# The lamest cartoon gets lamer: Pitting Johnny Hart & B.C. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 2, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036 "2005-05-02T06:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/61 "2005-05-03T19:38:06Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > I thought Andy was beat by Flo, not the other way around. She wielded the rolling pin, he was impervious to pain due to liberal application of ale. Are you thinking of **The Lockhorns** , perchance? Now that was a non-PC strip that got drummed out of every U.S. newspaper once people finally figured out that drunks weren’t lovable and spousal abuse wasn’t funny. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/62 "2005-05-03T19:41:38Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > Are you thinking of **The Lockhorns** , perchance? > > Now that was a non-PC strip that got drummed out of every U.S. newspaper once people finally figured out that drunks weren’t lovable and spousal abuse wasn’t funny. The Denver Post still runs the Lockhorns; it’s slightly more restrained these days. Flo did give Andy as good as she got. Andy Capp was far more un-PC than The Lockhorns - also funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/63 "2005-05-03T19:53:41Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > Are you thinking of **The Lockhorns** , perchance? > > Now that was a non-PC strip that got drummed out of every U.S. newspaper once people finally figured out that drunks weren’t lovable and spousal abuse wasn’t funny. I don’t think the **Lockhorns** ever came to blows, though. I do know that **Andy Capp** would often come home piss drunk only to be met by **Flo** ’s rolling pin. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/64 "2005-05-03T19:59:16Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > I do know that **Andy Capp** would often come home piss drunk only to be met by **Flo** ’s rolling pin. Andy Capp must have been really good in bed, to hold onto Flo. Speaking of which, I guess none of the B.C. cavemen have gotten into the Cute Cavegirl’s animal skin, otherwise there’d be little cavemen . . . ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/65 "2005-05-03T20:17:20Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Speaking of which, I guess none of the B.C. cavemen have gotten into the Cute Cavegirl’s animal skin, otherwise there’d be little cavemen . . . Of course not. They’re all good christians, so no sex before marriage. Since there’s no minister around to marry them… And how dare you imply that the Cute Chick is anything other than a paragon of chasity? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/66 "2005-05-03T20:57:38Z")
Is she wearing panties under that oh-so-short little hide number? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/67 "2005-05-03T21:00:26Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > I do believe those of you who say that \*The Wizard Of Id \* and _B.C._ were actually funny once upon a time. I’m only in my early 30s, so I’ve really only been able to read these strips when they sucked. If anyone can conjure a link to some of these funny treasures, that’d be cool. I have a bunch of BC books from the 60s and 70s. I think Hart is at his best when he makes a sight gag, pun, or wheel joke; all three still turn up on occasion. > [@stpauler](#): > > Only one panel. Mother and Father were entertaining friends in the living room with Father sitting and Mother serve snacks off of a tray. All four adults look shocked/startled as Billy is running into the room crying. The text below said “But Dad, I don’t wanna sit on my thumb!” > > 😕 > > Was sitting on one’s thumb considered punishment? We couldn’t figure this out for the life of us. Perhaps they were trying to get Billy to stop sucking his thumb. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/68 "2005-05-03T22:36:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Don’t go calling ME a whippersnapper, you punk kids! Well, if you’d really _prefer_ to be known as a dour old codger with a stunted sense of humor… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/69 "2005-05-03T22:38:37Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Well, if you’d really _prefer_ to be known as a dour old codger with a stunted sense of humor… …then you could get a job writing B.C. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/70 "2005-05-04T00:43:51Z")
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Great pickup! –Cliffy, mirthful ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036/71 "2005-05-04T15:24:53Z")
I remember several funny ones where the ditzy bird (the one that perches on top of John the turtle) is doing messenger duty for the cave men, and keeps screwing it up, e.g., > [@](#): > > Bird: He said to tell you you’re a four-timing, two low, yellow-down belly flusher! > > Cave Woman: 😕 And Clumsy Carp with his various obsessions and absurd skills, the early wars between Wiley and the fat broad… it wasn’t always a gold mine but there were lots of highly amusing veins back in the day. > [@](#): > > OK, then, as long as you agree not to tell anyone we got legs, I suppose we can trust you and we won’t have to kill you. > > OK. > > Shake! > > ! Clams got arms ! > > ::glares from all the other clams:: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lamest-cartoon-gets-lamer-pitting-johnny-hart-b-c/302036.md?page=3)