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* OneMillionBC

* ClamshellCurrency: ''Whole'' [[LivingCurrency live]] clams are used as money throughout the game. This is actually a {{Pun}} since "clam" was a slang for "money" when the strip was created.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Fat Broad and the Cute Chick are only ever referred to by those descriptors.

** Grog can only say his name; {{subverted}} in the later years when his vocabulary evolved and he began to utter the occasional laconic one-liner every now and then.

* PrimitiveClubs: The caveman characters' main weapon is the stone club, and when they try other weapons such as spears or the bow-and-arrow, it usually causes more harm to the user than to the target. The Fat Broad routinely wields a stone club to pound snakes into mush.
* PrintLongRunners: At five decades and counting, ''B.C.'' definitely qualifies.

** Fat Broad's clubbing snakes.

* StoutStrength: Fat Broad, as mentioned above. Grog can be considered to be as well; one of his earliest appearances has him picking up a very large tree and moving it out of his way.

* StockDinosaurs: Gronk appears to be a generic sauropod. ''Brontosaurus'', ''Diplodocus'', ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', ''Velociraptor'', ''Pteranodon'', ''Dimetrodon'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', ''Dilophosaurus'', ''Brachiosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Triceratops'', and ''Spinosaurus'' appear in later comics.

* SeldomSeenSpecies:
** The Apteryx, a kiwi. In scientific taxonomy, ''Apteryx'' is the kiwi's genus name.
** In [[https://johnhartstudios.com/bc/2010/06/13/sunday_june_13_2010/ this Sunday strip]], Thor made a barbecue grill from the ribs of an indricothere and the tibias of a ''Megaloceros'' (misspelled as "Megaceros").
** In another strip, John imitates the call of a ''Utahraptor''. [[HilarityEnsues Its mating call to be precise]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

''B.C.'' is an American newspaper comic strip created in 1958 by Johnny Hart. It focuses on a small band of cavemen, led by one named B.C. Others in the strip include Peter, Clumsy Carp, Curls, Thor, Wiley, Grog, the Fat Broad and the Cute Chick (both named Jane and Grace, respectively, as of 2019). There is also a cast of talking animals that includes John the Tortoise, Dookie Bird, a family of ants, an anteater, dinosaurs, clams, snakes and an apteryx: [[RunningGag a small flightless bird with hairy feathers]] (a.k.a. a kiwi to the rest of us).

** The Apteryx, a kiwi.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Fat Broad and the Cute Chick are only ever referee to by those descriptors.

* Clams use the two halves of their shells as a mouth, and even walk around on shore on two legs! They're most notable for observing some phenomenon, and broadcasting the news loudly, such as "DINOS GOT WHEELS!"

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Curls:%%Quotes aren't context.
%%-->'''B.C.:''' I'd like you to meet Curls, master of sarcastic humor.\\
%%'''Clumsy Carp:''' Let's hear you say something funny.\\
%%'''Curls:''' I'm pleased to meet you.

''B.C.'' is an American newspaper comic strip created in 1958 by Johnny Hart. It focuses on a small band of cavemen, led by one named B.C. Others in the strip include Peter, Clumsy Carp, Curls, Thor, Wiley, Grog, the Fat Broad and the Cute Chick. There is also a cast of talking animals that includes John the Tortoise, Dookie Bird, a family of ants, an anteater, dinosaurs, clams, snakes and an apteryx: [[RunningGag a small flightless bird with hairy feathers]] (a.k.a. a kiwi to the rest of us).

* StockDinosaurs: Gronk appears to be a generic sauropod. ''Brontosaurus'', ''Diplodocus'', ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', ''Velociraptor'', ''Pteranodon'', ''Dimetrodon'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', ''Dilophosaurus'', ''Brachiosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', and ''Triceratops'' appear in later comics.

Initially, ''B.C.'' was a gag-a-day strip. After Hart became a born-again Christian in 1977, the strip gradually began adding more and more of Hart's [[WriterOnBoard religious and political beliefs]] until most strips were Christian-themed. Some newspapers refused to print certain strips that were deemed overly proselytizing. After Hart's death in 2007, it reverted to a mostly gag-a-day strip maintained by daughter Perri Hart and grandson Mason Mastroianni.

* StockDinosaurs: Gronk appears to be a generic sauropod. ''Brontosaurus'', ''Diplodocus'', ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Velociraptor'', ''Pteranodon'', ''Dimetrodon'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', ''Dilophosaurus'', ''Brachiosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', and ''Triceratops'' appear in later comics.

* BigFriendlyDog: Wolf, more or less.

-->'''Thor:''' Diet not going well?
-->'''Fat Broad:''' Be quiet and close the lid.

* DeadpanSnarker: Curls
-->'''B.C.:''' I'd like you to meet Curls, master of sarcastic humor.
-->'''Clumsy Carp:''' Let's hear you say something funny.
-->'''Curls:''' I'm pleased to meet you.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep / ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Fat Broad is a very heavyset woman. The Cute Chick is all the men's dream girl.
** That being said, the Fat Broad appears to be more thick-muscled than fat, even though the characters (herself included) reference her being fat. She's proven herself multiple times to be the [[StoutStrength strongest]] character in the comic.

* TheKlutz[=/=]MeaningfulName: Clumsy Carp.
** Clumsy once attempted to raise his confidence by insisting people stop calling him that. After he falls flat on his face ''while standing still'', he settles on the name "Clumsy Pike".

* RemovableShell: John has one.

* RunningGag: Fat Broad's clubbing snakes, the apteryx' introduction of itself as "a wingless bird with hairy feathers," countless more.

** The Apteryx.

* ClamshellCurrency: ''Whole'' clams are used as money throughout the game. This is actually a {{Pun}} since "clam" was a slang for "money" when the strip was created.

* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: Gronk tried speaking long before [[SuddenlyVoiced he found his voice]] but could only manage nonsense words, which happen to be acronyms. The entire strip for that day has him saying things like "ASCAP" and "NAACP".

* PokemonSpeak: Grog can only say his name; {{subverted}} in the later years when his vocabulary evolved and he began to utter the occasional laconic one-liner every now and then.
** Gronk before he was SuddenlyVoiced.

* SuddenlyVoiced: The Dinosaur (aka Gronk) in later strips. Also Grog in one commercial and a strip from January 24, 1977.

* StockDinosaurs: Gronk appears to be a generic sauropod. ''Brontosaurus'', ''Diplodocus'', ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Velociraptor'', ''Pteranodon'', ''Dimetrodon'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', ''Dilophosaurus'', ''Brachiosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', and ''Parasaurolophus'' appear in later comics, with mention made of ''Triceratops''.

B.C. also had a brief stint as a video game character, with ''B.C.'s Quest for Tires'', released by Creator/{{Sierra}} in 1983. A sequel, entitled ''Grog's Revenge'', was released a year later in 1984.