Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 26, 2023

Calvin, the last thing your parents want is another you.

Why can’t Calvin be the stunt double? He sure loves to live dangerously.

Eating spicy food builds character.

Fun fact: peppers originally evolved capsaicin (the chemical that makes them spicy) to deter mammals that would try to eat them by burning their mouth (though birds are immune to it, so they would rely on birds for dispersal).

This backfired when some big-brained hairless apes decided they LIKED having their mouths burned, so they turned these spicy fruits into a delicious masochist cuisine that is still enjoyed thousands of years later.

Spicy work

Unfortunately, his duplicates are too smart for that.

I used to grow the hottest Habenero varieties, and Calvin is understating the experience.

I, too, would love to have a stunt double, Calvin.

Ricocheting off the walls, imagine what he’d been doing had he put sugar on them.

“If food be the music of love, play on”. I’m surprised that Calvin hasn’t thought to give a hot pepper to Suzie. That would spice up his love life…..

Try Chicken Vindaloo !

My college held sports camps in summer for elementary age kids. They’d sit there in the dining hall trying to gross each other out: “Man, you know what that looks like? You know what that smells like?” I was mentoring a group of Mexican middle-school students who had come on a summer exchange program and were living in the dorms. We had home-cured jalapeños in a jar full of vinegar, and at lunch time they’d just pass it down the table. The kids finally asked “What’s that?” The oldest boy grinned and said, “Hot peppers! You want?” “YEAH!” The bottle made the rounds of the sports brats…in silence. They tried not to react, as sweat poured down their red faces. Funny how they started sitting in a different section after that…

Isn’t there a setting on the transmorgifyer?

I woulda swore he was going to say it kept his parents up all night, too, and that he needed to find more.

Messi is the goat

Calvin, you know what happened the last two times you duplicated yourself.

I have a suggestion for you Calvin. Maybe you could, I don’t know…

Listen to your parents for once.

That or actually learn how to make better decisions…ah, who am I kidding…this is Calvin we’re talking about…

Strong Bad does all his own stunts, Dangeresque style.

2 Cals?!? Heaven forfend.

OR heed the “don’ts” that come your way.

Or a brain.

In Germany this week 8 4th grade kids swiped a package of “the hottest chili chips ever” and ate them. They ended up in the hospital

Wait until me makes poopie… then he’s in for a REAL surprise.

When my Daughter was young, maybe 10, she wanted to try a piece of a hot pepper. ‘’You won’t like it’’ says I. But she persisted. I gave her a small piece, no seeds. Crunch, crunch, chew, chew …. ‘’Aw! How can you eat these things?’’ Choke, spit, head under the kitchen faucet.

Me; ‘’ Want another piece?’’

Her; ‘’Noooo!’’

Me; ‘’Sometimes love, you should listen to the old guy.’’

Lame comic today. But so is Dad!!

Get Hobbes to eat it.

Best flavor for peppers I had were Siling labuyo in a Vietnamese restaurant. I liked them so much I bought a jar

“Here, try this next one with some Chinese Mustard on it. That should make it better…” (For the YouTube Video… ☺)

Nowadays, I can’t eat the really hot stuff any more, what it does to me intestinally isn’t worth it. I like a little tingle in my chile peppers, but not too much.

I did that ONCE! Lol

Eating a hot pepper makes you ricochet off the walls all night?

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” — Benjamin Franklin

Please don’t throw me in that briar patch!

Love the look on Hobbes’ face in panel 2.

While I think that’s a good idea for the young, I’m of the age where I’m in need of a body double. Well, not exactly a “double”. More like a body who looks like I wish I’d have looked like when I was 20 years younger.

Hot peppers come back to bite you in the butt a day or so later.

Or ears that are connected to your brain.

You think this episode is over, don’t you? You’ll discover you’re too late for a stunt double when you void those peppers!

I hope he had some ice cream because tomorrow he will be screaming, “come on ice cream”.

At least a “tongue double”

Hobbes has the best blank look in the business.

Fire in hole! The paperwork is catching fire before he can put it in the pot!

God forbid Two Calvin’s

calvin deserved it what a complete jerk!

Hope this one has ears and a brain.

Calvin’s dad should know that telling Calvin NOT to do something is a sure way to get him to do it.

That sarcastic look on the feline is cute.

Mom and dad would have known by now how to control Calvin. If you want him to do something, simply tell him otherwise.

Where is Calvin going to find a double?