Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 03, 2024

That’s quite a catch!

It’s all about the bass, ’bout the bass, no trouble.

Pastis is in for a bass kicking!

Is that fish an upright bass?

i knew something was fishy!

Don’t worry, be happy!

I KNEW there was a reason I read this comic strip and LOVE adult animation…it’s all about the puns, baby, make them as silly as possible!!!! Dan aka…

Small-mouth? Large-mouth?? Spotted???

OR

“Mmm! Love that bass!!!”

Read the contract goat!

Doesn’t anyone remember the animatronic Billy Bigmouth singing bass on a plaque?

Looks more like a tenor.

….. and in my mother tongue Marathi “बास” “Bass” (pronounced as the fish with same name) means “enough” or “stop”!

“Bass: the Final Frontier” One of my favorite Bill Laswell albums is Radioaxiom. But then, I’m a huge Miles Davis fan and the album was a great tribute.

Good one Pastis!

How can the bass sing with no trought? (Trying to mash trout with throat…)

Engleesh, me never able to learning you.

Goat, don’t be a basshole! It was kinda funny!

Sorry goat, you are stuck here in this strip whether you like it or not…

You tried before, Goat. It didn’t work out for you.

Paul plays the “base?”

More Zebra then!

Even Goat.

I used to play bassball

Kurt Moll is turning in his grave.

Take one away and it becomes bassless.

I wonder what you would call the result of him/her taking a dump?

Needs more cowbell . . .

I’m not sure this one works in written form.

Goat, You’ve been fishing for a reason to leave for a while. or was Stephen just fishing for material.

This is pretty base.

It’s a comic strip?

Homophones can be really annoying.

That Bass should be mounted to a wooden plaque and his name is Billy!

Sometimes its pronounced Bose.

Goat needs to learn about context clues and reading between the lines.

oh my cod

At least the fish didn’t sing…….

Like those tacky mechanical singing fish people used to mount on their walls. Though even those were less annoying than this strip.

Kidding. Stephan’s gotta Stephan.

If the humor hounds you, basset around.

You oughta hear the drum fish!!

There’s an opening in “Family Circus!” Bus Goat on over there!

Bigmouth Billy Base?

I bet someone a tenor we’d see another Pastis pun this week. He paid me with two fins.

So is something like this why we no longer see Zebra?

Apparently, someone gave the late Queen a Billy Bass singing fish and she loved it.

“Dream A Little Bream Of Me”

You’d better hope Bass from Mega Man don’t read this, Mr. Punny!

Take me to the river …!

Escape goat!

You can’t tuna fish.

Wide mouth base

i knew it was coming, but kept reading…

I’ve seen Bass Dance , never seen one sing !

The Bass should be on more often :)

Bad ’70s flashback.

“I use batteries, not gas …”

Reminds me of that stupid singing fish, Billy Bass. Beyond annoying, especially when it sings the worlds most annoying song, Don’t Worry be Happy. My husband had one for awhile….a short while.

STOP THE INSANITY!!!! (LOL)

LOL…gotcha!

Who’s on first?

The bass sings bass well.

Maybe this guy’s first name is Lance.

“This cartoon’s a phony, Cody! This is trout country, there ain’t a bass for a hundred miles!” (Apologies to the cast of “White Heat”!)

“All your bass are belong to us!”

I’ve never met a fish who’s a tenor.

Well, you certainly can’t tuna fish.

Take me to the river, drop me in the water

Shouldn’t he be mounted on the wall?

You can tune a piano but you can’t tuna fish, and yet you CAN tune a bass…………..

Ironically, the bass is a tenor.

Don’t be so base, Goat.

How anyone learns English as a 2nd language is beyond me.

At least, for a week. Stephan allows no off time.

That bass sings out of ‘tune’(a). …

or the oldie.. “all your base are belong to us”

Basso Profundo?

At least he’s not on a plaque.

Get that thing back on its plaque. It was bad enough when it was stationary. If not, I’m giving in to my bass instincts and making sushi.

My boss is a regular Salmon Legree.

now put him on the trophy wall

That’s what Goat gets for being a know-it-all.

“Wow, that’s terrific bass!”

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=jbIbyUdA_B4

Please keep Dan Aykroyd away from that fish.

That bass’s brother is a piano tuna.

The comments were as much fun as the strip! Thanks to all (especially Mr. Pastis!) for the laughs!

You’re all full of sheet music.

Take me to the river……

Lil Guard Duck left a long time ago.. :*(

Billy Bass

That pun made me want to go bass jumping without a parachute.

It’s Billy!

You’re not going anywhere Goat ♥ you’re going to stick around and suffer with the rest of us — LOLOL

Looks like Billy Bass is making a comeback.

There’s no way out of here / When you come in / You’re in for good / There was no promise made / The part you played / The chance you took

When pigs fly and bass sing…. We are definitely in heII.

Woe to this fisherman who arrived at the boat dock to read the sigh, “No Bass Fishing Allowed. Some Moron Dumped Their Ocean Water Filled Bilge Containing A Prolific Species Of Whatever That Eats Bass Eggs.”

big mouth billy bass, you got off the wall!

Lighten up Goat. At least it wasn’t a Flat Fish.

Goat shouldn’t be so upset. It’s just a basic bass bass.

Are you quite fin nished?

Leave it to Stephen Pastis to get it Bass Awkwards.

Don’t leave Goat…Pastis needs at least one other goat on board….

ha ha ha … nice twist on the English language

Goat only thinks he knows everything

I hear from a reliable albeit anonymous source that Cartoon-Boy pays his characters below-minimum wages and expects them to make it up in tips and gratuities from us the sympathetic readers. I say Goat is being too passive; he ought to take a heavy cudgel and beat down Cartoon-Boy the way Rat would!

Ironically, the bass was a tenor.

Someone should kick his bass!

Rat: who cares about bassists?