Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 10, 2012

Reality show producer

political ad producer

I hate violance!

Calvin, I’m sure you’ll find it.

Seeing the dumbing down of everything in the last couple of decades,I think Calvin was merely forecasting the shape of things to come.

And Calvin grows up to become president of MTV

The sad part, Calvin, is that they did.

How RU?

last night been Suvarnaphumi Airport Was tired..

Calvin hadn’t seen “Jersey Shore” or the Kardashians yet.

In the ‘80s, the E.I. hadn’t reached the new lows with gross outs, such as reached in Bridesmaids

I think we can all agree, “there is too much violins on PBS”. …..And not enough sax.

Both! I cannot sleep having watched a violent film! And in life I hate it much more!

Then see a murder show. I once did, and I got nightmares for the rest of May.

Well, they already did. It’s called “MMA”.

Future Congressman!

Me too!!

I would viciously vanquish violence with a vengeance!

‘Wheel, wheel’, Calvin is ‘wagon’ his tongue, again! He is taking a crash course on violence and is on the “Eve of Destruction”.

H.L. sure knew what he was talking about!!!

I’m starting to think Bill Watterson was a prophet or something.

more violent video games

Oh typical Calvin!

I don’t mind Violence in comic strips but movies and reality… I hate it.

xxx

A cartoon several years ago:Author retrieving manuscript from publisher:“Your manuscript is well written, well documented, all here agree it is a masterpiece -But unfortunately, right now, we’re looking for trash!”

Reality TV, Jackass, MMA, and UFC all came to exist after this panel was penned. Waterson is prescient.

I lost Eastwood to that convention speech and I confess I’ll miss him.

@battle of plattsburgh,I’ll give you credit for your musical play-on-words so you won’t have to blow your own horn!If you wanted more violins on the ‘tuba’, you might be able to pull a few strings, but if you want more sax, you’d probably have to sound the trumpet.

I think you could do with somewhat less violence, Calvin. Watch sit coms instead.

If he only knew. Calvin would love Expendables II

Well, I feel violent when a TV show is 75% commercials in 90 minutes. I wanna find the person who invented the DVR and kiss him / her on the lips.

Sam Pekinpaw could do it in 10 minutes

I used to be able to watch more violent films and tv when I was younger, but as I grew older I couldn’t help thinking that there are real people in this world who are subjected to horrible violence on a daily basis. Pretty much why I stopped watching Game of Thrones . . . I couldn’t stomach the violence anymore . . . which is too bad, because it’s an interesting story.

Too much violence on television is why I mostly watch only comedy shows like “Mike & Molly”, “How I Met Your Mother”, “Two And A Half Men”, etc. The one exception I make is “Wipeout”. I really, really, really LOVE that show!!! What people won’t do for the chance of winning $50,000.00!!!!!!!!!!

Calvin has been getting his way lately.

Well, it will be violent when he crashes the wagon.

I can’t stand it when people use the phrase “Lowest Common Denominator” this way. LCD would probably be trying to appeal to everyone. The phrase Calvin wants is “Greatest Common Factor”

Popular American culture is an oxymoron.

“Running around/explosion” movies = done to death. That’s why “Breaking Bad” has captured an immense audience with clever dialogue, A-list acting, and entertaining visuals. BTW, generally speaking, movies with G or PG ratings make far more money than the others with X ratings….

musical producer

Calvin would go on to found Spike TV