Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 12, 2018

Rat shouldn’t be melodying in the course of nature.

By the time they arrive, the zebra’s back will already be baroque.

After yesterday’s pun-fest, I am not going to prolong this, there is not a single pun left for Pastis. (Prove me wrong!)

Rat’s right.

yes stop, it’s more than we all can Händel

Oh, sure! The crocs do things OFF-stage!!!

One more pun like that and Franz will B Flat.

see, there are still plenty of one-liner puns available.

After the crocs kill her, they’re going to roast her in their Beeth-oven.

This is Straussing me out

This is starting to STRAVINSKY me out with Pastis’ RACHMANINOFF of obscure composers. Time for Rat to PUCCINI Pastis in his CHOPIN

This character isn’t funny. Give him a rest.

A full measure rest.

They say that music’s an international language, but fortunately, that pun doesn’t translate from American to English.

So, lay a few on us in English. These guys came from your side of the pond.

I’d contribute to this punfest if I weren’t so Bizet!

A cop and a baritone are sitting silently in a bar. A bass comes stumbling in muttering, “Where am I?”, and the cop says, “You’re under arrest”.

My pal Estrina says Josh can duet with Pol Ifiney.

They’re just decomposing composers.

Ah, some Monty Python. " I will avenge your death." “But I’m not dead yet.” you know the rest….

Zebra should really walk his lady friends out for just such a reason.

If you play Bolero backwards to Franz, he will un-Ravel.

Croc Power !

I can hardly wait until we get to Rimsky-Korsakoff…

I have known people who can pun ‘in the wild’, responding to naturally occurring subject matter like many of the commenters here. Pastis’ long-winded and contrived setups leave me wishing he would quit trying. Or at least it some other character.do the setup.

I think, as a minim-um, Franz deserves a good swift kick in the crotchet.

Thank you. Over on FB we’ve been Massiaen around with the puns, but nobody came up with a Mahler one.

Weak

Stephan, if you stop this now, you might still save some Fasch.

A Mahler joke! Love it! One of my favorite composers.

After yesterday I wasn’t sure but I should have known that Franz would be Bach.

I guarantee you we’ll be looking at Franz’s list before we’re done.

He couldn’t kill off Franz because he’d be Bach in no time.

So, the zebra lost a game of Haydn-seek with the crocs?

Oooo … show us the croc and zebra

Musical sledding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcBn04IyELc

This one’s played to death, kids and for just a song. He’ll have to plead the fifth.

Hear about the three struggling artists who were trying to get to Paris for their exhibitions? Seems like they needed Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.

Oh no, he’s Bach!!

It is amazing how many people do not like puns and yet, daily, read a comic by Pastis who loves them as much as I do.

Schumann, this is exhausting. I won’t be Bach.

My cringe reflex has started to crescendo

Hopefully he doesn’t a similar art professor who does jokes like this just for the Monet

Stop! Time to invoke John Cage’s 4’33”.

This is the kind of stuff that gives you nightmeres. Like and comment if you agree

Yeah, one Larry Fine is enough!

Is it Zebra’s girlfriend?

If this strip isn’t Baroque, don’t fix it.

The worse the pun, the more I like it!

People Puh-lease stop encouraging him! (But I guess puns are better than political cartoons)

Do cartoon characters ever really die?

This is my second favorite strip of all time, after Calvin and Hobbes.

Franz’s music student asks another “Have you heard Buxtehuda?”; the other replies “I know he wrote a Te Deum, but I didn’t know he wrote a Te Huda.”

It’s said when I have to google it to get the joke. Is it a reflection of the strip or me?

You know, Rat would like this guy a lot more if he would give him a fifth of Beethoven!

I wonder if he has his students use clef notes.

go Bach to something else

Why is there not a groan or wince icon?

My brother named his sweet-natured collie Mahler. He regretted it when people would back away from the dog because they thought he said “Mauler.”

Ship him to Franz

funny

Feed him to the croc!!!

He should just Khachaturian out of here!

I like Franz, the punning professor of music—he’s my kind of funny!

That guy’s nothing but treble.

Holst it right there, Franz, while I Telemann.

Do you know how to tune-a-fish? I just said that for the halibut.

That’s some damn fine writing!

Bye “Pearls”! There too many GOOD comics out there to cling to this humorless train wreck.

I Kant stanza any more! There are more puns than I can stave off! It’s getting verse! Please refrain!

Rat speaks truth. Do us all the favor, Cartoon-Boy!

It’s after the turn. Do I dare open Thursday’s comic?

He seems to be leaning. Is that a Liszt?

I play the piano to distract myself from constantly snacking, otherwise I would be dangerously obese. So I say, “If music beats the love of food, play on.”

I can’t Handel this!