Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 18, 2021

How can Calvin tell when he’s wired? I assumed that was his default condition.

What’s another cereal that makes us wired? For me, it’s gotta be Cap’n crunch of any kind.

Anything for a secret decoder ring…..

Um… wouldn’t eight bowls finish the whole box?

If Mom only connected the dots

Here in Canuckistan Post makes a cereal on behalf of Tim Horton’s ( a donut chain equivalent to Starbucks ) that looks just like chocolate frosted sugar bombs. I’ve always thought of sending a box to Watterson

Coming soon on this screen “The attack of the Abominable Blood Sugar”

That’s too much!!

Remember when Calvin was eating the cereal to get the propellor beanie?

I remember the days when they included prizes in cereal boxes. Still do, I think.

By the time the sugar rush is over, he’ll have forgotten the reason for it in the first place…..

Once you have a few, you start getting duplicates. Have more than five, and the chance that the next one is a duplicate is greater than the chance that it’s a new one, and once you have nine, the chance that the next one is the missing one is only one in ten. And that’s just assuming that all ten are evenly distributed in the boxes, which I don’t trust at all. You’ll have to buy a lot more than ten in order to have a good chance of getting a complete set.

Think positive. If you’re wired after five boxes, you’ll have plenty of false energy to blow through five more. Just keep using the same milk in the bowl until it’s as thick as Pennzoil.

Do they still have those plastic trinkets in cereal boxes in the USA? Because I haven’t seen one in a cereal box here in Canada for some 15 or 20 years. I can’t even remember how long ago exactly.

When we were kids we always opened a new box of cereal from the bottom to get at the prize first. Mom hated that!

Why would that be a problem? Just store the box upside down afterwards.

Plastic trinket…’bout sums it up.

And then he’s going to find out (like most people) that the trinket wasn’t worth what he went through to get it…

And we wonder why Cal does some of the things he does.

nobody is aware of repeated colours….

My guess is a ‘wired’ Calvin will be a lot like the Tazmanian Devil.

I wish companies wouldn’t pull the trick of “10 collectables” where they make plenty of 9 of them and 1 or 2 of one of them.

McDonalds still does the plastic trinkets.

Two or three cups of coffee will take the edge off and calm you right down, Calvin. Works for The Count every time. Esp Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte made with espresso and the pure sugar pumpkin syrup flavoring. Ack!

No such thing as a “sugar high.” It’s a dopamine high from eating a sweet food that creates excitement, not actual “energy.” Look it up.

Maybe the end of these cereal giveaway promotion isn’t so bad.

In 1942 cereal boxes had army cars & planes printed on the box to cut out and make. Shredded wheat cereal had a thin wood airplanes to make. It wasn’t balsa wood, & hard to cut accurately.

1) Super Sugar Crisp. 2) Sugar Frosted Flakes. 3) Sugar Smacks. 4) Sugar Pops. Parents and the media sure ruin everything.

That is why his imagination keeps going and he cannot sleep.

Five bowls? In my house, that’s two.

That was never a problem for my brother and I. We could put away some cereal. And the more sugary it was, the better!

I remember getting a glow-in-the-dark frisbee this way

How does he get five bowls out of one box of cereal? These days it seems you’re lucky if you get 3 bowls.

I think the sugar thing is a lie…

like the swimming after eating one!

invented for parental responsibility abdicational purposes!

They should give him a couple cans of Jolt to wash it down.

These days, with ever-shrinking packaging, it would only take half as many bowls to empty the box.

The things you do to get what you want…

The precursor to the propeller beanie cap.

Hey, the box went blank.

Like he not a wee bit of weird now!

I thought this stuff was too sweet for Hobbes.

They used to put the prize in the bottom of the cereal box, I just opened it upside down.

The advertisers are always a step ahead of the best witted, wired customers.

Something about Calvin’s “after five bowls” comment made me laugh out loud. A master of subtlety, he is not.