Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 05, 2022

They did get lower, Calvin. They swamped us with reality shows.Maybe, you became a producer of one of them.

I’m sure back then, someone was working on the 90 minute violence.

good thing Calvin and Hobbes didn’t become a TV series; Bill Watterson wouldn’t want it that way

“More violence in 90 minutes” See an Italian political talk show and you’ll find it.

The TV & movie industry has been pandering the lowest of the low for several years, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop or change direction soon. I watch very little because it has become a wasteland!!

Maybe taste does bottom out somewhere, but there is no sign of it yet.

Michael Bay hadn’t made it big yet when this first camo out.

Calvin was a visionary.

Forget entertainment.

Go into Politics, or Religion, or even better, Politics AND Religion.

With the latter you’ll get a bunch of people, already primed to believe the most ludicrous things possible, who will then simply believe everything you say as well (lest they be cast out from among the faithful).

You won’t get to control what they watch for just a few hours a day, you’ll get the rest of their lives too.

90 minutes? ain’t nobody got time for that. Try 30 second clips on Instagram or Tiktok, just one reel after the other.

Amazing how extreme violence is permitted, but even a modest hint of it’s opposite is banned or heavily censored.

Calvin should go into TV advertising. Most commercials (especially for insurance companies) are so stupid that they’d appeal to the lowest form of humanity!!

Cal is just stating the oldest premise in advertising: where there’s a will, there’s a way. AND where there’s a way somebody will.

The first script for the Ghostbusters film would have been too expensive to film, so they had to reduce the amount of action.

TV is certainly the B0-0B tube! What garbage…and the ratings are high for reality and some stupid games. The mentality of America is plummeting at an alarming rate, due to the insufficient educational curriculum in this country and the violent, filthy movies. I have a hard time watching movies today because every other word is profanity, sex or violence.

And to think, these people are the future of America….SCARY!

The story would change a little now…THE INTERNET happily lowering standards since 1996.

The SAW movie franchise is a perfect example of what Calvin is predicting. Each movie imagines more and more horrible tortures and mutilations of human beings. They are disgusting. IMHO, anyone who can watch that and enjoy it has something wrong in their head.

Who knew that Calvin would be predicting 2020’s TV?

I haven’t seen it, but i looked it up, and The Replacement Killers is the movie that used the most bullets. They managed to shoot thousands of bullets in only 87 minutes. Do you really want to get more violent than that?

Now it sometimes caters to the pseudo-hip who laugh loudly in places where they think they are supposed to laugh even though they don’t have a clue what is going on and rave about movies, etc about which they are totally oblivious and are total crapola in Starbucks.

But WHY do folks (mostly males) of all ages spend more dollars on violent movies and video games? Yes these companies pander for profit. That’s immoral side of capitalism. But is our genetic code groomed to approve it? I wish I could find a legitimate study to help me understand.

And that’s how we got the John Wick franchise.

If you want 90 minutes of violence on TV, watch the evening news. This weekend, in particular featured numerous instances of gun violence. A good way to finish off the summer with a bang.

His curiosity is being piqued by the tv shows after midnight.

They’re called video games, Cal.

Cal is still young, otherwise he would know it’s Sex and Violence that makes the $$$.

See; Game of Thrones.

So the modern entertainment industry is adult Calvin’s fault. I should have known.

Curiously enough, Calvin looks like he’s auditioning for the next “Jacka$$” movie.

Fear mongering and snake oil solutions have been with us from the beginning.

Well Calvin, you could skip the advertisements. But that wouldn’t do very well economics-wise. ’t

Gotta love the self-powered wagon with minimal steering!

And this is how we got the John Wick franchise.

See the movie Idiocracy for an idea of what future movies will be like.

Yep… I see a future for Calvin in fantasy Screen Writing.

It’s called sport

Very true Calvin. Hollywood actors scream hate about guns but it is hard to find a movie with one. They scream about injustice, yet every movie they make, evil pretty much wins.

If only sax and violins had stayed in the music stores where they belonged…

This comic really was ahead of its time. Preaching to the choir once again!

Calvin has a career programming cable news.

I’d love to see Calvin’s take on Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. LOL

John Wick III comes to mind

Want more violence? Just drive around Chicago at night and film the shootings

The MGM slogan “Ars Gratia Artis” is Latin for “Art For Art’s Sake”.

Nowadays, it has become “Violence for violence’s sake”.

“People should be forced to watch only what I watch. Then they’d become as smart as I am, because I am so certainly smart.”

Beware of anyone who believes he can go below rock bottom.

They did it Calvin. It’s called “John Wick 3.”

If they could find a way to bring back the Ancient Roman games AND make them pay per view, how much money do you think they could make?

No matter what you think of the crap on tv and movies now, it is nothing in comparison to Rome’s Colosseum and the REAL events that happened there.

Watched any of the Reality Shows lately?

Calvin try to cram more into the 90 minutes movie if you survive the fall. That agile feline will jump to safety at the right moment.

Well, the newspapers have definitely moved to where Calvin see more money. They pretend that their journalists actually publish both sides of an issue factually and fairly.

Obviously someone took that as a challenge…

Extreme Soccer!!

Wake up in 30 years, kiddo.