With a vocabulary like his, you’d think Calvin was a voracious reader. They don’t use two-dollar words like that onTV, except perhaps BBC imports on PBS….
I’ve been reading the Calvin and Hobbes strips from the beginning and in the early strips, Calvin’s TV rested firmly on the stand. I am curious about when the TV started jumping around.
Careful Calvin, in the litigious times in which we live Dad may very well sue you. Such a suit would not be any more frivolous than some that have been filed recently.
I have a very good grasp of things thank you. You’re right,out of the thousands of channels and ten-thousands of shows there are maybe choice 20 or 30 that are actually intelligent and artistic. The problem is that TV executives show what sells, and at the present state of our culture what sells is the vulgar and stupid.
BE THIS GUY over 10 years ago
I think that TV is possessed by a demon.
margueritem over 10 years ago
You lie like a rug, Calvin.
watmiwori over 10 years ago
With a vocabulary like his, you’d think Calvin was a voracious reader. They don’t use two-dollar words like that onTV, except perhaps BBC imports on PBS….
rentier over 10 years ago
I like reading books and newspaper but I’m too short in time!!
djhaisell Premium Member over 10 years ago
Wait twenty years, Calvin. You’ll look back on this moment with nostalgia!
moronbis over 10 years ago
Gosh!!! Calvin (Watterson) sums me up. I feel really stupid now.
Kaputnik over 10 years ago
Not sure how often in came up in these strips, but I always loved that jumping TV.
witewater over 10 years ago
I’ve been reading the Calvin and Hobbes strips from the beginning and in the early strips, Calvin’s TV rested firmly on the stand. I am curious about when the TV started jumping around.
MickMaus over 10 years ago
Careful Calvin, in the litigious times in which we live Dad may very well sue you. Such a suit would not be any more frivolous than some that have been filed recently.
Brian Fink over 10 years ago
Maybe the family got the TV from Bloom County which would chase Opus around telling him to order 1,000 turnip twaddlers.
Aaberon over 10 years ago
I used to love Walter Cronkite’s 20th Century. I was fascinated by the war footage and realizing it was only a few years before I was born.
sbchamp over 10 years ago
Catherine Piper demands a lawsuitCarl Sack approves
Poollady over 10 years ago
“serious, tasteful entertainment that respects my intelligence” In other words, Reality TV
Darsan54 Premium Member over 10 years ago
What’s wrong with wanting it in both mediums?
Linda Pearson over 10 years ago
Is that what you call “Life TV”?
JoeyCooler777 over 10 years ago
Bah, if it was bad then its even worse now. So many channels but nothing on. Rednecks,Ghosthunters,Pawnshops and Stupid Skateboarders at every turn.
Phapada over 10 years ago
turn on turn on pls..
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 10 years ago
“It’s not getting any smarter out there. You have to come to terms with stupidity, and make it work for you.”
- Frank ZappaAnd thus was born “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “Web Soup”.
nathanbtlr over 10 years ago
Kill your television before it kills you.
JoeyCooler777 over 10 years ago
I have a very good grasp of things thank you. You’re right,out of the thousands of channels and ten-thousands of shows there are maybe choice 20 or 30 that are actually intelligent and artistic. The problem is that TV executives show what sells, and at the present state of our culture what sells is the vulgar and stupid.
JoeyCooler777 over 10 years ago
But anyway, out of curiosity, which history/science/culture shows do you have in mind?
Number Three over 10 years ago
TV is going downhill with the repeated programmes practically every day.
xxx
cosman over 10 years ago
Began to see the beginning of the end when the History Channel became the Hitler Channel: “All Hitler, all the time.”
Reya85 over 10 years ago
Haha