Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-09-25
Books mentioned on A Tribute To The Far Side
The Far Side is one of the greatest cartoons in history. Today we go to great lengths to convince you of that.
Josh Clark discussed The Prehistory of The Far Side by Gary Larson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Prehistory of The Far Side
Discussed“And so Gary Larson was quite honored. He said he wrote that he was honored in the prehistory of the far side. What's funny is that the prehistory of the far side came out before the paper naming that chewing louse strillis Gary Larssoni. So that the paper actually cites the book the the prehistory of the far side in”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing There's a Hair in My Dirt!
“Uh he also had a kids book in 1999. I feel bad that I didn't know about this. I would have gotten it uh when Ruby was littleer. Uh called There's a Hair in My Dirt. She'd probably still like this actually. Yeah. Colon, a worm story, a book about a princess from the worms point of view, which is”
Passing There's a Hair in My Dirt!
“Uh Eio Wilson wrote u the forward for the children's book There's a Hair in My Dirt.”
Passing The Far Side Gallery 3
“And a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist named Steven J. Gould, I believe we've talked about before. Sure. Wrote the forward for the Far Side Gallery 3 and called him the National Humorist of Natural History.”