Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 15, 2019

What are friends for?

Hobbes knows how to really have fun.

Ain’t payback a…?

Have you ever seen an x-ray of a hiccup, Hobbes? As Lucy Van Pelt will tell you, there’s nothing funny about it!

From what Calvin should have a Dollar?? Hic is free, it costs nothing!!

in calvins case to me its hilarious!!!!

Hobbes is evil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73rhzpqk12c

That’s hiclarious..

It is hard telling people you have the hiccups when you hiccup every 3 seconds. That reminds me of a joke:

Q: What cup cant you drink from

A: A hiccup

Ba da CHING

Work that for all it’s worth, Hobbes!

Your patience is commendable, Hobbes! :D

Some times the little things make us the most satisfied. There is also the added bonus of applying the fright supposedly needed to cure the hiccups.

Be sure to subject Calvin to at least 3 “cures”. “Drink a glass of water while singing the Star Spangled Banner, backwards.”

Love It…..

I once got a really nasty case (3 days) of hiccups after some minor surgery. My loving family thought it was hilarious.

I love Hobbes’ grin in the last panel…

One example of why Hobbes has always been my favorite character.

If boys get the hiccups, why don’t girls get the shiccups?

I’d like to see him try to blow some bubbles and the "hic"s emerge when they pop.

Put a spoonful of sugar in your mouth, put your fingers in your ears and drink a glass of water through a straw. Cures them every time. Yea I know, no one will believe or try it. However, my wife talked me into doing it 49 years ago when we were first married, and it worked. And has every time.

Oh God, not this arc…

Always interesting when a comic character breaks the fourth wall.

For me if and when I have hiccups, I drink hot water to help calm down the spasms.

That’s just mean, Hobbes. Pant-wetting hilarious, but mean.

Not good when your diaphragm regresses to when you were an amphibian. Well not you exactly. But the previous function of that organ. It is independent of your breathing in that mode. One way is to concentrate on gaining control over the diaphragm with your conscious mind to return it to normal function or get hit in the diaphragm will paralyze it for a bit might work. Or just wait it out and try to forget about it. Nothing else really works. Nothing.

I once had “psychosomatic” hiccups for three days before a physics exam. It’s exhausting.

If he were any kind of friend, he’d sneak up behind Calvin and roar.

Those are the most rapid hiccups I’ve ever seen. He even did a double in between syllables in the last panel.

Scare him…bring on Susie

I love the smug smile on Hobbes in the last panel.

For the record, it’s spelled hiccough (English is a funny language). And anything you do that you believe will stop them will stop them.