Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 04, 2024

You better hope Santa believes in “innocent until proven guilty.”

Calvin being Calvin is all the proof one needs.

Please tell us about the noodle incident…..

Calvin’s excessive demands (and threats) are enough to put him on Santa’s “naughty” list—permanently!!

All the makings of a future shyster there, Calvin

He sees you when you’re sleeping and when you’re awake, but when you are in the in between phase, he doesn’t see you. Maybe the noodle incident happened while he was sleepwalking.

Say, Calvin, how much postage did you put on that box?

I mailed a parcel via USPS to Ocala FL on 15 Nov, it was to be returned as insufficent address. It has been to Ocala, then to Gainsvilles, then to Jacksonville, returned to Jacksonville, Back to Gainsville, then Lake Mary Distribution Facility, A few more places in between, back to Jacksonville…I have 4 pages of it’s tour of Florida all on a $7.95 stamp and I still don’t have it

No witnesses, no photos, no evidence. It was like that when he got there.

Ah! Calvin famous noodle incident! One of the world greatest unresolved mysteries…

Any boy that can provide so much laughter can do what he jolly well likes with noodles.

Plausible deny-ability besides I’ll get a pardon, I’m in tight with the big guy.

Oh yeah? Use your noodle, kid!

I take the only witness is Hobbes. And possibly whoever was on the receiving end of the incident. Or, maybe not.

“He sees you when you’re sleeping

He knows when you are awake

He knows if you’ve been bad or good"

You know they got heavy snow, when there’s 4 inches on the top of the fence pickets

“He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness’ sake.”

Yeah, Calvin, but… Santa knows! And that impacts his generosity, of course. Your Christmas morning will be sadly bereft of anything more exciting than a packet of new underpants.

For the last time, Calvin, Santa Claus is NOT a weapons dealer!

Calvin could always ask for a Pardon. Why not? Seems to be very trendy these days. God Bless America!

……just the mention of it got him purty excited!!!!

Just as said Bart Simpson: I didn’t. No one saw me. You can’t prove it.

I haven’t seen a mail box in many years.

The NOODLE incident is as bad as the Molitor RAM ultimatum.

Now is the time for all good men to invest in a sense of serious, wrap it in their mind or store it under their celery stalks next to the broccoli trees.

Too many are getting lost or financially ruined in the fake or dead fir tree section.

Calm down, Calvin! Biden’s got ya pardoned…

Which actually proves he did it. And of course the list is much, much longer. : )

Obviously, Hobbs is referring to Calvin not using his noodle…

The ultimate McGuffin …

Wrong, Santa can.

Watterson got lots of mileage from the noodle incident.

Second mention of the Noodle Incident in the strip’s run.

He can’t remember everything on his list unless he made a copy

Whatever happened, the ‘noodle incident’ is really haunting him.

Those drop boxes will only accept pieces of mail that are no more than half an inch thick and weigh up to ten ounces. I discovered that last week when I had to mail back a piece of clothing I’d ordered. The ten ounce weight limit is new—I think it was introduced in 2019, many years after this strip was written—but the previous limit was thirteen ounces, and it might have been sixteen before that.

But from the way they’re talking about this letter, there’s no way they got it into that box.

He knows when you’re awake, Calvin.

Back when you could mail a box without going to the post office.

I think Roslyn will have a different opinion of Calvin’s behavior.

Really, Calvin? You believe in Santa but don’t believe he knows ALL about the noodle incident?

Suggestion: In honor of today’s strip, write a noodle incident story in your best C&H style and post it to the C&H page on FaceBook.

I need to know what is is! (the noodle incedent)

The only goodness about Calvin is that he’s good at not getting caught.

I didn’t do it, no body saw me, you can’t prove it – Bart Simpson

Do they make stockings big enough to fit all the coal he’s earned this year. They could probably heat the whole house.

Santa’s no fool, he’s been working with kids for a very long time.

Isn’t the Noodle Incident also the one thing he’s done that’s illegal?

We do NOT discuss The Noodle Incident!

“In later years, advances in DNA technology finally laid to rest the debate over the perpetrator of “the noodle incident.”

Part of me wants to know exactly what happened in the infamous Noodle Incident. However, I think more of me is happy it remains a secret.

Always fun to think about.