We'll have to ask Spaceman Spiff after he's killed this giant Space Squid.

The Noodle Incident, for example, never is actually explained. Watterson liked to leverage the unknown.

The Noodle Incident is a mysterious incident often alluded to in Calvin and Hobbes. It is mentioned several times in the course of the series, but the reader is never told exactly what it was, as Bill Watterson wanted the reader to make up the story themselves, claiming that it would be even more hilarious.

The possibilities are endless, but mischief is the key to any of them, I'm sure.

Something that Dad probaby can't see but he senses it's something.

The penny drops with a massive THUD