"The Far Side could be gleefully dumb at times, but that was only because creator Gary Larson was so smart that he could produce low-brow humor just as readily as he created high-brow comedy. For Far Side fans, there are plenty of examples of each category to celebrate, with this list focusing on select panels that highlight Larson's incredible intelligence, though, thankfully, not at the expense of their humor.
"Larson's intelligence encompassed a wide array of topic, explaining the eclectic nature of The Far Side's subject matter. Simply put, prehistoric inventors, or wayward scientists, or insects who acted like humans, because at any given moment, facts, figures, and ideas about these things were rattling around in his mind.
"From there, Larson "adapted" these things into cartoons, giving his a creative outlet, while also confirming there were more people he could relate to out there than he might have expected. In any these, these cartoons confirm that The Far Side was the product of a creatively chaotic, yet highly gifted mind." . . .
. . . "The Far Side ended in 1995, but what even many hardcore Far Side fans don't know is that Gary Larson did briefly return to produce another batch of cartoons, a few years later, in a series of panels parodying scientists, published in The New York Times. This is perhaps the stand-out example, in which "science meets tabloid TV," as a researcher is confronted on live television about why he put a colleague's pet "into [a] super collider."
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