Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 22, 1987
Transcript:
TV: Kablooie! Ooooh! You're twicked me for the wast time, wabbit! Calvin: Ha ha ha! Boy, I wish I had some dynamite! Boy, I love weekends! What better way to spend one's freedom than eating chocolate cereal and watching cartoons! Hobbes: Mm...I beg to differ on the cereal part. Dad: Calvin, you've been sitting in front of that stupid TV all morning! It's a beautiful day! You should be outside! It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV! How can you sit inside all day? Go on! Out! Out! Kids are supposed to run around in the fresh air! Have some fun! Get some exercise! Door: Slam! Calvin: Well, I guess that's that. Come on. Hi, Susie, are you watching TV? Can we come in? Susie: Sure, hurry up! It's a commercial.
ilovemypapillon over 13 years ago
Poor dad, your prediction came true. It IS a grim day.
scout_lacey almost 13 years ago
I wonder what “Dad” would say if he knew Calvin went over to Susie’s house to watch TV
overlived almost 13 years ago
a sad reality.
yow4zip Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Foiled again.
bmonk almost 13 years ago
Dynamite sure is a blast!
+++++
Is this a kid’s conspiracy to rot their brains?
Isn’t this why VCRs and Tivo were invented??
LadyBlanc over 11 years ago
Yep, that day has come, replete with lack of original ideas and any sense of tastefulness. Yeesh.
Matchip19 over 10 years ago
Calvin and Susie Derkins are actully getting ALONG?!
weatherford.joe over 9 years ago
Don’t worry, Dad. In time, kids will move away from TV and focus more on their smartphones and tablets.
tdoug1 over 9 years ago
Yes it’s worse now!
PascalOstermann over 7 years ago
A rare strip, where there is some friendship between Susie and Calvin…
Me2times. over 6 years ago
Dad doesn’t know just how true his statement in panel 5 turned out to be years later
Scarlet Shimmer about 5 years ago
They’re watching old Looney Tunes cartoons.
Cat that Adore Comics almost 4 years ago
Poor dad He has a stubborn kid
Nate Arbuckle, Quincy and Hobbes. over 3 years ago
“ooh youve twicked me for the last time, son”
The-Mage about 2 years ago
When I was younger, I figured out that I could watch TV all day if I wanted to. I mean from when the day started with the test pattern ended to the late show that started at midnight. I may have actually done it twice. (I could potentially list all the shows I watched back then.)
alexzinuro 11 months ago
I don’t get it; it’s obvious that Calvin’s parents don’t care much for TV, so why do they have a set? In place of the TV, they could have an assortment of books that everybody could enjoy together, such as:
1. Just So Stories (©1912) by Rudyard Kipling
2. ABC of Cars and Trucks (©1954) by Anne Alexander
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (©1964) by Roald Dahl
4. Farewell to Shady Glade (©1966) by Bill Peet
5. Little Turtle’s Big Adventure (©1969) by David Lee Harrison
6. The Wump World (©1970) by Bill Peet
7. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (©1972) by Roald Dahl
8. Barbapapa’s Ark (©1974) by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor
9. The Gnats of Knotty Pine (©1975) by Bill Peet
10. Dinosaurs (©1977) by Peter Zallinger
11. Do You Know? (©1979) by B. G. Ford
12. Everyday Things (©1981) by Eliot Humberstone
13. The Doomsday Book of Animals: An illustrated account of the fascinating creatures which the world will never see again (©1981) by David Day
14. The Luckiest One of All (©1982) by Bill Peet
15. The Witches (©1983) by Roald Dahl
16. The Big Book of Animal Records (©1984) by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor
17. The Encyclopedia of Mammals (©1984) by Dr. David W. Macdonald (editor)
alexzinuro 11 months ago
I often wish that the first chapter book that I’d learned to read was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (©1964) by Roald Dahl (1916-1990). I could’ve learned a lot from the song that the Oompa-Loompas sing about the dangers of watching too much TV.
♪"The most important thing we’ve learned/So far as children are concerned/Is never, NEVER, NEVER let/Them near your television set/Or better still, just don’t install/The idiotic thing at all…"♪
Willy Wonka made a good point of his own, to which I can easily relate:
“I don’t like television myself. I suppose it’s all right in small doses, but children never seem to be able to take it in small doses. They want to sit there all day long, staring and staring at the screen….”
Trust me, I never “took TV in small doses” when I was a child, but it’s clear that I should have. I was born in 1982; another example of a book that I realize that I should have taken an interest in is The Doomsday Book of Animals: An illustrated account of the fascinating creatures which the world will never see again (©1981) by David Day. It’s about animals and plants that have become extinct as a result of anthropogenic factors, e.g. habitat destruction and over-harvesting.
76noos 6 months ago
“Ooooh, you wascawy wabbit!!!”