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* Not a strip at all, but a picture with Calvin riding in his parents' car holding up a sign in the rear window saying: "Help! I've been kidnapped! Call the police!"

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* Not a strip at all, but "Yukon Ho!" has a picture with Calvin riding in his parents' car holding up a sign in the rear window saying: "Help! I've been kidnapped! Call the police!"
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* In one arc, Calvin tries to wheedle out of a school assignment (write and illustrate a story), by going forward in time with Hobbes from 6:30 to 8:30, when he will have already written the paper -- only to find his 8:30 self had had the same idea and not actually written the report. Calvin teams up with the 8:30 Calvin and they both travel back to ''7:30'' in an attempt to force ''that'' Calvin to do the homework. To put it simply, things end up escalating into a MeleeATrois.[[note]]Or would have, but the 7:30 Calvin pointed out that, since they're all the same Calvin, the 6:30 and 8:30 Calvins would suffer anything they did to him.[[/note]] Meanwhile, [[spoiler:the 6:30 Hobbes and the 8:30 Hobbes write Calvin's story and give it to him when he returns, resolving the whole mess. What they don't mention is that the story was about how he tried to avoid doing the assignment]]. What makes this funny? At the end, Calvin is furious at Hobbes' prank, only to discover that [[spoiler:the report was ''great'', earning an '''A+''', and the arc ends with Calvin ''still'' trying to be mad at Hobbes for the principle of the thing as Hobbes gets starry eyed over a possible career as an author]].

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* In one arc, Calvin tries to wheedle out of a school assignment (write and illustrate a story), by going forward in time with Hobbes from 6:30 to 8:30, when he will have already written the paper -- only to find his 8:30 self had had the same idea and not actually written the report. Calvin teams up with the 8:30 Calvin and they both travel back to ''7:30'' in an attempt to force ''that'' Calvin to do the homework. To put it simply, things end up escalating into a MeleeATrois.[[note]]Or would have, but the 7:30 Calvin pointed out that, since they're all the same Calvin, the 6:30 and 8:30 Calvins would suffer anything they did to him.[[/note]] Meanwhile, [[spoiler:the the 6:30 Hobbes and the 8:30 Hobbes write Calvin's story and give it to him when he returns, resolving the whole mess. What they don't mention is that the story was about how he tried to avoid doing the assignment]]. assignment. What makes this funny? At the end, Calvin is furious at Hobbes' prank, only to discover that [[spoiler:the the report was ''great'', earning an '''A+''', and the arc ends with Calvin ''still'' trying to be mad at Hobbes for the principle of the thing as Hobbes gets starry eyed over a possible career as an author]].author.

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* Hobbes' pounces on Calvin when he comes home from school have always been funny. In one strip, Calvin attempts to get proof of Hobbes in the act to prove to his parents of Hobbes actions by using a camera. He succeeds in snapping a picture before getting tackled by Hobbes, but the actual picture shows Hobbes in stuffed animal form seemingly jumping at the camera.
-->'''Calvin:''' ''(shows his dad said picture)'' See!? See!? That's what he does every time I come home!
-->''(the following scene)''
-->'''Hobbes:''' He thinks ''you'' tossed ''me'' in the air!? Well, I've never been so insulted in my life!

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* Hobbes' pounces on Calvin when he comes home from school have always been funny. In one strip, Calvin attempts to get proof of Hobbes in the act to prove to his parents of Hobbes actions by using a an instant camera. He succeeds in snapping a picture before getting tackled by Hobbes, but the actual picture shows Hobbes in stuffed animal form seemingly jumping at the camera.
-->'''Calvin:''' ''(shows his dad said picture)'' See!? See!? That's what he does every time I come home!
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home!\\
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following scene)''
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panel)''\\
'''Hobbes:'''
He thinks ''you'' tossed ''me'' in the air!? Well, I've never been so insulted in my life!life!\\
'''Calvin''': I've got to get a video camera.



* Calvin tries to prove to his parents that Hobbes tackles him when he comes home from school by taking a photo of Hobbes leaping at him. The photo shows Hobbes in "stuffed toy" mode hanging in the air in front of an open door. Hobbes is mortally offended by Dad's reaction:
-->'''Hobbes''': He thinks ''you'' tossed ''me'' in the air?!? Why, I've never been so insulted in all my life!\\
'''Calvin''': I've got to get a video camera.


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* Calvin and Hobbes dance through an entire Sunday strip. The final panel depicts his parents trying to sleep.
-->'''Mom''': Either he's playing classical music at 78 RPM, or I'm still dreaming.\\
'''Dad''': First thing tomorrow, morning I'm calling the orphanage.
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-->'''Hobbes''': To a point, of course.\\

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-->'''Hobbes''': --->'''Hobbes''': To a point, of course.\\
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* In one arc, Calvin decides to start reading horoscopes, thinking that perhaps the planets and stars might have some good fortune for him. After his first horoscope is a bust (Calvin thought the wording meant he'd have his way that day and skip his bath, homework, and bedtime), he tries again only to freak out when it says he'll draw attention from the opposite sex. This leads him to believe Susie that is going to make a pass at him, and he refuses to go to school. His mother chases him in one strip while his father just watches from his newspaper. When she gets a hold of Calvin...

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* In one arc, Calvin decides to start reading horoscopes, thinking that perhaps the planets and stars might have some good fortune for him. After his first horoscope is a bust (Calvin thought the wording meant he'd have his way that day and skip his bath, homework, and bedtime), he tries again only to freak out when it says he'll draw attention from the opposite sex. This leads him to believe Susie that is going to make a pass at him, and he refuses to go to school. His mother then chases him in one strip while his father just watches from his newspaper. When she gets a hold of Calvin...

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* In one arc, Calvin decides to start reading horoscopes, thinking that perhaps the planets and stars might have some good fortune for him. After his first horoscope is a bust (Calvin thought the wording meant he'd have his way that day and skip his bath, homework, and bedtime), he tries again only to freak out when it says he'll draw attention from the opposite sex, leading him to believe Susie is going to make a pass at him. When they do run into each other, Calvin gives a maniacal rant about how the planets are forcing them together before making a bolt for the bus while Susie looks on in confusion- it's probably the only time in his life Calvin is genuinely happy to go to school.

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* In one arc, Calvin decides to start reading horoscopes, thinking that perhaps the planets and stars might have some good fortune for him. After his first horoscope is a bust (Calvin thought the wording meant he'd have his way that day and skip his bath, homework, and bedtime), he tries again only to freak out when it says he'll draw attention from the opposite sex, leading sex. This leads him to believe Susie that is going to make a pass at him. him, and he refuses to go to school. His mother chases him in one strip while his father just watches from his newspaper. When they do run into each other, she gets a hold of Calvin...
-->'''Mom:''' Dear, I got him! Grab his feet while I pry his fingers loose!\\
'''Dad:''' I wonder how much it would cost to rent a place in town.
** When Susie shows up at the bus stop,
Calvin gives a maniacal rant about how the planets are forcing them together before making together. The bus arrives, and Calvin makes a bolt for the bus inside while Susie looks on in confusion- it's confusion. It's probably the only time in his life the strip when Calvin is genuinely happy to go to school.school.
** The aftermath where Calvin is happy that his horoscope was wrong again. He boasts about a prank he pulled on Susie that resulted in Susie beating him up. He then declares that he's a master of his own fate. [[GilliganCut The next panel]] has him taking a bath.
-->'''Hobbes''': To a point, of course.\\
'''Calvin''': The paper should print '''mom's''' daily predictions. '''Those''' sure come true.
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'''Calvin:''' Parents are sure inscrutable, huh? Send their car over a ditch and you don't get yelled at.\\

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'''Calvin:''' --->'''Calvin:''' Parents are sure inscrutable, huh? Send their car over a ditch and you don't get yelled at.\\
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** In the final strip of the arc, Calvin and Hobbes are in bed talking about how Calvin didn't get in trouble over the car, just a lecture on asking permission.
'''Calvin:''' Parents are sure inscrutable, huh? Send their car over a ditch and you don't get yelled at.\\
'''Hobbes:''' [[NoodleIncident ...But try keeping live worms in your dad's...]]\\
'''Calvin:''' ''(Looking away, annoyed)'' Let's not talk about that, OK?!
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** In another strip, the main plot is funny enough (Calvin tries to wait Hobbes out until he's asleep, tries to sneak in, but Hobbes wakes up from the ''cat'' nap and pounces anyway). But in the first four panels, we see Calvin eagerly running home, while Hobbes looks just as eagerly at him through the window, like an overjoyed puppy. Then in the fourth panel, he's suddenly primed to pounce, all predatory.
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* Calvin's [[TheUnsmile "smile"]] [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/12/16 in this comic.]] For context, his father asks him to smile for the camera and he makes a weird, gaping grin.
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** The final strip of the arc has a series of photographs showing Calvin puckering up, rapidly shaking his head, looking straight up, and [[ExorcistHead rotating his head to face behind him]]. His father gripes that they can't use the photos for cards because "people will think it's sacrilegious", but his mother comments that with the exception of the combed hair, the pictures are a pretty accurate representation of their son.
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* One of the final Sunday strips has Calvin rushing to the bus stop only to forget his lunch. Calvin runs back to retrieve it, [[DramaticIrony unaware that his mother]] [[MissedHimByThatMuch ran out with the bag]]. This results in Calvin missing the bus so his mom has to drive him to school. While walking to class, [[OhCrap Calvin realizes he forgot something else]]... and the last panel has his mother screaming [[HereWeGoAgain because he left a stack of books at home.]] Panels of this strip provide the page image for SilenceIsGolden.

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* One of the final Sunday strips has Calvin rushing to the bus stop only to forget his lunch. Calvin runs back to retrieve it, [[DramaticIrony unaware that his mother]] [[MissedHimByThatMuch unaware that his mother ran out with the bag]]. This results in Calvin missing the bus so his mom has to drive him to school. While walking to class, [[OhCrap Calvin realizes he forgot something else]]... and the last panel has his mother screaming [[HereWeGoAgain because he left a stack of books at home.]] Panels of this strip provide the page image for SilenceIsGolden.
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* One of the final Sunday strips has Calvin rushing to the bus stop only to forget his lunch. Calvin runs back to retrieve it, [[MissedHimByThatMuch unaware that his mother ran out with the bag]]. This results in Calvin missing the bus so his mom has to drive him to school. While walking to class, Calvin realizes he forgot something else... and the last panel has his mother screaming [[HereWeGoAgain because he left a stack of books at home.]] Panels of this strip provide the page image for SilenceIsGolden.

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* One of the final Sunday strips has Calvin rushing to the bus stop only to forget his lunch. Calvin runs back to retrieve it, [[DramaticIrony unaware that his mother]] [[MissedHimByThatMuch unaware that his mother ran out with the bag]]. This results in Calvin missing the bus so his mom has to drive him to school. While walking to class, [[OhCrap Calvin realizes he forgot something else...else]]... and the last panel has his mother screaming [[HereWeGoAgain because he left a stack of books at home.]] Panels of this strip provide the page image for SilenceIsGolden.
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* Calvin annoys his dad into buying him a hamburger by singing, ''"TEN MILLION BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL, TEN MILLION BOTTLES OF BEER..."''

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* On a road trip, Calvin annoys his dad into buying him a hamburger by singing, ''"TEN MILLION BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL, TEN MILLION BOTTLES OF BEER..."''
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* When Dad can't find his glasses, he recalls that he put them down, went to get his book, and told Calvin to shovel the sidewalk. He thinks, "Where could they be??" Cut to a snowman outside wearing Dad's glasses and holding a whip, towering over a very sad, Calvin-shaped snowman carrying a snow shovel.

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* When Dad can't find his glasses, he recalls that he put them down, went to get his book, and told Calvin to shovel the sidewalk. He thinks, says, "Where could they be??" Cut to a snowman outside wearing Dad's glasses and holding a whip, towering over a very sad, Calvin-shaped snowman carrying a snow shovel.
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* When Dad can't find his glasses, he recalls that he put them down, went to get his book, and told Calvin to shovel the sidewalk. He thinks, "Where could they be??" Cut to a snowman outside wearing Dad's glasses and holding a whip, next to a very sad, Calvin-shaped snowman carrying a snow shovel.

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* When Dad can't find his glasses, he recalls that he put them down, went to get his book, and told Calvin to shovel the sidewalk. He thinks, "Where could they be??" Cut to a snowman outside wearing Dad's glasses and holding a whip, next to towering over a very sad, Calvin-shaped snowman carrying a snow shovel.
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* When Dad can't find his glasses, he recalls that he put them down, went to get his book, and told Calvin to shovel the sidewalk. He thinks, "Where could they be??" Cut to a snowman outside wearing Dad's glasses and holding a whip, next to a very sad, Calvin-shaped snowman carrying a snow shovel.

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* Calvin is frantically asking his pediatrician whether or not his instruments hurt. The first couple times, the doctor tries to reassure him. In the last two panels...
-->'''Calvin:''' ''What's'' '''THAT?!''' ''Will it hurt?''\\
'''Doctor:''' It's a cattle prod. It hurts a little less than a branding iron. ''(next panel shows that Calvin has [[{{Fainting}} fainted]])'' Little kids have no sense of humor.
** Even funnier? The instrument in question is clearly an ear scope.
** Calvin having to get a shot (offscreen).
--->'''Calvin:''' Is that a shot? Are you going to... '''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice AUUGHH! IT WENT CLEAR THROUGH MY ARM!!]]''' OW OW OW OW!!!! ''(Mom hides her face in embarrassment.)'' '''I'M DYING!''' I HOPE YOU'VE PAID YOUR MALPRACTICE INSURANCE, YOU QUACK!! '''WHERE'S MY MOM!?'''

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* Calvin is frantically asking his pediatrician whether or not his instruments hurt. The first couple times, the doctor tries to reassure him. In the The last two panels...
panels feature the doctor claiming his ear scope is a cattle prod and that "(i)t hurts a little less than a branding iron", causing Calvin to faint and the doctor to complain about children lacking a sense of humor.
* Calvin having to get a shot (offscreen).
-->'''Calvin:''' ''What's'' '''THAT?!''' ''Will it hurt?''\\
'''Doctor:''' It's a cattle prod. It hurts a little less than a branding iron. ''(next panel shows that Calvin has [[{{Fainting}} fainted]])'' Little kids have no sense of humor.
** Even funnier? The instrument in question is clearly an ear scope.
** Calvin having to get a shot (offscreen).
--->'''Calvin:'''
Is that a shot? Are you going to... '''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice AUUGHH! IT WENT CLEAR THROUGH MY ARM!!]]''' OW OW OW OW!!!! ''(Mom hides her face in embarrassment.)'' '''I'M DYING!''' I HOPE YOU'VE PAID YOUR MALPRACTICE INSURANCE, YOU QUACK!! '''WHERE'S MY MOM!?'''



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'''Calvin:''' Whoa, that changes everything!

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'''Calvin:''' [[DadsCantCook Whoa, that changes everything!everything!]]
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** Once snowman has him enjoying a snowcone. Calvin just says, "It's a sordid story."

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** Once Another strip has one snowman has him enjoying a snowcone.snowcone. Another snowman can be seen facedown on the ground with an ice cream scoop in his back with three scoops taken out of him already. Calvin just says, "It's a sordid story."



** "First she says go out. Now she says come in," says Calvin after building some bowling snowmen.

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** "First she says go out. Now she says come in," says Calvin after building some bowling snowmen.snowmen--with one snowman using another snowman's head as the ball.
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-->'''Dad:''' OK! OK! Here's a hamburger joint! '''''ARE YOU HAPPY?!'''''
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* During the "Mom's sick" arc, Hobbes suggests that Mom's going to have a baby. The final strip has Calvin giving this report;
-->'''Calvin:''' I asked dad if mom was going to have a baby, and he said not that '''he''' knew of. Dad said we'd know if mom was having a kid because she'd look like a hippopotamus with a gland problem. ''(Makes swinging motion)'' ...That's when mom creamed him with her pillow. Dad says she must be feeling better.\\
'''Hobbes:''' You have weird parents.
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--->'''Dad''': (''[[FacePalm facepalming]]'') '''CALVIN!'''\\
'''Calvin''': That was a smile! I smiled!
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-->'''Calvin:''' [[ComicallyMissingthePoint Look, who's giving the report?]] '''''[[ComicallyMissingthePoint You]]''''' [[ComicallyMissingthePoint chowderheads...or]] '''''[[ComicallyMissingthePoint me?!]]'''''

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-->'''Calvin:''' [[ComicallyMissingthePoint [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Look, who's giving the report?]] '''''[[ComicallyMissingthePoint '''''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint You]]''''' [[ComicallyMissingthePoint [[ComicallyMissingThePoint chowderheads...or]] '''''[[ComicallyMissingthePoint '''''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint me?!]]'''''



-->'''Calvin:''' Some people complain all the time! They complain about the least little thing! If something bugs them, they just never let go of it! They just go on and on, long after anyone else is interested! It's just complain, complain, complain! People who gripe all the time really drive me nuts! [[HypocriticalHumor You'd think they'd change the subject after a while, but they never do! They just keep griping until you start to wonder "What's wrong with this idiot?]] But they go on complaining and repeating what they've already said!\\

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-->'''Calvin:''' Some people complain all the time! They complain about the least little thing! If something bugs them, they just never let go of it! They just go on and on, long after anyone else is interested! It's just complain, complain, complain! People who gripe all the time really drive me nuts! [[HypocriticalHumor You'd think they'd change the subject after a while, but they never do! They just keep griping until you start to wonder "What's wrong with this idiot?]] idiot?"]] But they go on complaining and repeating what they've already said!\\
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'''Calvin:''' ''([[BreakingtheFourthWall to the reader]])'' Isn't he great, folks? Let's give him a big hand!

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'''Calvin:''' ''([[BreakingtheFourthWall ''([[BreakingTheFourthWall to the reader]])'' Isn't he great, folks? Let's give him a big hand!



-->'''Hobbes:''' [[ComicallyMissingthePoint She's]] '''''[[ComicallyMissingthePoint CUTE]]''''', [[ComicallyMissingthePoint isn't she??]]

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-->'''Hobbes:''' [[ComicallyMissingthePoint [[ComicallyMissingThePoint She's]] '''''[[ComicallyMissingthePoint '''''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint CUTE]]''''', [[ComicallyMissingthePoint [[ComicallyMissingThePoint isn't she??]]



-->'''Calvin:''' [[ComicallyMissingthePoint Maybe you guys need to drink more beer.]]

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-->'''Calvin:''' [[ComicallyMissingthePoint [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Maybe you guys need to drink more beer.]]
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-->'''Hobbes''': He thinks ''you'' tossed ''me'' in the air?!? Why, I've never been so insulted in all my life!

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-->'''Hobbes''': He thinks ''you'' tossed ''me'' in the air?!? Why, I've never been so insulted in all my life!life!\\
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--'''Hobbes''': He thinks ''you'' tossed ''me'' in the air?!? Why, I've never been so insulted in all my life!

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--'''Hobbes''': -->'''Hobbes''': He thinks ''you'' tossed ''me'' in the air?!? Why, I've never been so insulted in all my life!
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* Calvin tries to prove to his parents that Hobbes tackles him when he comes home from school by taking a photo of Hobbes leaping at him. The photo shows Hobbes in "stuffed toy" mode hanging in the air in front of an open door. Hobbes is mortally offended by Dad's reaction:
--'''Hobbes''': He thinks ''you'' tossed ''me'' in the air?!? Why, I've never been so insulted in all my life!
'''Calvin''': I've got to get a video camera.

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