- A children's textbook entitled ''Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes'' (ISBN 1-878-84915-8) was published in 1993 .
- In 1992's ''), and Susie threatens to tell Calvin's mother about his mischief. Another interesting note: Calvin's clothes and hair are the same as in the original comic strip, as is Susie's hair.
- The ninth installment of the Webcomic Cat And Girl is an allusion to Calvin and Hobbes' predictably disastrous Toboggan adventures, going so far as to mimic the artwork of one such ride panel by panel. The cartoon has a strong Metafiction al feel due to both the dialogue and the title ("''Cat and Girl are Highly Derivative 2''"). The strip, drawn by Dorothy Gambrell , is particularly suited to this sort of homage-parody in that one of the characters is, in Girl's words, "a large anthropomorphic cat."
- The titular character of Jef Mallett 's comic '' Frazz '' bears a striking resemblance to Calvin, both in his physical appearance and his role as—in the words of Gene Weingarten —a "brilliant underachiever." Mallet has acknowledged many times that he was heavily influenced as an artist by Bill Watterson's work, and while he asserts that the similarity is unintentional, he has not gone so far as to call it coincidental.
- Bill Amend 's FoxTrot has referenced ''Calvin and Hobbes'' several times, including a strip in which the character Jason Fox appears dressed like Calvin and holding a stuffed tiger, a strip in which Roger Fox wears a ''Calvin and Hobbes'' T-Shirt, and several strips featuring Calvin within a large crowd. Moreover, some of the characters occasionally reference a newspaper strip entitled "Luther and Locke," a reference to Bill Watterson's approach to naming Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin and Luther are both religious figures, Hobbes and Locke are both philosophers).
- Sam Kieth 's The Maxx has a few panels at the beginning of one issue that feature a boy dressed in a similar manner to Calvin with a pet tiger named Nietzche
- In Get Fuzzy , a comic by Darby Conley , in one comic when the characters are riding the subway train, you can see Calvin yelling at Hobbes.
- The Seattle group Pure Joy , which formed in the late 1980s , recorded a song entitled "Calvin and Hobbes" for their first album ''Unsung'' ( 1988 ).
- In an episode of '' Dexter's Laboratory '' that revolves around snowfights, the art is strongly reminiscent of Watterson's art.
- On the show ''. Furthermore, Timmy's parents are unnamed and often leave him in the care of A Teenaged Girl He Fears , which is very similar to the situation in ''Calvin and Hobbes.''
- In the '' Tiny Toon Adventures '' episode entitled "Rainy Daze", Babs Bunny has an imaginary space adventure reminiscent of Spaceman Spiff. Not only does Babs possess a costume and Spaceship that are extremely similar to Spiff's, but a scene of an alien city is shown that is identical to one featured in ''Calvin and Hobbes.''
- During an episode in the ninth season of '' Friends ,'' the characters Joey and Rachel are talking over dinner, and Joey says that he's wearing a ''Calvin and Hobbes'' T-shirt, one in which "Calvin is doing Hobbes". Upon seeing the shirt underneath his sweater, Rachel remarks, "Hobbes seems to be enjoying it". The existence of such a T-shirt, of course, would be inconsistent with Watterson's stance against merchandising.
- In an episode of The Simpsons entitled "Fatman and Littleboy," Bart opens up a homemade T-shirt stand. Moe Syzlack asks for a t-shirt "with Calvin peeing on Hobbes", a reference to the urinating-Calvin stickers illegally produced against Watterson's wishes and seen attached to car bumpers.
- In South Park episode 416 - The Wacky Molestation Adventure, the lost man refers to Craig (who is playing spaceman) as "Spaceman Spiff".
- In 2000 , the Webcomic '' Sinfest '' featured a strip where two characters declare their "absolute, uncompromising originality"; they then remove their costumes, put on a new pair and walk away as Calvin and Hobbes. On the website's cast page, author Tatsuya Ishida admits that his character Slick is a "Calvin rip-off", though advanced in age to some point between fourteen and twenty-one.
- In 's Novel ) are in fact the characters of ''Calvin and Hobbes.'' The narrator corresponds to Calvin, Tyler Durden to Hobbes, and so forth.
- Calvin made a few guest appearances in '' Melonpool '', where he, along with Opus , Lyman , and a " Far Side kid", are trapped in a mysterious extradimensional space, one apparently reserved for comic strip characters whose services are no longer needed.
- In one strip of Freefall , Sam, an alien, is referred to as causing the noodle incident, stating that a blonde spiky-haired kid kept saying 'aliens did it'!
- In an episode of Bonus Stage , the villain Stomach King and his imaginary evil partner, Brainio, are seen riding a wagon down a hill while discussing philosophy. The crash near a Ford plant, and Stomach King remarks that he has a sudden urge to pee on the plant's sign.
- In '''', there is a chest in Nystul's bedroom which contains various books, one of which is ''Something Under The Bed Is Drooling''.
- '' Kingdom Of Loathing '' makes a reference to dialogue within a ''Calvin and Hobbes'' strip.
- '' Wing Commander '' has a member of the cat-like Kilrathi race with the callsign Hobbes.
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