Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 11, 2015

Stephan, take a week or two to rest and recharge yourself.

Thanks to that movie, every time I listen ‘I got you babe’, I can’t help saying:’it’s Grooooundhog Daaaaayy!’

Hey, Rat, can I have that? You missed a spot…

Mr. Bono (1935-1998) would’ve and Ms. Sarkisian (1946-____) would probably like this one.

I’m ashamed to admit that I did not see that one coming!

I knew Stephan used to be a lawyer, but I didn’t know he was pro-Bono.

Nice segue there Rat: “I Got You, Babe”. A true Golden Oldie.

Once again, we’re all showing our age.

Rat just became part of the Wrecking Crew.

Of course we could take clubs to Pastis and start singing. “The Beat Goes On…The Beat Goes On…” ;-D

Yet another silly pun, ending with Rat and a bat. And the beat goes on…

Seriously, have to go this far for a reference to a lame song?

The sky doesn’t look very overcast.

ouch

Thank-You Stephan :-)

Nice shot, Rat!Hey, Cartoon-Boy! Got any more Sonny and Cher puns? —At least Mr. Bono dressed better than you….

sonny said ‘tree-mendous’.

it’s the fiftieth anniversary of “i got you, babe” that’s why Sstephan did this strip!!!

he used the beat goes on because it’s the fiftieth anniversay of that song…

LMBO!

Ski Report: Icy on the slopes, Sonny in the trees…

He could have just as easily had Rat say: " I got you, Babe"But I don’t know if all that’s true.

Give me that bat, Rat! He needs another whack and I want to give it to him.

Did Rat get that bat out of his belfry?!?

Good Rat!

Now I want to watch “Groundhog Day”.

Hey Rat! How is your pun any better than Steph’s?

Love it, love it, love it! Punny, Punny Pastis!

I love it!

Careful Steph, or Cher will call you an a———. (Just ask David Letterman.)

Good move mouse!! He needed that.

Whiteout conditions on the groomed run; but Sunny in the trees.

Well, Patsis may have stunk on this one today, but he sure got the creative juices flowing in some of these comments … so it is never a bad thing

So simple, but it cracked me up.

Gawd…. he’s really reaching lately! ;)

Loved the “I got you, babe” line!

I once dated twins – Sharon, Cher alike

for some reason, golden girls spring to mind. the episode where dorothy and her mother dress up as sonny and cher and sing i got you babe. also, the episode where blanche has a recurring dream about her late husband that also includes sonny bono and lyle waggoner as themselves fighting over dorothy.

A double whammy!

Please that’s Congressman Bono. Succeeded by his wife after his death.

And the beat goes on.

Rat hit Babe Ruth with a baseball bat?

Excellent, Stephan!

Good strip Steph.

This one I liked!

Now do one with The Captain and Tennille!

this isn’t the bottom of the barrel, but you can see it from here. Yes, please take a week off and let the duck take over.

Papa Used To Be A Comic Strip Writer And Mama Used To Beat The Crap Out of Him For His Awful Sonny and Cher Puns!

That doesn’t look like overcast to me.

Wait but it’s clear and sunny in the background