Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 21, 2016

I preferred The Battle of the PBS Stars.

This current election cycle looks more like Battle of the Network Stooges.

With the likes of The Big Bang Theory and the terrible new version of The Odd Couple, I could agree with Pig about CBS. However, they’re almost redeemed by Elementary.

It’s kinda a good idea. Different beliefs means conflicts, many of them violent.

Looks like Pig is ready to “POP” !

" I wish for world peace."“Lisa, that was very selfish of you!!”-The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror II

If it were to occur, there would be some that would we should welcome them without question. And call everybody else ugly names for thinking otherwise.

And the alien leader is DONALD TRUMP! C’mon people! We’ve got to work together!

I watch most shows on CBS. “The Amazing Race”, " The Big Bang Theory", “Mom”, “2 Broke Girls” “Mike & Molly”, (which ended a month ago) “Undercover Boss”

LOL!!! Nice twist – and then transfer the divisiveness to us against the aliens, just like he hated CBS!

It wouldn’t happen, nice fantasy but nothing will get people together. Thousands are shot each year in this country but they can’t get together on gun control. Aliens would win.

I remember when the networks used to run “Battle of the Network Stars” as well as “Circus of the Stars” every year. I also remember Saturday Night Live parodied this by running a promo for a show called “Network Battle of the T’s and A’s”.

Yeah, right… Conformity is the answer…

Your stonework is getting artsy, Stephen, kudos.

Man kind will always have different beliefs, they will never work together. Best way to get along is to let everyone do their own thing, don’t try to force your will on others. Not like how Republicans and Democrats are trying to force their wills on others.

And Pig, who’s to say Rat wouldn’t help the aliens with a promise of being a king over an area when done?

Well, it’s not quite Emo Phillips Greatest Joke Ever, but it’s a nice variation.

I always rooted for ABC back then. Yeah I’m old.

I remember Robert Conrad being a total tyrant. He was good, though.

I liked SNL’s version better, “The Battle of the Network Ts and As!”

Can I side with the aliens?

I suppose worse things could happen to the strip than for it to become Watchmen, but I just can’t see Pig as Ozymandias.

Since my recent spinal surgery, I’ve come to realize the ‘Clockwork Orange’ effect of having to watch over 200 channels of dreck on Satellite TV and their newly discovered/promoted ‘effects’ at every dramatic turn, especially on the History/Science/Animal Planet consortium, where a boom and swoosh and thump and bang has to emphasize every turn of event. My greatest option? Fiber-optics which provides the same dam programming, only with ‘extras’ with slam-bang ‘movies’ that are designed to thrill me to the core. At 80, my core has been thrilled long ago. And now, to enter the ‘Bah, Humbug’ era….

Am I the only one grumpy enough to complain about the periods on “C.B.S.” and “N.B.C.”?

This is obviously what the Americans call “Humour”

I don’t get it.

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I like Battle of the Network Stars until like the last one. I recall that being a lame event.

When Lynda Carter looked like she was going to explode out of her WW costume holding the bumpers, I thought I was going to explode…

Ah, yes, "the silly beliefs that divide us’; like your hatred of CBS, eh, Pig? I smell irony. Irony and bacon….

He’s borrowing a Paul Krugman idea.

Nostalgia for world war is not a beautiful thought.

Like we all pulled together during Covid and the Toilet Paper Panic?