Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 04, 2022

Rat is also a Yankees’ fan.

Stephan must like the QB suite. He’s always getting hit after his delivery.

Looks like Rat gave the "Bomp, bomp, bomp to Pastis…

Bad puns come to America…TODAY!!

GROAN !!

Stephan is truly a creatively funny guy.

Nothing like a little Neil Diamond in the morning!

Everyone around the world . . . they’re coming to beat Stephan up.

Pastis is in need of a stay at the wellness hotel, perhaps one that help him with the D-Line Care Suites in Thyme.

I was expecting something with Parsley, Sage, and Rosemary.

The artist is now in the hospital. He’s twisted something terribly.

Looks more, to me, that Rat is STICK of puns…

Rat would rather loves to has the baseball suit than the football ones.

Love it!!

I told them to my girlfriend Cackling Rosie, to make her laugh.

Stephan’s puns are the equivalent of Billy running all over the neighborhood in Family Circus.

Have you no shame, Stephan?!

Puntastic!

I’ve been inclined

‘Coz I’m on a warped planks of wood

I got the reference to Neil Diamond, but I didn’t get the last window. Anyone can guide me?

As for me: I am, I cried!

Sweet Caroline “boom,boom,boom” heard at weddings!

Very inventive, Pastis!

Didn’t see that coming until the last panel. Love these puns.

We passed being sick of puns a LONG time ago! I remember a time when Pearls was an actual comic strip. I pray every night that Pastis will find the courage to go to rehab.

Sweet suite.

Mr. Pastis, Neil Diamond’s lawyer is on the phone.

I’d never heard of steaming thyme before.

To no one there…

Not sick of them, I come by here for the Sunday Punnies

Checked out “Star Girl” on the WB network. This year’s premier ran Neil’s “Coming to America”. What a great song.

Great, I got that song stuck in my head, Sweet Caroline! Good times never seemed so good…

Sweet what?

He should have choreographed the bat: “Sweet Caroline”, Bop! Bop!

Well, I’m a Believer!

My new game: See how quickly I can figure out that there’s a horrible pun coming.

If I don’t spot it on the first panel, my life is a failure.

Stephan Pastis, a.k.a. Atilla the Pun.

There’s no use telling them to stop making puns.

Ahhh, nothing like the smell of Pastis bleeding in the morning.

Nothing like song lyrics I don’t recognize.

I am ashamed to say, I love it.

Bum-bum-bum!

How about the one that also has some parsley sage and an escort secks worker named Mary who shows up just in thyme?

lmao I did NOT see that coming.

You might think that Rat would love such a cheesy pun. It goes well with Sparking Rose. Thanks…a great start to my day.

I’m never sick of a good (bad) pun-ch line.

And I will love puns forever, although sometimes my daughter has to point them out to me.

Ha! Funny!

Don’t listen to Rat…bring on the puns!

Absolutely LOVED the last panel! It put the Cherry, Cherry on top!

I’ve never heard the Offensive and Defensive Lines referred to as the O-Line and the D-Line. But then again, any port in a storm.

I read through the first panel, move onto the second, then realize something’s coming. I re-read the first two panels, hoping I can figure out the pun, but, as usual, I can’t. I always thought I didn’t like puns but I think what I didn’t like was that most were too obvious. Then I met Pearls.

love it!

After Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show, and a bat, I’m A Beliver.

This happened to be one of those 20% of times where I knew the punchline from the first panel. It then becomes a journey of how does he get from initial setup to punchline?

holey Holly Holy, Batman!

I think Rat needs therapy, he’s always so violent whenever these puns happen. What does he have against these puns anyway?

Why do I read Sunday PBS? It’s the lead up, not the pun at the end. I do like mazes and puzzles.

You got me again! Ugh!

Excellent!

So bad! So bad! So bad!

Thyme for the 7th inning stretch.

Hahahahaha, love the pun strips…..you da man!!!!

oh, the inhumanity

Now that song will be in my head all day.

I used to enjoy Neil…

Took his Suite Thyme trying for a Gem but only got a Diamond in the rough.

Daddy, what do football players do with Caroline?

I always support punning in this comic, but since I’m not at all fond of Neil Diamond, on this one occasion I’m siding with Rat.

Not even the chair.

Bravo, sir.

Welcome to the Hotel PASTIS-fornia! I’m surprised I’m the first to reference that great Eagles tune!

Stephan’s puns are the only ones I like. They are excellent

I thought that was hilarious. Thanks for the belly laugh Stephan.

I SWEAR Stephen has HUNDREDS of notebooks stacked in his room and office of HORRIFICALLY WONDERFUL puns and how to get there. Once his brain goes kaput, humanity is doomed.

Baaa, baaa, baaaaaaah!

I like that Stephen stuck another of Neil’s songs in the last frame – - no pun intended.

Full Marks, Mr. Pastis! A triple header at that!

That took quite the set-up.

Steamed thyme? Is that really a thing?

Well played rat. Puns are the lowest form of expression.

I smelled a pun coming after reading the first panel. The last panel should’ve been the first.

Well-developed pun, and for the record, I like Neil Diamond. How many of you trolls made it as big as he has?

HAH!

This is probably the first time I’ve agreed with Rat. I find puns tiresome and strained. Oh, my gosh, did I really write that I agreed with Rat!

I am so stunned I am at a lost for words!

I love a good, laugh-out-loud pun, especially one I can sing! Thank you, Stephan, for a wonderful morning chuckle.

Extra groan from my side of the pond. That song has become the theme of the football world (the soccer definition), so I got momentarily confused as well as having to empty the earworm.

And no one heard at all, not even the chair!

You’re not being punny enough

I’d like to give Stephan an extra whack with the bat.

it is a September morn.

What pun? There is no pun in this strip. I wish he would lay off this idiotic type of gag and give us good strips like he usually does the rest of the time.

They were good many years ago…. when you weren’t punning on a regular basis and actually worked to create a good pun.

And personally I prefer Caroline to Sweet Caroline.

Love the set up! And I wouldn’t have seen it coming… except out of the corner of my eye I can see the baseball bat. :-)

Go Rat! I hate that song for personal reasons

G R O A N — LOLOL

to no one there. and no heard at all, not even the chair.

Well, Rat isn’t the only one here on that matter!

If Rat didn’t like this one, tell him to stay away from Frank and Ernest today!

Rat steps up to the plate O’ Pastis! And it’s a hit, a palpable hit! Well stroked, Rat!

(Never did care all that much for Neil Diamond’s sound, anyway.)

[sings] Aaaaah I’ve been inclined, to believe they never could!

Yup. It’s official. This one caused to spew my morning coffee! (Tears in eyes)

I did meet Ted before he filmed this scene…. https://youtu.be/4Uk94_crZn0

May Neil Diamond not sue you

Out at Fenway Park,“Sweet Caroline” elbowed out “Tessie”,which had been the Red Sox theme song since the early 1900’s!!

Oh,Tessie,I love you madly.My heart weighs about a pound".

During 1903 World Series—"Oh Honus Wagner,at b at you look so sadly…

Hey,why don’t you get out of town".

Well thank you for putting that tune in my head for the rest of the day!