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** [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120812181540/candh/images/c/c3/Calvin_%26_Hobbes_Early_Version_Full.png Calvin was originally conceptualized]] with BlindingBangs and Hobbes' magical nature was just a very ''slight'' bit more explicit (as he was shown being sentient outside of Calvin's presence). He was also portrayed as a Cub Scout, a character trait which was present in the very earliest strips [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness but quickly phased out]].
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** [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120812181540/candh/images/c/c3/Calvin_%26_Hobbes_Early_Version_Full.png Calvin was originally conceptualized]] with BlindingBangs bangs and Hobbes' magical nature was just a very ''slight'' bit more explicit (as he was shown being sentient outside of Calvin's presence). He was also portrayed as a Cub Scout, a character trait which was present in the very earliest strips [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness but quickly phased out]].
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** The strip in which Calvin provides: "Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz." as Newton's First Law "[[ExactWords in his own words]]" inspired a [[http://www.slgcomic.com/Chumble-Spuzz-Volume-One-Kill-the-Devil_p_564.html comic book]] called ''Chumble Spuzz'', by the artist of ''Webcomic/AxeCop''.
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** The strip in which Calvin provides: "Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz." as Newton's First Law "[[ExactWords in his own words]]" inspired a [[http://www.slgcomic.com/Chumble-Spuzz-Volume-One-Kill-the-Devil_p_564.html comic book]] book called ''Chumble Spuzz'', by the artist of ''Webcomic/AxeCop''.
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* CreatorsFavorite: A non-character example. Watterson's favorite collection was ''Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat'', simply because he loved the title name so much.
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-->''"Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!"''
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--->'''Hobbes''': Is Amazon Girl's super power the ability to squeeze ''that'' figure into ''that'' suit?
--->'''Calvin''': Nah, they can all do that.
--->'''Calvin''': Nah, they can all do that.
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'''Calvin:''' Nah, they can all do that.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow:
** Calvin's Dad hobby of bicycling and the ''Chewing'' bubblegum magazine Calvin obsesses over are both based on Watterson's own love of bicycling and a TakeThat towards the specialist bicycling magazines he came across. He was always careful to keep the strips from being only about cycling to prevent them from being too niche for a general audience, however.
** The story arc where Calvin finds a dying baby raccoon was inspired by Watterson's wife finding a dead kitten. Similarly, the Sunday strip where Calvin and Hobbes find and grouse over a dead bird was based directly on Watterson finding a dead bird (with the sketch in the strip being the very same bird).
** Calvin's camping trips are loosely based on Watterson's own childhood camping trips with his family (although the actual stories are mostly invented).
** The story arc where Calvin tries and fails to build a miniature model airplane was inspired by Watterson, on a whim, buying a model airplane kit and similarly attempting to build it. He found it very frustrating, but he managed to get a few jokes from it.
** Calvin wandering alone with Hobbes in the woods behind his house was based on Watterson's own childhood home, which opened up into a big forest where he used to explore as a kid. However, he notes his forest was more of a brambly swamp, while Calvin's woodlands are more like a national park.
** Watterson has stated the story arc where Calvin tries to join the school baseball team was very much based on his own childhood memories and his ambivalence towards organized sports in general.
** Calvin's treehouse G.R.O.S.S. adventures are stated to be based on a similar club Watterson and a neighbourhood friend had as children where they bugged the neighbourhood girls or Watterson's brother. However, he notes that their adventures often had boring, anticlimactic conclusions, so he made Calvin's much more entertaining.
** The story arc where Calvin enters a poster contest at school was directly based on Watterson doing the same at school while he was a kid. Watterson got disqualified for plagiarism, because his poster was a drawing of [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Snoopy]], but Calvin has the opposite problem of being ''too'' original.
** Numerous examples of Calvin's SesquipedalianLoquaciousness were based on Watterson's readings of NewAge texts which he considered to be absurdly obtuse and pompous psychobabble, so he copied some of the worst of it down to [[TakeThat make fun of]] in his strip.
** Calvin's Dad hobby of bicycling and the ''Chewing'' bubblegum magazine Calvin obsesses over are both based on Watterson's own love of bicycling and a TakeThat towards the specialist bicycling magazines he came across. He was always careful to keep the strips from being only about cycling to prevent them from being too niche for a general audience, however.
** The story arc where Calvin finds a dying baby raccoon was inspired by Watterson's wife finding a dead kitten. Similarly, the Sunday strip where Calvin and Hobbes find and grouse over a dead bird was based directly on Watterson finding a dead bird (with the sketch in the strip being the very same bird).
** Calvin's camping trips are loosely based on Watterson's own childhood camping trips with his family (although the actual stories are mostly invented).
** The story arc where Calvin tries and fails to build a miniature model airplane was inspired by Watterson, on a whim, buying a model airplane kit and similarly attempting to build it. He found it very frustrating, but he managed to get a few jokes from it.
** Calvin wandering alone with Hobbes in the woods behind his house was based on Watterson's own childhood home, which opened up into a big forest where he used to explore as a kid. However, he notes his forest was more of a brambly swamp, while Calvin's woodlands are more like a national park.
** Watterson has stated the story arc where Calvin tries to join the school baseball team was very much based on his own childhood memories and his ambivalence towards organized sports in general.
** Calvin's treehouse G.R.O.S.S. adventures are stated to be based on a similar club Watterson and a neighbourhood friend had as children where they bugged the neighbourhood girls or Watterson's brother. However, he notes that their adventures often had boring, anticlimactic conclusions, so he made Calvin's much more entertaining.
** The story arc where Calvin enters a poster contest at school was directly based on Watterson doing the same at school while he was a kid. Watterson got disqualified for plagiarism, because his poster was a drawing of [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Snoopy]], but Calvin has the opposite problem of being ''too'' original.
** Numerous examples of Calvin's SesquipedalianLoquaciousness were based on Watterson's readings of NewAge texts which he considered to be absurdly obtuse and pompous psychobabble, so he copied some of the worst of it down to [[TakeThat make fun of]] in his strip.
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* SeriesHiatus: Watterson took two sabbaticals during the original run of the comic. The first lasted from May 6, 1991 until February 1, 1992. The second began one April 4, 1994 and lasted through the end of that year. After the first sabbatical, the format of the Sunday strips changed to the expanded and more dynamic format, and after the second sabbatical, Watterson made the decision to conclude the strip at the end of 1995. At the time, Watterson was one of the very few newspaper cartoonists popular enough to be encouraged to take breaks by his syndication (the only others being the creators of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'').
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* SeriesHiatus: Watterson took two sabbaticals during the original run of the comic. The first lasted from May 6, 1991 until February 1, 1992. The second began one on April 4, 1994 and lasted through the end of that year. After the first sabbatical, the format of the Sunday strips changed to the expanded and more dynamic format, and after the second sabbatical, Watterson made the decision to conclude the strip at the end of 1995. At the time, Watterson was one of the very few newspaper cartoonists popular enough to be encouraged to take breaks by his syndication (the only others being the creators of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'').
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* ScheduleSlip: Watterson took two sabbaticals from the strip. The first started on May 6, 1991 and ended on February 1, 1992. The second began lasted from April 4, 1994 until the end of that year.
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* SeriesHiatus: Watterson took two sabbaticals during the original run of the comic, the first lasting from May 6th, 1991 to February 1st, 1992, and the second from April 4th through December 31, 1994. After the first sabbatical, the format of the Sunday strips changed to the expanded and more dynamic format, and after the second sabbatical, Watterson made the decision to end the strip. At the time, Watterson was one of the very few newspaper cartoonists popular enough to be encouraged to take breaks by his syndication (the only others being the creators of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'').
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* SeriesHiatus: Watterson took two sabbaticals during the original run of the comic, the comic. The first lasting lasted from May 6th, 6, 1991 to until February 1st, 1992, and the 1, 1992. The second from began one April 4th 4, 1994 and lasted through December 31, 1994. the end of that year. After the first sabbatical, the format of the Sunday strips changed to the expanded and more dynamic format, and after the second sabbatical, Watterson made the decision to conclude the strip at the end the strip.of 1995. At the time, Watterson was one of the very few newspaper cartoonists popular enough to be encouraged to take breaks by his syndication (the only others being the creators of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'').
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* ScheduleSlip: Watterson took two sabbaticals from the strip. The first started on May 6, 1991 and ended on February 1, 1992. The second began lasted from April 4, 1994 until the end of that year.
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** Watterson was notorious for resisting every attempt to have his creations merchandised. This has had a two-edged effect on fans, depriving them of many bits of memorabilia that they'd love to have but at the same time preventing possible commercial oversaturation that has happened to other famous comic strips. Watterson's stance also made it much harder for him to sue bootleg merchandisers for copyright violations since it was more difficult to argue that he was being financially hurt by their actions. On the other hand, Watterson once dryly noted that the "peeing Calvin" stickers were his ticket to immortality, so he seems [[ActuallyPrettyFunny mildly amused by the bootleg merchandise at worst]].
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** Watterson was notorious for resisting every attempt to have his creations merchandised. This has had a two-edged effect on fans, depriving them of many bits of memorabilia that they'd love to have but at the same time preventing possible commercial oversaturation that has happened to other famous comic strips. Watterson's stance also made it much harder for him to sue bootleg merchandisers for copyright violations since it was more difficult to argue that he was being financially hurt by their actions. On the other hand, Watterson once dryly noted joked that the "peeing Calvin" stickers were his ticket to immortality, so he seems [[ActuallyPrettyFunny mildly amused by the bootleg merchandise at worst]].
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** In the ''Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book'', Bill admitted that the title story arc in ''Weirdos from Another Planet'' was a little too preachy and heavy handed in its environmental message for his liking. He also wasn't pleased with how the backgrounds on Mars came out, considering them too cartoony and overdone.
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** In the ''Calvin ''The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book'', Bill admitted that the title story arc in ''Weirdos from Another Planet'' was a little too preachy and heavy handed in its environmental message for his liking. He also wasn't pleased with how the backgrounds on Mars came out, considering them too cartoony and overdone.
** In the ''Tenth Anniversary Book'', Watterson [[DiscussedTrope discussed this idea]] when outlining his position against merchandising ''Calvin and Hobbes''. In particular, he noted that a real toy of Hobbes would never work since it can't properly reflect Hobbes's subjective reality.
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** Watterson was notorious for resisting every attempt to have his creations merchandised. This has had a two-edged effect on fans, depriving them of many bits of memorabilia that they'd love to have but at the same time preventing possible commercial oversaturation that has happened to other famous comic strips. Watterson's stance also made it much harder for him to sue bootleg merchandisers for copyright violations since it was more difficult to argue that he was being financially hurt by their actions.
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** Watterson was notorious for resisting every attempt to have his creations merchandised. This has had a two-edged effect on fans, depriving them of many bits of memorabilia that they'd love to have but at the same time preventing possible commercial oversaturation that has happened to other famous comic strips. Watterson's stance also made it much harder for him to sue bootleg merchandisers for copyright violations since it was more difficult to argue that he was being financially hurt by their actions. On the other hand, Watterson once dryly noted that the "peeing Calvin" stickers were his ticket to immortality, so he seems [[ActuallyPrettyFunny mildly amused by the bootleg merchandise at worst]].
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* TechnologyMarchesOn:
** The arc where Calvin locks Rosalyn out of the house would go a lot quicker if used today largely due to the availability of cell phones. Rosalyn could easily have called Calvin's parents and explained the situation or at the very least threatened to do so if Calvin didn't let her back inside. Of course, this storyline still could have worked if she forgot her phone before going outside.
** Similarly, the story arc where Calvin gets lost at the zoo would be over a lot quicker if Calvin had been carrying a cellphone.
** Calvin references that if they want to rent a movie, they need to rent a VCR to go with it, or watch a matinee. He and Hobbes only manage to do that in one strip, the one time his parents leave him alone for the night. In the 2010s, they'd just need a DVD player or a computer with an Internet connection. Of course, Dad is notoriously anti-tech and balks at the thought of getting a computer (however, he did have one a few strips late in the comic's run, likely since his work requires that)...
** In one 1995 comic, Calvin asks his dad why their computer doesn't have online service. It's justified at the time because his dad is a bit of a luddite, but by the beginning of the 2000s, having a computer but ''not'' having internet became virtually unheard of due to rapid commercialization and website growth, and increasingly faster dial-up speed greatly increasing its usefulness and ease of use by the general public.
** The strip ended just as the personal computer market was really taking off (and long before social media was a thing), so that computers are only mentioned a small handful of times, while focusing the vast majority of its technological criticism at television instead. By the early 2010s, computers had basically supplanted television as the primary means of home entertainment, particularly since smartphones and smart televisions incorporate features of computers into them, and streaming services which allow most tv shows to be watched on your computer.
** The video game industry took off a few years after the strip was first published, but the medium is never mentioned once in the comic. It's rather odd that Calvin, who's shown plenty of love towards comic books and cartoons, is never shown going to an arcade or asking his parents for a console or games for their family computer, even if his anti-tech father would have misgivings over it.
** One strip has Calvin's parents argue over whether they should buy an answering machine. These days, when most phones come with built-in message-taking systems, there'd probably be no such argument.
** A number of strips show one of Calvin's parents waiting for someone to call them, only for Calvin to disrupt the call or hang up. Aside from the aforementioned fact that most phones these days automatically have an answering machine, most people could communicate through a personal cellphone or by email nowadays.
** Several strips show Calvin's mom writing up letters with a typewriter (and in one strip Hobbes refers to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_paper carbon paper]]). By the 1990s, typewriters had been rendered obsolete by writing programs in personal computers, and carbon paper as common household stationary vanished with it.
** In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions car phones among other new technologies. Car phones ended up being a relatively short-lived fad, since the now-ubiquitous nature of cellphones and Bluetooth devices that could wirelessly hook up the phone's functions to the car made them largely pointless, as did laws against phone-use while driving. Car phones became virtually extinct by the late 2000s.
** In a different strip, Calvin bemoans that their car doesn't even have a cassette deck. Cars with built-in cassette decks declined near the end of the 90s, and stopped entirely by 2010, replaced by CD players or Bluetooth devices that could connect music in your phone to the car.
** Several strips centre around Calvin wasting a roll of camera film either by refusing to sit still for a good picture taken by his dad or taking pictures of frivolous objects. By the late 1990s, film photography was dying out, replaced by digital cameras and cellphones with cameras built-in that can take a practically limitless amount of photos. In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions Kodak, a photography company that declared bankruptcy in 2012 in large part due to its stubbornness to transition from film to digital.
** In one 1992 strip, Calvin complains to his dad how their house not having cable television means they can't keep up with national cultural homogeny. When his dad says there's still UsefulNotes/McDonalds and UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}, Calvin replies that those don't come into peoples' homes. Now with the internet and online home delivery services, they can!
** The few times when we see Calvin's dad on the computer, it's using a blocky CRT monitor and has the monitor mounted on a horizontal PC case. Most modern computers passed the mid 2000s are much slimmer LCD or OLED models and the popularity of desk-mounted horizontal [=PCs=] has been replaced by vertical [=PCs=] placed on the floor.
** Numerous jokes about Calvin calling the library or the hardware store to ask them about obscene things or weaponry, only to be told off by the employee on the other end, are dated now because Calvin could easily look them up on the internet without needing to contact anyone.
** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/22 one 1993 strip]], Calvin muses about the coming "electronic superhighway" that will link phones, computers, and televisions together for instant, interactive personal information. By the late 2000s, the attributes of televisions, phones (in the form of smartphones), and televisions being linked together had basically happened.
** Several strips had Calvin listening to music on a phonographic record or on the radio. Even at the time, [=CDs=] were gaining popularity, and were eventually replaced by digital audio players such as [=MP3=] players, smartphones, and wireless speakers that could connect to them by the 2000s. That said, vinyl records made a resurgence in the early 2010s, so it's still plausible for Calvin's family to have a record player, especially someone like Calvin's dad who has a preference for more archaic devices.
** In the story arc where Calvin is trying to build a robot, he records his voice with a cassette player with the intentions to put it into the robot. Nowadays, most kids could just use their cellphone to record their voice.
** The arc where Calvin locks Rosalyn out of the house would go a lot quicker if used today largely due to the availability of cell phones. Rosalyn could easily have called Calvin's parents and explained the situation or at the very least threatened to do so if Calvin didn't let her back inside. Of course, this storyline still could have worked if she forgot her phone before going outside.
** Similarly, the story arc where Calvin gets lost at the zoo would be over a lot quicker if Calvin had been carrying a cellphone.
** Calvin references that if they want to rent a movie, they need to rent a VCR to go with it, or watch a matinee. He and Hobbes only manage to do that in one strip, the one time his parents leave him alone for the night. In the 2010s, they'd just need a DVD player or a computer with an Internet connection. Of course, Dad is notoriously anti-tech and balks at the thought of getting a computer (however, he did have one a few strips late in the comic's run, likely since his work requires that)...
** In one 1995 comic, Calvin asks his dad why their computer doesn't have online service. It's justified at the time because his dad is a bit of a luddite, but by the beginning of the 2000s, having a computer but ''not'' having internet became virtually unheard of due to rapid commercialization and website growth, and increasingly faster dial-up speed greatly increasing its usefulness and ease of use by the general public.
** The strip ended just as the personal computer market was really taking off (and long before social media was a thing), so that computers are only mentioned a small handful of times, while focusing the vast majority of its technological criticism at television instead. By the early 2010s, computers had basically supplanted television as the primary means of home entertainment, particularly since smartphones and smart televisions incorporate features of computers into them, and streaming services which allow most tv shows to be watched on your computer.
** The video game industry took off a few years after the strip was first published, but the medium is never mentioned once in the comic. It's rather odd that Calvin, who's shown plenty of love towards comic books and cartoons, is never shown going to an arcade or asking his parents for a console or games for their family computer, even if his anti-tech father would have misgivings over it.
** One strip has Calvin's parents argue over whether they should buy an answering machine. These days, when most phones come with built-in message-taking systems, there'd probably be no such argument.
** A number of strips show one of Calvin's parents waiting for someone to call them, only for Calvin to disrupt the call or hang up. Aside from the aforementioned fact that most phones these days automatically have an answering machine, most people could communicate through a personal cellphone or by email nowadays.
** Several strips show Calvin's mom writing up letters with a typewriter (and in one strip Hobbes refers to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_paper carbon paper]]). By the 1990s, typewriters had been rendered obsolete by writing programs in personal computers, and carbon paper as common household stationary vanished with it.
** In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions car phones among other new technologies. Car phones ended up being a relatively short-lived fad, since the now-ubiquitous nature of cellphones and Bluetooth devices that could wirelessly hook up the phone's functions to the car made them largely pointless, as did laws against phone-use while driving. Car phones became virtually extinct by the late 2000s.
** In a different strip, Calvin bemoans that their car doesn't even have a cassette deck. Cars with built-in cassette decks declined near the end of the 90s, and stopped entirely by 2010, replaced by CD players or Bluetooth devices that could connect music in your phone to the car.
** Several strips centre around Calvin wasting a roll of camera film either by refusing to sit still for a good picture taken by his dad or taking pictures of frivolous objects. By the late 1990s, film photography was dying out, replaced by digital cameras and cellphones with cameras built-in that can take a practically limitless amount of photos. In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions Kodak, a photography company that declared bankruptcy in 2012 in large part due to its stubbornness to transition from film to digital.
** In one 1992 strip, Calvin complains to his dad how their house not having cable television means they can't keep up with national cultural homogeny. When his dad says there's still UsefulNotes/McDonalds and UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}, Calvin replies that those don't come into peoples' homes. Now with the internet and online home delivery services, they can!
** The few times when we see Calvin's dad on the computer, it's using a blocky CRT monitor and has the monitor mounted on a horizontal PC case. Most modern computers passed the mid 2000s are much slimmer LCD or OLED models and the popularity of desk-mounted horizontal [=PCs=] has been replaced by vertical [=PCs=] placed on the floor.
** Numerous jokes about Calvin calling the library or the hardware store to ask them about obscene things or weaponry, only to be told off by the employee on the other end, are dated now because Calvin could easily look them up on the internet without needing to contact anyone.
** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/22 one 1993 strip]], Calvin muses about the coming "electronic superhighway" that will link phones, computers, and televisions together for instant, interactive personal information. By the late 2000s, the attributes of televisions, phones (in the form of smartphones), and televisions being linked together had basically happened.
** Several strips had Calvin listening to music on a phonographic record or on the radio. Even at the time, [=CDs=] were gaining popularity, and were eventually replaced by digital audio players such as [=MP3=] players, smartphones, and wireless speakers that could connect to them by the 2000s. That said, vinyl records made a resurgence in the early 2010s, so it's still plausible for Calvin's family to have a record player, especially someone like Calvin's dad who has a preference for more archaic devices.
** In the story arc where Calvin is trying to build a robot, he records his voice with a cassette player with the intentions to put it into the robot. Nowadays, most kids could just use their cellphone to record their voice.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn:
** The arc where Calvin locks Rosalyn out of the house would go a lot quicker if used today largely dueTechnologyMarchesOn: [[TechnologyMarchesOn/CalvinAndHobbes Enough to the availability of cell phones. Rosalyn could easily have called Calvin's parents and explained the situation or at the very least threatened to do so if Calvin didn't let her back inside. Of course, this storyline still could have worked if she forgot her phone before going outside.
** Similarly, the story arc where Calvin gets lost at the zoo would be over a lot quicker if Calvin had been carrying a cellphone.
** Calvin references that if they want to rent a movie, they need to rent a VCR to go with it, or watch a matinee. He and Hobbes only manage to do that in one strip, the one time his parents leave him alone for the night. In the 2010s, they'd just need a DVD player or a computer with an Internet connection. Of course, Dad is notoriously anti-tech and balks at the thought of getting a computer (however, he did have one a few strips late in the comic's run, likely since his work requires that)...
** In one 1995 comic, Calvin asks his dad why their computer doesn't have online service. It's justified at the time because his dad is a bit of a luddite, but by the beginning of the 2000s, having a computer but ''not'' having internet became virtually unheard of due to rapid commercialization and website growth, and increasingly faster dial-up speed greatly increasingget its usefulness and ease of use by the general public.
** The strip ended just as the personal computer market was really taking off (and long before social media was a thing), so that computers are only mentioned a small handful of times, while focusing the vast majority of its technological criticism at television instead. By the early 2010s, computers had basically supplanted television as the primary means of home entertainment, particularly since smartphones and smart televisions incorporate features of computers into them, and streaming services which allow most tv shows to be watched on your computer.
** The video game industry took off a few years after the strip was first published, but the medium is never mentioned once in the comic. It's rather odd that Calvin, who's shown plenty of love towards comic books and cartoons, is never shown going to an arcade or asking his parents for a console or games for their family computer, even if his anti-tech father would have misgivings over it.
** One strip has Calvin's parents argue over whether they should buy an answering machine. These days, when most phones come with built-in message-taking systems, there'd probably be no such argument.
** A number of strips show one of Calvin's parents waiting for someone to call them, only for Calvin to disrupt the call or hang up. Aside from the aforementioned fact that most phones these days automatically have an answering machine, most people could communicate through a personal cellphone or by email nowadays.
** Several strips show Calvin's mom writing up letters with a typewriter (and in one strip Hobbes refers to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_paper carbon paper]]). By the 1990s, typewriters had been rendered obsolete by writing programs in personal computers, and carbon paper as common household stationary vanished with it.
** In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions car phones among other new technologies. Car phones ended up being a relatively short-lived fad, since the now-ubiquitous nature of cellphones and Bluetooth devices that could wirelessly hook up the phone's functions to the car made them largely pointless, as did laws against phone-use while driving. Car phones became virtually extinct by the late 2000s.
** In a different strip, Calvin bemoans that their car doesn't even have a cassette deck. Cars with built-in cassette decks declined near the end of the 90s, and stopped entirely by 2010, replaced by CD players or Bluetooth devices that could connect music in your phone to the car.
** Several strips centre around Calvin wasting a roll of camera film either by refusing to sit still for a good picture taken by his dad or taking pictures of frivolous objects. By the late 1990s, film photography was dying out, replaced by digital cameras and cellphones with cameras built-in that can take a practically limitless amount of photos. In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions Kodak, a photography company that declared bankruptcy in 2012 in large part due to its stubbornness to transition from film to digital.
** In one 1992 strip, Calvin complains to his dad how their house not having cable television means they can't keep up with national cultural homogeny. When his dad says there's still UsefulNotes/McDonalds and UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}, Calvin replies that those don't come into peoples' homes. Now with the internet and online home delivery services, they can!
** The few times when we see Calvin's dad on the computer, it's using a blocky CRT monitor and has the monitor mounted on a horizontal PC case. Most modern computers passed the mid 2000s are much slimmer LCD or OLED models and the popularity of desk-mounted horizontal [=PCs=] has been replaced by vertical [=PCs=] placed on the floor.
** Numerous jokes about Calvin calling the library or the hardware store to ask them about obscene things or weaponry, only to be told off by the employee on the other end, are dated now because Calvin could easily look them up on the internet without needing to contact anyone.
** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/22 one 1993 strip]], Calvin muses about the coming "electronic superhighway" that will link phones, computers, and televisions together for instant, interactive personal information. By the late 2000s, the attributes of televisions, phones (in the form of smartphones), and televisions being linked together had basically happened.
** Several strips had Calvin listening to music on a phonographic record or on the radio. Even at the time, [=CDs=] were gaining popularity, and were eventually replaced by digital audio players such as [=MP3=] players, smartphones, and wireless speakers that could connect to them by the 2000s. That said, vinyl records made a resurgence in the early 2010s, so it's still plausible for Calvin's family to have a record player, especially someone like Calvin's dad who has a preference for more archaic devices.
** In the story arc where Calvin is trying to build a robot, he records his voice with a cassette player with the intentions to put it into the robot. Nowadays, most kids could just use their cellphone to record their voice.own page.]]
** The arc where Calvin locks Rosalyn out of the house would go a lot quicker if used today largely due
** Similarly, the story arc where Calvin gets lost at the zoo would be over a lot quicker if Calvin had been carrying a cellphone.
** Calvin references that if they want to rent a movie, they need to rent a VCR to go with it, or watch a matinee. He and Hobbes only manage to do that in one strip, the one time his parents leave him alone for the night. In the 2010s, they'd just need a DVD player or a computer with an Internet connection. Of course, Dad is notoriously anti-tech and balks at the thought of getting a computer (however, he did have one a few strips late in the comic's run, likely since his work requires that)...
** In one 1995 comic, Calvin asks his dad why their computer doesn't have online service. It's justified at the time because his dad is a bit of a luddite, but by the beginning of the 2000s, having a computer but ''not'' having internet became virtually unheard of due to rapid commercialization and website growth, and increasingly faster dial-up speed greatly increasing
** The strip ended just as the personal computer market was really taking off (and long before social media was a thing), so that computers are only mentioned a small handful of times, while focusing the vast majority of its technological criticism at television instead. By the early 2010s, computers had basically supplanted television as the primary means of home entertainment, particularly since smartphones and smart televisions incorporate features of computers into them, and streaming services which allow most tv shows to be watched on your computer.
** The video game industry took off a few years after the strip was first published, but the medium is never mentioned once in the comic. It's rather odd that Calvin, who's shown plenty of love towards comic books and cartoons, is never shown going to an arcade or asking his parents for a console or games for their family computer, even if his anti-tech father would have misgivings over it.
** One strip has Calvin's parents argue over whether they should buy an answering machine. These days, when most phones come with built-in message-taking systems, there'd probably be no such argument.
** A number of strips show one of Calvin's parents waiting for someone to call them, only for Calvin to disrupt the call or hang up. Aside from the aforementioned fact that most phones these days automatically have an answering machine, most people could communicate through a personal cellphone or by email nowadays.
** Several strips show Calvin's mom writing up letters with a typewriter (and in one strip Hobbes refers to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_paper carbon paper]]). By the 1990s, typewriters had been rendered obsolete by writing programs in personal computers, and carbon paper as common household stationary vanished with it.
** In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions car phones among other new technologies. Car phones ended up being a relatively short-lived fad, since the now-ubiquitous nature of cellphones and Bluetooth devices that could wirelessly hook up the phone's functions to the car made them largely pointless, as did laws against phone-use while driving. Car phones became virtually extinct by the late 2000s.
** In a different strip, Calvin bemoans that their car doesn't even have a cassette deck. Cars with built-in cassette decks declined near the end of the 90s, and stopped entirely by 2010, replaced by CD players or Bluetooth devices that could connect music in your phone to the car.
** Several strips centre around Calvin wasting a roll of camera film either by refusing to sit still for a good picture taken by his dad or taking pictures of frivolous objects. By the late 1990s, film photography was dying out, replaced by digital cameras and cellphones with cameras built-in that can take a practically limitless amount of photos. In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions Kodak, a photography company that declared bankruptcy in 2012 in large part due to its stubbornness to transition from film to digital.
** In one 1992 strip, Calvin complains to his dad how their house not having cable television means they can't keep up with national cultural homogeny. When his dad says there's still UsefulNotes/McDonalds and UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}, Calvin replies that those don't come into peoples' homes. Now with the internet and online home delivery services, they can!
** The few times when we see Calvin's dad on the computer, it's using a blocky CRT monitor and has the monitor mounted on a horizontal PC case. Most modern computers passed the mid 2000s are much slimmer LCD or OLED models and the popularity of desk-mounted horizontal [=PCs=] has been replaced by vertical [=PCs=] placed on the floor.
** Numerous jokes about Calvin calling the library or the hardware store to ask them about obscene things or weaponry, only to be told off by the employee on the other end, are dated now because Calvin could easily look them up on the internet without needing to contact anyone.
** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/22 one 1993 strip]], Calvin muses about the coming "electronic superhighway" that will link phones, computers, and televisions together for instant, interactive personal information. By the late 2000s, the attributes of televisions, phones (in the form of smartphones), and televisions being linked together had basically happened.
** Several strips had Calvin listening to music on a phonographic record or on the radio. Even at the time, [=CDs=] were gaining popularity, and were eventually replaced by digital audio players such as [=MP3=] players, smartphones, and wireless speakers that could connect to them by the 2000s. That said, vinyl records made a resurgence in the early 2010s, so it's still plausible for Calvin's family to have a record player, especially someone like Calvin's dad who has a preference for more archaic devices.
** In the story arc where Calvin is trying to build a robot, he records his voice with a cassette player with the intentions to put it into the robot. Nowadays, most kids could just use their cellphone to record their voice.
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** The strip ended just as the personal computer market was really taking off (and long before social media was a thing), so that computers are only mentioned a small handful of times, while focusing the vast majority of its technological criticism at television instead. By the early 2010s, computers had basically supplanted television as the primary means of home entertainment, particularly since smartphones and smart televisions incorporate features of computers into them, and streaming services which allow most tv shows to be watched on your computer.
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** Several strips had Calvin listening to music on a phonographic record or on the radio. Even at the time, [=CDs=] were gaining popularity, and were eventually replaced by digital audio players such as [=MP3=] players, smartphones, and wireless speakers that could connect to them by the 2000s. That said, vinyl records made a resurgence in the early 2010s, so it's still plausible for Calvin's family to have a record player.
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** Several strips had Calvin listening to music on a phonographic record or on the radio. Even at the time, [=CDs=] were gaining popularity, and were eventually replaced by digital audio players such as [=MP3=] players, smartphones, and wireless speakers that could connect to them by the 2000s. That said, vinyl records made a resurgence in the early 2010s, so it's still plausible for Calvin's family to have a record player.player, especially someone like Calvin's dad who has a preference for more archaic devices.
** In the story arc where Calvin is trying to build a robot, he records his voice with a cassette player with the intentions to put it into the robot. Nowadays, most kids could just use their cellphone to record their voice.
** In the story arc where Calvin is trying to build a robot, he records his voice with a cassette player with the intentions to put it into the robot. Nowadays, most kids could just use their cellphone to record their voice.
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** He also stated that the story arc in ''Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"'' where Calvin's gravity reverses, then he begins growing uncontrollably wasn't very good in retrospective, because the concept wasn't very interesting as a story and it was just silly nonsense with little point.
** In the tenth anniversary commentary, Watterson stated that he put extra-long bonus stories in the treasuries because he personally felt they were otherwise redundant, as all the comics had already been printed in the annual books. He also chose to fully paint them with watercolours, just because he could, but it proved an insane amount of work together with having to draw and write more new comics every day and contributed to him going on an eventual hiatus.
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** In one arc, Calvin decides to do an assignment on the debate over whether ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' was an active predator or a scavenger. At the time, this was a serious question in the paleontological community; today, pretty much everyone agrees that the whole debate is a FalseDichotomy since virtually no land carnivore only does one or the other (though ''T-rex'' was almost certainly more of a hunter than a scavenger; incidentally, Calvin also comes to the conclusion that it was a hunter, not that it helps him).
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** In one arc, Calvin decides to do an assignment on the debate over whether ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' was an active predator or a scavenger. At the time, this was a serious question in the paleontological community; today, pretty much everyone agrees that the whole debate is a FalseDichotomy since virtually no land carnivore only does one or the other (though ''T-rex'' was almost certainly more of a hunter than a scavenger; incidentally, Calvin also comes to the conclusion that it was a hunter, not that it helps him). He also refers to ''Tyrannosaurus'' as a carnosaur, which was the belief of the time that all large theropods were carnosaurs, but tyrannosaurs have subsequently been reclassified as coelurosaurs.
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** Numerous jokes about Calvin calling the library or the hardware store to ask them about obscene things or weaponry, only to be told off by the employee on the other end, are dated now because Calvin could easily look them up on the internet without needing to contact anyone.
** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/22 one 1993 strip]], Calvin muses about the coming "electronic superhighway" that will link phones, computers, and televisions together for instant, interactive personal information. By the late 2000s, the attributes of televisions, phones (in the form of smartphones), and televisions being linked together had basically happened.
** Several strips had Calvin listening to music on a phonographic record or on the radio. Even at the time, [=CDs=] were gaining popularity, and were eventually replaced by digital audio players such as [=MP3=] players, smartphones, and wireless speakers that could connect to them by the 2000s. That said, vinyl records made a resurgence in the early 2010s, so it's still plausible for Calvin's family to have a record player.
** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/22 one 1993 strip]], Calvin muses about the coming "electronic superhighway" that will link phones, computers, and televisions together for instant, interactive personal information. By the late 2000s, the attributes of televisions, phones (in the form of smartphones), and televisions being linked together had basically happened.
** Several strips had Calvin listening to music on a phonographic record or on the radio. Even at the time, [=CDs=] were gaining popularity, and were eventually replaced by digital audio players such as [=MP3=] players, smartphones, and wireless speakers that could connect to them by the 2000s. That said, vinyl records made a resurgence in the early 2010s, so it's still plausible for Calvin's family to have a record player.
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** As noted in the tenth anniversary commentary, Susie Derkins has all the personality traits of Watterson's wife (although he says the name "Derkins" came from a friend's pet beagle).
** It's also stated that, despite common assumption, Calvin himself was not based on Watterson himself as a kid, nor on one of his own children (because he didn't have any). If anything, it's ''inverted'', because Watterson wrote Calvin to be basically the opposite of what he was like as a kid.
** It's also stated that, despite common assumption, Calvin himself was not based on Watterson himself as a kid, nor on one of his own children (because he didn't have any). If anything, it's ''inverted'', because Watterson wrote Calvin to be basically the opposite of what he was like as a kid.
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* HalfRememberedHomage: Calvin's adventures as his alter-ego Tracer Bullet read like [[AffectionateParody loving parodies]] of the film noir genre--except Watterson admitted in the 10th Anniversary retrospective book that he hadn't seen any noir films or read any hardboiled crime fiction beforehand. He was basically just riffing on genre tropes he'd picked up from seeing other noir parodies.* InspirationForTheWork:
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* HalfRememberedHomage: Calvin's adventures as his alter-ego Tracer Bullet read like [[AffectionateParody loving parodies]] of the film noir genre--except Watterson admitted in the 10th Anniversary retrospective book that he hadn't seen any noir films or read any hardboiled crime fiction beforehand. He was basically just riffing on genre tropes he'd picked up from seeing other noir parodies.parodies.
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* SeriesHiatus: Watterson took two sabbaticals during the original run of the comic, the first lasting from May 6th, 1991 to February 1st, 1992, and the second from April 4th through December 31, 1994. After the first sabbatical, the format of the Sunday strips changed to the expanded and more dynamic format, and after the second sabbatical, Watterson made the decision to end the strip. At the time, Watterson was one of the very few newspaper cartoonists popular enough to be encouraged to take breaks by his syndication (the only others being the creators of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'').
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** In one 1992 strip, Calvin complains to his dad how their house not having cable television means they can't keep up with national cultural homogeny. When his dad says there's still UsefulNotes/McDonalds and UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}, Calvin replies that those don't come into peoples' homes. Now with the internet and online home delivery services, they can!
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** Watterson loved the arc where Hobbes cuts Calvin's hair. He rarely laughed while drawing, but he did when he showed the results of Calvin's haircut. The story also introduced Tracer Bullet. As Watterson said, "would that I could write like this more often."
** The first duplicate arc, where Calvin creates five duplicates who all frame him for the chaos they cause, is one of Watterson's favorites because of how much it spun out of control and surprised him.
** Watterson loved the arc where Hobbes cuts Calvin's hair. He rarely laughed while drawing, but he did when he showed the results of Calvin's haircut. The story also introduced Tracer Bullet. As Watterson said, "would that I could write like this more often."
** The first duplicate arc, where Calvin creates five duplicates who all frame him for the chaos they cause, is one of Watterson's favorites because of how much it spun out of control and surprised him.
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: One Sunday strip where Calvin imagines he's Godzilla refers to Megalon as "his arch-rival". Megalon is actually one of Godzilla's lesser foes; he's fought Mothra, generally considered one of his ''allies'', more often than he's fought Megalon.
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: One Sunday strip where Calvin imagines he's Godzilla refers to Megalon as "his arch-rival". Megalon is actually one of Godzilla's lesser foes; foes and has only appeared in [[Film/GodzillaVsMegalon one movie]] total out of thirty-plus; he's fought Mothra, generally considered one of his ''allies'', more often than he's fought Megalon.[[note]]Notably, ''Godzilla vs. Megalon'' was the Godzilla movie that had the biggest marketing push [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in America]] during the baby boomer era, so it's reasonable to assume Watterson just happened to familiar with only this Godzilla film.[[/note]] This can possibly be justified by Calvin just having watched the one movie that afternoon and made up facts himself afterwards.
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: One Sunday strip where Calvin imagines he's Film/{{Godzilla}} refers to Megalon as "his arch-rival". Megalon is actually one of Godzilla's lesser foes; he's fought Mothra, generally considered one of his ''allies'', more often than he's fought Megalon.
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: One Sunday strip where Calvin imagines he's Film/{{Godzilla}} Godzilla refers to Megalon as "his arch-rival". Megalon is actually one of Godzilla's lesser foes; he's fought Mothra, generally considered one of his ''allies'', more often than he's fought Megalon.
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** In the ''Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book'', Bill admitted that the title story arc in ''Weirdos from Another Planet'' was a little too preachy and heavy handed in its environmental aesop for his liking. He also wasn't pleased with how the backgrounds on Mars came out, considering them too cartoony and overdone.
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** In the ''Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book'', Bill admitted that the title story arc in ''Weirdos from Another Planet'' was a little too preachy and heavy handed in its environmental aesop message for his liking. He also wasn't pleased with how the backgrounds on Mars came out, considering them too cartoony and overdone.
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* CreatorsPest: Watterson regretted creating the short lived character of Uncle Max for the strip, feeling it was a failed attempt to bring something new out of Calvin, but it just went nowhere because he had no real chemistry with Calvin, and it was awkward for him to not being able to call Calvin's parents by their names. After a brief story arc with him, [[PutOnABus Max was put on a plane and permanently vanished from the comic.]]
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* CreatorsPest: Watterson regretted creating the short lived character of Uncle Max for the strip, feeling it was a failed attempt to bring something new out of Calvin, but it just went nowhere because he had no real chemistry with Calvin, and it was awkward for him to not being able to call Calvin's parents by their names. After a brief story arc with him, [[PutOnABus Max was put on a plane and permanently vanished from the comic.]]comic]].
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** Several of Calvin's dinosaur fantasies featured a dinosaur called the "ultrasaur", which was a brachiosaur-type sauropod known as ''Ultrasauros'' that was getting buzz in pop science at the time as the "biggest dinosaur ever". Subsequently, ''Ultrasauros'' was found to be a chimera of ''Brachiosaurus'' and a diplodocid sauropod known as ''Supersaurus'', and is now considered synonymous with the latter. ''Supersaurus'', as a diplodocid (known for being very long and thin, rather than brachiosaurs' tendency to be tall and wide), is nowhere near the weight necessary to be in the running for "biggest dinosaur ever" to boot, though it may well have been the longest.
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** Several of Calvin's dinosaur fantasies featured a dinosaur called the "ultrasaur", which was a brachiosaur-type sauropod known as ''Ultrasauros'' that was getting buzz in pop science at the time as the "biggest dinosaur ever". Subsequently, ''Ultrasauros'' was found to be a probable chimera of ''Brachiosaurus'' and a diplodocid sauropod known as ''Supersaurus'', and is now considered synonymous with the latter. ''Supersaurus'', as a diplodocid (known for being very long and thin, rather than brachiosaurs' tendency to be tall and wide), is nowhere near the weight necessary to be in the running for "biggest dinosaur ever" to boot, though it may well have been among the longest.
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** [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120812181540/candh/images/c/c3/Calvin_%26_Hobbes_Early_Version_Full.png Calvin was originally conceptualized]] with BlindingBangs and Hobbes' magical nature was just a very ''slight'' bit more explicit (as he was shown being sentient outside of Calvin's presence). He was also portrayed as a Cub Scout, a character trait which was present in the very earliest strips [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness but quickly phased out.]]
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** [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120812181540/candh/images/c/c3/Calvin_%26_Hobbes_Early_Version_Full.png Calvin was originally conceptualized]] with BlindingBangs and Hobbes' magical nature was just a very ''slight'' bit more explicit (as he was shown being sentient outside of Calvin's presence). He was also portrayed as a Cub Scout, a character trait which was present in the very earliest strips [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness but quickly phased out.]]out]].
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: One Sunday strip where Calvin imagines he's Franchise/{{Godzilla}} refers to Megalon as "his arch-rival". Megalon is actually one of Godzilla's lesser foes; he's fought Mothra, generally considered one of his ''allies'', more often than he's fought Megalon.
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: One Sunday strip where Calvin imagines he's Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Film/{{Godzilla}} refers to Megalon as "his arch-rival". Megalon is actually one of Godzilla's lesser foes; he's fought Mothra, generally considered one of his ''allies'', more often than he's fought Megalon.
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** Bill has admitted that he wasn't always satisfied with the results of certain strips, such as the Sunday comic where Calvin imagined himself as a god of evil, mainly because the artwork was hampered by Sunday panel restrictions, forcing him to clutter up smaller panels and waste space in others.
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** Bill has admitted that he wasn't always satisfied with the results of certain strips, such as the Sunday comic where Calvin imagined himself as a god of evil, capricious or even malevolent god, mainly because the artwork was hampered by Sunday panel restrictions, forcing him to clutter up smaller panels and waste space in others.
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** He has also openly expressed regret for the way he depicted Calvin's parents, mainly showing their reactions to Calvin's antics. This mainly came from fan mail criticizing them for being unloving and uncaring. The strip ran at a time before audiences accepted [[ParentsAsPeople parents being portrayed as flawed human beings]]. However, he admits that they've done a better job trying to raise Calvin than he would have.
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** He has also openly expressed regret for the way he depicted Calvin's parents, mainly showing their reactions to Calvin's antics. This mainly came from fan mail criticizing them for being unloving and uncaring. The strip ran at a time before audiences accepted [[ParentsAsPeople parents being portrayed as flawed human beings]]. However, he admits that they've done a better job trying to raise Calvin than he probably would have.
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** In one arc, Calvin decides to do an assignment on the debate over whether ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' was an active predator or a scavenger. At the time, this was a serious question in the paleontological community; today, pretty much everyone agrees that the whole debate is a FalseDichotomy since virtually no land carnivore only does one or the other.
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** In one arc, Calvin decides to do an assignment on the debate over whether ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' was an active predator or a scavenger. At the time, this was a serious question in the paleontological community; today, pretty much everyone agrees that the whole debate is a FalseDichotomy since virtually no land carnivore only does one or the other.other (though ''T-rex'' was almost certainly more of a hunter than a scavenger; incidentally, Calvin also comes to the conclusion that it was a hunter, not that it helps him).
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** In one 1995 comic, Calvin asks why their computer doesn't have online service. By the end of the 90s, having a computer but ''not'' having internet became virtually unheard of due to rapid commercialization and website growth.
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** In one 1995 comic, Calvin asks his dad why their computer doesn't have online service. By It's justified at the end time because his dad is a bit of a luddite, but by the beginning of the 90s, 2000s, having a computer but ''not'' having internet became virtually unheard of due to rapid commercialization and website growth.growth, and increasingly faster dial-up speed greatly increasing its usefulness and ease of use by the general public.
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** The video game industry took off a few years after the strip was first published, but the genre is never mentioned once in the comic. It's rather odd that Calvin, who's shown plenty of love towards comic books and cartoons, is never shown going to an arcade or asking his parents for a console or games for their family computer, even if his anti-tech father would have misgivings over it.
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** The video game industry took off a few years after the strip was first published, but thegenre medium is never mentioned once in the comic. It's rather odd that Calvin, who's shown plenty of love towards comic books and cartoons, is never shown going to an arcade or asking his parents for a console or games for their family computer, even if his anti-tech father would have misgivings over it.
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** Several strips centre around Calvin wasting a roll of camera film either by refusing to sit still for a good picture taken by his dad or taking pictures of frivolous objects. By the late 1990s, film photography was dying out, replaced by digital cameras and cellphones with cameras built-in that can take a practically limitless amount of photos. In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions Kodak, a photography company that declared bankruptcy in 2012 in large part due to its stubbornness to transition from film to digital.
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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Bill Watterson noted in commentary that when writing out a multi-part story, he doesn't think of an ending in conception because he prefers the story to flow organically. Sometimes it would create a storyline and resolution which would pleasantly surprise himself (such as the arc where Calvin decides to duplicate himself), [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools but other times he would write himself into a corner]].
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** In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions car phones among other new technologies. Car phones ended up being a relatively short-lived fad, since the now-ubiquitous nature of cellphones and Bluetooth devices that could wirelessly hook up the phone's functions to the car made them largely pointless, as did laws against phone-use while driving. Car phones became virtually extinct by the late 2000s.
** In one strip, Calvin's dad mentions car phones among other new technologies. Car phones ended up being a relatively short-lived fad, since the now-ubiquitous nature of cellphones and Bluetooth devices that could wirelessly hook up the phone's functions to the car made them largely pointless, as did laws against phone-use while driving. Car phones became virtually extinct by the late 2000s.
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** He's actually very friendly and verbose when corresponding via e-mail and he had a good-natured rivalry with Berkeley Breathed (of ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'') that consisted of them drawing lewd pictures and sending them to one another.
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** He's actually very friendly and verbose when corresponding via e-mail and he had a good-natured rivalry with Berkeley Breathed (of ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'') that consisted of them drawing lewd pictures and sending them to one another. This eventually culminated in a canonical crossover arc in 2021 where [[spoiler:Opus helps Hobbes find a now-adult Calvin]].
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* ImageSource
** AnAesop
** ActuallyPrettyFunny
** AgainstMyReligion
** AnachronismStew
** AnnoyingPatient
** AttackHello (''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'' cover)
** AttackOfTheKillerWhatever (top-left, ''Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons'' cover)
** BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
** BedsheetGhost
** {{Calvinball}} (the TropeNamer)
** CargoCult
** CannotTellAJoke
** ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs
** CongestionSpeak
** ContrivedCoincidence
** CoolButStupid
** DeclarativeFinger
** DeliberatelyCuteChild
** ADogAteMyHomework
** ElephantsNeverForget
** FanMyopia
** FlyCrazy
** HatesBaths
** Heartwarming.ComicStrips
** IMeantToDoThat
** ImmediateSelfContradiction
** InUniverseFactoidFailure
** InsultBackfire
** ItAmusedMe
** KnowNothingKnowItAll
** LittleProfessorDialog
** MesACrowd
** MiseryBuildsCharacter
** MrImagination
** NoirEpisode
** OriginalPositionFallacy
** OuijaBoard
** ParentsAsPeople
** PickyEater
** PrivateEyeMonologue
** SafeUnderBlankets
** SeesawCatapult
** ShoehornedAcronym
** SilenceIsGolden
** SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism
** SternTeacher
** TalkingHeads
** ThroatSlittingGesture
** ViewersAreMorons
** AVillainNamedZrg
** AnAesop
** ActuallyPrettyFunny
** AgainstMyReligion
** AnachronismStew
** AnnoyingPatient
** AttackHello (''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'' cover)
** AttackOfTheKillerWhatever (top-left, ''Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons'' cover)
** BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
** BedsheetGhost
** {{Calvinball}} (the TropeNamer)
** CargoCult
** CannotTellAJoke
** ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs
** CongestionSpeak
** ContrivedCoincidence
** CoolButStupid
** DeclarativeFinger
** DeliberatelyCuteChild
** ADogAteMyHomework
** ElephantsNeverForget
** FanMyopia
** FlyCrazy
** HatesBaths
** Heartwarming.ComicStrips
** IMeantToDoThat
** ImmediateSelfContradiction
** InUniverseFactoidFailure
** InsultBackfire
** ItAmusedMe
** KnowNothingKnowItAll
** LittleProfessorDialog
** MesACrowd
** MiseryBuildsCharacter
** MrImagination
** NoirEpisode
** OriginalPositionFallacy
** OuijaBoard
** ParentsAsPeople
** PickyEater
** PrivateEyeMonologue
** SafeUnderBlankets
** SeesawCatapult
** ShoehornedAcronym
** SilenceIsGolden
** SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism
** SternTeacher
** TalkingHeads
** ThroatSlittingGesture
** ViewersAreMorons
** AVillainNamedZrg
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* ImageSource
** AnAesop
** ActuallyPrettyFunny
** AgainstMyReligion
** AnachronismStew
** AnnoyingPatient
** AttackHello (''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'' cover)
** AttackOfTheKillerWhatever (top-left, ''Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons'' cover)
** BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
** BedsheetGhost
** {{Calvinball}} (the TropeNamer)
** CargoCult
** CannotTellAJoke
** ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs
** CongestionSpeak
** ContrivedCoincidence
** CoolButStupid
** DeclarativeFinger
** DeliberatelyCuteChild
** ADogAteMyHomework
** ElephantsNeverForget
** FanMyopia
** FlyCrazy
** HatesBaths
** Heartwarming.ComicStrips
** IMeantToDoThat
** ImmediateSelfContradiction
** InUniverseFactoidFailure
** InsultBackfire
** ItAmusedMe
** KnowNothingKnowItAll
** LittleProfessorDialog
** MesACrowd
** MiseryBuildsCharacter
** MrImagination
** NoirEpisode
** OriginalPositionFallacy
** OuijaBoard
** ParentsAsPeople
** PickyEater
** PrivateEyeMonologue
** SafeUnderBlankets
** SeesawCatapult
** ShoehornedAcronym
** SilenceIsGolden
** SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism
** SternTeacher
** TalkingHeads
** ThroatSlittingGesture
** ViewersAreMorons
** AVillainNamedZrgImageSource: [[ImageSource/CalvinAndHobbes Has its own page.]]
** AnAesop
** ActuallyPrettyFunny
** AgainstMyReligion
** AnachronismStew
** AnnoyingPatient
** AttackHello (''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'' cover)
** AttackOfTheKillerWhatever (top-left, ''Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons'' cover)
** BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
** BedsheetGhost
** {{Calvinball}} (the TropeNamer)
** CargoCult
** CannotTellAJoke
** ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs
** CongestionSpeak
** ContrivedCoincidence
** CoolButStupid
** DeclarativeFinger
** DeliberatelyCuteChild
** ADogAteMyHomework
** ElephantsNeverForget
** FanMyopia
** FlyCrazy
** HatesBaths
** Heartwarming.ComicStrips
** IMeantToDoThat
** ImmediateSelfContradiction
** InUniverseFactoidFailure
** InsultBackfire
** ItAmusedMe
** KnowNothingKnowItAll
** LittleProfessorDialog
** MesACrowd
** MiseryBuildsCharacter
** MrImagination
** NoirEpisode
** OriginalPositionFallacy
** OuijaBoard
** ParentsAsPeople
** PickyEater
** PrivateEyeMonologue
** SafeUnderBlankets
** SeesawCatapult
** ShoehornedAcronym
** SilenceIsGolden
** SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism
** SternTeacher
** TalkingHeads
** ThroatSlittingGesture
** ViewersAreMorons
** AVillainNamedZrg
