FAR SIDE COMIC WHERE A BUZZARD HAS A WALKMAN-1
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT One of the locations most frequently visited in The Far Side was the desert, and just as often as Gary Larson delivered jokes about humans wandering the dunes, his focus was on the carrion-eating birds looming over them, waiting for their demise. Buzzards and vultures abounded throughout Larson's work, taking center stage in some of the best Far Side cartoons.
Related "It's the Theme That Occurs to Me Most Frequently": Gary Larson's Biggest Obsession Shaped The Far Side from the Beginning In a 20/20 interview segment from 1987, Far Side Creator Gary Larson discussed his fixation on science, and how it informed his comedy over the years. Readers familiar with The Far Side will appreciate the sly punchline here. Some of Gary Larson's jokes are laugh-out-loud funny, while others, such as in this case, were intended to elicit different reactions than laughter. In this case, Larson seemingly wanted readers to find the humor in contrasting the buzzards' feeding in a state of nature with humanity's development of an entire industry around feeding themselves.
"I suppose you're all wondering why I asked you here today," the bird says, as a group surround a recently deceased creature and pick it down to the bone, before adding: "Ha, I've always wanted to say that." The joke here is that there is no question, either to the birds, or the audience, of why they are there.
Beyond that, however, what stands out is how otherwise straight-forward the sentiment of the cartoon is. Larson's love of nature makes it clear that he thinks birds of prey are cool – and this joke hinges on assuming that the birds themselves "know" this to be true, and then on top of that, adding visual signifiers of human "coolness" to convey this to readers.
Of particular note, upon closer scrutiny, one of the birds in this panel is holding a telephone in its claw, as it relays the invitation from the Websters.
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