Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 06, 2015

WOW! I’m finally agreeing with Rat.

This is just on the verge of being the next strip I stop following. Cartoonists should hang it up when they can’t come up with better ideas than this.

Today’s background music: “I Wanna Kiss Her” by Tim Cavanagh.:Listen to it. You’ll love it.

Of course, the problem with the initial pun is that the phrase is actually “in arrears.” But hey, why let proper usage spoil a chance for an eyeroll-worthy punchline?

I’m surprised he didn’t work with the Italian word for “enema” which would be “innuendo.”

This gives new meaning to the name Internal Revenue Service.

I wonder if additional fines were ass essed.

So, where’s the Comic Censor when we really need him!?

Well, they were running out of clientele. The clinic was never exactly flush with patients.

See, their accountant accidentally backed into his office fan and got a little behind in his records. And Goat, Pig… with friends like Rat, who needs enemas?

Is that some kind of legal term most of us aren’t familiar with and are not sure how to pronounce so we’re not sure the pun should be a rear?

For the grammar Nazis out there, yeah, I’m pretty sure that was a run on.

I heard the clinics doctor got hit by a car leaving work. Rear-ended by a Probe.

Good lord! Even you, Pig?!Cartoon-Boy needs some discipline! Or castor oil….

Wow, maybe Stephan thought he could bag some new readers with this talk…But those of us who would never stoop to toilet humor have been hosed!I, myself, have always backed away from exposure to bathroom jokes; I have the intestinal fortitude to leave when I’ve had my fill.

BTW, did you just see me demonstrate the proper use of the colon?

A saltwater aquarium. The display designer thought they’d requested “something tasteful to promote our anemone business.”

The Enema Clinic was under investigation anyway. Said the lead investigator, “We’re going to get to the bottom of this!”

Good One Stephan ! :-}

Potty humor? Really Pastis? Bring back the crocs please.

Oh Stephan, such a bad man. Really!

The owner ended being known as “Wrecked Al”.

LOL! LOL! For the comic and all of the above comments. Y’all crack me up!

People will look back and say that this was the comic that “wrecked ’im”.

I knew Stephen was anal, but this is ridiculous

Too bad Pastis couldn’t figure out a way to include a shark he could be jumping over. Stephan, please go back and read your early stuff, like the strip you posted yesterday, maybe you could inspire yourself.

They should have established their business on the seventh planet from the sun.

Enema jokes are obviously too easy.

“I just want to know what the clinic displays in their window frontage. . .”

You go into one of the exam rooms of one of my doctors, and you’ll see all kinds of art forms depicting various parts of the digestive system. Charts, drawings, figurines (or, maybe, bodypartines), mostly of guts. In the window there are glass sculptures, so the sunlight can shine through them. Pure poetry.The doctor is renowned for keeping her patients waiting for, like, forever, so you have plenty of time to become one with the artwork.

A nurse tried to give a patient an enema, but he refused. She tried again and he still refused.

She said, “that does it. He will not be de-terred.”

Can’t help it. The terrible puns always get me.

I agree that Pastis should be sent to a corner to sit on his stool.

Made me laugh out loud, always a good thing!

Ok, I’m weird…. this one made me laugh out loud.

Has to be one of the funnest in months.

bette midler bit " the doctor put me on a diet where you have to get a regular high colonic. do you know how many specialists in high colonics there are in the phone book? is this town that full of s—t?

I too, laughed out loud.

It’s a sad sign when a clinic has trouble making ends meet.

The sewer charges had gone unpaid. That was the last straw.

I bent over backward for that place, and they still weren’t happy.

The clinic was evicted. The landlord told them to “Clean all this stuff out!” before they left.

my sentiments exactly.

I love this!

xxx

Some of you critics are humoured challenged. Lighten up. This strip is a hoot.

LOL!!!

I loved it, and all the witty comments too. :-D

That was a semi-colon; however your use of it is perfectly correct. In fact the semi-colon is rarer and more difficult to find in normal grammar.

Come on, Steph. You are a lawyer and you use “How come”? Why?

I’ve go to get to the bottom of this cartoon.

Just what I needed on the eve of a colonoscopy.

HA! HA!

Did you hear about the woman who walked backwards into an industrial fan? Disaster!

The best thing about a crappy ;-) cartoon like this one is all the hilarious comments. Thanks everyone!

And thus, the comments section comes to an end.

Did you hear about Stephan’s home remodeling project? He’s putting in a recreation room with a pool table, full wet-bar, and a Wurlitzer juke box. But he couldn’t decide on what kind of seats he wanted for the bar, so he called up a bunch of bar and restaurant supply companies, and asked them to send him bar stool samples.I’m sorry, really, really sorry for that, but I just couldn’t resist ;)

Kind of surprised that, in the last panel, the Comic Strip Censor didn’t arrive with reinforcements!

If Pastis ever travels he should go to north-western India – there you are stabbed für wordplay.