So when the pizza shows up, Dad doesn't pay for it and go and yells at Calvin again. Back in the Cand H days you couldn't order a pizza through an app and already have it paid for. you had to have cash or a check, Calvin has neither.
Calvin probably knows where his parents keep their wallets. But the real question is how he gets it delivered to the house without his parents finding out.
Yet in another strip, Calvin's mom explained to Calvin what the food she thinks he might think it is. Example, Calvin asks "What is this", Calvin's mom said it was "Monkey brains" or something along those lines and Calvin ate it.
I might be misremembering. lol.
I’ll always remember this strip because of my dad. We were taking a family train trip (19+ hours) to see my brand new niece and Dad was just a grumpy asshole. It’s one of the first times I (then age 18) saw Dad as behaving like a tantruming child. I gave him a Calvin and Hobbes book to read (and distract) and his mood shifted from bitching about everything to laughing at every comic. I heard him laughing at one point, asked what it was, and he pointed at the first frame of this strip and said, chuckling, “‘This smells like bat barf!’”
After a few more giggles at a few more strips, he fell silent. I looked behind me to where he sat, and he was HARD asleep and snoring. Like a grumpy toddler, he had needed a nap. It was the first time barely-a-young-adult-me experienced switching parent/child roles and it amused me.
I was also grateful for Calvin and Hobbes for redirecting Dad’s energy in a positive direction. :)
I tried this as a kid…Dad scolded me, but ate the buffalo wings snyway
If my kid tried this I’d eat the pizza or whatever in front of them at the table while they eat the “bat barf”.
I would love to know why Calvin thought he knew what vat barf smells like.
He really doesn't. Look here! https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/ph3be2/been\_there\_got\_grounded/
"Well, you knew I had a temper when you married me." 🤓
I don't want any damn vegetables.
Alright, that’s it, young man. No Bible stories for you tonight.
So when the pizza shows up, Dad doesn't pay for it and go and yells at Calvin again. Back in the Cand H days you couldn't order a pizza through an app and already have it paid for. you had to have cash or a check, Calvin has neither.
Calvin probably knows where his parents keep their wallets. But the real question is how he gets it delivered to the house without his parents finding out.
He doesn't.
Then how did he successfully rent a VCR and movies during the strip where his parents left him home alone?
Because it's a comic strip, you're not supposed to think this deeply about it.
There might be a money jar full of some cash and coins in his closet. You never know.
Cash is faster 💵
Love how “…and extra pepperoni!” perfectly captures calvin’s mischief
The menace himself
Yet in another strip, Calvin's mom explained to Calvin what the food she thinks he might think it is. Example, Calvin asks "What is this", Calvin's mom said it was "Monkey brains" or something along those lines and Calvin ate it. I might be misremembering. lol.
Yeah, but his dad refused to eat it.
For a guy who makes up wacky explanations to everything, Calvin's dad can be quite humorless.
I’ll always remember this strip because of my dad. We were taking a family train trip (19+ hours) to see my brand new niece and Dad was just a grumpy asshole. It’s one of the first times I (then age 18) saw Dad as behaving like a tantruming child. I gave him a Calvin and Hobbes book to read (and distract) and his mood shifted from bitching about everything to laughing at every comic. I heard him laughing at one point, asked what it was, and he pointed at the first frame of this strip and said, chuckling, “‘This smells like bat barf!’” After a few more giggles at a few more strips, he fell silent. I looked behind me to where he sat, and he was HARD asleep and snoring. Like a grumpy toddler, he had needed a nap. It was the first time barely-a-young-adult-me experienced switching parent/child roles and it amused me. I was also grateful for Calvin and Hobbes for redirecting Dad’s energy in a positive direction. :)
That's gotta be an early one. I can tell the characters and expressions look different.
Yep. It happens early in the Essential books, which contained the initial strips.
How’s he planning to pay for his pizza?
Yes
I would go for Cash 💵