Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 13, 2021

It did a little hovering before it hit its target.

I thought it was a CD.

Oooo no!

The workman couldn’t resist spinning it.

We used to eat at International House of Pancakes, very occasionally. The food was reliably mediocre. We have never eaten at IHOP, nor do I expect we ever will. It always evokes some cross between kangaroos and having to run for the restroom.

I hop, you hop, we all hop for IHOP…..

I hope he is okay..knocked him flat as a pancake!

Should have used a thought bubble.

International House Of Prayer. A real thing, look it up.

I hop? No, I hurt…

Especially, if you be Stephan who is past is money.

Ty gauging time in real life.

Even harder.

Good thing he was only hit by the “O”; “I” would have impaled him.

IBOP

He should have “hopped” out of the way.

So, is Pastis getting free pancakes for the product placement? ;-)

Cute!

But it’s legal for comical reasons.

Rat suffered a halo-ostemy, halo-wed be his name!

And for the rest of the world… who’ve probably never heard of it (I certainly hadn’t)… Thanks to Google/Wikipedia…

IHOP is an American multinational pancake house restaurant chain that specializes in breakfast foods. It is owned by Dine Brands Global—a company formed after IHOP’s purchase of Applebee’s, with 99% of the restaurants run by independent franchisees.

The hazards of living in a comic strip!

Did Rat just get pancaked?

That was oddly satisfying.

Or soap operas , Goat!

Rat got hot on the head with a washer, where is the dryer? Sorry!

Rat you finally got what you needed ;-)

I hop, you konk.

By my understanding of physics, acquired from watching a sitcom, time did not exist before the Big Bang (the theory/event not the sitcom). So perhaps we are witnessing the birth of the rat-verse.

Well, Rat’s dead

That’s what Rat gets for always putting Pig and Goat down.

It came with a couple of rubbery tasteless pancakes whether you ordered them or not.

Oh Stephan Stephan Stephan.

Talk about blantent 4th wall violations. At least they didn’t attact the 4th wall with an axe, as Larisa did.

The Heisenberg Principle at work.

Where does a one legged waitress work ? IHOP ! Bwa, ha, ha snort !

I’m reminded of how Buster Keaton would play with the inability to judge depth in movies to do all kinds of neat tricks in the plane of view.

As in life, Goat, as in life….

Rat did not leave that scene happily.

In humor, timing is everything. Pastis couldn’t possibly know how long it takes us to read his dialogue.

At my most recent visit to IHOP, the pancakes were so thin they had only ONE side!

A Rat named Stefan appears in today’s Mutts: https://comicskingdom.com/mutts/2021-11-13

“Ouch!”, said the 4th wall.

Rat will never be an NFL receiver with plays like that.

There was a panel cartoon called “The Alumnae” that ran in my local paper. In one episode, DeEtte (the ditz) is saying to her snide companion, “What do you mean, Magda, Nature abhors a vacuum?” as a coconut drops from a potted plant onto her head.

So Magda saw the falling nut, made her comment, which DeEtte repeated before impact.

Comic strip time.

Clever. You have a very quick eye and hand.

Ah – IHOP. The place where you get an overpriced plate of grilled batter smothered in dark-colored corn syrup and whipped margarine.

So we’re going to do some tripping through space-time?

Nicely done.

I wonder what recesses of Pastis’s mind this idea came from.

As dumb as this toon is, I find it funny a few minutes of looking at it. Now a real side splitter. Thanks Steve!

Time in comics and animated cartoons is pretty darned flexible. E. g. the falling off the cliff gag that involves walking on air.

Here’s Pastis, trying to get free food again.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

So Rat’s going to sue IHOP.

God, I love this strip! Having grown up on Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, Pearls is, to me, the best comic strip around these days.

Goat’s comment is sorta meta, but so true! —Especially when Cartoon-Boy deliberately omits the little lines running up from the “halo” that indicate motion!

Relative humor, great for the holidays. Think about it.

I wonder why there making an ihop there it doesn’t look like there’s even a street

This is incredibly clever. Well done, sir!

Worst looking halo I’ve ever seen