Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 05, 2022

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    BE THIS GUY  about 2 years ago

    They did get lower, Calvin. They swamped us with reality shows.Maybe, you became a producer of one of them.

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    codycab  about 2 years ago

    I’m sure back then, someone was working on the 90 minute violence.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 2 years ago

    good thing Calvin and Hobbes didn’t become a TV series; Bill Watterson wouldn’t want it that way

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 2 years ago

    “More violence in 90 minutes” See an Italian political talk show and you’ll find it.

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    SHIVA  about 2 years ago

    The TV & movie industry has been pandering the lowest of the low for several years, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop or change direction soon. I watch very little because it has become a wasteland!!

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    Robin Harwood  about 2 years ago

    Maybe taste does bottom out somewhere, but there is no sign of it yet.

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    Yngvar Følling  about 2 years ago

    Michael Bay hadn’t made it big yet when this first camo out.

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Calvin was a visionary.

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    chuckcork1  about 2 years ago

    Forget entertainment.

    Go into Politics, or Religion, or even better, Politics AND Religion.

    With the latter you’ll get a bunch of people, already primed to believe the most ludicrous things possible, who will then simply believe everything you say as well (lest they be cast out from among the faithful).

    You won’t get to control what they watch for just a few hours a day, you’ll get the rest of their lives too.

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    SNVBD  about 2 years ago

    90 minutes? ain’t nobody got time for that. Try 30 second clips on Instagram or Tiktok, just one reel after the other.

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    Its just me  about 2 years ago

    Amazing how extreme violence is permitted, but even a modest hint of it’s opposite is banned or heavily censored.

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    Susan00100  about 2 years ago

    Calvin should go into TV advertising. Most commercials (especially for insurance companies) are so stupid that they’d appeal to the lowest form of humanity!!

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    sandpiper  about 2 years ago

    Cal is just stating the oldest premise in advertising: where there’s a will, there’s a way. AND where there’s a way somebody will.

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    sirbadger  about 2 years ago

    The first script for the Ghostbusters film would have been too expensive to film, so they had to reduce the amount of action.

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    Zebrastripes  about 2 years ago

    TV is certainly the B0-0B tube! What garbage…and the ratings are high for reality and some stupid games. The mentality of America is plummeting at an alarming rate, due to the insufficient educational curriculum in this country and the violent, filthy movies. I have a hard time watching movies today because every other word is profanity, sex or violence.

    And to think, these people are the future of America….SCARY!

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    gokar 4,la  about 2 years ago

    The story would change a little now…THE INTERNET happily lowering standards since 1996.

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    GentlemanBill  about 2 years ago

    The SAW movie franchise is a perfect example of what Calvin is predicting. Each movie imagines more and more horrible tortures and mutilations of human beings. They are disgusting. IMHO, anyone who can watch that and enjoy it has something wrong in their head.

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    jagedlo  about 2 years ago

    Who knew that Calvin would be predicting 2020’s TV?

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    Purple People Eater  about 2 years ago

    I haven’t seen it, but i looked it up, and The Replacement Killers is the movie that used the most bullets. They managed to shoot thousands of bullets in only 87 minutes. Do you really want to get more violent than that?

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    Count Olaf Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Now it sometimes caters to the pseudo-hip who laugh loudly in places where they think they are supposed to laugh even though they don’t have a clue what is going on and rave about movies, etc about which they are totally oblivious and are total crapola in Starbucks.

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    mrwiskers  about 2 years ago

    But WHY do folks (mostly males) of all ages spend more dollars on violent movies and video games? Yes these companies pander for profit. That’s immoral side of capitalism. But is our genetic code groomed to approve it? I wish I could find a legitimate study to help me understand.

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    JD_Rhoades  about 2 years ago

    And that’s how we got the John Wick franchise.

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    dflak  about 2 years ago

    If you want 90 minutes of violence on TV, watch the evening news. This weekend, in particular featured numerous instances of gun violence. A good way to finish off the summer with a bang.

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    PoodleGroomer  about 2 years ago

    His curiosity is being piqued by the tv shows after midnight.

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    SweetSinger  about 2 years ago

    They’re called video games, Cal.

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    Redd Panda  about 2 years ago

    Cal is still young, otherwise he would know it’s Sex and Violence that makes the $$$.

    See; Game of Thrones.

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    tripwire45  about 2 years ago

    So the modern entertainment industry is adult Calvin’s fault. I should have known.

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    YippiKiAyMofo  about 2 years ago

    Curiously enough, Calvin looks like he’s auditioning for the next “Jacka$$” movie.

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    goboboyd  about 2 years ago

    Fear mongering and snake oil solutions have been with us from the beginning.

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    rshive  about 2 years ago

    Well Calvin, you could skip the advertisements. But that wouldn’t do very well economics-wise. ’t

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    LEOKEV  about 2 years ago

    Gotta love the self-powered wagon with minimal steering!

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    JD_Rhoades  about 2 years ago

    And this is how we got the John Wick franchise.

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    ElwoodP  about 2 years ago

    See the movie Idiocracy for an idea of what future movies will be like.

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    g04922  about 2 years ago

    Yep… I see a future for Calvin in fantasy Screen Writing.

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    mistercatworks  about 2 years ago

    It’s called sport

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    hk Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Very true Calvin. Hollywood actors scream hate about guns but it is hard to find a movie with one. They scream about injustice, yet every movie they make, evil pretty much wins.

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    The All-Meat Xylophone  about 2 years ago

    If only sax and violins had stayed in the music stores where they belonged…

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    BiggerNate91  about 2 years ago

    This comic really was ahead of its time. Preaching to the choir once again!

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    pixiekitten Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Calvin has a career programming cable news.

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    David_J Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I’d love to see Calvin’s take on Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. LOL

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    VickiP123  about 2 years ago

    John Wick III comes to mind

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    mindjob  about 2 years ago

    Want more violence? Just drive around Chicago at night and film the shootings

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    Bill D. Kat Premium Member about 2 years ago

    The MGM slogan “Ars Gratia Artis” is Latin for “Art For Art’s Sake”.

    Nowadays, it has become “Violence for violence’s sake”.

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  about 2 years ago

    “People should be forced to watch only what I watch. Then they’d become as smart as I am, because I am so certainly smart.”

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  about 2 years ago

    Beware of anyone who believes he can go below rock bottom.

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    Raymond Powell  about 2 years ago

    They did it Calvin. It’s called “John Wick 3.”

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    Dave Tring  about 2 years ago

    If they could find a way to bring back the Ancient Roman games AND make them pay per view, how much money do you think they could make?

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    Lightpainter  about 2 years ago

    No matter what you think of the crap on tv and movies now, it is nothing in comparison to Rome’s Colosseum and the REAL events that happened there.

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  about 2 years ago

    Watched any of the Reality Shows lately?

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    hagarthehorrible  about 2 years ago

    Calvin try to cram more into the 90 minutes movie if you survive the fall. That agile feline will jump to safety at the right moment.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 372033]  about 2 years ago

    Well, the newspapers have definitely moved to where Calvin see more money. They pretend that their journalists actually publish both sides of an issue factually and fairly.

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    dpatrickryan Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Obviously someone took that as a challenge…

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    Realimaginary1 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Extreme Soccer!!

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    glowing-steak32  7 months ago

    Wake up in 30 years, kiddo.

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