Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 15, 2022

Mom should have said “because you don’t drive a $40,000 (1992 dollars) sports car.”

When Calvin becomes a bad influence on his parents.

Bill must’ve had fun drawing Mom’s expression in the last panel.

what an intriguing, young mind Calvin has

Time to upgrade

That car would be worth (assuming normal inflation curve and excluding all corporate price gouging) $82 176. Jeepers

Love that hoppin’ TV. Dad may be sleeping on the couch tonight.

One suspects she practices that smile in the mirror.

The truth is, Calvin, you’re the reason your parents are old now and not driving around in sports cars.

Damn. I remember those days when $40,000 was actually something. And it bought a nice sports car like that instead of a compact.

Sage advice

I drove a 1983 Dodge Colt=>zero dates.

Bought sports car=>two dates per weekend.

American girls!

Maybe Dad will spring for implants for Roslyn—providing they don’t cost $40,000.

BTW, please don’t wish more beer on your parents. You don’t want two Andy Capp’s on your hands, do you??

Now that’s what I call successful advertising! Their TV set is literally floating in mid air – but all they notice is the darn commercial!

Yes Calvin, that will help solve the problem!

She’s allergic to silicone…….

That expression on Calvin’s mom’s face. Brrrr.

Calvin, you shouldn’t know anything about how women should look!

And they said “Joe Camel” was a bad influence!

“Because I love your mom just the way she is.”

Did you see the face!

My daughter just went to Germany and bought a cool BMW sports car. (Way more than $40K)

Dad’s in for it now…you might want to exit stage left, Calvin!

That may be the first thing Calvin’s ever said that actually made sense.

Calvin would be a disaster as a psychologist.

You know, some women are stereotypically attractive without implants.

I’m having an adolescent fantasy, right now. Mmmm, yummy.

That’s around $100,000 in today’s play money.

The boy’s right! MORE BEER!!

You gotta LOVE Mom and Dad…

So…she secretly wants those implants.

One of the few times when we actually get an idea about how they might have managed to produce Calvin.

I’ll go along with the “drink more beer” part!

“maybe you guys should drink more beer” that cracked me up

Because those guys don’t have families…

And Dad should have said, “Because your mother is a real woman, not that under-dressed, over-siliconed whatever-she-is you see only in commercials.”

A: Dad might have a nicer car if he didn’t spend money on a floating TV, B: Your parents drinking more beer is probably what got you born in the first place,

It ain’t the cost, it’s the upkeep. On either.

I don’t know where Calvin got that idea. Nobody actually drinks beer in TV commercials. It must be a puzzle to aliens studying out transmissions.

Almost everything gets better with beer!

And to think today, those implants are in HD.

NOW I see where Calvin gets his faces from! Learned, not earned.

Beer? Drinking that is how we ended up with a kid.

https://youtu.be/dMuHHCWFkJs New Riders of the Purple Sage song “She’s Looking Better Every Beer”

Yeah, beer, lots of it will solve most problems.

Mom gets implants, goes to company parties, Dad becomes more popular and gets promoted, and now he can afford the car. Problem solved…

The eyeglass adjustment is sublime

She used to look like that.

But carrying Calvin inside for 9 months really did a number on her.

“Beware the ides of March.”

I remember thinking a $40,000 house was the last one I’d ever want

Mr Watterson…. We have missed you for a long time.

Mom’s face in the final panel lol!

Last panel.Mom’s face, Calvin’s parting comment.Hilarious!

I wish I could commercials are less ludicrous now, but . . .

Mom’s face in the last panel is my nightmare fuel for tonight.

In my experience beer does make them better looking, especially at closing time.

LOL at the Mom’s face at the end! That’s probably how she’d look if she drank more beer!