Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 23, 2012
June 22, 2012
June 24, 2012
Transcript:
Goat: Where's Rat today? Pig: Practicing his ski jump pose. He's gonna use it whenever someone bores him, as if to say, 'I'm leaping right over your tiresome conversation.' Goat: That's ridiculous. Why does that guy have to be such a weirdo? Why can't he just be normal now and then?
Sherlock Watson over 12 years ago
Break a leg, Rat!
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member over 12 years ago
…and then “The Agony of Defeat” kicks in.
firedome over 12 years ago
no thrill of victory there…
JusSayin over 12 years ago
Rat, you really should go skiing with Claudine Longet. Maybe practice team biathlon, she was part of a world famous biathlon duo a few years ago.
Phatts over 12 years ago
@goat, “normal” is not funny …
Hillbillyman over 12 years ago
Hey Rat!…“you bore me”
Sisyphos over 12 years ago
If Rat were “normal,” Goat, Pastis would fire him, and you and the rest of the PBS cast would soon be out of a job. Is that what you really want?
cdward over 12 years ago
We went to Lake Placid a couple of years ago and watched the ski jumpers practicing. We were able to get right up at the top – right by where they start off. That is very – very – high.
Varnes over 12 years ago
Jus Sayin, Ouch!
knight1192a over 12 years ago
Why can’t Rat be normal. Because of his superiority complex brought on by his extremely overinflated ego. And when his ego is popped he realizes just how inferior he really is, leading to him having to patch and reinflate it. Still funny when Pig’s sister popped that mamoth ego of his by tell him she was leaving him for Ziggy because Ziggy was a real man.
eddie6192 over 12 years ago
Not exactly a Kodak moment.
rolleg over 12 years ago
That’s truly stupid.
Ercanbald over 12 years ago
Cartoon physics… rat’s balance is slightly off
A.Ficionada over 12 years ago
He’s just bitter over Farina!
Number Three over 12 years ago
I bet you wish you never said that out loud, Goat.
Love Rat’s wide eyes.
xxx
metropolitan gnome over 12 years ago
because being normal is boring.
stanwal over 12 years ago
There is going to be a new version; America’s Biggest Losers is going to spin off “Really Wide World of Sports”.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago
The ski jumper in the famous “Agony of Defeat” clip was a Yugoslavian named Vinko Bogataj.. He had never seen “Wide World of Sports.” I heard a story that he was invited to a sports banquet and recieved a thunderous standing ovation, and later was overwhelmed by autograph seekers. He did not know how famous he was in the US. They played that clip at least four times in every commercial break and network ID. This could be forty times an episode. Over the course of years the number of his TV appearances really added up.
Snoopy_Fan over 12 years ago
Such focus! Such intensity!
sandigilbo over 12 years ago
Thanks all for the memories of WW of Sports. Of course, I’ve now got the theme tune in my head.
Snoopy_Fan over 12 years ago
9.6 -—— 9.6 -—— 9.5 -—— 7.2 -—— 9.8 -—— 9.0......Final score is…
9.12...And the crowd goes wild!!!
fatjimi over 12 years ago
I’m thinkin’ Rat ate an entire cheese pizza last night, and may be suffering some…
starlilies over 12 years ago
Normal and rat don’t belong in the same sentence….
robertiris almost 3 years ago
How did TikTok miss this trend?