Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 16, 2011
Transcript:
Newman: I don't get it, Rat. Our ratings are up ten percent since you came here. How do you do it? Rat: Fear. Fear. Fear. Fear. Fear. Newsman: Fear, huh? But how? Rat: I'll show you. Name something we all have in our house and something we all do. Newsman: Uh... mayonnaise... sleep. Rat: Tonight at six... how your mayonnaise jar may be trying to suffocate you in your sleep. Newsman: Wow. Rat: At eleven... how you can protect yourself from your homicidal mayonnaise. In the Channel 7 newsroom.
SarahPlain over 13 years ago
Mayonnaise is far more likely to kill you in your sleep due to clogged arteries…
perceptor3 over 13 years ago
“Homicidal Mayonnaise. . .” There’s a rock band name waiting to happen!
Sisyphos over 13 years ago
I never did like mayonnaise. Rat’s fear-mongering only reinforces my aversion to the vile stuff. The only thing we have to fear is, mayonnaise itself!
lombre over 13 years ago
I look forward to Rat’s upcoming story on how our computers may be trying to strangle us during dinner.
kreole over 13 years ago
Miracle Whip is the only solution.
x_Tech over 13 years ago
Breaking NewsViewers are cautioned about reading GoComics.There may be horrific puns lurking about, especially in the neighborhood of Pearls Before Swine.Our medical advisers recommend that readers;Have your meds at hand, and tocompletely swallow your coffee or breakfast beverage before viewing a strip. This is for your safety and the safety of those around you.An addition note:Be sure to refrigerate your Mayonnaise, it moves slower when cold.
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
There’s a flaw in your statement, Rat. I neither stock mayo or Miracle Whip or even catsup in my house. I only buy the finest of mustards.
Kvasir42 Premium Member over 13 years ago
Hey Stephan, if I get you to speak at my event, can I make it a staff meeting and you can threaten them that Rat will hit them with a bat if they don’t start doing their jobs right and quit whining? I can’t promise beer on site, but there are tons of great restaurants around and Japanese beer is very good. Not to mention sake’.
hariseldon59 over 13 years ago
Killer condiments.
DocOmics over 13 years ago
Here in El Paso, they celebrate Cinco de Mayo. The “highlight” is a big cook-off where you have to create five dishes using mayonnaise as the theme ingredient.
karandpr over 13 years ago
Rat finally a Dream job. First job where his employer praised him.
McGehee over 13 years ago
I knew it. Every fast-food joint in the world is putting that murderous stuff on their burgers, and all this time I thought they were doing it by choice. Now I know the mayo must be forcing them into being its accomplices.
loner34 over 13 years ago
Steve has captured the evening news “daily scare” perfectly!
TWODAN over 13 years ago
How comfprting to know that in this unpredictable world, where so much can go wrong, there is a caring, concerned journalist like Rat to calm our fears with his hopful reports.
corzak over 13 years ago
Glenn Beck can demonstrate how emulsified French condiments are slowly converting American youth to Fascist Euro-socialism. He can draw it on his chalkboard.
Number Three over 13 years ago
That is hilairous!
Hehe xxx
mac47 over 13 years ago
MSNBC.
HaroldPalmer over 13 years ago
My mayonaisse went bad, stole a car, led cops on a fifty mile chase and died in a horrific shootout.
Atrius5000 over 13 years ago
He is so right on with this one.
rgcviper over 13 years ago
Parts of panels 2 and 3 sound like a scene off of “Family Feud” …
Jeffpaul over 13 years ago
Mayonnaise—one of my favorite things— :-O
billtjr52 over 13 years ago
Mayonnaise is really healthy and unclogs blocked arteries.
philphan25 over 13 years ago
You don’t even want to know about the ketchup.
Sherlock Watson over 13 years ago
At this moment, dozens of victims are being transported to the Mayo Clinic. =rimshot=
silentshadow over 13 years ago
typical garbage absorbed(and thought to be true) by a normal american.
clarkins over 13 years ago
Thats what newz stations do
Blossoming about 13 years ago
This is great…
KZ71 over 10 years ago
“Wow” is a rare PBS punchline, but it’s effective.