Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 08, 2021

YOU DIDN’T GET DESSERT BECAUSE THE REFRIGERATOR WAS UNDER WATER!!!

What sort of work were you having in mind he’d take, Calvin? Perhaps a — oh, I don’t know — a child slave driver? And he can take in only only child slave.

How would you like to be a plumber, dad?…..

Don’t listen to him, Dad. He’s a kid.

A light punisment, after all.

Trumped up ratings.

I can’t believe that kis is still alive! In real life even Jobe would have buried him!

Following up on yesterday’s C&H…

Maybe if you put more of the government budget into preventing floods this wouldn’t have happened! Stop being a cheapskate Dad, you have an entire nation of 6 year olds to help!

I found that “consequences” worked MUCH better than punishments. In which case @BE THIS GUY has a good point, but also good: You didn’t get dessert because we were all working too hard to clean up the flood for the cook to spend much effort on supper.

Calvin, you’re lucky they didn’t make you eat extra green veggies…

Dads – polling poorly since pre-historic times.

Always someone else’s fault, sounds like a certain family member

Time to sit down with Calvin and have “The Talk”…no, not THAT one…the one explaining the foster care system he may soon find himself in.

I’ll bet I know where Dad wants to stick that clipboard.

I’ve just been reading the replies to the comments I made on Sunday. A commentator called Brian has accused me of believing everything in the strip to be real but another commentator has rightly pointed out that what I say is that I used to think that all the weird things in the strip were part of Calvin’s imagination but after reading Bill Watterson’s comment “I suspect that he’s more real than any kid could make up” I started to accept that some of the weird things in the strip are beyond Calvin’s imagination. Also, as I have pointed out before, Bill Watterson largely bases Calvin on his own immaturity and puts more of his maturity into Hobbes which is how Hobbes is able to make sarcastic comments about Calvin which Calvin either misses completely or is slow to understand.

Brian also asks whether my “literalism” towards this strip means that I think that Calvin knows he’s in a comic strip. In fact, several characters besides Calvin break the fourth wall by either looking at us or speaking to us. They seem to know that they’re in a comic strip but Calvin seems to be the only character who sees Hobbes the same way that Bill Watterson sees him.

Brian also says that I am almost as imaginative as Calvin. I certainly agree with that. I remember saying on Friday that I was a very imaginative kid like Calvin and that is one of the reasons I identify with him. I also share Calvin’s environmental concerns.

Okay but what kind of six year old child gives their dad political ratings

Calvin if your only punishment for flooding the house was not getting any dessert, I think you should count your many blessings. You’re lucky you’re not so grounded that your great-great-great grandchildren are grounded!

Dad’s too thin skinned

How about the polling on Calvin’s overall kid performance rating?

Dad? Quit trying to explain it to him – and break that clipboard in half… right in front of him… then take it out to the barbecue grill and use it to start the charcoal.

“Calvin should have been paddled until he can’t feel his bratty behind anymore.”

“Calvin should be sent to the most cruelest reform school imaginable.”

“Why hasn’t Calvin been grounded up into a bloody pulp yet?”

I swear, you people need to rethink the choice of comic strip you’re reading.

Watterson again reminding us of the problem with polling in our democratic process.

“By the time you get desert again, Calvin, you’ll have forgotten what it is…”

Calvins dad could go with the method in breakfast club where Dick Vernon keeps escalating the detentions on John Bender. Calvin you want to try for no desert tomorrow? Or just go for the ultimate I’ll have to tell Santa, no gifts this year….

Demoted from “Dad” to: just some guy in the house.

If he had flooded the house they likely would be living in a motel for the next six months.

Kids these days. Still, I don’t mind ‘em just so long as they stay off my lawn.

Continuity!

Calvin, dessert from now on will be….kale.

No dessert for flooding the entire house? I wonder what murder would get him?

And people wonder why my wife and I had a DOG.

“Your ‘overall dad performance’ rating especially was low.”

As I said a while back: No kids, No regrets, No heart attacks.

I just like the flurry of comments given by all who enjoy this strip.

If he were getting a classical education, Calvin could tell his Dad about “cleaning the Augean Stables” one of the Labors of Hercules.

I would gladly send Calvin down the tube. :D