Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 04, 2013

As Mom said, Calvin: Learn to make your own peanut-butter sandwiches!

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Special wishes!

“Maybe”, nothing! make your own sandwich, kid!

Is this how OCD starts?

You would not think its that hard to do right,but keep bugging Mom about the right way to dish out your peanut butter,she may show you how to do a lot of things right.You spoilt little brat.

This illustrates the tragedy of raising kids on cheap peanut butter. Real peanut butter requires mixing because the oil rises to the top. And no salt.

I always hated peanut butter until I found about unadulterated peanut butter and found out what peanut butter really tastes like.

Okay, maybe a little salt.

Your peanut butter is out of control Mom.

How would Calvin pay for the sandwich when it’s delivered ?

Calvin should try a peanut butter & lizard sandwhich, yummy!!

I mix a jar of unsalted peanut butter with a cube of salted butter and keep it in the fridge for my morning toast. mmmmmmm…..

I feel you, Calvin. Like when they stopped sealing instant coffee with stiffened paper and started using plastic. If you don’t hear that “pop” when you break the seal with a spoon, the coffee just doesn’t taste as good.

I never have tasted peanut butter!

It’s not rocket science, Calvin. If you want it your way, go make your own.

His parents were going to name him “Raymond”.

Without rituals of order, we would not even have the illusion of control in any part of our lives. It is also important to dig into a carton of ice cream in exactly the same fashion.

Maybe Calvin will be Sheldon when he grows up.

While neapolitan ice cream may cause much angst here…….dig into the PB jar! ennyway you wish! Preferably on wheat bread with Smuckers’s strawberry preserves!

Hobbes, those old Peanuts strips were pretty edgy and insidious, weren’t they? And to think they were crafted in the 1950’s…

Diagonal bread always tastes better.

Yeah, if you’re so hung up on control and having everything just so, then you make your own sandwiches, Calvin.

PB&J Sandwiches are delicious, it makes me forget the troubles I have with my family

What was the one where Calvin was demanding his mother make the sandwich a certain way, then in the last panel she remarks “Your Majesty’s sandwich”.

A kid doesn’t say “diagonally” he says he wants the bread in triangles.

So… People/grown-ups expect children to fallow request/orders/rules but when a child expects grown-ups to do the same for them, grown-ups are like “whatever” and do it “whatever” and messed-up what a child was expecting on what/where/when/how…-It like… “Do as I say, not I do”, why would anyone expect a child to fallow request/orders/rules when grown-ups are nothing but hypocrites…??-@CalvinYou know what, make the sandwich yourself. You know people/grown-ups are just going to mess it all up (Anything/Everything, BIG TIME) and don’t (give a hoot) care at all…

Mom cuts the bread diagon-izingly!

Calvin probably cuts the bread diabolically.

I much prefer the natural peanut butter!

How can bread with peanut butter on it still be white?I want 100 percent whole wheat or other whole-grain breads.

ihave had a peanut butter jelly cheese sandwich

gotta love Calvin’s logic

I never made sense of this one.

I don’t recall EVER being this picky about my peanut butter (and jelly) sandwiches when I was a kid. They didn’t even have to be cut into triangles either; a whole sandwich was just fine with me. Loved them back then — love them still. Jif chunky peanut butter, Smucker’s jelly (blackberry’s my favorite) on whole wheat bread . . . YUM YUM!!!!!

:-)

Anal-retentive already.

Wow… SOMEONE’S fussy!

LOL xxx

yep know how much ocd takes over i agree with calvin

I see military school in Calvin’s future.

Calvin most people can’t control their peanut butter, we wish it was always smooth on top but some of us always seem to get stuck with the extra crunchy stuff.Just like life, you have to put up with a few nuts along the way.

@JohnDiFool: It’s fun to see Lucy in her early years, especially interacting with Charlie Brown. She managed to make his life difficult, regardless of her age. Calvin seems to have some of Lucy and some of Linus in him, among others.

Yes in the 1950’s, after 2nd world war people were very poor!

@Karaboo2: I guess some if us want our lives to always be smooth, while others enjoy lives with more texture.

When my grandson was two I cut his sandwich the wrong way. He wouldn’t eat it. I said fine, hope you dont get too hungery

Just wondering, did Charlie Brown go to his house and make the sandwichs or did he go to Lucy’s and make them? They are not related to each other.

@orinoco womble,It sounds good to me!

@Robert Andersen: Presumably, Lucy is playing at Charlie Brown’s house, but it isnt really explained. Since there are no adults in Peanuts, in this case Charlie Brown has to play the adult role.

If Calvin’s mom had been my mother, I would have gotten such a whipping I wouldn’t have been able to sit down for week…

OK, so Mom ruined the smooth top of the peanut butter in the jar. Yet somehow, life goes on.

I’m a P-nut Butter mixer, but Always cut the bread diagonally. What is she, an alien?