Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 27, 2022

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    BE THIS GUY  about 2 years ago

    Domino’s delivers, and it provides the uniformly bland pizza that most of America thinks is fine dining.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 2 years ago

    sure, Calvin

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    codycab  about 2 years ago

    Calvin’s not lovin it because they don’t deliver…yet, of course.

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    David_the_CAD  about 2 years ago

    Man this brings back memories of when cable was just getting started. Now we have hundreds of channels, and still nothing worth watching.

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    Robin Harwood  about 2 years ago

    He’s got a point.

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    zekepotato  about 2 years ago

    AMEN!!!!!

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    GeorgeInAZ  about 2 years ago

    A bit off this time. “Monolithic networks” did a good job of keeping many Americans believing a homogenous narrative. Sure there were outliers, but they were aware they were outside the mainstream. Today, not so much.

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    Jesy Bertz Premium Member about 2 years ago

    1992, back in the old days when Walmart was spelled with a hyphen.

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    eastern.woods.metal  about 2 years ago

    We now have 1000 channel cable and still nothing good on.

    I think Calvin is hopping for Vampire Vixen episodes 24 / 7

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Calvin understands that values is what’s important.

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    Susan00100  about 2 years ago

    As long as network TV provides his sports programming, Dad is content with the status quo.

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    The Reader Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Yet,

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    Calvinist1966  about 2 years ago

    Calvin: We have to…

    Dad: No, we don’t!

    Calvin’s Dad gets a good line in panel 1 and a good facial expression in panel 2.

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    Calvinist1966  about 2 years ago

    Today’s strip is another example of Calvin using long words that he has learned in the mistaken belief that long words win arguments. As in another recent TV-themed strip, he uses phrases that criticise television in the mistaken belief that they compliment television.

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    hagarthehorrible  about 2 years ago

    Calvin, you should have seen how bland the social content has become now, thanks to the netizens now. Wish Bill could have continued this exciting strip in this Era.

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    Guybrush Threepwood  about 2 years ago

    Sadly, they do.

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  about 2 years ago

    Sadly they do come in our homes… advertisements shown ad nauseam.

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    tripwire45  about 2 years ago

    That was back in the 1980s. Streaming services today are serving up shows that are so much worse.

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    GrayOld Dave  about 2 years ago

    Walmart delivers in most areas now, as do many others. This strip is from 1992.

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    jagedlo  about 2 years ago

    Back then they didn’t, now they do!

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    biglar  about 2 years ago

    I just read an article yesterday that streaming surpassed cable for the first time.

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    Prey  about 2 years ago

    Don´t worry Calvin, Amazon will have your back(and your wallet).

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    manowarrior  about 2 years ago

    I got cable TV.it means so much to me.it cost me 50 bucks a month to see it but that’s alright with me – weird al yankovic

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    Gen.Flashman  about 2 years ago

    Calvin has it backwards, before cable with only three options to choose from everyone watched the same shows. Watching Leave to Beaver, Bonzana, Gilligan’s Island…was a nationwide shared experience that you could go to school and talk about.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Yeah, we have to go out and bring them into our own homes manually. Come on. Embrace the science and get in step with the rest of the “rebels” that conform to whatever is new and shiny. On the other hand, the Amish are interesting too.

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    einarbt  about 2 years ago

    Calvin has got a point.

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    dflak  about 2 years ago

    No Cable TV, No Fox News or MSNBC. You’re better off learning how to read a newspaper, Calvin.

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    Tom  about 2 years ago

    And all stay nice little Socialist Democrats by only watching broadcast news.

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    g04922  about 2 years ago

    Poor Calvin, already a victim of the ‘we all need to be and think the same’ indoctrination.

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    gantech  about 2 years ago

    He’s having these musings at the age of 6. When I was 6, I didn’t even have that vocabulary!

    ADHD kids are often extremely bright.

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    SamT53  about 2 years ago

    The breadth of Calvin’s vocabulary at such a young age is astonishing.

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    Zebrastripes  about 2 years ago

    I think we all have a bit of McDonalds and Walmart in our past…some still the present..conformity is not my thing….hope Calvin learns this as he grows up…..if ever

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    effyman  about 2 years ago

    “But they don’t come into our homes!”

    Yet. Calvin the profit.

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    Baucuva  about 2 years ago

    I’ve never had cable. Don’t people have fun and interesting things to do?

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    jrankin1959  about 2 years ago

    Uniform national blandness… you actually WANT this?

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    Brent Rosenthal Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I see the strippers 30 years old and did not foresee the day when delivery to your door would be offered by virtually every business

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    mistercatworks  about 2 years ago

    This is actually a very prescient issue. Even 20 years ago, when the strip was first run, the “water cooler” TV discussion was fading away from lack of common program viewing.

    The Internet has further “balkanized” the national entertainment culture. Little wonder people have to form “culture clique” discussion forums to find someone else who has recently seen the same show.

    In your own area, you are lucky to find someone who follows national news stories.

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    yangeldf  about 2 years ago

    heh, all the available streaming services these days would make his head explode

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    mindjob  about 2 years ago

    Monolithic networks are still providing blandness, there’s just more of it. The real reason to get cable was that the FCC auctioned off those network frequencies some time back

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    EMGULS79  about 2 years ago

    Ah yes, Calvin, take us back to the bad old days when the President could come on and monopolize all of the only three stations available while spewing his propaganda for an hour, and the only people who had a choice of a different programs were those like me who lived close enough to the Canadian border to pick up CBC. (Only to find out that CBC content is invariably even less interesting than the President!)

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    Count Olaf Premium Member about 2 years ago

    They could always get a Roku and subscribe to Netflix and not watch it like most people who have it.

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    david.reichert  about 2 years ago

    Actually, given the nature of FoxNews watchers and MSNBC watchers, the kid is not wrong.

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    miztrniceguy  about 2 years ago

    Calvin is wrong. Walmart will. https://inhome.walmart.com/

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    rshive  about 2 years ago

    We once lived in a small rural town where the three commercial TV networks (plus PBS) were available via rabbit ears. Calvin might like that.

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    willie_mctell  about 2 years ago

    Fortunately we have the internet now including youtube, Instagram, and Tik-Tok.

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    Gregory Kolanowski Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Now we are past cable and on to streaming and binging. No one is watching the same thing at the same time, and you can’t talk about shows for fear of spoilers!

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Looks like Calvin talked dad’s ear off in the last panel.

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Calvin has an awesome vocabulary!

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    sallyseckman  about 2 years ago

    Bill Watterson definitely kept to his philosophy of anti-establishment by not selling out. Though it’s a shame we don’t have official Hobbes plushies at least.

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    Boise Ed Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Neither of them comes into MY home, that’s for sure.

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    Jogger2  about 2 years ago

    So, Calvin, is the solution to our divisiveness to have only one TV channel?

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    wiley207  about 2 years ago

    Of course, The Dad is not a big fan of television… and neither is Bill Watterson.

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    kathleenhicks62  about 2 years ago

    Where did he learn those $50 words?

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    anomaly  about 2 years ago

    Starbucks and Little Caesars are willing to open branches in your home.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  about 2 years ago

    I think to Dad being like everyone else isn’t so great. You have to think for yourself. If you’ll excuse the cliche, if everyone jumped off a cliff . . .

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    AwelCruiz  about 2 years ago

    In his tenth anniversary book, Bill Waterson replied to Calvin’s last comment with “I’m sure they’re working on it.”

    Now, you can shop at Walmart online, and get McDonald’s delivered with various apps.

    So Bill called it.

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    Rick Horne Premium Member about 2 years ago

    LOL, I am currently eating McDonald’s while sitting in Walmart’s parking lot

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    MFRXIM Premium Member about 2 years ago

    But now we have “the social networks’; Facebook, twitter…..Bladnness and misinformation combined in an accessible form.

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    BluNova  about 2 years ago

    Calvin had an unusually broad vocabulary for a six year old.

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    John Jorgensen  about 2 years ago

    He’s right; the rise of national mass media outlets really did have a powerful homogenizing influence on American culture, and helped to diminish regional conflicts.

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    ChrisTrey  about 2 years ago

    We had cable Tv long before walmart ever built their first store in New England.

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    jvscanlan Premium Member about 2 years ago

    There’s Alexa

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    edeloriea14  about 2 years ago

    Yeah, McDonald’s and WalMart come into our homes.

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    Fuzzy Kombu  about 2 years ago

    Calvin was hip to a sociological truth.

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    Realimaginary1 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    If you believe there’s nothing up their sleeve

    Then nothing’s cool

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    David Bethke Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I’m in the minority. I like Domino’s pizza, especially their Philly Cheese Steak variety.

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    yarnm57  about 2 years ago

    Ooh ooh, I know; we need social media!

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