Sherman's Lagoon

Sherman's Lagoon is a comic strip created by Jim Toomey. It focuses on the antics of sea life in a lagoon - Sherman the shark, his wife Megan, Fillmore the sea turtle, Hawthorne the hermit crab, and Ernest the fish. It was launched in 1991.

Quotes

(Sherman is sleeping)

Hawthorne: You're blocking the entrance to my crab hole, Fat Boy! That's not allowed!

Sherman: (wakes up) Says who?

Hawthorne: It's the law of the sea!

Sherman: Law of the sea... baloney.

Hawthorne: You don't believe me? I'll get a sea lawyer!

(Sherman goes back to sleep)

Hawthorne: (storms off) Hmph!

(Hawthorne returns with a "sea lawyer", a fish wearing glasses and a tie)

Sea Laywer: (reading out of a book with "LAW OF THE SEA" written on the cover) Section 23, Paragraph 4 of the Law of the Sea: "Sharks shall grant crabs rights of egress on aforementioned crab's crab hole."

Sherman: (wakes up) Mph!

Hawthorne: Hmph! Told you!

Sea Lawyer: (to Hawthorne) That'll be $400.

Hathorne: (outraged) $400!

(Sherman eats the sea lawyer)

Sea Layer: WHOA!

Sherman: What's it say in there about eating lawyers?

Hawthorne: What lawyer?

(September 20th, 1998)