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* In [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/23 one series]], Calvin built a time machine to travel two hours into the future and get a copy of his homework from himself after it was already finished. Predictably, it doesn't work.
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* KnowYourVines: After Calvin utterly fails a report on plants, he angrily asks what good it does to identify plants while holding a branch. Hobbes then replies "I believe that's poison sumac you're holding."
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* KnowYourVines: After Calvin utterly fails a report on plants, he angrily asks what good it does to identify plants while holding a branch. Hobbes then replies "I believe that's poison sumac you're holding." "
* LaboriousLaziness: Two examples:
* In [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/23 one series]], Calvin built a time machine to travel two hours into the future and get a copy of his homework from himself after it was already finished. Predictably, it doesn't work.
--->'''6:30 Calvin:''' Well, since we're ''you'' from the past, I suppose you know why we're here. Did you do the homework?\\
'''8:30 Calvin:''' Me?? No.\\
'''6:30 Calvin:''' ''No?!'' Why not??\\
'''8:30 Calvin:''' Because two hours ago, I went to the future to get it.\\
'''6:30 Calvin:''' Yeah, and here I am! So where is it?!\\
'''8:30 Calvin:''' That's what ''I'' said two hours ago!
** In [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/08/28 another series]], Calvin didn't want to make his bed, so he and Hobbes spent all afternoon trying to build a robot to do it for him. They couldn't get the robot to work, but since they spent so long on it, the bed never got made. Mission accomplished!
* LaboriousLaziness: Two examples:
* In [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/23 one series]], Calvin built a time machine to travel two hours into the future and get a copy of his homework from himself after it was already finished. Predictably, it doesn't work.
--->'''6:30 Calvin:''' Well, since we're ''you'' from the past, I suppose you know why we're here. Did you do the homework?\\
'''8:30 Calvin:''' Me?? No.\\
'''6:30 Calvin:''' ''No?!'' Why not??\\
'''8:30 Calvin:''' Because two hours ago, I went to the future to get it.\\
'''6:30 Calvin:''' Yeah, and here I am! So where is it?!\\
'''8:30 Calvin:''' That's what ''I'' said two hours ago!
** In [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/08/28 another series]], Calvin didn't want to make his bed, so he and Hobbes spent all afternoon trying to build a robot to do it for him. They couldn't get the robot to work, but since they spent so long on it, the bed never got made. Mission accomplished!
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*** There was also a sunday strip where Stupendous Man [[Film/Superman reversed time by spinning the earth backwards]].
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*** There was also a sunday Sunday strip where Stupendous Man [[Film/Superman [[{{Film/Superman}} reversed time by spinning the earth backwards]].
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*** There was also a sunday strip where Stupendous Man [[SupermanTheMovie reversed time by spinning the earth backwards]].
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*** There was also a sunday strip where Stupendous Man [[SupermanTheMovie [[Film/Superman reversed time by spinning the earth backwards]].
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** Another unintentional one: Calvin once wrote giant letters in the snow requesting pilots to [[DoABarrelRoll Do a]] [[StarFox barrel roll]].
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** In an arc in which Calvin gets turned into an owl with his transmogrifier gun he realizes that owls don't have o go to school, he starts singing Disney's "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" song from the film "Song of the south"
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** In an arc in which Calvin gets turned into an owl with his transmogrifier gun gun, when he realizes that owls don't have o to go to school, he starts singing Disney's the "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" song from the film "Song of the south"''SongOfTheSouth''.
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* IdenticalPanelGag: In one strip, Calvin tells Hobbes about his grandfather, who complains that modern comic strips are "nothing but a bunch of xeroxed talking heads". Every panel in the strip is the same two-shot of Calvin and Hobbes, with only the speech bubbles changing. (Although, on closer inspection, there are enough tiny differences to show that each "identical" panel was actually drawn separately.)
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* RedAndBlackKeepBack: Calvin is always up for mischief- you can tell by his clothes colors.
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* TakeThat: Watterson made several strips with subtle jabs at his editors and the syndication people.
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* TakeThat: Bill Watterson has used ''CalvinAndHobbes'' to mock modern art, art criticism, and superhero comic books. Either Calvin uses phrases copied verbatim from art journals to describe his snow men, or his breathless praises of comic books as an art form are interrupted by comments like, "Oh no, Captain Steroid's getting his kidneys punched out with an I-beam!" Take note that Watterson's career peaked during the DarkAge of western comics, which likely influenced his opinions quite a bit, but as to why he didn't seek out fellow "comics can be art" proponents such as Dave Sim and Scott [=McCloud=] and join up with the Graphic Novel movement is a complete mystery.
** Watterson directed a few Take Thats at ''{{Garfield}}'' creator Jim Davis over the years. In a rare 1987 interview, he harshly condemned Davis' comic strip ''USAcres'', calling it stupid and badly done. In ''The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book'', Watterson extensively discusses why he hates merchandising, and how it robs a comic strip of its heart and soul. He even writes about how a cartoonist risks becoming a "factory foreman", remarking on how he went into cartooning "to draw cartoons, not to run a corporate empire." He disgustedly remarks on how he would have sold out his own creation if he'd done this. Given the context, it was pretty clear who he was talking about. Granted, since Jim Davis stated that he created Garfield for the purpose of making money, and probably didn't intend there to be much of that deeper significance in which Watterson puts so much stock, it's unlikely that Watterson would have liked it anyway.
** Bill Watterson's foreword to Bill Amend's first ''FoxTrot'' book is basically an extended take that against Jim Davis. For example, Watterson champions Quincy the Iguana for not thinking "the cute thoughts that quickly get most comic strip animals in the greeting card business."
*** Of course, one could also make the case that there are no Quincy the Iguana cards because the average person thinks ReptilesAreAbhorrent.
**** And now that Quincy is arguably the most popular character and [[WolverinePublicity appears on the cover of almost every book, calendar and other piece of FoxTrot merchandise]] (which to be fair still isn't all that much) Watterson probably doesn't care.
** Watterson had Calvin reading from ''Chewing'', a magazine that rated chewing gums in excruciating detail (e.g., "[T]he top five brands of chewing gum based on flavor retention, elasticity, bubble capacity, and chewing rebound"), offered advice for chewing it, and otherwise was a spot-on parody of ''every'' review mag.
*** In one strip, Calvin specifically states that the specified hobby magazines like ''Chewing'' are meant to make people feel special due to some interest they have so the salesmen can make them buy stupid stuff like Bubblegum-chewing equipment. It's not really a take that on review magazines, but rather hobby merchandising.
*** Specifically, Watterson based ''Chewing'' off a lot of bicycling magazines he'd read.
** Watterson made several strips with subtle jabs at his editors and the syndication people.
** Watterson directed a few Take Thats at ''{{Garfield}}'' creator Jim Davis over the years. In a rare 1987 interview, he harshly condemned Davis' comic strip ''USAcres'', calling it stupid and badly done. In ''The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book'', Watterson extensively discusses why he hates merchandising, and how it robs a comic strip of its heart and soul. He even writes about how a cartoonist risks becoming a "factory foreman", remarking on how he went into cartooning "to draw cartoons, not to run a corporate empire." He disgustedly remarks on how he would have sold out his own creation if he'd done this. Given the context, it was pretty clear who he was talking about. Granted, since Jim Davis stated that he created Garfield for the purpose of making money, and probably didn't intend there to be much of that deeper significance in which Watterson puts so much stock, it's unlikely that Watterson would have liked it anyway.
** Bill Watterson's foreword to Bill Amend's first ''FoxTrot'' book is basically an extended take that against Jim Davis. For example, Watterson champions Quincy the Iguana for not thinking "the cute thoughts that quickly get most comic strip animals in the greeting card business."
*** Of course, one could also make the case that there are no Quincy the Iguana cards because the average person thinks ReptilesAreAbhorrent.
**** And now that Quincy is arguably the most popular character and [[WolverinePublicity appears on the cover of almost every book, calendar and other piece of FoxTrot merchandise]] (which to be fair still isn't all that much) Watterson probably doesn't care.
** Watterson had Calvin reading from ''Chewing'', a magazine that rated chewing gums in excruciating detail (e.g., "[T]he top five brands of chewing gum based on flavor retention, elasticity, bubble capacity, and chewing rebound"), offered advice for chewing it, and otherwise was a spot-on parody of ''every'' review mag.
*** In one strip, Calvin specifically states that the specified hobby magazines like ''Chewing'' are meant to make people feel special due to some interest they have so the salesmen can make them buy stupid stuff like Bubblegum-chewing equipment. It's not really a take that on review magazines, but rather hobby merchandising.
*** Specifically, Watterson based ''Chewing'' off a lot of bicycling magazines he'd read.
** Watterson made several strips with subtle jabs at his editors and the syndication people.
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* TakeOurWordForItTakeOurWordForIt: Calvin's favorite bedtime story, "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie", in ''{{Calvin and Hobbes}}''. As Bill Watterson explains in the comic's 10th anniversary book, "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie (like the NoodleIncident I've referred to in several strips) is left to the reader's imagination, where it's sure to be more outrageous."
** And taken to another level where Calvin's father is frustrated with Calvin wanting to hear the story every night despite having heard it enough to have the whole thing memorized, so he changes it a bit. The only clue we get is a terrified Hobbes asking Calvin "Do you think the townspeople will ever find Hamster Huey's head?"
*** Maybe inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_i_Lönneberga Emil]], who's basically Calvin a hundred years earlier, and has been involved in one incident the narrator repeatedly informs us he or she "Has promised the parents not to talk about."
** And taken to another level where Calvin's father is frustrated with Calvin wanting to hear the story every night despite having heard it enough to have the whole thing memorized, so he changes it a bit. The only clue we get is a terrified Hobbes asking Calvin "Do you think the townspeople will ever find Hamster Huey's head?"
*** Maybe inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_i_Lönneberga Emil]], who's basically Calvin a hundred years earlier, and has been involved in one incident the narrator repeatedly informs us he or she "Has promised the parents not to talk about."
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* SuperheroesWearCapes: * ''CalvinAndHobbes'' presents: "'''''[[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/06/04 This]]''''' is a job for..."
** Outside of the above example, one of Calvin's alter-egos, Stupendous Man, also wears a cape.
** Outside of the above example, one of Calvin's alter-egos, Stupendous Man, also wears a cape.
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** Note however that in the strip proper, there are minor differences that indicate they were all drawn separately. Watterson was just that good.
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** Although, Susie hardly ever attacks Calvin unless provoked, so in Susie's case he almost always deserves it. In stark contrast, Moe beats up Calvin almost always when he has done nothing. Hobbes, of course, tackles him at the end of every school day when he walks through the door, and while he's usually the voice of reason he can sometimes be as big a {{Jerkass}} as Calvin ''to'' Calvin, and get away with it because he's bigger and has claws.
* CloserToEarth: Susie includes this in her imaginings of what adult married life would be like.
** Calvin's mom is also this, especially when dealing with her husband's obsessions such as camping and biking.
*** The relationship between Calvin's parents is completely (and hilariously) inverted in one strip where Calvin leaves Hobbes in the woods:
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Any luck?
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': Of course not! How am I going to find a stuffed tiger in the woods at night? Why can't Calvin keep track of his toys? I must be crazy to be out here...
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': ''(calling out loud)'' [[SayMyName HO-O-O-BBES!]]
-->''(realizing what she just did, with an extremely embarrassed look on her face)''
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Oops. Heh heh.
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': I may be crazy, but I'm not as crazy as you.
* CloserToEarth: Susie includes this in her imaginings of what adult married life would be like.
** Calvin's mom is also this, especially when dealing with her husband's obsessions such as camping and biking.
*** The relationship between Calvin's parents is completely (and hilariously) inverted in one strip where Calvin leaves Hobbes in the woods:
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Any luck?
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': Of course not! How am I going to find a stuffed tiger in the woods at night? Why can't Calvin keep track of his toys? I must be crazy to be out here...
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': ''(calling out loud)'' [[SayMyName HO-O-O-BBES!]]
-->''(realizing what she just did, with an extremely embarrassed look on her face)''
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Oops. Heh heh.
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': I may be crazy, but I'm not as crazy as you.
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** Although, Susie hardly ever attacks Calvin unless provoked, so in Susie's case he almost always deserves it. In stark contrast, Moe beats up Calvin almost always when he has done nothing. Hobbes, of course, tackles him at the end of every school day when he walks through the door, and while he's usually the voice of reason he can sometimes be as big a {{Jerkass}} as Calvin ''to'' Calvin, and get away with it because he's bigger and has claws.
* CloserToEarth: Susie includes this in her imaginings of what adult married life would be like.
** Calvin's mom is also this, especially when dealing with her husband's obsessions such as camping and biking.
*** The relationship between Calvin's parents is completely (and hilariously) inverted in one strip where Calvin leaves Hobbes in the woods:
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Any luck?
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': Of course not! How am I going to find a stuffed tiger in the woods at night? Why can't Calvin keep track of his toys? I must be crazy to be out here...
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': ''(calling out loud)'' [[SayMyName HO-O-O-BBES!]]
-->''(realizing what she just did, with an extremely embarrassed look on her face)''
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Oops. Heh heh.
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': I may be crazy, but I'm not as crazy as you.claws.
* CloserToEarth: Susie includes this in her imaginings of what adult married life would be like.
** Calvin's mom is also this, especially when dealing with her husband's obsessions such as camping and biking.
*** The relationship between Calvin's parents is completely (and hilariously) inverted in one strip where Calvin leaves Hobbes in the woods:
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Any luck?
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': Of course not! How am I going to find a stuffed tiger in the woods at night? Why can't Calvin keep track of his toys? I must be crazy to be out here...
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': ''(calling out loud)'' [[SayMyName HO-O-O-BBES!]]
-->''(realizing what she just did, with an extremely embarrassed look on her face)''
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Oops. Heh heh.
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': I may be crazy, but I'm not as crazy as you.
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* SanityBall: When Calvin and Hobbes are interacting, Hobbes has the ball. When Calvin's parents, Miss Wormwood, or Rosalyn enter the scene, overly imaginative Calvin usually has the ball. When it's just Calvin's mom and dad, [[CloserToEarth Mom has the ball]]. When Susie shows up, Calvin's typical reaction is throwing the SanityBall at her and running away.
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* SanityBall: When Calvin and Hobbes are interacting, Hobbes has the ball. When Calvin's parents, Miss Wormwood, or Rosalyn enter the scene, overly imaginative Calvin usually has the ball. When it's just Calvin's mom and dad, [[CloserToEarth [[WomenAreWiser Mom has the ball]]. When Susie shows up, Calvin's typical reaction is throwing the SanityBall at her and running away.
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* WomenAreWiser: Susie includes this in her imaginings of what adult married life would be like.
** Calvin's mom is also this, especially when dealing with her husband's obsessions such as camping and biking.
*** The relationship between Calvin's parents is completely (and hilariously) inverted in one strip where Calvin leaves Hobbes in the woods:
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Any luck?
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': Of course not! How am I going to find a stuffed tiger in the woods at night? Why can't Calvin keep track of his toys? I must be crazy to be out here...
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': ''(calling out loud)'' [[SayMyName HO-O-O-BBES!]]
-->''(realizing what she just did, with an extremely embarrassed look on her face)''
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Oops. Heh heh.
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': I may be crazy, but I'm not as crazy as you.
** Calvin's mom is also this, especially when dealing with her husband's obsessions such as camping and biking.
*** The relationship between Calvin's parents is completely (and hilariously) inverted in one strip where Calvin leaves Hobbes in the woods:
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Any luck?
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': Of course not! How am I going to find a stuffed tiger in the woods at night? Why can't Calvin keep track of his toys? I must be crazy to be out here...
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': ''(calling out loud)'' [[SayMyName HO-O-O-BBES!]]
-->''(realizing what she just did, with an extremely embarrassed look on her face)''
-->'''Calvin's Mom''': Oops. Heh heh.
-->'''Calvin's Dad''': I may be crazy, but I'm not as crazy as you.
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* MissingEpisode: A strip from [[http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cimages/ch28nov1985.jpg November 25, 1985]], involving Calvin trying to bathe in a washing machine, only appeared in a few strips. It did not show up in any of the anthologies.
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* MissingEpisode: A strip from [[http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cimages/ch28nov1985.jpg November 25, 1985]], involving Calvin trying to bathe in a washing machine, only appeared in a few strips. papers. It did not show up in any of the anthologies.anthologies, which had an alternate strip (Calvin saying dinner tastes like bat barf, being told to go to his room, then ordering a pizza).
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*** The relationship between Calvin's parents is completely (and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilariously]]) inverted in one strip where Calvin leaves Hobbes in the woods:
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* CutAndPasteNote: One story arc played it straight by having Hobbes cut up Calvin's Mom's magazines and send Calvin insults in the mail. Another [[CrowningMomentOfFunny gloriously subverted it]]:
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'''Calvin:''' Here you go. (''tosses him a quarter'') [[CrowningMomentOfFunny That was worth 25 cents.]]
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'''Calvin:''' Here you go. (''tosses him a quarter'') [[CrowningMomentOfFunny That quarter'')That was worth 25 cents.]]
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* UnusualEuphemism: Calvin's dad, after dropping a Christmas present on his foot: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Slippin'-rippin'-dang-fang-rotten-zarg-barg-a-ding-dong!"]]
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* UnusualEuphemism: Calvin's dad, after dropping a Christmas present on his foot: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Slippin'-rippin'-dang-fang-rotten-zarg-barg-a-ding-dong!"]]"Slippin'-rippin'-dang-fang-rotten-zarg-barg-a-ding-dong!"
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* DidNotDoTheResearch / SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: Readily apparent in early strips where dinosaurs are concerned, which Watterson admits to drawing based on information he remembered from the 60s. After getting caught up on modern palaeontology he was able to draw them much more accurately.
** InUniverse example: Calvin's report on bats. To begin with, no, they are not bugs (sadly, we never hear the rest of that essay).
** InUniverse example: Calvin's report on bats. To begin with, no, they are not bugs (sadly, we never hear the rest of that essay).
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* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: Readily apparent in early strips where dinosaurs are concerned, which Watterson admits to drawing based on information he remembered from the 60s. After getting caught up on modern palaeontology he was able to draw them much more accurately.
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What happens when you take the unpredictable panel layouts, great backgrounds and [[MindScrew surreal nature]] of George Herriman's KrazyKat and {{Winsor McCay}}'s ''LittleNemo'', the lush inking, art and [[CastOfSnowflakes distinct characterizations]] of Walt Kelly's {{Pogo}}, and [[SliceOfLife the comedic]] [[LifeIsntFair but hard truths of life from]] {{Peanuts}}, throw in a dash of [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation classic cartoon]] [[ZanyCartoon slapstick]], and fuse them all together into one comic?
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What happens when you take the unpredictable panel layouts, great backgrounds and [[MindScrew surreal nature]] of George Herriman's KrazyKat ''KrazyKat'' and {{Winsor McCay}}'s ''LittleNemo'', ''LittleNemo''; the lush inking, art and [[CastOfSnowflakes distinct characterizations]] of Walt Kelly's {{Pogo}}, ''{{Pogo}}''; and [[SliceOfLife the comedic]] [[LifeIsntFair but hard truths of life from]] {{Peanuts}}, ''{{Peanuts}}'', throw in a dash of [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation classic cartoon]] [[ZanyCartoon slapstick]], and fuse them all together into one comic?
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** In one comic Calvin talks about wanting to be a talk radio host. It ends with him saying "Imagine getting to act like a six-year-old and getting paid for it!"
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* TechnicallyASmile: Calvin does a grotesquely awful/hilarious one for a photograph.
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* TechnicallyASmile: [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/12/16 Calvin does a grotesquely awful/hilarious one for a photograph.]]
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** Another unintentional one: Calvin once wrote giant letters in the snow requesting pilots to [[DoABarrelRoll Do a]] [[StarFox barrel roll]].
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** One comic had Calvin wearing a cape and shouting "[[{{Superman}} Up, up, and away!]]" in an attempt to fly. After he crashes he shouts "Ack! Kryptonite!"
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* OverlyLongScream: Calvin [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/03/28 does one upon learning that he is going to have Rosalyn as his baby sitter]].
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* GoshDarnItToHeck: "I'm only civil because I don't know any swear words." Also, several characters will use SymbolSwearing instead of swear words.
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* GoshDarnItToHeck: "I'm only civil because I don't know any swear words." Also, several characters will use SymbolSwearing instead of swear words."Gosh, I've never been a vandal before!"
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** In-universe, Calvin himself sometimes applies this approach to his snow sculptures.
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* FridgeBrilliance: One of the story arcs Hobbes shaving Calvin's head. In Latin, Calvin means "bald."
* FridgeHorror: A strip has Calvin's mother ask what happened to a kid that mocked Calvin for bringing a stuffed tiger to school. His response: "Hobbes ate him". Calvin - of course - believes Hobbes did, and the fact seems to be no one mocks Calvin about that. Assuming Calvin isn't just making that up, that leaves us with two options: If Hobbes ''is'' real, that means he ate a kid. If Hobbes ''isn't'' real, that means Calvin might have done something really gory to said kid.
* FridgeLogic: Applied rigorously by Calvin and Hobbes. One example is when Calvin declared math to be a religion:
-->'''Calvin:''' You take two numbers and when you add them, they magically become one ''new'' number! No one can say how it happens. You either believe it or you don't. This whole book is full of things that have to be accepted on faith! It's a religion!\\
'''Hobbes:''' And in the public schools no less. Call a lawyer.
* FridgeHorror: A strip has Calvin's mother ask what happened to a kid that mocked Calvin for bringing a stuffed tiger to school. His response: "Hobbes ate him". Calvin - of course - believes Hobbes did, and the fact seems to be no one mocks Calvin about that. Assuming Calvin isn't just making that up, that leaves us with two options: If Hobbes ''is'' real, that means he ate a kid. If Hobbes ''isn't'' real, that means Calvin might have done something really gory to said kid.
* FridgeLogic: Applied rigorously by Calvin and Hobbes. One example is when Calvin declared math to be a religion:
-->'''Calvin:''' You take two numbers and when you add them, they magically become one ''new'' number! No one can say how it happens. You either believe it or you don't. This whole book is full of things that have to be accepted on faith! It's a religion!\\
'''Hobbes:''' And in the public schools no less. Call a lawyer.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Even Watterson felt that the GreenAesop of the "Weirdos From Another Planet!" arc had descended to this level.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Even Watterson felt that the GreenAesop of the "Weirdos From Another Planet!" arc had descended to this level. His denunciation of television as violent and thoughtless is perhaps more prevalent but [[AcceptableTargets less objected to]].
