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Lewis and Clark meet Sylvia and Rhonda.
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Larson apparently used “Sylvia” and “Rhonda” as go-to names for his recurring gag archetype of ordinary, slightly ditzy suburban women who show up in absurd contexts.
There’s no single canonical “Sylvia and Rhonda,” those two names just recur across several different Far Side panels as stand-ins for that “unremarkable women reacting drolly to something bizarre” trope.
Anticomedy! Anticomedy! pitchforks
i feel like the true larson style is to interpret every sylvia and rhonda as being the same canonical ones.
I posted some related commentary of his recently in another thread. The relevant bit:
Mr. Pembrose (I have no idea where this name came from. In general, I just try to match characters with names that “feel right.”)
The beginning of the FSCU.
