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** Another [[Take That]] showed up in one of a series of strips from the 1950s in which Snoopy was going about doing impressions (or "imitations," as Charlie Brown referred to them) of kids, animals, and celebrities. One of these acts had him [[Rule of Funny|(inexplicably)]] blacking out his eyes and curling his ears into round disks to impersonate Mickey Mouse. (When Charlie Brown quietly informs Schroeder of this, all we see him say is "Msssp Msss.") Initially it appears to be merely a [[Shout Out]], but Charlie's comment of "Frightening, isn't it?" turned it into a [[Take That]].

** A 1973 sequence has Charlie Brown horrified to learn that the neighborhood adults had created "snow leagues" for kids, where teams competed with each other to build snowmen, including playoffs and the chance to play teams from other countries. Y'know like how sandlot baseball and other activities kids used to do for fun ended up becoming the basis for organized, hyper-competitive Little Leagues.

* One edition of ''[[Rocky (Comic Book)|Rocky]]'' is a [[Take That]] towards another Swedish cartoonist who created a similarly-themed comic two years after ''Rocky'' premiered.

* ''[[Stone Soup (Comic Strip)|Stone Soup]]'' is not a political comic, but when the sound effect for barfing is '''''[[Barack Obama|BARRACK]]''''' two days in a row...