And now the Sunday strips are back in sync again, since we’ve gone back to ones from 1990 as part of the second sabbatical rerun cycle before the new strips began at the start of 1995.
And they DO go out of doors after this, to try and make their way to the North Pole to present their case to Santa. But they don’t make it far due to Calvin’s impulse to throw a slushball at Susie. They skipped the second half of that arc during the 1994 rerun cycle.
Also, his dialogue isn’t in lowercase.