Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 05, 2023

Thankfully, Mrs. Wormwood will be long retired by the time kids can only learn from influencers.

sure, Calvin

Without even asking our televisions, of course.

Yes, Calvin — in the same exploitive way that fast food chains understand our taste buds.

“But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.” – Proverbs 5:4

If this strip were made now, Calvin would say “phones” instead of “televisions”

Your TVs MADE you that way!

Now, they are asking for “Tik-Tok-toids” in the class.

TikTok speed learning.

April, and they’re only on page 21? Must be history class.

“At least our televisions understand us.” Yes, yes they do…

1993 as well…..

The Curse of Sesame Street

Factoid on 21!

“My generation”…is this another way of saying “I”, Calvin?

Them 21 turners! Grrr, we old farts don’t trust them millennials! In my day, we had the Magnavox Odyssey game system where the “cartridges” were nuthin but naked expansion cards! Then we had to tape wonderful pieces of plastic to our TV screens and pretend that the games we were playing were something other than ping pong!

Lots of factoids to be found on page 21.

It’s why they’re called idiot boxes, Calvin…

…and to think the next few generations coming up, can’t even write their name, read, or figure a household budget

The short answer is “No!”, Calvin.

Wow Bill was ahead of his time!

“And this is why my generation is so much better than kids these days!”

Norman Mailer coined the term “factoid” to describe something people commonly believe to be true but is not. An example would be that lemmings naturally throw themselves off cliffs. CNN perverted the term trying to make it mean “little fact”, which is just silly.

Once again, “Calvin and Hobbes” ages incredibly well.

How prophetic.

Mrs Wormwood has no clue of the brightest student in the class.

My, my! What a different classroom we have today.