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*** Or maybe {{spoiler|[[Dog Sees God|Charlie Brown]].}}
** 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]]:
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* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Listen to stories of [[Kids Are Cruel|bull]][[Teens Are Monsters|ying]] that have been in the news recently, then go read a ''Peanuts'' strip, or watch any of the specials (such as the Auditorium scenes in ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]''). [[Dude, Not Funny|Not as funny as it used to be, is it?]]
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: On June 10th, 1959, shortly after Sally's birth...
{{quote| '''Linus:''' When I'm twenty-two and Sally is seventeen, do you think she'll go out with me?}}
** A 1961 strip has Sally expressing her ''disappointment'' that she can't go to school with the other kids.
** [http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1998/03/20 This 1998 strip] all but predicts Tiger Woods' sex scandal 11 years later, [[Don't Explain the Joke|as long as you take into account]] [[Lampshaded Double Entendre|the different meanings of "ho/hoe"]].
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