Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 10, 1989

Was that the Noodle Incident? Worms look kinda like ugly noodles.

“the Noodle Incident” never was and never will be explained, Me_Again. In my opinion it’s better that way. Any explanation of it would never live up to how far it has been built up in everyones’ imaginations.

Bill Watterson even said that himself. He always planned on explaining what exactly the “Noodle Incident” was, but then later decided (wisely) to leave it to the Reader’s imagination, where it was sure to be more outrageous.

You’ll notice a similar phenomenon with “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie,” which we are given very few details about, beyond squeaky voices, squooshy sound effects, and a “Happy Hamster Hop.”

All very true. I like to think the strip where Hobbes asks what “all those sirens at noon” were about was about the Noodle Incident, though! It was surely that epic.

I already made a theory that the Noodle Incident involved Calvin’s locker, lots of noodles coming out from it, and an explosion/detonation.

No Calvin, let’s do talk about it.

It was the pre-noodle-incident incident.

The Worms incident can never live up to the other ones . . .

If Mom and Dad had yelled, screamed and freaked out, I would have written theme from “Perry Mason”.

Man, Calvin’s parents are more patient than mine. Even if no one got hurt and no damage was done, I probably would have gotten grounded over that.