Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 17, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    That’s one murder almost every 3 minutes. Forgive me if I have doubts about this study.

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    Sugar Bombs 95  over 3 years ago

    Considering how many parents nowadays allow their four year-olds to watch PG-13 movies, that’s more true nowadays than it was in the eighties.

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    codycab  over 3 years ago

    Or not enough crime shows.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    no collection of me watching crime shows when I (emphasis on “I”) was six

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    dadthedawg Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Please pass…..the remote.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago

    And when they’ll go to school they will have a chance to see them for real.

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    My folks were pretty conservative about some things. Hm. Most things. Ah. Pretty much everything. For instance, we always decorated the house “for the neighbors” at Xmas time. Maybe 100 person hours or so… (counting “kid-hours”). The local Chamber of Commerce always ran a competition, but we never entered. Two or three years before Sis and I went off to University, the CofC couldn’t STAND it and awarded us 1st place in the “Didn’t enter” category. Kid you not. The prize was a TV. Which sat in its box until only the three youngest (and an exchange student) were living “home”. So I never witnessed even a black and white blurry murder … except in the Westerns my dad took us to for the Saturday matinee.

    My son got the same deal from my: We lived in the country where there was neither a TV signal nor cable (heck: We still had a party-line phone in the 70s and 80s). We did have a TV, though… and a VCR. He did get to witness whatever his buddies could see when he had a play date.

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    Troglodyte  over 3 years ago

    There’s a million reasons why that sounds like a made-up statistic!

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    Who, me?  over 3 years ago

    Poor Calvin, he’s missed a million murders.

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    dflak  over 3 years ago

    And that’s just on the nightly news.

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    Prey  over 3 years ago

    I´ve told you a billion times, don´t exaggerate!

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    PoodleGroomer  over 3 years ago

    The coyote went over the cliff many times, but he came back in the next scene.

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    jagedlo  over 3 years ago

    Fake news back in the ’80s?

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    Kaputnik  over 3 years ago

    We didn’t get a TV until I was 15. I missed out on a lot of murder and mayhem.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Well, I suppose that is possible, but I mean really. How many children really watch Murder She Wrote?

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    nyscotsman1  over 3 years ago

    The early Calvin reminds me of Buddy Hackett. Sorry, kids, if this makes no sense to you.

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    carlzr  over 3 years ago

    Not only was there a murder every week on the Avengers (Steed and Mrs. Peel) but they were committed in a charming, sophisticated English manner.

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    bbenoit  over 3 years ago

    The channel and volume knobs have changed from panel 1 to 4, is Calvin surfing for more murders? Try 86, Law and Order all day, every day. Or 41, Gunsmoke every afternoon. Or 13, one NCIS or the other all the time.

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    ImDaRealAni  over 3 years ago

    This has 2 meanings… and I think I know which Calvin is thinking of!

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  over 3 years ago

    Well, my copy of the national enquirer says that Jim Morrison and Janice Joplin were seen eating at an IHOP and Elvis was the server and the KGB hustled all three of them in an unmarked Skoda.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 3 years ago

    That does seem high for the mid 1980’s. It might be closer to that now.

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    DavidHewlett  over 3 years ago

    When I was six, I didn’t know what murder was. Yes, I had seen in tv programs people get shot but it was never ‘identified’ as ‘murder’. I was close to ‘13’ before I saw a ‘police’ program where it was ‘stated that someone was ’murdered’ ! ! !

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    vehlers  over 3 years ago

    Just watch Star Wars. You’ll see billions of people murdered when Alderaan is blown up. Plus however many imperials are on the Death Star when it explodes.

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    COL Crash  over 3 years ago

    Calvin, if you want to ctach up quick just stream all the episodes in the Walking Dead and it various spin offs.

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    DanWolfie  over 3 years ago

    Heh, I find that article hard to believe as well!

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    SweetSinger  over 3 years ago

    Must be an early strip. The TV is sitting peacefully on its stand.

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    petermerck  over 3 years ago

    True. Elmer never did kill Bugs or Daffey.

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    Shaggy (Most powerful being)  over 3 years ago

    yes Calvin you’ve been watching the wrong shows

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    PoodleGroomer  over 3 years ago

    If Tom and Jerry was Itchy and Scratchy, MGM would have a higher murder rate than Kill Bill.

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    christelisbetty  over 3 years ago

    Do reruns get counted twice ?

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    PaulInMiami  over 3 years ago

    My mother told me a million times not to exaggerate—but the sad truth is that during a typical child’s TV viewing up to 18 years, he will have viewed 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders.https://www.mottchildren.org/…/kids-and-digital-media

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    DCBakerEsq  over 3 years ago

    I get all my best statistics from GoComics.

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    kab2rb  over 3 years ago

    Wonder how much evening program of drama’s to westerns did a lot of shootings.

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    rstove428 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Not that anyone asked or particularly cares, but as much as I smile at the clever strips, like this one, I cringe at the comments trying to make a self-serving political position. I guess no more comments reading from me.

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    locake  over 3 years ago

    I don’t think Road Runner had any actual murders. Mostly the Coyote injuring himself, but he always came back to life.

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    locake  over 3 years ago

    I don’t recall any murders on Gilligan’s Island, Brady Bunch or Get Smart.

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    Culer (super mega based fc barcelona fan of gc)  over 3 years ago

    In a wrong way, yes you have, Calvin.

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    Dianne50  over 3 years ago

    Back in the early ‘60s, when my baby brother was 4, he was crawling around underneath the TV looking up at it. My father asked him what he was doing. He said “Looking for the drain.” Dad asked “What drain?” My brother said, “The drain to let all the dead bodies out.” That was in the heyday of the TV westerns. My brother was a bit precocious. Most kids don’t make that connection.

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    felipenollaFFA  over 3 years ago

    TV’s not jumpy today, maybe tuned to Masterpiece on PBS…

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    WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Then you should tune into the news…

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    Ceeg22 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Are they watching Midsomer Murders?

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