Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 29, 2017
Transcript:
"Once upon a time in the utensil drawer." Fork: Honey...I think I'm having contractions. Fork 2: Okay...just breathe, baby...I'll get the car. "So the forks went to the hospital." Fork 2: I'll get the door for you sweetie. Knife: Goodbye. Good luck! "And after ten hours of labor..." Fork 2: Here comes the baby, honey! Dr: Congrats, Mr. and Mrs. Fork. Its a - Spork. "Mr. Spoon fled the utensil drawer as fast as he could." Goat: That's not how sporks are made. Rat: Yes it is. Pis: That does it. I'm putting my spoons in a separate drawer.
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
That’s what spooning will get you.
railwayman001 almost 8 years ago
Well, it is what the current Idiot-in-Chief thinks, and he will make us all accept it as fact.
Sherlock Watson almost 8 years ago
I heard that the spoon ran off with a dish while the dog was laughing.
Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
I would hate to see Rat’s rendition of the “Hey-Diddle-Diddle” line of the dish running away with the spoon.
Troglodyte almost 8 years ago
What the fork?!
LuvThemPluggers almost 8 years ago
These mixed marriages never work out! The kids get mixed messages.
noahproblem almost 8 years ago
And here I thought the knife would’ve been the backstabber…
Oshietekun almost 8 years ago
This strip is forking ridiculous.
Sisyphos almost 8 years ago
Rat draws funnier cartoons than Cartoon-Boy’s pun-strips.
Lee Cox almost 8 years ago
That’s really cute. Who knew that Rat can actually be funny when he wants to be?
cdgar almost 8 years ago
Think of the thousands of children that read this strip. They are terribly confused and traumatized now.
Ida No almost 8 years ago
Design theory as taught at Fork U.
hariseldon59 almost 8 years ago
Funniest Pearls strip I’ve read in some time now.
Plumbob Wilson almost 8 years ago
“Who was that ladle I saw you with last night?”“That was no ladle, that was my knife.”
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Most useless utensil ever “conceived”.
Lucid Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Just love the 6th panel.
mortaur almost 8 years ago
I love the look on Mr. Forks’s face.
aimlesscruzr almost 8 years ago
I just noticed that rat puts the pencil under his ear instead of above it like the rest of us.
Ichabod Ferguson almost 8 years ago
Never trust a runcible spoon.
Reader almost 8 years ago
I’ve seen this happen tine and tine again.
Nuliajuk almost 8 years ago
I thought the spoon ran away with the dish? Or was that his brother, the soup spoon.Also, is it a spork or a foon?
garcoa almost 8 years ago
I was so confused, how can a fork drive a car? ;<))
salakfarm Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Yeah, well, spork you, buddy!
nosirrom almost 8 years ago
And the Dish was heartBROKEN after learning what that two-timing Spoon did.
mjb515 almost 8 years ago
Mr. Fork calls in Mack the Knife to deal with his spoon problem.
jdsven almost 8 years ago
Well, they don’t call them “spoons” for nothing.
Perkycat almost 8 years ago
Is this why I can never find a spoon in the drawer when I want one?
Biltil Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Poor Spork was out of place so he left this world for a career in Star Fleet
A_NY_Outlaw almost 8 years ago
well he looks sorta like a fork head.
The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Apparently the way you can tell a male fork from a female is that the male has an extra prong.
Number Three almost 8 years ago
Hahahahaha! This is mad. I love it!
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kaffekup almost 8 years ago
Or as Key & Peele called it once, a “fpoon”.Google “the continental breakfast”. It’s hilarious.
CarlHeckman almost 8 years ago
It’s not a lie, it’s an “alternative fact”
tegm almost 8 years ago
Just once I’d like to see him draw a female doctor; no wonder in real life everyone mistakes us for nurses, we’re never represented in TV Shows, films, books, comic strips, etc…
SkyFisher almost 8 years ago
OK, now explain a runcible spoon.
SonicFan91 over 5 years ago
These people know nothing
rat’s insurance counselor almost 5 years ago
one of my favorite comics
Fatjud almost 3 years ago
What would happen if a spork married a butter knife?