Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 24, 2022

Because Dad will never figure out who did it.

And hope it doesn’t collapse.

Does acting casual build character?

does Calvin ever act casual when it comes to his antics?

The kid is an engineering genius.

Won’t that door swing the wrong way?

Rube Goldberg would be proud

Calvin mastered Tinkertoys.

The way the picture is drawn it will fall away from Dad, not towards him.

If Dad could foresee what is waiting for him!

Rube Goldberg lives!

Tinker Toys!!!!!

LEGO or GTFO.

I love te use of the old Tinker Toys, right down to their cylindrical container.

I’m afraid the casual act will alert dad even more.

Both Dad and Calvin will soon be casualties.

It’s going to fall straight down long before the door opens. That heavy bucket is going to overwhelm the Tinker Toys very soon.

Calvin needs more training in engineering in order to make a successful booby trap.

I LOVE Tinker Toys! Do they still make these? Or, perhaps the bigger question is, do kids still PLAY with these?

Hobbes, stop snickering!

I hope somebody is recording this for a future internet or for America’s Funniest Home Videos at least.

(and lastly as evidence against possible child cruelty that follows)

He has a warm spot for his dad

Which just goes to show you why you should never sit with your back to the door.

Hmmm….this kid seems a bit quiet…what’s he up to NOW?

Mom is out shopping. Upon entering home all hell will loose on dad, including the shopping bill.

Lots of Tinkering there.

I don’t remember this one.

And he made no noise setting that up, or dad is deaf…LOL

Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs— I haven’t thought abut them for many years. I am old, I am old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Oooh THAT’S not right :D

Tinker toys!

You might think Dad would be alerted already. Yeah, Tinkertoys aren’t like metal rivets but there’s still a metal chute and a full bucket of water that Cal needed a ladder to reach. But Dad always seems more interested in his paper than his son.

Cool

That’s the point…

My thoughts exactly!

When you kids can build that and you can’t hear him making it, maybe you need to recheck your qualifications of being a dad and an adult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkertoy

Oh my… Where is Hobbes??

Tinker Toys >>>>> Legos! Lincoln Logs, too, but you needed oodles and oodles of sets to make the way cool beans stuff. Today’s children are so deprived. Seriously.

Be cool. Be cool. Be cool. For some reason, that never works for me. If I have to think it, I can’t do it.

The hinges appear to be on the outside, doors open towards the hinge side, so the door will open out. Where is the ladder? If Calvin can carry a ladder into the house, climb up the ladder carrying a full bucket of water he should have upper body strength to eat Moe’s lunch.

If you have any animals in your house – dogs, cats or tigers – your Tinkertoys will gradually disappear.

Buy the kid a book on Rube Goldberg and something more stable than Tinker Toys to work with.

Weight of water will tilt bucket towards the father.

The kid is a whiz at Tinker Toys. He should be steered to civil engineering

Tinker Toys encouraged a vivid imagination! Abstract thinking. Practical mischief engineering?

Product of a creative mind

ah, tinker toys. I never got quite that creative with them… usually made airplanes

When the door opens, the weight of the bucket will tip it over toward the flume.

This kid does not want to reach puberty.

I had one of those sets, wooden discs with holes around them, with sticks that fit into the holes. I think they ended up in the wood stove, along with my Lincoln Logs. Sad.

So how did Calvin manage to set all that up without Dad noticing?

Innovative, I’ll give him that.

If I remember correctly, my experience with tinker toys was that they became dramatically UN-stable at a height of about two feet.

“So lay down your umbrellas

Strip off your plastic macs

You’ve never felt the rain my friend

Till you’ve felt it running down your back"

Great engineering on Calvin though he will be disappointed.

With legos he could have made it more impressive

He’s read up on Rube Goldberg inventions.

Hey Dad, getting a bucket of water dumped on you by your precocious kid will build character.

Bill Watterson is such a genius making this awesome strip for everyone to see.

The power of tinkertoys.

As long as Calvin doesn’t start strutting leisurely and whistling or humming in an unnatural manner…

LOL there should be a squel to this page

Calvin and Hobbes= BEST STRIP EVER

In the mourning milk came out of my mouth because I laughed at this. I just read it again, and I laughed just as hard. Good thing I didn’t have milk in my mouth this time LOL

face it dad, you’re never escaping this horror land.

I prefer to act causal; it has more of an effect on people.

Watterson clearly doesn’t have a mechanical aptitude ;-)

Calvin, what did you do?