Not far off topic – The 2 Popes is a wonderful movie with insightful and funny conversations and a delightful ending. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant! I’m not a big movie buff but have watched it 3 times this week (Netflix streaming).
I was flying on Braniff Airways in 1968. I was seated next to a Nun. In those days you got a 4-pack of cigarettes with your meal. Mine were menthol, which I didn’t like. I asked the Nun if she wanted them. Her answer: “No thank you, one habit is enough”. True story.
Yeah, can see the wheels in Goat’s head turning. “Did Rat just tell me he didn’t take any of my figures? Or did he say he took a nun? Dear god, what would he do with that nun figure if he took it?”
BE THIS GUY almost 5 years ago
Rat, to a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell.
DennisinSeattle almost 5 years ago
I take your Bishop.
B UTTONS almost 5 years ago
The Lama takes the llama.
retrocool almost 5 years ago
a cheap chuckle . and I’m proud !
Sherlock Watson almost 5 years ago
Does this qualify as a cardinal sin?
hariseldon59 almost 5 years ago
What nunsense.
Templo S.U.D. almost 5 years ago
now why would Rat take a female monk figurine?
Courage the Cowardly Dog! almost 5 years ago
Unseen Panel 4 Stephen getting hit on the head by a baseball bat by someone, for the bad pun!!!
dadoctah almost 5 years ago
An independent bookstore near me has things like that for sale. Like the Mother Teresa action figure.
Concretionist almost 5 years ago
I would have taken a fence, but the figurines didn’t have one.
gopher gofer almost 5 years ago
goat’s pondering whether to get out his nunchucks…
PICTO almost 5 years ago
I’m having nun of this…
gopher gofer almost 5 years ago
yet another iconic pbs strip…
Need coffee almost 5 years ago
I don’t care if it rains or freezes, long as I got my plastic Jesus, sittin’ on the dashboard of my car.
- Ernie Marrs and the Marrs Family
Zykoic almost 5 years ago
Brain just hit critical mass! Meltdown! Cannot stop laughing! Nunsense!
Sanspareil almost 5 years ago
Rat just took the palindromic figure of a nun!
Nachikethass almost 5 years ago
Stephan is reaching…
c001 almost 5 years ago
Take “him” to the stake. Quick.
Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 5 years ago
In the unseen fourth panel, Goat is crowning Pastis.
Breadboard almost 5 years ago
Did not pass the Monty Python witch test …. burned at the stake :-o … Croc Power !
Masterskrain almost 5 years ago
There are Nun worse then this pun!
nosirrom almost 5 years ago
It wasn’t Rat. It’s Friday and we all know what kind of meat priests eat on Friday.
Reader almost 5 years ago
Oh Brother!
Troglodyte almost 5 years ago
If he took the Virgin Mary figurine, maybe he could’ve said: “Miss taken”? :D
The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Who can understand why Goat collects religious figurines?
Icon.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Once more we see Rat getting Paris’s human!
Ellis97 almost 5 years ago
Cue laugh track.
Linguist almost 5 years ago
Oh, brother! Rats got nun, and Father Away is…
MD Bear Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The final panel should have been rat tossing the missing figurine at Pastis, making it either “Nun of the Above” or a “Flying Nun”.
Brain Pudding almost 5 years ago
Oh my, nun jokes here and in Get Fuzzy today! Must be habit forming…
Nathan Daniels almost 5 years ago
Goat, sounds like an offense to me.
SkyFisher almost 5 years ago
Darn HOMOPHONES!
BTW: Today’s “Off the Mark” has the same theme: https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2020/01/24
jessegooddog almost 5 years ago
Not far off topic – The 2 Popes is a wonderful movie with insightful and funny conversations and a delightful ending. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant! I’m not a big movie buff but have watched it 3 times this week (Netflix streaming).
walstib Premium Member almost 5 years ago
My sister’s a nun. (apologies to John Prine)
chris_o42 almost 5 years ago
Wow Goat, that would have made a great chess set.
Fantom Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Holy smoke !
FredWaiss almost 5 years ago
On the Chinese calendar, this is the year of the rat. Steph should bring that up sometime this month.
GlenGoodwin almost 5 years ago
Rat likes leftovers
Agapostemon almost 5 years ago
What? No threats of violence for this pun? Not even one? Nun!
alexius23 almost 5 years ago
That’s nunsense
bigal666 almost 5 years ago
I was flying on Braniff Airways in 1968. I was seated next to a Nun. In those days you got a 4-pack of cigarettes with your meal. Mine were menthol, which I didn’t like. I asked the Nun if she wanted them. Her answer: “No thank you, one habit is enough”. True story.
Maverick91 almost 5 years ago
that last frame is where they beat the cartoonist…
Zebrastripes almost 5 years ago
But RAT took some others and not tellin……
Petemejia77 almost 5 years ago
So where’s that last panel with someone telling the cartoonist how much he sucks??? Seems like even he’s sick of that tiresome formula.
Call me Ishmael almost 5 years ago
There are times when an obvious pun/ may even involve a nun/ but to truly inspire/ you’d throw in a friar/ but it’s too late: the damage is done.
Tentoes almost 5 years ago
Pastis, watch out for lightning!
Reino Studios almost 5 years ago
This time it wasn’t Stephan’s fault
patrickab7 almost 5 years ago
Well played.
zeexenon almost 5 years ago
And he sold them all to wayward priests.
smorbie the great and beautiful almost 5 years ago
Shouldn’t they all be in a room confronting Pastis in the last panel. Where’s the tradition??? lol
Lablubber almost 5 years ago
There’s a nun in heaven planning to run for office. Vote for Nun of the above.
TurbosDad almost 5 years ago
Actually, the nun died and now she’s nun of the above…
knight1192a almost 5 years ago
Yeah, can see the wheels in Goat’s head turning. “Did Rat just tell me he didn’t take any of my figures? Or did he say he took a nun? Dear god, what would he do with that nun figure if he took it?”
Scott S almost 5 years ago
I saw a very nice figurine of John Paul II at a Catholic gift shop once.
Bucinka almost 5 years ago
That’s low even for you, Pastis.
jel354 almost 5 years ago
Wow. A pun that did not result in Rat wanting to hurt Pastis.
Constantinepaleologos almost 5 years ago
Goat’s figurine collection is impressive, but there’s no question the coolest religious figure is Joshua, Bar Nun.
theoldidahofox almost 5 years ago
It’s a habit.
Sisyphos almost 5 years ago
D’oh! Goat is left speechless.
We, on the other hand, want to get our baseball bats and pay Cartoon-Boy a little visit for Attitude Adjustment!
Future Reuben Recipient almost 5 years ago
sounds like a kidnapping movie