The popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes followed the adventurous of imaginative six-year-old Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, who appears as a real animal to the boy. The strips were primarily intended as humor, but nevertheless dealt with a lot of serious themes, including the flaws of the educational system, the need for adults to remain young at heart and environmentalism.

1. Final Line: "It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy. Let's go exploring"
2. Creator: Bill Watterson
3. Schedule: Daily & Sunday
4. Began: November 18, 1985
5. Ended: December 31, 1995
6. Named for theologian John Calvin and political philosopher Thomas Hobbes

One of the strip's perennial subjects was the game of Calvinball, a chaotic, frequently violent rejection of the notion of organized team sports. The game was introduced in as part of a three-week story arc in 1990, in which Calvin is embarrassed and insulted by an organized game of baseball, and decides to create his own sport in protest. The only rule of Calvinball is that you cannot play by the same rules twice.

• The Quotations Page: Bill Watterson Quotes
  • "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

• • "Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination."

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• • "Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help."

• • "Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words."

• • "What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?"

• • "History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction."

• • "Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure."

• Wikiquote: Bill Watterson Quotes
  • "To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible."

• • "Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."

• • "There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse"

• • "You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse!"

• • "I don't know which is worse...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low."

• • "Most people don't sleep well next to a hungry tiger."

• • "You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human."

• • "Our class voted Calvin the 'Most likely to be seen on the news some day'."

• • Calvin: "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
  • Hobbes: "Isn't your pants zipper supposed to be in the front?"

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  • "Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? ...I gotta get my life some writers."

• • "Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test."

• • "Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!"

• • "Reality continues to ruin my life."

• • "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."

• • Calvin: "I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius."
  • Hobbes: "What's misunderstood about you?"
  • Calvin: "Nobody thinks I'm a genius."

• • Hobbes: "It says here that by the age of 6, most children have seen a million murders on television."
  • Calvin: "I find that very disturbing...it means I've been watching all the wrong channels."

• • "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can play together all night!"

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  • "They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it."

• • "Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around."

• • "It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."

• • "Childhood is short and maturity is forever."

• • "In my opinion, television validates existence."