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Name: Pig
Species: Pig
Gender Male
Living? Yes

Pig (debut: December 30, 2001; born: January 11)[1] is a kind, dimwitted yet well meaning[2][3] pig who is the second main character in Pearls Before Swine, the first being his roommate, Rat, who he also receives the most abuse from.

Pig's jokes generally involve his incompetence and not knowing his true surroundings. His on-again-off-again girlfriend, Pigita, is driven insane by his naïveté, but she can never bear to dump him. Pastis even says that Pig has a habit of talking to inanimate objects such as food, stop lights, bait, and various other things.

His dimness is often exhibited in the strip. Pig's least appropriate characteristic is his love of pork products; He likes bacon, ham, corn dogs, and so on, making him a cannibal, although he appears to misunderstand this. He is also sometimes able to tell which member of his family has been made into the food product. Besides bacon, he also seems to like cheese.

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Pig is one of the few characters that does not constantly utter mock profanity in the strip; however, he has done so on rare occasions. Possibly the most notable example of Pig's swearing in the strip is the July 15, 2010 strip, in which he curses BP for the recent oil spill. Pig has also sworn after Rat told him that, due to the fact that comic censorship is still the same as it was in the 1950s, many topics can not be discussed. In a series, he has the ability to panel-walk, as well as levitate items (which he exploits to steal from the refrigerator).

References[]

  1. https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2011/01/11
  2. "About « Pearls Before Swine". Stephanpastis.wordpress.com. http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/about/. Retrieved 2011-09-06.
  3. November 6, 2006 in Attorney Career Success Stories (November 6, 2006). "Interview: Stephan Pastis: Attorney Turned Cartoonist". Jdblissblog.com. http://www.jdblissblog.com/2006/11/stephan_pastis_.html. Retrieved 2011-09-06.
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