Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 21, 2014

One dose, and you’re in a world of pure imagination!

Again, from the funny farm to the funny pharmacy.

Is this much of a stretch from current reality, where people want the drug just because they saw it on tv?

One of the songs from “Easy Rider” comes to mind, “The Pusher”

Ask your doctor if Pastisium is right for you. If he says no, ask Rat.

He was sitting down in panel 2!

Let Rat go to Pilly Wonka’s wonder-happy pill factory and be swallowed up in a never-ending trip! All the Freds, Bobs, and Timmys of the cartoon world would be better off for it.

I have a great idea, send rat into retirement and give the characters that are funnier more space. The crocs would make excellent replacements for rat. Perhaps you could start a new strip featuring the crocs and I could then read it and skip Pearls.

That’s so unlike Rat, in the last panel

If Rat’s not careful, he’ll get kicked in the “oompa loopas”.

Looking back on the 1971 Willy Wonka movie, this seems to tie in very well.

these “slide-in” ads are driving me crazy. Can’t even read the enlarged comics ’cuz the right end gets pushed off the page.

‘Pilly Wonka’? INSPIRED Pastis. I’m going to use this for Big Pharma from now on. (hope he doesn’t mind)

Curioser & Curioser!Funnier than hell, but I gotta go with Bob here!

Suddenly the boat scene all makes sense!

As a pharmaceutical marketer I am profoundly upset by the crass way Pastis is mocking my noble profession.

Ah, yes, pills instead of treatment and cures that work. People used to think car manufacturers built in obsolescence to make money, but big Pharma knows pills and more pills is the way to make billions. After all, I’m sure every pharma co. has wondered how much they can charge for placebos.

Background music for today and yesterday: “Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills” by Ray Stevens.:Happy Googling!

Please tell me we can go to Pilly Wonka’s Pharmaceutical Phactory, Pastis!

Amazing!

xxx

Pilly Wonka?GENIUS!!!!

Oooh! Ooooh!Can we drink from the barrel of Pin-X?(Google it. Pin-X is the most revolting substance on earth.)

We had a doctor who prescribed pills for everything. He was known as Dr. Pillpusher. By the whole town!