The Noodle Incident
The Noodle Incident is a running gag about an event at school in which Calvin was involved in the past. Whenever a character mentions it to Calvin, he immediately gets very defensive about it. The June 10, 1989 strip hinted that worms were involved. The incident itself is never shown or explained, although various allusions appear throughout the strip.
The term has since become television jargon for any unexplained incident that is mentioned on-screen.
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“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
—Henry James (1843–1916)