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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Subjective; while the TV specials are generally more well-known than the comic strips, there are a rather vocal section of fans who take their cues from Schulz as far as only treating the strips as canon and ignoring pretty much ANYTHING from cartoons, even if it's minor stuff like the cartoon giving Marcie a last name (which was never stated in the strips).
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: A lot, but specifically that Peppermint Patty and Marcie are [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]. In-strip, though, both are clearly crushing on Charlie Brown. A bit further out, there are those who consider Peppermint Patty to be omnisexual/into bestiality, due to her firm belief that Snoopy is 'a funny-looking kid with a big nose'.
** Similarly, there are some who consider Lucy's cruelty towards Charlie Brown as a mask for her own romantic feelings for him.
** There are those who think that Schroeder is gay.
*** Gay for Beethoven, maybe.
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** In the foreword to the 1975-76 collection, Robert Smigel (an ''[[SNL]]'' writer and the guy behind ''Triumph The Insult Comic Dog'') argues against the popular view of Charlie Brown as a [[Determinator]] - see that entry below.
{{quote|Charlie Brown didn't keep trying to kick Lucy's football out of some inner strength and Horatio Alger resolve we were supposed to admire. He did it because he was weak. He was flawed, and he couldn't help himself. But that's exactly why we love him.}}
** The reason Violet constantly says [[My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad]] is because she doesn't want anyone to know that she wishes he'd spend more time with her.
* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]:
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBaLzmBfHgA Flash Beagle].
*** The first time we hear it (main time), Snoopy, as "Flashbeagle," goes into a 80s dance club and shows he has dance moves (and dressed in a "Flashdance" outfit--headband, torn sweats, leg warmers) to the humans there.
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** For "She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown," when Woodstock whistles [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH_RlC6Ahe8 "O Mio Babbino Caro" by Puccini to help Peppermint Patty perform her ice-skating routine]. Aside for a little piano, it's non-vocal and mostly acapella.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgoPl35n_AY LINUS. AND. LUCY.]
** The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show opening themes, from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja91kaT3fdk Season 1's gentle piano keys] to the jazzy [[Dancing Theme|"Let's Have A Party"]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-94aF6AF-gM of season 2].
* [[Base Breaker]]: Lucy. People either [[Jerkass Dissonance|love her]] for her personality [[Jerk Sue|or hate her]] for the very same reasons.
* [[Cargo Ship]]: If taken to the extreme, Schroeder/Toy Piano and Linus/Security Blanket. Unfortunately, those two pairings might be the [[All Love Is Unrequited|only two requited relationships]].
* [[Creator's Pet]]: Rerun, who pretty much usurped control over the strip in the last five-six years at the expense of every character not named Lucy, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy. Spike, Snoopy's older brother, also fits the bill as well.
* [[Ear Worm]]: ''Linus and Lucy''. How much so? A recent poll reported that the theme was the most recognizable piece of music in the world.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Snoopy. The first couple of years of the strip had him being a non-entity who never spoke and was treated as a secondary character. But he quickly became arguably the most famous character of the series.
** Alternatively, you have Lucy (upstaging female lead characters Patty and Violet) and Peppermint Patty, who had her own supporting cast of sorts (Franklin, Marcie and occasionally José Peterson).
* [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory]]: Linus' belief in the Great Pumpkin is supposedly a metaphor for religious faith, but has been [[Jossed]].
* [[Fanon]]: Several elements of the strip, including the Little Red-Haired Girl's actual name and Marcie's last name (''You're in the Super Bowl'' called her Marcie Johnson, but Schulz has said that he never considered the animated specials canon.)
* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: Fans of the newspaper strip versus fans of the animated cartoons, as far as whether or not character details that are expanded upon in the latter (such as Marcie's last name, the number and names of Snoopy's siblings, and what the Little Red-Headed Girl looks like) should count as canon.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: The very last strip, like all comic strips, was written many weeks in advance...and was printed the day Charles Schulz died.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: At least two translations of the strip (the French one and the Swedish one) were renamed after Snoopy. He's also ''very'' popular in Japan.
** It would be interesting to note that, if you look at Yoshi from the Super Mario series' look and personality, it's very similar to Snoopy. Even similar enough to think Yoshi might be an [[Affectionate Parody]] in tribute to Snoopy.
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** In the 1970s, there was a character named Poochie who was [[Shoo Out the New Guy|shooed out almost immediately]]. [[The Simpsons (animation)|Does that sound familiar?]]
* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: When the strip first came out, people naturally assumed that Charlie Brown's name was "Peanuts". This frustrated Charles Schulz, who had predicted that this would happen.
* [[Iconic Character, Forgotten Title]]: Many people thought the comic strip was called "Charlie Brown" or "Snoopy". Sunday comics added subtitles such as "Featuring Snoopy" or "Featuring Good Ol' Charlie Brown".
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Believe or not, Charlie Brown. In ''Peanuts'' fanfiction (yes, there is ''Peanuts'' fanfiction), he's been paired up with [[Tomboy|Peppermint Patty]], [[Canon|The Little]] [[Shallow Love Interest|Red-]][[Heroes Want Redheads|Haired]] [[He Who Must Not Be Seen|Girl]], [[Alternative Character Interpretation|Lucy]] and [[Crack Pairing|Frieda]]. In the strip, there's also [[Meganekko|Mar]][[Brainy Brunette|cie]], who has a huge crush on Charlie Brown, and he also had a short-lived romance with a girl named Peggy Jean. And in the early days, [[Those Two Guys|Patty and Violet]] sometimes showed romantic interest in him.
* [[Love to Hate]]: Lucy Van Pelt.
** And Violet.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Lucy crosses it in "It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown", and she {{spoiler|deliberately cost her team the game, and then managed to convince everyone that it was Charlie Brown's fault.}}
* [[Narm Charm]]: The animated specials, particularly the very early ones, have a great deal of this.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Rerun
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: The strip sometimes suffers from this, due both to its own cultural ubiquity and to the influence it's had on countless other comics over the last half-century.
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: "Happiness is a Warm Puppy", a strip quote that was famously turned into a gift book, leading to an entire [http://www.amazon.com/Peanuts-Treasury-Happiness-Charles-Schulz/dp/1604330155/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272322462&sr=1-1 "Peanuts Treasury of Happiness"] series. Then again, it is [[Your Mileage May Vary|the good]] [[Sweet Dreams Fuel (Sugar Wiki)|Sweet Dreams Fuel]] of [[Tastes Like Diabetes]].
* [[Tear Jerker]]: ''[[Snoopy Come Home]]'' is the most depressing and gut-wrenching thing the franchise has ever produced. If you do not cry because of this film, you have no soul.
** This strip from 1972 is the most heartbreaking thing [http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1972/06/22 ever].
*** The two strips after it though, are [[Heartwarming Moments
*** The final strip was this for me as well as a heartwarming moment.
** ''Why, Charlie Brown, Why?''
** While not as soul-crushing as ''[[Snoopy Come Home]], [[A Boy Named Charlie Brown]]'' has a pretty melancholic feel to the whole thing. The basic plot is Charlie Brown dealing with the unrelenting misery and failure that is his life, getting a [[Hope Spot]] when he gets a chance at a regional spelling bee, and returning in disgrace after he loses.
* [[Toy Ship]]: Many of the strip's male/female relationships would qualify as this.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: One strip from the mid-fifties [[Played for Laughs]] the fact that Linus had mistaken his first snowfall for the fallout from a nuclear war.
* [[Values Resonance]]: ''A Charlie Brown Christmas''' denouncement of commercialism (which carries over into ''A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving'' and ''It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown'' as well) and presentation of the [[True Meaning of Christmas]].
** Which can lead to a bit of cognitive dissonance when those specials are interrupted so the characters can hawk Dolly Madison snack cakes and whatnot.
** There's also a bunch of still-relevant political humor in ''You're (Not) Elected, Charlie Brown'' and the strips that it was based on. The fact that they haven't dated is probably due to Schulz lampooning the overall election process rather than a current election or event of his day.
* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: Some people actually thought that Peppermint Patty was not a [[Tomboy]], but a ''real'' boy. It doesn't help that in some of the animated adaptations, she is ''voiced'' by a boy, and that in the 80s and 90s, it became a little more acceptable for young males to have longer hair than it would be in the 50s-70s. (Where it was ''older'' men who had longer hair primarily!)
** Plus, she's drawn with ''shorts'' -- Schulz would often draw the other girls with ''skirts''.
* [[We're Still Relevant, Dammit!|We're Still Relevant, Dangit]]: [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|One word]]: ''Flashbeagle''.
** In one of the last daily strips, Sally is writing a letter to [[Harry Potter]]. Not as obvious as the previous trope, but this was written around the time the books were becoming popular.
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