I wish I had never found out that these specials exist. Because now I need to see them and they're not available.
My orthodontist growing up had these books in the waiting room and I found them hilarious as a kid even though I only understood maybe 30% of them.
I remember watching this on TV. It was a big deal at the time due to the massive popularity of the strip, but didn't translate well. The whole thing kinda fell flat.
A VHS of this I taped from broadcast is bopping around my parents’ basement somewhere. I need to find that.
> Neither of the two specials, either in their original or editted forms, are online.
They are on The Pirate Bay and there are videos, but I guess they mean Netflix. The videos are kept alive off the torrents normally, as the video sites go down, torrents are quite the internets backbone.
Larson is an absolute national treasure.
Some of my favorite memories of my youth were reading and re-reading some of the Larson books my uncle handed down to me - Far Side Gallery1, 2, 3 & 4 , It Came From The Far Side, and Tales From The Far Side. Some of the jokes I didn't understand until I was older, some I understood right away, and some of them I remember so fondly I could re-create them in my sleep.
A genuine master of his craft, sheer brilliance.
My all-time favorite: https://i.redd.it/my-daily-farside-dump-caw-caw-v0-l7k98dab4...
Another gem: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/26/b4/21/26b421ae077069c6de1f2da18...