Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 02, 2024

There is also a romantic interest who says:

Stop bothering me, Calvin!

So Calvin knows about channel surfing?

That seems like an interesting novel to read

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind a novel with a really simple and mundane premise like that.

It kind of reminds me of My Dinner With Andre, which is a film about two guys talking about stuff in a restaurant…seriously, that’s the whole film. And it got really good reception.

My dad would surf the three channels we had with the AI remote he had.

Son, change to channel…

Excerpt: “As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.”

Calvin, you are better than that. Write about the sledding adventures of a guy and his pet tiger.

Calvin, why doncha write adventure stories starring Spaceman Spiff and the Snow Goons?

You might become the next Stephen King!!

There WAS some good to having the controls on the big ol’ box.

Sorry Calvin, Adam Sandler already made that movie. CLICK!

Well… that certainly is novel…

Written by Calvin. it could indeed be a good novel and an interesting one. A look at TV from a very cynical boy aged around six.

Be a thin volume then…..

When I was that age, I had to turn dials.

Hobbes The Tiger: Master of the deadpan expression!

Sure. If he’s clever enough, he can have his protagonist keep flipping the channels and slowly an alternate story begins to emerge from the collage of scenes that is tantalizing and draws the viewer in … Hey, it worked for Cornell Woolrich’s. His story, It Had to be Murder. It got picked up by Alfred Hitchcock and came out as what TIME magazine called “just possibly the second-most entertaining picture (after The 39 Steps) ever made” —the movie’s name: Rear Window, staring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, and Raymond Burr.

A novel about surfing…

That feline seems more sensible, at times.

Sounds like an interesting premise. I’m sure that, once you’d pick that one up, you wouldn’t be able to open it…

Well, that could be a lead-in to a new Twilight Zone episode. Pick up really weird programs from some parallel world.

What he doesn’t say is that he himself enters into the transmissions and teleports from story to story.

Probably ended up just being a song. 57 Channels (and nothing on) … >

Hang on isn’t there a TV show all about people watching TV?

I get a sense of Peanuts in the last panel. Especially from the shape of Calvin’s wide open mouth and bold letters in his word balloon.

It could work. One of the channels has an adventure movie that sucks the viewer (Calvin, ya know) into the adventure! Lame for adults but would be great for Calvin.

Decades ago I watched (don’t ask me why) a movie that was of nothing more than a handful of odd characters – including a mime – in various role-defining clothes in something that looked like the inside of an very large teacup. It never went anywhere.

Clickity Split.

“57 channels and nothin’ on” – Bruce Springsteen. Of course, today it’s more like “570 channels”.

“Don’t write about yourself – you’re not as interesting as you think.” – Tracy Chevalier

Hobbes just dipped. Play that one clip of the guy jumping into a puddle and sinking through the ground.

“Write what you know.”

This is why so many literary novels over the years have been about English professors at small midwest liberal arts colleges who are in the middle of a mid-life crisis, are estranged from their wives, and are having affairs with young graduate students.

And are all angsty about the meaning of life.

Chapter 7: “Calvin Meets Reality”. The battery in the remote goes dead while his parents are out, and there are no replacements in the kitchen drawer. So Calvin “borrows” some cash from the “secret” location in Mom’s dresser, and steps out into the “real world” to buy more batteries. Hilarity fails to ensue….

He’ll probably call the novel “Flicker”.

I would likely just flick through it…

Calvin needs to journal all his interactions with his imaginary friend, Hobbes. It could make him famous some day.

I’m reminded of the John Ritter movie Stay Tuned, about an estranged couple sucked into an evil television given to them by a demon. Been a while since I watched it, but I remember it being pretty funny.

Write about Hobbes- – he is interesting.

It could be a flip book!

Doesn’t he “know” about dinosaurs…?

Be sure to change the names when writing roman à clef .

This reminded me of a Jerry Seinfeld joke about how men and women watch TV. Women settle on a program, and men constantly flip through channels: “Men don’t care what’s on TV; they only care what else is on TV.”

Maybe it will be a stream of consciousness story.

Well, Seinfeld had fans, this can’t be any more mundane

I love his enthusiasm for the idea.

They say that Insanity is when you do the same thing over and over but expect different results.

Is that true of constantly channel surfing trying to find something good to watch?

There will be sequels.

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