Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 11, 2024

That “thing” was home free but then it had to sing.

This has to be one of the funniest C&H strips, which is saying a lot.

Mr. Watterson must be a big Shakespeare fan.

To sleep. Perchance to dream……

Another of the great Sunday strips. The Green dinner glop, quoting Hamlet, stabbing itself with a fork and then singing that insufferable Morris Albert tune. Genius

Shakespearean slop!!

Shakespeare wrote down what his food said.

Thanks for taking one for the team, Calvin.

Cream of thespian eggplant?

If it left it at quoting Hamlet, he would’ve had respect. But, no …

Love it!!! One of the better ones!

Calvin was startled but ok with the Shakespeare, but once it started into “Feelings” he got rid of it! I fully approve!

Plants got feelings too Calvin. I bet it screamed while you were eating it.

I didn’t know that Shakespeare used to eat that stuff.

How bad is that food that Calvin has to eat

Sheer dramatic art at its best. Hats off to Bill.

Shakespeare in the Barf.

“Check, please!”

Exit to the bathroom to empty his cheeks.

Bill Watterson includes this strip in Calvin and Hobbes Sunday Pages 1985-95. He explains, “This is one of the weirdest strips I ever drew. I’m not sure I fully understand it myself but it made me laugh. So there you are.”

In some cultures, when you clean your plate that well, it means you’re begging for seconds.

That kid is sure has some strange imaginations.

What could it have been that could quote Shakespeare better than Calvins states his view of life ????

The faces of Calvin in each frame go in accord with the verses.

I’ll never get that song out of my head today, but at least it wasn’t Barry Manilow.

Every time I hear Hamlet’s soliloquy now, I get images of Christopher Plummer in Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country, just before he gets blown up.

Oh man that food has deep thoughts.

Good thing the goop didn’t sing “Achy Braky Heart” or the “Macarena” song!

Read it through twice, bigger laugh each time. Gonna come back later and enjoy it again.

I think for breakfast now, I’ll go have some ham(let) and eggs…

I never knew the second reference growing up, so I could only guess how obnoxious the melody must be for Calvin to finally consume the sludge.

That goo would have millions of social media followers if existed today.

Calvin has popped up a couple of times with the kids on “ The Buckets”!

Too bad he gobbled it, next cut was Barry M. singing Mandy.

Schmaltzy, I know, I love to sing along with that one.

Poor thing was influenced by somebody/something.

LMAO! Hysterical‼️☺️☺️☺️!

“Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal…”

Excellent strip today!

There’s an awful lotta ham emoting from that green glop!

Does this make Calvin a food or entertainment critic?

Must have been ham in that green glop.

Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to feed us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and lean beggar is but variable service; two dishes to one table, that’s the end.

I love it when a Calvin and Hobbes strip is sophisticated one minute, then devolves into absolute nonsense the next.

Green Goop for dinner…. AGAIN ??

[ STANDING OVATION ]

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

Tied for first with almost all of the Snow Goon strips.

Calvin digested enough Shakespeare to last his entire lifetime.

Going by some of these comments, I’m glad I have never heard this song.

Green hamlet and eggs?

Thank you for a MOST enjoyable strip. Never have I heard Shakespeare played better as a meaningful insight to which English teachers across the globe might aspire. Alas, though an octet of decades have paraded by since first I trod this mortal coil, the depth of these elegant prose seems to ring more true as the sands of time turn from a srickle to a torrent. Perhaps to dream.Thank you.

second to last panel FTW

Might have been some mushrooms in there…

Oh, c’mon, there must be a Hamlet omlette in here somewhere…Danish, anyone?

If that’s a Hamlet, it’s gone bad. Don’t eat it!

I hadn’t read Hamlet until I was in high school, the fact that Calvin would know the accurate monologue is rather impressive for a 6 year old. (I’m not counting parodies or pop culture references of the time because aside from the “to be or not to be” line the text wouldn’t be so accurately represented)

If anyone remembers the sitcom Dinosaurs, which ran in the early 90s, there was an episode where one character recites Shakespeare. It was very funny considering he was a guy wearing a dinosaur suit

Too bad Calvin ate it. It could have teamed up with Michigan J Frog, the singing frog from Warner Brothers cartoons, and gone on the road. They’re both green and they both sing. He’s not green, but Hobbes could sing backup with the “rum-tum-tums.”

I expect one day to go to the dentist and ask what he has in store for me. He will sing, “Fillings… nothing more than fillings…”

“Spamlet: The Entree”

Alas, poor Yorick…

The more I kept reading this one, the more it made me laugh. Great—even if the green glop looks less than appetizing.

Get your own dinner from now on then.

Eating that ‘thing’ was the only way to stop it — LOLOL

Dinner theater.

If you feel you can write a better comic strip, please do.

Calvin should wait a bit longer before eating that. Maybe it will do the Yorick speech from the gravedigger scene.

Another fun instance of Bill Watterson being cultured. I wonder where the “Feelings” song is from?

Must have been a ham loaf.

He could handle Shakespeare, but not feelings? Sounds about right.

THAT was hilarious!!

I think I have eaten that stuff. My grandma made a green jello/cottage cheese thing in a ring mold. I got in trouble asking if it was molded mold in a mold. I was a kid.

I’m torn between the incontinent toad and the $1.00 swift kick in the butt ones.

This has always been one of my favorite strips.

to eat or not to eat, that is the question!