Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 14, 2021

Graduated from Facebook university.

Rat seems not to be a Freudian scholar.

Maybe Rat will help his patients see the humorous side of their troubles.

Rat is tweeting his patient sessions.

If nothing else, Rat will raise the self-esteem of all his patients. They’ll all leave thinking, “Boy, am I glad I’m not a rat!”

Rat certainly ain’t gonna be like the Crane brothers Frasier and Niles when it comes to being a psychiatric therapist.

Knowing Rat, I expected a psycho therapist.

Rat is worth every penny of the 5¢ comics psychiatrist fee.

He could almost be a TV therapist…

It is the best medicine.

I knew the labor market was tight, but…

Now please, give credit where it’s due. At least Rat had the decency(?) to ask…

This is how therapy would be if the late “sultan of sarcasm” Don Rickles were a therapist.;-D

I hope Rat isn’t confused with TheRapist!

And the id is marching on, but the Rat can explain the superego while cutting down the patient’s ego!

And suddenly, all his troubles seemed so small and insignificant.

Does Dr. Noodle feel threatened somewhere?

Laughter is the best medicine, but maybe not in therapy.

This could work: If Rat gets a “Laugh” cue card, he might be able to get his patients to think he’s laughing with them instead of at them.

Poor Neighbor Bob.

Now all the patients may say my Doctor is a real “Rat” ….

I don’t see the problem. Laughter is the best medicine :D

Worst. Therapist. Ever.

Another job that Rat is incompetent doing and will soon be unemployed again.

Laughter is the best medicine!

Today, Jane Lynch is playing the role of ‘Rat’.

“How did it make you feel when I laughed at you”?

He is getting fired.

Trebek, I’ll have The Rapist for 100. That’s Therapist

Yeah, Rat has zero empathy

Shock therapy

On today’s episode of ‘People in the Wrong Jobs’ …

This week of “Undercover Boss”

Anyone who would go to Rat for therapy ought to have his or her head examined!

Does it bother anyone else that “therapist” is one space removed from “the rapist?”

First thing they teach at Counseling School is how not to laugh at the patient’s plight….

They do say laughing is a good therapy!!! Go for it Rat X

Real therapists wait until their client has paid and left before laughing.

Well, laughter is supposed to be the best medicine…

psycho-the-rapist.

Doctor Harlene Quinn was his thesis advisor

It’s Rat. That means it’s not “sorta hard” to believe he’d be any good at, it’s impossible to believe he’d even be half ********************* at it.

That’s what my therapist says right before he gives me my drink.

This shows I’m a bad person like Rat, but when someone tells me they are depressed, I have to suppress telling them to just enjoy the feeling while they can. Can’t do that when you are dead.

then there are the people who just don’t care about your problems

I once saw the word “therapist” divided in a sentence after the first three letters. Never can read the word properly now, it sorta sticks in the mind. It’s one of those things you can’t unsee. Maybe I need a therapist to get over it.

Rat’s harsh honesty could qualify, I suppose, as Shock Therapy. And if anyone is desperate enough to go to “Doctor” Rat for help, good luck!

I want to say that every time I watch the National News anchors trying to convince me of something they’ve twisted to match their own ideology…

Rat is unfit to be a therapist, but he has what it takes to be the rapist.

Man on strange reddish thing with little legs: “As you wish, but later could we then please discuss my lack of self-esteem – please?”