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Rat: Who's your friend, Pig? Pig: Jean Claude the horse. He's a world famous sculptor and that's one of his masterworks. But be careful. It's super delicate. Rat: Let me just hold it. Pig: Put it down! Put it down! Well now that was an unfortunate expression.
Sherlock Watson almost 12 years ago
Jean Claude fan: “Damn!”
killacowinWA almost 12 years ago
One trick pony, one-time character. And I had such high hopes for Jean Claude. On an unrelated note, I really would like to see Guard Duck, Snuffles, and Licensable Bippy get together and do some craziness.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Why the long face, Jean Claude?
(Yeah, yeah…. but somebody had to say it.)
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Pig shouldn’t let anybody put down his friends like that.
rusty gate almost 12 years ago
Yeah, but doesn’t the price of deceased artists’ works go up?
killacowinWA almost 12 years ago
Pinin’ for the fjords? He’s stone-cold dead! If you hadn’t nailed him to the perch ’e’d be pushing up the daisies! He’s bleedin’ demised! This is in fact, an ex-horse!
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Sherlock! I just came back cos I realised I forgot to say “Good one!”
JMattA — not a suicide. Somebody followed Pig’s unfortunate (and unintended) instructions, and put Jean Claude down.
Varnes almost 12 years ago
Don’t let anybody put you down…
zero almost 12 years ago
They shoot sculptors, don’t they?
HeckleMeElmo almost 12 years ago
I tried to put together a Jean Claude tribute band, but the drummers kept quitting.
unnormal almost 12 years ago
Monty Python?Well … John Cleese?
x_Tech almost 12 years ago
Kinda brings to mind a scene from Animal House.
Hey, where’ the chain saw?
provitiligo almost 12 years ago
Can somebody explain me this strip? I didn’t get the point AT ALL.
knight1192a almost 12 years ago
Guess Jean Claude wasn’t that liked by Pastis but it took him a while to draw a morse looking face. So rather than just scrap the character from the get go and turn all that time into a waste he just offed him in his debut. Bet that’s what Pastis will say in whichever treasury this one ends up in.
doublepaw almost 12 years ago
Jean Claude didn’t talk because he is horse.
Alexthen almost 12 years ago
Who shot Jean Claude? It takes a ton for fortitude to shoot yourself three times. Unless you miss twice!
rufireproof almost 12 years ago
I’m surprised Rat isn’t beating Jean Claude.
nyoha almost 12 years ago
I don’t get it, what happened?
walruscarver2000 almost 12 years ago
If you don’t want tp put a horse down, why pick one up in the first place?
Sisyphos almost 12 years ago
Who Shot Jean Claude?Will we have to wait until next season to find out who pulled the trigger? Was it that scamp Maggie again? Will Pig learn to think first, before blurting out some misconstruable phrase?
cartoon critic 2544 almost 12 years ago
Have the Reubens been awarded so this guy will stop this stuff?
jmartin1955 almost 12 years ago
LMAO
VikThor almost 12 years ago
I didn’t get it until read comments.
rasalom almost 12 years ago
funniest strip this morning
rasalom almost 12 years ago
@jmatt…i’ve felt the same way about cat haters for years. personally glad to see the horses getting it to be honest. i wonder which strip the head will end up in.
I Go Pogo almost 12 years ago
“I’m not dead yet”
fmasroor almost 12 years ago
I don’t understand…
MeGoNow Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Guard Duck noises off.
Hoodude almost 12 years ago
..it’s just a scratch..
peabodyboy almost 12 years ago
Yeah, I agree that LGD did the deed. Either him or Snuffles. Can’t be Larry. He would have missed and killed one of the Bobs.
Reppr Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Horse can’t be dead because…none shall pass.
hariseldon59 almost 12 years ago
This reminds me of a classic Far Side cartoon entitled “Horse Hospitals”, where all the horses have their legs in casts, and the doctors are all armed with shotguns.
bmonk almost 12 years ago
Does this make Jean Claude the horse he Rodin?
evilstepqueen almost 12 years ago
@SherlockWatson…BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…yes, I was waiting for that kind of a joke, and you delivered…thank you :D
Popeyesforearm almost 12 years ago
they shoot horses don’t they?
Number Three almost 12 years ago
Oooops!
I love their faces in the third panel.
xxx
dale_r almost 12 years ago
Embarrassed to say it took a couple of minutes to get the “connection”… But Wow! another good one, Mr. Pastis
Snoopy_Fan almost 12 years ago
You would think, after all this time, people would stop taking Pig (and all of the other PBS characters) so literally…
danketaz Premium Member almost 12 years ago
meanwhile, Rat’s standing there with a rapidly appreciating masterwork by a famous artist.
johnwalk almost 12 years ago
OOOOHHH, ooohh, eeoohh…
fixer1967 almost 12 years ago
Who shot him? I bet it was guard duck.
codedaddy almost 12 years ago
How language changes! Thirty years ago a put down was a disparaging remark or an insult, as in “You’re always putting me down”.
codedaddy almost 12 years ago
Considering what happened to the horse, the name should be that of the Olympic Skier, Jean Claude KILLY.
JP Steve Premium Member almost 12 years ago
♪♫ Hey, hey, we’re the monkeesAnd people say we monkey around,But we’re too busy singingTo put anybody down.♪♫
Zebrails almost 12 years ago
It’s a transformer… a horse turns into glue… JC to Elmer.
TooMuchSciFi almost 12 years ago
Jean Claude looked troubled and full of himself. Perhaps it’s better he’s off now. His sculptures all look like stomachs anyway.
Moishe3rd almost 12 years ago
They shoot cartoonists, don’t they?
thewhatifguy almost 12 years ago
That sculpture looks like horse poo.
ROLFE almost 12 years ago
I remember ages ago you asking about putting horses down on FB or twitter. it was around the time of your book tour. man, your buffer is impressive. I digress. funny stuff.
ROLFE
jerry400 over 3 years ago
Totally no idea what this is all about, and it is a shame nobody has explained in 9 years, given that several other posts say the same. Perhaps it just wasn’t funny
robertiris over 2 years ago
And now the art is more valuable
Squirrel Chaser almost 2 years ago
I’ve read through all the comments and I STILL don’t understand the joke or the references.
alantain 11 months ago
Looks like that stomach has gotten a lot more valuable.