Calvin starts using the bug spray. The spray doesn't kill it. Hobbes hears Dad coming and suggests Dad can kill the bug. As Dad enters the messed room with bug spray wafting everywhere, Calvin tells him it went under the bed. He tells Dad to get a fly swatter. Dad replies that he'll tell Calvin who's going to be swatted. Calvin, it's time to wake up.
C'mon you'll be late for school. My dreams are getting way to literal. Mom shakes Calvin and tells him it's time to wake up. Calvin gets dressed, eats his cereal, brushes his teeth, puts on his jacket and heads out the door. He hears Mom tell him it's time to wake up. It was all a dream. She tells him he'll be late for school. As Calvin sits up in bed, he says his dreams are getting way too literal. Will you get me a glass of water?
You just had one. I want one to keep by the bed, so I can douse this guy if he starts snoring. Good night, Calvin. Hee hee hee.
Oh, great he's dreaming again. Where do you think you are, you imbecile? Out in the jungle? If he starts running he's gonna get a pillow in the kisser. Where are you going? Somnambulists give me the creeps. Why are we going to the kitchen?
What are you doing? Have you been sleepwalking? I was completely awake! It's this dope who's sleepwalking! I just followed him. I put him back to bed, he couldn't give any reason for being up.
Do you suppose it means anything? Look, he got out all the tuna! Hobbes is giggling in his sleep. Calvin wakes up and notices Hobbes is dreaming. Hobbes sniffs, and Calvin wonders if Hobbes thinks he's in the jungle. Calvin is prepared to smack Hobbes with a pillow. Hobbes crawls out of bed and heads downstairs. Calvin follows him and wonders why they're going to the kitchen.
Dad turns on the light and asks if Calvin was sleepwalking. Calvin says he was wide awake, but Hobbes is the dope who's sleepwalking. Dad explains to Mom that he put Calvin back to bed, and he had no reason for being up. Mom notices that he had gotten out all the tuna in the house. This has got to be a dream. Whenever you fall two miles up in the sky, you look down, gasp, and suddenly wake up. As Calvin plummets back to the ground, he says this must be a dream. He says when you fall from two miles up in the sky, you look down and gasp.
Then you wake up. Calvin looks down and gasps. He keeps gasping as he keeps falling to the ground. Wake up! You're dreaming! And Mom wonders why I never look rested in the morning. Calvin and Hobbes are sleeping. Hobbes suddenly starts growling and roaring in his sleep. Calvin tries to wake Hobbes up, to no avail. He has a worried look on his face.
He decides to sleep on the floor. As he lies there, he says Mom wonders why he never looks rested in the morning. Sitting at his desk at school, Calvin dreams of flying over the town in his beanie. He dreams of flying with the jet airliners. Mom asks him how school was. Calvin says it was a blast I can't sleep. I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction. At nighttime, the world always seem so big and scary, and I always seem so small.
I wish I could fall asleep, so it would be morning. Look at Hobbes. HE'S asleep. Heh heh Tigers close their eyes so tight.
I wonder what he's dreaming about. Good ol' Hobbes. What a friend. Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. In bed, Calvin says at night the world seems big and scary.
He wishes he could fall asleep. He looks over at Hobbes, who's sleeping. He notices that Hobbes looks funny when he sleeps. Hobbes closes his eyes so tight. He wonders what Hobbes is dreaming about. Calvin touches him and says he's a friend. Calvin lies back down and says things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. He closes his eyes, and he falls asleep next to Hobbes. When you wish upon a star your dreams come true. If Jiminy cricket was here, I'd skoosh him. Calvin and Hobbes are outside at night.
There is a star in the sky. Calvin tells Hobbes that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. Calvin says he wishes he had a cool million dollars right now. Calvin looks around. Unhappily, he walks off saying that if Jiminy Cricket was there, he'd skoosh him. Are you awake? Sniff sniff smack smack You're dreaming, stupid.
Wake up. Why yes, thank you, some good fresh fish would hit the spot! Ooh, there's a nice big 'one! I don't care WHAT all your clothes smell like!
I'm not washing anything now! Go to bed! Late at night, Hobbes sniffs the air in his and Calvin's tent. He's asleep. Calvin tells him he's dreaming and to wake up.
Hobbes licks his lips and says some fresh fish would hit the spot. He says there's a nice big one. Calvin is frightened! He holds the flashlight at Mom's tent while she tells him she doesn't care what his clothes smell like. She's not washing anything now. What is it? What's the matter? Hobbes had a bad dream. You woke me up at 2 A. He dreamed he was so hungry, he ate us allup. I must be having a bad dream.
Don't you think you should make Hobbes a sandwich, just in case? Mom wakes up to Calvin yelling for her. When she checks on him, he tells her that Hobbes had a bad dream. Mom is angry that Calvin woke her up at AM because he thinks his stuffed tiger had a bad dream. Calvin explains that Hobbes dreamed he was hungry and ate them all up. Mom walks back to her room, saying she must be having a bad dream.
Calvin asks if she shouldn't make Hobbes a sandwich, just in case. Thank you, Claire. That was very good. Anyone at all besides Calvin? For show-and-tell, I brought these amazing fossilized bone fragments that I painstakingly unearthed from sedimentary deposits in my front yard! Though they look like ordinary driveway gravel to the untotured eyes of the ignorant layman, I immediately recognized these as pieces of jawbone from a new species of carnosaur!
In this dramatic illustration, I've re-created the complete Calvinosaurus as it would have appeared in the late Jurassic! It's coloration here is somewhat conjectural. I'll be publishing my full findings shortly! Undoubtedly, I'll be the recipient of many lucrative paleontology prizes, and in a matter of weeks, prestige, fame and fortune will be mine!
When this happens, you can be darn sure that those of you who were mean to me in school will suffer appropriately! I'll employ my resources to make your puny lives miserable! I'll crush your pitiful dreams and ambitions like bugs in the dust!
I'm now accepting a limited number of applications to be my pal. Any takers? Oh yeah? Just you wait! Calvin comes home and is pounced on by Hobbes. They're fighting as Susie asks what he's doing. She says he didn't even change out of his school clothes. Calvin explains that this maniac is so glad to see him that he blasts out like a big orange torpedo. A dog will wag its tail, but a tiger has to pounce on you. Susie asks if Hobbes pounces on him. Calvin says Hobbes enjoys the treachery and cunning of it all.
He says it's their evil nature. Susie points out that Hobbes is just sitting there. Calvin says it's a big disguise. No one can fathom the savage mind of a jungle cat. He's a killer to the core. Susie walks off wishing her parents would move. Her diary gets weirder every day. Calvin looks at Hobbes and cocks his fist. He says to wipe off that grin or he'll do it for him.
Hey Hobbes! It's bedtime. I wonder why we dream when we sleep. Do our brains get bored? I wonder why we don't just plain sleep. I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can plan together all night. Hey, yeah! Well, I'll see you in a few minutes, ol' buddy!
I'll be there! Calvin can't get to sleep. He tries lying still thinking about how good it feels in bed, how soft the pillow is, how tired he is.
That isn't working. He hears someone calling his name. Calvin asks if Mom is awake too. It's time to get up. Calvin says it can't be. It's the middle of the night and he hasn't slept a wink yet. Mom gently shakes Calvin awake. He had been dreaming. Calvin blinks his eyes. As he eats his cereal, he says this is going to be a bad day. This morning I had a wonderful dream.
By holding my arms out stiff and pushing down hard, I found I could suspend myself a few feet above the ground. I flapped harder, and soon I was soaring effortlessly over the trees and telephone poles! I could FLY! I folded my arms back and zoomed lower over the neighborhood. Everyone was amazed, and they ran along under me as I shot by.
Then I rocketed up so fast that my eyes watered from the wind. I laughed and laughed, making huge loops across the sky! That's when Mom woke me up and said I was going to miss the bus if I didn't get my bottom out of the bot. Tuesdays don't start much worse than this.
Calvin and Hobbes are standing in the rain, waiting for the bus. Calvin launches into a long speech about a dream he had. He could flap his arms and was able to fly.
He zoomed over the neighborhood. His eyes watered from the wind. He laughed and laughed as he made loops in the sky. Then, Mom woke him up and said he'd miss the bus if he didn't get up. Twenty minutes later, he's standing in the cold rain, waiting to go to school, and he just remembered he forgot his lunch. He tells Hobbes Tuesday's don't start much worse than this. That stupid bicycle!
I hate it! I'm never going to ride one as long as I live. It's trying to k-kill me! It was just a dream, honey. In bed, Calvin says he hates his stupid bike. He's never going to ride one as long as he lives. He hears a creak. His bicycle comes out of his bedroom closet. Calvin shouts that the bike has been lying in wait and is coming to get him. He yells for help. Mom comes to his room and holds Calvin close.
Calvin tells her that he told her it's trying to kill him. She says it was just a dream, but she asks why he brought his bike upstairs to his closet. There are monsters under Calvin's bed. They tell Calvin there's a shiny toy for him under the bed. Come get it. Calvin says they just want him to come down so they can grab him with an oozing appendage, slowly paralyze him with some vile secretion, and devour him alive.
He says forget it. As he turns to lie in bed, he tells Hobbes they are stupid monsters. All fangs and no brains. The monsters whisper to Hobbes that they'll give him some salmon if he pushes the kid over the bed. Hobbes asks if the salmon is fresh. They say it is. Calvin, horrified, yells for Hobbes not to listen to them.
Hee hee hee hee! I've got you! Tickle tickle! Hee hee hee woo hoo! I'm gonna getcha! I'm coming after you! Hee hee. Here I come! Gootchie gootchie! Ha ha ha. Ha ha hee hee ooh! Tickle, tickle! We'd better stop. Calm down, calm down. Ha ha hoo hoo hee hee ha. Hee hee whoof!
Ha ha! I'm all wound up, and Mom needs to be put to bed. For show-and-tell, Calvin has bone fragments he unearthed in his front yard. He says they look like ordinary driveway gravel, but he recognized them as part of a jawbone from a new species of carnosaur. He has an illustration of the Calvinosaurus as it would have appeared.
He says he'll be publishing his full findings soon. He feels he'll be the recipient of many paleontology prizes. He says those students who were mean to him will suffer then. He says he'll employ his resources to make their puny lives miserable. He'll crush their pitiful dreams and ambitions like bugs in the dust. But he offers an alternative. He's accepting a limited number of applications to be his pal.
Calvin sits in the principal's office. Calvin tells him to just wait. Can you see the snow goons out there? They're still making more of each other. How many did you see? About Man, how am I going to school tomorrow? I'll never even make it to the bus stop! I can't outrun 15 snow goons!
I'm as good as dead! Sweet dreams. Yeah, right! Can I take an ax to school tomorrow for In bed, Calvin asks Hobbes if he sees any snow goons outside. He says they're still making more. There are about fifteen now. Calvin doesn't think he'll even make it to the bus stop tomorrow. He is sure the snow goons will catch him. Mom kisses Calvin good night.
Calvin asks her if he can bring an ax to school tomorrow Calvin, this is the last time I'm calling you! Get up before you miss the bus! Well, look who's finally up! It's Mr Sunshine! You know, Calvin, from now on, you're going to bed earlier. This dragging out of bed late with a surly attitude every morning is going to stop. You're only kidding yourself, bucko. Bedtime is We should've adopted a year-old with his own apartment. Calvin wonders why he dreams when he sleeps. He asks Hobbes if their brains get bored.
He wonders why they don't just sleep. Hobbes thinks they dream so they don't have to be apart so long. If they are in each other's dreams, they can play all night. Calvin thinks that sounds right. Calvin says he'll see Hobbes in his dreams in a few minutes.
Hobbes takes great pleasure in his demonstrations of feline prowess, while Calvin expresses keen frustration at his inability to stop the attacks or explain his injuries to his skeptical parents not even with a picture he took, for his dad thought Calvin had thrown Hobbes into the view of the camera. Another frequently recurring theme is Hobbes' love affair with tuna , until he decided to get the more "environmentally friendly" swordfish steaks. Hobbes also has a liking for salmon. Hobbes also refers to the infamous " Noodle Incident " quite often, much to Calvin's dismay.
Calvin is very defensive about it and gets mad when Hobbes makes a reference. Hobbes is named after 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who had what Watterson described as "a dim view of human nature. Hobbes is much more rational and aware of consequences than Calvin but seldom interferes with Calvin's troublemaking beyond a few oblique warnings.
After all, Calvin will be the one to get in trouble for it, not Hobbes. Hobbes is more playful, loyal, and kind. The only time he usually has doubts is with Calvin's imaginary inventions such as his Time Machine and Transmogrifier , which he is a reluctant participant at best. Hobbes acts as a big brother figure to Calvin, as he has a little more common sense than Calvin.
Watterson based some of Hobbes' characteristics, especially his playfulness and attack instinct, on his own pet cat, Sprite. Hobbes takes great pride in being a feline and frequently makes wry or even disparaging comments about human nature, declaring his good fortune to lead a tiger's life. In Calvin's philosophical ramblings, it is evident that Hobbes is usually Bill Watterson's voice on the subject, whereas Calvin usually seems to echo the sentiments or lack thereof of modern America.
It may otherwise be asserted that Calvin rather portrays an alter-ego of Watterson. Hobbes certainly changed in appearance over the strip's run. At the beginning of the strip's run, Hobbes was slightly shorter, and his tufts of fur were less defined and shorter. His eyes also had more of a round shape, as opposed to the oval shape of later years. The most notable change, however, were the pads on Hobbes' hands. Hobbes began looking like his current self around mid In earlier years, Bill Watterson drew the pads on Hobbes' hands as a reminder that they were really paws, but later removed them as he found them to be visually distracting.
From Calvin 's point of view, Hobbes is a walking, talking, bipedal tiger, much larger and often much stronger than Calvin and full of his own attitudes and ideas. But when the perspective shifts to any other character, readers see merely a little stuffed tiger.
This is, of course, an odd dichotomy and leaves in question the nature of Hobbes' reality. Many readers assume that Hobbes is either a product of Calvin's imagination, or a doll that comes to life when Calvin is the only one around. However, both of these theories are incorrect. As Watterson explains in the Tenth Anniversary Book , "Hobbes is more about the subjective nature of reality than dolls coming to life": thus there is no concrete definition of Hobbes' reality.
Watterson explained: "Calvin sees Hobbes one way, and everyone else sees Hobbes another way. The so-called 'gimmick' of Hobbes is the juxtaposition of Calvin and Hobbes' reality and everyone else's, with the two rarely agreeing. Hobbes is supposed to represent how imaginative kids see their stuffed animals. There has been more than one instance of Hobbes appearing the way Calvin sees him around another person.
One instance is when Calvin loses Hobbes in the first Calvin and Hobbes book, Hobbes is seen as a tiger in the company of Susie Derkins. However, she was facing the other way when it occurred see picture on right.
In a Sunday strip from the same book, the car stops going and Calvin and Hobbes beep the horn hoping for someone to come help. Hobbes is seen as a tiger when Calvin's mother is there, but she isn't looking. There is one strip when Calvin is fighting with Hobbes' and we see Susie's perspective in one panel, but some people think it was Calvin seeing him transform back into his stuffed animal form and expressing confusion. At one point, Calvin stated that Hobbes was steering, however since Susie was there, the imagination became to 'realism', and Hobbes was riding in the back as a stuffed tiger, displaying a hint about whether Hobbes is real or not.
However, it is possible that Calvin took the helm at the last second because Hobbes did a poor job of steering. The panel format, however, makes this impossible to confirm or deny. Sometimes Hobbes breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to the reader, such as when Calvin tries to parachute from his house's roof "His mom's going to have a fit about those rose bushes".
On other occasions, it is difficult to imagine how the "stuffed toy" interpretation of Hobbes is consistent with what the characters see. For example, he "assists" Calvin's attempt to become a Houdini-style escape artist by tying Calvin to a chair. Calvin, however, cannot escape, and his irritated father must undo the knots, all the while asking Calvin how he could do this to himself. In a rare interview, Watterson explained his approach to this situation:.
In response to the journalist's assumption that Hobbes was a figment of Calvin's imagination, Watterson responded,. In another story, Susie Derkins has to stay at Calvin's house after school because her parents are working late. Calvin only finds this out on the way home; when Calvin and Susie reach the house, Hobbes is waiting by the door for Susie and wearing a tie. But the question is, how is Hobbes wearing the tie? Another instance of ambiguity is a strip in which Calvin imagines Hobbes and himself on the front page of many newspapers after winning a contest.
Although these newspapers are clearly a figment of Calvin's imagination, Hobbes appears in "stuffed" form. Calvin has taken photographs of Hobbes, but on each occasion, when adults see the pictures, Hobbes appears as a stuffed toy.
Also Hobbes pounces on Calvin when he arrives home from school. The issue remains about how Calvin would hurt himself as such. One probable theory as to Hobbes' existence springs from the first two strips. In these strips, immediately after Calvin caught Hobbes he takes him home and asks his father what to do with him, to which his father replies "take it home and stuff it.
From this springs the belief that perhaps the reason that Calvin's parents don't see Hobbes as real is that they just assume he's stuffed.
After all, psychology has shown that people may not always see something that's plainly obvious if it conflicts with what they are inherently predisposed to believe. Thus, the reason people don't see Hobbes as real is that their brains can't grasp that he could be real and that it takes Calvin's complex imagination to believe it. TVTropes calls this Scully Syndrome. The Trope Namer is The X-Files : Agent Scully is a staunch skeptic and therefore refuses to believe in alien life at first, even when it's plainly obvious and there's hard evidence in front of her.
Many people feel that the blurred reality between Hobbes' two forms is both amusing and philosophical.
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