Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 04, 2013

I saw this pun coming in the first panel, but the payoff was still brilliantly funny. Bravo, Stephan.:Maybe Goat would be in a better mood if he made a little doe.

Don’t worry, a spoonful of sugar helps the puns go down.

[Bullwinkle]I think I shall now be sick.[/Bullwinkle]

Clever?

Sorry, I meant to say clever!

Now that was quite atrocious in the second to the last panel.

Yes, that’s what those last panels are for. And I’m pretty sure he doesn’t read these comments, so giving him your feedback here isn’t going to help.

Well, corny or not, it was still impressive that Stephan pulled it off with only four panels for the setup. Good job.

Julie Andrews has a penchant for famously salty language. So I’m sure she’d be even more explicit than Rat in saying just exactly what Cartoon-Pastis deserves for perpetrating this highly contrived groaner.I, for my part, kinda liked it because it was so well contrived….

Doe, a deer, a female deer …

Reminiscent of an old 1-panel comic which portrayed visual puns (can’t remember the name)- a picture went with each part:

Super CowA Fragile ListStickEggsPeaAlleyDoughShush!

Rhymes with atrocious?

Long row to hoe.

Bravo! Bravisimo! Right on target!

The man just can’t help himself, thankfully.

I’ll be glad to do it for Mary…

What’s a super doing visiting the building? Isn’t he there every day? And how is he making decisions about raising rent, let alone about selling the place? Since when does a super have such authority?

Grooooooooaaaaaaaannnnnnn (Labored groan for a labored pun)

I could see it coming from the first panel but couldn’t look away. Damn you, Pastis!

To paraphrase Kitty Pryde as written by Warren Ellis: “Reading these pun strips is like watching train wreck: horrible but strangely fascinating.” _

Maybe too late for Pastis, but we can always take out a restraining order on you…

Heard Pastis was going to help write a new movie script: “Any Given Punday”.

Could happen.

Love the puns !!!!!!! This one is great. Quit complaining people, you get straight comics more than 95% of the time.This made my day……………………

Very clever and fun too.

Lame or not, he attracts a lot of comments, I’d say he’s doing something right.

supercaliforniasurfersexpertontheocean

hahaha!!! that is the best pun ive heard sence the one deer full wiz herd of hoss XD

come to think of it dident get fuzzy do somthing simaler to this a few years ago?

I loved it. I knew it was coming but I laughed out loud anyway.

Awesome tortured pun

Barf a little, cry a little….etc.

Pastis delenda est

Maybe if we ignore him . . .

C’mon now, she’s a saint! Of course, I’m a sinner. Although I’m not a virgin, I’ve still never had nun.

Those train comments reminded me that Ignatz’s great-great-grandnephew has a one-track mind…and said track is an abandoned spur!!

EPIC! :)

I love the female deer. Brought in by Pastis to represent one word of the pun, and then utter a single two-word line. What’s the pay rate for that in cartoon-world, I wonder?

I did NAZI that coming

Brilliant!

The hills are alive with the sound of THE MOB CHASING PASTIS…..Dough, is what I pay for beerRay, the guy who pours my beer.Me, I’m the one who drinks the beer,Far, I have to go for beer.So, I’ll have another beer.La! It’s almost closing time!Tea? I never touch the stuff.And now I find I have no dough….

Great, I watched “Mary Poppins” Thursday night.

That started my Sunday off with an instant headache. Thanks Steph!

Great one!

Worth the trip.

Gawd, Stephan must have got a brain cramp figuring this one out.

This is classic Pastis. For which I wait and continue to read. It’s like the story of the long way to tip a rarery.

This one was so transparent, it was obvious in the first frame. Really lost its punch.

I salute the master, Stephan Pastis!(bow, scrape)You should make Rat an accomplice in one of these, he’ll really love that!

SP:SLM.even Fuzzy fans agree.

SUPERB!

Thank God this isn’t Aaron Neathery’s comic. Otherwise Ratwould actually say the “A” word!

I actually loved it! Great panel :)

[Face-palm]

I knew something bad was coming, and … yeah.

On the other hand, this was impressive work by Stephan.

I probably shouldn’t encourage him, but I know jokes like this are why I love “Pearls”.

I do…

In the paper version this morning, in the final panel, Mary has two Rs — Marry Poppins. An added dimension to the pun? Nah, just a typo.

Man… When I make awful jokes like that, I get smacked. But him? He makes a living off of them….I’m obviously in the wrong business….

Brilliant!

Don’t shoot the messenger, Stephan.

LOL xxx

Use a beach umbrella on him R a t !!!!!!!

It is scary to see Steph has not yet gone as low as he can

Talk about convulated, and it’s a re-run at that

I don’t agree with Rat on most occasions, but on this one…

Rat, I’ll hold him down!!

You know, you can say it backwards, which is: Doe shush, Ally expects lipstick from Auntie Cali Rupes.

IMO, if you said it backwards, you’d say, “suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus.”

Too bad “Linus” mag is no longer on sale in Italy. But I wouldn’t have liked to be the poor guy being assigned the task of translating this.

My print paper spells it “Marry Poppins” in the last panel. Someone cheated and corrected it here…

Of course, that saves a convoluted PeeWee Herman excuse: “I meant to do that!”

Mary Poppins is a bad &@#

I just love this. Absolutely adore it.

although I am not a fan of cursing, I do agree with Rat’s action. It must be a sllllooooowwww day in comic strip land.

I really look forward to these, I love the PUNishment.

I laughed so hard I fell off my chair at this one, even though I did see it coming. Great!

Hit him in his chim churoo chim churee!

Super callous fragile mystic hexed by halitosis

As soon as I heard rat’s last line in panel 1 I knew there was yet another bad pun coming our way.

Did you hear that Disney is starting up a dental practice? They’re going to specialize in bad breath symptoms. They’re calling it ‘SuperCaliFragilisticExtremeHalitosis’!

Ok, that was really good.