Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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margueritem said, about 1 month ago

Aw, com’on, dad!
ben_david said, about 1 month ago

Calvin ought to just recite it to dad.
esquiremtf said, about 1 month ago

Just wait ‘till dad’s had enough, remakes the story on the fly, and townsfolk go searching in vain for Huey’s head! One of Watterson’s all time best!
Yukoner said, about 1 month ago

There is a great value to reading whatever the kid wants. It encourages him to become a reader on his own.
LX013 said, about 1 month ago

Please! Please! Pleeeeeease!
Macushlalondra said, about 1 month ago

This happens in every family. The kid has one favourite and wants that one read all the time. Maybe if you get him some new books dad??
Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

Not the hydraulic pump again Dad!

My kids’ favorites were those silly, non-sense 24-pages books from Disney… OMG!
sjoujke said, about 1 month ago

What’s a Gooey Kablooie?
bigCandHfan said, about 1 month ago

yes… what is the gooey kablooie? and who is huey?
♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 1 month ago

What we won’t (or wouldn’t) do to get the kids to sleep! LOL
Praxsis said, about 1 month ago

HUEY, DUEY AND LUEY have gone SCREWY….LOL
Susan001 said, about 1 month ago

Why doncha just read him the telephone book, Dad?
Sheesh!
hlkstr said, about 1 month ago

Sounds like my son. please daddy pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
olfart said, about 1 month ago

And don’t forget the Happy Hamster Hop, Dad. Pleaasse! I just love C&H!
LuvH8 said, about 1 month ago

Dad, look how happy he is.
Don’t stomp on the happy!
LuvH8 said, about 1 month ago

If you want to add variety to bedtime stories: try having each person (including parental unit) pick a story and rotate who goes first.
dkram said, about 1 month ago

One of my nephews did this with a video tape.

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jrbj said, about 1 month ago

I keep watching this strip and wonder more and more why that man ever got married and had children. It must have been to make him look better to his boss at work.
mexdr1958 said, about 1 month ago

Maybe Calvin got too scared after “The disemboweled hand” story, and he just keeps into safe territory…
pamlicorat said, about 1 month ago

Enjoy it while you can Dad. Soon all he will want are the car keys.
madampresiden12 said, about 1 month ago

There’s no remaking the story, once they know it by heart. They memorize every word and if you make a mistake they even correct you.
serenasakitty said, about 1 month ago

My son had one story that he had to have every night, no matter what other story I read. I can still quote that story even after all these years and he is a very good reader.
Lewreader said, about 1 month ago

Is that a camcorder under the sheet? Come on Dad, do the Happy Hamster hop.
Vigilante de noche said, about 1 month ago

The look of the impending doom on Calvin”s face that Dad actually might not read his favorite story in Panel 3 almost brings me to that same place and I find myself wanting to hear the story too…
rshive said, about 1 month ago

Adults don’t look remotely cool doing the happy hamster hop.
propellermario said, about 1 month ago

“pleeeeaaase? just one more time? This is the last time!” “ok! fine!”
==1 week later…==
“c’mon just one more time? this is the last time!” “FINE!!!”
chubbygirlcomics.com said, about 1 month ago

Well, Dad, that’s what you get for a good first performance. The people will always want more….
Grog said, about 1 month ago

And more and more and more and more…
PhoebeDog said, about 1 month ago

When my youngest brother was small (he’s 14 years younger than I) he loved “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” I read it to him so often that I actually memorized it. It’s been 30 years and I can still recite it. Fortunately I like it so it wasn’t horrible to reread it a dozen times.
opa6x57 said, about 1 month ago

When my daughter was two, we were on a trip. She kept after us to tell her the story of Goldlilocks. Her mother and I kept insisting that we didn’t know the story. So - she proceded to tell the story to us - pausing every so often to ask, “Do you remember it, now?” She told us the whole story.
Sean Ewing said, about 1 month ago

Is The Happy Hamster Hop anything resembling The Hamster Dance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3G5IXn0K7A
I wonder……..
james the great and ... said, about 1 month ago

Jeez… When Calvin finally acts like a “normal” kid, Dad’s still not happy. He’s actually kinda cute here. Dad… your’e gonna miss these moments later. Be careful. And remember when your’e in your retirement home saying “Son, Pleeease!”
WillowsDreaming said, about 1 month ago

Calvin only asked for that story to see Dad squirm.

In answer the comment a ways up where they wondered: “Why dad ever got married and had kids?” I’m willing to bet that even the Dugar’s would have stopped at one if their first had been like Calvin. I don’t blame Dad for his lack of patience with the heathen one bit.
rw1h said, about 1 month ago

I would suggest re-reading it and using phonetic punctuation this time – ala Victor Borge. I used to do that with my daughter and she laughed to the point we had to change her diaper! (‘course that gets old in a hurry too)
MrsLukeSkywalker said, about 1 month ago

At least you finally did ONE THING that made Calvin happy. Now RIP IT AWAY, like an old Band-Aid. Jeez.

If they follow this one up with the series, what happens instead is a riot. Except to those who still can’t (more like refuse to) understand this at all.
grazer said, about 1 month ago

Just wing it, dad—and if you do it right, your totally mortified kid will never bug you for a bedtime story again.
rgcviper said, about 1 month ago

“Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie” … Wow. What a great name for a book. I laughed out loud when I saw that.

Fun stuff.
bunnyface (bmonk) said, about 1 month ago

And if you don’t read it, Hobbes will write a story…
siredonnthedragon said, about 1 month ago

Fer Lefer said, about 12 hours ago

Not the hydraulic pump again Dad!

My kids’ favorites were those silly, non-sense 24-pages books from Disney… OMG

Disney is not nonsense. Its better most everything out there
thebird55 said, about 1 month ago

Calvin doesn’t care about the story. He just wants to see Dad make a fool of himself.
Spyderred said, about 1 month ago

My grandmother told me stories taken from old-country superstitions about ghosts, ghouls, vampires and so on. Some of them made me cry. As my children grew up, I told them the stories but had mercy and modified them somewhat until they were old enough to hear the whole, bloody thing, acted out with stomping footsteps, dragging coffins, and eerie voices. It was fun. Now I’m scaring the daylights out of my grandchildren. But we also jointly read Roald Dahl, Tolkien, and Sendak together. Kids like the ewwww factor, but it’s mostly about training imagination.
Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

siredonnthedragon said, about 1 hour ago:

“Disney is not nonsense. Its better most everything out there”

I may respectfully differ here, even if I look huffy: In Latin America (and in the USA as well) there’s a bunch of better writers than those who wrote the books I tell you; even my children told me: “How come they’re doing such a thing?!”
Aardvark359 said, about 1 month ago

I think this is rather sweet! People are always posting their low opinions of Calvin’s parents and here we have an example of a father who not only takes the time to regularly read his child to sleep but also to do so with voices, sound effects and perhaps a bit of interpretive dance! (and it’s clear that he does this repeatedly!)

I wonder how many “real” parents can claim to put forth near as much effort!
R_Noonan63 said, about 1 month ago

In Today’s Isaac Asimov’s Pop quiz in our paper They had who are these Comic Characters named after and one of the Clues was Calvin of Calvin and Hobbs. the answer was John Calvin of the Presbyterian Reformation Never heard this before have you?????
bunnyface (bmonk) said, about 1 month ago

I have–and Hobbes was the philosopher John Hobbes. Calvin was known for his strict, straight-laced theology and observance, while Hobbes was known for his ideas on the Social contract that rescues us from a life like an animal: nasty, brutish, and short.
khpage said, about 1 month ago

If Dad didn’t want Calvin to sleep for about a week, all he had to do was start reading him Dante’s Inferno and show him the original Dore woodblock illustrations. I read that book when I was a little kid and can to this day, nearly 60 years later, recall what the illustrations looked like….
AJCA said, about 1 month ago

Come on Dad, kids love the sound effects more than the story itself, trust me I have 3 kids that vouch for that, lol
Madruga said, about 1 month ago

@sjoujke: Hamster Huey and The Gooey Kblooie is just the title of a story invented by Watterson. He never said what its content was..so its up to your imagination :D.

What I don’t understand is what he means by “gooshy sound effects”..can somebody please help? (I thought I read somewhere about gooshy things and there it had to do with dead bodies..but I’m definitely not sure about it!)
bunnyface (bmonk) said, about 1 month ago

gooshy sound effects are, well, sounds that are gooshy.

No, I think they sound gooey and sloshy.

Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie is like “the Great Noodle Incident”–better and more horrific since it’s left up to the imagination of the reader. Like Alfred Hitchcock in his films. Once you have to show the blood and gore, it’s just not as good.
Patcharchman said, about 1 month ago

Ironic, listened to Huey Lewis and the News on the way to work, check the C & H and it’s Hamster Huey day.