Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 27, 2011
November 26, 2011
November 28, 2011
Transcript:
Rat: If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formations. What do you think you see, Goat? Goat: Well, those clouds up there look to me like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean. That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins. And that group of clouds over there gives me the impression of the stoning of Stephen. Rat: Uh huh...that's very good...what do YOU see in the clouds, Pig? Pig: I see Charlie Brown. Rat: Stupid runaway Macy's floats.
Well played, Stephan. This particular strip is a direct homage to a similar Peanuts strip, where Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Linus are looking at the clouds and having the same word-for-word conversation, except for the last two panels.
In the original Peanuts strip, after Lucy asks Charlie Brown what he sees in the clouds, Charlie Brown answers, “Well, I was going to say that I saw a ducky and a horsie, but I changed my mind,” because he considers those things to be ridiculously lame compared to the images that Linus said that HE saw.
Again: Very clever, Stephan, very clever! :-)