Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 05, 2024

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    codycab  about 2 months ago

    “Show me content not suitable for children!”

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    Hello Everyone  about 2 months ago

    Tik Tok would have really messed up Calvin.

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    STEPUP  about 2 months ago

    Our first b/w TV back in the 50’s took forever to warm up and actually start working!!!

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    Elmo  about 2 months ago

    His prayer was surely answered!

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    snsurone76  about 2 months ago

    WOW—Calvin is really in touch with God if his prayer can persuade Him to turn on the TV! Now, if he would only pray for world peace and the end of poverty and bigotry.

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    BenOnPaper  about 2 months ago

    Hail the almighty Photo Box.

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    eolan59  about 2 months ago

    Some things never change, just more options

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    C  about 2 months ago

        There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture.   [ … ]   We are controlling transmission. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear..

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    Gent  about 2 months ago

    Just imagines Calvin growing up in this smartyphones age.

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    Calvinist1966  about 2 months ago

    A happy weekending for Calvin. He’s had a pretty rough time this week but he got the better of Dad yesterday and he’s now enjoying Saturday morning TV. It reminds me of a week of strips from the beginning of September. The five weekday strips had Calvin suffering on his first day back at school before the Saturday strip had Calvin and Hobbes hurrying downstairs to watch Saturday morning TV.

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    Kimmies01  about 2 months ago

    I remember when the TV stations turned off at midnight and all there was, noting but static.

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    The Old Wolf  about 2 months ago

    One of my favorites.

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    Ropey Wee Yoofo  about 2 months ago

    Subtlety, thy name is not Bill Watterson.

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    Funniguy  about 2 months ago

    I so old that I remember the only thing on the tv screen early on Saturday, or any morning for that matter, was a test test pattern. If my Dad was up early before the local stations began broadcasting, he would set up a mirror across from the tv so he could observe the tv screen while he sat behind it to adjust the appearance & position of the screen by turning some screws on the back side of the tv.

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    Indiana Guy  about 2 months ago

    I remember seeing a news video of the panic in Hawaii in 2018 when an incoming nuke test alert accidentally went out as an actual “THIS IS NOT A DRILL! INCOMING MISSLE HEADING FOR HAWAII”. People running in the streets. One woman stops, and bows her head. Is she praying? Is she looking at her phone? Is she praying to her phone?

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    Purple People Eater  about 2 months ago

    I read somewhere that you can be hypnotized by staring at a light that’s blinking every three seconds (although faster blinking would be more effective). Next time you’re watching TV, check how often the scene changes.

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    hagarthehorrible  about 2 months ago

    The idiot box bestowed his wish alright. I wonder what smartphones could do to Calvin.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 2 months ago

    Quite the vocabulary. I think you’re playing dumb at school.

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    SquidGamerGal  about 2 months ago

    I sure hope Calvin’s parents wasn’t planning on sleeping in this Saturday…

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    BJDucer  about 2 months ago

    I shudder to think what kinda of images the TV deities have bestowed upon Calvin!

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    steveconkey2003  about 2 months ago

    How the media controls their sheep.

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    Kroykali  about 2 months ago

    Our first color tv was a Sylvania in 1968. We had it for several years but I think it was in the repair shop as much as it was in our house.

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    morningglory73 Premium Member about 2 months ago

    I do that with you tube.

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    rshive  about 2 months ago

    Calvin’s strange — but suitable — prayer.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Perhaps the first and only negative comment The Count has made about this comic but The Count finds this one unsettling. However, on a lighter note, looking forward to tomorrow (always do, actually). Maybe dinosaurs or Spaceman Spliff in full, glorious color, boy howdy. God Bless America!

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    sandpiper  about 2 months ago

    Cal’s tv is an early progenitor of modern tv ads for frenetic people. Rapidly flickering scenes, loud music, unreadable blurbs, circus clown atmosphere.

    Kinda remember a few decades back research that said such activity on movie screens effected epileptic responses in certain viewers. Wonder if that still holds true.

    H-m-m-m-m sounds a lot like a certain campaign

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    akachman Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Still relevant. Kudos, Mr. Watterson.

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    tims145  about 2 months ago

    …and people say it was a waste of time to send Calvin to Bible study….

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  about 2 months ago

    The real amusement for me is all the people sitting down in front of a screen to complain about people sitting down in front of screens.

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    Spider-UK  about 2 months ago

    Calvin would love tiktok

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    g04922  about 2 months ago

    Haha… Calvin is totally brainwashed by the medium…

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    ilovecomics*infinity  about 2 months ago

    Jeez this is profound. Watterson never ceases to amaze.

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    Godfreydaniel  about 2 months ago

    Calvin could switch over to “Jeopardy”…..

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    Calvins Brother  about 2 months ago

    I’ll be doing that for football today.

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    bvandrasik  about 2 months ago

    Kid is going to love TikTok, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, etc in his 40s

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    lnrokr55  about 2 months ago

    Yeah baby, Calvin was made for Tik Tok ! ;-)

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    Glib Sporgen  about 2 months ago

    I was a child disciple

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    [Unnamed Reader - c91c61]  about 2 months ago

    I remember getting up on Saturday mornings and turning on our tv still showing the test pattern until the national anthem and Rocky Jones Space Ranger came on.

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    zxcar1  about 2 months ago

    “I am the slime from the video, oozing along on your living room floor.”

    —F. Zappa

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Bizarre but completely accurate description of TV. ❤️

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    rockyridge1977  about 2 months ago

    Magic!!!!……on your command!!!

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    yangeldf  about 2 months ago

    if tiktok existed back then I bet poor Bill wouldn’t have been able to do this comic because the page he was drawing on would have been saturated by his tears

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    namelocdet  about 2 months ago

    Not much has changed……..

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    CleverHans Premium Member about 2 months ago

    A lawyer might say that Calvin is giving informed consent to having his brain discombobulated. Nobody to blame but himself…

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    bunrabbit99  about 2 months ago

    fox news!

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    mickjam  about 2 months ago

    Yeah, it would be nice if TV wasn’t so awesome!

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