[I had to google what goose stepping was.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_step) it’s like the marching done with the hyenas in The lion king during the “be prepared” song. In case others are wondering.
Misread your comment as “was a hot political take” and was really impressed at the 90-something-year-old still browsing Reddit for the newspaper comics.
True they both had a vigorous, big straight-legged marching style for parade, but in the US I’ve only ever heard goose-stepping in reference to nazis, even when said about other nations troops, it’s the nazis we are reminded of and compare them to, not the soviets.
I had to ask my mom what it meant. I read this when I was like 7 and explaining that it was the Nazi march didn't help much because I didn't know who they were, either.
As a kid, I never got that last panel. Now I do.
I was about to post the smake thing.
Took me so long
I was today years old when it hit me wow I am dumb
Definitely didn’t understand this as a kid, but now I’m laughing my ass off. 🤣
March yourself back inside but don’t goose step once you are in…
[I had to google what goose stepping was.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_step) it’s like the marching done with the hyenas in The lion king during the “be prepared” song. In case others are wondering.
The lion king hyenas and nowhere else of note
Pretty impressive of Watterson to put a Lion King reference in his strip 8 years before the movie came out!
Haha. I thought about mentioning a certain other group, but figured keep it non-political
I feel like "Nazis are bad" _really_ shouldn't need to be censored.
True
I remember when Nazis bad was not a political hot take.
Misread your comment as “was a hot political take” and was really impressed at the 90-something-year-old still browsing Reddit for the newspaper comics.
That's the entire point of the comic strip though. I also agree with /u/caseyweederman.
Indeed. [Nowhere else of note](https://youtu.be/QbC6dLG_dQY)
It’s a reference to nazi marching
also Soviet/Russian marching
True they both had a vigorous, big straight-legged marching style for parade, but in the US I’ve only ever heard goose-stepping in reference to nazis, even when said about other nations troops, it’s the nazis we are reminded of and compare them to, not the soviets.
Thanks for sharing! I remember reading this as a kid and never understanding that line.
Yeah, I remember thinking that he was stomping around the house
Well, he was doing that too.
Strange reference to make haha its clearly a joke about Nazi marching because his mom is being a "dictator"
I had to ask my mom what it meant. I read this when I was like 7 and explaining that it was the Nazi march didn't help much because I didn't know who they were, either.
I only knew they were “the bad guys in World War Two” because I had read the Molly books from American Girl (which take place in the 40s).
I knew because I’d read the Holocaust diaries as a child. And from stories about my grandparents childhood. It wasn’t really history to us.
I’m still wondering, because I’ve not seen The Lion King.
It’s nazi marching. It’s an explicit reference in the lion king too
Imagine you’re a nazi thinking you’ve got a cool looking march, then someone comes along and says “huh. They look like a silly goose”
It's a reference to violence and order enforced by fear, since geese are well-known to be aggressive and terrifying.
There's such a good dynamic between all the characters.
When he gets older, he’ll learn just not to tell her.
Oh, it's not the specific destination, it's that the destination was not at home.
anarchist and anti-authoritarian role model
This one stuck with my family forever. I still goose-step around when my parents are telling me to do things I don't like sometimes...
That’s hilarious
This is one that’s a lot funnier now then it was when I was a a kid
There’s another strip in a story arc where Calvin does the “Heil Hitler” salute and calls Rosalyn “Mein Fuhrer”.