Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 19, 2018

I have to agree with Rat. I’ve Haydn enough of this character.

Best Bugs Bunny Franz Lizst? Never heard of him! ;-D

After this prolonged ordeal, I’ll be Chopin around for another strip!

I thought we were done with this arc. The puns have all been made by your readers, Pastis! And better than yours!

Rat, time to beat the drums to quell the Lizst of puns

At least he didn’t say I’ll be Bach. That would be too low.

(but not for me)

well, composer Liszt’s first name WAS Franz (or in his native Hungarian, Ferenc)

Get rid of this Larry Fine wannabe!

Maybe he’ll leave if you call him a Schubert to pick him up

It’s Liszt, not Lizst.

Rat needs to stay composed if he’s going to get through this.

Time to introduce Cartoon Boy to the three “Bs”…Bam, Biff, and Bop.

Just as I thought it was safe, he’s back…

Keep a piano ready high above your doorstep, Rat.

I want to see if Pastis can use Shostakovich in a pun.

A Grieged!!

I thought the music puns were over.

I am immensely disappointed and my day is now ruined.

……and there it is.

he is just trying to bring Hume the Bacon

Dent his hat, Rat.

Hit him twice, please.

Don’t you Hadyn from DennisinSeattle, Pastis! He has a liszt for you!!

Some people just can’t Handel puns.

Franz should go over to Peanuts and hang out with Schroeder.

Ok Rat, I can’t Strauss this enough, If you want to Handel this the right way, don’t use a bat. Get a Gluck if you want to Schubert him in the Bach or an axe if you want to Chopin and Mahler him. But make sure you have a good alibi that won’t un Ravel or the Verdi ct against you will be guilty of murder in the first de Grieg

Well, at least the punning professor didn’t introduce a three foot tall composer and start singing “I’ve got a little Liszt”.

It’s impossible to mendel any of this dumb humor… :D

You walked right in to that one rat.

Hit him Rat, Hit him!!

Quit stringing this along!

If you hit him in the eyes, he won’t be able to C#.

…Beat on the Steve with a broken seive, Rat! No, wait…Beat on the baseball bat with a basebl bat !!!!

Yeh, Bach off!!!

he’s scaring the BG-ebbers out of me

Steph should be giving rat an evil grin.

Let’s all form a line behind Rat. I want in on some of that action!

Yet he makes money from his work, and you don’t. You aren’t clever.

well I’m not reading all the comments so if someone else said this I apologize If he was Hayden Rat would be Bach later

Can’t think of another comic that’s broken the third wall (no 4th wall in 2D) over the years; ‘course I don’t know if this is even breaking a wall, more like breaking Pastis.

Yes.. Lizst stop these punz..

It’s good to see him thinking outside the Bachs.

Take it with a grain of Salieri, you pun haters! No matter how much you may abuse ‘Toon Boy and try to put him in a Cage he’ll only run Offenbach again.

Oooh, lawyer joke -

What’s a good weight for a lawyer?

About five pounds including the urn.

(This told to me by my favorite boy lawyer, young pup that he is…)

Stop the madness!!!! But yes—yes I never miss a day no matter how awful the puns. I love this strip.

rat drops a stove in the ocean, so he ties a bait oven on his rodI know I know, tres badthat’s why I’m not in the newspapers

these puns are too much. I cannot Copleland.

Oh, don’t worry… He’ll be Bach…

Time to get Bizet and think of more puns.

We have got to get pastis. He is never going to stop. Even though his readers have already come up with more composer puns than he could ever imagine.

Rat is worn out from the effort of having to give Franz the list. Now he’s listless.

RIGHT now !!

Batter up!

He swings!

And it’s a high cartoonist to deep right field!

Ooow, Stevie! That had to hurt!

right Bach at ya

Y’all forgot one: Rat: Are you back again? Franz: Yeah, the music lesson business hasn’t been so good, so now I am selling fine art door-to-door. Rat: Really, what is that!? Franz: Oh, that is a self-portrait by Moe Howard of the Three Stooges. Rat: Hmmm, he wasn’t a very good painter. Franz: What, you don’t like Mozart?

At Lizt Pastis was not smoking.

C’mon..puns are his forte!

Oh no he’s bach?

I just want his most religious music – the holi-lizst.

PGIM ad popped out and blocked the last panel!!!! gggrrrrrrrr