History ReferencedBy / CalvinAndHobbes

** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1998-08-02C-500x259.gif Calvin]], [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2014-05-25C-500x259.gif Hobbes]], and [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2020-08-23C-644x300.gif Calvin's Parents]] are also residing at the [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Betty Rubble]] Center For Recovering Toons.

** [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/1998-08-02C-500x259.gif Calvin]] and [[https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2014-05-25C-500x259.gif Hobbes]] are also residing at the [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Betty Rubble]] Center For Recovering Toons.

** A sketch from "Lust for Puppets" depicts Calvin as an insane kid who believes his tiger doll is real and murders his parents, subsequently winding up wearing a straitjacket in a padded cell with Hobbes while under the delusion that they're visiting Mars.

* Emma from ''Literature/BecauseOfTheRabbit'' longs for a best friend and hopes to be half of an "and," like Calvin and Hobbes.

** In Episode 49 of his ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' Let's Play, while playing the Tenta Brella, he says he's, "pitching the tent," to which he mentions that he can't hear that phrase anymore without thinking of the [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6nTB2qWUAIMf6b.jpg strip]] where Calvin misinterprets the saying as throwing the tent away.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Holly Jolly Secrets," the Ice King creates snow goons to attack Finn and Jake.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure," Craig is dressed as Spaceman Spiff.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Mxyzpixilated", the ''Daily Planet'' [[http://i.imgur.com/cOAmGia.jpg comics page]] has a strip named [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS "Dini the Meany"]] that has a similar art style to ''Calvin and Hobbes'' and is made by "Bill Wemissu," a reference to Bill Watterson ending the strip.

-Also, in the infamous Family Guy/Simpsons crossover, Peter begins the episode by getting his own newspaper comic strip. When his offensive content angers the townsfolk and the Griffins are forced to flee, Peter is given the option to submit one final comic strip before he leaves. Said comic strip is a shot of himself, walking out of a newspaper office, with a written goodbye on his in-universe desk. He refers to this act as "going out on top, just like Bill Watterson".

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Fat Man and Little Boy," Moe asks Bart if he has a T-shirt of Calvin peeing on Hobbes. When Bart answers no, Moe asks "Well what ''do'' you have him peeing on?"

** A sketch from "Lust for Puppets" depicts Calvin as an insane kid who believes his tiger doll is real and murders his parents.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': The non-canon side series ''Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius'' is pretty blatantly inspired by this strip.

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* In the ''Series/TedLasso'' episode “Two Aces” Ted tells his team that nothing lasts forever except for the words and wisdom of ''Calvin and Hobbes''.

* ''Literature/{{1632}}'': In the short story "Nasty, Brutish and Short" (compiled in the ninth ''Grantville Gazette'' collection), Princess Kristina is shown to be a fan of the strip. When Hobbes' namesake Thomas Hobbes ends up in town, she tries to convince him to dress up as the Hobbes to her Calvin for Halloween.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'': In [[https://i.redd.it/ue1dagba8pq01.jpg this strip]], Calvin is one of the guests at Curtis' party, along with [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis the Menace]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]], [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Stewie Griffin]], and ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}.

** In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' review, Critic responded to the extremely reclusive Once-ler with, "Oh my god, we finally found Creator/BillWatterson!" (HilariousInHindsight when Bill briefly came out of retirement not too long after to guest-draw ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'')

* In ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'''s long-awaited 2014 Halloween toon, The Cheat dresses as Calvin's sci-fi alter ego Spaceman Spiff.

** In "Golden Book Video Killers - Ai and Sam's Edition, the characters reenact the "Maybe the seal round the tub leaks" strip.

-->Oh, and look -- there's a sticker on the back window with some cartoon character peeing on something. Now *that's* unexpected.

-->This is a cheap toaster. You put bread in it, push down the lever, and in a couple of minutes, toast comes out! [[https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRPJD6SSBFI0CVEiQLjgv-5KPzt_ki0zw8_94XlyZd_pxPglAsq Nobody knows where the bread goes.]]

-->Now you can send secret messages to your friends that will look like complete gibberish to everyone else. Assuming, of course, that that wasn't already the case anyway.

* In WebAnimation/HomestarRunner's long-awaited 2014 Halloween toon, The Cheat dresses as Calvin's sci-fi alter ego Spaceman Spiff.

--->'''Uptrobar''': A pair of ancient human philosophers pithily described this not-uncommon circumstance... [[Creator/IsaacAsimov Asimov]] said that scientific progress is less "Eureka" and more "That's funny", and {{Hobbes|WasRight}} said [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/01/10 "Scientific progress goes 'boink.'"]]
--->'''Lefevre''' ''({{facepalm}}ing)'': Watterson. That was ''Watterson''.

* LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}