Cow Tools is arguably the most famous and confusing single-panel comic from Gary Larson's The Far Side, first published in 1982. It depicts a cow standing behind a table featuring four bizarre, crudely made tools, one of which resembles a saw. The comic sparked a massive wave of confusion among readers who contacted newspapers to ask for the explanation, leading Larson to eventually clarify that there was no deep meaning—he just thought it was funny to imagine what a cow's poorly fashioned tools would look like. In internet culture, Cow Tools has been reclaimed as a symbol of absurdist humor, shitposting, and the idea of things that are nonsensical yet oddly specific, often used to mock poorly designed products or abstract concepts.