Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 19, 2023

Time for bleach cleaning

Well that idea backfired horribly.

“Right lesson, wrong time.”

- Bill Watterson

Queen of unintended consequences

I know the feeling.

She asked for it.

He did exactly what he was told, and it still isn’t right.

You asked for it, Mom!!

Bwahahahahaha!!!!

Take your shoes off at the door, leave slippers by the door to put on the moment you step in. Problem solved.

You asked for it ! -— Remember the show ?

Couldn’t ya just see that one coming?

Oh, c^&p……

You told him to come into the living room, so you only have yourself to blame.

“Watch out where the Huskies go,

And don’t you eat that yellow snow."

~ Frank Zappa (Yellow Snow Suite)

“Where is the hose usually?”

“By the side of the house.”

“Did you look there?”

“No.”

“Is it too late to send him back?”

Ah, motherhood.

Before becoming a mother, I thought this strip was funny. After becoming a mother, I found out this strip was true! ;-))

Time to build some more character.

Gotta be careful what you ask for.

I hate yelling across the house, too

Hey! Don’t blame the kid for this one. This is totally on you for forgetting that he was born with no common sense!

Should have aked why he was yelling…

One of my all time favorites. LMAO!!!

The one time she should have let him yell.

Although I don’t believe there is malicious intent on Calvin’s part, it does remind me of malicious compliance stories some employers have encountered to their dismay when they don’t consider the employees’ side of the issue.

Find the faucet, turn it on, then follow the hose to the other end.

I suppose we all knew that mother’s command would result in disaster. Just what Calvin would doo, was the only question.

Well, panel 2 shows he did stop to consider first.

“I listened to your instructions and obeyed them as stated.” ~ from the Star Trek episode “What Are Little Girls Made Of”

Sometimes it’s easy to be bad by just doing exactly what the “man” tells you to do. (You still get in trouble though)

Aaaaacckk!

Boy this comic has certainly gone to $#!T.

Of course as pointed out above, he could have simply removed his shoes…on the other hand (foot?) he did exactly as he was told to do.

I am LOLing!!

Right lesson. Unanticipated result.

Today it would be just text me. It would have prevented the accident

I had something simillar, stepped in something like dog excrement, in bare feet, asked my wife if she could get me something to help me clean it off, she was in a bad mood with me and simply told me off for daring to ask her to do anything. What did she expect me to do, walk though the house spreading it all over the carpet?

He tried to be good, Mom.

You asked for it!!

most excellent

Hey! She had to yell at him; she takes the blame.

First belly laugh of the day, thank you Bill Watterson.

That’s why every rule has an exception. :) :) :)

My kids step in all kinds of things and drag it around the house lol. Yesterday, I stepped in a granola bar my daughter left on the floor. It also, looked like dog doo.

As I’ve told my friends in year’s past, when I had a dog, “Watch out for the land mines!”

Fella, now you have stepped on the wrong nerve of mom.

Sure it’s dog poo? Is Hobbes housebroken?

As Bill Watterson said, “Right lesson, wrong time.”

Love the Mom’s face in the last panel!

Calvin is like Caillou.

Ah, and by the way, the mother did not “ask for it” !!!!

Malicious compliance.

Be careful what you wish for.

When will she learn. They should have converted their mudroom to a HazMat decontamination washroom.

Well, she asked for it.

LOL… Calvin just following Mom’s instructions… ;-)

The one time he complies! LOL

She can’t blame him for this one.

Ask, and Ye shall receive.

This is a very old strip. My boss it pinned to the bulletin board for at least 15 years.

You asked for that one, Mom.

Right lesson, wrong time.

Greatest comic ever!!

Uh-oh!

Better rethink those requests to Calvin, Mom.

Made me laugh.

We called it Dog Doo (Dew?) in the 60s. Do we still call it that?

L DESERVED MOM