Transcript:
"What are you doing, Pig?" "Studying ants with my magnifying glass...I'm very careful to give them their distance, so as to not alter their normal behavior and characteristics." crackle crackle crackle sssssss "I think I altered something."
This one got Pastis in trouble, as it happened around the time a kid playing in a washing machine made national headlines. In a lot of places, this strip was pulled and a rerun was put in its place.