Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 02, 2022

That’s because grownups have to pay dental bills.

Calvin will when he grows up.

Calvin’s about to get to the point where he can use gum as a weapon, somehow.

Add a sip of mint juice.

Perspective is great

I’ll bet you’re a real hit with the ladies

Finally the answer to what happens when you leave your chewing gum on the bedpost overnight…

I’m a growed-up and I still do this. Just never in public.

You do Calvin, just not that many of them do that.

Hobbes expression………

Has Calvin heard Lonnie Donegan’s song from 1961? It might give him some suggestion where to leave the gum overnight.

This was the start of a week of chewing gum-themed strips.

There is an early Tom & Jerry cartoon, where Tom tricks Jerry into chewing a huge (for him) wad of gum, causing the same problem Calvin has.

Jerry ended up blowing an enormous bubble that exploded.

The film was called “The Bodyguard”.

Mmmm, big soggy socks….

Start chewing with two or three sticks new gum. Now that’s pleasure.

Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost over night? When your mother says don’t chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

He´s never seen a drunk eating a kebab at 2:30 in the morning!

My favorite chewing gum as a kid was Thrills and as Calvin explained when it started to lose it’s flavour I would just pop in another piece until my mouth was over full or I ran out of pieces.

Add some potato chips for added visual grossness.

And there’s a reason for that, Calvin!

Sit in the dugout of a pro baseball game, gum stuffed mouths abound.

Full sticks of $0.05 Bub’s Daddy as a kid

That’s becauze grown-ups are too busy… uh… Never mind, I can’t find a way to finish that sentence that’s appropriate for six-year-olds.

I find orifices less amusing than some but still very entertaining. I loved the movie Orifice Space.

I have an extreme aversion to the idea of chewing gum. I actually have nightmares from time to time where I get gum stuck in my teeth.

Saw a grownup do that once – it was in a bar after 6 whiskies!

“Dear friends, we surely all agree

There’s almost nothing worse to see

Than some repulsive little bum

Who’s always chewing chewing gum.

(It’s very near as bad as those

Who sit around and pick the nose).

So please believe us when we say

That chewing gum will never pay;

This sticky habit’s bound to send

The chewer to a sticky end." – Roald Dahl

Hah! You should see me when a caramel pulls my dentures loose. Children who see that need intensive therapy, but they suddenly develop incredibly good dental hygiene habits.

(NOTICE! This comment is purely fictitious. No children, teeth, dentists, nor sticky candies were harmed in the posting of this comment. Thank you.)

I’ve heard some grownups talk that way without the gum.

Lost its flavor? Did he leave it on the bedpost overnight?

Love Hobbes’s face in the last panel! It just say “Gross-o!”

Though some grown ups sound like they do. Spitting doesn’t help.

Some do, with chewing tobacco. Godawful

To add to the drool, he will walk hunched over, dragging his foot, and exclaiming “sanctuary”

Hobbs can have unusual thoughts at times.

Adults succumb to peer pressure; Calvin does not.

LOL!!

That’s why I don’t chew gum

I stopped chewing gum 45 or more years ago, to me looks like people as cows chewing.

Your chewing gum lost its flavor? Well, that’s what you get for leaving it on your bedpost overnight, Calvin.

It also makes spit wads more challenging.

In the Bazooka v Dubble Bubble debate, which side were you on? (I was a Dubble Bubble kid m’self.)

First psnel: Does Calvin put his hum on the bedpost overnight

I’ve had trouble with gut discomfort because of the sugar-alcohols in the gum. That and the fact I was disgusted at seeing what I looked like while chewing made me stop using gum.

There used to be a pack of gum that was the size of a deck of cards. We could get most of it in our mouth when we were kids. I can relate, Calvin.

Calvin grew up to be a woman who worked for me. For Secret Santa, I gave her a yard of bubble gum.

“Romance is like gum. When it loses its flavor, just cram another one in there!” -Mabel Pines

Why is Hobbes doing an ahegao