Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 28, 2009

And it can’t come soon enough, Dad.

Hobbes ist there, it can’t be the end!

True, but Calvin will sure wish it was!

LX013, Hobbes is in the tub behind Calvin. What time is it in Austria? It’s 10:42 PM here.

Oh Hi dad, I thought I’d take my bath now!! LOL

Gee Dad, you’re all wet.

Well, it’s the end of the world as he knows it…

“Knocked once… Wonder just what’s going on in there.” - “Green Door”

Go with the ‘flow’, Dad!

All that water is a big ‘turn off’ for Dad.

“The End of the World” - Skeeter Davis Calvin: “Cause you don’t love me, anymore” It’s ‘curtains’ for Calvin. Calvin’s face is “A Whiter Shade of Pale”

Calvin wants a bath! “There’s a first time for everything.” A nice warm bath might relax everybody’s nerves.

Margueritem. It’s now 10.00 PM exactly.

Margueritem. It’s now 10.00 PM exactly.

Wow there sure is alot of water on the floor! Get the bucket brigade fast!

On the bright side, Calvin’s had his bath!

ejcapulet said, about 4 hours ago

Well, it’s the end of the world as he knows it…

I hear a song there……………

He was going to fix the tub faucet next.

Hi Dad, what’s up?

Just taking a shower Dad. How did all that water get here?

Well, if Dad had fixed that faucet like he was supposed to, then Calvin wouldn’t have had to try to fix it… so Dad can take away a lesson - Never put off until tomorrow what Calvin will decide to do for you today!

Well Dad it could’ve been worse. The house is still standing instead of swimming.

Now they won’t have to wash the bathroom floor!

Sure dad, it’s MY fault that you didn’t read the Bob Vila book I got you for Christmas!

LOL!!! We knew it was coming, but like a train wreck about to happen, we just couldn’t turn away from it. :-D

And Calvin still has the nerve to smile.

I had a neighbor who asked me how to change a faucet. I told him to turn off the water and remove the faucet. He turned off the hot and cold water, then cut the pipe BELOW the valve where there was water pressure. Looked a lot like Calviin’s kitchen.

@BC13

That was a nervous smile, soon to be followed by a VERY nervous laugh.

“Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can’t help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”

– Robert Heinlein, “Time Enough for Love”

Looks like dad drew the short straw, but I bet it’s mom who’ll end up with mop & bucket detail.

Who knew Armageddon would come this way?

hlkstr said,

“ejcapulet said, Well, it’s the end of the world as he knows it…”

I hear a song there……………

Good one hlkstr.

Calvin has a cutfe inocent look on his face!

I think, it’s a laugh of despair! He thinks, the end of world is coming and so he makes a seldom grimace.

Gee dad I was only trying to help can I help it if things went bad. Dad get a better bucket start dumping water down the drain not in the yard as you might splash water all over the house and the yard won’t see any water. Calvin I really didn’t need your type of help with this as you made things worse. Hope the floors don’t warp as the wall don’t go bad.

In a Calvin proof house there would be a floor drain in every room.

In a Calvin-proof house, there would be no house - just the wide open space of the outdoors.

No wonder dad got himself clipped.

It’s all Hobbe’s fault. I bet he was still ticked and didn’t help Calvin bail water with the buckets.

In the words of Homer Simpson, “The boy……dies.”

Anyone else notice that the water level in the bathroom stayed the same even after Dad opened the door??

Plumbing might not be his future Cavin try some painting you and Hobbes will not get so wet

Comicguy250–yeah, I noticed that (A) dad was able to open the door despite the massive volume of water behind it (and none of it seeped under the door–what a great job of weatherstripping!), and (B), there should have been a torrential flood coming out of the bathroom, with a subsequent drop in water level, but since this is a comic strip, I allowed for the artistic license.

It’s amazing that Calvin has survived through previous episodes.

Oh, goody, now we get to see Michael an Satan fight it out while the planet goes through earthquakes and plagues and…

Oh, Calvin’s dad means it’s the end of CALVIN’S world. Gotcha.

Bear in mind, Dad, a just-released study found that corporal punishment lowers a child’s IQ by several points. Oh, never mind, this is a rerun, they hadn’t discovered it back then.

Note that Hobbes appears to be in an in-between depiction of real and doll. Interesting. He’s usually clearly one or the other, depending on whether Calvin is alone with him.

looks like cal is trying to morph into a charlie brown character. Maybe he was hoping Charles Schultz would rescue him…

Dennis the Menace: “Call the plumber, Mom! Dad changed that leak to a gush!”

don’t be so hard on calvin. He wouldn’t be the boy that we all love unless he was misbehaving. :-)

“For the wages of sin is death;…” Romans 6:23a

it’s the end of the world for Calvin, I don”t think it’s the end of the world for earth

Make him take a bath while he’s already there and wet.

Good intentions are never appreciated if the results are bad .. thats world for you Calvin!!!

“Corporal punishment lowers a child’s IQ by several points”? And just how do the authors of said study know that? There are so many real and potential things wrong with that conclusion that it’s laughable.

Even if it did, it would be worth it to raise Calvin’s WQ (Wisdom Quotient) by a few notches and “save his life from Sheol”.

(Oh: pursuant to some sharp-eyed remarks above about the water level, I’ve put this under the tag “cartoon physics”. An ever-growing list, that is.)

Rakkav: the authors know that because they tested the IQ of a lot of people and then asked them all about how they were punished as kids. Not rocket science. I read it recently in the New York times. Go to their website and do a search (also not rocket science).

i bet his dad is going to take hobbes away for a year because calvin likes hobbes so much