Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 19, 2012
Transcript:
Earl: Okay, Mishter Shmart guy, we have ways of maing hoshtages shpeak. Pastis: No! No! Stop! I'll tell you everything! Earl: But we haven't shtarted the torture. Pastis: I thought those cutesy 's's were the torture. Earl: It'sh a shpeech impediment! Pastis: Sorry. Mooch: May I electrocute his nipples now? The Cartoonists' War. Story Update: Stephan Pastis has been taken hostage by the evil East Coast geniuses, Earl and Mooch.
margueritem over 12 years ago
You’ll have to untie him first, Earl.
Jess V over 12 years ago
I think these characters could give Rat some ideas.
firedome over 12 years ago
yesh, that it ish…
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago
Radish… especially if McDonnell shends in those crazy shquirrels to take his…. oh… um… never mind.
The Old Wolf over 12 years ago
Haha, Mutts said “nipples”! Haha!
Yontrop over 12 years ago
Oh… um… I’m speechless.
Sisyphos over 12 years ago
All you guys can do is make jokes?! Cartoon-Pastis is in big trouble, for heaven’s sake! Those evil East Coast ’toons are about to torture Stephan! —Shades of Roger Rabbit!We need a Hero!
bahramthered over 12 years ago
That’s torture? I’ve seen worse in a strip club.
If they break out the hot sauce I’m not gonna look. Once was more than enough.
DuHhozr over 12 years ago
Rope a dope!
knight1192a over 12 years ago
Ok, that’s it. I say storm the idiots stronghold without Guard Duck or Snuffles, free Pastis, then take their torture device and use it on Rat’s family jewels. Over, and over, and over again just because of having to read that stupid speech impediment.
Brian Fink over 12 years ago
Gary Larson once had a torture device called “Mr. Thingy”. Was Larson east or west coast?
JGordonFan24 over 12 years ago
i like the the speech impediment. i think it’s soooooo cute!
jessegooddoggy over 12 years ago
I still say they are in costume, the real Earl and Mooch would untie him and take him home to Millie
finale over 12 years ago
Send in an obscure, seldom used or long thought dead character!
hariseldon59 over 12 years ago
Time to send the crocs on a suicide mission. Too bad Melvin is gone.
ckeller over 12 years ago
I’m with Pastis, that stupid speech impediment is torture to me too. It’s definitely a part of why I don’t read Mutts.
JoeStrike over 12 years ago
hmmm… I hope Stephan isn’t planning any waterboarding gags.
ArtCreator over 12 years ago
Haha.
lmubill over 12 years ago
C’mon Mooch! Do it for all the other “cutesy ‘s’” speakers out there…. like Sean Connery…..
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 12 years ago
yes, yes you may.
dutchs over 12 years ago
“We need a Hero!” An East Coast hero. A Philly cheese steak. Mmmm. Philly cheese steak…..
nancyroy2 over 12 years ago
please do!
listmom over 12 years ago
At least he’s not being licked to death by Woofy! Woofy wuvs Stephan!
Stagger Lee over 12 years ago
No! Not the nipples. Steph would enjoy that too much.
boookman over 12 years ago
A perfect example of why this is my favorite comic strip.
mrcharmander934 over 12 years ago
I’m curious, how come the comic characters on the east coast are seen as “evil” just because they’re on the other side? I’m not bashing the comic or anything, I’m just curious.
Donna S over 12 years ago
Can this day get any better? My two MOST favorite comic strips fused! Love it!
codedaddy over 12 years ago
When Mutts first appeared years ago I looked for awhile in vain for semblance of a joke or cleverness, and kept nearly losing my lunch over the sappy mouth full of mush device. Just by using the ever popular dogs and cats for characters it reached out to the “too cute” crowd and apparently succeeded. Awful. As bad as Family Circus. Now they’ve invaded PBS, starring Stephan as a character, Tell me when I can return to the strip I love.
Tue Elung-Jensen over 12 years ago
Could be worse – he might want to electrocute something further south.
hariseldon59 over 12 years ago
If that doesn’t work, try the comfy chair.
JR6019 over 12 years ago
Tortured nipples? For some people, that’s a third date!
Number Three over 12 years ago
Owwwwwwww!
LOL xxx
Varnes over 12 years ago
Assault and battery?
6turtle9 over 12 years ago
Torture! Torture! Torture! Put ’em on the rack! Flog his pashty back! Draw him into a “Love Is” strip!
tbritt99 over 12 years ago
I always thought Earl & Mooch were so innocent!
ReneeZimbodgi over 12 years ago
shigh…
Popeyesforearm over 12 years ago
tit for tat in the toon war
jayjaypom over 12 years ago
THIS IS HILARIOUS!!!!
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago
But bmonk — aren’t you somewhere in the middle?
killacowinWA over 12 years ago
This strip, and the comments therein, have caused me to cringe a great deal today. I don’t like where the story is going. It’s stopped being fun.
sstill over 12 years ago
I haven’t had a comic strip make me bust out laughing like this in a long time! I even signed up just to say that, bravo!
donagrandi over 12 years ago
All Rat and Pig have to do is take Little Pink Sock hostage…
Snuffles the Mute Terrorist Cat over 1 year ago
This is definitely not in the Kid’s Friendly Pearls Before Swine books.