A bit of the old brilliance showing through.
I didn’t think it was that funny, but that could be because I needed a dictionary.
You think that’s scary?
Today’s Family Circus made me giggle.
Not a whole lot, but it did.
OMFG! A hair/hare pun!
That’s frigging hilarious!
I haven’t laughed so hard since I mislaid my 1916 first edition of “Japes for gentlemen, a compendium of wit for use in the aid of ice-breaking during business and social engagements.”
Okay, so it’s a joke that hasn’t been funny for almost 90 years. It’s still a joke that used to be funny, which puts it head and shoulders above anything Hart’s written in my life time.
Huh. I thought the joke was about using electricity to remove the Energizer Bunny from his head.
Guess I’m no fun at parties.
It’s a twist on the hair/hare pun, which I’d neer seen before. It made me smile. Much better than the usual “X got Y!” joles he does.
I don’t get it. What’s so funny about losing a book?
Unless it was a really dreary and depressing book (the title woud tend to suggest that it may have been), and you were laughing with relief.
Old brilliance? When was Johnny Hart ever brilliant?
Well, I dunno. I thought his stuff from the sixties was hilarious, but I was a lot younger.
It makes me sad how few of his recent strips even attempt something I can recognize as a joke.
I thought it was at least cleverly subtle. At least the sign over the cave didn’t say “Hair Removal”.
Exactly! Remember water balls?
I haven’t laughed so hard at a BC strip since the last time I pulled out one of his paparback collections from the early '70s. Then again, I’m a sucker for visual puns.
That’s just it. Where can I turn to for yucks without it? At least I still have this one committed to memory:
Thankfully, Johnny Hart is there to fill (in his small way) the void left by my cherished copy of Japes for gentlemen, a compendium of wit for use in the aid of ice-breaking during business and social engagements.
Larry Mudd: Reminds me of the “1,001 Riddles” book I had as a kid, which contained such immortal knee-slappers as:
Q. When is a boy not a boy?
A. When he’s abed.
I must be some kind of dumbass, I totally didn’t get the joke.
Ah. I remember the one day the Laugh Parade was funny. Preposterous, you say? Chequez vous:
Background, a flying saucer.
Foreground, an alien with an acoustic guitar.
“I have a message for the people of earth, and it goes a little something like this.”
I enjoyed this particular strip. Non-obvious visual pun with a subtle undercurrent of bizarre (no electricity in pre-historic times). Good for a chuckle.
World Eater:
Electrologists remove hair. He had a hare on his head. snort
Ditto. Electrologist, in case we’re not the only ones. Even after I read it, it wasn’t that funny. The Family Circus thing I adamantly refuse to believe.
Thanks guys, no chance it will be funny now though.