Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 20, 2010

They’ve got you pegged, Calvin!

You could read your comics, Calvin. Good morning, marg!

Dont ask tigers silly questions.

Well I’m watching you Calvin.

Just watch your show, Calvin.

With hundreds of channels to choose from, there’s nothing on TV anymore…..those old days sure look good NOW!!!

GM Everyone!!!

Our society has finally perfected “the opiate of the masses”.

‘Morning Grog and ML!

Yukoner, you aren’t far off. Besides, the commercials have taken over.

Hobbes has your number of course, Calvin!

Morning All!

Everybody complains about the weather.. but nobody does anything about it.

Go outside and play, Calvin.

I record most of the programs I watch still on the VCR and then watch them later, that way I can fast forward through the commercials. Welcome to the first day of Spring everyone!

^Dino-1 …Even so called news programs are full of fluff and most of the features tell you to eat more fat foods and visit garden centers and see people coming through town to collect your money, in fact most of the fluff is pay-o-la to the station to rip you off….fast forward is wonderful!

sounds to me that calvin has a lot of time on his hands if he’s watching nothing on tv.

Actually Calvin and I are alike except for one thing. I turn off the trash and do something else. Honestly, I sometimes wonder why I even have a TV.

Why is the TV jumping around?

And to think, this was BEFORE “Jersey Shore” and “The Kardashians”.

Don’t worry, Calvin, chances are you’ll grow up to be a screenwriter. Then we’re really in trouble.

This strip was written over 20 years ago and it keeps getting more relevant, now that is a good strip

Why IS the tv jumping around?

My other can’t understand why I go in the other room and read. She complains about the cost of the books mailed to me. If I were into movies, I could go to 15 first run movies a month if We got rid of cable.

The TV is almost as ugly as the fridge. However the fridge contains food for my body. Does the TV contain food for my brain?

Patience, Calvin - Soon they’ll have this garbage in 3D!

Trash!

Well, as soon as Fitzroy wakes up, I’ll turn on the morning news… and I was so busy yesterday I didn’t watch Project Runway yet - but I saw American Irorn Chef, Battle Parmigiano Reggiano while I ate my turkey lunch.

bilge? is that you capt’ calvin?

The only TV shows I watch arrive from Netflix.

If you hate the show, Calvin, read your comics!

“Why is the TV jumping around?” It’s symbolic of how violence is so dominant on TV. There’s so much violence that the TV set itself is affected. We can only wonder what the cumulative effect is on the people, especially YOUNG people, who watch the carnage and swallow it whole.

Stop having boring tuna, stop having a boring life.

I find myself watching the commercials and muting the programs more and more.

Dino-1 I also tape but not what you think. My mom is not into electronic devices like DVD so we now have a combo. Since everyone was forced to digital age brought by the government some stations don’t come in too great. I work pt pm so on weekends I catch up. I tape using VHS tapes are not that expensive and do wear out after repetitive taping. We here in KS SC are getting snow but further southeast will be getting more. The residential street here is almost clear. I somewhat agree with Calvin there are some shows I don’t care about. But one is coming on I am anxious to see. I have books here I read but get them from garage sales depends on how much people charge I have a big collection when read I will get rid of them.

TV gives me the same problem and I give the same stupid answer as Calvin even know

But how else will he see the commercial for Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs? Calvin has THEM pegged, but I did the same thing. Sometimes you had to pick what to suffer through until something else came on.

Mythreesons - I have a PS3 hooked up to my TV.

What?

@Mythreesons - You can read Dinette Set at Comics.com and the magnifying glass comes in handy on that- especially Sundays! Not much comment traffic tho’

They use to refer to television as the great American wasteland and nothing on today refutes this statement. The drek that is fopped on us as entertainment is mindless garbage……thank goodness we have the comics.

The only “reality” t.v. shows I like to watch (besides football and basketball) are trivia game shows like “Jeopardy”, “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” and “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?”, things that actually expand and educate the mind … everything else is pretty much just garbage.

Calvin’s right, nowadays the programs they show on Saturdays are totally boring. Don’t they realize that many people stay home to relax on Saturdays and some just want to sit and relax with a good show. Yet, when you turn on the tv, all you see are nothing but reruns and infomercials.

Television is bubblegum for the mind. Calvin’s tv jumps around because it has anxiety disorder….

so true, so true

Heaven help me! I just got the AT&T equivalent of a TiVo, so instead of being selective about what I tape on the old VCR, I just record 2-3 shows at the same time I’m watching something else. Very bad habit to get into.

And this comic still applies today… :(

~ManDee

Help!! Did anyone notice Winnie The Pooh has disappeared! I miss him so…boohoo….

Go to creators.com for Pooh Bear Hyve. You won’t find it here eany more. :-(

Calvin’s getting ideas to inspire future destruction.

Thanks Grog!

Watching C-SPAN again, Calvin?

The statement that “Television is a vast wasteland” should no longer be limited by the word “vast.”

I’m pretty sure that the TV is jumping around to convey the message that it is loud, noisy, ….. and trying to cram a bunch of bleeep into your dormant mind.

You sit there passively, but it blares everything at you at 100 miles a second; kind of like a really rude car salesman.

This six-year-old has quite a vocabulary!

“Bilge”?