Pickles by Brian Crane for February 12, 2022

Could be mutiny on the couch. In the good ol’ days she’d be walking the plank.

let me guess: Opal said it once and then it got out of hand the second time

Pearl, you can be insulted or play along with it. I think it is kinda cute. don’t worry he will tire of it soon and be on to another annoying comment.

lately we’ve had more reruns than new strips on this comic (quite a bit more, at least 75-80% reruns) it’s nice when they really go back like this one though (2001) bc the strips don’t start until 2003 here on gocomics so I’ve never read these ones!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdupUdnln4

Go buy an Admiral’s hat Opal and you can be commander of the couch fleet.

The Captain and Opal. Love won’t keep them together.

Captain send her to the brig !

As long as she’s still allowing him to be captain, he better not push it.

She might sit on him and make him Captain Crunch!

I think that the wrong person is the captain.

Captain, I feel a storm coming on.

“I’m getting closer to my home….”

I see Opal received her new bunny slippers…

I see she’s got her bunny slippers on….vs the donkey slippers Earl got her…LOL

I see Opal has her new bunny slippers on.

Oh come on Opal, you can play along with Earl once in a while. It might be fun.

It definitely ain’t The Love Boat!

He may be the captain but she is still the admiral.

This should be a sitcom!

♪ ♫ Love, exciting and newCome Aboard. We’re expecting you.And Love, life’s sweetest reward.Let it flow, it floats back to you.

Love Boat soon will be making another runThe Love Boat promises something for everyoneSet a course for adventure,Your mind on a new romance.

And Love won’t hurt anymoreIt’s an open smile on a friendly shore.Yes LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE! ♫ ♪

The captain is going to be walking the plank soon.

She may lower the boom on him.

Well Opal got her new bunny slippers.

We see Opal got her bunny slippers back. Or did that happen while I wasn’t looking?

I’m gonna have to take her side on that one….

make her walk the plank

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,O the bleeding drops of red,You let me sit or you too are dead!

Perhaps if Earl “piped her aboard” Opal would be more willing to request permission.

At least he’s not claiming to be the king of the sofa.

catching up with Captain and Tennille after the show ended..

married for nearly 40 years, then divorced, eventually he died.

Ms Tennile will be 82 in a couple months.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855120/bio

She could pretend to be a pirate and yell, “Prepare to be boarded”…

And neither would I Opal.

Earl should blow the “oo-ee-oo!” boarding whistle every time she sits on the couch anyway.

Opal can be SOOOOOO unreasonable!!!

Is Opal licking her fingers in the 3rd panel?

Good to see Opal wearing a brand new pair of bunny slippers.