Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 15, 2025

Pig could use some boxing lessons.

Back to square one.

Why threaten Pig, he doesn’t write the jokes. Rat should be threatening Pastis with baseball bat as usual.

Just box Pastis’ ears.

I can’t help but be reminded of the ‘Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey’ quips featured on SNL back in the late 80s early 90s, but also published in a book of the same name.

Put a lid on it. Stack some other boxes on top of it. Never look in it again.

When I was a young lad, “breaking the fourth wall gags” were a rare and amusing event. Nowadays, mundane.

My cat Boo taught me all there was to know about stinking outside the box. (Insert zany emoji here)

Peoples easily theenks outta the box. No big deal there. What peoples finding difficult is to theenking outta the bubbles thems is lives in.

Thinking outside the box was a good gag here, Rat has no sense of humor!

You think Pig had a box lunch hidden in the “Box of Deep Thoughts”?!

Rat should be more forgiving of Stephan. Remember what the Bible says: in the beginning God crated the heavens and the earth…

bit of trivia: a Tori Amos fanzine was once called “Really Deep Thoughts”. As in the lyrics to “Silent All These Years”.

I’m with Goat 2 days ago.

“This comic strip is shortening my life.”

I was hoping Rat or Pig to “Box” Pastis! **POW!

Oh Deep Thought give us the answer !

THE ANSWER TO WHAT ?

Well…..To Life the Universe and Everything !

…………MMMMMM…..TRICKY…..( apologies to Douglas Adams )

Steve needs to invite us all over for his mother’s Greek cooking. The only way to make amends. I grew up on Greek cooking as my mother firmly believed it was the only cuisine as a substitute for her own.

Pastis is a witty guy but obviously suffering from ennui

Card, bored

Only cats know how to achieve Nirvana inside a box.

Rat is violent regardless

He’s only standing outside of the box, not thinking, surely?

Certain mindless people belong in a box – a pine box, six feet under! You all know who they are!

Don’t blame Pig for the bad joke. You know who the source of the problem is.

I’m thinking more about a Box O’ Chocolates

Oh, why don’t the two of you go have a beer? It can be any kind of beer. Think outside the bocks.

“Whats so amazing about really deep thoughts?”

Tori Amos

I avoid Walmart. I like to shop outside the big box stores.

People are violent without this strip, Pig.

Rat wants to box his ears…

So what?- Stephen is coloring outside the box!

My first computer instructor was very careful when she said “Deep Thought,” making sure it didn’t come out as throat…

Dang it, Rat, you’re spoiling the punchline! Which is the best part of these strips.

For Rat, violence is its own reward.

I have a cat that likes to think outside the box

Poor Pig! LOL

At least he didn’t draw George Foreman Grills into this.

Throw him down the escalator.

I had a cat who started thinking outside the box. Still loved her.

Meh. Clearly needs more ‘box’ experiences on mattress(s). Mind is warped by being incel.

I loved Deep Thoughts on SNL. Will it be addressed on the 50th Anniversary Show?

Jack Handy? We all know what happened to him.

Love this comic!

how ’bout thinking near the box… is that okay??

Good thing it isn’t December 26th.

To piggyback, let’s drill down and unpack that box so we can put a pin in it.

Rat, along with a lot of other people, simply doesn’t like the thought of thinking outside of the box. One box or another.

When you hear people use that cliched expression, you can be sure they won’t have many, or any, original thoughts.

Rat, it might be fun to throw Pig UP a flight of stairs, but please don’t try it!!

schrodinger’s cat should have made an appearance…or should he?

We all saw that coming two panels ago.

“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – We must step up the stairs.” — Vance Havner

And… I’m getting a lot of cold stairs — um, stares. What I get for out of the box thinking…

As Negasonic Teenage Warhead once said to Deadpool.

What?? No bruises on Pig????

Ought to box your ears for that one!

Maybe you need a bigger box. Or maybe a deep hole.