Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 03, 2022

Your loins will have to settle for tidy whities.

If you ask me, the funny animals got off easy today.

what, not even his lucky rocket ship underwear?

I will skip commenting on this today. It would only get me in trouble.

Who doesn’t?

Gird your loins with fidelity!

Gird his loins? What a thing to say for a 6 year old kid!

Tenderloins.

Blank canvas! You could draw your own.

Not sure his loins are mature enough yet to require girding …

Cal hates bland. Would walk carefully around him when he starts out aggravated.

Reminds me of a catalog ad: “Underwear that’s fun to wear.”

Go commando then, Calvin.

Loin girding is overrated

Today’s strip reminds me of the Tom and Jerry underpants which I wore as a small boy. My favourite cartoons at that time were Tom and Jerry by MGM studios and Donald Duck by Disney studios.

I learned to associate the Hollywood Studios with their cartoon characters. Universal Studios produced Woody Woodpecker and also the Hanna-Barbera TV cartoons although I also saw Hanna and Barbera’s names on most of the classic Tom and Jerry cartoons from MGM. Universal Studios produced the Pink Panther cartoons and also the Pink Panther comedies starring Peter Sellers. Warner Bros produced many excellent cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Roadrunner.

Nowadays, Warner Bros holds the rights to the Hanna-Barbera TV characters and to Tom and Jerry. They release the classic cartoons and also produce some new ones for TV. I have recently watched a Scooby Doo cartoon produced by Warner Bros Animation in 2005 called “Farmed and Dangerous” and a Tom and Jerry cartoon by Warner Bros Animation in 2019 which was also called “Farmed and Dangerous”.

MGM have lost the rights to the Tom and Jerry cartoons but now have the rights to the Pink Panther cartoons and comedy films. They now release the classics and sometimes produce inferior new ones.

I mentioned Calvin’s liking for cartoon animal underpants just over a week ago when Calvin was saying that he would like to wear a T-shirt with a company logo on it.

(((((((() GASP)))))))

Funny how we all have our little quirks, and weirdness….LOL

More comments like that and the strip will require a ‘Mature Audience’ rating.

I don’t remember ever having a particular opinion on my underwear. Not at least until I got to boot camp and they handed me the baggy boxer shorts I had to wear. They suuuukkked. Never again.

“Girding your loins with funny animals” – I hope you mean figuratively! A real hedgehog would take the smile off your face.

Did they ever make “Woody Woodpecker” underwear?

He should have some of these: https://a.co/d/2fgelK0

God how I love this kid!

And funny animals the world over heave a huge sigh of relief…

Just go commando, Cal

At least he wears underwear.

Wait til you’re older Calvin…you’ll worry less about the animals, and more about the support and comfort.

I mean this is a mood

LOL.. where is Hobbes when he needs him?

me too

From another Calvin strip: “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.”

It’s Commando Day!

“Or pictures of a young kid with a tiger.”

Gird my loins. Hilarious!

When I was a little older than Calvin, I ALWAYS wore overalls. In the summer, usually nothing else. (See my avatar) One summer morning, Mom had all my overalls in the wash.

“You’ll just have to wear something else.”

I found a pair of blue pants and went out to play. My main friends, the neighbor boys were out of town, but next door was Sunny and his mom. Sunny was always fun. He had straight black hair, brown eyes and pretty dark skin that just made his bright smile more sunny. He was wearing a pair of white shorts and flip flops. He was pretty little, but bigger than me because everyone was bigger than me, even little kids.

As I walked up, his mom confronted me. "Tomacina! What are you doing outside half naked?:

Situational mutism set in, so I could only think, “Why is she calling me that? Carol sometimes calls me that when she’s being mean. What? I’m more dressed than Sunny. I have long pants, he has shorts.”

“You can’t go about topless like the boys!” Sunny’s mom continued.

“What? She thinks I’m a girl?” I had no idea what to do about that.

And Sunny was peeing. He was old enough not to wet his pants, but he was not at all discrete about it. There he was, naked from the ankles up, peeing in the yard. Realizing that she would see me as younger, though I was older, I followed his example."

“Oh! You are a boy! Your sister said…”

Now that it was settled that I was dressed properly, I spent most of the day with them. At lunch time, she asked “Tentoes, do you know your phone number?” I told her my number and she went in. Then she came back out “you can stay for lunch.”

I was a little suspicious of such strange-looking sandwiches, but they were quite tasty.

My sister, who told everybody I was her little sister spent the day in her room.

Umm ok…

Mine had pictures of missiles launching from submarines

Not so fearsome, huh?

Technically, Calvin, all your underpants are cartoon character underpants.

Hm… I don’t think I ever had funny underwear as a kid… at least on purpose.

All these new ones I have never seen before.

That right who don’t!

It turns out that you gird your loins with a shirt.

Been there, girded that.

Or kisses…

Way back when, Mum sent my 10 year old brother off to a 1 week camp with 7 pairs of clean underwear, plus the one’s he had on. He came back with 7 pairs of clean underwear, minus any on his body. Never did get an answer about what happened or why.

You already gird a tiger around you most of the time. That must be a consolation.