Peanuts: Difference between revisions

The strip spawned about 50 animated TV specials over 40 years (starting with ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]'' and continuing through installments such as ''[[It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]''; ''He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown''; ''It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown''; and so on, ending with ''He's a Bully, Charlie Brown''), as well as four feature films (''[[A Boy Named Charlie Brown]]''; ''[[Snoopy Come Home]]''; ''[[Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown]]''; and ''[[Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown|Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!)]]''), a [[Saturday Morning Cartoon]] series (''The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show''), not one but two stage [[The Musical|musicals]] (''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' and ''Snoopy!!!''), a few direct-to-video movies, and an eight-episode [[Miniseries]] (''This Is America, Charlie Brown''). The ''Peanuts'' characters also appeared in TV commercials for the Ford Motor Company, Cheerios and Chex cereals, Dolly Madison snack cakes, a few regional brands of bread and Met Life Insurance, and believe it or not, [[No Problem With Licensed Games (Sugar Wiki)|a]] [[Video Game]] [[Snoopy Flying Ace|series]]. Since Schulz's death ([[Retirony|the night before his final strip was published]]), the comic has kept a place in many newspapers by way of reruns. Specials occasionally keep being produced, such as a series of Flash shorts in 2009, the hand-drawn ''Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown'' in 2011, and an upcoming anime adaptation by [[Madhouse]].

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* Snoopy's imagined personae: [[World War One]] flying ace, novelist, Beagle Scout leader, 'Mad Punter', streaker, vulture, Flashbeagle, Joe Cool, etc. etc.

** Leading Charlie Brown to ask, "Why can't I have a [[I Just Want to Be Normal|normal dog]] like everyone else?"

** For a long time, she didn't realize that Snoopy's a dog...

* Marcie [[They Call Me Mister Tibbs|calling Peppermint Patty "sir"]], over [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!|the latter's objections]]. Conversely, Patty was the only one who called Charlie Brown "Chuck" on a regular basis (although Marcie also did at first, but later switched to calling him "Charles").

*** In later strips, a girl Charlie Brown meets at camp calls him "Brownie Charles", because when they met, he was so nervous that he flubbed up his own name.

See also the [http://www.peanuts.com/ official Peanuts web site].

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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Frieda's cat Faron only appeared for a few strips before Schulz realized that since Snoopy didn't speak in words, the only way to have him interact with Faron would be to have them ''think'' at each other. (Also, by his own admission, Schulz looked at his drawings of Faron and realized uncomfortably that he couldn't draw cats very well.)

** What had been intended as a lengthy -- possibly months-long -- arc with Linus and Lucy's family moving away came to a very sudden end because fans objected.