Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 09, 2023

A big screen tv just in time for the NFL playoffs!

How would Calvin react to Olaf from “Frozen”?

And where does the snowman get his money?…..

Ah, the meaning of life is to buy a big screen TV. And here I always thought it was 42.

Where will he plug the cord? And won’t the TV screen look bad with the sun aiming at it?

I very much like the idea implicit in this comic that the tale goes on beyond the last panel. That Calvin has written a story for his snowman and is starting to stage it in snow.

Exactly how large, Calvin?

Winter’s a good time to stay in and cuddle, but put me in summer and I’ll be a…happy snowman! – Olaf, “Frozen”

“Do not beg the sun for mercy.” Paul Atreides from Frank Herbert’s novel Dune.

He doesn’t look so very happy because it is too warm and he will melt away!

This snowman seems pretty happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFatVn1hP3o

That’s Cal all over. Distract Nature by going off track

The bigger the TV screen the better view of the life you’re not living. …maybe some people need that. Really.

Olaf would be most happy if he can lounge out in the summer sun with his television.

And make his existence even more meaningless.

Rear projection television sets at that time. And, only two feet deep! Only viewable from a very narrow angle. Huge remote controls.

Is this the forerunner of the snow goons?

Money? Snowmen don’t need no stinkin’ money ! Besides, this is Calvin’s altered reality…

Am I the only one to ask where they got the verbiage “Big Screen TV” at that time?

and he can’t get his big-screen telly, would he settle for a yacht?

from a “snow bank”.

Why was last week skipped?

Anyone else have to Google “entreaties”?

From the snow bank. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

Well, that is sheer hard work by the six year old. Might build character. Wonder where is dad.

Well, I hope he doesn’t have to smoke in order to acquire one… GRR!!!

Sorry that was a stunt that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company pulled years ago making smokers over 18 eligible to win a flat screen TV. It really made me furious that they were “rewarding” people for such a nasty habit. Sorry. I guess I still hold a grudge there. Couldn’t help bringing that up.