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 a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FNL_iIp5c feature-length CGI movie] released in 2015. Japanese animation studio [[Madhouse]] [http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/02/18-1/studio-madhouse-makes-charlie-brown-anime announced in 2012] that it had acquired the rights to make ''Peanuts'' anime shorts, but despite their claims that at least one such film is "out there" (at [http://snoopy.co.jp/ http://snoopy.co.jp/], perhaps?), there is no evidence that anyone has ever seen it.

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* Lucy leaning on Schroeder's piano, trying to get his attention. Or sometimes Snoopy and/or Woodstock playing around with the notes coming from the piano.

* Peppermint Patty in class, [[Book Dumb|trying and failing hopelessly]] to figure out what's going on. This sometimes extends to her misunderstanding some concept so ''completely'', and ignoring all rational warnings from Marcie, that she would find herself publicly humiliated.

* 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").

** At first Peppermint Patty's standard reply was: "Stop calling me sir," but eventually she just gave up. Marcie is also the only one who calls Charlie Brown "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.

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