B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for August 29, 2013

huh?

Not funny when you have to explain it. :o(

Because of the position of their eyes at the sides of their heads and slightly moved back, some birds, like the pigeon, can better see what’s behind them than in front. It’s all about spotting predators.

doin’ that “woodcock shuffle”

OK, I didn’t get the joke until the above comments explained about non-predator birds having sideways facing eyes. But, I then noticed the last panel where the bird is explaining what is going on and he his facing the reader with both eyes facing forward! Wouldn’t that give him a overlapping field of view?

I agree. Nothing irks me more than having to explain a joke I’ve told. Of course, if I’m telling the joke to a lady and she is cute enough, it doesn’t bother me as much.

I understand the predator/prey bit in regards to the eyes, but what significance does the cloud over the bird’s head have in panel 4?

Still this implies the error of the cartoonist is that of thinking too highly of his readers.Surely this beats assuming we are as ignorant as we really are.

If it needs a whole page of explanation, it’s not that funny.

Too stupid to even comment on.

And yet, here you are…

Even for those of us who know all about lack of overlapping vision, this strip still elicits a “huh?” response. There is no joke to the explanation of what the problem is, unless it be the (unwitting?) incongruity of the subject with two issues. One is alluded to above, that in the final frame, the eyes are oriented correctly for overlapping vision. The other is that pushing your head forward then pulling it backward is not going to do anything about the underlying problem. Only turning your head from side to side (as real birds do) will do that. I have put “unwitting?” with a question mark, because maybe that incongruity is what Mason was going for, but if so, he made the joke too obscure.

I thought he was doing a Chuck Berry

yeah it misses a bit,

It’s not funny even after having it explained.

What’s the point of the “zip” in panel 2?

Now I have the earworm “When The Red Red Robin Goes Bob Bob Bobbing Along” stuck in my head..

Reminds me of a nice looking young lass walking across the street the other day..She looked like she had two puppies wrestling underneath her sweater.

I seen a story on the Discovery Channel about this beetle that had “snapshot vision”. It took a snapshot of the trail ahead of it and then took off more or less blind. After 5 feet of so it would stop and take another snapshot and take off again. If something changed after it took off it would not know about it. They would put blocks in front of it after it took off and it would run into the head on. I felt sorry for it. Its whole life is nothing but a series of still pictures. Moving video is beyond anything it will ever know. I wished I could remember the name of that beetle.

what kind of bird is that????!!!!!!!!!