Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 21, 2021

Rat, your problems don’t amount to a hill of beans in this world.

Actually, putting Rat on top of a tall, deserted hill could help to make the world a better place.

Rat missed his flight with Mars Perseverance.

what did you expect, Rat?

Locked doors and cutting of the electronics work, too.

Is that making mountains out of molehills?

We’re told that God loves EVERYBODY… but I’ve noticed that she does it from a considerable distance…

Ivory towers work too.

Why sass on a hill?

We are called to love one another not like one another.

If the Wise Ass finds people so annoying, why isn’t he on the taller hill?

Both hills look like big piles of doo doo.

So, what are these hills, by the way? Termite mounds? Piles of animal droppings?

Uh huh. Smartass donkey on a midden…

Rat refers to his fellow man but shouldn’t he refer to his fellow republican!

Stephan you are the smartest wise ass on the hill!

Rat time for a new Wise Ass ! This one keeps giving you the same message ;-) Try Larry Croc ! …. Croc Power !

So you means I’d better becomes a hill billy bears?

Making those 2 hills look like dung heaps is part of the gag!

“The Hills are Alive, …”

Can you make mountains out of more hills?

More hills and fewer asses.

Climb every mountain, the hills are alive, with the sound of %$#@=§€¥~ music……

Metaphysically accurate. The political solution is an amicable divorce, requiring a county-by-county vote.

Hiking up a hill does seems to help actually, as long as its not a crowded one

I was a docent at the OMA for35 years. When giving tours, our method was to ask questions that would get viewers thinking about the content/style/color/technique of every art work. Landscapes were always a huge favorite, for two main reasons: 1) everybody could tell “what they were;” 2) there were no people in them. Swear to gawd, those were the two remarks made consistently. . .so, it appears we consistently annoy each other. . .

I don’t even want to like Rat. He does stupid things, and he annoys me.

“Hell is other people.”- Sartre Heaven is other people, too. At the very least, he needs someone with whom to share his kvetching.

It’s hills all the way down..or up, as the case may be.

This also explains why the Wise One was on his hill.

Even the Wise Ass on the Hill might be on somebody’s stupid and annoying list. Most of us are, whether people actually tell us or not.

Why do you keep asking him?

That’s one hill of an answer.

Someday if I’m able to afford a place with lots of land and no nearby neighbors I’m going to name it “Wiseass Hill.”

This comic tells us, in all honesty, why the early Christian saints used to build towers in the desert and spend their lives atop them.

Really.

Why the wise donkey is on a hill my himself.

What this world needs is more cell-phones.

There’s a reason all of the Swami types are depicted as a Hermit. The best place to find peace is in seclusion.

People, huh? Can’t live with ‘em. Can’t bury ‘em in the backyard.

When you get to the top you will be in the company of one of the world’s biggest a**holes.

I like most people even some Republicans.

the answer is fewer people

You get a hill, and you get a hill and you get a hill…..!

Maybe this guy is wiser than I previously thought

I often wonder what the inspiration was behind some comics. This is one of them.

Ironically, places of higher learning are often on a hill. Bascom Hall in Madison, WI for example.

Now I wish I could remember where on YouTube, some one refered to the White House as Casa Blanca. Later heard that Biden had reentered the Paris Climate Accords. I so want to tell that commnentor, “We’ll always have Paris!”.

The wise ass chose the wrong hill.

You’ll say that SURELY I can’t be serious, but I would say “Airplane!” has held up very well over the decades, too.

“The answer is more Hills.”

Anita, Benny,….

This one always reminds me of SNL Colon Blow. RIP Phil Hartman.

You can all go to hill, for all I care.

Don’t do it, Rat!

If you did, then we’d have to suffer not only the sanctimonious and supercilious Wise Ass On the Hill but also the even worse Wiser Rat on the Higher Hill….

There is an Haitian saying: “Behind the montain, another mountain.”

Plot twist: he’s actually using the hill as a metaphor for getting along with others and he was being sarcastic in panel 7.