I have my own theory, but I’d prefer to read some other ones before posting mine. I will say that I don’t think salamanders were involved.
[sub]Those with defensible theories will know immediately what I’m talking about[/sub]
I don’t know, but I believe the events are recounted in that masterwork of children’s literature, Hamster Huey and the Gooie Kablooey. If you feed a hamster too many noodles, it’s bound to be messy.
I’ll need to dig through my books but I remember it happened at school.
Oh yay!! I’d forgotten how much I really wanted to know what The Noodle Incident was. Although, if Watterson had ever actually said, it would have instantly become less exciting and intriguing. Theories are good, though, since we’ll never really know.
Sadly, I don’t have any good ones. I just wanted to lend encouragement.
I vaguely imagined some sort of explosion in the cooking pot (in the school cafeteria?) that left noodles all over the place and even stuck on the ceiling. What a mess!
I thought we had agreed never to mention The Noodle Incident.
I try not to think about it. :: shudder ::
I think it happened at home. I can picture Calvin, with Hobbs’s assistance / coaching, trying to make spaghetti while his mom is out in the garden (or somewhere not-the-kitchen). Hilarity ensued. 
But I’m feeling much better now!
I think Watterson is on record saying that he either doesn’t know or will never reveal what the “Noodle Incident” was, specifically because it’s funnier this way.
And I don’t know either, except that it must have involved Mrs. Wormwood and probably Stupendous Man. I came in here because I got a good smile just from the fact that I knew immediately what the OP was referencing.
I always assumed that insertion into ears or nostrils must have been involved.
I second that. However, the assertion that it was “never proved he was involved” (or something akin to that) seems to belie that theory.
Whatever happened in “The Noodle Incident,” it can’t possibly be as bad as Motley Crue’s infamous “spaghetti incident”. :eek:
BTW, how do you add umlauts?
I always thought it was similar to an incident that actually happened to me.
My brother, mother and I were having spaghetti dinner. While swallowing a mouthful I had a spasm that’s best described as a combination of hiccup/sneeze/cough at the same time. I felt funny in my head right after. I then felt a strange tickle in one of my nostrils. I blocked the other nostril with an index finger and blew out the other. A length of spaghetti started to slowly wiggle its way out of my nostril. When enough of it exited its weight caused the rest to shoot out. My brother and mother stared at me in disbelief. My brother got up to retch. My mom just chewed me out for not covering up.
Guns N’ Roses has no umlauts 
Watterson said this at the end of C&H:
I will be stopping Calvin and Hobbes at the end of the year. This was not a recent or an easy decision, and I leave with some sadness. My interests have shifted however, and I believe I’ve done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels. I am eager to work at a more thoughtful pace, with fewer artistic compromises. I have not yet decided on future projects, but my relationship with Universal Press Syndicate will continue.
I can’t believe that great C&H strip ideas have not come forth from this fertile mind in the last 14 years. I am just wondering if he’ll ever do anything C&H again.
This could just be Calvin claiming independence from his various alter-egos. He, mild-mannered Calvin, was peacefully minding his own business, but Stupendous Man…
I don’t know, I think that Spaceman Spiff was more likely to be involved than Stupendous Man. I can just picture an alien lifeform that looks like a wriggling pile of worms, covered with some sort of disgusting red slime. Or maybe the hard-boiled PI… What was he called?
Tracer Bullet, I think…
You might have something there…A huge bowl of noodles in the cafeteria as you describe, Calvin with a fire hose…Spaceman Spiff aims his blaster…