Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 12, 2015
Transcript:
Goat: Hey, Pig. Why the farmer clothes? Pig: Farmer Bob hired me to herd is his flock of sheep, but it's hard. Goat: How come? Pig: Because I need to move the flock, but there's a barbed wire fence blocking one direction and now there's a winery's grapes blocking the other direction. Goat: So what do you do? Pig: I herd it through the grapevine. Goat: Ewe make me sick.
bryan.wicks1 over 9 years ago
So baaaad. ;-)
DocNero over 9 years ago
Stop wineing about the jokes.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago
Hay, don’t baather… you can even make Stephan feel sheepish.
I’m too ladylike to use “flock” in this comment, or I would tell you what he doesn’t give.
blunebottle over 9 years ago
But hey, it’s a great song to have playing in my head late at night……..
alviebird over 9 years ago
I had just put my guitar down, and now I’ve got to go pick it up again. Got to play some CCR.
Bilan over 9 years ago
Sure enough, there are plenty of barbed comments.
Ragtime78rpm over 9 years ago
Goat’s going to show him the grapes of wrath.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago
CDavies…. Copyright laws??Every so often this gets mentioned in this forum….
Consider: If mentioning published works broke copyright laws there could be no book or movie reviews.
And if purposely misspelling the titles, making bad (good) puns and even publishing outright parodies broke any copyright laws, there would be no Mad Magazine or Saturday Night Live.
And don’t worry about Stephan Pastis knowing what he can say…. he’s a media rights lawyer.
waynl over 9 years ago
DING! DING! DING! DING!Winner, winner, mutton dinner!
Darque Hellmutt over 9 years ago
“I herd it thru the grapevine” … And I’m just about to lose my mind!
PICTO over 9 years ago
This kind of pun lends a lot Creedence to Cartoon Boy’s abilities.
liberalnlovinit over 9 years ago
Suppose it could have been worse – he could take his sheep and get the flock out of there…
liberalnlovinit over 9 years ago
Satire is protected from copyright law.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 9 years ago
If a sheep attacks “ewe”, does that make him a wooly bully?!?
loveabulldesign over 9 years ago
I feel like this was a missed opportunity for someone to respond with “I’m about to lose my mind.” Like Rat menacing S with a baseball bat and saying it… ah well…
Kaputnik over 9 years ago
Love the puns, don’t care for them always complaining to Stephan in the last frame. Embrace the puns. Never apologize for the puns.
Mighty Phavahg over 9 years ago
No “inspiration” from the recent court case? Now Pastis will be sued by Gaye’s estate too.
singlefemalelaywer over 9 years ago
This joke was SHEAR nonsense !!!!!!!
sarah413 Premium Member over 9 years ago
I he(a)rd it through the grapevine, not much longer and you’ll be wine. Suffice it to say, the grapes were crushed when they heard that.
Dacker Premium Member over 9 years ago
CCR?
This song was originally recorded by Smokey Robinson but made famous by Marvin Gaye. CCR was just one of several later bands which covered it later on.
Defective Premium Member over 9 years ago
Unfortunately, this one was so poor compared to his other recent endeavors, that it didn’t even elicit a smile. It’s just sad.
alviebird over 9 years ago
CCR, because I’m a guitar player. I’m aware of the song’s pedigree and history.
peggykb9 over 9 years ago
Gladys Knight and the Pips had a hit with it before Marvin did. CCR had a somewhat different audience. All were good versions. For some reason, I am now craving some raisins.
FlatheadFord over 9 years ago
Next up – A sheep attacking farmer pig to the tune “I get a kick out of ewe”.
gmu328 over 9 years ago
somebody already mentioned about just about losing his mind … we all know patsis has lost his long time ago and we are the better for it …
BillWa over 9 years ago
Probably just rammed them through.
Sisyphos over 9 years ago
I blame this all on you, Farmer Bob!
I can’t believe Cartoon Boy would rush in where Cholmondeley fears to tread; that could make ewe sick….
hitek1st over 9 years ago
“How come” is not a word.
Sherlock Watson over 9 years ago
Stephan must have come up with this after giving in to Temptations and having a little Smokey.
khcm1157 over 9 years ago
In California we call that ‘Raisin Hell’.
abbybookcase over 9 years ago
anyone who doesn’t like the puns can go collect barbed wire
Arianne over 9 years ago
I don’t think Stephan is happy about this either. And the way we know that he isn’t Gladys, that you don’t hear a Pip out of him.
legaleagle48 over 9 years ago
And yet the California Raisins get no credit!
damifid0 over 9 years ago
Keep on, keeping on, Stephen. :)
barister over 9 years ago
Most folks liked Gaye’s version, but Gladys’ version was easier and much fun to dance to…especially the part where the horn section goes wild. Justabout, justabout, justabout to loose my mind… oh yes I am. Classic dance tune. Go Gladys. Luv u to Marvin.
Number Three over 9 years ago
Too funny!
Please don’t stop, Stephan!
xxx
hariseldon59 over 9 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDGbaCsatQ
Lyons Group, Inc. over 9 years ago
Arianne over 9 years ago
Oh, mercy, mercy me! Points!
jbmlaw01 over 9 years ago
If you aren’t too Thicke you don’t have to worry about Gayes.
Snoopy_Fan over 9 years ago
Now that’s just not fair-el…
Snoopy_Fan over 9 years ago
I know, right? Sometimes the line you mustn’t cross gets blurred…
Bargrove over 9 years ago
Is it true that the ram jumped off the cliff when he heard“There’ll never be another ewe?”
singkong2012 over 9 years ago
I don’t think he gives a flock
alviebird over 9 years ago
I’m aware of the song’s history, but I’m a guitar player. Therefore, it’s only natural that I focus on the guitar oriented version.
Mikel V over 9 years ago
What the flock?!
SFSecurity over 9 years ago
STOP THIEF!!!!
Rhymes With Orange used this punchline quite a while ago.
http://rhymeswithorange.com/comics/march-30-2014-2/
claire de la lune. over 9 years ago
That set-up was spot on!
comicsnerd74 over 9 years ago
Okay, these bad pun strips are getting old…But what made it good would be the “ewe make me sick”.This time he was lucky that Rat wasn’t emptying gasoline on his desk (which happened in another “bad pun” strip a couple of years ago)