Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 29, 2015

While you’re at it, see if you can get an apartment in New York that no line cook and waitress in real life could afford.

I’ve been saying “my life needs better writers” for years. I probably got that idea from this strip.

If you can’t get good writers at least have a good sound track.

If situation comedies were like real life, than it wouldn’t be funny.Wait a second, this is Friends we’re talking about – so it is like real life.

Your problem is that you didn’t start with parents that have demanding, highly-paid career jobs that somehow allow them to spend all their time sitting around at home.

I think Hobbes has his priorities straight. Smoochies are always the best goal.

I’m a published author, why don’t I have gorgeous babes in my life? I must be doing something wrong…

“Why isn’t every scene or incident in my life peppered with audience reaction and a laugh track?”

Well, at least TV doesn’t create unrealistic expectations for our lives, or our children……cough….cough.

One, I think!

Calvin, Bill Watterson was your writer. Blame him.

First, you need friends.

You already do, Calvin.

Did people in mid-1990s sitcoms ask why their TV sets don’t independently bounce or float above the TV stand like TVs in Calvin and Hobbes?

I could use a writer. And a stunt double. And a body double. Makeup artist probably be handy too.

WHAT friends, Calvin? You’ve always been a loner!

Be careful what you wish for, Calvin.

This cartoon would never get published today, it would upset all the heterophobics out there!

Hey, he does know Susie…

You are your own writer, Calvin.

I actually preferred “Married with Children” to “Seinfeld” or “Friends”, much more realistic, but Woody Allen never worked a day in his life really, in any of his films. People don’t like to be reminded of working when they’re not at work. Work isn’t very entertaining at all.

mine is more like CSI

@dflak

Actually that is only slightly improbable. My psychologist was a waitress doing her PhD. It was really good money and she enjoyed it. The income differential between the two careers when she graduated wasn’t that much. Cocktail waitresses can make a fortune in tips, if they’re young, pretty, and good at what they do. Calvin’s question is really quite fundamental. Who is writing my script? and as Hobbes adds, why aren’t there more gorgeous babes in it? Very fundamental questions about life.

@Richard H Hditto that, still trying to figure out what happened

Here ya go, Hobbes…

maybe if Calvin didn’t show utter contempt toward all other people he knew he’d have some friends.

Sometime in the ’70s or early ’80s I had some friends where the girl was a computer programmer. She was had been hired by Sears to locate and repair a glitch in a program.She would bring home huge reels of tape and sit in the floor reading these things for hours. Yeah, she found the line of screwed up code, re-wrote it and solved the problem.So that year she made $25,000 US. She and her husband were elated that she made such a huge salary. Calling on me to celebrate with them. I wet blanketed the party by congratulating her on the first time since I had known them (years) that she had made more money than I. They were horrified because I worked in a factory, manual labor, you know.

When was the last time Calvin needed any help instigating “wacky adventures”???!!!

And why can’t you solve all your problems in a half hour?

Brb, searching google for ‘how to hone your wit.’

I love that bouncing TV.

xxx

It couldn’t be any better than that.

Not to mention a laugh track and background music?

Be careful what you ask for, you could get horror writers!

It because you dont have any friends other then Hoobes of course