Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 10, 2021

For once, I agree with Calvin. Those Philistines were humorless sticklers for table manners.

I guess Mom and Dad just don’t appreciate entertainment.

yeah ? well they’ll be sorry when Calvin’s a soloist in the orchestra !

Under-appreciated talent. Just wait until he is rich and famous. They’ll sing a different tune then.

if you’re parents are Philistines, Calvin, then are you a Babylonian?

Eh, Garfield does it better.

Your parents bought them already packaged in packs of dozens.

Some people just don’t get performance art.

That was pretty impressive/

*clap*clap*clap*clap… ENCORE!

Back when he was a teenager my brother-in-law could belch the alphabet, much to his grandmother’s disgust.

In China, burping at the dinner table is acceptable!

It’s art if you call it art. Particularly if you can sell it…

Manners maketh man.

Cretans and Philistines never did get along. (Which is like saying early man and dinosaurs never got along, but will have to save that for another day.)

Wow, made Dad’s glasses fly off his head.

Now if you’d burped the alphabet, I would have been impressed……

Sorry Calvin, artists and prophets are seldom appreciated in their time.

Actually, I think the Philistines would have appreciated so… profound… a belch.

Who ever Phyllis Stines is, she didn’t appreciate it either.

r/everyoneclapped

HAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!!!!!!

My kids that age used to do that or my son when little, treated that as rude, yes I told him not too, one place he dared not was his Aunt’s house different state, she demanded manors.

Calvin practices proper etiquette from Japanese culture and his parents object to his knowledge? Calvin is right. They are philistines.

I suspect that Hobbes would have advised against it, Calvin.

Mom and Dad can say SO MUCH without saying a word.

I seem to remember that there are some countries where a solid appreciative burp is expected after a good meal. Actually, even after a mediocre meal, just to be polite. Calvin was very, very polite.

The facial expressions in panel three were priceless…almost didn’t even need a punchline.

I constantly amaze myself with the number of times I’m on Calvin’s side. He’s just what I’d want to be if I were a little boy!

What could possibly be more satisfying than well-executed belch?

Earl would have given him a 10.

“Must be a barge coming through!”

A “bravo” will suffice. Save the “encore” for farts. :)

“This website is under heavy load (queue full)We’re sorry, too many people are accessing this website at the same time. We’re working on this problem. Please try again later.”

First time I ever got this on GoComics! How many people are here this morning?

Bring that up again and we’ll vote on it.

Heh, I remember when I was in high school, in many cases if one of the teens burped, he or another would react with “Oh, that was beautiful!” But that DOES sound like something Calvin would say…

Geez. Calvin is not complaining about dinner. Can he catch a break?

When I was in the third or fourth grade, our teacher had to leave the room. While she was gone, one of the boys taught us all to burp at will. Talk about having the ability to do something that no one wants one to do.

Calvin’s error was burping so loud it caused all the food to spill off the plates. THAT is why mom and dad are upset.

I’d get in trouble with my sister for laughing at things like that her kids (and later her grand-kids) did.

artists are never fully appreciated in their own time

Better than barf.

When I was a college freshman there was a guy on my dorm floor who could belch loud enough to be heard on other floors.

The philistines were the people of civilization and culture vice the hill barbarians. Such a shame the hill barbarians won. It was like the fall of Rome.

The real problem is the self-congratulation.

I’m LOLing!!

Boy, that burp was obnoxious. But this six year old has a sound vocab.

The day Calvin’s parents cut him off from all carbonated drinks.

Atomic.

Some day I hope to burp so loud that it knocks somebody’s glasses off their head.

I don’t know if anyone else has brought this up, but I heard once that in Germany, it is rude to not belch after meal, as that insults your host. Not sure if that is true.

Considering the other possible method of expelling gastro-intestinal gas, the belch is definitely the lesser of two evils.

The artwork for Calvin realizing the error of his ways, shrinking under his parents’ extreme disapproval, is so simple and yet so clear…. (there’s a better adjective, but my brain is shutting down for the night, lol.)

Ha. One of my all-time favorite C&H strips—mainly due to the visuals in panel 3, post-burp. This one made me laugh out loud.

Jealousy…

If I were the dad my butt would have to be sewed back on … from all the laughing.