Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 08, 2013

Sad, so sad, but beautiful, sniff.

From seedless watermelon to shameless cartoonist, life never stops surprising me.

So we’re getting into the dog days of Pearls Before Swine.

{groan} melon collie

“What’s that girl? What’s that? Timmy’s tangled up in a cantaloupe patch? And he can’t get out?"

i knew you’d drag that old chestnut out, steph!

The strip is sad, indeed.

Is he sad cos his girlfriend is on a leash and they can’t elope?

Pig, honey, do me a favor and ask him.

Pastis works way ahead, and I don’t think he does re-runs… but I just know I’ve seen this melon collie someplace before….any of you wonderfully compulsive archivists got a clue?

New dog breed. ‘Casaba Retriever’.

Those look like coconuts.

The dog just had a puppy. It’s a melon collie baby.

I love puns! Nice one, Pastis

Perhaps Mr. Pastis is a Billy Corgan fan. Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995.

What? No Smashing Pumpkins reference yet?

Could have been worse—it could have been a six armed Goddess….(melon Kali)

I think this is an anniversary tribute to the song, which was written in 1912. At least I hope it is, or Pastis gets an award for “bravest comic artist” for actually drawing this old joke.

thanks, i needed that today!

Maybe an African Swallow carried them. Or two swallows with the coconut suspended between them (please tell me someone gets the reference!)

Ah. Nice collie drawing!

Sisyphos loves collies, ever since he was herded by one as a mere child and then read all those Albert Payson Terhune novels (Lad, Wolf, Grey Dawn, etc.). Even melon collies! Okay?!Nonetheless, Cartoon-Pastis deserves all the grief his characters give him for these lame puns!

Freaking hilarious. The best bad puns anywhere.

Hey, that’s our dog! She’s in the funnies.

Wasamatta, Goat? You got no sensa humah?

Maybe that dog breed is a ‘Honey Dew-Berman Pinscher’.Maybe the Kennel Club will know.

Really terrible, I have to give him credit for that, but the ones I dont see coming a panel or two ahead are the best.

My melancoly girlfreind: Shape like a melon, face like a collie..R. Dangerfield

melon collie baby?

“Another ad, I have flagged you”Thanks, c.

Bring back the killer dolphins!

Bethy85… It could be carried by an African swallow!

Dear Pig

I’ve always wanted to know: are you perchance related to Christopher Robin’s Piglet? Regardless, your ambivalent audience here can always count on your low i.q., your unintended but hopelessly funny puns, and your sweet nature.

Sincerely, Spooked Wolf

Now, can anyone guess who my favorite character is?

OK, OK you win. You finally got me to roll my eyes!

I see a Melon Collie, but where’s the Infinite Sadness?

I would like to describe a story in pictures that was in MAD Magazine almost 50 years ago.Enrico Caruso was performing and a drunk started heckling him. “Sing melon collie baby (in pictures)”Enrico Caruso tried to ignore the drunk, but finally said “I do not know melon Calley baby.”To which the drunk replied, “Then show us your (picture of a rooster.)”

Tune in tomorrow, when the Melon Collie mates with a Great Dane to produce a …

Very sad

This is the saddest one yet. I don’t get it, but I have a feeling it was poorly executed like all other lame-ass puns! This should be a crime!

:)

There’s one in every hamlet.

Lol…oh Pastis

That was sooooo ripped off of LOLCats…. :(

Pig’s friend may be a real dog, but check out those melons!

The way I’ve heard it, about 20 or so years ago, was what do you get when you combine an Elvis song and Lassie?

Goat? Dissing?!? Somethings I thought I’d never see Goat do. Rat’s rubbed off on Goat, I can tell yall that.

someone needs to do a Gallagher on Pastis’ head.

6 out of 5 stars

Pastis can be a moron sometimes.

The biggest problem with this particular pun is that I first heard it 40 years ago, and it predates that by at least 30 years. It is not original, and Pastis can do better!

Does Pastis EVER shave.

Oh the look on that dog’s face, the sad thing is when half your friends don’t understand the joke.

What do you get when you cross a cantelope and a collie?….a meloncollie baby!

Melancholy, huh?Yeah, head like a melonand face like a Collie.

I second that. He’s awesome. Beautifully twisted.

Jocularity! Jocularity! Wild talk in here today!

You have a head like a melon and a face like a collie.

Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin and Hobbes. CALVIN AND HOBBES!!

The strip would work better for me if the melons looked like melons and not coconuts.

The pun would be clearer if those melons didn’t look like coconuts ;-)

is that supposed to be a collie?