Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 19, 2017

Calvin and Susie first official date.

Just try to imagine what they watched.

Now try to take away their “Dumb” phone. Most of them can’t even walk if they can’t stare at the thing

My kids and I used to love watching Saturday morning cartoons together.

So, Dad kicks Calvin out of the house because he thinks Calvin should be outside getting fresh air and exercise. Then Dad goes back in the house. What’s good for the kid is good for the dad. Dad needs to get outside for some fresh air and exercise too. Maybe toss a football with Calvin or shoot baskets with him or they can go bike riding together. Use the outdoors for Father/son bonding time. And it will keep Calvin from going to other kid’s houses to watch cartoons.

Doesn’t Calvin have any male friends to watch cartoons with? Why did he go to Susie’s house first?

Now they can’t even tell the difference between real and fake news

Does a new generation start? (Calvin and Susie)

Wow, that is just like our house growing up. My Dad used to scream at us kids to “go outside and get the stink blown off from you”. But you couldn’t see Bugs Bunny/Road Runner. Wrestling and “Monster Theater” (Godzilla and Friends) from outside. We liked the stink much more.

Susie rules!

“It’s going to be a grim day when the world is rung be a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV!” … and we are there and yes it’s grim.

If Calvin goes to Susie’s house, he must really be desperate.

Man, I’m feeling old! I actually remember 7-8 hours of cartoons EVERY Saturday morning.

If I could pick any day and age to grow up in, I’d pick the exact day on which I was born. Being a kid in the 70s was incredible. Sitting in the floor on Saturday morning with a bowl full of unabashed, sugary goodness. Nothing was ever better.

Is this the reason why many local stations cancelled Saturday morning cartoons?

It’s even grimmer, when they know only what they see on the internet…

Dad could’ve at least let Calvin finish his breakfast. It’s not like he can eat it outside.

Calvin and Susie, sittin’ in a tree,

K,I,S,S, something, something, T,V….

Well if you think a generation that learned everything it knows from TV is grim, just wait for the generation who learned everything it knows from its phone. It’s called Regurgitation U., and just like coffee filtered over and over it gets worse as time goes on.

@songwriterz

If I could pick any day and age to grow up in, I’d pick the exact day on which I was born. Being a kid in the 70s was incredible. Sitting in the floor on Saturday morning with a bowl full of unabashed, sugary goodness. Nothing was ever better.

I wouldn’t trade being a kid in the 50s for anything!

In Japan the holiday and weekend programming in the late 60’s was something else. A new monster every week, hours of children oriented monster and cartoon shows.

Looney Tunes in the logo box

Interesting…three strips about Calvin lamenting the woods being bulldozed, and now a strip where Calvin would rather “spend (his) freedom…eating chocolate cereal and watching cartoons” than playing outside on a beautiful weekend day. Hmmm…

“He’s a complicated boy, but no one understands him but his tiger – Calvin (whatever his last name is)!” Virtual internet points for whoever gets the reference first!

I’d rather sleep in than watch TV.

xxx

Watterson often cleverly criticizes the act of watching television. He appears to as anti-TV as “Dad” is. But what’s great is that we all have memories of our parents saying the exact same thing on Sat. morning…We can all relate to this strip.

At least Calvin is watching a high quality Bugs Bunny cartoon. I have an 8 year old and trust me, cartoons are worse today than ever.

Around my house if you weren’t doing anything, watching tv counted as not doing anything, then they (parents) were certain to find something for you to do.

I prefered watching cartoons myself.

I spent time outdoors because we had outdoors and no TV. My son grew up taking his dog up into the hills above town, rarely watched TV. Our granddaughter is hooked on phone and I pad as her “other” grandmother thought sugar and glued to a phone was the rule. (She plays outside at our house.)

Yes i remember this tv

“They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning, no-one you see, is smarter than he, … "

My dad refused to buy a TV, calling it the “idiot box”. When well meaning church friends bought one for us, he stuffed it in the attic. So afternoons, before dad got home, we would sneak up to the attic, and figured out how to run an extension cord and adjust the antenna to watch cartoons.

There is a fan comic called “Hobbes and Bacon” showing life after Calvin and Susie get married. They have a daughter nicknamed Bacon who discovers Hobbes and starts a whole new relationship. It’s really fun.

He could have at least waited until noon when the networks switch over to golf programs.