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* [[Anticipatory Breath Spray]]
* [[Arrows On Fire]]: "Hey, they're lightin' their arrows! ...can they do that?"
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: A section of Hell has rooms for murderers, terrorists, and "people who drove too slow in the fast lane."
* [[Art Evolution]]: The art started out a bit more grotesque. Larson also had a habit of not filling in all of the backgrounds in earlier strips (like a bulls-eye patterned rug that mysteriously vanished halfway across the panel) - he admitted that he preferred to "touch up" older strips to fill in half-completed background elements when they were published in collections.
* [[Ass in A Lion Skin]]: One strip had a polar bear with a [[Paper
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: As vikings are storming a castle, one is trying to call their attention to gold fish in the moat.
* [[Bad Humor Truck]]: One strip shows neighborhood kids hiding from a "Liver and Onions" truck, and another features the "Vaccination Van" making its rounds. Also, the failed marketing ploy "I Cuss, You Cuss, We All Cuss For Asparagus".
* [[Beach Bury]]: One strip has a kid burying his father with the following (paraphrased) caption: "Billy, the tide's coming in... Billy, unbury Daddy now... You don't want Daddy to get angry..."
* [[Black Comedy]]: Used extremely frequently.
* [[Bowel
* [[The Butler Did It]]: One strip shows a murdered butler at an international butlers' convention, and a detective complaining that he hates to start a week like this. Another shows a detective accusing the butler of goring and trampling a man to death as he sits next to the literal [[Elephant in The Room]].
* [[Captain Obvious]]: A cartoon depicts two Bedouin on camels in the middle of the desert, and the caption is "Hold still, Omar. Now look up. Yep, you've got something in your eye all right. [[Captain Obvious|Could be sand]]."
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* [[Closer Than They Appear]]: In one cartoon, the rear-view mirror shows the angry eye of an unspecified but huge creature.
* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]]: Larson apologized for the "Hell's Video Store" comic after actually ''watching'' the movie ''[[Ishtar]]'', because he had not seen it at the time he did the comic and had only used it because of its reputation. He later admitted that the movie was funny.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: "Mr. Thingy." This also counts as [[Buffy
* [[Cow Tools]]: The [[Trope Namer]], and the strip in question is [[Actually Pretty Funny]] in its own unique way.
* [[Crazy Cultural Comparison]]: In one strip, a farmer unwittingly dooms humanity when he tries to shake hands with an alien visitor whose head has an unfortunate resemblance to a human hand.
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* [[Doorstopper]]: [http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Far-Side-1980-1994-vol/dp/0740721135 The Complete Far Side].
* [[Down On the Farm]]: Pretty much all the strips with cows and/or chickens.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: Larson has a friend with a very strange sense of humor, so when he called and said "I loved today's strip!" it meant "I've offended half of America."
* [[Eskimo Land]]: On several occasions.
* [[Nobody Here but Us Chickens]]: Including a cartoon where a farmer returning home from collecting eggs in the chicken coop passes a chicken returning to the coop after collecting the farmer's infant child...
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* [[Executive Meddling]]:
** Arguably a [[Tropes Are Not Bad|positive example]]. Part of his commemorative book, "The Prehistory of the Far Side", consists of him saying how grateful he is that his editors kept him in line and prevented certain risky cartoons from making it to the newspapers. He even credits one case of this as saving his career.
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** The "Wimpodites" and their ferocious pillow-fighting tactics. A common prey to vikings.
** A mobster, to a guy he's trying to get information from:
{{quote| "Still won't talk, eh? Maybe Rudy and his ''[[What Do You Mean
* [[Lightning Reveal]]: Subverted in Gary Larson's Tales from the Far Side (a one off animated adaption). The dangerous animals surrounding the dancing couple turn out to be stuffed... as does the male partner when the police drag the woman out of 'Bob's Taxidermy'.
* [[Look Ma, No Plane]]: Inverted. A flock of geese are keeping pace with a passenger jet, and one looks over and sees another goose riding in comfort in the plane, making faces at the others through the window.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Lots.
* [[Maximum Capacity Overload]]: In one strip, we see a man on an elevator with several elephants, and he watches in horror as one more tries to get in. The max. capacity is shown as several thousand pounds.
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* [[Talking Animal]]: Every now and then.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Several, but one notable example of two ancient Chinese warriors standing upon the newly completed Great Wall; one of them boastfully states "NOW we'll see if that dog can get in here!"
* [[The
* [[Things That Go Bump in The Night]]: Because they hit their heads on the door frame.
* [[Time Travel]]: An occasional theme, i.e. "Disaster befalls Dr. Fitzgibbon's cleaning lady when she mistakes his Time Machine for a new dryer."
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* [[Torture First Ask Questions Later]]: "Shoot first, ask questions later" wasn't meant to be taken ''literally''.
* [[Torture Technician]]: "You know, Sven, you're great at your job... You can make a guy beg for mercy in nothing flat... but I'll be darned if you don't make a really lousy cup of coffee." Every time Larson set a strip in a torture chamber, he would get letters from Amnesty International a few days later.
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* [[Uberwald]]: An occasional setting.
* [[Understatement]]: A nerd says "hot enough for you?" to a fellow prisoner in hell.
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