Knit One…

Cidu Bill on Dec 7th 2009

Nor really synchronicity, of course, but several people pointed out that we got a double dose of awful Pearls Before Swine puns yesterday

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Filed in Bill Amend, Bill Bickel, Fox Trot, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis, comic strips, comics, humor | 13 responses so far

13 Responses to “Knit One…”

  1. Tim Dec 7th 2009 at 04:59 pm 1

    I wonder what “that noodle incident” was. Not sure I want to know…

  2. Tim Dec 7th 2009 at 05:00 pm 2

    BTW, “Knit One” is a terrible pun.

  3. Kate C Dec 7th 2009 at 05:30 pm 3

    Tim–”the noodle incident” is a reference to a never-seen event in Calvin and Hobbes. There’s at least two strips where Hobbes mentions a mysterious “noodle incident” that got Calvin in a huge amount of trouble, and the mention makes Calvin very defensive. We never know what it is.

  4. CIDU Bill Dec 7th 2009 at 05:43 pm 4

    Tim, what would be the point otherwise?

  5. turquoise cow Dec 7th 2009 at 06:34 pm 5

    i give foxtrot props for trying - i laughed at this just because i recognized it as a PBS pun - but it didn’t seem to work as well as the usual ones in Pearls.

    And I’d love to know where/how Pastis comes up with his puns (and their set-up). Crazy stuff, that.

  6. Usual John Dec 8th 2009 at 12:34 am 6

    For the slower among us, can someone explain the “knit one” pun?

  7. Kamino Neko Dec 8th 2009 at 03:13 am 7

    Knit one, perl two.

  8. Morris Keesan Dec 8th 2009 at 09:17 am 8

    I predicted the Pearls punch line when I read the first speech balloon (okay, I didn’t get the “dunk rye”, but Arch, Tina, and “Evita’s” is enough to predict the lyric).

    And the Fox Trot one isn’t really a pun — it’s just a tortured set of (almost) rhymes.

  9. Keera Dec 8th 2009 at 02:43 pm 9

    Purl two, please. Perl is a computer language.

  10. Chakolate Dec 8th 2009 at 03:13 pm 10

    I agree that as a pun, FoxTrot’s isn’t great, but as an homage, it’s first-rate, especially with the C&H reference in the last panel. Nice!

  11. Mark M Dec 8th 2009 at 09:23 pm 11

    I immediately thought of the old SCTV skit when I saw the PBS comic.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztXm1_fZd4Y

  12. Kamino Neko Dec 10th 2009 at 04:10 am 12

    What can I say? I’m not a knitter. Purl it is, then.

  13. Vroshnak Dec 11th 2009 at 11:21 am 13

    But that thing in Foxtrot isn’t a pun. It’s just a lot of rhyming words that don’t really reference anything.

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