Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 21, 2015

Ah yes, the Annual Hollywood Self-Congratulation Ceremony, where the people who give us garbage give each other trophies for it.:I’ll be catching up on my reading.

♪♫♪ My bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R… (’Cause AMPAS members have a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A.)

“Uma…Oprah. Oprah..Uma.”

Pastis nailed it with this one :-O

I notice quite a few snide remarks about Hollywood, the people who work there, and their annual output. Makes you wonder how they are able to stay in business if so many well adjusted rational people have a hate on for them. Just like anything else in life, you have some good ones (movies, actors), you have some bad ones. It all balances out in the long run. I for one refuse to get on my high horse and speak ill of something that is so very easy for me to totally ignore, and I do more times than not.

If you think the show hasn’t been worth watching since Bob Hope stopped hosting it, raise your hand.

Well said Mugens. I never watched the show when Bob Hope hosted it, the most arrogant and lofty actor ever. People used to laugh sometimes because he was alleged to be funny.

@mugens — The TV show “Mountain Monsters” keeps getting renewed. I don’t understand that, either, but I suspect that the two mysteries are related.

David Nivens and the naked runner, with a no attention getter.

Wow Stephan! Way to call it! Brilliant strip!

Did you see that news report that Steven Spielberg gets “thanked” at the Oscars more than God? Cracked me up!

Well, I guess the PBS movie won’t be happening, again!

I’ve never watched in my 56 years but obviously am very aware. You can’t avoid it. It’s always amazed me that the “winners” are usually the “critically acclaimed” (read politically correct-hot button) movies and not the movies that the world actually went to see and spent our money on. Movie critics are just like art critics…and no; hollywood doesn’t produce art. They produce entertainment.

That little rat’s pretty smart.

And my plastic surgeon.

But rat is watching it, despite his understanding of their zero value.

OK, Pastis. You’re forgiven.

I will cheerily watch a Man from U.N.C.L.E. rerun Sunday night, followed by a newscast. The Oscars are boring, pretentious, inside-Hollywood politics, made solely to please Hollywood and the deluded few who still believe in the Magic and want to be told what is “good” in disregard of their own opinions….

Pastis & Rat have pretty much nailed it.

Getting kudos for pretending to be someone you’re not? Actors call it the Academy Awards, politicians call it Elections.

Some clean up nicely. There isn’t much you can do for the likes of Charlie Sheen, though.

Well, I like the Oscars because I rarely go to movies (last one I saw was Lincoln), and, being a former English teacher, I’m interested in plot, characterization, and stuff like that. The Oscars enable me to get the whole balla wax in one big blurt, to mix a metaphor. Being retired, I can watch the whole thing now!

And yes, Stephan, this strip was an unusually fine one. Best “Oscars” strip I’ve seen, to date!

Love this one!

Only about one out of five are assured they’re okay. The rest don’t look so happy.

Thanks,Stephen for saying what i’ve held true for years. Down w/the RIAA. Give artists more,not the middle man. :) Peace.

Funniest cartoon of the day, and an excellent example of why Rat is the best active comic strip character (Snoopy, of course, is first all-time).

ah 8+ hours of giving a damn about people who don’t give a damn about us win a gold statue for nothing

Ouch!

xxx

Oscar Levant said " It’s the night Hollywood makes love to itself " I agree.

One word, Rat: YEP!

Best PBS ever.

To these people it is what manure is to clover in the cow field1

I stopped watching the Academy Awards show back in 1981. I enjoyed watching and found it to be entertaining. The biggest issue is that it went way too long. Staying up until well after midnight and then having my alarm ring at 4:30 so I could head to work at 5 was a bit too much to handle.

To share here what I found earlier in the day:

Self-reliance and self-respect are about as valuable commodities as we can carry in our pack through life.- Luther Burbank

It would seem that these qualities are quite scarce in Hollywood.

Wisdom from the rat.

Buncha negative nancies, the lot of you.

Brilliant!!!!

Hahaha—awesome.