Calvin and Hobbes

[vezonex]

as I was wasting time on the internet today, i stumbled across a youtube video of a Robot Chicken parody of Calvin and Hobbes. it was not easy to watch, and...though i usually enjoy Robot Chicken, that one wasn't particularly funny to me. the sketch basically has Calvin sent to a psychiatrist, and eventually committed, a bumbling lunatic, because

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[mu_krazy_sax]

That was always one of my favorites to read every day too...........

Ka-ZAM!

[polaris134]

What I found really touching about the final strip was that for years, we've seen Calvin beg the universe, the heavens, God, etc. for a good fresh snow to go sledding on, and be met with nothing (at least, whenever he asked for it straight up). And it was always funny to read his expressions of indignant childhood ire when he didn't get what he wanted. So it was really wonderful to see him wake up and be so excited to see so much good snow just waiting outside his window. It was a perfect expression of childhood joy, and I felt it with him