1 | ''Herman'' is a newspaper comic strip that ran from 1975 to 1992, when the cartoonist, James "Jim" Unger retired. Like ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide,'' it has NoContinuity and is often bizzare. |
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4 | !!''Herman'' provides examples of: |
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6 | * TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Some strips in the mid '80s show people talking about 1992 as if it had come and gone. |
7 | * AlienAbduction: One strip shows a man with a serial number clipped to his ear and a radio collar around his neck screaming "Aliens!" |
8 | * AliensInCardiff: Space aliens are a common sight in this world. |
9 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: A man with his feet in a pail of hot water is told by his wife "I told you not to buy size 10." |
10 | * AmusingInjuries: |
11 | ** A man with a crispy arm is told that his X-Ray is overexposed. |
12 | ** A man with a cast is asked if he really did get rid of his pet crocodile like his wife said. |
13 | ** A knight with a tipped over cauldron is informed that he just dumped boiling oil on the window cleaner. |
14 | ** An X-Ray technician, more tumor than doctor, is given his retirement watch. |
15 | ** Arrow-riddled knights are a bit of a favorite. |
16 | * ButtMonkey: Herman is more this character type than any one character. If a small child starts tapdancing in your entree, and their mother scolds them for spoiling their good shoes instead of your night out, congratulations, you're Herman. [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident If your husband buys you a Zebra coat and takes you on Safari,]] congratulations, you're Herman. |
17 | * BlackComedy: |
18 | ** A woman brings a clearly dead daschund to the vet and says "He won't eat!" |
19 | ** A man with a charred stump for a neck is shown next to a doctor who angrily demands to know the expiry date on the nitroglycerine pills (medicinal nitroglycerine is distinct from the explosive stuff). |
20 | ** A man with a crab claw grafted onto his wrist is told to come back if he starts walking sideways. |
21 | ** Two involve expensive things left inside a surgical patient, a Rolex watch and a pair of scissors respectively, and them being told the doctor's going in after them. |
22 | ** One (under AmusingInjuries) involves [[TheTopicOfCancer a tumor-raddled x-ray technician]], and one (under ThePlague) involves a man with [[BodyHorror flesh-eating disease]] being given useless advice by his quack doctor. |
23 | * DreadfulMusician: Several strips involve this sort. One shows a man with a broken fiddle complaining to a policeman that someone kicked down the door and unloaded a gun into his violin. |
24 | * DrumBathing: A rare western example. The tiny size is LampShaded. A police officer is trying to give a man bathing in a drum a public nudity citation, whereupon the bather cheekily informs the cop that there's only one chair so he can't come in. |
25 | * EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: |
26 | ** One strip shows a kid telling a piper that it'll "likely stop screaming if you let it go." |
27 | ** Another strip shows two men robbing a bank. One is holding bagpipes, while his partner threatens that he'll start playing if their demands aren't met. |
28 | * FarSideIsland: |
29 | ** One strip shows a castaway complaining that he owes $3,000 on a library book he's never gotten to read. |
30 | ** One shows a castaway talking to himself on a tin can telephone. |
31 | * FirstGrayHair: One shows a bald woman staring into a mirror in shock, and her husband telling her "I told you not to pluck grey hairs." |
32 | * TheGrotesque: 99% of the characters are fat and jowly. If they're old, they're often covered in warts to boot. |
33 | * HintDropping: |
34 | ** One strip shows a kid yelling through a megaphone at his dad as he writes "The old skinflint forgot my allowance again" in his journal. |
35 | ** Another has a housewife holding a sign that reads "It's my birthday," while her oblivious husband tells her to quit whistling. |
36 | * MondegreenGag: A common joke is to have such a misunderstanding. |
37 | ** A cobbler brings out a pair of model ships while his customer angrily enunciates "Booooots!" |
38 | ** Another has a cowboy with a cat in his arms being berated "I said 'Round up a ''posse.''"' |
39 | ** The King yells at a man with a spanner "You don't listen too good, I said 'Bring me a ''wench!''" |
40 | * LethalChef: Food usually consists of slop with lumps in it, clots of char, or burgers with horns ("Elk burger? What the heck is an elk burger?" Cue waiter carrying a hamburger sporting antlers.) One strip even has Herman trying to [[ToiletSeatDivorce use his wife's awful cooking as grounds for divorce.]] |
41 | * MsFanservice: |
42 | ** An early strip shows an old woman complaining about how some young ladies at the beach are dressed: Bikini tops and skintight bellbottom jeans. |
43 | ** Another shows a tycoon hiring a SexySecretary with the warning that if she lets his wife see her, she's sacked. |
44 | ** Yet another has a neanderthal ask his mate that if his daughter (a human woman as attractive as Unger can draw) is a mutant, why does he have to keep the other males away from her with a club. |
45 | ** Another shows a woman in a bikini and an inner tube, [[ThongOfShielding with all the men behind her with their eyes juuuust over the waterline.]] |
46 | * ThePlague: |
47 | ** Usually connoted by someone covered in boils talking to a doctor. |
48 | ** One shows the doctor loading a gun and saying "I'm sure you agree that we don't want an epidemic." |
49 | ** Another has the doctor give Herman a bottle of pills by way of a 10-foot pole and telling him "Don't touch the stick." |
50 | ** A patient is told that if they aren't painful, they're nothing to be worried about. |
51 | ** The old joke of "The good news is, they're naming it after you" is cartooned. |
52 | ** A man rotting into a puddle of sludge is told to "Take two asprin and call me in the morning." |
53 | * ShoutOut: One strip shows a man in a fishing boat who caught Myth/TheLadyOfTheLake, who is still holding onto {{Excalibur}}. |
54 | * UglyGuyHotWife: A pair of chimps at the zoo wonder "What does she see in him?" while contemplating such a pairing. |
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