Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 21, 2009

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    Hmm, he showed more enthusiasm for the caterpillar.

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    DawnAvril  over 15 years ago

    Oh, that mean queen ant! Work, Calvin, Work

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    D-i-c-e-R  over 15 years ago

    He’s got high hopes. High apple pie in the sky hopes. Everyone knows an ant can’t … move a pile of laundry.

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    tbree  over 15 years ago

    I’m with the mom on this one. Have you ever had to constantly pick up someone else’s stinky/smelly on-the-floor-for-a-week clothes? Go, mom!

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    Jor-El  over 15 years ago

    Ants can carry up to 50 times their body weight. Not so poor little Calvin.

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    CaptainColorado  over 15 years ago

    “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” - Proverbs 6:6

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    hobbeseyist  over 15 years ago

    if mum could only join in the imaginative play, be the queen ant, instead of being ‘grown up’… c&h illlustrates differences between children’s imaginative play and adults loss of same for ‘realism’, well.

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    hobbeseyist  over 15 years ago

    caterpillar = clothes, when calvin is imagining, he can carry the caterpillar; last frame shows the ‘real’ situation in which calvins imagination is operating. 50x, no worries!

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    pomy2191  over 15 years ago

    lol..this is whats gonna go through my mind when i clean my room!! it’s got dead stinking caterpillars and bits of food all over the place =]

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    Yukoner  over 15 years ago

    The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah. The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah. The ants go marching one by one, the little one stops to carp at Mom And they all go marching down … to the earth … to get out … of the rain, boom, boom, boom, boom boom, boom, boom, boom

    The ants go marching two by two hurrah, hurrah.

    Well you get the idea.
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    4deerinmyyard  over 15 years ago

    Pomy, thanks for sharing.

    Everybody, for Grazer’s friend’s pet, google: Therizinosaur—Mystery of the Sickle-Claw Dinosaur. Pretty!

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    tyrannusbe  over 15 years ago

    This reminds me, I should really clean my room… Neh, I’ll do it some other time. Again.

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    florchi  over 15 years ago

    Captain Colorado said: “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” - Proverbs 6:6 ————————— There have been recent news stories about a team of German scientists looking to find out how ants avoid collisions so that they can apply the same principles to cars on the motorways. One finding seems to be that ants are unselfish - never “me first.” Given this finding, I rather doubt that Calvin would fit in as a good ant. :-)

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    gjsjr41  over 15 years ago

    Me either. lol

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    alondra  over 15 years ago

    Some mothers are pretty clever and make a game out of it.

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    dumb_007  over 15 years ago

    It’s sad that his mom never comes to recognise his creative abilities……

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    rshive  over 15 years ago

    Of course it qualifies. The stuff isn’t hurting anything just sitting on the floor.

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    TapiocaHead  over 15 years ago

    Mom, ants do a job of cleaning things up.

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    JonD17  over 15 years ago

    Good Lord Calvin, after all these years, your imagination still blows me away!!!

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    JonD17  over 15 years ago

    AWWRIGHTTTTTT!!!!!!!!, Grazer, thanks for the info about your friends discovery(awesome acheivement BTW) and 4deerinmy yard, thanks for the link. Yes it is an awesome beautiful beast.

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    cleokaya  over 15 years ago

    I just saw that little Calvin run by. Oh … wait, it was just an ant.

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    madampresident  over 15 years ago

    Have you ever trie to keep up with a child of Calvin’s imagination? I used to babysit for a woman who had seven children. The youngest boy had an imagination equal in spirit to Calvin’s. He kept me on my toes, but mom was too tired to try to keep up with him. he spent a lot of time in his room which only further fueled his imagination. It was easier for me to play into his fantasiedsbecause I wasn’t there 24/7, but when I was there several days in a row, he bagan to tax even my ability to keep up.

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    GROG Premium Member over 15 years ago

    Mom asks so little of him, yet Calvin makes such a big deal of doing those things asked of him. I suppose I reacted the same, but without the vivid imagination

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    carmy  over 15 years ago

    Again, I’m so glad that I have girls and no boys.

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    Wildmustang1262  over 15 years ago

    Gasp! Calvin’s mommy calls Calvin a slave! A child slave! Oh my goodness! Sighhhh!

    Carmy, I am so glad I don’t have any kids! :-)

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    primacyofreason  over 15 years ago

    I wonder if my kids would be more enthusiastic about cleaning their rooms if they pretended they were ants.

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    GROG Premium Member over 15 years ago

    Somehow a bulldozer would make more sense

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    robquill  over 15 years ago

    Without the forethought of imagination we’d all be subservient to the Authoritarian.

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    horvath_paul  over 15 years ago

    “Don’t tread on ant,he’s done nothing to you….”

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    lewisbower  over 15 years ago

    I always wanted a slide from my room to the washing machine.

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    Smiley Rmom  over 15 years ago

    I like the laundry chute from our closet straight to the laundry room. Now, if I could only figure out how to have a chute from every closet… (And the way my husband likes to remove his socks & shirt in the living room, maybe one from there…)

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    lazygrazer  over 15 years ago

    Imagine a whole colony of madly scampering Calvins……

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    blazedancer  over 15 years ago

    Growing up we had a Laundry chute from the bathroom to the laundry room. Mom always wondered how the babysitter got us to pick up our dirty clothes, until the day I asked her “momma can you drop me down the chute after we put my clothes through?” I bet Calvin would have enjoyed that.

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    bmonk  over 15 years ago

    I love the difference between Calvin’s inner world and his outer world: Ant Calvin hoisting an impossibly huge caterpillar and toting it back to the nest amid a host of other workers, and little boy Calvin with a load of dirty laundry all by himself.

    At least Hobbes gets to enjoy himself.

    Until laundry day for him…

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    Kerovan  over 15 years ago

    Just a Spoon full of Sugar makes the medicine go down. In a most delightful way!

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    tyrannusbe  over 15 years ago

    BC13: Yes, it would make more sense. But since when does Calvin’s imagination make sense? It’s designed not to.

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