Peanuts/Funny
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- When Linus and Snoopy are putting a dinosaur skeleton together they begin dancing and raucously singing "Dem Bones", deliberately mixing the lyrics up ("the knee bone's connected to the wrist bone," etc.) until Lucy bodily throws them out the front door.
- And just to seal the deal, Charlie Brown's walking by just in time to see it happen.
- "That's the first time I've ever seen a kite explode!"
- In the special It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, Marcie's epic failures on making Easter eggs. First she fries them, then she tries to put them in the waffle iron and in the toaster, then finally, Peppermint Patty tells her to boil the eggs. And Marcie messes this up too, since she cracks the eggs open and pours them into the boiling water, culminating with Peppermint Patty finding out and roaring "Marcie, you made egg soup! AUGHHHH!"
- Also near the end of the special, after she and Peppermint Patty buy eggs, Patty tells Marcie that "We put salt on the eggs and eat them." Marcie, who just happens to have a salt shaker in her pocket, salts the egg and bites it without taking the shell off and says, "Tastes terrible, sir!"
- One time, when Lucy accidentally kissed Snoopy, she naturally ran home and took a cold shower... Then it was revealed that Snoopy did the same thing.
- Another time, Charlie Brown left his shirt behind at Lucy's place, so Lucy put it on and pretended to be him. Then Charlie himself happens along...
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Charlie Brown: Well, hello there, Charlie Brown, you blockhead! |
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- From 10/24/1972 (yes, I am that big a fan).
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Charlie Brown: Why would they ban Miss Sweetstory's book from the school library? |
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Charlie Brown (writing a letter): Dear teammates, I have been thinking of resigning my job as your manager, and I- |
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- The Mad Punter. Just... just the Mad Punter. Us readers know who it is pretty early on, but Linus and Charlie Brown don't find out until the very end. It's Snoopy.
- The Sunday strip where Linus, midway through making himself a bowl of cereal, gets a phone call from someone who's apparently doing all the talking. As the conversation commences (with Linus saying "Uh-huh...uh-huh, yeah, sure") he strains his eyes towards the kitchen table, looking increasingly (and hilariously) uncomfortable and frantic, until finally he shouts, "MY COLD CEREAL IS GETTING SOGGY!" The last panel shows Charlie Brown, holding the phone and looking completely dumbfounded.
- A storyline where Linus is at camp occasionally switches back to Lucy, who is both shocked to find that she misses her little brother and irritated that Linus only seems to be writing to Charlie Brown. Then, Linus sends her a birch-bark canoe, and she's deeply touched:
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Lucy: Sometimes I think I don't deserve a nice brother like Linus... |
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- In a Sunday strip, Linus has to draw a picture of a family member for a class assignment - he's drawing Lucy's face, finished except the mouth, when she sees him at work. He decides it's a good time to stop, but she insists that he draw in the mouth - he nervously draws it in a wide open shout. She slugs him, and he lies there commenting "It's hard to draw well when your hand is shaking!"
- Any of the Funny Background Events in Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown. Top prize goes to Charlie Brown trying to make a house of cards.
- Snoopy does battle with a lawn chair. The lawn chair wins... kinda.
- Charlie Brown drops a fantastic snark on Linus after Linus costs them both the school election. Here's the backstory, and here's the punchline. Especially funny because it's so contrary to Charlie Brown's usual resigned acceptance of failure. Also a moment of Awesome and/or Heartwarming for Charlie Brown, if you find those things in seeing the ol' blockhead stand up for himself.
- In this early Sunday strip, Linus, standing outside school grounds, demands to be educated and promptly gets his first lesson.
- Lucy getting licked by Snoopy in A Charlie Brown Christmas: "AAUGH! I've been kissed by a dog! I have dog germs! Get hot water! Get some disinfectant! Get some iodine!"
- The scene where Lucy asks Schroeder to play "Jingle Bells." He tries several variations (jazz, pipe organ), only to have Lucy interrupt, "No, no, I mean "Jingle Bells"!" Finally, in frustration, he gives a one-handed "plink plink plink, plink plink plink" performance (probably the only time his toy piano actually sounded like one). Lucy: THAT'S IT!!!!
- I can think of lots of funny Peanuts moments- Peppermint Patty finding out that she graduated from a dog school in A Charlie Brown Celebration, Snoopy deflating the wheel on the umpire's chair and getting thrown out of Wimbledon in Bon Voyage Charlie Brown, Marcie getting her foot caught in a ball washer at a golf course because she thought it was a "shoe washer" in It's an Adventure Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty thinking that a butterfly that landed on her nose turned into an angel and flew away and calling a call-in radio show to talk about it and having the host say "Sorry folks, just another nut calling in" (also from It's an Adventure Charlie Brown), Linus designing a video game and having the villain resemble Lucy and Lucy's reaction when she sees it from an episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, Lucy watching Linus draw a picture of her for a school project and wanting him to "put in the mouth" but Linus is reluctant because he is planning to draw her a huge mouth and Lucy's reaction when she sees it from another episode, Snoopy and a bear both scaring each other in Race for Your Life Charlie Brown, and Charlie Brown getting into a motorcycle accident and accidentally getting sent to a vets office in You're a Good Sport Charlie Brown.