Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 16, 2022

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    BE THIS GUY  over 2 years ago

    Comedian, director, writer, and actor Robert Townsend has a career because he spent his summer vacations watching the plays of Shakespeare on tv.

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    codycab  over 2 years ago

    I would play along but NAY!

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 2 years ago

    well, Calvin, don’t you have a time machine where you could go back to Shakespearean times and teach them “real” English?

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    C  over 2 years ago

    Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

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    eastern.woods.metal  over 2 years ago

    Cop shows? I thought Calvin was into vampire vixens or some such

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    bluram  over 2 years ago
    Shh Calvin, don’t you know your mom is watching Days Of Our Lives?
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    PoodleGroomer  over 2 years ago

    A show where the musket fires 30 rounds before needing reloading?

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    JudasPeckerwood  over 2 years ago

    That’s just how the Shakespeare Squad rolls, Calvin.

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    Dr. Quatermass  over 2 years ago

    Think that’s bad? Try reading Old English texts. That’s a mouthful. Think that is a mouthful? Try drinking Olde English 800 malt liquor at a frat party! Been there, done that at UVa.

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    David_the_CAD  over 2 years ago

    Ahh, to be watching The Court Jester

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    in.amongst  over 2 years ago

    They speaketh a strange tongue.

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    Robin Harwood  over 2 years ago

    Real people talk like that, don’t they?

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    orinoco womble  over 2 years ago

    This reminds me of one of those “Animal Cops” shows. One gentleman in particular could never say, “We’ve had this report, so we’ll go to the house and find out what’s going on.” No, “we’ll make the location and ascertain the activities taking place.” Make the location? Make it what?

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    BigDaveGlass  over 2 years ago

    And he went without Hobbes…….

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    sandpiper  over 2 years ago

    Language is devolving. In earlier times [and not that long ago], language was rich and colorful. Now, much of it runs barely deeper than pond scum. And, thanks to emoji’s and artificial abbreviations, even that is shrinking.

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    The Reader Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Forsooth!

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    Susan00100  over 2 years ago

    Mr. S.’s epithet ends: “Cursed he who steals my bones.”

    Isn’t stealing his poetic style just as bad??

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    VegaAlopex  over 2 years ago

    It’s unfortunate that most English speakers today have no clue how to use the former second person pronouns.

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    M2MM  over 2 years ago

    Great choice of dialogue for both characters! :D

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    meg_grif  over 2 years ago

    Calvin doth protest too much, methinks.

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    Algolei I  over 2 years ago

    “Villany?” What, the town in Hungary that is famous for its wine?

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    einarbt  over 2 years ago

    Now we know where Calvin gets his great vocabulary, or at least some of it, from and people say that TV makes you dumb.

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    djtenltd  over 2 years ago

    The way Calvin and his mother are talking reminds me of the world famous classic, “Moby Dick”. I love the old English dialog!

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    johndifool  over 2 years ago

    It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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    Nuke Road Warrior  over 2 years ago

    Arrgh, tarry ye ’til it be pirate bespoke day.

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    Dobby53 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    " Confusion now hath make his masterpiece."

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    orinoco womble  over 2 years ago

    “Pirate bespoke day”? You’re going to order a pirate made to measure? Cool! Calvin will love that!

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    rmercer Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Hey, “Capricious Zephyr” is my Zodiac sign!

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    jagedlo  over 2 years ago

    When Calvin and Hobbes meet Shakespeare…

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    Count Olaf Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Alas and forsooth, ye Undersheriff Tootie. Hasten off, I say, to Ye Olde Donut Shoppe yon forthwith before all of the white frosted with coconut sprinkles have been absconded. Dilly! Dilly!

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    dflak  over 2 years ago

    Oh ye scion of bureaucrat! Seek thee thy comfort in in the company of a companion of feline persuasion. May mirth and fair “toss and tumble” pursue.

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    MS72  over 2 years ago

    I miss “Cops”.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Verily…

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Well, phooey-th. I thought they were playing Dungeons and Dragons.

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  over 2 years ago

    Must be an action movie, the TV is in mid-air.

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    joegeethree  over 2 years ago

    Calvin is rocking that Shakespeare!

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    mourdac Premium Member over 2 years ago

    There’s been very few cop and medical shows which have any resemblance to reality.

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    Bookworm  over 2 years ago

    Alas, Mom must be watching that subversive PBS again. /s

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    enigmamz  over 2 years ago

    This might be the best non-Sunday, non-snowman one day in the whole series.

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    Will_Scarlet  over 2 years ago

    Words, words, words.

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    brick10  over 2 years ago

    I just love this bantering! Mom has the situation sized up very well.

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    Will_Scarlet  over 2 years ago

    I didn’t understand Shakespeare at Calvin’s age, but I still loved the sound of it.

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    Calvinist1966  over 2 years ago

    This strip puzzled me when I first read it in 1992. As I stated earlier, I thought that the last panel meant Calvin was complaining about unrealistic dialogue in cop shows rather than offering cop shops as an example of realism!

    I have come to accept that Calvin’s mockery of Shakespearean English in his imagined dialogue with Mom is quite good. I particularly like Calvin’s description of himself as a “capricious zephyr”. He does indeed wander through life aimlessly and do things just for fun.

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    jrankin1959  over 2 years ago

    And yet, the TV still jumps around; must be a sword fight or something…

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    LunarRover  over 2 years ago

    Calvin and Hobbes: King James Version

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    bjminnis  over 2 years ago

    ahhh! Calvin is getting some culture poured into him. I watched Liberace piano music because the cartoons came on right after, I still like to listen to good piano players.

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    ChessPirate  over 2 years ago

    “Get thee to your roomery…”

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    streuny81@aol.com  over 2 years ago

    Bill you are the best, I don’t know how you continuely come up with great Calvin and Hobbes comics.

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    g04922  over 2 years ago

    Mom plays fantasy better than Calvin. Well, Hobbes is not there, ATM.

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    mistercatworks  over 2 years ago

    “To Be Guilty or To Not Be Guilty” – short-lived, 1973, Shakespearean Era precedural crime drama. Followed the adventures of Detective Inspector Hamlet, who feigned being marginally insane to throw off suspects. :)

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    Calvins Brother  over 2 years ago

    “Get thee gone, wastrel.” Love it.

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    StevePappas  over 2 years ago

    schlamoly. Hilarious!

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    EMGULS79  over 2 years ago

    1 Cor. 14:11

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    delennwen  over 2 years ago

    This is freaking brilliant. I love it.

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    Realimaginary1 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Calvin is a very talented knave at which hour he becomes restless!

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    mindjob  over 2 years ago

    Excellent !

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    gantech  over 2 years ago

    Methinks they talketh funny…

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    Redd Panda  over 2 years ago

    Can’t choose my favorite play, tossup between, Taming of the Shrew and that Scottish play.

    How say you all? A favorite?

    Have to nix Romeo and Juliet, too sad an end, methinks. I did have an Alfa Romeo, once

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    cmxx  over 2 years ago

    N.B.: A wastrel is “one who expends resources foolishly and self-indulgently.” The first syllable of wastrel rhymes with “paste”, not “past”. At least two American movies got that wrong. ::grumble grumble grumble:: :-)

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    moondog42 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    “Methinks the most capricious zephyr hath more design than I” will always and forever be one of my favorite lines from Calvin

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Bill had “The Complete Works of Shakespeare” under his pillow last night.

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    wiley207  over 2 years ago

    Bill Watterson got the idea for this strip after seeing a Shakespeare play on TV and having trouble understanding what they were saying! Definitely one of the funniest daily strips of 1992!

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  over 2 years ago

    Prithee, sib, should thou seek to attack the speech of others, stay thy hand; adventure it not! You yourself do not utter the true King’s English.

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    musicnut1986  over 2 years ago

    Shhhhh Calvin. Mom’s trying to class up da joint.

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    rwh2  over 2 years ago

    “We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us”

    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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    buflogal!  over 2 years ago

    Shakespeare: okay. But since this is Calvin I was thinking more like knights and knaves or maybe Robin Hood.

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    Gordo4ever  over 2 years ago

    Calvin needs to watch “Blue Bloods”…..

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    buflogal!  over 2 years ago

    “I am off.” Yet he is sitting right next to his Mom. Methinks he has been detained.

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    kab2rb  over 2 years ago

    What did Calvin do to get stuck with that show? For COPS was cancelled, Live PD changed names going to pay channel.

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    Will_Scarlet  over 2 years ago

    I used to see Pauly Shore on tv and ask “can’t we watch something where they talk like real people?”

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    sloop john b.  over 2 years ago

    Methinks the lad protest too much.

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    VegaAlopex  over 2 years ago

    OOPS! The third panel should be: Ay but hear THEE this,… The original THECK of the accusative disappeared in Old English.

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    Gordette  over 2 years ago

    One of my very favorite C & Hs! And so fun to read out loud.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 2 years ago

    Calvin seemed to be learning something.

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    cosman  over 2 years ago

    Reminds the series , ‘Deadwood’, where between the average 43 incidences of expletive swearing, they’d converse in hyper formal prose that i found stangely refreshing..

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    erinurse2000  over 2 years ago

    verily

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    neatslob Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I love this one!

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    nathan.sheriff3  over 2 years ago

    Now this is a FUNNY sketch!!

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