Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 12, 2022

Did the DoorDash guy deliver your lunch to the bathroom?

how do you make the bubbles last that long?

He is not a filthy Pig.

If you get the salt level just right, will that eliminate the prune issue?

Man, I really gotta try that sometime.

I haven’t had a bubble bath in YEARS.

I can’t imagine pig missing a meal.

I’m pretty sure I have only had showers for the past 40 years.

The trick is to dribble in hot water fast enough to keep it warm but slow enough that you don’t run the water heater out of hot water to use. The overflow will work just fine, you don’t have to let any water out the usual way. But you DO need a continuing supply of bubblestuff. And there are a couple of other issues (so to speak) that require forethought.

That’s one cold bubble bath by now.

Pig is just following the advice of the Wise Ass on the Hill.

Pig’s “bubbles” must be very clean by now.

Brining the pork

Bubble bubble my oh my, this is better than a piggy sty.

Pig has definitely got the right idea.

Thought hog mud wallows were the thing with those of the porcine persuasion!

Guess I was wrong.

I don’t understand this one. Where’s the criticism of social media?

Bubble baths aren’t really healthy for women. And the detergent can dry your skin. Please don’t let Pig get a rash.

The point is that after a while you get stuck?

Pig is the Anti-Orson.

I have never enjoyed baths. Not even with bubbles.

Is it really a good idea to use your phone in the tub? At least it’s not connected to a charger, so he most likely wouldn’t get electrocuted if it fell in the tub, but he could still damage his phone if it fell in.

An all day bubble bath will make Pig look like a big pink prune.

we don’t do bubble baths in japan, but i make my own bubbles…

Burma! Sorry, I panicked.

Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) gave the idea for today’s comic strip

King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub and he won’t get out! Great children’s book!

Pig is lucky, the stresses of life can sometimes cause one to resort to more intoxicating choices like Moist towelettes.

Dawn dish detergent

Fill tub with hot water, add dish soap. Eat 3 cans of beans. Get in and make bubbles.

Bubble baths are very relaxing. Just as long as you get out of there before the water cools down.

Isn’t pig just marinading at this point?

My Jacuzzi baths are two hours long but I don’t get to have any bubbles because the soap clogs the lines with algae (yuck). I learned the hard way but it’s all clean now.

Big pink raisin discovered in tub, Pig’s whereabouts unknown…

How does one keep the water warm for that long?

Keep adding hot water and more bubble bath salts….he’s gonna be sooooo wrinkly….ooooooo

For crying out loud, it’s a comic people!

Pig will make captain of the Golgafrincham expeditionary team Ark Fleet B in no time

Lawrence Welk figured it out long ago.

A pig’s layer of fat would indeed make the Icy water unnoticed, but his tail and weenie would be invisible.

Some people don’t want to look like prunes.

try the shower-bath-shower

True. If I took a bubblebath the water will leak down to the laundry room

Pig has gotta be very wrinkly at this point

I gotta say I’m one of them. I don’t like to soak in the dirt and oils I’m trying to wash off.

Channeling Douglas Adams?

Apparently Pig doesn’t understand bubble baths. The phone shouldn’t be anywhere near the tub.

Now that’s a swine that even Jules Winnfield wouldn’t mind a taste of.

Yeah, you stay in until the bubbles are gone. Course you look like a prune when you get out.

Pastis should have used ‘understand’ instead of ‘get’ in the last panel.

I think I’ve taken one bubble bath in my whole life. So far a long life. (knock on wood)

At the risk of seeming boorish, or of offending Pig, I have never as an adult taken a bubble bath; in fact, I prefer showers to sitting in tubful of increasingly dirty water….

My skin becomes sensitive due to bubble baths.

Douglas Adams did…

My Dad always said that “You don’t want to stew in your own juice.”After that, I never could take a bath, only showers. I don’t even have a tub in my home!

How come no diner/dinner pun?

A clean pig??