Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 04, 2012
Transcript:
Pig: Hey, Goat, want to see an animated movie with me and Rat? Goat: I guess. But why's Rat carrying a book of Russian plays? Rat: Because all animated movies have sickeningly sweet endings. And all Russian plays end with someone shooting themselves so when the film nears its saccharine end. I just stand and read the last page of the play aloud. Thereby keeping the whole universe in balance. Goat: oh, that must be heart-warming. Rat: It is? Then listen to this...'And Ivan shot himself. The end.' Pig: Awww...poor l'il Ivan.
Templo S.U.D. over 12 years ago
до свидания, Иван
orinoco womble over 12 years ago
If the movie is about a dog, they always die in the end…suitably sad, but also saccherine. Why are dog movies always sad?
naturally_easy over 12 years ago
Oh, saccherine! I thought he was talking about artificial sweetener. :)
ChrissyT over 12 years ago
That’s a good ending: simple and straight to the point.
ChrissyT over 12 years ago
Yeah, he didn’t have to see Rat use his death to spoil another movie.
arye uygur over 12 years ago
MORMON: How did you get Cyrillac letters from your keyboard?
Sisyphos over 12 years ago
At first glance of panel 1, I thought Pastis was subtly pitching his Animated Shorts [see hotlink at right] featuring Rat and Pig. Then I saw that Rat intends to disrupt cinema audiences with his readings from Russian literature. Then I thought about artistic Karma, yin and yang, and such-like concepts. That began to get deep, until Pig’s final remarks turned it all into comedy again….
eddie6192 over 12 years ago
That ending was sickening sweet for that dumb Pig.
Hillbillyman over 12 years ago
THANKS RAT…..i WAS GOING TO READ THAT , NOW YOU SPOILED THE ENDING FOR ME.
Varnes over 12 years ago
Grainbelt, he shot himself in the butt?
rolleg over 12 years ago
Unusual to hear such sarcasm from Goat.
Number Three over 12 years ago
Trust Rat…
All I can say.
LOL xxx
Ross1001 over 12 years ago
As Yakov Smirnoff would say, in Soviet Russia, animated movie watches you!
orinoco womble over 12 years ago
Chekov died of TB. Which explains the depression…it spread to his brain. I am not joking, advanced TB can do that.
Casey Southards over 12 years ago
They are really messed up.
Gokie5 over 12 years ago
Today’s lesson:My daughter taught me something I’d never realized.“Saccharin” is the name of an artifical sweetener.“Saccharine,” according to the Online Dictionary, means “1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet. 2. Having a cloyingly sweet attitude, tone, or character.” You never know when you’ll need that info. for a quiz show or writing your thesis.
Snoopy_Fan over 12 years ago
I don’t know… I found “Air Bud” to be quite uplifting. :-D
XanderBitMe over 12 years ago
So it goes.
Stitchz_Is_Here over 12 years ago
Maybe he did that on purpose. We all know that Pig isn’t the brightest crayon in the box… If he didn’t do it on purpose, then I’m sorry that it bothers you that much.
Fan o’ Lio. over 12 years ago
Ivan to go throw up.
Rickapolis over 12 years ago
Russian plays and country songs.
kzcreations.com over 12 years ago
lmfao
Donna S over 12 years ago
Pig’s grammar is what makes him Pig. He is naive and simple and he is adorable.
danketaz Premium Member over 12 years ago
I just finished War and Peace. It didn’t have a sad ending. It didn’t have a happy ending either. Just a bunch of lectures on why historians are bunk
Fast Fred over 12 years ago
“Pig”……..he shot himself in the hind end ??
bmonk over 12 years ago
How about Alma by Pixar animator, Rodrigo Blaas? It’s animated, but hardly a sweet ending.
Old Laughing Lady over 12 years ago
Not especially funny, but even more so considering recent events of gunfire and a movie.
blanche64 over 12 years ago
or throwing herself in front of a train
Fan o’ Lio. over 12 years ago
TB or not TB? That is the question. Consumption be done about it?
m.l. over 12 years ago
lewis.campbell about 3 years ago
Wow, goat. You got burned.
greenweasel11 over 2 years ago
I’ll just tell them Svidrigailov went to America.