Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 22, 2021

Stephan is dolphinitley back to telling puns.

They were introduced to each other by the Prince of Whales.

Ba-DUMP-bump!

Flying there-under, under the sea! Everyone loves the king of the sea, Ever so kind and gentle is he, Tricks he will do when children appear, And how they laugh when he’s near! They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning, No-one you see, is smarter than he…

I think he ought to have a candy gram.

The last panel lacks porpoise.

i guess that’s the tanks you get, huh?

How long do you intend to hang out with your friend, Bob? Until it maxes your credit card on constantly going to the fish monger’s?

Yeah, that kind of relationship really increases the amount of en-dolphins in your system.

:GROAN:

Stephan didn’t get the bat in the head, for this one!!

It would be similar with a cat.

If he had a cat that went everywhere with him, he would have a purr puss in life.

Here I thought Neighbor Bob was hanging with the French Crown Prince.

Teach the porpoise to drive. Then you can have a porpoise driven life.

Dang! More rehab for my knee! Gotta stop slapping it! Oh, & my Sides, too!

Is this anything like the time Hank Hill went swimming with the dolphins?

I got in trouble in the store once for asking for a can of tuna-free dolphin.

Groan!

Neighbour Bob has found more intelligent company, for sure.

It is now officially way past time for Stephan’s intervention!

Oh dear.

now, that is a brain, Stephan’s that is , addled not on drugs or booze, but puns. How does his family live with him making puns on everything they do? Men and their jokes, I guess that’s how they adapt; but the worse has got to be old, stale Dad jokes.

Santa’s watching, Pastis.

Oh, that’s bad…

Is Bob related to Charlie the Tuna?

there’s nothing worse than a porpoise-less life…

You’re hurting poor Flipper with those puns.

GROAN!!!!

I want to open a water park in the Middle East for the nomadic tribes there. It will feature shows with pampered aquatic mammals. It should be quite an attraction for all in tents and porpoises

So bad, but a whale of a good pun!

See what you’ve done Pastis? See all these comments and wanna be punsters? Hang your head in shame!

That smelt. He’s really floundering.

Kip Addotta …… Wet Dream ;-)

Really, Stephan? Really?

RIP Norm Macdonald

I like to feed baby dolphins. I feel I’m serving a youthful porpoise.

This porpous has a purpose to wish you all a Merry Christmas

LOL! This is why I read comics in the morning!

Worst pun ever!!

Y’all are giving me a haddock with these puns.

Reminds me of the killer whale character from the strip’s early days.

It’s this kind of pun that makes me drink like a . . . well, drink a lot.

We need just a couple more aquatic mammal puns to seal the deal.

Pig and Rat need a porpoise in their lives…

Calling Rat – calling Rat – please bring your large mallet to Stephan Pastis’s art studio – STAT!

Die Steph!

Groan…!

Ouch

Nuck, Nuck, Oh wise guy eh !

Maybe I should switch to porpoise because a dolphin in my life isn’t helping.

I wouldn’t know, Pig. I have never had a porpoise.

Are there no depths?

Maybe. However, you got to keep them wet all the time. Dogs are much easier to maintain…..

I’m surprised they didn’t club Pastis to the ground at the end of this one…

Kinda puts “so long and thanks for all the fish” in perspective

if a porpoise had a purpose would it be a purposed porpoise or just an assumed porpoise? asking for a porpoise – errrrr, purpose

Rat must be out buying a new baseball bat.

What? No Rat threatening Stephan for that awful pun?

They were supposed to meet in the Aleutian Islands, but they couldn’t get their Barring Strait.

fell over sideways giggling

Need a fourth panel so Rat can smack Pastis…

There’s an old joke no one young gets anymore about a group of fishermen with a truckload of fish being arrested for going over state lines because the fish were for immortal porpoises.

Fast paced pun!

Grooooaaaan.

It’s a dolphin - look at that beak.

Leave it to Steve boy to liven up my day, a real knee slapper!

A groaner wrapped in a stinker!

wow, very good. keep up the good “work” and Merry Christmas.

ba dmm KSSSHH!!

Oh, I sea.

They’re missing the panel with a bat-wielding Rat standing over a bludgeoned Pastis!

If you don’t appreciate puns, leave.

Made me laugh!

Porpoises at least look friendly, like they are smiling all the time….. what are they hiding…… and those mammals have some SERIOUS teeth too……

I’d like a narwhal, please.

nice one pastis

D-minus.

G R O A N — LOLOL

Thanks, Pastis. We needed that.

Oh, can it, Pig! (And then call it “Chicken of the Sea,” like some other fishy canned stuff.)

Anyway, who’s gonna believe that a porpoise has feet and can walk around on land?!

But is he tuna safe? I asked that on porpoise.

bah-dum-bum!

Through The Looking Glass (book):“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail.There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail…"… “If I’d been the whiting,” said Alice, I’d have said to the porpoise, ‘Keep back, please: we don’t want you with us!’”“They were obliged to have him with them,” the Mock Turtle said: “no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”