Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 29, 2023

The test was given when it was almost lunchtime and Calvin was hungry.

Calvin needs to get tested somewhere else.

No, you don’t study well, Calvin, because you don’t study period.

It’s all Nielsen’s fault

Not to forget the “Eli Whitney and the cotton gin” response to 21×9!

No doubt Susie set him up again.

It’s way over time for that humorless lump of (worm)wood to retire!!

It is only a cartoon! It is not real!

I think he’s an idiot savant.

Did you know that Chef Boy-ar-dee was a real person?

Chef Boy-ar-dee was not the first President?

I would have gotten that wrong, too.

Among other things, Calvin.

Really? Tell me this then… how did General Ettore Boiardi’s troops survive Valley Forge without canned pasta? Huh? Huh??

And the First Tiger was named Tony?

Well, he should’ve been the first president!

Chef Boy-ar-dee? The test must have been right before lunch.

Calvin is very smart for his age, but when he’s in school he’s dimwitted.

I don’t recall 1st grade testing being so intense.

This just became an All Time Top 5 C&H strip for me. Chef Boy-ar-dee was our first president? Classic!

Got to love the “Chef Boyardee” answer. When Calvin gets a bit older he will use answers like Ben Dover, Richard Hertz (though he like to be called his nickname Dick) etc and find his way to the principal’s office yet again……

Chef Boy-Ar-Dee would have done just as well or better than what we’ve had for the past 50 years or so.

Just because life is a test…not to worry…

Not true, Cal…you test Miss Wormwood’s patience to the limit! :D

The first president of the United States was Peyton Randolph (his full title was president of the United States in Congress Assembled), but Miss Wormwood would probably have said that was wrong.

She never asked who the first president of the United States was. He put down the first president of Conagra corporation.

The world needs ditch diggers too.

Classic understatement. Similar to student’s answer when I assigned a short story for homework. He grinned and said ‘I don’t read a lot,’ and dropped the book on the desk. When I handed him his grade for the week. ‘You didn’t write a lot of report either. So you didn’t get a lot of points either.’ I also gave him back his grin.

I’m sorry, I just can’t stop laughing

And Chef Boyardee never WILL be president until he starts making better food.

Gives me an idea of what to have for lunch…

LOL!

Well, if you can’t be smart, be funny. Unless you can be batman. Then be batman.

Cartoonist’s motto: When in doubt, use a beat panel.

Panels without dialog are called beat panels. It usually means the the characters are thinking and gives the reader time to think too.

SCREAMING FUNNY. :-D

What an idiot. Everyone knows Meadowlark Lemon was our first president. Chef Boy-Ar-Dee was the second president.

Chef Boy ar Dee?? Wasn’t he married to Julia Child?

Miss Wormwood needs to make history interesting. Don’t just tell him that George was the first president, tell him he started the first real world war by murdering some French guys in the woods…

Well, if it wasn’t Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, who was?

I do like his answer, social media would support it nowadays…..

Isn’t it Chef They/Them-Ar-Dee?

Madison Avenue is beside itself in backslapping. “See how easily we influence the public!”

Hector would have made a great president!

What about partial credit

Geez, think she’s shaming him hard enough?

My wife and I are opposites in one regard. She has high test anxiety, even when she knows the material well. As for me, I never met a test I didn’t enjoy taking.

Miss Wormwood’s dialogue in the first two panels is pretty funny! Maybe Calvin also put down that America was discovered by “some guy” in 1942, and they live in “Bonerland!”

Could this be a result of Susie’s revenge?

I think he listens to Susie and Hobbs too much.

Baltimore School System?

President Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee. I remember learning about him.

Wait a minute ! You mean that Chef Boy-Ar-Dee WASN"T our first president????

I love that he is obviously explaining his failure to us, the readers!

When my brother was in high school he had a teacher who seemed to form an opinion of a student early in the year and give them the same grade on all their work after that. My brother decided to test him. On a test on Mesopotamian civilization my brother answered one essay question with a fantasy about the Babylonian difficulties with growing rutabagas. My brother got an A.

LOL… Poor Miss Wormwood is in for another rough year with Calvin…

Mrs Wormwood, it is not only difficult but impossible to evaluate this six year old by the normal yardsticks of academics.

She tests his history knowledge, he tests her patience

There were always a few of my students who blamed the test for poor results. (my favorite comment was …"You actually had to know something to do well on that!")

Don’t worry Calvin, neither did I.

Chef Boy-ar-dee? Translation, please.

“I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested.”

— Sheldon Cooper

Today the teacher would be fired or send for counseling (read reeducation camp) as she clearly did not respect Calvin’s personal truth, his self-esteem, his fragile mental health (he could point to being belittled in front of his classmates) etc. Furthermore, that he didn’t know the answer is clearly the teacher´s fault as if she had been doing her job he would have know the answer. Sigh.