Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 29, 2014

Rat has fairy babies!

Ho hum. How else would a male rat get pregnant?

My thoughts exactly, Goat in the final panel.

Well, there’s another way, but I’m pretty sure that the “Junior” plot wouldn’t make as good a joke.

Well rat being pregnant is fairy hard to believe.

Rat was about to exercise his right to free speech, but he got screwed.

OMG! I laughed so hard it actually made my eyes water. Well done!

Yesterday Rat looked like he could be pregnant. Or like he seriously overate at a 99¢ buffet in Vegas then fell asleep while watching Twins on some cable channel (I still prescribe to that theory). Today he just looks like the a typical beer guzzling couch potato. Especially in that last panel. Maybe it was a 99¢ beer buffet.

heh Goat, where have you been for the past, oh, SIX MONTHS or so…………

Sillier and sillier. I don’t believe in Santa or the Easter Bunny either

It was just one of those things…just one of those crazy flings …

If three wise men show up, I’m outta here.

Censors destroy today’s strip…

It’s all Stephen’s fault. Think of the possibilities of that!

Goat’s lament in panel 3 is well-founded. Maybe Cartoon-Boy has been sniffing the fairy dust a little too much….

We’ve never seen Paris this angry before!

This is the way the Pythons would write it

I still say Rat’s like Rosebud from Bloom County.

Where are the Zeeba’s???

Stephan did it…….he was drunk at the time and just got lonely.

I’ll wait for the movie “Ratbit Test”

From the toilet seat, obviously.

There was a Dilbert strip some time ago where Dilbert thought he was pregnant. He thought this because he was hungry all the time and was gaining weight.

This has turned into a “PG” comic strip, Loving it.

@F6F5Hellcat – where can I find that 99¢ Beer Buffet?

Pink or blue? Rats usually have a litter, so chances are s/he’ll have boys and girls.

Well, if Loki could give birth to Sleipnir…

Good question Goat, VERY good question

Rat came out of the closet. She’s been a woman all this time!

Raiders fan?

Being bloated isn’t the same as being pregnant; all that beer….

It would have been funnier if it was Pigetta who was pregnant just because it would involve pig (I’m not just talking about in that way)

“What’s happening in this Comic?” I have the feeling no one knows, least of all Pastis!

No #&@$!

Tell me this is all a bad dream Mr. Pastis is having – the thought of Rat breeding gives me nightmares!

Either Rat is a girl,or Rat recently ate.Theres gotta be a plot twist here somewhere.

Maybe it will all turn out to be Pam’s dream. (Remember “Dallas”?)

um, the Loophole? as sung on YT [>2mil views] by darlin’ misses Garfunkel and Oates:

the loophole

Harvey Milk always said to keep on trying.

I wonder what’s going to go on from here.

Rat is “Middlesex”. She found out at the time of puberty that she was really a girl when she went to the bathroom and then yelled, “Mom, Guess What!” She hid it until…

Drunk? A special change surgery? Both?

No, it was not immaculate conception, it was spontaneouscombustion. And when it turns out that Rat is NOT pregnant, how many of us will say…“I knew it all the time.” Any bets?

It’s just a beer belly…

Has rat ever been defined as a “he”?

@naturally_easy

Yes.

First comment in 7 years

Can’t wait for the birth!

Huh. Didn’t expect to see a rat mpreg today.