Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 05, 2024

“Show me content not suitable for children!”

Tik Tok would have really messed up Calvin.

Our first b/w TV back in the 50’s took forever to warm up and actually start working!!!

His prayer was surely answered!

WOW—Calvin is really in touch with God if his prayer can persuade Him to turn on the TV! Now, if he would only pray for world peace and the end of poverty and bigotry.

Hail the almighty Photo Box.

Some things never change, just more options

    There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture.   [ … ]   We are controlling transmission. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear..

Just imagines Calvin growing up in this smartyphones age.

A happy weekending for Calvin. He’s had a pretty rough time this week but he got the better of Dad yesterday and he’s now enjoying Saturday morning TV. It reminds me of a week of strips from the beginning of September. The five weekday strips had Calvin suffering on his first day back at school before the Saturday strip had Calvin and Hobbes hurrying downstairs to watch Saturday morning TV.

I remember when the TV stations turned off at midnight and all there was, noting but static.

One of my favorites.

Subtlety, thy name is not Bill Watterson.

I so old that I remember the only thing on the tv screen early on Saturday, or any morning for that matter, was a test test pattern. If my Dad was up early before the local stations began broadcasting, he would set up a mirror across from the tv so he could observe the tv screen while he sat behind it to adjust the appearance & position of the screen by turning some screws on the back side of the tv.

I remember seeing a news video of the panic in Hawaii in 2018 when an incoming nuke test alert accidentally went out as an actual “THIS IS NOT A DRILL! INCOMING MISSLE HEADING FOR HAWAII”. People running in the streets. One woman stops, and bows her head. Is she praying? Is she looking at her phone? Is she praying to her phone?

I read somewhere that you can be hypnotized by staring at a light that’s blinking every three seconds (although faster blinking would be more effective). Next time you’re watching TV, check how often the scene changes.

The idiot box bestowed his wish alright. I wonder what smartphones could do to Calvin.

Quite the vocabulary. I think you’re playing dumb at school.

I sure hope Calvin’s parents wasn’t planning on sleeping in this Saturday…

I shudder to think what kinda of images the TV deities have bestowed upon Calvin!

How the media controls their sheep.

Our first color tv was a Sylvania in 1968. We had it for several years but I think it was in the repair shop as much as it was in our house.

I do that with you tube.

Calvin’s strange — but suitable — prayer.

Perhaps the first and only negative comment The Count has made about this comic but The Count finds this one unsettling. However, on a lighter note, looking forward to tomorrow (always do, actually). Maybe dinosaurs or Spaceman Spliff in full, glorious color, boy howdy. God Bless America!

Cal’s tv is an early progenitor of modern tv ads for frenetic people. Rapidly flickering scenes, loud music, unreadable blurbs, circus clown atmosphere.

Kinda remember a few decades back research that said such activity on movie screens effected epileptic responses in certain viewers. Wonder if that still holds true.

H-m-m-m-m sounds a lot like a certain campaign

Still relevant. Kudos, Mr. Watterson.

…and people say it was a waste of time to send Calvin to Bible study….

The real amusement for me is all the people sitting down in front of a screen to complain about people sitting down in front of screens.

Calvin would love tiktok

Haha… Calvin is totally brainwashed by the medium…

Jeez this is profound. Watterson never ceases to amaze.

Calvin could switch over to “Jeopardy”…..

I’ll be doing that for football today.

Kid is going to love TikTok, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, etc in his 40s

Yeah baby, Calvin was made for Tik Tok ! ;-)

I was a child disciple

I remember getting up on Saturday mornings and turning on our tv still showing the test pattern until the national anthem and Rocky Jones Space Ranger came on.

“I am the slime from the video, oozing along on your living room floor.”

—F. Zappa

Bizarre but completely accurate description of TV. ❤️

Magic!!!!……on your command!!!

if tiktok existed back then I bet poor Bill wouldn’t have been able to do this comic because the page he was drawing on would have been saturated by his tears

Not much has changed……..

A lawyer might say that Calvin is giving informed consent to having his brain discombobulated. Nobody to blame but himself…

fox news!

Yeah, it would be nice if TV wasn’t so awesome!