Irrelevant to the above comic, but I heard on TV Tropes (the “Two Decades Behind” page) that Dana said in a reply to a comment on this site that while other comic strip cartoonists model parent characters off of memories of their own parents which leads to the characters feeling antiquated (Calvin’s parents are a perfect example), she modeled Phoebe’s parents instead off of her gamer nerd friends who had kids to make them feel more modern.
Does anyone have a link to the P&HU comic where she said that?
Calvin should’ve just said he overheard his parents talking about it.