For once, I’m on their side
Pearls Before Swine, 5/6/06
I’m on the record as being annoyed by Pearls Before Swine’s crocs. But you know how sometimes you can’t define why something is funny but you’re pretty sure it’s funny anyway? Well, the fact that this she-croc is, unlike all the other crocs we’ve encountered to this point, perfectly capable of speaking English in a normal fashion in and not in that horrible croc-pidgin, is funny.
Also funny: The fact that PBS characters all seem to sit on that floppy little pillow when watching TV.
Also also funny: The she-croc’s enormous afro.
May 7th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Okay, raise your hand if you thought the guy watching TV was on the Public Broadcasting System….any one? Damn.
May 7th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
So just the male crocs are lame and moronic hunters and speakers? The females must stay home and fix their hair and assimilate themselves to the culture they are in. They must be the breadwinners too, since the cable has not been shut off, and we know the male crocs have not been bringing home the bacon, let alone the zebras.
My theory is that the female crocs run internet gambling sites.
May 7th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Somehow, crocodiles that talk is not a problem. Crocodiles that have some sort of income stream so they can buy tvs, houses, and presumably food (since they never catch any) doesn’t bother me either. But they’re not mammals, so they’re not entitled to hair.
May 7th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
It’s obviously a wig. You never heard of hair club for crocs?
May 7th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
In PBS the Movie, Marcia Wallace plays the She Croc!
May 7th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Pretty sure we’ve seen one of the crocs’ mom before and she talked normally as well.
May 7th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
In addition, for once the croc said something we can all agree with!
May 8th, 2006 at 6:20 am
Indeed. However, it’s not Irwin’s voice that earns him a place emerging from the rectums of several crocs; it’s (1) his long career of deliberately enraging animals (South Park SO nailed him back when it was still worth watching), and (2) that never-prosecuted act of child endangerment. There’s one kid who’d be better off growing up without a father…
May 8th, 2006 at 8:07 am
Male crocs are to Homer Simpson what female crocs are to Marge Simpson
May 8th, 2006 at 9:07 am
You gotta cut PBS some slack. Without hair, it would be about as hard to differentiate male from female crocs as Sam and his law partner on JP, which is to say, they’d all look alike.
May 8th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Also funny: The twiggy bird-like legs. Apparently their legs didn’t develop as quickly as their ability to become bi-ped.
May 8th, 2006 at 11:01 am
“No matter how many times you watch “The Crocodile Hunter,” the episode is never gonna end with a crocodile ripping off Steve Irwin’s head.”
Dammit Pastis, you’ve ruined the show for me!
Anyway, I’m amazed that a female of any species would hook up with Irwin, much less mate with him… and show her face on television!
May 8th, 2006 at 11:35 am
I like to think the croc’s “But dat voice ees so annoyeen!” is a meta-comment on how many PBS readers have tired of the crocs, their tired antics, and their annoying dialects.
May 8th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
I could never get tired of the crocs…well…not for a long time, anyway.
May 8th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
They are kind of like Ricky and Lucy Ricardo with his accent and her lack thereof. The pillow reminds me of the weird little child-ottoman that the Peanuts gang always sits on to watch TV.
May 8th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
I like that instead of the unimaginative add “some eyelashes and a dress” formula for differentiating between men and women, that “Pearls Without Swine” has headed for fros. Awesome.
I actually have grown to like the crocs vs. zebra interactions, but even better is the new plot involving killer whale vs. seal. The killer whale is so big it just puts its eye up to the seal’s house.
May 8th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
I find the killer whale pretty redundant myself.
But it it results in a strip bemoaning the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau’s lack of animal-on-nature-show-host violence, it will almost be worth it.
May 8th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
The voice was way too “ayoneen” coming from Jar Jar Binks; it’s even more annoying, having to have to read it.
May 9th, 2006 at 9:26 am
The Pearls before Swine crocs grow on you. One minute you’re annoyed, the next, you’re struggling the whol day to find a place to use “We you friends, Miss Baloney Ball!”
June 13th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
I’m actually a big Fraternity o’ Crocs fan, and the seal-vs-whale comics are good, too. In case you didn’t know, they’re actually two alternating seals, Jonathan and Jennifer, a married coulple. The killer whale=nameless and dead (he ate a meatloaf bomb made by the sea anenomes.)
September 11th, 2006 at 2:19 am
RIP Steve Irwin.
St00pid sting ray!!
September 16th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
As a huge Steve Irwin fan, I must request–no, DEMAND–that you take down this horrific post that treats Steve Irwin like a joke. He was a great, great man and his DEATH should not be joked about!
Would you joke about the death of your President, or your favorite base ball star? I think not. Well, to Australians, Steve Irwin was our Presdient, our favorite base ball star. Your website is pathetic for mocking the memory of the great Steve Irwin.
Disgusting.
September 27th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
If you think this strip was making fun of Steve Irwine you are highly delusional, it is making fun of the Croc.
Also this was written four months ago!
This is just like NBC having to apologize for the Emmys opening scene with Conan O’Brian because of the plane wreck that happened a day before. The scene was shot well before the crash happened. Might as well make LOST apologize for having a show that begins with a plane crash.
Learn to look at the dates….frankly it’s disgusting that you didn’t.
October 2nd, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Is anyone else wondering if this strip will ever make it into a PBS collection?
January 17th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Why is everyone so crazy about “controversial issues”? It’s a COMIC STRIP. It’s FUNNY. LAUGH, for God’s sake!
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