Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 06, 2015
Transcript:
Rat: That clinic downtown that did enemas is finally closing down. Pig: How come? Rat: I guess they failed to make some of their tax payments. Goat: So their enema business is in arrear? Rat: Please stop. Pastis: Their payments were behind. Pig: Did the landlord say. 'No ifs, ands, or buts'?
BE THIS GUY about 9 years ago
WOW! I’m finally agreeing with Rat.
TMO1 Premium Member about 9 years ago
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.
Sherlock Watson about 9 years ago
Today’s background music: “I Wanna Kiss Her” by Tim Cavanagh.:Listen to it. You’ll love it.
legaleagle48 about 9 years ago
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?
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member about 9 years ago
I’m surprised he didn’t work with the Italian word for “enema” which would be “innuendo.”
Bilan about 9 years ago
This gives new meaning to the name Internal Revenue Service.
Jeff0811 about 9 years ago
I wonder if additional fines were ass essed.
blunebottle about 9 years ago
So, where’s the Comic Censor when we really need him!?
Arianne about 9 years ago
Well, they were running out of clientele. The clinic was never exactly flush with patients.
jimmjonzz Premium Member about 9 years ago
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?
knight1192a about 9 years ago
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.
Pointspread about 9 years ago
I heard the clinics doctor got hit by a car leaving work. Rear-ended by a Probe.
Sisyphos about 9 years ago
Good lord! Even you, Pig?!Cartoon-Boy needs some discipline! Or castor oil….
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 9 years ago
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?
jimmjonzz Premium Member about 9 years ago
A saltwater aquarium. The display designer thought they’d requested “something tasteful to promote our anemone business.”
cdward about 9 years ago
The Enema Clinic was under investigation anyway. Said the lead investigator, “We’re going to get to the bottom of this!”
juicebruce about 9 years ago
Good One Stephan ! :-}
mammamoonbeam about 9 years ago
Potty humor? Really Pastis? Bring back the crocs please.
Charles Andrews Premium Member about 9 years ago
Oh Stephan, such a bad man. Really!
DocNero about 9 years ago
The owner ended being known as “Wrecked Al”.
Laynegg about 9 years ago
LOL! LOL! For the comic and all of the above comments. Y’all crack me up!
Stocky One about 9 years ago
People will look back and say that this was the comic that “wrecked ’im”.
Stocky One about 9 years ago
I knew Stephen was anal, but this is ridiculous
prairiedogdance Premium Member about 9 years ago
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.
NoCents about 9 years ago
They should have established their business on the seventh planet from the sun.
whiteaj about 9 years ago
Enema jokes are obviously too easy.
Gokie5 about 9 years ago
“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.
Ermine Notyours about 9 years ago
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.”
galtomasum about 9 years ago
Can’t help it. The terrible puns always get me.
Malcolm Hall about 9 years ago
I agree that Pastis should be sent to a corner to sit on his stool.
Thehag about 9 years ago
Made me laugh out loud, always a good thing!
gojuguy about 9 years ago
Ok, I’m weird…. this one made me laugh out loud.
lgilbert50 about 9 years ago
Has to be one of the funnest in months.
abbybookcase about 9 years ago
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?
comicgrammie Premium Member about 9 years ago
I too, laughed out loud.
ThatGuyInCanada about 9 years ago
It’s a sad sign when a clinic has trouble making ends meet.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 9 years ago
The sewer charges had gone unpaid. That was the last straw.
MeGoNow Premium Member about 9 years ago
I bent over backward for that place, and they still weren’t happy.
HouseApe about 9 years ago
The clinic was evicted. The landlord told them to “Clean all this stuff out!” before they left.
patsysutcliffe Premium Member about 9 years ago
my sentiments exactly.
Number Three about 9 years ago
I love this!
xxx
Canuckguy about 9 years ago
Some of you critics are humoured challenged. Lighten up. This strip is a hoot.
Donna S about 9 years ago
LOL!!!
finnygirl Premium Member about 9 years ago
I loved it, and all the witty comments too. :-D
Stream of conscience about 9 years ago
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.
hitek1st about 9 years ago
Come on, Steph. You are a lawyer and you use “How come”? Why?
RonBerg13 Premium Member about 9 years ago
I’ve go to get to the bottom of this cartoon.
Fido (aka Felix Rex) about 9 years ago
Just what I needed on the eve of a colonoscopy.
Snoopy_Fan about 9 years ago
HA! HA!
beammeup1701 (Bozo by Foxo makes everyone happy!) about 9 years ago
Did you hear about the woman who walked backwards into an industrial fan? Disaster!
Stocky One about 9 years ago
The best thing about a crappy ;-) cartoon like this one is all the hilarious comments. Thanks everyone!
Lupin III about 9 years ago
And thus, the comments section comes to an end.
ctsurv553 almost 8 years ago
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 ;)
LilPeruna over 3 years ago
Kind of surprised that, in the last panel, the Comic Strip Censor didn’t arrive with reinforcements!
Kombul Premium Member almost 2 years ago
If Pastis ever travels he should go to north-western India – there you are stabbed für wordplay.