Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 20, 2012

face at the last panel … o.o

Yeah, that’s it, beer!

I think Dad may be sleeping on the couch tonight!

Get the car, then she’ll dress like that. You may have to implant a pair of implants though.

How could you have a kid like Calvin and not need a beer now and then?

What Dad should have said: “Your mom looks great the way she is.”

Impressionable young mind in front of the idiot box…

I’m surprised that Dad didn’t send Calvin to his room for saying “babe.”

Gotcha, Dad…

More beer will help, perhaps!!

Gotta love Dad focussing his glasses in panel 3- and mom’s not-so-subtle implication of portending doom in panel 4.

Maybe Calvin thinks they need to drink more beer, but I’m Pabst all that. G’night.

I love mom’s reaction on this one!! LOL

She should be happy he didn’t say, “Dressing like that wouldn’t really help, she’d need…” No wait, he should be happy he didn’t say that!

joob joob Calvin

Dad, some things are best left unsaid…..oh but you know that, now, don’t you?

Love the way Dad adjusts his glasses to look at the babe (panel 2).

As a parent of this generation of TV watching kids, beer, fast cars and enhanced models are the least of my worries… (sad to say…)

And the more you drink, the better they look.

$40,000 isn’t that much for a car these days. Maybe he should have gone for it.

Cool cars and implants aside, I wish I had the cash money all of that stuff cost. Cha ching.

I agree with Calvin…more beer ! and what the hell happened to Mom’s face?

You’re scary when you’re beautiful, Honey…

The better to strangle you, my dear.

No, Calvin. Beer is the reason you were born, so mommy and daddy have sworn it off for ever.

more beer sounds good

She should have said his fantasy would require him to have an “implant”!!

I love the jumping TV…

Poor Dad. No sports car. No babe. A cold supper. And probably the couch tonight.

C&H is still the only comic I know in which the TV frequently defies gravity.

She has a downright frightful look upon her face.

“Yeah, why DON”T you dress like that?"Doesn’t anybody think that Dad’s question was positive? It sounds as if Dad is insinuating that Mom’s dressing like that would be pleasurable to him!

$40,000, huh….. reminds me of the very early 70’s. A friend let me drive his XKE, but with the admonishment to be VERY careful, that car cost $10,000 ! What’ll 10K buy you now? Of course, I was making 1.60 an hour at the time…

Dad’s response should have been “No Dear, you’d look smokin’ in that outfit.”

“And the girl to my left is looking better every beer.”

@bluskies,“but I’m Pabst all that.”I’m not Pabst extolling a good pun, so here’s a toast to you!Btw, I hope you didn’t have Friday night fights at your house, although there might have been a few close shaves (Gillette)!

I could have used intimating instead of insinuating in my first comment. Intimating could have a double meaning in this context.

and smoke 100mm cigarettes! That really makes you cool…on a slab at the morgue.

That babe even made the Tv’s rabbit ears twitch..

LOL LOL…. Cheeky Calvin!

xxx

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” -Ben Franklin

Calvin my friend we all come to the same conclusion,those adds on tv makes us feel so inferior ,sometimes.But I agree ,have another beer.

@brilligmimsy,I don’t think you’re ’bark’ing up the wrong tree. It would have helped if I hadn’t considered that the very heavy rain might be a fence. You got to the ‘root’ of the matter. Now tell me what the Rorschach ink blot shows!Thank you to Lovecraft, MysteryCat and Igo for responding, as well!

@bmonk,Puns are good for what ‘ales’ you, although to some people plays-on-words are un’beer’able!

The more beer the prettier they look.

I didn’t think Calvin would notice girls at his age, let alone the way they dress.

Oh to be 16 – yeah, right….

yeah, hot babes

Thank goodness most of the commercials I remember from that time period are things like Sega’s “Genesis does what Nintendon’t” campaign and all those great toy commercials.

“More beer” is probably how you got here, Calvin.

Doubtful they’ll ever make that mistake again!

;-)

Some of my all-time favorite beer quotes:

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” — Dave Barry

“24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?” — Stephen Wright, comedian

“Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer.” — Al Bundy, Married with Children

“To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” — Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

Wasn’t Calvin’s dad a successful patent attorney or something? It always seemed to me like he could definitely afford a $40,000 car. Hell, that’s not too far above my reach, and I’m just an insurance adjuster.

I’d have gone with, “Your mom dressed that way once and caused four heart attacks. We can’t afford the lawsuits the way she looks NOW!”

If you buy it the babes will come. Looks like mom had too many beers already.

Mom’s smile reminds me of the “House of Fun” clowns that you rode through as the ride started!

$40K for a super car? That was a while ago…

Cool, calv’!! xD

Why doesn’t my mom dress like that?Why don’t I have a girlfriend?

This is one of the best calvin+hobbes strips EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Personally, I’m staying single.

WHAT IS THAT FACE O.o

HONEY