Calvin and Hobbes: The Series/Recap/S1/E09 The Time Pauser

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Calvin invents a small device called the TIME PAUSER. It['s] used to stop time.

NOTE: This episode is entirely narrated by Hobbes.

When our story begins, Calvin had been acting weird for some time, having a near-constant Cheshire Cat Grin. Hobbes notices something is up when he seemed to be enjoying one of his dad's lectures. When pressured, Calvin finally admits to have been up to something, though he refuses to tell Hobbes exactly what it is until they're in his room out of sheer paranoia.

There, he reveals the Time Pauser, which obviously stops time. He swiftly uses this power to create mischief, such as making a teenager spray-paint a cop by turning him around and saving himself from Moe's Gang of Bullies.

Unfortunately, he keeps using it for misanthropy, covering his classmates in glops of food and outsmarting Hobbes' trademark pounces. Eventually, Hobbes gets fed up with it and simply hides it in the car.

The duo finally reach a compromise, and all is returned to normal. Hobbes ends the episode by politely requesting some seafood.

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Tropes:

• Cheshire Cat Grin: Calvin had been wearing one for a good while.
• Continuity Nod: Hobbes remembers several of Calvin's disastrous inventions when introduced to the Time Pauser.
• Covered in Gunge: Played for Laughs with Calvin dropping food glops on every student's head with the Time Pauser.
• First-Person Smartass: Hobbes.
• From Beyond the Fourth Wall: Hobbes tries to invoke this at the end.
• Gang of Bullies: Moe's is introduced in this episode.
• OOC Is Serious Business: Hobbes notices something's up when Calvin seems to be enjoying one of his dad's lectures.
• Perpetual Smiler: Calvin, for a while.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Hobbes again.

"Hello, my name's Hobbes. I'm a tiger." "Yes, I know, You're just dazzled that the legendary tiger is actually speaking to you."

• Time Stands Still: Take a wild guess.