“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.
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.
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.”
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!
BE THIS GUY 6 months ago
That’s quite a catch!
BasilBruce 6 months ago
It’s all about the bass, ’bout the bass, no trouble.
carlsonbob 6 months ago
Pastis is in for a bass kicking!
salakfarm Premium Member 6 months ago
Is that fish an upright bass?
ronaldspence 6 months ago
i knew something was fishy!
seismic-2 Premium Member 6 months ago
Don’t worry, be happy!
DanielRyanMulligan1 6 months ago
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…
enigmamz 6 months ago
Small-mouth? Large-mouth?? Spotted???
OR
“Mmm! Love that bass!!!”
The dude from FL (not bragging) Premium Member 6 months ago
Read the contract goat!
syzygy47 6 months ago
Doesn’t anyone remember the animatronic Billy Bigmouth singing bass on a plaque?
danketaz Premium Member 6 months ago
Looks more like a tenor.
deojaideep aka Courage 6 months ago
….. and in my mother tongue Marathi “बास” “Bass” (pronounced as the fish with same name) means “enough” or “stop”!
SameAsOldFfred 6 months ago
“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.
iggyman 6 months ago
Good one Pastis!
shanen0 6 months ago
How can the bass sing with no trought? (Trying to mash trout with throat…)
Gent 6 months ago
Engleesh, me never able to learning you.
Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 6 months ago
Goat, don’t be a basshole! It was kinda funny!
LupisLight 6 months ago
Sorry goat, you are stuck here in this strip whether you like it or not…
TwilightFaze 6 months ago
You tried before, Goat. It didn’t work out for you.
James Wolfenstein 6 months ago
Paul plays the “base?”
Darth Stevious 6 months ago
More Zebra then!
nicholasbonnie3 6 months ago
Even Goat.
win.45mag 6 months ago
I used to play bassball
WaitingMan 6 months ago
Kurt Moll is turning in his grave.
Imagine 6 months ago
Take one away and it becomes bassless.
Procat Premium Member 6 months ago
I wonder what you would call the result of him/her taking a dump?
monya_43 6 months ago
Needs more cowbell . . .
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member 6 months ago
I’m not sure this one works in written form.
Denver Reader Premium Member 6 months ago
Goat, You’ve been fishing for a reason to leave for a while. or was Stephen just fishing for material.
kartis 6 months ago
This is pretty base.
Huckleberry Hiroshima 6 months ago
It’s a comic strip?
Ellis97 6 months ago
Homophones can be really annoying.
colin.howard.lang 6 months ago
That Bass should be mounted to a wooden plaque and his name is Billy!
Frank Salem Premium Member 6 months ago
Sometimes its pronounced Bose.
Ellis97 6 months ago
Goat needs to learn about context clues and reading between the lines.
oakie817 6 months ago
oh my cod
zerotvus 6 months ago
At least the fish didn’t sing…….
wrd2255 6 months ago
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.
arthurhoule 6 months ago
If the humor hounds you, basset around.
markkahler52 6 months ago
You oughta hear the drum fish!!
markkahler52 6 months ago
There’s an opening in “Family Circus!” Bus Goat on over there!
TheWildSow 6 months ago
Bigmouth Billy Base?
phritzg Premium Member 6 months ago
I bet someone a tenor we’d see another Pastis pun this week. He paid me with two fins.
hitman4cookies 6 months ago
So is something like this why we no longer see Zebra?
Differentname 6 months ago
Apparently, someone gave the late Queen a Billy Bass singing fish and she loved it.
DavidPlatt 6 months ago
“Dream A Little Bream Of Me”
SquidGamerGal 6 months ago
You’d better hope Bass from Mega Man don’t read this, Mr. Punny!
ajr58(1) 6 months ago
Take me to the river …!
Jeffin Premium Member 6 months ago
Escape goat!
Jeffin Premium Member 6 months ago
You can’t tuna fish.
[Traveler] Premium Member 6 months ago
Wide mouth base
MS72 6 months ago
i knew it was coming, but kept reading…
scote1379 Premium Member 6 months ago
I’ve seen Bass Dance , never seen one sing !
Charles & Susan Premium Member 6 months ago
The Bass should be on more often :)
uniquename 6 months ago
Bad ’70s flashback.
skipper1992 6 months ago
“I use batteries, not gas …”
SusieB 6 months ago
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.
DaBump Premium Member 6 months ago
STOP THE INSANITY!!!! (LOL)
Zebrastripes 6 months ago
LOL…gotcha!
stamps 6 months ago
Who’s on first?
rshive 6 months ago
The bass sings bass well.
I'm Sad 6 months ago
Maybe this guy’s first name is Lance.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member 6 months ago
“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”!)
minty_Joe 6 months ago
“All your bass are belong to us!”
zwilnik64 6 months ago
I’ve never met a fish who’s a tenor.
Steverino Premium Member 6 months ago
Well, you certainly can’t tuna fish.
hoffquotes2 6 months ago
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
beady.el 6 months ago
Shouldn’t he be mounted on the wall?
Croc Holliday 6 months ago
You can tune a piano but you can’t tuna fish, and yet you CAN tune a bass…………..
T Smith 6 months ago
Ironically, the bass is a tenor.
Radish the wordsmith 6 months ago
Don’t be so base, Goat.
KEA 6 months ago
How anyone learns English as a 2nd language is beyond me.
Goat from PBS 6 months ago
At least, for a week. Stephan allows no off time.
Code the Enforcer 6 months ago
That bass sings out of ‘tune’(a). …
cupertino jay 6 months ago
or the oldie.. “all your base are belong to us”
Packratjohn Premium Member 6 months ago
Basso Profundo?
marilynnbyerly 6 months ago
At least he’s not on a plaque.
Mel-T-Pass Premium Member 6 months ago
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.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 6 months ago
My boss is a regular Salmon Legree.
chriscc63 6 months ago
now put him on the trophy wall
AndromedaMike 6 months ago
That’s what Goat gets for being a know-it-all.
The Brooklyn Accent 6 months ago
“Wow, that’s terrific bass!”
https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=jbIbyUdA_B4
SteveHL 6 months ago
Please keep Dan Aykroyd away from that fish.
cactusbob333 6 months ago
That bass’s brother is a piano tuna.
artjohn42 6 months ago
The comments were as much fun as the strip! Thanks to all (especially Mr. Pastis!) for the laughs!
Smile Sardonically 6 months ago
You’re all full of sheet music.
aerotica69 6 months ago
Take me to the river……
Eric S 6 months ago
Lil Guard Duck left a long time ago.. :*(
willie_mctell 6 months ago
Billy Bass
HunterZero000 6 months ago
That pun made me want to go bass jumping without a parachute.
CitizenKing 6 months ago
It’s Billy!
pamela welch Premium Member 6 months ago
You’re not going anywhere Goat ♥ you’re going to stick around and suffer with the rest of us — LOLOL
jel354 6 months ago
Looks like Billy Bass is making a comeback.
David Rickard Premium Member 6 months ago
Buoy 6 months ago
When pigs fly and bass sing…. We are definitely in heII.
zeexenon 6 months ago
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.”
bunrabbit99 6 months ago
big mouth billy bass, you got off the wall!
christelisbetty 6 months ago
Lighten up Goat. At least it wasn’t a Flat Fish.
eddi-TBH 6 months ago
Goat shouldn’t be so upset. It’s just a basic bass bass.
Curiosity Premium Member 6 months ago
Are you quite fin nished?
Universal Constant 6 months ago
Leave it to Stephen Pastis to get it Bass Awkwards.
gary.eddings4157 Premium Member 6 months ago
Don’t leave Goat…Pastis needs at least one other goat on board….
gmu328 6 months ago
ha ha ha … nice twist on the English language
Ceeg22 Premium Member 6 months ago
Goat only thinks he knows everything
Sisyphos 6 months ago
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!
Wizard4168 6 months ago
Ironically, the bass was a tenor.
alantain 5 months ago
Someone should kick his bass!