Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 13, 2019

Only one thing makes breakfast — caffeine.

Are those Jelly Could people the same ones that use ketchup?

I don’t know if Bill reads “Pearls” as well, but would he have liked this of him having a cameo?

There are only two kinds of people…those who think the world can be divided into two groups and those who don’t…

“He had it coming, He had it coming. He had only himself to blame.”

That one got stretched so far it fell flat. Sorry.

I bet on the spread.

It would have been funnier if Bill Nye had wielded the bat, which is what I expected.

I wonder if Stephan picks a phrase and tears it apart until he finds a pun, or if they just come to him randomly.

aaaarrrrggghhhhhhhh!!!!

Yet another classic Pastis Sunday wordplay wind-up for the ages. Brilliant.

Looks like the cartoonist got himself into a jam!

How long will Pastis survive these ratbib responses?

While I’ve been trying for years to create a presentable peanut-butter omelet, I don’t think jelly would improve any past or present attempts.

Oh my gosh!

Ow. Ow. Ow.

there are two types of people in the world those that can infer from incomplete data…

Pretty good, Pastis!

CARLOS!!

Wowwwww Rat Bat two days in a row ! Will Stephan go for three ? …. Croc Power !

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary, and those who don’t.

Rat, hit him again.

Gimme that bat!!!

Bill Nye is from Almost Live and his own series, Bill Nye, The Science Guy. Both shows were based in Seattle, Washington.

You jelly??

Most of these puns are just corny. This one was funny..

I prefer jam to jelly.

Hilarious!

Stephan, You’ve done many great strips, you don’t need to do this painful pun-making

the punniness is just sublime !

I wonder if Pastis is just trolling us with all these pun strips.

He certainly gets a lot of comments on them. If the GoComics contract rewarded him for getting a lot of comments (as I imagine it likely does)…

Oh brother, >.<

I like it!

Oooh, Mr. Pastis is making me want to spike my coffee this morning. He spread that pun on a little thick.

I wonder if Rat and Co. will eventually figure out that they have free will and do NOT have to mouth Pastis’ awful puns, if they don’t want to…

I can usually see these a mile off. I must be really off this morning or else it was more subtle than normal.

Jam! Eat it with a spoon!

And Pastis gets it with the baseball bat again. I’m glad justice gets done around here.

OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW!

Did he just hit Pastis or Nye too?

Before you moan, just try to think of the effort it took to set that up.

I’ll bet that took Pastis a whole to week to come up with! And Rat knocked him out in 2 seconds.

Neither is Nye!

whoa – didn’t see that coming

I respect Mr. Nye greatly but I still maintain that Mister Wizard could kick Bill’s butt.

Mister Wizard was serious no-nonsense stuff!

Beautiful…….best pun yet

Bill would say, “You’re right, I can’t deNye that”

LOVE these!!! LMAO every time!

So the punny man gets another dose of reality.

Does anyone besides me worry about Pastis’s mental state? LOL

Hit him again, harder – so he remembers it the next time he want to "pun"ish us

LMAO! Pastis gets the bat more often than not……PB&J?

Really liked this one. Of course. I’ve been telling the “Rudolph the Red knows rain dear” joke since I was 12.

Well, I agree with that elderly man named Lang, who has a sign saying “Promote Putrid Pastis Puns”. Yes, that’s right, I’m for Old Lang’s Sign…

I will allow the odious presence of Nye only because he gets hit with a baseball bat.And before people who love him chime in, my only exposures to him have been on phone-in talk shows where he was rude and treated the callers horribly, sometimes even calling them names.

Actually, I prefer jam, preserves (preferably strawberry) or marmalade with breakfast, or maybe apple butter or pumpkin butter. And most of the time I don’t have any with breakfast. Now as for jelly, I prefer to have mint jelly on leg of lamb.

seems to me Rat should be clobberin’ Pastis for that one..

BILL bill bill bill-bill. Biiiiill Nyeeeeee the Science Guuuuuyyyy. BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! Bill Nye the Science Guy!

We need to preserve this strip.

Arg. I can see the pun coming in the first panel. Then transfixed, like a deer in the headlights for the next four panels, trying to beat him to the punch. Only to suffer for it in the penultimate panel. Waiting for the day when we see Pastis grinning to himself in the final panel after thwarting one of Rat’s bat attacks.

Did not see that coming

i think Nye should have been the one with the bat!

Something that makes breakfast better than jelly does: syrup! I’m sure Pastis can get a pun out of syrup too.

Excellent. that one caught me off guard. thanks.

LOL Gods, I love Stephan’s puns!

one of these days Pastis,ONE OF THESE DAYS! POW BOOM! RIGHT TO MOON! And we certainly don’t want to hear I left my harp in Sam’s Clams’s Disco ether!

I find these expeditions to a punch line immensely entertaining; I think I may have a problem… I’m going to double check with my therapist.

I can barely await the next Beaver Lodge drunken senior birthday party.

Man! That put the pun in “punishment”.

For a pun – that is actually brilliant! How does Pastis do it? (But I still groaned – I hope that is him in the last panel?)

Check out the funny video of Bill Nye as Speed Walker on You Tube sometime.

Puns – 1; Humans – 0

ahahahahaha! That’s a great one Stephen! Took me clean by surprise!!!! Thank you for a good laugh!

Rat is wrong about jelly—some of us get along without it perfectly well—, but absolutely right about Cartoon-Boy (his alter ego, no less)! Gimme an at-bat, too!

Way old lame joke: there are two kinds of people in this world, those that divide everyone up into two kinds of people, and those who don’t.

I knew the pun was coming. I was bracing myself. However, I did not anticipate the joke before reading it, and it made me laugh.

Wherever Pastis comes up with all these puns, I hope he keeps ’em coming!

Best. Pun. Ever. Like…ever.

surprisingly funny, even though is a pun

I don’t know why everyone calls puns “bad” jokes. They always leave me in stitches.

OMG that’s hilarioius

I’m with Rat on this one…only because I kept finishing it by singing it!

Heinous… …totally heinous…

For he’s a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny!!!