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* CreatorBacklash: Early on, ''Pearls Before Swine'' was a webcomic. Most of it was re-drawn/re-written and published to newspapers, but quite a few were also left out. Pastis republished some of those webcomic strips that were left out in a book, and spent most of the time pointing out how OutOfCharacter everyone was and how bad the art was (even for his minimalist stick-figure style).
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* CreatorBacklash: CreatorBacklash:
** Early on, ''Pearls Before Swine'' was a webcomic. Most of it was re-drawn/re-written and published to newspapers, but quite a few were also left out. Pastis republished some of those webcomic strips that were left out in a book, and spent most of the time pointing out how OutOfCharacter everyone was and how bad the art was (even for his minimalist stick-figurestyle).style).
** There are various strips that were [[ExecutiveMeddling Not Ready for Primetime]] and those Pastis thought were either too weird or just plain sucked, and ended up getting scrapped.
** Another strip which Pastis has derided is one which has Goat going on a [[CharacterFilibuster two-panel-long rant]] about a political issue, and Rat just responds with blank incomprehension in the last panel. In one of the treasuries, he explains that he really wanted to talk about the issue, but didn't consider how the WallOfText would be difficult to read in a tiny comic strip or how to make the strip funny.
** Early on, ''Pearls Before Swine'' was a webcomic. Most of it was re-drawn/re-written and published to newspapers, but quite a few were also left out. Pastis republished some of those webcomic strips that were left out in a book, and spent most of the time pointing out how OutOfCharacter everyone was and how bad the art was (even for his minimalist stick-figure
** There are various strips that were [[ExecutiveMeddling Not Ready for Primetime]] and those Pastis thought were either too weird or just plain sucked, and ended up getting scrapped.
** Another strip which Pastis has derided is one which has Goat going on a [[CharacterFilibuster two-panel-long rant]] about a political issue, and Rat just responds with blank incomprehension in the last panel. In one of the treasuries, he explains that he really wanted to talk about the issue, but didn't consider how the WallOfText would be difficult to read in a tiny comic strip or how to make the strip funny.
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** One book has several early strips that Pastis made when ''Pearls'' was still a webcomic. He derided most of them for being OutOfCharacter.
** There are various strips that were [[ExecutiveMeddling Not Ready for Primetime]] and those Pastis thought were either too weird or just plain sucked, and ended up getting scrapped.
** Another strip which Pastis has derided is one which has Goat going on a [[CharacterFilibuster two-panel-long rant]] about a political issue, and Rat just responds with blank incomprehension in the last panel. In one of the treasuries, he explains that he really wanted to talk about the issue, but didn't consider how the WallOfText would be difficult to read in a tiny comic strip or how to make the strip funny.
** One book has several early strips that Pastis made when ''Pearls'' was still a webcomic. He derided most of them for being OutOfCharacter.
** There are various strips that were [[ExecutiveMeddling Not Ready for Primetime]] and those Pastis thought were either too weird or just plain sucked, and ended up getting scrapped.
** Another strip which Pastis has derided is one which has Goat going on a [[CharacterFilibuster two-panel-long rant]] about a political issue, and Rat just responds with blank incomprehension in the last panel. In one of the treasuries, he explains that he really wanted to talk about the issue, but didn't consider how the WallOfText would be difficult to read in a tiny comic strip or how to make the strip funny.
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* CreatorBacklash: Early on, ''Pearls Before Swine'' was a webcomic. Most of it was re-drawn/re-written and published to newspapers, but quite a few were also left out. Pastis republished some of those webcomic strips that were left out in a book, and spent most of the time pointing out how OutOfCharacter everyone was and how bad the art was (even for his minimalist stick-figure style).
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* ShrugOfGod: Quite often, most notably with describing the crocs' dialect.
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* ShrugOfGod: Quite often, most notably Pastis says that he has never come up with describing a definite answer for what the crocs' dialect.crocodiles' accent ("Hullo, zeeba neighba") is supposed to be. He did give an answer to that question, however. The Crocodiles are speaking "Crocese". Kind of undermined by the comic itself, where it is pretty much established that, of all the Crocs we meet, it is only Larry, Bob, and a few others who speak like that. Larry's wife, son and parents all speak English without any visible accent.
** Their accent was used as an unreveal on one occasion. Commentary in one of the books did have him say he thought it could be Russian. Odd, as you wouldn't find crocodiles there.
** Their accent was used as an unreveal on one occasion. Commentary in one of the books did have him say he thought it could be Russian. Odd, as you wouldn't find crocodiles there.
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** Pastis has talked about several strips over the years that his syndicate has asked him to change for one reason or another, and he had usually agreed due to the strips in question being so edgy that the risk outweighs the reward. In the treasury ''Pearls Sells Out'', Pastis writes about a particular strip that his syndicate wanted changed because it showed the characters drinking beer. Pastis flat-out refused to do so, arguing that he wasn't "gonna keep looking over...[his]...shoulder" every time he submitted a strip and worrying about their attitude. With the exception of a few minor edits, Pastis says that the syndicate has since left him alone and that he understands most other syndicates wouldn't have even published Pearls to begin with.
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** Another strip which Pastis has derided is one which has Goat going on a [[CharacterFilibuster two-panel-long rant]] about a political issue, and Rat just responds with blank incomprehension in the last panel. In one of the treasuries, he explains that he really wanted to talk about the issue, but didn't consider how the WallOfText would be difficult to read in a tiny comic strip or how to make the strip funny.
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* TropeNamer: Inspired the trope name for SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein with [[http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2007/5/27 this strip]].
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** There were at least two strips, published years apart, that involve Rst and Pig only ordering crackers and water in a restaurant, purely to avoid paying for anything.
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** There were at least two strips, published years apart, that involve Rst Rat and Pig only ordering crackers and water in a restaurant, purely to avoid paying for anything.
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** There were at least two strips, published years apart, that involve Rst and Pig only ordering crackers and water in a restaurant, purely to avoid paying for anything.
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* MissingEpisode: Many books feature comic strips that were never printed as they were deemed too offensive or simply not funny.
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* MissingEpisode: MissingEpisode:
** Many books feature comic strips that were never printed as they were deemed too offensive or simply notfunny.funny.
** For some reason, the strip for [[https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2017/11/09 November 9, 2017]] is absent from the treasury book ''Pearls Goes Hollywood''.
** Many books feature comic strips that were never printed as they were deemed too offensive or simply not
** For some reason, the strip for [[https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2017/11/09 November 9, 2017]] is absent from the treasury book ''Pearls Goes Hollywood''.
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* ColbertBump: During the strip's webcomic days, it underwent a sudden burst of popularity when ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' creator Scott Adams endorsed it in his newsletter.
* ScienceMarchesOn: Pastis justified Zach and Max's friendship with Zebra with the then-common belief that female lions did all the pride's hunting. A few years after they were introduced, [[https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/male-lions-do-help-hunting-after-all-6C10149668 it was discovered]] that male lions hunted more frequently than previously thought.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the treasury book ''Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out'', Pastis mentions at one point that he contemplated plans for a ''Pearls Before Swine'' [[TheMovie movie]]. It ended up not happening due to several Hollywood agents and executives not returning his calls. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4_ibhpHhXs In a subsequent interview,]] Pastis said he did eventually get a call back from one movie studio, [[ExecutiveMeddling but he would not be allowed much creative input on the film.]]
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Goat was originally going to be a bear.
** In the treasury book ''Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out'', Pastis mentions at one point that he contemplated plans for a ''Pearls Before Swine'' [[TheMovie movie]]. It ended up not happening due to several Hollywood agents and executives not returning his calls. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4_ibhpHhXs In a subsequent interview,]] Pastis said he did eventually get a call back from one movie studio, [[ExecutiveMeddling but he would not be allowed much creative input on the film.]]
** Goat was originally going to be a bear.
** In the treasury book ''Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out'', Pastis mentions at one point that he contemplated plans for a ''Pearls Before Swine'' [[TheMovie movie]]. It ended up not happening due to several Hollywood agents and executives not returning his calls. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4_ibhpHhXs In a subsequent interview,]] Pastis said he did eventually get a call back from one movie studio, [[ExecutiveMeddling but he would not be allowed much creative input on the film.]]
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* ReferencedBy: ''Completing the Mission'' from ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries The Henry Stickmin Collection]]'' has a reference to three comic strips. Two of them being ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' and ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', and one being ''Pearls Before Swine''.
-->'''Rat:''' We're out of toilet paper.\\
'''Pig:''' I never used it.\\
'''Rat:''' ''(to Pastis)'' You call this a joke?
-->'''Rat:''' We're out of toilet paper.\\
'''Pig:''' I never used it.\\
'''Rat:''' ''(to Pastis)'' You call this a joke?
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* InMemoriam : Several. They tend to be the most Heartwarming.
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* InMemoriam : InMemoriam: Several. They tend to be the most Heartwarming.
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* TropeNamer: Inspired the trope name for SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein with [[http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2007/5/27 this strip]].
