Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 15, 2013

All Zebra has to do is outrun the bartender.

Have her call you a taxi!

Ok, “You’re a taxi.”

Push her into the water, Zeeba.

Always be nice to your bartender…and your barber and your dentist and, well, be nice to everyone.

Zebra’s starting to look and sound like Bogart in one of those noir films, like Key Largo….

OK, I vote for getting Zebra back to the mainland.

Moving on…please…

Hey, zeeba—you ees paying for sociel activityes but you no getting theem! Geet you money worth! Geet een water weef sociel directer, hav some FUN!

Yah, take load off you mind!

@Wood Eye and @margueritem—Thank you. Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor!

@Sisyphos—Zebra looks a bit like “Bogie”, whereas that bartender looks NOTHING like Bacall!AND—Mr. Bogart never said, “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca or anywhere else! The real line, “You played it for her, you can play it for me. PLAY IT!” is much better!

Zeeba should go explore the other side of the island.

Sh’s still trying to force him to change his Yelp! posting. Push her in the water.

Please end this story.

They COULD tip over the wooden bar and float back, perhaps using the stool as a paddle.

If this same lame island gag is back tomorrow, I’m quiting this strip…

Can’t he just shove the bartender in the water to appease croc?

ALl Zebra has to do is point out to LArry that he’s not a salt-water croc and can’t exist in the ocean. The logic of that will automatically kill him, then Zebra can use his carcass as a paddleboard to get home.

Great, we now thanks to a fan have a way out for zebra!

And the phone is located??

Oh this gets better and better for poor Zebra doesn’t it?

xxx

LArry is so dumb, Zebra can fool him into thinking he’s a gator.

I’ve never seen Zebra look so disheveled. And so unshaven.

Stephan: Cut. Next Act.