Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 28, 2015
Transcript:
Susie: "What happened to YOU?" Calvin: "Hobbes and I had a frank exchange of ideas" Calvin: "What are you doing? Homework??" Susie: "I wasn't sure I understood this chapter, so I reviewed my notes from the last chapter and now I'm rereading this" Calvin: "You do all that WORK?!" Susie: "Well, now I understand it" Calvin: "Huh! I used to think you were smart"
BE THIS GUY over 9 years ago
She’s smart enough to know she has to work hard.
Susie Derkins :D over 9 years ago
Well, that’s a normal story to hear.
MusasMama over 9 years ago
ha ha!!
Hunter7 over 9 years ago
… that’s how she got to be so smart…
rentier over 9 years ago
She IS smart!!
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 9 years ago
Great euphemism in panel 1.And since when does a six year old “review notes from the last chapter and … reread” anything? Just ask mom!
Alexander the Good Enough over 9 years ago
I’m with Calvin on this one. It’s clear (to me, anyway) that excessive smarts is decidedly maladaptive.
elvoycehooper over 9 years ago
I have met a lot of people who think like Calvin. Went to high school with many. Guess which group, the Calvin’s or Suzie’s succeeded in life.
chovil over 9 years ago
I’m actually with Calvin on this one. Smart people I’ve met are often very lazy, because learning is effortless for them.
bluram over 9 years ago
Calvin hasn’t a clue has he?
dustspecks Premium Member over 9 years ago
Go figure, Calvin.
GROG Premium Member over 9 years ago
I had an aversion to working that hard at her age.
pathfinder over 9 years ago
I was a Susie type at that age … I knew that there was a LOT that I didn’t know and I wanted to know. Now, on the other hand, I know that there is a LOT that I don’t know, but I don’t have the time to learn it all, so I don’t care. Amazing the difference a mere 60-odd years makes, isn’t it?
Kaputnik over 9 years ago
Taking a strip too seriously, of course, but it’s obvious in the comic as a whole that Calvin is smart. He’s just going to have to learn at some point that raw intelligence isn’t enough.It’s the handwritten notes that seem anachronistic in this strip.
thirdguy over 9 years ago
Whose head do you think is rounder, Susie, or Charlie Brown?
tripwire45 over 9 years ago
Suzie has the study habits of a college student. Calvin seems more like a normal six-year-old.
cubswin2016 over 9 years ago
I just hope whatever Calvin has isn’t contagious.
egyptlandpa over 9 years ago
To understand some instructional manuals, one has to read them twice.
KEA over 9 years ago
It’s only work if you don’t enjoy doing it. Personally, I can’t think of anything I’d rather do than learn something new or master something I’ve already learned.
Comfortably Numb over 9 years ago
I’ve re-read this strip a couple of times, and now I think I understand it. ;)
Puddleglum2 over 9 years ago
@AlexanderTheGoodEnough (Don’t call me Sandy!),Are you a Xander Bogearts (Red Sox) fan?As Boris Badenov might say, “Excessive smarts is decidedly oxymoronic.”Btw, even Alexander the Great wasn’t good enough (or he wouldn’t have been alcoholic and died young), but Rocky and Bullwinkle usually were. If you can make sense out of all this comment, you have “excessive smarts”. :o) P.S. Your name is clever!
Puddleglum2 over 9 years ago
@LeadingEdge,“Is Susie a nerd or a geek?”…or a dweeb, even? (Snagglepuss)
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 9 years ago
It looks like Calvin was the main recipient of Hobbe’s Frank Exchange of Ideas.
Alexander the Good Enough over 9 years ago
In my trade, I sometimes have occasion to tell people that I’m an autodidact. Much of the time, in response, they’ll then ask, “What’s an autodidact?” I just hand them a dictionary.
flowergirl19 over 9 years ago
This arc is absolutely hilarious! I love that Hobbes is in love with Susie.
neverenoughgold over 9 years ago
I’m well past prime (a plugger by some standards) and hardly a day goes by I don’t learn something new!.Today might be one of those days…
westny77 over 9 years ago
Sometimes you don’t see the solution on the first try. It is the same thing with work. I can’t reconcile a bank statement. Then later I reconcile it.
the calvinosaurus that calvin wanted to discover over 9 years ago
oh boy, homework
Comfortably Numb over 9 years ago
Had to read it twice, but now I think I understand the strip. ;)