Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 01, 2024

You’ve got blood on your face.

OK. Earworm time.

Give me a bat and I’ll help rat!

The verb is fry, stir fry. Instead of being in such a bad strip this time, those guys should wok.

Not his best song parody. But that’s ok, you can’t win all of em. The “Plano” man one from earlier this year is one of his best.

Good one ! Rock On !

Ah Freddie, we miss you so. I know he wasn’t the sole creator for this one, like his other songs.

Ya big disgrace.

Hit ’em again.

Is this the real strip? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a punfest, no escape from reality

Is it true that East Asian food make many people sick? or only Chinese food?

A Chinese hunk’s favorite song is “Wok like a Man” (Apologies to Frankie Valli) !

Puns! New month presents all new puns! I love it!

I saw this one coming.

Another pun bites the dust…

I’m reporting this to the Ministry Of Silly WOKs!

WOKing After Midnight, WOK This Way, WOK On By, Just A Closer WOK With Thee, I WOK The Line, When You WOK Through The Storm, WOK Of Life, These Boots Are Made For WOKing, WOK On The Wild Side, and my favorite,WOK Like An Egyptian

Wok and wool…

Oh Pig, stay away from that party, everyone loves bacon!

Pastis, the perennial paronomasiac.

A long way for not much.

Yet another overplayed Queen song…

I’m curious about Pastis’ creative process. Does he come up with the punch line first and work backward? Does the pun just spring fully-formed from his brain?

It makes me a little sad that I did not see that coming. Not as sad as my first grey hair made me, but sad all the same.

What a sheep shot. Well, there’s mutton wrong with a pun now and then.

Got me on that one!

Anybody got a can opener?

Barbara Walters joins Queen

I wonder if it was a sweet, embraceable ewe?

We are the chump-ions!

You know a play-on-words punchline is coming when you see out-of-the-ordinary terms like “sheep meat” used.

Excellent one!

In the last panel, Rat should ram him.

All that work to set up THAT?

Chinese cookbook: 101 to wok your dog.

Oh Stephan you did it again. When’s the next book tour?

Their best pun yet.

His second Queen song pun ( unless I’ve missed more)

At first, I was trying to find the pun with “mutton” in it. Maybe Stephan was, too, to no avail.

I thought the punch line would be “Ewe never wok alone.”

Homer and Jethro recorded a song titled “You-Ewe-U”

Booooooo !! Another total waste of a Sunday strip.

Let’s not forget the famous BeeGees tune, You can tell by the way i use my Wok, I’m a Chinese cook no time for talk.

I always enjoy these!

Looking for something I understand. Is this a song or movie or something else I’ve never heard of?

Even I groaned at this one

After these guys are done, we can play the old song, “There will never be another ewe.”

A bat, Rat? I was waiting for the Hammer to Fall.

Another winner…

I had a feeling a pun was coming before I opened this page. This is awesome!

This time, I definitely agree with Rat.

At least he’s not contributing pork.

I suppose the verbing of ‘wok’ was inevitable.

Mama, just killed a man. Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he’s dead. Mama, life had just begun. But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away

It’s like Pastis wanted to write a bad pun this time.

He can do this for every celebrity on the anniversary of their death

I had to read it with the right rhythm to get it

i can never figure out where these are headed.

These are always my favorites

It’s been a while since Pastis’s last Sunday pun strip. That was a good one today!

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww…

When I see these coming, it’s really hard to discipline myself to read each panel, savoring the build-up, and not just skip to the end.

Sometimes it’s worth it.

Walk softly, and carry a big stick

Pig, I don’t think Will is planning on helping you much.

I had to read it out loud. Sometimes I really worry about Pastis!

And cook the male parts they always sneak in, Old Testament Kosher style.

Ha! I did not see that punchline coming :)

I love these Bohemian comics!

A pig barbecuing lamb meat is worse than that pun.

Stephan should learn to wok before he runs on and on!!

I remember an old Galloping Gourmet joke about woks. The Malay word for wok is kuali. So, the capital of Malaysia should be called Kuali Lumpur because of all the woks that are found there.

That one took a second.

Man, you read the first panel and you know it’s gonna be a doozy.

whoa, this is a really good one, but didn’t he already do the same one years ago that went “We will oui Will, Rah Q”?

I have often wondered why Stephan is not in a punitentiary, but then I realized it is us who have been put there. Give me the bat, Rat!

It took me a second to figure this one out….and I love it!!

this is the second time they did a we will we will rock you pun and the first one was better

He can talk the talk, but can he wok the wok? Ewe gotta shape up or sheep out.

I think Fozzy Bear put it best when he said, “Wok-a, wok-a, wok-a.”

G R O A N — OMG, OMG; LOLOL

GOOD LORD!! XD!!

Thank you Stephan for the great joke today!

FUNNY comic!

A solo joke about a team effort.

Where is the censor when we need him.

Aw, Rat, and after he worked so hard on that. At least, I think… hmm.

He deserves what he got!!!

I hope I forget it soon, otherwise, Pastis has ruined that song for me.

I’m reminded of that Taco Bell commercial in the early 2000s “We will, we will…stop doing that”

GROAN!!! Me next, Rat!

Pastis can certainly put the pun in “punchline”.

Oh my goodness. Delayed gratification on that one. So good.

Somebody better put [Pastis] back into [his] place …

Of course, I kid. Really fun one today. Keep it up, sir!

This seems like some sort of record for comments/reply puns!!

Don‘t hit him; go after the author.