Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 13, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 3 years ago

    It did a little hovering before it hit its target.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    I thought it was a CD.

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    John Smith  almost 3 years ago

    Oooo no!

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    sirbadger  almost 3 years ago

    The workman couldn’t resist spinning it.

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    Concretionist  almost 3 years ago

    We used to eat at International House of Pancakes, very occasionally. The food was reliably mediocre. We have never eaten at IHOP, nor do I expect we ever will. It always evokes some cross between kangaroos and having to run for the restroom.

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    fretlessman71  almost 3 years ago

    I hop, you hop, we all hop for IHOP…..

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    ronaldspence  almost 3 years ago

    I hope he is okay..knocked him flat as a pancake!

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    tudza Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Should have used a thought bubble.

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    Cornelius Noodleman  almost 3 years ago

    International House Of Prayer. A real thing, look it up.

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    electricshadow Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    I hop? No, I hurt…

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    jessie d.  almost 3 years ago

    Especially, if you be Stephan who is past is money.

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    Imagine  almost 3 years ago

    Ty gauging time in real life.

    Even harder.

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    BasilBruce  almost 3 years ago

    Good thing he was only hit by the “O”; “I” would have impaled him.

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    TonysSon  almost 3 years ago

    IBOP

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    Qiset  almost 3 years ago

    He should have “hopped” out of the way.

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    baddawg1989  almost 3 years ago

    So, is Pastis getting free pancakes for the product placement? ;-)

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    HMETALNYMETSVAL Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Cute!

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    AndreasMartin  almost 3 years ago

    But it’s legal for comical reasons.

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    Sanspareil  almost 3 years ago

    Rat suffered a halo-ostemy, halo-wed be his name!

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    A Common 'tator  almost 3 years ago

    And for the rest of the world… who’ve probably never heard of it (I certainly hadn’t)… Thanks to Google/Wikipedia…

    IHOP is an American multinational pancake house restaurant chain that specializes in breakfast foods. It is owned by Dine Brands Global—a company formed after IHOP’s purchase of Applebee’s, with 99% of the restaurants run by independent franchisees.

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    Captain Colorado  almost 3 years ago

    The hazards of living in a comic strip!

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    Doug K  almost 3 years ago

    Did Rat just get pancaked?

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    cdward  almost 3 years ago

    That was oddly satisfying.

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    iggyman  almost 3 years ago

    Or soap operas , Goat!

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    iggyman  almost 3 years ago

    Rat got hot on the head with a washer, where is the dryer? Sorry!

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    juicebruce  almost 3 years ago

    Rat you finally got what you needed ;-)

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 3 years ago

    I hop, you konk.

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    SALUDADOG  almost 3 years ago

    By my understanding of physics, acquired from watching a sitcom, time did not exist before the Big Bang (the theory/event not the sitcom). So perhaps we are witnessing the birth of the rat-verse.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Well, Rat’s dead

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    Ellis97  almost 3 years ago

    That’s what Rat gets for always putting Pig and Goat down.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    It came with a couple of rubbery tasteless pancakes whether you ordered them or not.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 3 years ago

    Oh Stephan Stephan Stephan.

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    proclusstudent  almost 3 years ago

    Talk about blantent 4th wall violations. At least they didn’t attact the 4th wall with an axe, as Larisa did.

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    pca Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    The Heisenberg Principle at work.

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    wongo  almost 3 years ago

    Where does a one legged waitress work ? IHOP ! Bwa, ha, ha snort !

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    ChrisRiesbeck Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    I’m reminded of how Buster Keaton would play with the inability to judge depth in movies to do all kinds of neat tricks in the plane of view.

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    Pgalden1 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    As in life, Goat, as in life….

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    jel354  almost 3 years ago

    Rat did not leave that scene happily.

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    Spence12 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    In humor, timing is everything. Pastis couldn’t possibly know how long it takes us to read his dialogue.

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    At my most recent visit to IHOP, the pancakes were so thin they had only ONE side!

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    Ermine Notyours  almost 3 years ago

    A Rat named Stefan appears in today’s Mutts: https://comicskingdom.com/mutts/2021-11-13

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    Squoop  almost 3 years ago

    “Ouch!”, said the 4th wall.

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    Goat from PBS  almost 3 years ago

    Rat will never be an NFL receiver with plays like that.

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    Bradley Walker  almost 3 years ago

    There was a panel cartoon called “The Alumnae” that ran in my local paper. In one episode, DeEtte (the ditz) is saying to her snide companion, “What do you mean, Magda, Nature abhors a vacuum?” as a coconut drops from a potted plant onto her head.

    So Magda saw the falling nut, made her comment, which DeEtte repeated before impact.

    Comic strip time.

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    Bill LaRocque Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Clever. You have a very quick eye and hand.

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    WCraft Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Ah – IHOP. The place where you get an overpriced plate of grilled batter smothered in dark-colored corn syrup and whipped margarine.

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    AndromedaMike  almost 3 years ago

    So we’re going to do some tripping through space-time?

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Nicely done.

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    Richard Perry  almost 3 years ago

    I wonder what recesses of Pastis’s mind this idea came from.

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    schaefer jim  almost 3 years ago

    As dumb as this toon is, I find it funny a few minutes of looking at it. Now a real side splitter. Thanks Steve!

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    willie_mctell  almost 3 years ago

    Time in comics and animated cartoons is pretty darned flexible. E. g. the falling off the cliff gag that involves walking on air.

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    RWill  almost 3 years ago

    Here’s Pastis, trying to get free food again.

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    mooncat542002  almost 3 years ago

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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    knight1192a  almost 3 years ago

    So Rat’s going to sue IHOP.

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    Obi-Haiv  almost 3 years ago

    God, I love this strip! Having grown up on Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, Pearls is, to me, the best comic strip around these days.

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    Sisyphos  almost 3 years ago

    Goat’s comment is sorta meta, but so true! —Especially when Cartoon-Boy deliberately omits the little lines running up from the “halo” that indicate motion!

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    RetVet24  almost 3 years ago

    Relative humor, great for the holidays. Think about it.

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    Comicfan (I can't think of a better name)   almost 3 years ago

    I wonder why there making an ihop there it doesn’t look like there’s even a street

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    JasonBall  almost 3 years ago

    This is incredibly clever. Well done, sir!

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    klapre  almost 3 years ago

    Worst looking halo I’ve ever seen

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