Loading ...I intentionally do not watch a lot of television. Maybe 5 or 6 hours a week, and then I’m usually multi-tasking — building something out of LEGO, exercising, etc. I initially conceived today’s comic after having read up a lot on the classic comic strip from my childhood, Calvin & Hobbes. Bill Watterson put a lot of time & energy into creating situations that were completely impossible, yet completely believable, with brilliant, witty dialog to boot. Calvin was always dreaming up a crazy scheme that (unbeknownst to him) was a commentary on reality, and Hobbes was always quick to verbalize the point. Beautiful satire. So this is my effort at a tribute to what we often read in Calvin & Hobbes. Certainly I have no Calvin and Hobbes minifigs (Bill Watterson has never licensed his creation to be mass-marketed — and I say more power to him!), but I felt that you’ve already seen my power miners watching television, so it was a good fit for them to step in. Enjoy!
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Hilarious.
The funniest thing about reality TV is that it is not reality. Everything is designed to hype up the show.
Once I was at my cousin’s house, and he was watching kid’s Saturday morning TV. It was some sort of question and answer gameshow and was boys v. girls, and it was the last question to break the tie and end the show. As soon as the question was asked, the boys immediately hit the buzzer. Nothing happened. They tried it about 5 times, and then the camera panned over to the girls. The girls won. Fixed, or no?