Pouncing

Hobbes regularly pounces on Calvin and beats him up, most of the time when Calvin opens the door after coming home from school and yelling "I'M HOME!", but sometimes Hobbes beats up Calvin when he's going to his room or the closet, or even when he's walking around the corner of his house.. Calvin has tried many methods to avoid being beaten, including having Susie open the door, waiting on his mom to open the door, and to climb in through a window. Most of these ideas fail, but some work, giving Calvin the chance of getting revenge by scaring Hobbes from behind.

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Hobbes pouncing on Calvin in slow-motion.

Methods

Calvin gets pounced on the cover of The Essential Calvin and Hobbes.

Here are some of Calvins methods of avoiding getting beaten up.

• Making fake versoins of himself and having Hobbes pounce on them. (2 of them has failed)
• Diving for the ground just as Hobbes tries to pounce him.
• Waiting till Hobbes falls asleep (fail)
• Shouting "I'M HOOOME!" in the bushes so Hobbes pounces on nothing.
• Sneaking in through the back door.
• Having Susie open the door (fail)
• Shouting "I'M HOOME!" before opening the door so that Hobbes crashes into the door.
• Shouting "I'M HOOME!" after getting inside so Hobbes is trapped outside. He has done this twice. Both failed. Once, he accidentally locked his mom outside, the other time Hobbes turns around and pounces again, thinking "Elapsed turnaround time: 0.8 seconds."

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