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Calvin takes his dad's tools to fix a leaky faucet in the bathroom. Lacking any understanding of how to correctly do it, he floods the bathroom.

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Calvin takes his dad's tools to fix a leaky faucet in the bathroom. Lacking any understanding of how to correctly do it, it correctly, he floods the bathroom.bathroom and tries to hide the resulting mess from his parents.



* ImpliedDeathThreat: After Calvin's dad fixes the leaky faucet and Calvin shows his face, he calmly tells Calvin "It's the end of the world."

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* ImpliedDeathThreat: After Calvin's dad fixes turns off the leaky faucet water and Calvin shows finds his face, son hiding behind the shower curtain, he calmly tells Calvin "It's the end of the world."



* SpeakInUnison: Calvin's parents point to each other and shout "'''Your''' turn." when they overhear Calvin ActingUnnatural upstairs.

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* SpeakInUnison: Calvin's parents point to at each other and shout "'''Your''' turn." turn" when they overhear Calvin ActingUnnatural upstairs.upstairs. Dad ends up getting drafted to investigate.
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* SpeakInUnison: Calvin's parents point each other and shout "'''Your''' turn." when they overhear Calvin ActingUnnatural upstairs.

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* SpeakInUnison: Calvin's parents point to each other and shout "'''Your''' turn." when they overhear Calvin ActingUnnatural upstairs.
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* SpeakingInUnison: Calvin's parents point each other and shout "'''Your''' turn." when they overhear Calvin ActingUnnatural upstairs.

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* SpeakingInUnison: SpeakInUnison: Calvin's parents point each other and shout "'''Your''' turn." when they overhear Calvin ActingUnnatural upstairs.

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* ImpliedDeathThreat: After Calvin's dad fixes the leaky faucet and Calvin shows his face, he calmly tells Calvin "It's the end of the world."



* SpeakingInUnion: Calvin's parents point each other and shout "'''Your''' turn." when they overhear Calvin ActingUnnatural upstairs.

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* SpeakingInUnion: SpeakingInUnison: Calvin's parents point each other and shout "'''Your''' turn." when they overhear Calvin ActingUnnatural upstairs.
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* SpeakingInUnion: Calvin's parents point each other and shout "'''Your''' turn." when they overhear Calvin ActingUnnatural upstairs.

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* ActingUnnatural: The flooded bathroom may have gone undiscovered by Calvin's parents for much longer if Calvin didn't do such a horrific job of acting like everything was fine when he went to go get some buckets for the water.

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* ActingUnnatural: The flooded bathroom may have gone undiscovered by Calvin's parents for much longer if Calvin didn't do such a horrific job of acting like everything was fine when he went to go get some buckets for the water.buckets.



* CyanidePill: After attempting a plumbing project that goes horribly, predictably wrong, a frantic Calvin starts looking for cyanide ''in the bathroom medicine cabinet'' in order to avoid having to face the wrath of his parents.
* DoItYourselfPlumbingProject: Calvin tries to fix the leaky faucet but doesn't turn off the water before doing so. He can't reattach the faucet because of the high-powered water shooting out, so the bathroom ends up flooded ankle-deep before his dad arrives and turns the water off.



* OnlySaneMan: Hobbes clearly thinks it's a bad idea for Calvin to try to fix the faucet by himself, then tries to advise him on how to correctly do it. Calvin ignores him at every turn, with predictable results.

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* OnlySaneMan: Hobbes clearly thinks it's a bad idea for Calvin to try to fix the faucet by himself, then tries to advise him on how to correctly do it. Calvin ignores him at every turn, with predictable results.results.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Calvin tries to fix a leaky faucet and floods the bathroom. While trying to fix it, he starts "innocently" humming and casually mentioning he's looking for a bucket: "La da dee doo, I think I'll get a bucket...doo dah de doo...nothing's wrong, ba da dum...just need a bucket to hold some...stuff." The parents, not fooled, both look at each other and say, "Your turn!".

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* BadLiar: When confronted by his father on what he was doing, Calvin tries to claim the faucet handle blew off on it's own, then that Hobbes did it, and then that aliens did it.

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* BadLiar: When confronted by his father on what he was doing, Calvin tries to claim the faucet handle blew off on it's its own, then that Hobbes did it, and then that aliens did it. it.
* ManMadeHouseFlood: Calvin's attempts to fix the leaky faucet result in the bathroom flooding.
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Calvin takes his dad's tools to fix a leaky faucet in the bathroom. Lacking any understanding of how to correctly do it, he floods the bathroom.
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* ActingUnnatural: The flooded bathroom may have gone undiscovered by Calvin's parents for much longer if Calvin didn't do such a horrific job of acting like everything was fine when he went to go get some buckets for the water.
* BadLiar: When confronted by his father on what he was doing, Calvin tries to claim the faucet handle blew off on it's own, then that Hobbes did it, and then that aliens did it.
* OnlySaneMan: Hobbes clearly thinks it's a bad idea for Calvin to try to fix the faucet by himself, then tries to advise him on how to correctly do it. Calvin ignores him at every turn, with predictable results.

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