# 7 Hilarious ‘Far Side’ Comics With the Worst Puns

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/7-hilarious-far-side-comics-with-the-worst-puns/
- Published: 2026-10-24T09:00:21+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-24T09:08:31+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/best-far-side-comics-with-terrible-puns/
- Topics: Americas

## Key points

- Larson used intentionally bad puns alongside clever visual jokes.
- The seven examples include “La Brea Carpets” and “Cowmen Miranda”.
- Larson called the runaway-train milk-carton cartoon his worst.

## Summary

Gary Larson’s Far Side comics paired clever observations with deliberately groan-worthy puns, using the contrast to create a different kind of humour from the strip’s more intricate jokes. The article presents seven examples as evidence that even Larson’s silliest wordplay could work because of the drawings and ideas around it.

The examples include people swallowed by carpets as a play on the La Brea Tar Pits, an “inconvenience store” with items out of reach, and a cow called “Cowmen Miranda” wearing fruit on her head. Other gags take “sketchy” literally and show runaway trains on milk cartons; Larson himself once named the runaway-train cartoon as his nominee for his worst. The article argues that its silliness is part of the appeal.

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