Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 18, 2021

Of course it’s well hung. It’s an ELEPHANT!

Can someone explain, I feel like I am missing the joke.

Seems like the censor is the one with a dirty mind

Elephant? If you mean a man who’s big, stubborn and has his own unshakeable ideas about how things are (in other words, YOU “Mr. Censor”) I’d say yes.;D

Elephant? And here I thought the expression was “hung like a horse.”

So, the elephant’s gay, too?

Better than calling it well hanged.

Shouldn’t the censor be asking Stephan?

Pardon the pig.

The elephant was hung low, which is all Rat can handle.

I could say it’s hung low, in reference to the picture.

Good one Pastis!

It looks like Elly, in which case the adjective “hung” would be inapplicable.

If it’s not straight, put it in the closet.

Should have used a picture of John Dillermand

this has run already i think

Rat, you have a hammer in your hand and the censor’s feet are so close….

Sheer genius! Where’s his Pulitzer?

That censor should be hanged…

The real joke here is Rat doing the work of hanging a picture ! …. Croc Power !

Funny!

Rat should’ve asked the censor: “How’s it hangin’?” :D

Reminds me of a fellow I knew, Peter Dragon!!

Nothings worse than an elephant in the room not hung well!

Not fair, Rat’s been framed.

Oh this operates on so many levels and I hope they’re all intentional.

What do comic censors think when they see themselves in a strip?

Not good I bet

What is grey and comes in quarts?

For the censor, the elephant is irrelephant.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.—Groucho Marx

It’s just an elephant.

Don’t believe everything you trunk.

Don’t tell, but he says “F-a-lot”!

I’ll let this one pass.

Fun fact: The same pun was used in the Outro for Only Connect, Series 16, Episode 11.

I’ve known a couple of Elephants who were well hung but not straight. No one paid attention to their politics!

Love it.

Less heavy-handed than an 800 pound gorilla.

Actually better than usual.

Earlier this month, Pastis said on twitter that the strips that would run this week were about an attempted presidential coup and were written a month in advance of January 6th. Given the circumstances, I’m not surprised the syndicate decided to pull them and run them “when things calm down.”

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/entertainment/pearls-before-swine-comic-strips-about-military-coup-pulled-from-newspape/

The hung man was well hanged.

I think that guy is part of censoring the Disqus comments on the Comics Kingdom website

Nice, a classic Pastis play on words with triplicate punchline.

PIg should have used this obscure euphemism: Liver Disturber.

So it’s a well hung gay elephant?

Gakk

Rat and Pig have managed to score a trifecta. The comic censor would be unemployed if it weren’t for them. He should thank them.

In tenth grade, my American Lit class read “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” I can still picture the teacher, George Hunt, becoming agitated, repeatedly. “No! Peyton Farquhar was not hung! He was hanged! Hung is something else entirely!”

So we have potentially three puns/jokes in here. One is potentially politically incorrect, however a rarity – a triple play! Rare in baseball, as well in a Pastis comic.

No mask Mr. Censor. I’ll be sending a letter of complaint to your department.

Rat and Pig should be jealous.

This week the Pearls Before Swine reruns are from 2018 due to the pulled storyline tied in to what happened on January 6, 2021.

It’s always fun to have the Censor pay a visit….

There’s a garage door installation company in my town called “Hung Well“. I can’t tell if it was intentional or not.

Don’t mention it!

Slap the censor.

love a pun…

Just this morning I hung a picture (Dali’s “Swans Reflecting Elephants” in fact) and I remembered this gag. Which is an amazing coincidence—but also means he’s used this joke before.

Had to magnify to 300% and it looks like the Comic Strip Censor might also be well hung.

About 5 hours ago Mudd said,

Please,Don’t call me Shirley. ;)

Beats me!

I don’t even want to know how that’s inappropriate.

most excellent

Q: Why does and elephant have four feet?A: Because he would look pretty silly with only four inches.

Pig has all the good lines today! Comic Strip Censor Guy is just his usual self, defeated by the PBS gang, and Rat is only the (level and) Straight Man.

Go, Pig!

replace hung with endowed. get it now?

Hey Cartoon Boy, Give me your take on the first panel. .I see it as a political statement, but other folk disagree. Give me the skinny.

Wouldn’t a horse have been even more appropriate than the elephant?

rerun alert

Can you explain the joke