Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 16, 2017

I would trust that dog more than my dog.

Where did Fido there get his degree I wonder.

I refuse to fly anywhere with my emotional support rhinoceros.

Dennis is such a comfort.

A Freudian slip has been defined as when you say one thing but mean your mother. The mother line in the above strip is cliché, but is acceptable because it’s so funny and so relatable. One variant has the shrink listen to the patient’s discussion of his/her difficulties without reference to Mom. Then the doctor asks bluntly, “How long have you hated your mother?”

My favorite line in the book “Portnoy’s Complaint” is the last sentence, it is the funniest line I’ve ever encountered relative to psychotherapy.

SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t read the book but might, this line is pretty much the surprise twist that you might not want to know in advance. Otherwise, proceed.

After a book-length, exceedingly detailed monologue about his many psychological difficulties, with not a single word of comment from the psychiatrist he is addressing, the doctor finally speaks the last line… “Now vee may perhaps to begin."

“If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.”

(Robin Williams as Dr. Kosevich in “Nine Months.”)

If dogs could talk!

Dogs are so selfless, they put the “you” in “therapeutic.”

Pig would be better off talking to Guard Duck!

She made great bacon sandwiches until she was all gone…

oh great, its a freudian therapy dog. get a newer one.

this is ruff…

“She was such a ham. She ended up as a Hot Dog.”

Oh I hope this goes on for the whole week

My mother? I’ll tell you about my mother: https://youtu.be/Umc9ezAyJv0?t=2m36s

Andy??

Pig’s mother was known for makin’ bacon.

This dog was Pig’s second choice; his first was one of those that wear a white T-shirt, stay drunk, and shoot a rifle at anyone who looks different. You know, a border collie.

Pastis may have gone to the well once too often; this is “Pooch Cafe” humor.

Since when does a dog have to be “trained” to provide comfort and affection?

What a perfect strip.

xxx

Little pipsqueak yappy dog couldn’t make it in any other doggy profession!

Tell me about YO MAMA!!