Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 26, 2010

Why am I not surprised…?

Clean??? Wholesome??? What is the point???

hey there

Turn the channel.

I wonder which TV show he finds offensive.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

Calvin and Hobbes was never on TV!!!!!!

Why doesn’t he just not watch the show?

A valid question.

The voice of opinion, Very strong in Calvin.

Love to hate it.

Hobbes looks adorable the way he is standing(in the third panel). (Any specific term for the posture, anyone, Puddleglum2?)

I miss the ‘Weeds.

Tumbleweeds was one of my favorites. Does anybody know where on the net we can find it?

Ah, a nice pointed barb in the sides of the religious zealots who want to control what you are allowed to think, see, or say. Still applicable today.

I thought the religious pursuit of profit controlled programing.

http://tumbleweeds.com/ has some of the early strips and some info. It used to run on Daily Ink but I think Tom K Ryan has since retired because it’s been well over a year, maybe two, since I saw any on there.

moronbis, From my USAF days, and other experience, I think that such an assumed posture was/is called “parade rest” or “at ease”. They are similar positions with slight variations as I understand it.

I. too, want to know which show it is.

G’Morning Marg, Mike, Grog & Fran!

It is only fitting that we remember Tumbleweeds here on Calvin&Hobbes, both being extinct as they are. Ryan’s wry view of the Ol’West always had me smiling with my coffee.

Whislt we are reminiscing, anyone else remember another comic of the Ol’West, “Rick O’Shay” by Stan Lynde?

Clean, wholesome, and borrrring! We need some shows that depict snowmen being decapitated.

Tumbleweeds?? I have never heard of it! I missed you all yesterday… But I guess we have a clean slate to start with… I prefer wholesome but maybe that’s just me!

Calvin has a point. Not watching a show by one person is not going to help. Especially if there are othes stupid enough to watch such clean wholesome programmes.

LeslieAnne, I’m with you! Bring back Ozzie and Harriet reruns with the “irrepressible” Ricky! The comments this morning from sandfan-cisco are eggscruciating,… eggsasperating, even - Snagglepuss That virulent, vituperative and venomous post arouses vexation in us “religious zealots”. That person is hereby censored from any more objectionable (not objectional from panel 2) outbursts! BTW, I trust you read the posts from the pun day most of us had yesterday, or you won’t get my egg yolks eggsactly!

@sandfan: May be true, but the Left does it too. And much more noisily. (Arizona SB1070, if you want a specific example.)

Me thinks the shows Calvin would watch most people wouldn’t. Calvin would watch destructive type shows and gross girls out shows.

Easy muting and channeling changing features … I love a television remote control!

Meanwhile, what happened yesterday after Calvin’s mother discovered the not-so-eggcellent mess he made in the kitchen?!?!? Or is this still supposed to be the same day and she just hasn’t seen his “yolky” mess yet??? Drats! Sometimes I really hate a cliff-hanging comic strip story arc!!!

Yes Puddleglum… I had much clean merriment this morning reading yesterdays egg yolks… It was a puntastic day! I loved it!

Sand fan, say what you want, about us religious zealots, but I would much rather you hear ALL sides of an issue and then make a decision… and I know many of the “religious” persuasion that feel the same way! I have no desire to control what you say, hear, or see. If you find the truth because it’s the only option, have you really found it? I say, hear ALL options, and do so with an open mind, and you will really find the TRUTH! The ones that want to control what is said, heard and seen are the ones that would shut up our opinion and thoughts. There are more of them out there than the opposite!

I can’t decide which insults my senses the most….the programs or the commercials.

thank you all for the nice comments towards me yesterday,, now,, as for clean wholesome TV,,, a good star trek episode or CSI, works for me!

Wow… I didn’t realize there were so many rules about what at ease means!!! Ha

Linda Arney, Perhaps Calvin was eavesdropping when “Leave It to Beaver” was brought up yesterday “Just Between You and Me” - The Chordettes (1957). That might well be the program which he finds “objectional”. As a teacher you might have corrected it to objectionable, but we’ll give Calvin a break here. His vocabulary usually is eggsemplary even if his behavior and conduct are reprehensible.

I catch myself feeling the same way sometimes.

@puddleglum and LeslieAnne: I actually had in mind Islam in referring to religious zealotry, as it is more apparent in these times. But this strip is from the 80’s, I think, and at that time there were attempts by some Christian organizations to do exactly what Calvin is attempting here. I believe Watterson is satirizing those attempts.

is he ever happy???????

Remarkable expression for a six years old!

i’ll take edgy in my comics over clean and wholesome every day. that’s why it is such an amusing juxtaposition (imo) to see all of the nice clean and wholesome commentators (you know who you are) commenting so extensively here. c&h (along with Far Side) blazed the trail on edgy and over the top that we see in current strips like lio and pearls before swine. if you want clean and wholesome – there’s always blondie, fborfw, heart of the city and cul de sac (one of my faves btw) to name a few. let calvin be calvin. i’m guessing he would have have little patience for religious zealotry and preachiness of any stripe.

Back in the day when this strip was written there was no cable or satellite television, three networks and PBS were your only options. As a teenager I survived watching late night PBS rock concerts, Monty Python, The Midnight Special, stand-up comedians, etc. in the dark in my room with my headphones. I still support PBS to this day to keep it on the air.

@Dino-1

I do ,with a yearly contribution to their annual drive, since probably the70’s

PBS has programs to continue our learning process…………

This little boy has such an active imagination, no wonder he bores easily. The plethora of running around explosion movies Hollywood, et.al, has been cranking out in past years bore me stiff. There have been a few exceptions, most notably the Bourne series, whose car chases were exceptional - and I always enjoy those….that’s the little kid in me I guess….

@sand fan, even still regardless of which religion you were referring… to call someone a religious zealot just because they themselves don’t want to see or hear something, and they decide to do something about it, which is what Calvin was doing here just seems wrong… Maybe that’s just my opinion though… shoulder shrug

As a grandmother of a 6 year old I have watched some “children’s television” and have to agree with some of Calvin’s opinion. Some of programming is just too wholesome and silly for words. Children are much smarter than we give then credit for sometimes.

If thy sponsorship offends me, pluck it out. As we all know, each person on Earth is the center of the universe, and all of existence is there to serve him only.

Hey there’s a new banner! I like it

TheSoundDefense said, about 16 episodes ago

Why doesn’t he just not watch the show?

Same reason that trolls don’t just go away: it’s no fun to avoid what you find objectionable and other people like.

Back in those days there were not a lot of channels. In some towns, only a few - so there would often be only one show in any given time slot that might have any appeal to kids.

Calvin needs the clean, wholesome saccharine out of the way so he can watch some lovely Three Stooges or Rocky/Bullwinkle or Gong Show or whatever other irreverent, risque or violent daytime shows back then that parents & PBS disapproved of.

Calvin is my kind of guy. In spite of what the Parents Television Council thinks, we need shows to be edgy and provocative.

Seth McFarlane (creator of Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show) should be able to do more than push the envelope-he should be allowed to set it on fire with his shows.

Anime dubbing companies should be less like 4Kids and more like Funimation (or at least The Pokemon Company International).

Even stuff on Nickelodeon should take more risks than it generally does. We need fewer squeaky-clean shows like Big Time Rush and more trailblazers like Invader Zim.

You can’t be clean all the time. Let a show make you kick off your shoes and get covered in glorious, offensive mud.

One of Calvin’s favourite shows would be Deadpool. All of the movies. In one strip, he likes everything that Deadpool is about!