Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 14, 2022

Batman does not smell!

All fun and games until Calvin starts singing.

Grandma will recover

Probably “The Night Santa Went Crazy.”

All Christmas songs should be banned from being played until a week before Christmas. I want someone working in a mall to sue the mall for aural torture with their repeated playing fo Christmas stuff long before the event.

Maybe Grandma got run over by a reindeer brings back traumatizing memories she doesn’t like to talk about.

♫ And a beer… in a tree ♫

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas! Or my two front teeth…

I hate that song grandma got run over by a reindeer too!!!

With age comes wisdom… or death… or expulsion. And wisdom is that NOTHING is funny if repeated more than once.

It’s her own fault. On the first day of Christmas, Calvin’s mother gave to him a Japanese transistor radio.

You can tell how upset Mom is by whether she tosses Calvin out of the door or boots him out!

That’s my standard for Bob Rivers!

Obviously, someone didn’t agree.

Hobbes must have not been singing… He gets to stay indoors.

♪I’m gettin’ nuthin’ for Christmas..mommy and daddy are mad.. I’m gettin’ nuthin’ for Christmas, cause I ain’t been nuthin’ but bad♪

Calvin sang “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” one too many times…

I did this to my mother at that age! :D

At least outside he can create some of those snow creations that he’s famed for!

Anything gets ‘old’ after a while. Makes me think of being in a grocery store yesterday and an announcement that ‘fresh bread had just came out of the oven in the bakery………’ kept playing and playing for over six minutes and finally someone turned off the PA system and a ‘round of applause’ went up in the store ! ! ! ! !

Where’s Hobbs?

Chipmunks roasting on an open fire,

Hot sauce dripping from their toes.

(No really. It’s a song. Look it up)

“We three kings of Orient are, trying to smoke a rubber cigar…” Mom was loaded, she exploded, and here I am on yonder star.

I recommend this one, especially the later section where Jon Anderson take the high part, as Sandra Crouch takes the lower part in the duet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBRUtvgyyIE

Frosty Got Run Over by a Hippopotamus That Was Missing Two Front Teeth.

Christmas once a year is too often. Every four years like the World Cup would be great.

From the twenty seventh time and on it gets iffy.

What novelty Christmas song is the worst to hear more than once?

Barking Dogs – Jingle Bells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xam01uaj6Vg

The Little Drummer Boy can gag a maggot or puke a buzzard.

Calvin must’ve came up with his own version of “All I want for Christmas is you”.

" the worms crawl in, the bugs crawl out by then your nothing to brag about – etc – etc – - – "

Santa Claus and His Old Lady never gets old. “Yeah man, I played with that dude!”

And you would be wrong. I’m tired of grandma and that dam reindeer.

Worry not, Calvin. There are plenty of people not to hear you when you sing outside.

Why do I picture Calvin putting one of these in the bathroom?

https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-4551550/holiday-music-toilet-paper-holder.jsp

This is for every store employee tired of the “All I Want For Christmas Is You” torture song.

I believe the second panel might be improved with the word ‘PUNT’ printed across it in bold letters.

This is a story, told by my now late parents. In 1986, they were driving to visit my sister in Omaha. They had driven out of range of a radio statin and found a new one that was playing “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reinndeer.” It ended, and then began to play again — and again, when my mother changed the channel. It turned out that a DJ who had “something to work out about Christmas” played Elmo & Patsy’s song SIXTEEN TIMES in a row. At least, that’s how many times he played it before they broke down the studio door and put him on an extended leave. I know, it sounds like an urban legend, bu my parents swore that it was true.

It’s Christmas at Ground Zero………………

“Calvin, you were a little flat. Calvin? CALVIN!”

“OK!”

He’s getting ‘Nuttin for Christmas’

Sorry, but that is not true. Most novelty songs only work once. There are some good ones that I want to hear at least once every year (Snoopy, I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, The 12 pains of Christmas).

Most Novelty Christmas songs get a ban from me after hearing them 2 times.

Tell that to any retail worker during Christmas and they will laugh bitterly in your face Calvin

I wonder what novelty Christmas song Calvin was singing? Something from Bob Rivers’s “Twisted Christmas” album? At least he wasn’t singing it in November, like when a similar incident happened… https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2022/11/14

Dog barking Jingle Bells?

Hmmm… must have been something like a Weird AL Christmas song parody… LOL

My favourite new Christmas songs are the entire “Spirited” soundtrack.

If it’s the one by the Arrogant Worms, he’s also annoying for age-inappropriate language.

“Walkin ‘round in women’s underwear…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1zpu8lL8c

Not if it’s “grandma got run over by a reindeer”, Calvin. Trust me on that one.

‘’ …. walkin’ round in women’s underwear…’’ Winter wonderland slightly abused

I hope it wasn’t ‘Deck the Halls’ but about burning down the school. That one IS terrible.

Yeah, me too. BUT, while sitting in the dentist chair this afternoon, I found it refreshing to hear The Grandfather of Rock n Roll play “Run Rudolph Run”. Long live the great Chuck Berry!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiadNVhaGwk

Time to build some snow goons

‘’… roasting chipmunks on a open fire…’’ deliciously wicked!