Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 20, 2016

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    BE THIS GUY  over 8 years ago

    Staci, did you at least get a kiss from Monty Hall?

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    deathrider75  over 8 years ago

    I get the Reference.

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    Jeff0811  over 8 years ago

    Looks like someone got “zonked”.

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    TMO1 Premium Member over 8 years ago

    You do have some readers that are as old or older than you, so yes, we do get the reference.

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    DangerBunny  over 8 years ago

    Meanwhile, Larry has a cunning plan!https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiNAXGeWEAARwrf.jpg:large

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    Wilde Bill  over 8 years ago

    If you’re wrong about people getting that reference, you’re probably wrong about people appreciating your puns, too.

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    debra4life1958  over 8 years ago

    I got that reference also. What does that make me? Almost 60, that’s what!! (Well, in 2 years and 1 day, that is.)

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    Ragtime78rpm  over 8 years ago

    Hmmm… well let’s see what Jay is bringing down the aisle!

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    legaleagle48  over 8 years ago

    Stephan, anyone over about 50 will get that reference!

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    Enter.Name.Here  over 8 years ago

    Wow. Now I know how my late mom felt when she spoke of watching old shows like “The Show Of Shows.” It seemed prehistoric to me, even those it was only a few years before I was born.

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    Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I am offended!

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    Brian Fink  over 8 years ago

    “Let’s make a deal” is on the game show channel “Buzzer”. I swear, I only found it by mistake in flipping around!

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    GreenIrishEyes  over 8 years ago

    A goat. It’s always a goat, not a cow. (BTW: Goats are cute!)

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    Keith Mefferd Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I enjoyed that show, too. I was a kid then, but I thought the farm animal was more often than not a goat, which would have fit the strip better anyway ;-)

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    Melki Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Shoulda taken the box.

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    juicebruce  over 8 years ago

    At least she will get some milk .

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 8 years ago

    She still has the large novelty sunglasses?

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    hariseldon59  over 8 years ago

    I remember Carol Merrill was always standing next to a curtain or a box.

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    nosirrom  over 8 years ago

    Turkey would have been a better answer.CowaPUNga!

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Let’s Make a Deal is still on, so I don’t know why no one would get the reference.

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    Daniel J.  over 8 years ago

    Um, a lot of us fans are a lot older than you think, Stephan.

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    Ichabod Ferguson  over 8 years ago

    Could have had the curtains drawn in the first panel.

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    tom  over 8 years ago

    Perhaps she would have preferred A LIFETIME SUPPLY OF RICE-A-RONI, THE SAN FRANCISCO TREAT!

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    Devo27  over 8 years ago

    NeedAChuckle got it. Wayne Brady is hosting it, with announcer/cohort Jonathan Mangum.

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    me  over 8 years ago

    The show is iconic. There is actually a probability mathematics principle referred to as the Monty Hall Problem. It explains why, after having chosen 1 of 3 curtains and elimination i of them, your best bet is now to switch your choice to the other remaining curtain.

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    mail2jbl  over 8 years ago

    If you watch reruns of the show on GSN, you’d get the reference.

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    Kevin Cook  over 8 years ago

    I’m old enough that I get the reference from when it was originally on TV

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    whiteheron  over 8 years ago

    The Gong Show was better.

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    e.groves  over 8 years ago

    I’m 71 and never watched the show so I didn’t get it either.

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    Diane Forbus  over 8 years ago

    pick door number 3 or the lady or the tiger

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    kd1sq Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Ah, the good days – I used to be a Gong Show aficionado…

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    Algolei  over 8 years ago

    Stephan just wanted to make his girlfriend say “Moooooooo”.

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    Zoja  over 8 years ago

    “Ding Dong School” with Miss Francis? Boy oh boy – I sure remember that program. I was glued to the TV when that show came on. Anybody remember “Lunch Time Little Theater”?

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    Queen of America  over 8 years ago

    I get it. Also remember Miss Francis and Ding Dong School.

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    knight1192a  over 8 years ago

    Yeah, I haven’t seen a cow as the big zonk of the day. But a mule, well saw that a couple of times, once with a cart. Just watch Let’s Make a Deal on Buzzr if you weren’t alive when the show was on to get the reference to today’s strip.

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    Plods with ...™  over 8 years ago

    I think it was a jackass, which in this case, may be appropriate.

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    water_moon  over 8 years ago

    I got the reference and I’m not nearly 50

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    Scout Rules  over 8 years ago

    Let’s Make a Deal is still on TV, it’s hosted by Wayne Brady . . . . Bitches !!! hahahahahaha

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Cows may come, cows may go, but that BULL in the basket lasts forever!!

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    Scott S  over 8 years ago

    Dating myself a little bit, but I get the reference.

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    Sherlock Watson  over 8 years ago

    Don’t have a cow, Staci.

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    Number Three  over 8 years ago

    I don’t get the reference but it’s freaking hilarious!

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    Petemejia77  over 8 years ago

    I got it. I used to wonder if the contestant got to keep those farm animals. What if they were farmers???

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    dadoctah  over 8 years ago

    I’ll bet you didn’t know that Carol Merrill is the aunt of actress Carla Gugino.

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    Sisyphos  over 8 years ago

    Cartoon-Boy in his basket on the porch (because Staci has kicked him out of the house) is so cute, just like a tiny puppy—and about as bright as one not yet trained, too!Mooo to you, C-B!

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    del_grande Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I guess Stephen doesn’t watch CBS in the mornings, or at least the hour before The Price Is Right…

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    mjb515  over 8 years ago

    I expect Stephen’s line in the last panel is what the real Staci said when told about this strip.

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    mgstrick  over 8 years ago

    Sadly I am just old enough to get the reference

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    Ainimache Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Me too, Mark!

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    Kirk Barnes Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Yeah. We will.

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    Kirk Barnes Premium Member over 8 years ago

    What’s next? “Dialing for Dollars”?

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    awgiedawgie Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I’ve watched “Let’s Make a Deal” for decades, and I still didn’t get the cow reference.

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    Snuffles [Previously Helikitty]   about 2 years ago

    I once watched an episode of “The Price is Right”. I’ve also seen “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune”. I am not over 18.

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