Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 18, 2014
Transcript:
Rat: What are you doing, Pig? Pig: Building stuff with my new erector set. Normally, I don't like these things 'cause it's so hard to disassemble what you build. But this one automatically breaks apart after you're finished. Rat: It's that convenient? Pig: Yeah. Though it does come with a warning. Rat: What's the warning? Pig: "See doctor for erector buildings lasting more than four hours." Censor: Proud of yourself? Pastis: Hardly.
legaleagle48 over 10 years ago
Wow. That’s reaching, even for Stephan!
Sherlock Watson over 10 years ago
Stephan looks like he pulled a boner today.
cdgar over 10 years ago
Not sure I want to play with this. I dislike doctors.
finale over 10 years ago
Go see Alice. She might be interested.
Sisyphos over 10 years ago
Is there a semi-hidden extra pun in panel 4? Hardly!Oh, Mr. Comic Strip Censor, please, please teach Cartoon-Boy a lesson!
Destiny23 over 10 years ago
Ah, for the innocent days of my childhood, when you could say “erector set” and no-one would giggle…
doublepaw over 10 years ago
Well that lowered the level…………again.
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member over 10 years ago
John Boehner..If your Boehner is erect for more that 4 hours, consult your lobbyist.
Dabattlebacca over 10 years ago
That. That. That was the worst pun yet
JB10000Lakes over 10 years ago
Wow; I guess today’s strip stroked some people the wrong way!
kd1sq Premium Member over 10 years ago
Oh, maan!
I wonder if young Pastis is a closet science fiction fan? You find those folks punning like you wouldn’t believe…
Soroxas over 10 years ago
Why do those Viagra commercials come up all the time on kids channels?
denny44 over 10 years ago
Stephan, you didn’t need to pull your punch. Something that has been constructed can be called an “erection.”
CasualObserver over 10 years ago
This is referred to as “blue” humor.
SkyFisher over 10 years ago
I design metal buildings. Naturally, the process of getting it up is called “erection”. We send them “erection drawings” as an aid. When they have difficulty, a builder will call our customer service to help them with their “erection problem”..I swear this is all true. We deal with these terms every day and have to be “professional” about it.-Google “PEMB erection” and you will see. Some on the list bill themselves as “Steel Erection Specialists”.
Enoki over 10 years ago
Erector dysfunction… I saw that one coming…
MeGoNow Premium Member over 10 years ago
It would really have been funnier with the unedited quote from the medicine label. .I knew a guy once who owned a company that put up metal buildings. On the door of his truck it said, “STEEL ERECTIONS.”.I remember the days when naive teachers were still setting themselves up by saying things like,“…social intercourse” and reading from a book where it said of the character’s speech, “…,he ejaculated,” and asked students to walk “two abreast.”
corzak over 10 years ago
I’m concerned . . . that by requiring all its Comic Censors to wear outlandishly archaic uniforms and “snidely moustache” facial hair . . . Universal Uclick may be in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Those uniforms can’t possibly be required for ‘occupational safety and health’.
singlefemalelaywer over 10 years ago
NICE !!!!!!!!!!!
elbob83709 over 10 years ago
Excellent. Thumb up.
Hillbillyman over 10 years ago
I wanted to write a clever responce to this one, however many attempts, I found it was just to hard.
Vet Premium Member over 10 years ago
I am surprised Pastis remembers Erector sets.I had so many parts I could build a full scale replica of the Empire State building to 1 to 1 ratio……..how ever the Union shut me down as I was not a paid member of the Union. They don’t take well to scab workers.
steverinoCT over 10 years ago
All the way at the end is an erection joke. It’s funny before that, too:.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYodDH4qZQo
Hectoruno over 10 years ago
Chris Rock has a funny scene is his movie"I Think I Love my Wife" where he is complaining to his co-worker about the pills he gave him and the wife thinks he is having phone sex. He latter gets the blood drained with a needle in an ambulance.
Rick Smith Premium Member over 10 years ago
Pastis is not proud? Maybe he needs some little blue pills…proudness ensues.
Kali39 over 10 years ago
I remember erector sets. (If you could not consummate marriage any other way, can you use an erector set?)..Yeah, yeah, I know. Blame Stephan for that one. That joke was inevitable. :)
Chris Sherlock over 10 years ago
Looks like today’s strip was rather hard to write.
davbart92663 over 10 years ago
Personally, I LOVED IT!! No body appreciates a good pun like us sick vastness youngsters! And I’m proud to say I read this strip just for these! And Frank and Ernest.
jungle68 over 10 years ago
He should scrap the penguins and stick with these.
codedaddy over 10 years ago
One of the better jokes ever is about the soda pop version of the pill, marketed as “Mount’n do”.
Aceofrpm over 10 years ago
Where is the humor? Could someone explain?
singkong2012 over 10 years ago
What?@IDK what is going on
Michael Arnold over 10 years ago
Get your mind in the gutter and you’ll get it…
jaroc93 about 8 years ago
“Hardly” LMAOOOOOOOOOO
Big Whoop. over 6 years ago
I saw this pun from panel 1.
CesarSantos about 3 years ago
I guess 4 hours of playing with my (huge) erector set is enough.