Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 04, 2011

Calvin may never learn.

One heck of a club!

Yes, yes, for following the charter!

Mom shouldn’t complain, at least Calvin goes by the rulebook!

I never could see the fun side in getting in trouble. Even the tongue lashings stung pretty good, if I was lucky enough to only get the tongue lashings.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike and ♠Lonewolf♠.

Okay, Hobbes, we won’t throw mush apples at Susy any more……………………………..

Come on with the

Calvin, you’re forgetting to bring Hobbes down with you.

Calvin, you’re forgetting to bring Hobbes down with you.

Here’s one possible future for Calvin @ Reality Check

Just embrace the trouble, no worries!

I like Hobbes’s smile in the last panel.

Hobbes can only climb down the rope if Mom and Susie aren’t looking. If they should happen to spot him as he is climbing down, he will fall the rest of the way.

Here is a Peanuts parallel for today’s strip, from 1964. By the way, Charles Schulz never showed Mom in any Peanuts strip, but in the early years he experimented with showing her voice coming from offstage. Later, as in this example, Lucy was the bearer of bad news from Mom.

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Calvin…just one day without getting into trouble????

Gnasher Slasher: Please be sure to read my response to your comments, at the end of yesterday.

Calvin gets in trouble… mom punishes herself by making him stay in the house!

Hobbes is a very good climber!

Hobbes is a very good climber!

Hobbes is a very good climber!

If Mom ain’t screaming You ain’t succeeding

G.R.O.S.S. handbook, page 12,paragraph 4

And hobbes..sorry if my comment yesterday offended you..=D

Hi Hobbes..thanks for replying to my comment yesterday..i have read it and i think i must have elaborated your comments wrongly..well..it was from my point of view and understanding..

And to gavinseviltwin and Hobbes..thanks for clarifying things out..yupp.. Enjoy the comics guys..

He was honost and not yelled at.

Mom is at the end of her rope, and Calvin will soon be at the end of his rope.

Nest time, try rotten tomatoes, Calvin.

bad boy syndrome… :-)

Hobbes (the poster),

The difference in Hobbes’ appearance between the first half of the strip and the second is not the result of some magical transformation. (He isn’t Barney!) He is perfectly capable of climbing down the rope while Mom is around without suddenly changing form and falling down. Her percepton of that scene would be that Calvin is climbing down and carrying the stuffed version of Hobbes. And of course Calvin’s perception would be that Hobbes is climbing down under his own power.

How the scene appears to us (peeking into the C&H universe from our own mundane universe, the one that doen’t include talking philosopher-tigers) depends entirely upon the point of view of the specific panel. That’s why Suzie was recently incapable of hearing Hobbes’ side of the argument he was havng with Calvin. Generally, that’s why Hobbes can appear in his two different forms, as he does here, without any need for comment or explanation within the strip.

Of course, this is only my perception of what’s taking place in the strip. I would be undermining my own argument if I didn’t acknowledge that your perception is just as valid.

Thanks Gnasher Slasher. I wasn’t offended. Please feel free to comment about Islam or America in the future. I’m always glad when I learn that someone on this site lives in a different country or has a different religion.

Hobbes climbs down after Calvin. In the panel, there’s not enough room for Hobbes to get on the rope yet.

And when i was in trouble, it was never just “Go to your room”. My parents were genre savvy enough to add “Think about what you did” or “do nothing”

My mother would have been very mad and probably given me a spanking. My dad would have been disappointed that I missed.

Suddenly when mom is in the picture, that tree house no longer seems so far off of the ground. :-)

Hobbes (the poster,) Thanx for the link. I had never seen that one before!

Do I smell a second section of this line of investigation/troublemaking?

Calvin is honest. HE does what he thinks is right (wether we concur or not, even if it mean getting in trouble.

Hobbes, thank you for the Peanuts strip link.

Dogsniff:

Agreed.

This is the post lent barrage formerly referred to as ‘random posting’. Kind of makes one wonder what prolific posting would look like.

sleepeeg3 said:

“Calvin & Hobbes is sacrosanct. Tarnishing it with your irrelevant political babble and hijacked namesake is just wrong. I doubt Watterson would appreciate his character being stolen for the purpose. Go away.”

Right on sleepeeg3… If that is what they think a comic comment page is for, I wonder where they look for humor..?

Comedy: –noun, plural -dies. a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending;

If they want to read political/religio blogs and comment to excess, they can go make a site for BS, ego’s and character worship elsewhere, this one is already taken as a comic strip comment page. It would be nice to see it get back there.

Going wrong by following the rules–a long history in the human race there.

”Hobbes” (and others), you can use this command to embed and clean up your links in posts.

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It looks like this: Calvin at the Shrink

Suzleigh - very insightful and amusing comment. Many Thanks. I too love the smile on Hobbes’ face….

I’m getting sick and tired of message/comment board police! It’s a free country, people can post whatever they want (including you).

On a lighter note. Many years ago, I was scolding one of my young sons, “I’m getting sick and tired of - - - !”

To which he replied, “Well, I’m getting sick and tired of hearing it!”

I acted like I didn’t hear him, because I didn’t have the heart to paddle his little bottom. I wouldn’t have been able to do it with the wife watching and hiding her snickering. He got the best of me that day.

We laugh and joke about it now that he has a kid cut from the same mold. Paying for his raising!

^ 3 generations from the same mold? lol

If that’s all the “punishment” mom’s going to give Calvin for throwing rotten, mushy apples at Susie, then why does she even bother at all?!? I realize that Calvin is smart beyond his years but he needs a firm hand to guide him when it comes to right and wrong. Unfortunately, his parents seem completely pathetic and ineffectual at this task.

Grog and Hobbes, thanks for the links.

Oh, needs to say sorry.

Mom likely won’t punish him outside. And being grounded is likely just the beginning of his troubles.

Girls always get boys in trouble. Listen to Hobbes,Calvin be nice to Susie and I bet she will be nice to you. But wait till this cartoon is ended because you are just to funny this way

I read what I want to and scroll past what I don’t want to read. You don’t watch a television show or a movie if you don’t like the content. Why should this be any different here. :^)

Hobbes’ smile is great. Go get your punishment, Calvin. lol

Thanks for the links, guys!

Better than throwing ripe and hard apples.

Hobbes said, about 13 hours ago

Thanks Gnasher Slasher. I wasn’t offended. Please feel free to comment about Islam or America in the future. I’m always glad when I learn that someone on this site lives in a different country or has a different religion.

I had no problem with you Hobbes until you posted this. It makes you sound as if you own this site. Giving your “permission” to comment etc. Unless you are Watterson, which I don’t think you are, you have no right to “give your permission”. If I misunderstood your comment, then please explain it.

Hi Dry

OK, you misunderstood my comment, so please let me explain it. When someone says that they are afraid they have offended someone else by what they have said, and apologizes, they may be afraid to post a comment on that same subject in the future. I was just trying to reassure Gnasher Slasher that he shouldn’t be afraid to post on those topics in the future, and to say that I hadn’t been offended. I originally wrote, “Please don’t be afraid to comment about Islam or America in the future.” But then I realized that it contained a double negative which might be misunderstood if English wasn’t someone’s first language, leading to further confusion. So I reworded it in the positive sense instead, thereby confusing an English speaker instead. Sorry about the poor wording.

By the way, If my explanation to clarify your misunderstanding of my comment in response to Gnasher Slasher’s response to my clarification in response to his misunderstanding of my original comment is still unclear, please let me know and I’ll try to clarify it. :>)

Explain your double entendre?

Hobbes, To clarify for others, perhaps you should.

Double entendre? Sorry, now I don’t understand what you mean.

Ahhhh, so this is the political and religious page.. Didn’t there used to be a comic comment page near here? I wonder what happened to it.

Maybe we should start a politics/religion page where people can go and make funny comments.

Wait… what exactly does his charter say?