Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 19, 2009

Those brains should start oozing any minute now….

I am waiting for the visual effects on this one.

Hey merrymarg how are you sweetie?

Those brains have been oozing,a little at a time.

My brains oozed out a long time ago. That is why I am here. Hello all. Nice seeing so many lovely people.

Indeed. I have yet to earn that privilege.

cleo’s bare claus I’m fine, and loving your holiday name!

Ooz on, Dude. It’s your life and you’ll do what you want.

I’m off to the house of the rising sun.

Something I learned the hard way - “Be careful what you wish fro, you might just get it.”

At least Hobbes doesn’t want the oozing ears.

Thanks to all that helped me with the explanation on the learning curve question from the teachers on yesterday’s strip! I’m not a tv advocate by any means. I can only watch about 2 hours a day and it starts to drive me nuts. When my granddaughter is here who’s just turning 3 in January we watch a couple hours of cartoons scattered throughout the day. She’d watch more if I let her and I still have to stay on my son and his ex to limit her tv time. They both use the Noggin Pre-School Cartoon Channel as a cheap babysitter while they’re doing things around the house or they’ll put on the computer and play cartoon videos from there endlessly. I always say if you’re not going to stay there and watch it with her and discuss the shows with her then they shouldn’t be on. I don’t know of any teacher or doctor who ever said your child needs to watch more tv or they’ll never get anywhere in the world today.

A hard acquired priviledge!

They call this a Pyrrhic victory, Calvin.

Oh. That’s right. You refuse to learn enough to hear about such things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

Dad must be really tired.

Sorry, Calvin, but by feigning defeat Dad actually won. It was an underhanded, but successful, tactic. Now you’ll have to war with Dad on multiple levels.

Dad lost. More than two hours of TV and a kid will turn out like Calvin. Oh. Let me reword that.

Is there such a thing as projectile brain oozing?

Always wondered why some of my student’s brains disappeared … they oozed out! Makes perfect sense now!

Given the slop that’s on tv these days you already lost your brains Calvin.

Fer Lefer, video games are good…

The subtlety here is amazing! Hobbes being the alter ego… trying to get Calvin to realize he’s really won nothing? This is what truly made this strip great and why we all continue to follow it!

Calvin and Hobbes. No words to express how simply brilliant th comics are. Just like th books by P.G. Wodehouse.. inimitable, priceless.

You can tell this is Saturday. Yesterday, Calvin couldn’t WAIT to get his homework “done” so that he and Hobbes could go outside and play. Today, he wants to sit inside and watch stupid, mindless cartoons on t.v., even if it’s a show he absolutely hates!

LOVE the (lack of) posture on the chair. It’s so perfect.

…and this was before American Idol, Big Brother and Survivor….

If he’s gonna watch TV that long, you’d think he’d get more comfortable…..my neck is killing me just LOOKING at him!

From Calvins expression on the last frame I will say Dad is going to win this one . And well get an active Calvin again I betcha

That’s why those plastic furniture covers became so popular in the 50’s. Television!

At least the shows back then were funny and worth watching. Today it’s nothing but indoctrination propaganda.

The exact inverse of “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.”

Telling Calvin he CAN watch cartoons will not change his watching habbits. Now if you told Calvin he HAD to watch cartoons would have the kid sneeling outside to play or do what you really wanted him to do.

Not about to give this one up!

Hobbes in 4th panel already knows the answer..

yeah krisch,

join him on his quest

There’s so much junk on TV these days that it’s better to play video games or watch YouTube

Back when I was his age, we only had 3 channels with mostly nothing worth watching. Now when I have got no time to watch there are all sorts of things worth watching when I want to watch them thanks to DVRs.