Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 02, 2024

You could watch “How the Grinch stole Christmas” on VHS.

Yeah Dad, you’re such a downer…..

I guess Dad isn’t giving or receiving any gifts this year.

Just kidding around

He’s also learned that he needs a TV that stands still and not jumps around in mid-air! BTW, for his sake, I hope he’s not watching one of those nauseating Hallmark movies.

Hate to admit it, but Dad’s right.

Cal’s dad can be such a tool

I used to watch Youtube instead of TV because of no ads, and then few ads. Now you have to either pay through the nose (in Europe) or sit through ads before the video starts, and if it’s longer than 3 minutes there’s at least one ad break. Weekends in the holiday season are even worse.

Why are Cavins parents ah’s.

TV ads were good for something—they inspired someone to invent ad-free streaming.

Now, with computers in every home, we can all rot our brains in solitude.

The internet and Netflix made TV less popular.

Cartoon dated 12/2 but which decade as CR TV was killed off long ago.

Seeing as how Calvin & Hobbes lasted 10 years, figuring out which decade shouldn’t take too long.

Dad’s got a point. Ads have become more frequent and longer. Gone are the days when they were as entertaining as the programmes.

These days the majority of them look the same. A bunch of idiots attempting to dance.I blame Strictly Come Dancing.The advertisers are aiming for the masses.

Love Watterson’s animation of the TV. There are fewer product “jingles” now. Rap crap “music” for commercials is horrible. Thank goodness for the MUTE button!

Those days it was idiot box and these days it is “smart” phones.

Dad complains about the lessons TV is giving his son, yet he walks away. Do yourself a favor and throw the TV out the window. I did over a decade ago and have never looked back.

I like how the TV always went flying thru the air in C&H!

The problem with advertising is that it works.

There is no free lunch. How does Calvin’s dad expect the programs to be paid for? Does he think EVERYTHING being sold is “wasteful” or a manifestation of “greed”?

What’s wrong with learning about peace and love?

I still remember the days when the fledgling cable industry was lobbying for its existence. The pitch was, “Since you are paying for it, there will be NO ads.”

Subtlety, thy name was never Bill Watterson.

What Calvin is learning is how to build character.

At age 14, I got my first job selling cotton candy at a local amusement park during the summer. It took about 6 weeks of paychecks for me to buy my first TV. It was a black and white “luggable” with a 13 inch screen and it was my primary TV for over a decade.

I bought it so I could watch the ball game while mom watched something else. I also constructed a homemade antenna in the attic to which I connected it. Yes, I was a geek even then. This meant I could pick up channel 3 in Hartford from New York City. When the game was blacked out in New York, I could still get it.

Did anyone notice that Xmas specials are the same thing?

Where can I buy a TV that leaps about like that?…

I’m with Dad. Took a few years to get there but once I did, the tv I enjoyed as a kid in the 50’s became a boring, repetitive run of flash and glitter with little quality or substance. TV heroes with all the acting ability of wood and scripts right out of a kid story.

Even the news, once the source of info about the world, is limited to a few seconds between for med ads that encourage the medically uneducated to challenge professionals with extensive degrees and experience. Ask your doctor has become its own disease – distrust.

It is just one step more toward the dissolution of a society and a country that once was the model for the world. Sad

Maybe Calvin is watching “Die Hard”. That’s a cool beans Christmas movie! : )

the good old days when TVs hopped

like say… your room. although they may never see you again until you get hungry enough.

I see where Cal gets those long wordy answers!!!!

Both Dad and Calvin are probably correct.

What is a TV bouncing up and down supposed to signify in comicese?

And remember when Dad explained to Calvin that the sun was about the size of a quarter and sets in the West near Flagstaff? I wonder what Dad thought Calvin learned from that?

Your learning that the tv has the ability to levitate off the table! This could be useful for Spaceman Spiff later on.

How is an old school TV hanging on the wall?

I just love it when the TV jumps around!

It’s why I went back to watching the TCM channel. But now, certain movies are starting to be repeating a week or so down the line. Amazing in that their library is HUGE. I record a few at time, and hafta scroll thru the beginning to miss whoever it is explaining about said movie. No commercials other than that!

Get a VCR. Fast-forward the previews.

As usual, your cluelessness caused you to completely ignore the point of the comment.

I can’t find a flatscreen that floats like that.

For me I just restart videos until I can play the video I actually wanted

Christmas, Christmastime is here,

Full of artificial cheer.

Three weeks to the 25th—

Let’s just get it over with!

“Peace on earth, good will towards men”—

Next month, you’ll hate them again!

Chock full of hypocrisy,

So Christmas ain’t for me!

Is that TUBE TV mounted on a wall?

Calvin’s dad must be in his eighties now,..probaqbly on depression meds

Those old CRT TV’s were so large and heavy….

I’m so cheap, and patient, that the ads don’t bother me. I have one game that I play, sometimes I get the level done in less than 1 minute, then wait through 3-4 ads ranging from 15 sec. to 30 sec.