Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 04, 2012

This explains a lot about Junior. Maybe their genes skip a generation.

On a side note, didn’t Larry’s mother once come in a strip and mock his hunting skills?

Larry just had some wayward friends screw him over. Zeeba Zeeba Eata, man. If you don’t have a moral foundation, college really screws you over.

Larry is adopted.

I bet Larry’s real name is Lawrence; he despises being called such whereas is friends and acquaintances call him… make that know him as Larry.

Pipe smoking croc…cool!

Got to love Ma and Pa Croc! So unlike Larry! He must be the black sheep of the family, so to speak.

Man, it looks cozy…..

Might want to take the book Chomp by Carl Hiaasen…….

Well… Dad does display a touch of Croc-ish ignorance or pretension by saying “Sir” Wm Shakespeare.

The apple may fall far from the tree but it’s still an apple.

I just realised…. Maybe Larry and Patty’s marriage was arranged!

She’d only met his parents, and never her intended husband.Yeah!That would explain her otherwise baffling choice to spend her life with him!

Um. SIR William Shakespeare?!? Since when?

This SOOOOOOO seems to explain Junior even better than just taking after his mom

Sophisticated hooligans.. :D

Now we know where Larry gets his ridiculous tendencies. Couldn’t dad just bring his Kindle?

They seem rather civilized. I wonder how they’ll behave when they’re hungry, or see Zeeba neighba.

no. just no

This, kiddies, is a prime example of what novelists and clever comic-strip artists call “irony”.

Pastis doesn’t mind when his ignorance shows. I mean, “Sir William Shakespeare,” and mis-using “perforce.” I suppose it makes him endearing, just as when a child mangles a phrase or mis-uses a word.

Sir Shakespeare? Well, since he was the Earl of Oxford.

Well, this is The Comedy of Errors.

Maybe Larry was dropped on his head as a baby…or thrown across a room!!

This week’s strip should really be great!

Too much MTV for Larry. Should have said Empty-V which is what it was. Either that, or watching Keeping Up With the Kardashian’s. Wonder why we’re in a decline?

Love the ironic plot twist. Predictable in a fun way.

Why do I suddenly suspect Larry had an accident at some time in his past? Something involving lack of air or a blunt force trauma to the head?

uhhhhhhhhhh

I love the crocs. I’ve always loved the crocs, and now I know why. They got a classical education at home. They may have forsaken it, but they got it.

I just figured out the Larry’s Mom Paradox: The reason this crockette seems different from the one who was ashamed of her son’s non-predatory feeding habits (which involve Domino’s and Safeway) is that, just as there are many Bobs, there’s more than one Larry!

(If this was Marvel Comics, I’d get a No-Prize for this.)

Larry could have a tragic accident a la Bob (perhaps ending up on Zeeba’s dinner table?) and Junior could go to live with the cultured carnivores.. Just thinking’.

Zebra’s description isn’t that far off: Shakespeare wasn’t knighted, so only a pretentious Neanderthal would call him “Sir”.

Love the Croc Parents!

Dad looks really smart.

xxx

SusanSunshine and fredd13 both beat me to it. Obviously, the Croc-o-Dad is a poseur, and is only affecting a knowledge of Shakespeare. If he had even a passing knowledge of the Bard and his works, he would know that he was a commoner, and not a “Sir.” Lesson: The croc is a crock.

Larry’s idea of a still life over the fireplace is a dead zeeba.

If the crocs have their own country, why shouldn’t they have conferred a honorary knighthood ( however retroactive) upon Shakespeare. Anything to get the zeebas a little closer.

IT’S ALL A CROCK!! I bet nobody has used this before on here. LOL.

It would appear that croc intelligence … is not.

They have their still life painting over the fireplace, where it will become sullied with soot and ash. Horrors! They are perchance cretins after all!

I think Pastis knows very well that Shakespeare was never knighted, and only included that as partially a joke, and partially to see how many readers would point out the error.

No he doesn’t.

Breaking Stephan starts here! (If you wanted to know..)

I’m pretty sure larry inadvertently killed her early on..

What does perforce even mean?

>gasp< smart, intelligent, crocs?!?!

This reminds me of Leopold’s parents in Scary Gary.

So… was Larry dropped on the head as a baby?