Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 26, 2025

At least they didn’t make a pun around “Touch me, baby”; that might get them a visit from the FBI.

My age is showing. I thought Pig would say “Burn, baby, burn!”

“No one here gets out alive. Now You get yours, StephenI’ll get mine”

“Pastis is strange, his puns are stranger…”

Someone needs to explain to the baby that airlines have different rules and he can’t do this on an airplane.

For those of us that didn’t need the ‘Doors’ clue, we’re showing our age.

You know that it would be untrue…

Eyebeam beat Pastis to this joke, and did it funnier.

Your age would be showing if you knew what it was about!

That flyer should have been for a camera exhibition:

Come on Baby light my flyer

Try to light the Nikon flyer

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When you all get a chance, YouTube search “Kids In The Hall Into The Doors”. Brilliant and hilariously done!

A punchline and a bonus punchline. Very satisfying.

I do enjoy his puns. I can see them coming and never try to guess what it is.

Burning paper makes air pollution. Better to recycle or compost it.

For some reason, I hear: ♫"…and in the end, the Love you take – Is equal to the Love you make."♫

Saw that pun coming from the first or second panel.

Pig training future arsonists.

Very good one, Stephan! The Doors were right “People are Strange”!

I don’t see the boy lighting anything. Pig is just standing there, waiting for the son

Rat wants to break on through to the other side of Stephan’s head ….

Show him the Doors

Had to google “Doors” & “Light my Flyer”. Guess I am too young for them.

Glad that Rat bought the bat out finally!

Hello, I love this!

I don’t think incinerating trash is gonna keep the planet clean.

That is one wild child.

When I was back there in seminary school…

ARE YOU ON DRUGS?! Babies should never, EVER play with fire!! EVER!!!!

Rat’s brain is squirmin’ like a toad…

“Stephan?”

“Yes, Rat?”

“I want to kill you.”

Well l didn’t see that coming.

psychedelic

Someone explain the joke to me. Assuming this is a song lyric, I’ve never heard of it.

This was a better than average Pearls comic. It gave me a laugh. (I am old enough to remember The Doors well.)

Hand me the bat lol

Crystal Ship was a Doors tribute band I saw a number of times on the NJ club circuit in the 80’s (anyone remember Baby O’s in Seaside Heights?).

Turns out, they’ve reconstituted with all new members, and tour regularly.

Loved this strip, loved that song. I was in college at the time, so loved the memories!!

Get together with that Frog Applause lady, Pastis. You’ll have Eraserhead babies. Fame and glory will be fleeting, and yet you’ll be the Pied Piper of visual Yogi Berraisms.

For every season, burn burn burn. There is a season, burn burn burn. LOL.

And a time for every purpose under heaven.

He is the wordplay king / he can pun anything

Hooray, alluding to the Doors!

Pig ought to be teaching the recycling of paper.

Has he gone too far? Only the Shadow knows — maybe.

Now I need a drink. Show me the way to the next whiskey bar. And don’t ask why

Someone is about to ‘slip into unconsciousness’.

whatever happened to the Doors, nobody asks

Break on thru to the otherside

This is the shortest Sunday pun I remember seeing.

And she did, but that’s a film from south LA. And, kid, save all the Diana Dors birthday-suit pictures.

amazing, this band stopped in the late 60’s so it’s been awhile

Is that the uh-oh baby?

Drill baby drill

Oh I’m with Rat in Panel 4.

Disco sucks.

And We’re On Our Way…

Although I am embarrassed to admit it, this earned a chuckle from me. Right before the groan it also earned.

Good one, Mr. Pastis!!

Stephan deserves to, well… sumthing should be done to ’im!!… (lol!)

Made me laugh, , I should’nt tell him, it only encouranges him lol lol lol

You know, if we had trash cans that automatically incinerated anything tossed in them with an audible “whoosh” I bet more people would throw their trash in them.

The set up and then the pay off. Love it.

Burning flyers for a Doors tribute band sounds like a public service to me.

Pastis is Strange.

We is having fun, isn’t we, Mr. Pastis? 8)

Okay – that was funny.

I’m almost ashamed to admit this, but I don’t “get” the second pun in the last panel.

G R O A N — LOLOL

You are a sick man, Stephan ♥♥

“Come on baby, light my flyer”

Isn’t that the last scene in Citizen Kane?

(And you thought the Doors were old…)

Now we have an Apocalypse.

Time to rev up the crystal ship and head on out for a moonlight drive….

… People are strange …

Baby should have burned their hand well before the punchline.