Or the burglars see Hobbes’s tail flipping from under the bed covers and say “Yikes, they have a tiger!” But in the “normal” view, the burglars may have peeked into Calvin’s room and said “Ahh, nothing worth stealing in a kid’s room.”
Heh, I bet Calvin’s teacher and classmates will be shocked he thinks it’s cool that his house was robbed. And of course, wait until Calvin realizes they have no more TV at that time…
Sometimes if I’m unable to fall asleep and it’s almost 2 AM, I think of this strip.