How do you play house?  It probably depends on how you were raised.  Susie Derkins gives us some insight into her home life in this thrilling strip of Calvin and Hobbes, and I talk about it of course.

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41: "Play 'house'" Dec 28th, 1985 (EXTENDED)

It's been 25 years since we said goodbye to Calvin and Hobbes with one of the greatest and most iconic comic strips of all time.  THIS strip about the nails in a coffee table...also happened...earlier.

40: "What are you DOING to the coffee table?" Dec 27th, 1985

It's the debut of the snowy sled-style strip.  Enjoy now, ok?

39: "...mom will notice we're missing by then" Dec 26, 1985

In this episode we again learn that Christmas isn't about presents, but more about your presence.  Calvin and Hobbes teach us this on a very special holiday strip (and episode.  Enjoy!

38: "You squeeze my tears out" Dec 25, 1985 (Nathan host)

It's flue season!  On Christmas eve you have to do a few things: go to bed early leave out milk and cookies plan to steal presents and keep Santa out drink the milk (room temp, ew) and cookies Sean German from 5 Minutes of Mime podcast hosts this episode!

37: "As soon as he drops the bag down" Dec 24, 1985 (Sean solo)

It's a stockings and sandles epic on Calvin and Hobbescast with guest hose Sean German!

36: "Hobbes' Loot" Dec 23, 1985 (Sean solo)

Some people say "keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer," others say: "Hey, I'm gonna keep my friends close but NOT my enemies because I don't like them."  Well sometimes your friend turns out to be your enemy!  That's what Alice Lauren and I learned during this very special 5 year anniversary Sunday strip of Calvin and Hobbescast.  Find Alice Lauren on Twitter @podsocialite !

35: "Our Fortress" Dec 22, 1985 (w/ Alice Lauren)

When you're out exploring, you want to make sure you don't want to run out of food, water, or vocabulary words.   If you've forgotten "lost," "mommy" may do in a pinch.  Survival skills!  Calvin and Hobbes have them.  Do you?

34: "Lost" Dec 21, 1985 (Nathan for you, again)

Calvin and Hobbes are at it again!  If by "it," you mean laying down on the grass and laying some big philosophical questions on each other.  Plus, Pittsburgh, PA!  Is it good or is it bad?  Do you know?  Because I don't know.

33: "Pittsburgh" Dec 20, 1985 (Nathan hosts)

You ever pass some road construction workers and they're not even working?  They're just holding a sign and waving at you, occasionally talking to their friends on their walkie talkies.  Meanwhile Calvin is out there every day making speed bumps for free, in his family's yard.  Work ethic, child labor, property destruction, it's all covered here in this Calvin and Hobbes strip.

32: "Making speed bumps" Dec 19, 1985 (Guest host SEAN)

In this strip, the child's miniature vehicular play turns to violence in the imagination.  Are the pleasures of childhood not enough to shackle these flights of fantasy in the world of benign bliss?  Why does the absurd inevitability of death draw the young mind like a rare earth magnet?  Find the difference between flammable/inflammable and more with guest host Sean of Five Minutes of Mime podcast!

31: "Inflammable chemical truck" Dec 18, 1985 (Sean solo)

If you've even had the experience of conquering all your enemies, but then finding out that you hurt your best friend in the process, I think this strip will really speak to you. Even if it doesn't, I'll speak to you. That's how podcasts work!

30: "Baseball bat" Dec 17, 1985

What would you do if you had a close friend, and then you found out he'd killed and eaten a kid. This is how the guy that wrote My Friend Dahmer might have felt...just like Calvin! Happy 2019 from Calvin and Hobbescast!

29: "Tommy Chestnut" Dec 16, 1985

Spaceman Spiff is at it again! Space Battles! Ray blasts! Planets! Zounds! Returning guest Sean German (5 Minutes of Mime, Groundhog Day Minute, Spinal Tap Minute) joins Nathan to talk about the best comic strip to come out on Dec 15th, 1985. That's right - it's Calvin and Hobbes.

28: "I kiss the sweet ground" (w/ Sean German) Dec 15, 1985

Calvin riffs on popular PSA from 20 years earlier in order to prank his parents. Presumably, hide and seek ensues. It's 10pm, do you know where your children are? (It's actually 10:33pm as I type this). Calvin and Hobbes without Hobbes

27: "Do you know where I am?" Dec 14, 1985

There's treasure everywhere! Hop into the transmogrifier and turn youself into a kid again (ok, fine...just use the time machine) as Nathan looks at Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes one glorious strip at a time. Yukon Ho!

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