Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 04, 2012
Transcript:
Pig: Hey, Goat, want to see an animated movie with me and Rat? Goat: I guess. But why's Rat carrying a book of Russian plays? Rat: Because all animated movies have sickeningly sweet endings. And all Russian plays end with someone shooting themselves so when the film nears its saccharine end. I just stand and read the last page of the play aloud. Thereby keeping the whole universe in balance. Goat: oh, that must be heart-warming. Rat: It is? Then listen to this...'And Ivan shot himself. The end.' Pig: Awww...poor l'il Ivan.
Templo S.U.D. almost 12 years ago
до свидания, Иван
orinoco womble almost 12 years ago
If the movie is about a dog, they always die in the end…suitably sad, but also saccherine. Why are dog movies always sad?
naturally_easy almost 12 years ago
Oh, saccherine! I thought he was talking about artificial sweetener. :)
ChrissyT almost 12 years ago
That’s a good ending: simple and straight to the point.
ChrissyT almost 12 years ago
Yeah, he didn’t have to see Rat use his death to spoil another movie.
arye uygur almost 12 years ago
MORMON: How did you get Cyrillac letters from your keyboard?
Sisyphos almost 12 years ago
At first glance of panel 1, I thought Pastis was subtly pitching his Animated Shorts [see hotlink at right] featuring Rat and Pig. Then I saw that Rat intends to disrupt cinema audiences with his readings from Russian literature. Then I thought about artistic Karma, yin and yang, and such-like concepts. That began to get deep, until Pig’s final remarks turned it all into comedy again….
eddie6192 almost 12 years ago
That ending was sickening sweet for that dumb Pig.
Hillbillyman almost 12 years ago
THANKS RAT…..i WAS GOING TO READ THAT , NOW YOU SPOILED THE ENDING FOR ME.
Varnes almost 12 years ago
Grainbelt, he shot himself in the butt?
rolleg almost 12 years ago
Unusual to hear such sarcasm from Goat.
Number Three almost 12 years ago
Trust Rat…
All I can say.
LOL xxx
Ross1001 almost 12 years ago
As Yakov Smirnoff would say, in Soviet Russia, animated movie watches you!
orinoco womble almost 12 years ago
Chekov died of TB. Which explains the depression…it spread to his brain. I am not joking, advanced TB can do that.
Casey Southards almost 12 years ago
They are really messed up.
Gokie5 almost 12 years ago
Today’s lesson:My daughter taught me something I’d never realized.“Saccharin” is the name of an artifical sweetener.“Saccharine,” according to the Online Dictionary, means “1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet. 2. Having a cloyingly sweet attitude, tone, or character.” You never know when you’ll need that info. for a quiz show or writing your thesis.
Snoopy_Fan almost 12 years ago
I don’t know… I found “Air Bud” to be quite uplifting. :-D
XanderBitMe almost 12 years ago
So it goes.
Stitchz_Is_Here almost 12 years ago
Maybe he did that on purpose. We all know that Pig isn’t the brightest crayon in the box… If he didn’t do it on purpose, then I’m sorry that it bothers you that much.
Fan o’ Lio. almost 12 years ago
Ivan to go throw up.
Rickapolis almost 12 years ago
Russian plays and country songs.
kzcreations.com almost 12 years ago
lmfao
Donna S almost 12 years ago
Pig’s grammar is what makes him Pig. He is naive and simple and he is adorable.
danketaz Premium Member almost 12 years ago
I just finished War and Peace. It didn’t have a sad ending. It didn’t have a happy ending either. Just a bunch of lectures on why historians are bunk
Fast Fred almost 12 years ago
“Pig”……..he shot himself in the hind end ??
bmonk almost 12 years ago
How about Alma by Pixar animator, Rodrigo Blaas? It’s animated, but hardly a sweet ending.
Old Laughing Lady almost 12 years ago
Not especially funny, but even more so considering recent events of gunfire and a movie.
blanche64 almost 12 years ago
or throwing herself in front of a train
Fan o’ Lio. almost 12 years ago
TB or not TB? That is the question. Consumption be done about it?
m.l. over 11 years ago
lewis.campbell over 2 years ago
Wow, goat. You got burned.
greenweasel11 almost 2 years ago
I’ll just tell them Svidrigailov went to America.