Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 09, 2016
Transcript:
Goat: Who's your friend, Rat? Rat: He's an angry bird on drugs. He's angry 'cause some bigger birds ate his friends. Goat: Why is he on drugs? Rat: To get the courage to counterattack. He wants my help in knocking off a couple of them. Goat: So you're gonna kill two birds with one stoned? Zebra: This is a pun intervention.
BE THIS GUY about 8 years ago
I think the bird ODed in the third panel.
knight1192a about 8 years ago
Finally.
LuvThemPluggers about 8 years ago
It had to happen. His own characters have turned on him!
cdgar about 8 years ago
Watch for “Revenge of the Punned” at a theater near you. AKA as “Stephan Finally Gets His”
Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
Definitely not funny. Stephan Pastis should get Alfred Hitchcocked here.
cdgar about 8 years ago
Stephan definitely deserves a “Time Out” for this stinker.
legaleagle48 about 8 years ago
And notice that even Larry is taking part in this intervention. How low have you fallen, Stephan, when even a too-stupid-to-live crocodile has a problem with the puns?
Oshietekun about 8 years ago
Larry doesn’t know anything about puns — he just thought there might be beer.
Kind&Kinder about 8 years ago
Punitive measures must be taken. I say force Toon Boy to include twice as many wordplay inversions in his strips. He’s not punning hard enough!
OldNewbie about 8 years ago
What pun!
Brian Fink about 8 years ago
Well like I said last week, its rock bottom when Larry gets involved and there he is. Im surprised Lil Guard Duck doesnt have a bazooka out.
juicebruce about 8 years ago
Enjoy the buzz little bird…………..good one !
Bryan Smith Premium Member about 8 years ago
A pun-tervention!
Steverino Premium Member about 8 years ago
This sort of reminds me of the time Hollywood wanted to make a movie about the early days of rock and roll. They wanted to put Mick Jagger in the lead, but in the end, they couldn’t do it.
No one wanted to cast the first Stone.
crabbear about 8 years ago
I love this comic and the comments!
Chad Cheetah about 8 years ago
Let’s hope this is a storyline.
Cameron1988 Premium Member about 8 years ago
even Larry the croc is fed up with Stephan’s puns
Cameron1988 Premium Member about 8 years ago
I’m surprised, Rat, didn’t bring his baseball bat
whiteheron about 8 years ago
Hey bird, don’t be blue.I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.
Arty8846 about 8 years ago
Leave him alone. I look forward to them. I know when he’s setting me up. His puns are soooooo bad they’re good.
hirampmcjones about 8 years ago
bravo!
scottm5102 about 8 years ago
Best pun ever!
Saddenedby Premium Member about 8 years ago
how about ‘a bird in hand is worth two in the bush’ – can you do that one mr. pastis?orhow about ‘look before you leap’or‘every dog has his day’?or‘even a blind pig finds an acorn sooner or later’or‘thirty days or $1000’ – oops sorry that was a sentence
WormDoc about 8 years ago
Pastis needs to be started on a week’s course of punicillin.
Donald Hill Premium Member about 8 years ago
That was pretty funny
Bernadette Boe about 8 years ago
Every time… I see it coming, yet continue reading.
billswingle about 8 years ago
Clever.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 8 years ago
Wow. It’s gotten Zebra to work with Larry the croc. This is serious.
Dippy about 8 years ago
Now, that’s good.
Sherlock Watson about 8 years ago
Blue bird of hippieness?
gmu328 about 8 years ago
I like it … however, i like Patsis puns, too …
Number Three about 8 years ago
Wow. It’s getting serious now!
By the way, I’ve always hated that saying. Don’t know why.
xxx
Sisyphos about 8 years ago
Thank goodness the cast is finally intervening! (No attempted puns here about stoning the first cast, etc.). You know it’s really serious when you appreciate one of Cartoon-Boy’s strips for the art work!
Phatts about 8 years ago
see, the problem with a strip like this, you can’t print it out and show it to people.anybody you’d show it to has either no knowledge of any of those characters so they wouldn’t get it, or they’ve read it already!
Canuckguynb about 8 years ago
This is one of my 3 favourite strips. The other two are Doonesbury and Arlo and Janis. So all this crapping on Stephen, that’s all part of the game? Right?
codedaddy about 8 years ago
OK Stephan. I feel properly PUNished.
Christine Wiltse about 8 years ago
Don’t let them stop you!!!
kagekyuu about 8 years ago
especially bad pun cause its basically a repeat of one of the early Sunday pun strips. a repeated pun is the worse pun of all
Sheila Hardie about 8 years ago
He’s Stephan’s bodyguard.
paullp Premium Member about 8 years ago
This isn’t the greatest, but I love his punning, so rock on, Pastis!
Jim Kerner about 8 years ago
You think Stephen has poor punmanship? Back in the fifties and sixties, there was a gentleman named Bennett Cerf. He was the founder and a publisher of a book publishing company named Random House. He was also a big punster. Example Four ghosts were playing cards. There was a knock on the door. One of the ghosts said, who is it? Rigor Mortis. May I set in? From Bennett Cerf’s Treasury of Atrocious Puns. And, that’s how I learned to love puns. I think that I have good punmanship.
js about 8 years ago
You mean a puntervention, right?
rgcviper about 8 years ago
Reminds me of the tragedy when a falcon flew over a rock concert, ending the lives of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Wait for it …
Killing two Stones with one bird.
[Ducking now … And, Sorry, Mick & Keith.]
A purring cat is the best tranquilizer about 8 years ago
Good One!
MathProf2 about 8 years ago
He’ll have pun pun pun pun till his daddy takes the sketchboard away.
Comicmaaan about 8 years ago
Zebra, look out. Zebra? Zebra?! ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAA! A CROC IS STANDING NEAR YOU! GET AWAY FROM THE CROC!