Not far off topic – The 2 Popes is a wonderful movie with insightful and funny conversations and a delightful ending. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant! I’m not a big movie buff but have watched it 3 times this week (Netflix streaming).
I was flying on Braniff Airways in 1968. I was seated next to a Nun. In those days you got a 4-pack of cigarettes with your meal. Mine were menthol, which I didn’t like. I asked the Nun if she wanted them. Her answer: “No thank you, one habit is enough”. True story.
Yeah, can see the wheels in Goat’s head turning. “Did Rat just tell me he didn’t take any of my figures? Or did he say he took a nun? Dear god, what would he do with that nun figure if he took it?”
BE THIS GUY over 4 years ago
Rat, to a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell.
DennisinSeattle Premium Member over 4 years ago
I take your Bishop.
B UTTONS over 4 years ago
The Lama takes the llama.
retrocool over 4 years ago
a cheap chuckle . and I’m proud !
Sherlock Watson over 4 years ago
Does this qualify as a cardinal sin?
hariseldon59 over 4 years ago
What nunsense.
Templo S.U.D. over 4 years ago
now why would Rat take a female monk figurine?
deojaideep aka Courage over 4 years ago
Unseen Panel 4 Stephen getting hit on the head by a baseball bat by someone, for the bad pun!!!
dadoctah over 4 years ago
An independent bookstore near me has things like that for sale. Like the Mother Teresa action figure.
Concretionist over 4 years ago
I would have taken a fence, but the figurines didn’t have one.
gopher gofer over 4 years ago
goat’s pondering whether to get out his nunchucks…
PICTO over 4 years ago
I’m having nun of this…
gopher gofer over 4 years ago
yet another iconic pbs strip…
Need coffee over 4 years ago
I don’t care if it rains or freezes, long as I got my plastic Jesus, sittin’ on the dashboard of my car.
- Ernie Marrs and the Marrs Family
Zykoic over 4 years ago
Brain just hit critical mass! Meltdown! Cannot stop laughing! Nunsense!
Sanspareil over 4 years ago
Rat just took the palindromic figure of a nun!
Nachikethass over 4 years ago
Stephan is reaching…
c001 over 4 years ago
Take “him” to the stake. Quick.
Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 4 years ago
In the unseen fourth panel, Goat is crowning Pastis.
Breadboard over 4 years ago
Did not pass the Monty Python witch test …. burned at the stake :-o … Croc Power !
Masterskrain over 4 years ago
There are Nun worse then this pun!
nosirrom over 4 years ago
It wasn’t Rat. It’s Friday and we all know what kind of meat priests eat on Friday.
Reader over 4 years ago
Oh Brother!
Troglodyte over 4 years ago
If he took the Virgin Mary figurine, maybe he could’ve said: “Miss taken”? :D
The Brooklyn Accent over 4 years ago
Who can understand why Goat collects religious figurines?
Icon.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 4 years ago
Once more we see Rat getting Paris’s human!
Ellis97 over 4 years ago
Cue laugh track.
Linguist over 4 years ago
Oh, brother! Rats got nun, and Father Away is…
MD Bear Premium Member over 4 years ago
The final panel should have been rat tossing the missing figurine at Pastis, making it either “Nun of the Above” or a “Flying Nun”.
Brain Pudding over 4 years ago
Oh my, nun jokes here and in Get Fuzzy today! Must be habit forming…
Nathan Daniels Premium Member over 4 years ago
Goat, sounds like an offense to me.
SkyFisher over 4 years ago
Darn HOMOPHONES!
BTW: Today’s “Off the Mark” has the same theme: https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2020/01/24
jessegooddog over 4 years ago
Not far off topic – The 2 Popes is a wonderful movie with insightful and funny conversations and a delightful ending. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant! I’m not a big movie buff but have watched it 3 times this week (Netflix streaming).
walstib Premium Member over 4 years ago
My sister’s a nun. (apologies to John Prine)
chris_o42 over 4 years ago
Wow Goat, that would have made a great chess set.
Fantom Premium Member over 4 years ago
Holy smoke !
FredWaiss over 4 years ago
On the Chinese calendar, this is the year of the rat. Steph should bring that up sometime this month.
GlenGoodwin over 4 years ago
Rat likes leftovers
Agapostemon over 4 years ago
What? No threats of violence for this pun? Not even one? Nun!
alexius23 over 4 years ago
That’s nunsense
bigal666 over 4 years ago
I was flying on Braniff Airways in 1968. I was seated next to a Nun. In those days you got a 4-pack of cigarettes with your meal. Mine were menthol, which I didn’t like. I asked the Nun if she wanted them. Her answer: “No thank you, one habit is enough”. True story.
Maverick91 over 4 years ago
that last frame is where they beat the cartoonist…
Zebrastripes over 4 years ago
But RAT took some others and not tellin……
Petemejia77 over 4 years ago
So where’s that last panel with someone telling the cartoonist how much he sucks??? Seems like even he’s sick of that tiresome formula.
Call me Ishmael over 4 years ago
There are times when an obvious pun/ may even involve a nun/ but to truly inspire/ you’d throw in a friar/ but it’s too late: the damage is done.
Tentoes over 4 years ago
Pastis, watch out for lightning!
Reino Studios over 4 years ago
This time it wasn’t Stephan’s fault
patrickab7 over 4 years ago
Well played.
zeexenon over 4 years ago
And he sold them all to wayward priests.
smorbie the great and beautiful over 4 years ago
Shouldn’t they all be in a room confronting Pastis in the last panel. Where’s the tradition??? lol
Lablubber over 4 years ago
There’s a nun in heaven planning to run for office. Vote for Nun of the above.
TurbosDad over 4 years ago
Actually, the nun died and now she’s nun of the above…
knight1192a over 4 years ago
Yeah, can see the wheels in Goat’s head turning. “Did Rat just tell me he didn’t take any of my figures? Or did he say he took a nun? Dear god, what would he do with that nun figure if he took it?”
Scott S over 4 years ago
I saw a very nice figurine of John Paul II at a Catholic gift shop once.
Bucinka over 4 years ago
That’s low even for you, Pastis.
jel354 over 4 years ago
Wow. A pun that did not result in Rat wanting to hurt Pastis.
Constantinepaleologos over 4 years ago
Goat’s figurine collection is impressive, but there’s no question the coolest religious figure is Joshua, Bar Nun.
theoldidahofox over 4 years ago
It’s a habit.
Sisyphos over 4 years ago
D’oh! Goat is left speechless.
We, on the other hand, want to get our baseball bats and pay Cartoon-Boy a little visit for Attitude Adjustment!
Future Reuben Recipient over 4 years ago
sounds like a kidnapping movie