Calvin and Hobbes' Calvin standing in front of his imaginary inventions.
Summary Calvin and Hobbes is famous for its ability to capture what life is like through the eyes of a child, as it follows six-year-old Calvin and his imaginary friend/anthropomorphic tiger, Hobbes. The two of them get up to no shortage of mischief together, from disobeying Calvin’s parents to pulling pranks on each other. However, the majority of their play takes place entirely in Calvin’s imagination.
Given that the Transmogrifier is an imaginary invention, the 'device' is actually just made of cardboard, and can only transform someone with the power of imagination. However, Hobbes decides to take the invention literally, choosing to believe that Calvin could actually make such a high-tech piece of machinery out of cardboard - which is as ludicrous as it is hilarious.
When Calvin praises himself for being a genius, the voice of his duplicate calls him a liar, saying that he was the one who created the Duplicator, and that the first voice was the clone. This is the same existential horror that rears its ugly head in practically every 'cloning story', and Calvin and Hobbes are experiencing it for themselves.
Calvin and Hobbes spent all day creating this robot, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get it to work. Just as they were throwing in the towel, it was Calvin's bedtime. In other words, by spending all day creating a Bed-Making Robot, Calvin got out of making his bed, meaning the robot technically fulfilled its purpose - just not as expected.
What's perhaps even funnier about this comic than the idea that Calvin is willing to potentially doom the universe just to get out of homework is Hobbes' reaction to the whole thing. He knows that there's something off about Calvin's logic, but decides that the oddest thing about the situation is that he's sitting in a box, which is strange, given that Hobbes is a big cat and should enjoy Calvin's box-based inventions.
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