Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 15, 2022

That Raisin must have been a DI in a previous life.

Raisin shine, Piggy.

It used to be a happy little grape, but trying to get Pig out of bed every morning has taken its toll.

Something that looks like a turd calls him a turd.

That’s a TOTALLY unrasinable pun. Though I guess puns are one of Pastis’ raisins d’etre.

That joke was as dry as the grape the raisin used to be.

Give them some Sun Maid and they’ll be raisin some good times.

I heard that through the grapevine pig!

He’s awfully loud- Pig should just tell him to dry up.

So that is what happened to one of those “California Raisins” after its late ’80s/early ’90s fame faded away.

raisin d’etre

One old fart said to the other, “I drink a glass of water every night before bed” “Oh? Why?” “It gives me a reason to get up in the morning.”

It figures. A bad pun in the strip leads to bad puns in the Comments section.

Good work, people! Keep ’em coming!

a grape of wrath.

There are self-made men, and then there are Sun-Maid men.

If pig gets up late, he’ll need a ketchup.

It’s “Grape” you have an alarm like that!

With a big box of raisins you have a raisin for everything.

Just hope it doesn’t start raisin hell.

Quick, someone call Hardee’s

he has a raisin d’être…

And if he was woken up by a dolphin like creature he’d have a porpoise to get up in the morning.

So this is why I eat a big bowl of raisin bran every morning, very regularly…

This is not an advertisement for Raisin Bran

Always classy.

I see that “Takes one to know one” is still true..

No more puns!

Now Rat needs to go clobber Steph and tell him he has no raisin to exist.

This one reminds me of the episode of Future a where Fry has to fight the Brains. The very last line is: The big brain am winning! Mwa-ha-ha-ha! I must now leave earth for no raisin!

Raisin d’être

You could call it his raisin d’être.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg

To all of you who gave today’s cartoon a “like”: shame on you!

Sentient or not, that raisin’d be smooshed if he tried that with me.

Two scoops of crap in every box.

This comic was one frame short. It is missing Pastis getting hit by the baseball bat.

Prunes before bed might get him up in the morning.

Ha Ha Ha. Guess he heard it through the grapevine.

Still lacks a porpoise, though.

I guess this is what’s called dry humour…?

I’m surprised Stephen Pastis isn’t in today’s strip, with lame puns and all.

“You’re the Raisin I’m Living” ~ Bobby Darin 1963

If Pig picked it up and held it over his head, it would truly be rasin’.

Raisin d’etre!

Is that an expression? I have never heard it before.

Brevity also had a RAISIN related comic strip today as well…

Raisins are gross

A raisin d’etre?

Pastis should take notes from the comments section. He’d have enough great raisin puns to write a book.

What? No extra panel with Rat threatening Stephan for such a ’raisin’ably terrible pun?

A lot of “Dads” are laughing at this!

There is a whole box of them. Maybe one is a raisin to live?

There’s always a raisin for everything…

I don’t know how far ahead this strip is written…but…I wonder if it was inspired by the many references lately to “A Raisin in the Sun.”

hahahaha (smh)

MG was a cool dude. wikipedia snip..> ..Gaye was inspired by the Black Panther Party and supported the efforts they put forth such as giving free meals to poor families door to door. However, he did not support the violent tactics the Panthers used to fight oppression, as Gaye’s messages in many of his political songs were nonviolent. The lyrics and music of What’s Going On discuss and illustrate issues during the 1960s/1970s such as racism, police brutality, drug abuse, environmental issues, anti-war, and black power issues.120 Gaye was inspired to make this album because of events such as the Vietnam War, the 1967 race riots in Detroit, and the Kent State shootings, as well as the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy.121

Does it keep you apprised of currant events?

Did this run in print papers?

a little weak reasoning there …

I don’t know why, but something about this comic stinks today.

If the funniest puns are the ones that are the corniest and most inane, then this one was a real belly buster.

His dad jokes crack me up.

HAH! A raisin to get up. Funny.

At 78 1/2 not much is raisin anymore - especially Financial Advisor prediction results.

This deserves at least two groans and an LOL. Keep ’em coming, Stephan.

Raisin shine.

Did he hear that through the grapevine?

My raisin for getting up in the morning is so that I can make the money to afford the bed and the apartment it’s in.

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHH!

Pastis didn’t even give us a frame of his cartoon avatar getting pounded with a baseball bat. HE HAS NO SHAME!

Time for Rat to raise the baseball bat at Pastis again!

It’s all about raisin awareness

The puns here are as bad as those that Stephan Pastis uses! Oh, wait, this is from Pastis…!

i love raisins. I’m going to try making raisin snickerdoodles

Boo! :D

“I look to find a raisin to believe….”

G R O A N — LOLOL

You mean, you have a raison d’être.

Usually a strip like this ends with Rat pun-ishing Pastis.

I wondered why this bottle-nosed dolphin kept making noise in the morning, but now I know it was my porpoise for getting up.

Okay, this was not such a great pun strip from Pastis.

but is it a good raisin?

I need one of those.

That raisin looks more like a turd than Pig.

That raisin and all its friends would end up in the toilet where they belong.

Are you kidding? A groaner like this would for sure put me back to sleep, Cartoon-Boy….

a raisin d’être…

I don’t like raisins to begin with, but I really can’t stand sentient raisins.

My first thought was Milquetoast the Cockroach.

Grapes should either be grapes or cognac. Nothing in between.