Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 12, 2012
September 11, 2012
September 13, 2012
Transcript:
Pig: Hey, Rat... I'd like you to meet my friend, Chico the unborn chick. Rat: Why hasn't he hatched yet? Pig: Because the world's filled with idiots. Rat: This could catch on.
What has no doors or windows, is smooth as marble, and holds treasure inside? Chico.There’s a poem to that, but it’s late where I am and I don’t feel like looking it up.
This is a metaphorical satire about the struggles of today’s Hispanics to make an impact on our American society due to the uncaring GOP (metaphorically Rat) and the sympathetic yet unrealistic Dems (metophorically Pig). We the reader are being asked: should we make our Hispanic population: eggs or chicken nuggets. Metaphorically I’ll have a beef fajita with Eva Longoria
Hillybilly may be thinking of MORK AND MINDY with the Johnathan Winters story arc where he spent a few episodes in a giant egg, hatched and we discovered Orkians were like Merlin born backwards in time.
On USAcres there are 2 chicks, one is normal but the other one can’t figure out how to get out of his shell. So he did get his feet out, still waiting for him too outgrow his shell.
Somehow I get the feeling that there’s a connection between Chico the Unborn Chick and Tim the Gynocologist (from yesterday), but I can’t quite put my finger on it…
chireef about 12 years ago
pogo did it first way back in the thirties
margueritem about 12 years ago
Rat’s new wall between him and humanity.
Templo S.U.D. about 12 years ago
Chico almost reminds me of Sheldon of “U.S. Acres.”
freeholder1 about 12 years ago
So Chico doesn’t want to be in the big enchilada?
freeholder1 about 12 years ago
Kid should be in a Noir as a hard-boiled detective.
freeholder1 about 12 years ago
Rat memorializing Shelley Winters?
freeholder1 about 12 years ago
But is Chico a person…er, rooster yet or not?
legaleagle48 about 12 years ago
Rat’s found a kindred spirit.
rf_eq about 12 years ago
rat is part echidna on his mothers side
killacowinWA about 12 years ago
What has no doors or windows, is smooth as marble, and holds treasure inside? Chico.There’s a poem to that, but it’s late where I am and I don’t feel like looking it up.
zero about 12 years ago
You just had to egg him on Pig…
firedome about 12 years ago
chico played piano…harpo played the harp. groucho-the guitar…
hariseldon59 about 12 years ago
I guess the yolk’s on Rat today.
Sisyphos about 12 years ago
Chico, I understand. But how did Rat do that (and so quickly!)?
Hillbillyman about 12 years ago
Wasn’t there a cartoon character on TV that was an unhatched egg?
Sumac0f13 about 12 years ago
That answers the question of which came first: Rat or Egg?
guitarmutt about 12 years ago
mjgoduke about 12 years ago
This is a metaphorical satire about the struggles of today’s Hispanics to make an impact on our American society due to the uncaring GOP (metaphorically Rat) and the sympathetic yet unrealistic Dems (metophorically Pig). We the reader are being asked: should we make our Hispanic population: eggs or chicken nuggets. Metaphorically I’ll have a beef fajita with Eva Longoria
GoodQuestion Premium Member about 12 years ago
I wonder if rat will shell out for a little egg citement. . . ☻
BlackTie about 12 years ago
What came first, the Rat or the egg?
JoeStrike about 12 years ago
an ‘unborn chick’? Is Stephan joining the anti-choice crowd?
the burser about 12 years ago
i’m in
boogshine about 12 years ago
viva la unborn!
Number Three about 12 years ago
Rude Rat!
Would love to see that little unborn chick when it IS born.
LOL xxx
Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 12 years ago
1) There were Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo, and the most famous Marx Brother…KARL! 2) The Rodent looks his best in today’s 3rd panel!
StCleve72 about 12 years ago
Shades of Jimi Hendrix’s “Belly Button Window”
Sherlock Watson about 12 years ago
Waiter, there’s a rat in my bacon and eggs!
dramac333 about 12 years ago
Also see U.S. Acres. – his name is Shelldon!
Oxnate about 12 years ago
I remember Sheldon. Inside his shell was another shell.
tazz555 about 12 years ago
Ppff they are just ripping off from Sheldon from the cartoon/comic strip US acres
freeholder1 about 12 years ago
Hillybilly may be thinking of MORK AND MINDY with the Johnathan Winters story arc where he spent a few episodes in a giant egg, hatched and we discovered Orkians were like Merlin born backwards in time.
Popeyesforearm about 12 years ago
Humpty Rat
bmonk about 12 years ago
I’m glad this happened. The thought of rat coming out of his shell gives me the heebie-jeebies!
pam Miner about 12 years ago
On USAcres there are 2 chicks, one is normal but the other one can’t figure out how to get out of his shell. So he did get his feet out, still waiting for him too outgrow his shell.
Linda1259 about 12 years ago
You may have already been told this: Harpo plays the harp & Chico plays the piano, but I don’t think you can get a piano in there.
FlippySuper about 12 years ago
rat meets his dopplengager
Snoopy_Fan about 12 years ago
Somehow I get the feeling that there’s a connection between Chico the Unborn Chick and Tim the Gynocologist (from yesterday), but I can’t quite put my finger on it…
TMO1 Premium Member about 12 years ago
Has Pastis been visiting Texas recently? Or was this inspired by watching “Fox News”?
big man about 12 years ago
the last panel reminds me of garfield and friends
fmasroor about 12 years ago
Reminds me of Sheldon from USAcres or Garfield and Friends.
KatP Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Rat’s new best friend?