Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 09, 2021

Dad knows his audience.

The one here is honestly more faithful to the original Red Riding Hood story than the versions we know. The first version of RRH didn’t exactly have a happy ending.

Also, I think there actually are Asian variations on the RRH story that have a tiger instead of a wolf.

I like Hobbes’ …..happy ending.

Calvin’s idea of a bedtime story is something by Stephen King.

Tell stories to Calvin is the toughest moment of the day for dad.

Never Cry Wolf

Remember Hobbes’ version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears?

You really don’t want to read the originals of our “fairy tales.” The Brother’s Grimm collected all the European Medieval stories of horror, cautionary tales, and religious fervor they could find. These stores are about almost any dark, evil subject one can think of. The Brothers Grimm were German philologists who used these stories to trace word origins and how words changed over time and cultures. Some of these stories are very old. I think Cinderella can be traced to ancient Egypt. Since English is a Germanic language the work was useful to English philologists. The Brothers Grimm published many of the originals. I don’t remember who cleaned them up and made children’s stories out of them sometime in the late 1800s. The versions known to Americans are almost always Disney’s versions. As is the children’s stories by Hans Christian Anderson. Since only specialists in America read any Continental languages, even the versions Disneyised is the English (United Kingdom) versions. I am not a fan of Disney movies. That’s a rant for another time. I see my meds kicked in earlier than usual, thus the rant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mitKkgsOVg

“Happy endings always make me cry!”

An anagram of “little red ridinghood” is “Girl idol , thirteen odd.”

Sounds like an executive summary for congressional oversite. It doesn’t have to be good news, but it better not be bad news.

Me too, Hobbes, me too.

There is a website dedicated to explaining Star Wars to young children. I can certainly see how the destruction of Alderan could upset someone under 10 years old.

I want to hear more about Supertoad.

Know your audience – first rule.

So many Children’s stories are violent. Kind of disturbing

This one is an old favorite, but I thought Dad was reading The Three Bears. Probably better we saw this one, and not the Mother’s Day strip that just reminded us how bratty Calvin can be.

one of my favorite sundays ever not just in calvin and hobbes

There is the old saying in Kenya, “when the lions (tigers) are able to write the histories, they will be the heroes.”

Happy endings mean different things to each person.

This is all well and good but what in tarnation happened to SuperToad after he went “Plooie”?

You gotta love the endings!

Little Red Riding Hood – Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FA85RO89HA