Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 20, 2021

Rats in NYC will disagree with Rat and agree with Pig.

This strip is making me cry!

Too relatable. I’m relatively a small guy so I get pushed around a lot in lines and then there’s barely anything left for me.

I would be happy if I’d have a dish of Pasta alla Carbonara. I am on a diet.

The path to paradise is paved with pepperoni.

So happiness is a pizza that tastes so bad that you didn’t eat it all?

Properly fitting footwear, congenial feminine companionship and a heated garderobe.

Having one slice left is mental torture. If you eat it, you’ll enjoy it, but you won’t have any pizza left. It’s like Damocles’ Slice.

All the best Rat, you are going to be very unhappy!

Gotta love Pig.

I guess that I’m about to find out about the footwear thing. My lily pad covers need replacing.

I am with you, Pig!

I is happy when I finds pork in picanic baskets.

Pizza is the wheel of happiness.

So buy a Pizza every day!

A beer in my hand, a football game on the TV, and a naked woman!

money can’t buy you happiness……but it damn sure can make you smile.

Congenial feminine companionship??

Easier milestone than Pig finding his car in the mall parking lot.

Waking up in the morning…it signals a great day…still here.

Way to go, Pig! Keep expectations low and simple.

Good friends, good family, good God… not much else.

Magical box that Always replaces the slice of pizza in that I remove.

Rat has high expectations but Pig is down to earth…..snorting the left over pizza…

Pig would not be happy at my place. I bogart all the pizza.

What if that pizza has pineapple and Canadian bacon… especially with pig … he could be eating a relative…

Heard on the radio this morning:

“Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard enough.”

Two slices in a Jeep. Oy!

Weird Al could do a parody of “Whiskey in the Jar”, called “Pizza in the Box”.

I need more money and clients to get my animation studio started.

Leftover pizza for breakfast is a good start.

And a bottle of beer to go with those last two slices of pizza.

Shoes that fit would be great, and Pizza Hut would be awesome, because the ones In my city closed.

and that box being in Rome.

Well, I need an evening with my folks, French toasts and all the ten first seasons of Modern Family on Netflix.

Wide feet, arthritic feet as well. So shoes that fit without the pain would be nice. Congenial feminine companionship goes without saying.

I keep my expectations low. Just walking, talking, and breathing is enough to make me happy!

Slice of life strip today.

Something worth watching on Netflix.

I feel the same way when discovering 2 donuts left int he office break room – and they’re both cake donuts!

If they never put those twins in another 9 Chickweed Lane again, I’ll be happy.

“Conan! What is best in life?” “To crush your enemies — See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”

Sex

Drugs

Rocknroll

Food

Sleep

Comedy

That’ll do it.

Oh yes, pizza with Roasted Pork Tenderloin! Yummm…

10 slices and you explode?

I love pig!!

With a housemate in Rat, 2 slices of a mega-large pizza is all Pig could hope for.

For Rat, someone buying a mega-large pizza is part of his plan for every single thing in his life going perfectly – devouring someone else’s meal.

This is one of those strips where the message is all in the dialog…no art required. Watch it Stephan…you’ll put yourself out of a job!

Rat is like my wife. I’m like pig.

Expectations are the worst! Eschew them!

I like pigs attitude- take what you can get!!! Lol

Unfortunately, I find myself identifying with Rat yet again.

Oh, leftover pizza! BREAKFAST!

Pig appreciates the simple things—things that are actually attainable….

Finding more french fries in the bottom of the bag.