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There's treasure everywhere!
— Calvin and Hobbes ‧ 1985
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is the Calvin and Hobbes outlook in four words: a kid who finds a quest in an ordinary backyard and digs as though a fortune sat beneath the lawn. The joke is gentle, but the idea underneath it is sincere, that curiosity turns the everyday world into a prize. Fans use it as a motto for exploring, collecting and noticing, and it sits comfortably beside the strip's famous last line about a magical world.
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In context
Spoilers for Calvin and HobbesShow the scene
Calvin, the six-year-old star of Bill Watterson's daily strip, announces that there is treasure everywhere in a weekday strip in which he goes digging in the backyard to find some. The line gave its name to the tenth Calvin and Hobbes collection, There's Treasure Everywhere, published in March 1996 by Andrews McMeel, after the strip had ended its run in December 1995. Oddly, the strip itself is not reprinted in the book that bears its name: it appears in the collection It's a Magical World instead. The title book's back cover shows Tyrannosaurus Rexes piloting F-15 fighter jets, another running gag from the strip.
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- Calvin and Hobbes Wiki: There's Treasure EverywhereDescription sectionReference checked
- Wikipedia: List of Calvin and Hobbes booksCollections listReference checked
- Wikipedia: Calvin and HobbesPublication historyReference checked
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