Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 03, 2021

It’s all your mother’s fault, Rat.

Whoa . . . deja view . . .

Running out of ideas, Stephan?

RERUN!

a thought so nice, he used it twice!

Eh, didn’t we sees this earlier?

I guess Stephan must like this comic. (sarcasm)

Yep, this is the comic from November 19.

Rerun of the strip from November 19. I wonder if the strip that was supposed to run today got pulled for some reason. It’s happened before.

Uh oh, it’s my brother’s birthday again. Not cool, Pastis.

Rat’s a damaged soul. Which, thinking about it, is pretty tough. I mean he’s not even ink when I see him. Pixel’s got souls?

All the idiots around me bring me happiness.

I find it makes it easier to just accept life sucks, enjoy the little pleasures, and not resort to reliance on caffeine or alcohol.

Goat. Rat is giving you permission to fix his boring, sad, and miserable life.

Change his pillow with a large mouse trap with a hair trigger.

Repeating the strip to make sure we are paying attention!

Life is a tale told by an idiot…

For some, being unhappy is their state of happiness.

“What good is happiness, if it’s just a state of mind?” – Jim White, “Handcuffed to a Fence in Mississippi”

What did Pastis do now?

Politicians keep taxing all my happiness.

The strip on November 19th has them standing at the wall. Today’s strip, they are at a table. So, it’s not exactly a rerun even though the dialogue is the same. Not sure whether Pastis is being lazy or just seeing if we are paying attention.

Don’t discourage Stephan, or he’ll fall back on awful puns again!

The happy idiot. Get on board or stop complaining.

Methinks there be something very familiar about this…

Rat, you were not paying attention the other day. Happiness is cheese.

Pelosi says she’s responsible for our happiness

That’s not what the government and news media says.

Thats what you get for watching the news

Stop bitching, Rat – there’s only two things you have to decide:

You either like it…….

…or you just haven’t had enough of it yet.

Nothing else matters.

Typical responce from goat who thinks he’s helping. Just fix it. HOW, How to fix it would be more helpful.

RAT blames everything on everyone else…..

Quoting Aristotle, how pretentious!

Goat’s wright. Get off your butt and go do something…..

Sartre is the one who made that rule

Deja vu..?

Rat just doesn’t want to do anything because he’s lazy and pathetic.

I thought I was getting deja vu. Then I read the comments and realized I wasn’t the only one.

Knowing Rat, anything he tried to do to improve his happiness would be a mass casualty event.

I have to kinda agree with Rat. (as much as that pains me)… I’d be a lot happier if there were way fewer idiots around. (actually, I’d be happier with way fewer people around)

Popular belief amongst the young: If we can just get everybody to agree with us we can be happy!

The Founders never said we have a right to happiness, rather a right to PURSUE happiness. “Your happiness is your own responsibility”. What a concept. You’ll never find that in any Democratic Party platform.

One sign of certain mental illnesses is the belief that everyone else is responsible for your happiness. And everyone else deserves what you do to them, no matter how evil.

It’s a rerun.One of the crocs bit Pastis’ drawing hand by mistake.

Haven’t we seen this one before?

The homeless preachers.

It’s deja vu all over again – a verbatim repeat of the Nov. 19 strip, just a different background.

And it’s not even Groundhog Day. I got you babe.

Also, you can buy it at the city park nearby. Or so I’ve heard.

The Catch-22: To be happy, you need money. To get money, you need a job. But the job is what makes you boring and sad and miserable. (/s)

Come here, have mouse traps set.

Rat: Primary representative of today’s culture.

Wait, this just ran a few days ago. Pastis on vacation or did he submit a strip GoComics refused to run?

“Pete and Re-Pete were standing on a bridge. Pete fell in. Which one was left…?”

As for the idiot who made that rule, Goat you may want to back away.

Rat is bound and determined to be boring, sad, and miserable. Such is his prerogative and his choice.

Blame it on Cartoon-Boy!

The American Dream seems to be the idea of a happy ending, by avoidance of responsibility and commitment.