Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 14, 2022

Let’s get past Thanksgiving, first.

At least he’s not singing a certain Mariah Carey song…

QVC, the shopping channel, began Christmas sales in June…..

At least they’ll still have the pleasure of throwing you out every time.

Some holiday spirit Mom has there.

You’d almost think that she doesn’t like kids

He should be singing this just after starting school in the Autumn. Just going by dollar store merchandise.

The CHRISTMAS holiday starts NO SOONER than the Saturday after Thanksgiving. And at our house, not until the first Saturday in December.

I noticed my local supermarket skipped T’giving altogether, and went from Halloween to Christmas!!! Nobody has complained, so I guess they can do that!!

Thanksgiving wasn’t moving enough product….

This is the most crotchety I’ve seen Calvin’s mom get.

Too soon.

She’s not ready for prime time planning and shopping. But, if she’s like my mom, she already has some pre-purchases stashed somewhere. Mom used to buy stuff during the year and hide it in the attic or basement, as our budget was limited and couldn’t take a big Dec hit.

I’m with Calvin’s Mum on this, Both my late parents and I have birthdays in November. It’s not Christmas season ’till we have finished Birthday season……..

Before the pandemic my city was shoving Christmas down people’s throats in early October. Now they know nobody has any money to spend, it’s just starting.

He got the lyrics wrong:

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks

Dressed in holiday style

In the air there’s a feeling of Christmas

Children laughing people passing

Meeting smile after smile

And on every street corner you hear

Silver bells, (Silver bells)

Oh well, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

I’ve slowly started decorating…..

If that was a punt in the middle panel, then Calvin made good hang time!

Yep.. Christmas is coming, folks. For once, Calvin is correct.

Bill Watterson has claimed this strip is based on his own childhood.

Did his mother literally kick him out of his own home?? And for something as innocent as singing about Christmas??

We have a tradition in our town called Light Up the Night. It takes place on the first Friday in December. There’s a great show on the main street featuring many local entertainers and it always ends with the Christmas lights being switched on as Santa makes his appearance while Wayne Rostad sings Christmas in the Valley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh5H8ZcG_kE

true, but it does make her feel better.

The neighborhood liquor store was playing Xmas music last week. AAARRRGGGGHHHH.

One thing I love about Winco, no background music. Employee owned, they seem to be against the idea.

I don’t want it to go away “Pavarotti”. I want you to go away.

I was in macy’s last friday and an xmas song came on. i loudly declared “Would you please let the d**n bird get cold first!” no one complained.

It’s supposed to snow 2” to 4” here on the plains today.

The Sears/Penney’s/Montgomery Ward Wish Books must have shown up.

I am grateful for Sirius XM, which has channels that NEVER play xmas music.

OMG the HELL-i-days are almost upon us. Hurry 26 December

Here in Chester in the UK, some houses have started putting up Christmas decorations and our Christmas tree is up beside Chester Town Hall.

Tell that to the advertisers. Christmas ads started the day after Halloween

Don’t think it was the song, Calvin, I think it was your rendition of it that ‘set Mom off’ ! ! !

I see that this week Peter Billingsley is returning on TV as a grown up Ralphie in a “Christmas Story” update.

Wonderful, Calvin’s one of THOSE people.

I started hearing Christmas songs just before Halloween, which I think is ridiculous.

They wanna hear “The Thanksgiving Song”

Alright

This is uhh, this is “The Thanksgiving Song”

I hope you enjoy it

Love to eat turkey

Love to eat turkey

Oh, I love you!

Love to eat turkey

‘Cause it’s good

Love to eat turkey

Like a good boy should

‘Cause it’s turkey to eat

So good

That clappin’s messing my head up, man

I appreciate it

But I was trying to think of the next line and all I hear is clapping

Here we go… Thanks anyways

Turkey for me, turkey for you

Let’s eat the turkey in my big brown shoe

Love to eat the turkey at the table

I once saw a movie with Betty Grable

Eat that turkey all night long

50 million Elvis fans can’t be wrong

Turkey lurkey doo and turkey lurkey dap

I eat that turkey, then I take a nap

Thanksgiving is a special night

Jimmy Walker used to say Dynomite, that’s right

Turkey with gravy and cranberry

Can’t believe the Mets traded Darryl Strawberry

Turkey for you and turkey for me

Can’t believe Tyson gave that girl VD

White meat, dark meat, you just can’t lose

I fell off my moped and I got a bruise

Turkey in the oven and the buns in the toaster

I’ll never take down my Cheryl Tiegs poster

Wrap the turkey up in aluminum foil

My brother likes to masturbate with baby oil

Turkey and sweet potato pie

Sammy Davis Jr. only had one eye

Turkey for the girls and turkey for the boys

My favorite kind of pants are corduroys

Gobble-gobble-goo and gobble-gobble-gickel

I wish turkey only cost a nickel

Oh, I love turkey on Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody

Oh, thank you

All blame for this song rightfully goes to Adam Sandler.

That song gives me the fee-heeeels….

she got some pretty good hang time there

One of the radio stations on my car radio started playing non-stop Christmas music the day after Halloween. So I don’t even push that button now.

Finished putting up the lights yesterday. It’s early but always brings a cheer when they’re on.

They may be in a bad mood as they just got a visit from the Census Bureau. When asked for their names, the parents just sat there with a deer in the headlights look!

Why be so Scrooge about it? Some people enjoy it. Since when is there a time limit to enjoying things? Sometimes I listen to the Satellite Christmas station in June. The horrors! Lock me away. Life is too short, enjoy the things you love. It doesn’t hurt anybody to see a Santa in October. Sheesh.

Oh, man, I was still singing Veteran’s Day carols. :)

She’s not thinking about you, Calvin.

I’m not ready for Christmas yet, but Calvin sure is! Interesting how he re-arranges the lyrics of “Silver Bells”. A longer version of that first panel could have him sing “…dressed in holiday a-sty-y-yle, in the air there’s a fee-heeling of Christmasss… Children laughing, people passing, meeting smile after sa-mi-i-ile…” to which he gets kicked out right afterward.

The stores were celebrating in Sept.

Calvin is like Luke Skywalker: “All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was… what he was doing.” Ignoring Christmas (for now) allows us to actually enjoy the Thanksgiving season (where we are now).

Calvin is going to get enough coal in his stocking to revive the economy of Kentucky.

Reason 10,457 not to have kids.

I’d be for changing the song to “The 55 days of Christmas”, but it would still be just as boring to sing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GFrZwJ5k8Q

Mom agrees with me: Don’t rush holidays.

With Hallmark channel, our Christmas starts with there first Xmas show! God! help me.

November 1st be like: “All I want for Christmas is you”

Back in the olden days, the season started with Advent, and we had advent calendars, each day had a little door we’d open for the count down. The decorations came down after Epiphany.Don’t know why they injected all that religious stuff into a commercial holiday, back then. /s

I didn’t understand why she did that until I noticed the date of this comic, and the tiny holiday-hating grinch part of me understands…

It should start and end on Dec 25. This “season” bs is just for the corps to make sales. Too much Christmas trash is a bad thing.

Whatever, this strip is best depicting momentum transfer including energy transfer from potential to kinetic energy.