Movie clapboard? I don’t remember that. Reagan was usually just off-panel, like most of the celebrities Trudeau depicted before then. Bush Sr, however, started out as invisible when he was Reagan’s VP, which I think started the “icons.”
However, there was also Ron Headrest, a computer generated image of Reagan in the style of Max Headroom.
It wasn’t that long before the series ended, which makes me think that Watterson decided that he wanted some closure in the relationship between Calvin and Rosalyn.
The expression is in fact “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too”, which makes more sense. It was in fact the thing that got the unabomber caught, since he wrote it that way in his manifesto, and his brother recognised his writing style.
I kind of think that that’s how I’d have written it, too, since I’m a stickler for correctness. Like, it’s “I couldn’t care less” and not “I could care less.”
’60s tech, since the first Soyuz launched in 1966, which was also the year when its designer, Sergei Korolev, died. A testament, I think, both to his forward thinking when he lived, and the lack of Russian innovation after he died.
I doubt that Schroeder would ever seek psychiatric help, whether from Lucy or anyone else.