Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 03, 2020

This strip is taking atoll on me.

Doesn’t matter a’tall.

If Pig has never been to San Andreas, it’s not his fault.

It’s Knuttin Atoll.

My favorite? No Bikini Atoll

That ain’t rat at-all!

Do not ask for whom there is a toll.

Pig, have you forgotten May 3rd, 2011? You used to know these things!

Better than paying a troll. Just ask Billy Goat Gruff.

I’m trying to figure this one out.

Desert island gags take atoll on the readers.

this one was a butte…

There is no atoll at all after it gets H-bombed!

Nice try Pig ! … Croc Power !

His answer was not correct atoll.

A shot of peninsula will rid us of these berms.

Anyone else remember “No Bikini Atoll”?

Is it No Bikini Atoll?

I don’t like this pun atoll.

Try saying “isthmus” five times as fast as you can. (For UW-Madison alums).

GROAN.

Just Pig being Pig. We all feel better now.

“Atoll”? That’s a bridge too far!

It’s a mountain I think.

My friend Su, lives in Los Angeles. She accidentally swallowed a writing instrument. Now peninsula.

That’s no island atoll.

I will assume Rat isn’t in this because he’s on his way to Pastis’ desk to smack him.

Why a duck?

And here I thought that if you cross a bridge, you pay atroll.

Pig has no idea atoll.

I’m reminded of watching a cartoon in my youth, Beany and Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, where they had an location called “No Bikini Atoll.”

I knew I guy to tried to sail around the world. He ran aground on an uncharted isle. The locals named it in his honor — “No Brains Atoll.”

These puns are rotten to the coral.

Say, How’s the crocs/zeebas doing dealing with the virus? (Still my favorites!)

Come on, Pastis, you can do better. Bring back the crocs.

A mushroom cloud where the island used to be?

I’m just standin’ here looking atoll Harvey. Harvey ain’t moved a inch since this time yestidy, when he sat down to contemplate whut he’d had fer lunch.

Pig is a great Straight Man. Or, at least, he’s just drawn (and scripted) that way….