Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 19, 2013
Transcript:
Ride: It's a world of hopes/ it's a world of fears/ but to Hell with you all/ 'cause I got my beer. Pig: I think I prefer Disney's version. Rat: Hey, look... the German kid's beating up the French boy for his hefeweizen. Pig visits Rat's "Beerland Amusement Park."
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
It’s a drunk world after all.
einarbt over 11 years ago
There is a Diseny version of beerland? Oh, the song.
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
Scar from “The Lion King” dislikes the “It’s a Small World After All” song (for the record, he did ask Zazu to “sing something with a little bounce in it”).
Bilan over 11 years ago
A French boy drinking German beer? Someone or another is going to beat him up.
zero over 11 years ago
It’s Oktoberfest every day there!
kamb8 over 11 years ago
I’m pretty sure there was a ‘Pearls’ comic with Rat writing to Disneyland asking the dolls in “It’s a small world” to beat each other up.
seyleigh over 11 years ago
Note to Pastis: I want to hear the extended version!
petepope over 11 years ago
Danny the Donkey finally has a home
Z Blair Premium Member over 11 years ago
CLASSIC! I have always thought the Disney ride was obnoxious….lol
blunebottle over 11 years ago
“It’s a World of Hops, it’s a World of Beers…..”
HeckleMeElmo over 11 years ago
Oh well, hefeweizen is better than none.
William Weedman over 11 years ago
Thank you Stephan for the &#(! earworm…
William Weedman over 11 years ago
Thank you Stephan for the &#(! earworm…
justjess678 over 11 years ago
Looks like the scene from “Duffland” in the Simpsons
eddie6192 over 11 years ago
I wonder how many of us just Googled “Hefeweizen”?
Brian Fink over 11 years ago
It beats having to star in Tim Allen’s next Christmas movie (The Courtship of Stewie’s Father)
nyoha over 11 years ago
I can see parents are not going to be amused with the word “hell” snuck in.
lunatics_fringe Premium Member over 11 years ago
Wonder how many papers this’ll be censored in…
goes and checks his paper
Nope, it’s there.
vwdualnomand over 11 years ago
what is wrong at disney? so many bombs. is it too many tv people thinking that movies are easy? or, is it the locations are really in crazy areas(central florida, anaheim, paris?). $225 million for a 2.5 hour movie about a cowboy and his native shaman? $250 million about a human on mars. and, why does mars need moms?
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
Ohhh! Lucky Pig! I wonder how outrageously high Rat has set the ticket price for the Beerland boat ride? Could we all go, too? —Before I go crazy hearing that twisted tune in my head?Won’t You Let Me Take You on a Scenic Cruise?
Plods with ...™ over 11 years ago
MY RIDE!!!!
jmartin1955 over 11 years ago
That was f**king great. I hate that ride when I took my kids, this one I would go on.
theorgandude over 11 years ago
If Disney ran “Beerland”, they would screw it up big time by charging high prices for admission, you would have to bring your own stein, and would have pay toilets in every section of the park.
hariseldon59 over 11 years ago
I’m convinced that the guy who designed this ride must have been on acid at the time.Here’s a link for anyone who has actually not been on this ride. Watch at your own risk.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJFGAX77zw4
rugeirn over 11 years ago
What a tin ear for verse! All he has to do is use singulars in the first two lines and the rhyme is full instead of half. Must’ve had a few units too many of the park product.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 11 years ago
This “Beerland” schtick almost makes me want to bring back Prohibition…remember, I said ALMOST!!
rshive over 11 years ago
I think Pilsner originated in the Czech Republic. They still do it best.
BobWiecezak over 11 years ago
Thanks for another good laugh Stephen
beelzie over 11 years ago
Couldn’t he just get the French kid to surrender his beer?
corzak over 11 years ago
It’s beautiful to see the children of the world coming together . . . singing in harmony about the things the unite us all. I’m tearing up. Nicely done, Rat.
corzak over 11 years ago
The lines are veeery long on the more popular attractions at BeerLand. You should buy a FASTPASS ticket for this ride.
mrcomicsfan over 11 years ago
they’ve finally stopped censoring mild language in pbs
GoodQuestion Premium Member over 11 years ago
♪♫♪ Oh dear, what can the matter be??No beer!! I couldn’t be sadder, see?No beer, rat couldn’t be badder, whee!And I jest sit in despair . . ♫♪ . . ☻
gamer2k4 over 11 years ago
This is some edgy stuff. I’m surprised the editors greenlit it.
Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago
“Its a beer world after all, Its a beer world after all, its a beer world after all,so raise your cans on high.” (2,3 4)Chorus
Andi Asha over 11 years ago
aww thats sweet pig is visiting rat’s amusement park
Number Three over 11 years ago
I bet Andy Capp would take his son Buster there.
Much to Flo’s disapproval.
xxx
Miles VanDelay over 11 years ago
I always thought Spaten Pils was delicious. Diff’rent strokes.
Marvelmoan1114 over 11 years ago
Cant believe this strip got published.
lmonteros over 11 years ago
I think I prefer Rat’s version. But Hefeweizen? Nein, nein, Maerzenbier ist doch besser.
mafastore over 11 years ago
templo SUD -Lion King, a rip off of Hamlet – same plot.
twainreader almost 10 years ago
J-Rod’s drunk. He thinks Tru is a Painted City Woman. Time to cue W C Fields singing the Fatal Glass of Beer
Die Barney about 4 years ago
I sorta want to see that.