Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 20, 2016

Staci, did you at least get a kiss from Monty Hall?

I get the Reference.

Looks like someone got “zonked”.

You do have some readers that are as old or older than you, so yes, we do get the reference.

Meanwhile, Larry has a cunning plan!https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiNAXGeWEAARwrf.jpg:large

If you’re wrong about people getting that reference, you’re probably wrong about people appreciating your puns, too.

I got that reference also. What does that make me? Almost 60, that’s what!! (Well, in 2 years and 1 day, that is.)

Hmmm… well let’s see what Jay is bringing down the aisle!

Stephan, anyone over about 50 will get that reference!

Wow. Now I know how my late mom felt when she spoke of watching old shows like “The Show Of Shows.” It seemed prehistoric to me, even those it was only a few years before I was born.

I am offended!

“Let’s make a deal” is on the game show channel “Buzzer”. I swear, I only found it by mistake in flipping around!

A goat. It’s always a goat, not a cow. (BTW: Goats are cute!)

I enjoyed that show, too. I was a kid then, but I thought the farm animal was more often than not a goat, which would have fit the strip better anyway ;-)

Shoulda taken the box.

At least she will get some milk .

She still has the large novelty sunglasses?

I remember Carol Merrill was always standing next to a curtain or a box.

Turkey would have been a better answer.CowaPUNga!

Let’s Make a Deal is still on, so I don’t know why no one would get the reference.

Um, a lot of us fans are a lot older than you think, Stephan.

Could have had the curtains drawn in the first panel.

Perhaps she would have preferred A LIFETIME SUPPLY OF RICE-A-RONI, THE SAN FRANCISCO TREAT!

NeedAChuckle got it. Wayne Brady is hosting it, with announcer/cohort Jonathan Mangum.

The show is iconic. There is actually a probability mathematics principle referred to as the Monty Hall Problem. It explains why, after having chosen 1 of 3 curtains and elimination i of them, your best bet is now to switch your choice to the other remaining curtain.

If you watch reruns of the show on GSN, you’d get the reference.

I’m old enough that I get the reference from when it was originally on TV

The Gong Show was better.

I’m 71 and never watched the show so I didn’t get it either.

pick door number 3 or the lady or the tiger

Ah, the good days – I used to be a Gong Show aficionado…

Stephan just wanted to make his girlfriend say “Moooooooo”.

“Ding Dong School” with Miss Francis? Boy oh boy – I sure remember that program. I was glued to the TV when that show came on. Anybody remember “Lunch Time Little Theater”?

I get it. Also remember Miss Francis and Ding Dong School.

Yeah, I haven’t seen a cow as the big zonk of the day. But a mule, well saw that a couple of times, once with a cart. Just watch Let’s Make a Deal on Buzzr if you weren’t alive when the show was on to get the reference to today’s strip.

I think it was a jackass, which in this case, may be appropriate.

I got the reference and I’m not nearly 50

Let’s Make a Deal is still on TV, it’s hosted by Wayne Brady . . . . Bitches !!! hahahahahaha

Cows may come, cows may go, but that BULL in the basket lasts forever!!

Dating myself a little bit, but I get the reference.

Don’t have a cow, Staci.

I don’t get the reference but it’s freaking hilarious!

xxx

I got it. I used to wonder if the contestant got to keep those farm animals. What if they were farmers???

I’ll bet you didn’t know that Carol Merrill is the aunt of actress Carla Gugino.

Cartoon-Boy in his basket on the porch (because Staci has kicked him out of the house) is so cute, just like a tiny puppy—and about as bright as one not yet trained, too!Mooo to you, C-B!

I guess Stephen doesn’t watch CBS in the mornings, or at least the hour before The Price Is Right…

I expect Stephen’s line in the last panel is what the real Staci said when told about this strip.

Sadly I am just old enough to get the reference

Me too, Mark!

Yeah. We will.

What’s next? “Dialing for Dollars”?

I’ve watched “Let’s Make a Deal” for decades, and I still didn’t get the cow reference.

I once watched an episode of “The Price is Right”. I’ve also seen “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune”. I am not over 18.