Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 23, 2024

They would probably pay you not to watch your show, Calvin.

Well, Hobbes can turn it off

I remember trying this as a kid with a piece of paper, but it was difficult to cut a square in the middle with scissors.

Funny thing is the “TV” he has there is more like the flat screens of today and not the blockish cathode ray tube devices 30-40 years ago when this was originally published!

Lord knows they’ve tried

The sheet of cardboard goes into the furnace.

Calvin’s version of the Gerry Springer show. Mo would be the next guest.

And now laddies and gentlegals, it time for The Calvin Show.

Wanna bet? Mom and Dad can turn you off with one click of the remote—or one swipe at your backside!

Back in the 50’s when our TV needed to be fixed the service man would pull out the chassis and take it to the shp to repair, and I would crawlin the cabinet and pretend to be Howdy Doody

Maybe Mom and Dad could provide enough hazard pay to invite Rosalyn to watch over him.

Combine the two and Calvin has got a plan for world domination.

He’s got that right!

Saturday morning programming could include episodes of Spaceman Spiff.

Oh I think they’ll find a way, Calvin.

They can if they send you to your room!

It’s already been done. In 1959, Jay North starring as Dennis The Menace.

It would be black and white (and shades of gray) six days a week and color on Sunday.

Calvin’s parents often tune him out.

Scary.

Yep….just the screen……no controls!!!!!

“The Calvin Show”, each episode will end with Calvin developing character, unbeknownst to him.

No-one can turn you off? Would you care to have a small wager on that?

The origin of the “boob tube”.

Calvin would be a natural today, when anyone can be a video star by posting his or her own videos on the internet.

Ironically, Calvin and Hobbs is in millions of homes every day!

Neither Pluto TV Will want him.

You do, and we won’t =)

The early days of Tik-Tok.

A local radio station, in a self-promoting advertisment, made the claim that unlike other forms of advertising, radio required the listener to sit and listen to it, as a captive audience, no skipping through.Problem with that idea is, I frequently turn it off as I get fed up with it.

Exactly how does TV “force” itself upon us? I have never yet seen or heard of a TV that doesn’t have have a power switch. Nor have I ever heard of an armed intruder barging into a home and forcing the occupants to watch TV.

I wonder what Calvin would have done with a YouTube channel ?

It’s going to be hard to eat through that screen

As with most of his ideas, this will not end well.

Oh I’d say Calvin managed to get into a couple million homes in his heyday. I don’t think I’d call it forcing, though.

Mike tried it at the Wonka candy factory… it backfired.

So true Calvin, so true! ;-)

The irony is that we’re all flocking to see him, every morning.

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Calvin would have jumped at being an influencer

In fact, once Calvin’s forced his way into their awareness, no one can turn him off.

I raised 2 great sons who he sometimes reminds me of in more way than one. As for his last statement, wanna bet on that?

Don’t be so sure, boy.

R.I.P. to the greatest comic strip of all time.

Calvin is filmed before a live studio audience.