Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 15, 2021

You can watch the David Chappelle special without feeling guilty about it.

Pig spent 152,5 days watching TV.

Sorry Pig, but it turns out the record is 3,665, set by… Larry the Croc!

TEMPLO S.U.D.’s number of Netflix hours: 0.

I’ve watched all of THE WIRE, and a lot of ONE PIECE. (Neither on Netflix…)

That’s a lot of Kim’s Convenience and Derry Girls!

For a cartoonist, maybe it counts as research.

That’s a bit over 10 hours per day. EVERY day. Either he uses the fast forward “productively” or he sleeps through a significant part of what he’s “watching”. Though I suppose he could just be lying…

I have never had Netflix, but I binge watch shows through other means.

Did Pig chill at any point?

Hours I spent looking out the window at school…a lot.

750 hours of GoComics browsing.

152 days of watching Netflix

Netflix is the work of the devil! Only watch TV, and only if it’s the news! (sarcasm)

The prize, Eyestrain!

I used to get DVD’s through the mail via Netflix back in the 2000s as places like the Movie Gallery and Blockbuster were beginning to shut down. Pretty cool plan, watch a movie, return it and get the next one on your list in the mail and most people had a multi-DVD plan so you did not have to wait for another movie. Then the internet got faster and now we have Netflix as it is today……

Not true. There aren’t 3660 hours of decent viewable content on Netflix…

And, other than “Squid Game”, not a darn one of them worth watching.

3,660 hours and there’s nothing on……….

3600 hours of teeners coming of age and coming out series.

maybe netflix will send him a slice of cold pizza…

Excellent! only another 1.7 years to attain Netflix Mastery!

…and this is what’s wrong with America

Emphasis on the boob tube and social media instead of family time, school, and communicating with each other, without a cell in hand!

Your prize will be depersonalization, and likely you’ve received it long ago.

They just got rid of 3 Star Trek series, incl. the Original one.

I’ll thus be canceling my membership with them by the end of the month.

I got rid of Netflix in April, 2020, along with Amazon Prime, as a temporary measure to economize. Haven’t missed either one.

That’s about 152 1/2 days. Not even half the year. Slacker.

Pretty sure that my Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ hours are more than that. Never mind adding in my Netflix viewing this year

Less than zero for me ;.)

Very possible, since Squid Game is out.

Now imagine how many shows they’ll have in HBO Max, Disney Plus and Paramount Plus in the next couple of years.

Pig, you’re slacking; even sleeping 8 hours a day, you left 2180 possible viewing hours on the table. Need to step up your game!

3,660 hours of watching Netflix still leaves 5,100 hours of completely wasted time over the year.

I could do that many hours on BritBox, no problem.

What else is there to do in the age of Covid?

Only 10 hours a day. What a wus……

I’m more of a Hulu aficionado…

That is almost two thirds of his waking hours for the year! Can you get bed sores from sitting too long?

Like the “Force,” it can be used for good or evil. There are some good shows (including re-runs) on NetFlix but there are also some really disgusting ones, too.

…and, goodie, the year ain’t over yet.

Maybe a world record!

that’s my Netflix hours!

That’s less than thirteen hours a day. Slacker!

Ever since the pandemic, Netflix has had very few new releases. Pig must be watching a lot of reruns.

Pfft, that’s only 10 hours a day, I bet it’s nowhere close to prize-worthy.

My accomplishments of the year are not going crazy being trapped in my house with my family during lockdown. I became sort of like the Grinch. “All the noise, noise, NOISE!”

A new dictionary entry:

Netflikbingewatching.

Valid for the duration of the COVID pandemic.

The queen’s Gambit, Madam Secretary, Money heist, Good witch, Sense8, AO, Designated Survivor.

So, averaging around ten hours a day? I can get behind that.

A year’s supply pizza from Domino’S

Oh, Pig, may you recover from this grievous af-Net-fliction!