Hobbes’ comment describes our world today perfectly. It is hard to tell if we are in a tragedy or a farce. Unfortunately it’s both. Fortunately this darkness will be lifted.
It’s more complucated than that; there is a script (I write it) the problem is the boss is very insistent on method acting, so you have to be kept in the dark so you react naturally.
BE THIS GUY 6 months ago
…and car chases!
codycab 6 months ago
Other days, it’s disasters.
hitman4cookies 6 months ago
Leave it to Hobbes to utter the sophisticated “tragedy or farce” line. . . And to Calvin to have it totally go over his head.
Blu Bunny 6 months ago
Where’s the stand up comedians?
Richard S Russell Premium Member 6 months ago
Oooooh, more dancing girls! Sign me up!
sirbadger 6 months ago
Calvin and Susie are a little young for dance numbers.
einarbt 6 months ago
That might work.
rklynch 6 months ago
And a laugh track
The Duke 6 months ago
Yes we need more dancing in life! Life should be a big musical like the Music Man or Oklahoma.
DaveG1960 6 months ago
And at times, a half-time break for refreshments…….
snsurone76 6 months ago
Calvin is in the act of “the whining school boy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school.”
GreggW Premium Member 6 months ago
Both.
in-dubio-pro-rainbow 6 months ago
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
(Shakespeare’s “King Lear”, Act 4 Scene 5)
Liam G.P 6 months ago
I’m also thinking that God is probably recording me right now.
MayCauseBurns 6 months ago
God is a comedian, playing to an audience that’s too afraid to laugh.
Gandalf 6 months ago
Maybe a tragicomedy.
kennywalter 6 months ago
That’s never been more true!
Count Olaf Premium Member 6 months ago
Show tunes! Show tunes!
'IndyMan' 6 months ago
How did Shakespeare do so well then, when he didn’t have any of those, just the ‘day-to-day’ human tragedy that is life , humm, Calvin ???
The Orange Mailman 6 months ago
That last panel describes the new movie The Marvels.
Guayo1 6 months ago
And common-sense like Hobbes.
jagedlo 6 months ago
And remember, this was before social media…so Hobbes’s words are even more true today!
gawaintheknight 6 months ago
I would welcome an intermission. Also a body double.
oakie817 6 months ago
and Godzilla stomping on buildings
PoodleGroomer 6 months ago
More cowbell.
Pongo ol’ Boy 6 months ago
Hobbes’ comment describes our world today perfectly. It is hard to tell if we are in a tragedy or a farce. Unfortunately it’s both. Fortunately this darkness will be lifted.
Will_Scarlet 6 months ago
Like Marx said, history begins as farce and ends as tragedy.
sandpiper 6 months ago
truer words were never spoken
figuratively speaking 6 months ago
Shakespeare didn’t say the players were good, Calvin.
DM2860 6 months ago
My humanities professor said the difference between a tragedy and a comedy was in the comedy, the person deserved it.
smsrt 6 months ago
True, true Calvin… so true.
steveconkey2003 6 months ago
Deep, very deep.
guenette.charlie(BozoKnows) 6 months ago
Life’s but a walking shadow;
a poor player,
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
and then is heard no more:
It is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
-Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5
LizandMax 6 months ago
This is my all time favorite Calvin and Hobbes strip.
Hamady Sack Premium Member 6 months ago
Watterson’s trees are the best since the Tiger strip.
rshive 6 months ago
Special effects, maybe. But I doubt that Calvin wants to dance with Susie.
cracker65 6 months ago
This one is brilliant. Calvin is a deep thinker. So is Hobbes.
mindjob 6 months ago
I’d like some more Hitchcockian suspense
PassinThru 6 months ago
Definitely more dance numbers!
Blu Bunny 6 months ago
Vaudeville.
KEA 6 months ago
I’ve thought for years that people should get at 2 lives… one for a dress rehearsal and one for “real”.
g04922 6 months ago
Calvin and Hobbes…. a regular Rogers and Hammerstein duo… ;-)
The Wolf In Your Midst 6 months ago
If we were in a Bollywood flick, at least we’d get musical numbers.
christelisbetty 6 months ago
There’s no business, like show business, like no business I know.
Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 6 months ago
We have enough explosions!!!
mistercatworks 6 months ago
It’s improv, little dude. You either go with it or spent your life trying to find the script.
thedogesl Premium Member 6 months ago
Tragicomedy.
Curiosity Premium Member 6 months ago
I strongly suspect the answer to Hobbes question is all of the above.
BiggerNate91 6 months ago
Calvin and Hobbes still ahead of its time as always.
John Jorgensen 6 months ago
The profound truth of this strip left me breathless until Calvin’s last line overwrote it with nonsense. I wish Watterson had quit while he was ahead.
Local 574 Premium Member 6 months ago
That’s what we got Bollywood for.
Daltongang Premium Member 6 months ago
All the world is a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
And there’s a lot of grubby people hogging the spot light.
Otis Rufus Driftwood 6 months ago
‘The Seven of Ages Man’ by Shakespeare is truly timeless. Calvin may one day understand what he meant over 400 years ago.
shlomosports Premium Member 6 months ago
It’s more complucated than that; there is a script (I write it) the problem is the boss is very insistent on method acting, so you have to be kept in the dark so you react naturally.
Arghhgarrr Premium Member 6 months ago
The actors milling helplessly—
The script is blowing out to sea
But what the hell, we didn’t even pass an audition
SNVBD 5 months ago
i agree on the dance numbers.