The Far Side has always poked fun at the seemingly mundane by putting an absurdist lens on a variety of topics and subjects. The Far Side has no lead character like Garfield or Calvin and Hobbes, which means creator Gary Larson has the freedom to write/draw gags about anything and anyone - including scientists.

Sometimes The Far Side makes jokes about dinosaurs and aliens, sometimes babies and farmers, and even literal trees. Clearly, no one is safe from Gary Larson’s ability to turn literally anything into a hilarious and utterly absurd joke. And one of the funniest subjects Larson often uses in The Far Side is scientists. However, rather than portraying them as pillars of human intelligence representing the collective desire to understand the world around them, The Far Side’s scientists are usually pretty stupid. Here are 10 of the funniest examples of dumb Far Side scientists!

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