Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 24, 2014

Get the Crocs to help. Most of them HAVE TO Be “under the influence”.

Maybe he could make up a slang name for the stuff, like “Crystal Pepsi.”

Do I wanna know what the deleted-for-publication word is?

Here in Hawaii, they call it Ice.

Hey, Pastis! Give us those words here in the comments, and we can photoshop them into the strip in the privacy of our own homes, for our own personal use!

Rat is off on a great adventure.Guard Duck(DEA Agent) Crocs(Badger & Skinny Pete wanna-be’s) Pastis(Gus Frin)

Just don’t show Rat in his tidy whities during the pilot.

A straight analog is usually good enough.Just call it “Negative Campaign Material”.People need their bumper stickers.Unexamined belief is the opiate of the masses.

Oh, come on people . .

The fact that he has to censor the words is the JOKE. Don’t ask him to put it in the comments, that would kill it. It’s funnier this way, FAR funnier!!!!!!

Then it’s not worth watching or parodying.

This strip need a vacation to come up with something funny.

Maybe instead he should manufacture puns so bad they should be illegal. Oh wait.

“Ratzenberg”? What he in “CHEERS”? LOL

and crash 2 planes, kill so many people, alienate your family, and make everything right in the final episode.

I think there’s a cartoonist who needs to check in to a clinic….

Make sure that the RV doesn’t have any bullet holes covered with ‘duck’ tape in the door?

Yeah, B***h!

Well, just why can’t he say ‘RIDICULOUS PLOT LINES AND PHONY CHARACTERS."? That’s what goes in the blank, if he’s talking about Breaking Bad.

Is Pigita going to be the next Skyler ??

METHinks Pastis is reaching with this one….what for, I have no idea.

Breaking Rat. LOL

Well said.

I remember the discussion about Penn & Teller’s show, “BullSh*t”.They were asked, how they can get away with calling people “**holes” and “bullsh*tters” and all sorts of other words you can’t say on FCC regulated airwaves.It turns out if they call people “frauds” and “con artists” and “scammers”, they can be sued. But they call somebody a “bullsh*tter” with absolute safety.

Either Pastis has been doing Breaking Bad marathons instead of working on a new story arch or this has been one of his longest set ups for a joke. :)

He’s thinking so hard that it looks like his head is going to explode.

xxx

Since I am currently in the middle of season 3 watching through Netflix, I recognize exactly what is going on. Pastis is doing the same and is as hooked on BB as I am—it does begin to color your world while binge-viewing.

and I just noticed that it is Br Ra(t) in the strip!

It is sort of off-topic, but if there were not such draconian laws in place to regulate the insurance industry, then the risk pool would constitute a single payer system, that single payer being the entirety of the insured. Legislating us into that out of which we have been legislated constitutes a mobile home in which one concocts the opiate of the masses.

He should have simply had rat manufacture Sudafed.

Say it with a lisp, perhaps?

There is a Russian street drug nicknamed “Croc” for what it does to the users. Look it up if you have the stomach for it.I did. Some of the most gruesome stuff I’ve ever seen!

Did some papers censor this like the I, sis one? And Radium Bromide RaBr (the order doesn’t really matter in chemistry but I think that’s how it’s written) mixed with zinc sulfide what they used to paint watches with, isn’t it?

I can’t tell if Stephen is a genius or an idiot. If the bottom box says 56 he’s an idiot who thinks that’s just a cool logo. If it says 88 he’s a genius who uses a real element unlike most idiotic parodies