Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 24, 2020

  1. Img 0910
    BE THIS GUY  almost 5 years ago

    Rat, to a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell.

     •  Reply
  2. Catsanddogsportrait
    DennisinSeattle  almost 5 years ago

    I take your Bishop.

     •  Reply
  3. Crazyforkedindianpalmsquirrel max 1mb
    B UTTONS  almost 5 years ago

    The Lama takes the llama.

     •  Reply
  4. Missing large
    retrocool  almost 5 years ago

    a cheap chuckle . and I’m proud !

     •  Reply
  5. Right here
    Sherlock Watson  almost 5 years ago

    Does this qualify as a cardinal sin?

     •  Reply
  6. 20071112 einstein
    hariseldon59  almost 5 years ago

    What nunsense.

     •  Reply
  7. B986e866 14d0 4607 bdb4 5d76d7b56ddb
    Templo S.U.D.  almost 5 years ago

    now why would Rat take a female monk figurine?

     •  Reply
  8. Courage
    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!!!

     •  Reply
  9. Out little avatar
    dadoctah  almost 5 years ago

    An independent bookstore near me has things like that for sale. Like the Mother Teresa action figure.

     •  Reply
  10. Brain guy dancing hg clr
    Concretionist  almost 5 years ago

    I would have taken a fence, but the figurines didn’t have one.

     •  Reply
  11. Get smart shoe phone
    gopher gofer  almost 5 years ago

    goat’s pondering whether to get out his nunchucks…

     •  Reply
  12. Black lion
    PICTO  almost 5 years ago

    I’m having nun of this…

     •  Reply
  13. Get smart shoe phone
    gopher gofer  almost 5 years ago

    yet another iconic pbs strip…

     •  Reply
  14. Wileecoffee3
    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

     •  Reply
  15. Img 1746
    Zykoic  almost 5 years ago

    Brain just hit critical mass! Meltdown! Cannot stop laughing! Nunsense!

     •  Reply
  16. Img 1931
    Sanspareil  almost 5 years ago

    Rat just took the palindromic figure of a nun!

     •  Reply
  17. Sylvester1
    Nachikethass  almost 5 years ago

    Stephan is reaching…

     •  Reply
  18. Flag
    c001  almost 5 years ago

    Take “him” to the stake. Quick.

     •  Reply
  19. Major matt mason315
    Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    In the unseen fourth panel, Goat is crowning Pastis.

     •  Reply
  20. Picture
    Breadboard  almost 5 years ago

    Did not pass the Monty Python witch test …. burned at the stake :-o … Croc Power !

     •  Reply
  21. Desron14
    Masterskrain  almost 5 years ago

    There are Nun worse then this pun!

     •  Reply
  22. 2006 afl collingwood
    nosirrom  almost 5 years ago

    It wasn’t Rat. It’s Friday and we all know what kind of meat priests eat on Friday.

     •  Reply
  23. Images
    Reader  almost 5 years ago

    Oh Brother!

     •  Reply
  24. Avatar 2475
    Troglodyte  almost 5 years ago

    If he took the Virgin Mary figurine, maybe he could’ve said: “Miss taken”? :D

     •  Reply
  25. Copy of msg apa181
    The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Who can understand why Goat collects religious figurines?

    Icon.

     •  Reply
  26. Missing large
    Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Once more we see Rat getting Paris’s human!

     •  Reply
  27. Ellis archer profile
    Ellis97  almost 5 years ago

    Cue laugh track.

     •  Reply
  28. Pirate63
    Linguist  almost 5 years ago

    Oh, brother! Rats got nun, and Father Away is…

     •  Reply
  29. 5446d001 5a98 4b64 8030 f545c7f6eae0
    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”.

     •  Reply
  30. Image
    Brain Pudding  almost 5 years ago

    Oh my, nun jokes here and in Get Fuzzy today! Must be habit forming…

     •  Reply
  31. Missing large
    Nathan Daniels  almost 5 years ago

    Goat, sounds like an offense to me.

     •  Reply
  32. 7 sisters
    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

     •  Reply
  33. Picture
    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).

     •  Reply
  34. 210408 doc w
    walstib Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    My sister’s a nun. (apologies to John Prine)

     •  Reply
  35. 123631647 10157732280428316 4231990242952427275 n  1
    chris_o42  almost 5 years ago

    Wow Goat, that would have made a great chess set.

     •  Reply
  36. Oliver wendell jones
    Fantom Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Holy smoke !

     •  Reply
  37. Picture
    FredWaiss  almost 5 years ago

    On the Chinese calendar, this is the year of the rat. Steph should bring that up sometime this month.

     •  Reply
  38. Photo
    GlenGoodwin  almost 5 years ago

    Rat likes leftovers

     •  Reply
  39. Agapostemon buttercup 120518 sq
    Agapostemon  almost 5 years ago

    What? No threats of violence for this pun? Not even one? Nun!

     •  Reply
  40. 6b6a17aa 4633 4ce3 959e 2cd6e82fbf91
    alexius23  almost 5 years ago

    That’s nunsense

     •  Reply
  41. Missing large
    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.

     •  Reply
  42. Missing large
    Maverick91  almost 5 years ago

    that last frame is where they beat the cartoonist…

     •  Reply
  43. Photo 1501706362039 c06b2d715385
    Zebrastripes  almost 5 years ago

    But RAT took some others and not tellin……

     •  Reply
  44. Terror tim   copy
    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.

     •  Reply
  45. Joe the bugatti mulhouse clipped
    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.

     •  Reply
  46. Led001d
    Tentoes  almost 5 years ago

    Pastis, watch out for lightning!

     •  Reply
  47. Photo
    Reino Studios  almost 5 years ago

    This time it wasn’t Stephan’s fault

     •  Reply
  48. Missing large
    patrickab7  almost 5 years ago

    Well played.

     •  Reply
  49. Nowyoulisten
    zeexenon  almost 5 years ago

    And he sold them all to wayward priests.

     •  Reply
  50. Unnamed
    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

     •  Reply
  51. Facepalm bear 2
    Lablubber   almost 5 years ago

    There’s a nun in heaven planning to run for office. Vote for Nun of the above.

     •  Reply
  52. Img 3651
    TurbosDad  almost 5 years ago

    Actually, the nun died and now she’s nun of the above…

     •  Reply
  53. Hellcat
    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?”

     •  Reply
  54. Klingon crest a
    Scott S  almost 5 years ago

    I saw a very nice figurine of John Paul II at a Catholic gift shop once.

     •  Reply
  55. Urban lakshmi
    Bucinka  almost 5 years ago

    That’s low even for you, Pastis.

     •  Reply
  56. Missing large
    jel354  almost 5 years ago

    Wow. A pun that did not result in Rat wanting to hurt Pastis.

     •  Reply
  57. Dill
    Constantinepaleologos  almost 5 years ago

    Goat’s figurine collection is impressive, but there’s no question the coolest religious figure is Joshua, Bar Nun.

     •  Reply
  58. Missing large
    theoldidahofox  almost 5 years ago

    It’s a habit.

     •  Reply
  59. Thinker
    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!

     •  Reply
  60. Doggo
    Future Reuben Recipient  over 4 years ago

    sounds like a kidnapping movie

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From Pearls Before Swine