Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 27, 2022

Domino’s delivers, and it provides the uniformly bland pizza that most of America thinks is fine dining.

sure, Calvin

Calvin’s not lovin it because they don’t deliver…yet, of course.

Man this brings back memories of when cable was just getting started. Now we have hundreds of channels, and still nothing worth watching.

He’s got a point.

AMEN!!!!!

A bit off this time. “Monolithic networks” did a good job of keeping many Americans believing a homogenous narrative. Sure there were outliers, but they were aware they were outside the mainstream. Today, not so much.

1992, back in the old days when Walmart was spelled with a hyphen.

We now have 1000 channel cable and still nothing good on.

I think Calvin is hopping for Vampire Vixen episodes 24 / 7

Calvin understands that values is what’s important.

As long as network TV provides his sports programming, Dad is content with the status quo.

Yet,

Calvin: We have to…

Dad: No, we don’t!

Calvin’s Dad gets a good line in panel 1 and a good facial expression in panel 2.

Today’s strip is another example of Calvin using long words that he has learned in the mistaken belief that long words win arguments. As in another recent TV-themed strip, he uses phrases that criticise television in the mistaken belief that they compliment television.

Calvin, you should have seen how bland the social content has become now, thanks to the netizens now. Wish Bill could have continued this exciting strip in this Era.

Sadly, they do.

Sadly they do come in our homes… advertisements shown ad nauseam.

That was back in the 1980s. Streaming services today are serving up shows that are so much worse.

Walmart delivers in most areas now, as do many others. This strip is from 1992.

Back then they didn’t, now they do!

I just read an article yesterday that streaming surpassed cable for the first time.

Don´t worry Calvin, Amazon will have your back(and your wallet).

I got cable TV.it means so much to me.it cost me 50 bucks a month to see it but that’s alright with me – weird al yankovic

Calvin has it backwards, before cable with only three options to choose from everyone watched the same shows. Watching Leave to Beaver, Bonzana, Gilligan’s Island…was a nationwide shared experience that you could go to school and talk about.

Yeah, we have to go out and bring them into our own homes manually. Come on. Embrace the science and get in step with the rest of the “rebels” that conform to whatever is new and shiny. On the other hand, the Amish are interesting too.

Calvin has got a point.

No Cable TV, No Fox News or MSNBC. You’re better off learning how to read a newspaper, Calvin.

And all stay nice little Socialist Democrats by only watching broadcast news.

Poor Calvin, already a victim of the ‘we all need to be and think the same’ indoctrination.

He’s having these musings at the age of 6. When I was 6, I didn’t even have that vocabulary!

ADHD kids are often extremely bright.

The breadth of Calvin’s vocabulary at such a young age is astonishing.

I think we all have a bit of McDonalds and Walmart in our past…some still the present..conformity is not my thing….hope Calvin learns this as he grows up…..if ever

“But they don’t come into our homes!”

Yet. Calvin the profit.

I’ve never had cable. Don’t people have fun and interesting things to do?

Uniform national blandness… you actually WANT this?

I see the strippers 30 years old and did not foresee the day when delivery to your door would be offered by virtually every business

This is actually a very prescient issue. Even 20 years ago, when the strip was first run, the “water cooler” TV discussion was fading away from lack of common program viewing.

The Internet has further “balkanized” the national entertainment culture. Little wonder people have to form “culture clique” discussion forums to find someone else who has recently seen the same show.

In your own area, you are lucky to find someone who follows national news stories.

heh, all the available streaming services these days would make his head explode

Monolithic networks are still providing blandness, there’s just more of it. The real reason to get cable was that the FCC auctioned off those network frequencies some time back

Ah yes, Calvin, take us back to the bad old days when the President could come on and monopolize all of the only three stations available while spewing his propaganda for an hour, and the only people who had a choice of a different programs were those like me who lived close enough to the Canadian border to pick up CBC. (Only to find out that CBC content is invariably even less interesting than the President!)

They could always get a Roku and subscribe to Netflix and not watch it like most people who have it.

Actually, given the nature of FoxNews watchers and MSNBC watchers, the kid is not wrong.

Calvin is wrong. Walmart will. https://inhome.walmart.com/

We once lived in a small rural town where the three commercial TV networks (plus PBS) were available via rabbit ears. Calvin might like that.

Fortunately we have the internet now including youtube, Instagram, and Tik-Tok.

Now we are past cable and on to streaming and binging. No one is watching the same thing at the same time, and you can’t talk about shows for fear of spoilers!

Looks like Calvin talked dad’s ear off in the last panel.

Calvin has an awesome vocabulary!

Bill Watterson definitely kept to his philosophy of anti-establishment by not selling out. Though it’s a shame we don’t have official Hobbes plushies at least.

Neither of them comes into MY home, that’s for sure.

So, Calvin, is the solution to our divisiveness to have only one TV channel?

Of course, The Dad is not a big fan of television… and neither is Bill Watterson.

Where did he learn those $50 words?

Starbucks and Little Caesars are willing to open branches in your home.

I think to Dad being like everyone else isn’t so great. You have to think for yourself. If you’ll excuse the cliche, if everyone jumped off a cliff . . .

In his tenth anniversary book, Bill Waterson replied to Calvin’s last comment with “I’m sure they’re working on it.”

Now, you can shop at Walmart online, and get McDonald’s delivered with various apps.

So Bill called it.

LOL, I am currently eating McDonald’s while sitting in Walmart’s parking lot

But now we have “the social networks’; Facebook, twitter…..Bladnness and misinformation combined in an accessible form.

Calvin had an unusually broad vocabulary for a six year old.

He’s right; the rise of national mass media outlets really did have a powerful homogenizing influence on American culture, and helped to diminish regional conflicts.

We had cable Tv long before walmart ever built their first store in New England.

There’s Alexa

Yeah, McDonald’s and WalMart come into our homes.

Calvin was hip to a sociological truth.

If you believe there’s nothing up their sleeve

Then nothing’s cool

I’m in the minority. I like Domino’s pizza, especially their Philly Cheese Steak variety.

Ooh ooh, I know; we need social media!