B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for October 04, 2023

ruh roh, don’t wake the sleeping predator!

With you there, he won’t be struggling to find supper.

Eat him, before he gets in the gene pool

For the carnivore, there is time to sleep as well.

And where the stupid show off how stupid they are.

Geez, you frightened me!

And now we observe the sabertooth in a life or death struggle with our host.

This is so true to life of reality shows! I know someone who was in one, it is like: “Here, stand over here and look like you’re working on this machine.”

Observe him struggling to survive now.

Fangs for the memory……

Does the microphone make this a sci-fi strip?

am I the only one wondering why the saber-toothed tiger went extinct and H0mo sapiens not?

My girlfriend wants me to choose between her and my career as a reporter.

I have some breaking news for her.

After years of being in jail, Lance, a reporter was released from prison.

Now he’s freelance.

Reporters and anchors should really be more careful…

they’re always breaking news.

Poor saber-toothed cat. Now he has to decide – swipe left or swipe right.

The strong need their rest, too.

Only the good die young…but not always! :D

C.H.O.M.P.

Yes — it’s about to become QUITE the Struggle!!

Cavemen got microphones!

The ancestor of the guy who did a documentary on bears and then got eaten by one?

A prehistoric “Touron”!

….that’s his Que!!!!!!

Good idea, scream and wake up the predator that can tear you to pieces, you are very smart!

The birth of the Darwin Awards.

I’m guessing at some point during the evolution of this strip the creators realized there was no way to maintain its success by keeping the BC time frame. There’s only so much prehistoric fodder to play off for a laugh. So they began to inject the modern world artifacts into an obviously non-modern environment like these. I wonder what if the original strips stayed more in the BC period.

Somehow the word struggle and sabre tooth tiger don’t go together. Now if the tiger takes a liking to dinner of commentator on rye, then we’ll see struggling.

Now get out there and kill something!!

[Shot of wolf, standing still]

“Here we see an ant. This ant is engaged in a life or death struggle with the wolf. You can see the ant creeping up on the wolf on all sixes.”

[A moving arrow is superimposed]

“Now he stops to observe. Satisfied that the wolf has not heard him, he approaches nearer. With great skill he chooses his moment and then, quick as a limpet, with one mighty bound…”

[The arrow moves to the wolf’s throat. The wolf does not move]

“…buries his fangs in the wolf’s neck. The wolf struggles to no avail. A battle of this kind can take anything up to fifteen years because the timber ant has such a tiny mouth.”

You should know better.

Crikey!

He did. He won. He’s sleeping it off. Your turn meat. …run

NOW we’ll see it.

Let Sleeping Sabretooth Cats Lie!

Let’s show the viewers out there how ferocious this man-eater can be!

….and there you have it ladies and gentlemen, the true beginning of the Darwin Award. Thank for tuning in and good night from all of us here at ABC news.

As a boy, I’ve poked a sleeping dog with a stick … ’wonder how a cat would react.

Is this the jungle, the mighty jungle? Does the lion sleep here tonight? Is this the jungle, the quiet jungle, where the lion sleeps tonight? Am I asking too much?

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

The next panel should be interesting…

Whose survival?