Strip here. What cliche?
Don’t know if this will help or not, but the comments from this site might have something:
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“Where the sun don’t shine”
Part of the problem is that it isn’t even vaguely clever, amusing, or funny, and so it’s hard to have that moment of “OH I GET IT! HAHAHAHAHA!” when you know that you’ve found what the artist is getting at.
Great site. And I think it must be the “where the sun don’t shine” cliche. Just another unfunny B. C.
Strange… I took it as a play off of “head buried in the sand”. See, he missed the sand and has his head ‘buried’ in the water…
Astroboy14, that’s probably what he told the censors.
That’s the problem with making an unfunny comic. Nobody knows if they’ve “gotten” the joke because there is never a “oh, haha!” moment. 
Yeah, I read it as “Where the sun don’t shine”, presumably because the cavemen go Scottish under those…fur…rag…things…
B.C. has actually marginally improved since Hart died. There are much fewer glurge strips, for one thing.
The fact that the guy has his head under water, for no good reason, distracts from the joke.
Not…necessarily. Clumsy often has his head underwater, observing the fish in the lake/stream/ocean/whatever that is. It’s not out of character.
This one seems obvious to me: burying your head in the sand. In comes the tide, the guy drowns. Not funny, but it’s B.C.
Maybe you shouldn’t bury your head in the sand because you’ll end up drowning?
I don’t think it’s burying your head in the sand, because nothing in the strip would invalidate that cliche. Sure, it means you die, but it’s still something you could do. The “where the sun don’t shine” one is invalidated by the strip, because the alleged “place” has the sun shining on it, meaning that that is no longer a place where the sun don’t shine.
I think it’s a pretty clear reference to “where the sun don’t shine”. I also thought it was kind of funny. If Rat and Pig or Bucky and Satchel had done the same joke, I’ll bet a lot of people would have thought it was edgy and funny.
Yeah, this is a common Clumsy Carp setup from waaaaaaaaaay back. All the way back to when B.C. was funny, in fact.
Johnny Hart is dead? It’s been so long since I gave B.C. or The Wizard of Id even a passing glance, I never knew.
Not to speak ill of the dead, but I think it’s a bit amusing that the memorial page on the Creators Syndicate is practically a who’s who of washed up and unknown cartoonists, some of whom still struggle to say something nice about him. Garry Trudeau is the biggest name, and he sings the praises of Hart’s cartoons “before Johnny introduced religion into B.C.” I’m not sure Hart would appreciate that!
I keep hearing about this supposed time when B.C. was funny, but the evidence of this must have been lost in the Flood Johnny no doubt believed in. (I’ve certainly seen more evidence of the Flood than of Johnny Hart being funny.) Are any of these alegedly funny strips on line?
I thought it was more along the lines of “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”
This strip was kind of funny:
So was the whole “Clams got legs!” storyline, in a surreal sort of way.
http://www.steveklotz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/clams-got-legs.gif
Okay, so it’s a goatse joke?