Well, no, we aren’t going to need a bigger website. But today we’re paying comic homage to that ad-libbed line from Jaws, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”, which is #35 on the American Film Institute’s list of top movie quotes, right in between some other famous ones:
A definite call-out here, with the opposing team name being Sharks.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Pastis usually drives the broad middle, politically, at least in his overtly political strips. He usually tries to avoid calling out just one side or identifying a specific partisan policy for criticism.
But as someone whom some people might consider “far left”, I’m really not sure how to take this strip. It feels vaguely threatening. I realize Rat is not a purely author’s-POV character, but I can’t help picturing myself on the receiving end of the bats of literal Nazis.
Rat in Pearls Before Swine often hearkens back a few decades to physical violence in comics (or, for that matter, the kids’ cartoons I remember from growing up). In the Sunday pun strips, for example, he’s usually the one bashing Pastis for the bad pun setup.
I remember Sarge beating up Beetle Bailey frequently, the domestic violence in old Andy Capp strips being played for laughs. That seems much less common in comics now. (Real life is another matter.)
@Powers: If it makes you feel any better, Rat seems to be contemplating a “fair” fight between the far left and the far right, with sticks as the weapons for both sides.
If memory serves, Scheider’s line in “JAWS” was ad-libbed. He hadn’t seen the mechanical shark yet, and was genuinely surprised by its size.
Probably a good measure of the importance of a movie quote is the number of variations on it — and these “gonna need a bigger” variations are more than I’ve seen in one place for any other quote.
In the movie “UHF”, Weird Al gets some animals for the TV show, including a couple he didn’t order: “Badgers? We don’t need any stinking badgers!”
Then there are the movie stars playing a game where they pretend to be famous composers. “I’ll be Bach!”
One line I hear a lot, with no pun involved, just because we’ve all had this feeling: “I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more.”
Up until about a year before Medicare age, I was uninformed about it. I thought you just signed up for it when you reached 65. I hadn’t realized that there were options and choices to make. The good thing is that there are many websites with information.
I ultimately selected Traditional Medicare with a high-deductible medigap policy and a prescription provider.
There are very few people on the far left in the US.
There are a huge number of people on the far right in the US.
Brian in STL –
I had the advantage of having helped my parents and my grandparents with their Medicare, plus my accounting/tax clients were/are my parents’ age and I helped them.
Husband was exec director of a mental health/school program for children and dealt with the various insurance policies and coverage of the children which included his having to deal with Medicaid.
Here in the threatened 51st state, your parent(s) obtain a provincial “health card” for you shortly after you are born, and you’re signed up for “Medicare (Canadian edition)” from then on. The system is not perfect, but it is nowhere near as bad as some (rotten) cherry-picked horror stories would have it. Herr Trump’s promised 60% tax decrease holds little or no appeal when we consider the side effects. He’s gonna need a better offer.
I have a friend with Medicare Advantage (plan from a private insurance company) and she loves it. She lives in Massachusetts. I have another friend with Medicare Advantage and she has had all kinds of problems with it. She lives in Florida.
As it turns out, some states are pretty good with health insurance and some are absolutely terrible. Look into that thoroughly before making a choice between regular Medicare and Medicare Advantage.
I didn’t want Medicare Advantage because I no longer wanted to deal with insurance companies, in-network, out-of-network, denials, all that.