Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 25, 2011

Well, they won’t believe he’s poisonous, but maybe the clothes could help convince the Crocs he’s contagiously crazy.

Throw a few puns into your conversation, Zebra, that’ll help too.

Believe me, I know.

This is why I can usually be found wearing orange t-shirts!

But the only reason predators know that the frog is poisonous is because they already ate one frog. That one frog sacrificed itself for his species/

Unfortunately, Larry and the crocs generally are too dumb to have watched that installment of “Planet Earth,” but it is nice to see Zeeba Neighba try some turnabout….

Unless Zebra rolled a tv with this recorded and set to repeat it would never work.

Honestly looking at that purple hat my first thought was the Joker, who wouldn’t need to fear the crocs. Seeing the rest on second look I thought clown. So now I’m rooting for the crocs.

Kill the clown before they attack!

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/27298/Killer-Klowns-From-Outer-Space/overview

The croc’s orange hair is a new one in my book……………

I never realized Johnny Depp was part zebra…

Zebra needs to get a big slab of raw meat and liberally lace it with strychnine & leave it for his retarded asocial neighbors. . ..

Not sure about poka-dot pants but purple hat with feathers make Zeba neighbor look tasty. Mmmmm Zeba

Rodney, you’re right. Zeeba DOES look like Johnny Depp!

Larry correct. Zeba neighba’ no fashioned minded. Everyone know you no wear poka-dot blue pants after la-baa dae.

Since when is Zebra imitating Pig?

Ees a leetle freeky.

And yet scientists try to convince us that “animals can’t see colour.” If that were true, all those bright warning colours would be wasted.

How is being poisonous not “a natural defense”?Johnny Diego, it’s not just the white belt that’s protecting you, it’s the white belt with the plaid pants.

I guess that explains plaid.

During the summer months months I frequently imbibe in Citrus Vodka and Tonic with a wedge of Lime.

I have yet to get malaria or scurvy!!!!!!

I think Zebra has gone off the deep end.

Zeeba – let your poisionous Freak Flag Fly!

Whooooooooooo!

LOL xxx

Fashion-challenged, hahaha!

Instead of dressing like a dandy, maybe Zebra should dress like a slob. Actually, if he dresses in any clothes, I don’t think he will be eaten. Crocs don’t like the taste and besides the shredded garments will get caught in their teeth and then they’ll have to go to the dentist which they hate.

This looks like something Pig might do. I always thought Zebra was the down-to-earth logical type…

I’m wearing red, blue, and yellow!

This is so inexpected from Zebra.And yet so entertaining.

Zebra acting like PigCrocks smart about color/fashion… I believe we have a personality crisis going on.Zebras are attacked by crocks at watering holes.Crocks could not take any zebra on land.But, this IS Pears Before Swine… uh, isn’t Pig and Pigita the only swine in this strip?

Sing along with Zeeba: “Hey! Don’t come around here no more…”(Or am I being Petty?)

I agree about birds and reptiles having generally better color vision—consider all their bright patterns of color/plumage. Mammals (who were for most of their history apparently night-creatures, like rats, cats, or lemurs) tend to have poor color vision.

It seems like dee ZeebstaGuy borrowed a bit of whatever Pig’s on for this strip.

Considering that the crocs don’t wear clothes, I think larry should be thinking about his on pants instead of zebra’s.

That’s kind of out of character for Zebra, since its usually the crocs doing the stupid things.

This feels backwards

Did any body notice that in the second to last panel zebra has hand shaped gloves. But he has hooves. What is this madness

The one time zebra was being ridiculous and not the crocs

one of the few instances where zebra is the idiot, not the crocs