Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 26, 2004

Transcript:

"The great 'Pearls' lockout" "Listen, Pastis... Either you give me what I want, or I ruin this strip by uttering a new 'Garfield' punchline every hour, on the hour." "Okay, Rat... You win... Whaddaya want?" "Salary... Triple it." "You got it." "My dressing room... Stock it with 'M&M's.' But no red ones." "It's yours." "The strip?s name, change it to 'Worship the rat.' "Oh, dude... Please... you can't..." "'Odie... You have bone breath.'" "That's better." "Okay, Man. You've got what you want. Now just... put... the... book... down..."