennis the Menace, "What's most embarrassing about this is how immensely improved both cartoons turned out to be." Whether the result of an "accident" or not, the gonzo creativity resulting from swapped captions is what made The Far Side so unique, so insightful, even when it was being iconoclastic, or morbid, or both.
Featuring two prehistoric humans in a cave, one reading the other's fortune, The Far Side caption is amusing, if perplexing, outside its original context. The Dennis the Menace strip is hilarious. "I see your little, petrified skull...labeled and resting on a shelf somewhere." Coming from one cave person to another, this would have been funny. Coming Dennis to his parents, it is as darkly funny as any single panel of The Far Side.
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