The Dark Truth of Peanuts

Well, here comes old Charlie Brown, good old Charlie Brown, yes, sir, good old Charlie Brown, how I hate him. The first Peanuts strip published on October 2, 1950 is a mission statement, this is good old Charlie Brown and his friends hate him. The peanut is the Beloved. Cartoonist Charles Sparky Schultz's masterpiece began in October 1950 with a simple weekday comic strip distributed in just seven newspapers. Peanuts quickly became a global phenomenon that was published in more than 2,600 newspapers translated into 21 languages ​​in 75 countries with 355 million readers at its peak. Popular strips featuring characters like Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy Linus Schroeder and 555-95472 became part of people's daily lives over the nearly 50 years the strip ran and arguably still is, with reprints of the comics classics that never leave syndication even 72 years after their debut.

After the television special A Charlie Brown Christmas aired in December 1965, Schultz with his collaborators, producer Lee Mendelsohn and director Bill Melendez, would bring the world of their journey to people in more ways: there have been peanut specials , television shows and theatrical films consistently from From 1965 to the present day, these are the presentations of many people talking to Charlie Brown and his friends when they were children and several of the specials, such as Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving , It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown and It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, have become a holiday staple. viewing that people seek out every year, eagerly awaiting the moment when Charlie Brown says I've Got a Rock, as well as the incredible original strip and iconic animated projects.

Peanuts spread further through the stage, musicals, advertisements, video games, a series of children's books, new comics. off the Strip and so much merchandise that it's hard to believe that

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have been everywhere and done everything and never lost their popularity. Sure we may not be in the grips of Snoopy Mania like people were in the '60s and '70s, but you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't have at least a passing familiarity with that world, even if you've never seen the strip nor have you seen any of the animations, you could probably still name this round-headed kid if you saw his The image with the immense popularity and saturation of the peanut also comes with a real fondness for it in most people who meet it.

There is a nostalgic warmth to Peanut that reminds me of when I was a kid reading my mother's old pocket card stock rhythm like Here It Comes. Charlie Brown and Snoopy is for you, many of us found our way to these characters as children and each time we revisit them it takes us back to that space where we can feel happy and free, something positive that exists in the collective memory from so many people, but what if I told you that

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are not as happy and gentle as you remember? That underneath the sunny, kid-friendly exterior lurks something sinister that, when you break it down, is this cartoon that so many of us look back on and remember with such fondness was secretly distressing and horrifying in this video we're going to delve into the deepest part.

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to light oh yesterday I was a dog today I'm a dog tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog there's so little hope for advancement Professor Robert Thompson of Syracuse University once said that "Peanut" is possibly the longest story ever told by a human being, with 17,897 individual comic strip entries and hours of animated content spread over decades with the direct participation of Charles Schultz.

It's difficult I don't agree with that statement, but what is the story that Schultz told us every day for 50 years? What is the story that others have continued to tell through new animations after his death in February 2000? Watch them as they go through the struggles of his life. Things that may seem insignificant to an adult, like grades on a school report, not being named to the safety patrol when your friend is, or forgetting your line in the Christmas play, but they are everything. world of worried children, however, peanut children are not the usual type we see in our world, they are articulate and able to express what they are going through in words and thoughts that should be beyond their level of understanding.

Well, please, no. Don't cry Lucy, what do you mean don't cry? Why should I deprive myself of an emotional outlet? However, despite their greater eloquence, they still act like children with their undeniably childish petty disputes and worries, but with communication and thinking skills beyond their years, they have a level of self-awareness that feels inadequate for the everyday life that They carry, this becomes worrying when you realize how trapped in these lives in the seven plus decades that Peanut has been around, the kids have stayed kids and have never really grown or changed over the years. They pass and do not age, they are stuck in their place and can never move on.

You might think it's normal for a comic story to have an established status quo that rarely, if ever, is truly offended, but if you look at it for a moment. You begin to see how nerve-wracking this is, as a daily comic strip matches the dates it was published each year and can be traced back to specific events that we will see repeated. Snoopy will ring in the New Year on Woodstock New Year's Eve. party Charlie Brown will not receive Valentine's Day baseball season begins Easter Beagle will arrive the school year will end the children will be recruited for summer camp the school year when it starts again Charlie Brown will try to hit the football Linus will wait for the Great Pumpkin While the new crowd spends Veterans Day at Bill Molden's Place drinking root beer, Schroeder will celebrate Beethoven's birthday.

Christmas is coming and before you know it, Snoopy is back at the Woodstock New Year's Eve party, once again, the years moving steadily forward with a rhythm that quickly becomes familiar. For all these recurring events that we see year after year, the years themselves do not repeat, time in the world advances, the passing of the years is recognized, it is to think of all the George Orwell jokes that we will have to hear in 1984. The world they're in is clearly moving along with our own pop culture references by giving things very specific dates. Why couldn't Makovi have hit the ball just three feet higher just as the ball reached me?

Michael Jackson hit a high note. the Macarena or why couldn't Macovic be higher and you can even see certain concerns and political movements coming into focus Charlie Brown is happening it's happening just as they said it would happen of course it's happening at this time of year snowing, oh my gosh, I thought Fallout is another triumph for women's liberation, so the world the characters live in is clearly moving forward, and yet they are never given the ability to progress, no matter how many years pass, how many decades, even the characters remain stuck in this perpetual state of childhood with thoughts ahead of themselves as they watch the March of Time without them as they never grow up, except perhaps even more sinister that the characters and the peanuts are etched into the popular Consciousness. in a specific way.

If you look at the animated projects of recent years, you will see the perfect. As an example of this, their ages and personalities are fixed in a clear point like any cartoon series, but if you read the strips you will know that this is not the case. The characters in Shelter's original work were not always the versions we so easily recognize when we look today. Charlie Brown in the early comic strips we see a radically different design, his head much larger and rounder and the trademark jagged stripe on his shirt does not appear until two months into the race.

He also displays a noticeably different personality. He is a clever prankster who walks around in rags. As good as his friends are, it's not until more time passes that Schultz turns him into the character we now recognize, but perhaps most significant here is that his age changes in the November 17, 1957, Charlie Brown Says strip. that a person should not. He has to lose all his pride when he is only six years old, which definitely makes him six, a number that is supported in the strip from October 18, 1960. Now, how long would you say this period of depression has lasted for six years? , but then on this trip on April 3, 1971 we see this only 13 more years and I will be 21 but I am 21 life will open up for me I will be a man I will be a real person I will be an individual, this is 1971.

Calculate what year 1984 will be So if we do some simple calculations, we can determine that Charlie Brown is actually one, um minus one-third, Thirty-eight, so he's two years old over the course of the strip. At that point, but he will never age again for the rest of the strip and all the animations that happen in the future, he is permanently eight years old and Charlie Brown isn't the only one we can see this in. Schroeder Linus and Sally first appear as babies in 1951, 1952 and 1959 respectively Schroeder becomes a contemporary of Charlie Brown Linus and Sally slightly younger than him and Lucy first appears as a toddler in 1952 before aging To match Charlie Brown these characters seem to be cursed to age to a certain extent when they get stuck and if we were to take that trip from the evidence of April 1971 then they are not even aware that they are stuck as Charlie Brown seems to be convinced There are still eight characters who first appeared during the Heyday strips, such as Peppermint Patty in 1966 and Marcy in 1971, who arrive in the strip much more fully formed.

As the versions We recognize that there is no more real aging of the characters, almost more people to witness in this one. position these characters are trapped in a changing, flexible world that can change them from the way they came to it, perhaps nowhere is this more notable than with the world's most beloved beagle, striptease star character Snoopy, When Snoopy first appears, it's just a dog he hangs around with. The neighborhood does not have a specific owner and acts like a normal dog, however, Snoopy, who we know as the Peanuts Star, is so different from his original appearance that he is practically a completely different character now, as Charlie's dog Brown, who walks on two legs, writes novels. a typewriter fantasizes about himself as the World War I flying ace and many other Alter Egos and has clear and sensitive thoughts.

He first had a thought that could be read on May 27, 1952. Like warming up today to wear earmuffs, right? I have to suffer such indignities from here. He begins to act less and less like a real dog. His Sue walks on his hind legs lying on top of his doghouse practicing laws. He goes through more changes than all the other characters combined, even his physical appearance changes. radically different, he starts small with short ears but soon grows a little taller with a long thin nose and then again to the larger nose and light belly that makes one of the most recognizable silhouettes in pop culture, then there are changes in Snoopy that are less obvious.

You have to be an observant reader to notice the first is that Snoopy didn't even start out as a beagle in those early comics, it's not clear what kind of dog it's just a general mixed breed, modulon Schultz, his childhood dog, poke a name which would later be used for Snoopy's brother in fact on December 5, 1960 he actively denies being a beagle beagles in the grass unfortunately I'm no stupid beagle so what happened because Snoopy is definitely a beagle for most of the strip? and throughout the animation, in fact, even he himself confirms it on January 16, 1964. The feather is a marvel of natural engineering, so how was I born with beagle hair?

Along with his sudden sensitivity and his rapidly changing body, Snoopy's race changed completely. apparently one he didn't even like considering he called them stupid and if all that wasn't enough there's another thing worth watching to see how much Snoopy changed as the years went by but he stayed the same. Snoop's family has several. Siblings who appear throughout the strip are his brothers Spike Marbles and Ian Olaf and his sister Belle, but fascinatingly on June 6, 1959 Snoopy says well, I hope he's right, but he wouldn't know it. I never had brothers or sisters. I was the only one.

The dog clearly makes every appearance of his family a serious presentation. Various siblings appear one by one as if they've always been there with Snoopy and then remember being one of the litter. The brothers mentioned on May 5, 1965 were later confirmed to be a litter. of seven on March 18from 1970, which means that in the strip there is a missing beagle and this only becomes more complicated when we see the 1991 animated special Snoopy's Reunion where he has two more siblings, a brother named Rover, an assistant named Molly and are scenes from their childhood together, so another pair of beagles appeared as if they had been a part of Snoopy's life all along, but then things get even stranger because in the 2015 movie Peanuts we see a scene where Snoopy and Fifi drinks root beer with Snoopy. the brothers and Molly and Rover are nowhere to be seen, this continues in both the 2021 Snoopy Show and Snoopy Presents Old Lang Syne two family members who were born and then ceased to be so easily and no one noticed that Molly and Rover were gone.

They are also not the only characters to suffer this fate when the strip began there were only four main characters Charlie Brown Snoopy Patty is not to be confused with Peppermint Patty and Shermy is named after Sherman's childhood friend Puebla show me as the character who says the first lines Throughout the strip, he shares equal time in the spotlight as the others and can be countered among Charlie Brown's closest friends as more and more characters begin to enter the fold, and more important personalities such as Linus and Schroeder start to be the center of attention, show me slowly.

He fades away until after June 15, 1969, never seeing him again and receiving only a brief additional mention on March 13, 1977, one of his dearest and closest friends, someone whom he converts. in times of need he just disappeared and Charlie Brown doesn't even seem to realize after the Peanuts movie, the shirmations found their way back into the world appearing in the background or on the side, he exists but is insubstantial, which shows the prom of your personality. had forever lost other characters come and go, such as Charlotte Brown Eudora and Ryan Hobbs, other characters fade into the background such as Paddy and Violet, but none seem to have suffered the effects as badly as Shermy, but perhaps given the world in which that are found. those who disappear are the lucky ones the world of peanuts is strange to say the least to begin with adults are never present in the world as we perceive it, at most they are represented in the memorable trombone noises of the animation clearly present and visible for the children but lost to anyone who sees her from the outside, she is not here on the way to summer camp, so the bus has not left the school yet, but it is about to leave, this means that all our attention is directed at the children of the comic, they are the only ones who matter miss othma linuses blanket who hates the sweet story of grandmother helen the author of the six little bunnies book series are all figures that exist in the world and matter, but its presence is only felt and not seen, except that this is something that is completely noticeable.

Inconsistently in some of the earlier Peanut strips, the adults speak to the children from outside the panels simply by a disembodied voice telling them what to do, but in a series of three Sunday strips from May 1954, Lucy competes in a tournament of golf and we see her and Charlie Brown surrounded. For a crowd of adults we never see their faces, but they are visibly there for the only time in the strip's 50 years. Then, in animation there are adults much more frequently, whether they are disembodied voices. For the gentleman, I recommend a beef and a kidney. shepherd's pie is quite good for the lagi a jet and pickle sandwich is more like toppo it won't be a pleasure mate what did you say or do you actually look like physically risky people in their position in these young people an Englishman I could take offense to these but, Honestly, we deserve it, so adults are disembodied, except for those times when they're not, it's just another part of this inconsistent world where the characters live in a strange world and empty strips and animations are often remembered for its clearly scarce images. that appears in the scenes is the minimum necessary to establish a location, but for a bit of grass or a stool, the characters appear in empty spaces, the only things clearly visible, this comes from a practical reason.

Initially, peanuts began life as what is known as a space-saving strip. This is a strip that would not be published in the comics section of a newspaper, but would instead be placed in a spot that needed to be filled elsewhere, which meant the strip was usually shrunk to fit in the space of two or three columns of newsprint and be subject to different designs, whether the typical horizontal, a square two panels wide or vertical to stand out as a space-saving strip. Schultz needed to simplify Peanuts as much as possible because if reduced to very small sizes, the more detailed illustrations would become illegible.

Deceptively simple designs with lots of negative space caught attention and made people notice the strip first and foremost for the characters. This creates a world that is an ethereal space, a void where the tapestry of their lives can repeat itself over and over again in Stark. The black and white in the later years of the strip shelter began to shake more as the line was drawn and became less strong and precise, as if the very existence of each character was reduced in solidity where they themselves could fade into the void . I would feel negligent in doing so.

Speaking of the utter strangeness of the world of peanuts, if I didn't mention the fact that several inanimate objects are sentient, there's Charlie Brown's Nemesis. The vicious kaijitin tree that starts out as a tree that Charlie Brown's kites always crash into and develops. something that clearly chews up and spits out kites, has flavor preferences, is regularly seen with an evil grin, and once it somehow makes it to Charlie Brown's front door, it transforms from just a tree into a genuinely malevolent force that Charlie Brown begins to see how dependent on him hello, dirty kite-eating tree, have you had a hard winter?

I bet you're hungry, right? I bet you hate me too, don't you? You hate me because I recognize you why. You're a dirty, scheming, useless kite-eating tree. You also hate me because you need me. I'm the only one around here who flies kites and without me you'd be very hungry. What would you do if I decided not to fly? any comet this year what would you do? You'd starve to death. That's what you do. It kind of shakes you up, isn't it without me? You're nothing, sorry, Charlie Brown, but you look a little different, like some change has come.

I think I may have done it for the first time in my life I feel necessary there are other examples like Charlie Brown's baseball glove hoping they don't take it out to play this year Linus' security blanket for getting up and attacking Lucy and Perhaps most interesting of all is the school building in the strip on July 7, 1971, we see Sally talking to the school building expressing her frustrations about it, ha, there you are, stupid school, you can't catch me now because it's summer vacation. I am free. Do you hear me free? It makes you angry, doesn't it?

But you can't catch me now. I am free. Your sister talks to school buildings. She continues to talk to them until in September 1974, the school building begins to think. Sally and the school talk to each other even though she can't understand it, the school becomes protective of her and sensitive to herself throwing bricks at kids who make fun of any of them, but the school hates the stress she lives under constant pressure. of the children and the teachers and finally she can't take it anymore and on January 9, 1976 the school building collapses during the night. Oh my God, don't bother getting up.

Sally, our school fell down last night. Listen to this. He had everything he could. For example, the school dies by suicide. Eventually a new school is built in her place, one that has her own thoughts and feelings, and in time she also befriends Sally, but the old one is effectively crushed to death under the weight of what she couldn't bear. . The world of peanuts is a strange purgatory where children are trapped in empty space, cursed to reach an age where they can understand enough to be the most miserable in their existence, but hey, that's just one thing, thank you.

I guess I won't see it. You have until Monday Charlie Brown so have a happy weekend, thanks by the way. What is happiness? Charlie Brown is a character defined by the sadness of him without the 70 years of continuous stories told about him. He is almost certainly one of the most influential and important characters in history. modern Western canon, whether through comic strips, television specials, movies, children's picture books, or even just through general cultural osmosis, it can be assumed that almost everyone has some level of familiarity with good old Charlie Brown and the character you are familiar with. he is someone who constantly brings you down when I say that Charlie Brown is defined by sadness, I mean that he displays an astonishing level of depression that is almost constantly present.

You can turn to any strip at random and there's a good chance you'll find something. Frankly shocking in the honesty with which he portrays a child who feels this way. I think I'll cry when he's not facing his almost endless sadness. He is immobilized by his anxieties. He is very strange. Sometimes you lie in bed at night and don't do it. I have only one thing to worry about that always worries me: his severe depression and anxiety, combined with certain external factors that I'll get to in a minute, can even be seen to have a direct physical effect on him.

Sometimes I wake up knowing that I'm going to have a bad day, indeed, I'm having a bad day. Sometimes I wake up thinking I'm going to have a good day, but it always turns out to be a bad day. How come I never wake up thinking I'm going to have a bad day? a good day and then actually have a good day or how come I never wake up thinking I'm going to have a bad day and then have a good day? My stomach hurts, the almost relentless emotional and physical discomfort is something quite different than what you might expect to find in other comic strips before and after Misery.

It doesn't seem like the typical punchline of a daily comic strip for an eight-year-old to think about how depressed he is, but it was the direction Charles Schultz took the main character of this journey into one where the playful arrogance and joking nature of the days Previous ones with a feel similar to Ernie Bushmello's Nancy slowly faded away until they were the tragic Meek nervous wreck we know and love today. This is something that would follow him from comic strips to animation from the first Peanuts animated special 1965 It's a Charlie Brown Christmas in the special Charlie Brown isn't sure why he's not feeling the Christmas spirit at a time when he is. knows.

He's supposed to be happy, in fact the first line of spoken dialogue in the Peanuts animation is I think there must be something wrong with me Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel like I'm supposed to feel. He knows there's a way he should feel and he doesn't feel that way. Not fulfilling this obligation of happiness that the season brings only makes it feel worse, also for people desperate to tell me that first line spoken. of the penis animation was actually from the unreleased 1963 documentary, A Boy Named Charlie Brown. He directs his attention to the unpublished word and urges them to get a life.

It's a trend that has continued throughout the decades with notable examples like the one in 1969, when a boy named Charlie Brown sees In the 1985 animated adaptation of the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, he locks himself in his

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room for An entire day. We see him fidgeting with anxiety over a simple book report, which he becomes completely convinced of. writing it and even as recently as the movie Peanuts we see him constantly feeling like a useless failure. Charlie Brown has been stuck feeling bad about himself and not knowing why this whole time and this is just what we expect from him no matter what happens?

The face and culture of Charlie Brown are established as the ultimate loser, someone complete who can never win, in short, all the Charlie Browns in this world. He is the Charlie Brownist. So cruel and unusual of fate. Is this for an eight year old? I face that there are times when it almost feels like the world is conspiring against him. At the beginning of the video I said that Charlie Brown's friends hate him and I mean it with absolute certainty, how much this kid is bullied by the people he considers himself to be. Being his friend is horrible, just a constant series of abuse that he has to endure.

This dynamic is established from the first strip and has continued ever since. One of the most common things that are made fun of is size and shape. of his head Charlie Brown's head is considered big and round and the other children constantly make fun of him for that by comparing it to bowls, pumpkins, if we shape the eyes like that, tothe nose like this and the mouth like this, yes, that's how it is. thank you Charlie Brown, you were the perfect model, regularly insulting their appearance like this, that kind of casual cruelty that children can sometimes display, seems especially mean when you consider that all peanut sons have big heads, there is nothing extraordinary about Charlie Brown. head, but it's clearly something he's insecure about and the others around him just put laser focus on it, if it's not his whole head then they're saying bad things about his face as a child.

Charles Schultz recalled that he worried that his face was so bland and uninteresting that people who knew him wouldn't recognize him if they saw him in a place where they normally wouldn't. This insecurity is one that was firmly placed on Charlie Brown. He's cursed with an ordinary face that he holds with no unique features, a child you might forget if you didn't see him regularly or so he thinks, he's worried that his bullies are too capable of taking advantage of you, you know what he's missing. Your face lacks character, Charlie Brown, it's just a face. what a bitter blow condemned to go through life with nothing but a face if they don't comment on her face it's abruptness then they are projecting their other insecurities on her Violet says I have a failure face oh you have Charlie Brown he really has Failure written all over it.

I have never seen anyone who has had more failures face the face of true failure. I can not stand it. This particular insult is one that they enjoy so much that they even sing it as a song on a boy named Charlie Brown no, no, as you can probably see from these examples, the person who intimidates Charlie Brown the most is Lucy, she insults him, he treats him with disdain and does the annual football trick, okay, Charlie Brown, I'll hold the ball and you. come run and kick him I can't believe it I can't believe someone thinks I'm so completely stupid I won't push him away like I normally do Charlie Brown I promise, I know your promises look, we'll shake it off Okay, let's shake him, this shows my sincerity, right?

What can I do if someone is willing to shake something? You have to trust her. A woman's handshake isn't legally binding, but Lucy is easy to see as the main antagonist in Charlie Brown's life, she's not the only one. Linus is Charlie Brown's best friend and there are times when even he is unnecessarily cruel to him, but instead of direct insults, Linus tends to use condescension to make Charlie Brown feel bad, perhaps the best example. This occurs in Happy New Year's 1986, Charlie Brown, when he has difficulty reading War and Peace for a school assignment. Charlie Brown tells the lioness that he finds it very difficult to read a book during the short winter vacation and responds by telling her how Leo Tolsto's wife hand-copied War and Peace seven times only Charlie Brown she wrote the book seven telling me that she didn't even you can read it once Charlie Brown is not being unreasonable Linus the book is over half a million words and he has eight This is Linus' particular way of making Charlie Brown feel terrible.

He is one of the smartest characters in Maní and instead of picking up his friend who sometimes has problems with school, he makes sure to treat him like someone inferior because he is not that smart. him, but he's not above it either, sometimes just resorting to insulting Charlie Brown to his face, you're not going to teach him to use a blanket for security or happiness or anything. Sally is going to use her own willpower to grow up from a baby. to a well-adjusted child like his brother, so at the two ends of the scale we have Charlie Brown being bullied by both his harshest critic and his best friend, but between them there are almost every other character he has an impression of. sister who is ashamed.

He, a dog who does not remember his name, is only called the round-headed boy and a whole group of peers who regularly treat him terribly, leaving him desperate for the slightest affection and perhaps even believing that he deserves this treatment that no one gives him. like. I wish I liked you, Charlie Brown, but I can't. If I liked you, it would be admitting that I'm lowering my standards. You wouldn't want me to do that. Would you be reasonable? I have standards that I have established. you like people and you just don't meet those standards, it would be unreasonable for me to like you, you hate me for being so unreasonable and it's not just the kitchen dog, it seems adults hate it too sometimes in 1966.

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown the children went trick-or-treating together and after visiting the first house this happens. I got five sweets. I got a chocolate bar. I got a coin. I received a stone. The person who distributes candy in this house. I gave Charlie Brown a real rock and then we see two more houses. I have a stone. I have a stone. Everyone in the neighborhood is giving him stones once. Some kind of cruel conspiracy to ruin this kid's Halloween. Why do these adults treat Charlie Brown this way? Why, in fact, is Charlie Brown's existence in this world filled with constant suffering in a way that seems completely impossible?

Like everyone in the neighborhood, including the parents who harass him, he faces unreal bad luck and failure in every aspect of his life, no matter what he tries. Doing so is guaranteed that something will go wrong and he will end up miserable, as a result, one of his favorite pastimes is trying to fight a kite. I say try because every time he tries to lift a kite into the air, he will do it. Either he crashes to the ground, gets trapped in the kaiti tree, his rope tangled around everything and everyone inside, or, on one memorable occasion, he suddenly explodes.

The level of bad luck he has with kites is not statistically possible. A failure rate of 100 is this incredible losing streak. extends to his other great hobby, baseball, Charlie Brown manages his own baseball team made up of his so-called friends and they are terrible, they have a right fielder who misses all the catchers, they should stop talking, a second baseman who wears a security blanket and your best player. He's a literal dog, but the leader of it all is Charlie Brown as manager and pitcher. He can barely throw more than one type of ball. One finger means a fastball and two fingers means a curveball.

Three fingers mean a drop and four fingers mean a throw. And if? I forgot, don't worry, we just have signs so the other team thinks you can throw something besides a straight ball. It's always good to work with a receiver who has true confidence in you. He regularly lets players get hit very well. They send him flying through the air with his clothes scattered on the field and many times his players cost them the game. He makes a similar pulley when he is ready to bat, making the wrong decision every time. He says that he does not believe that Charlie Brown will try to make him rob the house.

Wouldn't even Shawty Brown ever do something that stupid? I wonder if she should try to rob the house, since she might expect her team to have no qualms about making him feel bad about the losses, without worrying about her own failings, putting all the blame on him. directly on his shoulders, leading to further despair and guilt, just like when he was flying his kite, Charlie Brown simply can never win at baseball, he practices harder than anyone, he dedicates all his time and mental energy to the game, He firmly believes in his team despite everything and he still always loses.

I don't understand how we can lose when we are so sincere. The only times his team has won is when he's not playing, either because of a minor league elbow case or because he's been shut down. was in his room moping all day once they won a game that was discounted due to a gambling scandal and in 1993 they won two games against the same team where it was later revealed that the team's pitcher led them to win because she was slightly in love. about Charlie Brown and felt bad for him, which brings us neatly to the other area where Charlie Brown most often fails in his love life, while it feels very strange to refer to an eight-year-old saying that he can't be denied who has a love life. that Charlie Brown is a fool in love the main object of his affection is the little redhead first mentioned on November 19, 1961 the little redhead is a character never seen in this rip with the exception of a silhouette on May 25 1998, but her presence looms over Charlie Brown, who loves her from afar, never has the courage to talk to her, always panics when she's about to try, or otherwise makes a fool of her.

In July 1969, the little redhead walks away from her even though she would. returns in 1978 and Charlie Brown still can't muster up the courage to talk to her, leading Linus to scold him abroad, she's gone and you didn't do anything, all you do is stand there and drive everyone crazy, Charlie Brown, I'm so angry, I could scream, I'm screaming once again proving that Linus is a terrible friend who has no regard for Charlie Brown's feelings, but besides her, Charlie Brown has had problems with other girls, there's Emily, the girl from his dance class, and Peggy Jean, a girl at summer camp, who briefly becomes his girlfriend, emphasis on briefly, he befriends Peppermint Patty and Marcy, who seem to fall in love with him until certain point and they fight with each other over which of them Charlie Brown likes while he doesn't realize it. her feelings for him this leads to divisions between these two best friends with Charlie Brown in the middle completely unsure of how he got there something that serves to make them all unhappier the worrying side of Charlie Brown's longing is when it becomes somewhat possessive as it is. see in the 1981 special, someday you'll find her Charlie Brown in this special Charlie Brown sees a girl on TV in the crowd at a football game and immediately falls in love with her.

He then sets out with Linus and Toe to find her, tracking her down. Using the seat numbers and information available on the tickets they travel to various addresses until they find the right one. They are stalking her. They're stalking this girl because Charlie Brown saw her on TV. He finally sends Linus to talk to her because he is too nervous to do so. and he falls away because she also has a blanket leaving Charlie Brown furious at him for stealing his girl but she was never your girl Charlie Brown doesn't even know who you are stop being such an absolute idiot there is a time when Charlie Brown had a moment with the little redhead who matched his fantasies in the 1977 special It's Your First Kiss Charlie Brown He is her date to the school homecoming dance and he must kiss her as part of the frankly strange ceremony when the time comes he is perhaps the happiest he's ever been in the entire history of Peanuts, completely dizzy and practically walking on air, then gives him the kiss and goes into a fantasy sequence where he feels like he's flying before suddenly waking up in her bed with a sudden shark thinking it was all a dream, she talks to Linus who informs her that it did happen, he KISSED the little redhead and then dragged her away dancing.

Charlie Brown can't remember any of it, the happiest night of his life and he I'll never know how it went What's the point of doing something Linus if you can't remember what you did? Charlie Brown's life is one of constant failure and misery. He is unlucky in love. He can be successful in any and all of his hobbies. The world seems to actively hate him. He not only he has been eight years old for decades. He has been eight years old and has lived the worst life imaginable. How did this happen? What made the universe gang up on him like this?

What sin did Charlie commit? Brown vows to deserve this. I have an idea, as I mentioned before when he started the strip. Charlie Brown wasn't the depressed loser he became, he was much more likely to pull pranks on the other characters and stand up for himself when they were cruel to him. but over time, as he remains trapped in this state of Purgatory, he becomes increasingly submissive to those who harm him and immobilize him with anxiety. So what if this Purgatory exists entirely as a method of teaching Charlie Brown the error of his ways? Brown was a bully in his past life, now he must atone for the pain of his victims while his own cruelty repeats itself ten times over for the rest of the time, suddenly everything makes sense, the ways the world seems illogically stacked in his against, the parents who join him. this kid's harsh treatment his cocktail attitude getting hit we've split this wide open thank you no one wants to spin my jump rope for me everyone says I'm too moody they say I whine too much they say I whine when they spin it too fast and they say I complain when they spin it too slow no one understands us cranky people, so if we were to consider Charlie Brown's existence in this world of Purgatory as a punishment for his past sins, then maybe recontextualize the actions of all the Other characters on The Strip are no longer the senseless cruelty that children are so often capable of.

It is an intentional and fair punishment. Punitive measures to save Charlie Brown's soul.With this new understanding we can realize that there is no character that we have misjudged. In the last seven decades, more than Lucy Van Pelt Lucy is seen by many people as the villain of the peanuts more than any of the other characters who belittle Charlie Brown and contribute to her general depression, anxiety, and apathy. Lucy really seems to take that into account. for him she deceives him I worked all morning stacking those leaves I bet they're as soft as a bed of feathers Why do you believe everything I tell you?

Treat his worries as if they don't matter. I wish I had a friend. I wish someone would come up to me and say Charlie Brown, I'm your friend, huh, why don't you want some wings and she's just mean to him, you fool? I can't resist adding insult to injury, she is known by many as a bully who has chosen Charlie Brown as her particular target, she has a firm and no-nonsense attitude that contrasts quite a bit with Charlie Brown and her indecisive nature. . She is someone with complete confidence in herself and her abilities. and seeing someone as meek and depressing as Charlie Brown is something she simply has to take action against.

She's seen too much of this guy's pathetic excuse for a personality and it makes her cranky. When Lucy gets in a bad mood, she acts assertive and violent only works to hurt. Furthermore, this sets up Charlie Brown to perpetuate the cycle in which she bullies Charlie Brown for his perceived weakness, which makes him look even weaker, so she will want to bully him more, but that wasn't always the case. Charlie Brown. She evolved from a very different perspective. type of character until she became the one we know now in her first appearances after her debut on March 3, 1952, she is a little girl and is characterized as little more than someone who knows a little less than the older main characters and create something greater.

Variety in the type of jokes that may seem more or less like a blank slate, but soon after she would begin to be known as a rambunctious budget, a child who complains, cries and complains until she gets her way, but in instead of taking the first budget as criticism. it's meant to be Lucy sees it as a compliment complaining is something she is extremely good at and she enjoys it gives her a sense of achievement she even won awards for her complaining prowess this is a beautiful Lucy trophy awarded to Lucille Van Pelt 1954 1955 1956, the number one budget in the world, you see, after I won it three years in a row, they let me keep this personality where she liked to get her way and usually managed to turn her into such a forceful character that in It was really just a question. of time before she began to dominate Charlie Brown like she did before she became the biggest bully in Charlie Brown's life, the position was usually filled by Patty and Violet, who knew ways to really get under his skin, sometimes I I get so mad at you you you you old Charlie Brown what an insult, in fact even the famous annual football stunt was first performed by Violet, although less out of malice and more out of concern that she will Kick my hand Just know that will I can't move on You didn't kick the ball surely Brown, why didn't you kick it?

But as Lucy became more established as the main dominant force in Charlie Brown's life, these two would fade away. In the background she's barely relevant, although she still gets the occasional Japanese bully where the opportunity presents itself with Lucy becoming much more prominent, her presence simply wasn't needed anymore, she's all the bully Charlie Brown really needs, but he doesn't. Just make it clear. Lucy can be seen acting similarly towards many of the other characters in the neighborhood. She argues with Patty and Violet in the 1972 special You Are Not Chosen. Charlie Brown. It is strongly implied that she is threatening the children. at school with violence if they don't agree to vote for lightness and she got into boxing matches and fought with Snoopy, a literal dog, but with the exception of Charlie Brown.

No one gets their Ayah worse than her own brother Linus, that's for sure. I say there are many times when Lucy just doesn't like her brother, she constantly treats him badly by putting her own needs before him taking over the TV when he tries to watch. his programs, giving him orders and hitting him directly. My older sister hit. me again hits you often often isn't the word that's starting to hit me with alarming frequency it's like Lucy's usual level of nastiness is being exposed by their proximity to each other living together means she finds a lioness getting under His skin always breaks his crayons, he reads his comics without permission, he makes too much noise for his taste.

Am I rubbing you too hard? and has the usual habit of condescending to her in her childish and angry mind. Linus' actions are transgressions for which she is justified. When acting against it, she also strives in the lines of suffocation, creatively smashing her elaborate sandcastles, knocking down houses of cards and crumbling her drawings, this could be due to jealousy, as Lucy may not possess such abilities in general, She seems like the kind of older sister that any child would fear having given her bad attitude and constant violent outbursts, so why exactly do I say that Lucy, the character whose main personality trait is being a moody bully to the main character of throws it away and with its own flesh and blood, is it misjudged?

How can I defend her when she seems to be so mean? Am I glorifying the actions of an abusive character? Well, maybe I'm seeing a

truth

that no one else can see because while this may be what most people imagine first when they think about it. Her character Lucy is actually much more interesting than that, with many facets that can be seen if you look close enough to see all of Lucy's self-centered and violent behavior. In reality, she is a character who cares deeply about other minor people. Under the right circumstances, she's one of the most compassionate souls in the entire strip, she just isn't something she necessarily shows on the surface, although she can hit Linus with alarming frequency.

She really loves her younger brother. She removes splinters from her finger and helps him run. for president of the school and teaches him everything about the world even though these things are actually wrong she at least means well this Linus is a giant oak when the oak trees get old they cut them down and use them to make Knotty Pine Naughty Pine Recreation Rooms Her care for him can perhaps best be seen in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, as the liner sits in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin to arrive. Lucy makes sure to order extra things for him while trick-or-treating even though she also finds it embarrassing later, at the end of the special, when she discovers that he's not home at 4 a.m., she futilely goes out and brings him home, loosing him.

Take it out of the cold and place it safely to fold. This extends even further when her new baby brother is born. She is extremely affectionate and never as aggressive as she is with Linus. She encourages him when he is afraid to go to school. She takes care of him when she takes him outside and likes to spend time and play. with him it seems like there won't be any real animosity towards him because if there was we know for a fact she would show it since even her attempts to help people can seem pretty petty.

One thing she is determined to help with is Linus' dependence on her security blanket. Linus clings to this blanket at all times as what is psychologically known as a transitional object, something that provides comfort to the boy as he grows. Independence from not being cared for by his parents at all times, like a teddy bear, this is something very common. In children, the phrase was first coined in 1951, but after the popularity of the strip, psychologists have regularly used the phrase security blanket instead of the more formal term, but Lucy believes Linda should have stopped using it by now. your blanket and that's it.

Determined to force him to resign despite his protests, you and that stupid blanket will still be clinging to that thing when you're 20, and if I am, I'll never be drafted. Linus's devotion to the blanket can often see him bordering on addiction, where he cannot bear to be away from it even for a few moments, so Lucy knows that the only way to break her brother's habit is to remove it. the blanket in the image completely. She tries this on multiple occasions. In October 1957, she locked him in a closet for two weeks, causing him to decompose until he finally gave in.

In January 1961, she buries him, prompting the ocean liners to practically dig up the entire neighborhood until Snoopy finds him. and he returned it to her in June 1962. She converted. She puts him in a kite and accidentally lets him go where he floats across the country until he is finally returned by the air rescue service. In addition to these notable attempts, she also regularly invites her blanket-hating grandmother over and she always tries to get covers to give as gifts. she lifts his blanket, cuts it into pieces, and regularly tries to take it from him by force. This comes from both a worry that Linus will grow up maladjusted because of his dependence on her, and also from a place of hostility because she finds him embarrassing.

So, the only known way for her to genuinely try to help her brother is against her will, using cruel and ineffective methods outside of her immediate family. We can also try to help Lucy and her friends in the neighborhood, especially Charlie Brown. The way she does it is one of the most iconic and enduring images of the entire franchise and one of my favorite jokes of all time. On March 27, 1959, we first see Charlie Brown visiting Lucy in his psychiatric ward. I have deep feelings of depression, what can I do about it? five cents please, although technically the first time the stand was seen was a month earlier, in the back of the You're Crazy, Charlie Brown paperback collection.

This is Canon's first appearance as just a basic position, but it would be a long way off. Since the last time, in 1961, the stand began to appear regularly in its most recognizable form with a sign and has become a staple ever since. From her perch at the booth, Lucy offers advice for the small fee of five cents. Charlie Brown is her most common character. patient with so many neuralities, he is desperately looking for someone who can offer him advice and Lucy is that person, although she is just a girl, her advice is not exactly the most useful, she rarely engages with the specifics of Charlie Brown's problems and generally just offer a general statement in response I feel lonely I feel like no one really cares about me How can I cure this loneliness?

Get a nickel from some friends, please, but the times her advice to Charlie Brown might seem like more is just an excuse to insult him more. Like that time in January 1964 when she shows him a slide show of all her flaws, what an experience Lucy is showing slides of all my flaws, what are you doing sitting here? between something that naturally only serves to make him more miserable, wait until you get my Bill, despite how useless it seems to him, Charlie Brown continues to seek Lucy's advice and it's not just Charlie Brown, we see many other characters participating of the most affordable psychiatric help possible, such as Linus Frieda Sally, even 555-95472 I.

I hope things are well in the 95472 house. Clearly, if so many children are willing to come to her, there must be something in which they are saying because, otherwise, it seems highly unlikely that everyone would so readily accept that idea. In fact, it is accurate. Find out how strange this is when Franklin visits the neighborhood for the first time on October 15, 1968. Thanks, how's the lemonade business? This is not a lemonade stand. This is a psychiatric cabin. Are you a real doctor? Was the lemonade good? So for Lucy. To continue doing this over the decades she has been the children, they must actively seek it, which means that her advice, even if it doesn't seem to be good, must come from a place sincere enough for them to believe she could.

I found another way to make money, like when in May 1968 she ran a stole selling goop. Come on, try it. If you don't have the cash, you can put it on your credit card. You wouldn't know a good goop otherwise. I tried it, wow, Lucy could soak up what Paltrow is all about, but her main choice of vocation is this very specific one where she tries to help people, even when the Invisible Hand of the free market challenges her, she sticks to her business and continues to maintain it at Due to the low price of a nickel, there have been times when this price changes over the decades, reaching 50 cents in 1981, but ultimately it has always returned to the original price, one in which its friends will always be able to afford it because Lucy is someone who ultimately wants to help people with their problems perhaps because she faces those problems herself perhaps the most common place you will see Lucy when she is not offering advice ortormenting Charlie Brown is leaning against Schroeder's piano, his unrequited love.

She is obsessed with Schroeder to a similar degree as Charlie Brown and the Red-Haired Girl, except that, unlike Charlie Brown, she is not too eager to talk to her love, while Schroeder is just trying to practice his piano, Lucy does. will constantly bother you by asking you. He asks her all kinds of leading questions about her future marriage, all of which Schroeder clearly has no interest in the little AIDS icon, whom he regularly tells to leave him alone, taking the piano out from under her head and, in general, making it clear to him where his priorities lie with Schroeder, if the time ever came when you had to choose between this piano and me, what would you do?

I would look you straight in the eyes and say: I'll take the piano. Stupid piano being rejected by the man she A love like that is not something Lucy takes lightly, she refuses to accept that Troda is not interested in her and just won't leave on a couple of occasions she decides that if the piano was out of the picture then surely Schroeder would have to pay attention to him. at her and destroys it by throwing it down the sewer and into the tree kaiti din hey woman against piano woman is winning woman is winning surprisingly these incidents do not help her case no Schroeder continues to reject her this is something that often makes her deeply insecure what led her to act irrationally outside of her usual level of control, like when she herself decided that they broke up even though there was never a couple, now that you and I have gotten over Schroeder, I will return all the gifts I was going to give.

I thank you, that didn't even make sense, but her love for this enigmatic musician is not the only source of her insecurities. Lucy takes a spot on Charlie Brown's baseball team and plays right field. She is considered the worst player on her team. team, which is no small feat considering that when we talk to Lucy on the baseball field we will see perhaps the only place where the darker side of Charlie Brown's personality still lets fly while he is so caught up in his desire to win that he does not think . from anyone else during the games, he insults Lucy to her face, belittles her ability to play, and tries to get rid of her on more than one occasion.

It's a humiliation that Lucy goes through all too often, and even though most of the time she doesn't. she seems to let it get to her, there are others where she is clearly hurt by Charlie Brown's words even though she doesn't even seem to like baseball that much, so why does she put herself through this torment? Well, what if it's for Charlie Brown's sake? If Charlie Brown was a bully in his previous life and got trapped in purgatory because of it, then maybe Lucy is there to test him and make sure he has become a better person, what better way to do that than to see if can you be nice to him? her under these circumstances, if after the bullying is beaten out of her in all other areas, she still remains in this one, then Charlie Brown will never become a truly better person and will move on because the violence is still just below the surface Once a year Lucy holds out a football for Charlie Brown to kick, knowing that through his gullibility and competitive nature he will always try to kick it, but until Charlie Brown can let go of his old self and simply not try to kick the ball, You can never escape. this Purgatory that is trapped in something that even Lucy herself gets tired of as the decades go by laughs, it is so sad that eventually everything in life becomes routine, this means that the only explanation that fits is that Lucy is actually a guardian angel, she is there. for Usher Charlie Brown through his journey contributed enough to Patty and Violet's efforts had laid the foundation through their combination of abusing advising and testing Charlie Brown's growth, she is trying to help him get to the other side, but why then does he abuse the other characters? she acts like she does with Schroeder and Linus because this Purgatory is not just for Charlie Brown, you won't believe how deep this Iceberg goes foreign yes ma'am, this is a difficult test no ma'am, I didn't mean to be sarcastic with everything I said.

What I said was that when I walked in this morning I didn't realize we were taking the bar exam. Charlie Brown is far from the only soul Lucy is here to save the other characters from the peanuts. They are equally trapped in this Purgatory, they all have their own problems. to get over it, whether it was Sally's desperate crush on Linus, there he was on the snow covered barn roof, one wrong move would send him sliding to his death, what a difficult situation, who would rescue my sweet Baboo? I'm not your sweet self Baboo Pig Pen.

Judged by the looks of him, just look at that pigsty, isn't he terrible, terrible, just terrible, really good for nothing? I will say, a complete failure and well read, or even little Woodstock misses his absent mother deeply, there is no reason for you to keep coming back. go back to the nest on Mother's Day that's not the way we birds do things once you leave Little Bird that's it, you can't come home so fly away Don't look back The world is yours I must admit that she It's pretty smart mom, practically every character is dealing with some kind of personal problem, each must pay for whatever brought them into this world, but what is there to keep them in line?

These children are living eternal lives of existential angst and something must be working to ensure that they do not question their place in this never changing world to ensure their fulfillment they are all beholden to certain oppressive systems their world is governed and controlled by the systems under them who live their time is rarely truly theirs from those who come directly from school to summer camp at least once, literally with no time in between to return home first when they are not at camp or school, they are dedicated to a team baseball organized under the direction of Charlie Brown, every part of their lives is controlled by these systems. that have an effect on both the characters in the strip and those we don't see, as a prime example of this, we need look no further than my beloved 555-95472 on July 1, 1963, the US Postal Service. first introduced the zip code to facilitate more efficient delivery of mail, this along with all the other ways people have numbers applied to their lives, such as bank accounts and Social Security numbers, caused a level of anxiety in some people.

Five introduced on September 30, 1963 was the shelter's way of making fun of it five your name is five what kind of name is it my dad is annoyed by all the numbers they give us these days so he changed our names to numbers This is his way of protesting, huh, no this is his way of giving in. The father of five is so overwhelmed and broken by the system that he just completely capitulates and changes his children's names to play along with their games, so now his last name is her zip code and five is named after a number along with her sisters three and four those are nice female names, what do you think?

Since all the characters are young children, there is no system that affects them more than school. There are two schools that we see in the Peanuts strip, most of the characters, including Charlie. Brown Lucy and Linus go to one of the children in the next neighborhood, Paddy Marcy and Franklin go to the other, except for a brief time when they all share the same school because Charlie Brown was destined to be in himself and in In later years recent events, they appear to have merged once again into a single school when Paddy Marcy and Franklin share classes with everyone else, once again showing the ways in which our real world is reflected in Peanut Purgatory, as clearly the cuts in funding. schoolwork have led to for them, by combining two schools into presumably oversized classes, although they are mostly in different schools, everyone still suffers under this system, for most this is simply a matter of having a lot of difficult schoolwork and the tasks become more absurd as the years go by.

We can see Charlie Brown struggling to read Gulliver's Travels in January 1965, but having been promoted to War and Peace and Crime and Punishment by the time of Happy New Year Charlie Brown in 1986. Charlie Brown can't even write a report on a book. Peter Rabbit, how is he expected to handle Dostoyevsky? One of the most unique reactions to his experiences at school comes from Sally; rather than simply being carried away by the difficulty of her work, she is someone who actively questions the way they are taught and graded. perhaps the most notable example is the time he received a c grade on his coat rack sculpture on March 26, 1972. a c I got a C on my coat rack sculpture how could anyone get a c on their coat rack sculpture?

Can I ask a question? I judged by the piece of sculpture itself, if so, isn't it true that only time can judge a work of art or was I judged by my talent, if so, is it right that I be judged by the part of my life? why I have no control if they judged me for my effort then they judged me unfairly because I tried as hard as I could they judged me for what I had learned about this project if so then we are not you my teacher also being judged by your ability to convey to me your knowledge, are you willing to share my C? perhaps they were judging me by the quality of the coat rack my creation was made with.

Is this not unfair either? Are they going to judge me for the quality of the coat? the hangers used in the dry cleaners that return our clothes are not my parents' responsibility if they don't share the sea the squeaky wheel is greased this strip based on Schultz's genuine confusion about his daughter being graded C in a typical sculpture The attitude that Sally adopts towards school, she feels that what she is taught is not useful and the way they are graded often borders on the absurd. She's one of the few characters who actively questions a system like this, but sadly it's to no avail.

She must continue going to school no matter how ridiculous it seems to her to live with useless information and be judged unfairly for the rest of her existence, but while Sally is one of the school's staunchest opponents, she is far from the most affected. for her in that particular. the honor belongs only to Peppermint Patty, who first appeared on August 22, 1966. Peppermint Patty is one of Schultz's best creations for this trip. When she came up with the name after seeing a plate of mints in her house, she originally conceived of her as the main character of a children's book series, short as it was, she was too busy to write such a thing, so she named her in the strip before anyone had a chance to think of the same name in her initial appearances introduced as Roy's friend, a boy, Charlie Brown. met at summer camp the year before, it seems like she may be a short-term running gag character, like Brown Molly Volley or Tebow, but readers thought and enjoyed her so well that she essentially became the third main character in the series. strip after Charlie Brown. and Snoopy, her struggles in school are some of her most memorable traits, as stated before, all children struggle with school to some degree.

I put myself at the mercy of the court, but not in the same way as Peppermint Patty, her problems are not. that he has been given a job that is too difficult or a problem with the way the education system is operating his problem is that it is simply incompatible with learning things this way Peppermint Patty is not a stupid character by any means we see countless examples of She is creative, fun and imaginative, is excellent and dedicated to sports, dominates every baseball game against Charlie Brown's team, plays football in the rain and mud long after everyone else has given up and trains hard. for a figure skating competition, there seems to be no type of sport she can't master or excel at, but she puts it behind the school desk and has no hope every time her teacher calls her, she panics, the information What is given to you never assimilates and shouts anything in the hope that you can possibly be right the answer is nine are not rats the first minute of the first day of school and I get the first answer wrong do I get something for setting a record?

It's not that she's not trying, she just doesn't really understand something that causes her an excessive amount of stress since she keeps failing despite her best efforts. She now admits that she doesn't really do her homework and she struggles to motivate herself to read books when she could be playing ice hockey, but when she tries this. She usually has a hard time focusing on them as a person with ADHD. I really identify with Peppermint Patty's particular difficulties concentrating on something other than her special interest in sports, the only thing that compounds her particular difficulties concentrating and understanding is the fact that she falls regularly. asleepin class one of the most common places to find her is sitting with her headline on Marcy's desk snoring occasionally waking up and blurting out an incorrect answer I'm awake the answer is 12.

Britain rice and barley Abraham Lincoln Pikes Peak the Oregon Trail really how embarrassing it was the moment of returning home. A couple of possible explanations are presented for why she falls asleep so much in September 1983. She and Snoopy go to a medical center to get tested for narcolepsy. Yes sir. I understand that she is. She's going to test me for narcolepsy because I fall asleep at school all the time. I've been reading about narcolepsy in this booklet, no sir, I didn't finish it, I fell asleep. The other most likely explanation is that her single father works late regularly and she is too insecure to go to sleep until he knows he is safe at home with her.

This situation has led to a couple of occasions where she hired Snoopy as a guard dog, one ended with all of her furniture being stolen while the two were trapped on a waterbed and at the other end, Snoopy falls in love and Charlie Brown has to come in and replace him. Additionally, there are several occasions where she wakes up her friends at night with phone calls without considering that they may already be asleep while she remains awake. The reason for this is that falling asleep is so commonly accepted that in 1984, when she is held back for a year, her snoring remains in the classroom even when she is not there.

Yes, ma'am, I hear him wake up. Lord, just like old times. Ma'am, her inability to function in the classroom has become so normalized that everyone has accepted it. She considers herself simply a regular part of the fabric of their lives. It's a problem she faces and clearly something disturbing to the class, but no one ever helps her, she is visibly suffering and everyone is so used to it that they never consider ways to address her problems, they just keep letting it happen to them. She, at most, her teacher is exasperated because her inferior really supports her, yes, mom.

I'm the answer is 12. I was right, take it easy ma'am. Splash some cold water on her face and she will feel better. She just sighs and condescendingly judges her without considering what her needs are as a student. I really am I think Peppermint Patty could learn if she had a teacher who really recognized her as an individual, but the school is not set up to handle individuals, everyone is just a cog in the machine that is expected to follow this specific way of learning to those who They do not do it. they fit the method they are left out to dry they are treated as useless little more than a joke to them we make up our exams I wonder what grade I got I hate looking at Zed without the treatment which makes her feel so inferior and stupid that she often sees herself as less person yes sir I realize that I caused a disturbance in class I guess I was a little upset I have the feeling that every day I am getting dumber I don't even hope to get smarter I would be satisfied alone To stop my stupidity, this lack of consideration for her needs not only comes from her teacher, but support for the specific unchanged educational system is also imposed by Peppermint Patty, introduced by her closest friend Marcy, on July 20, 1971.

Marcy is, to put it mildly, a girl Donkey, he does extremely well in the school environment and loves nothing more than burying his head in a good book. She and Peppermint Patty meet at summer camp and soon become inseparable as friends; They have a clear devotion to each other. with Peppermint Patriot and in the little touch Concepts that interest Marcy even though they always played Peter and the Wolf and Marcy joins Peppermint Patty to play sports even though she has no hope in it and doesn't really enjoy it, but despite this closeness between them Marcy is extremely critical of Peppermint Patty's lack of ability in school, while her concern for her friend's education can be considered commendable, as she reminds her when she needs to do her homework and tries to Help her when you can.

She also has a tendency to rub her own skill, she will brag about having read all the books assigned to her before Peppermint Patty has started the first one and she will make jokes that are great. AIDS is often quite insensitive about it. I have never carried any books. school in my life, that's why you get all those C's and T's, sir, she's in charge of enforcing how full of life learning is supposed to be, for example, in March 1974, Peppermint Patty decided to leave the school and spending all her time just hanging out with Snoopy in his doghouse Marcy is distraught by this and makes it a priority to get Peppermint Patty back to school.

This culminates in her physically dragging her to the doghouse breaking down in the struggle, sir, if you don't come down, I'll drag you down, hey. let her go, let her go, Marcy, you're tearing down the whole house Marcy, you're destroying Chuck's guest cabin Marcy, let her go, Marcy, what a shame, someone stop her, she's gone crazy Marcy, let her go, let her go, someone stop her, she she's pulling the whole house down Marcy let go of her I think all my arms are broken Massey believes in the system being built in a way that benefits her particular style of learning that she can't imagine anyone not learning the same way she does and works actively to force even her best friend into this, what makes this blind devotion to this system even more tragic is that Marcy also falls victim to it in October 1990.

Mercy goes to Charlie Brown and has a small breakdown over the pressures imposed on him. My parents are driving me crazy Charles they want me to be perfect they want me to get straight A's in school and do everything perfect I'm laughing out loud Charles I'm not even supposed to be here I'm supposed to be reading Ivanhoe I'm not I don't know what to say keep talking as I read this last chapter. Children who perform well under the system expect too much of them, stressing them out and breaking down into nervous breakdowns, while those who do not perform well feel like stupid failures.

No character in this world really has a chance to be happy as themselves because they are kept aligned one way or another with the only solace they can really find. On the surface, Peppermint Patty and Marcy seem polar. The opposite is the quiet nerd and the athletic Brash, but there is no closer friendship in the series, they are not as fickle about their connection as Charlie Brown and Linus and they don't fight as much as Snoopy and Woodstock did with Marcy. She doesn't appear until five years after Peppermint Patty, and yet it feels wrong that the two are ever truly apart.

They are two halves of the same hole that complete each other. It's really not surprising that so many people read them as a strange impediment. Patty and Marcy. They have two characters who are not presented as traditionally feminine as the other girls in the strip Lucy Sally Patty Violet and Frieda tend to wear dresses and usually have their hair styled in a feminine way, although in Frieda's case it is just a night with really curly hair, but Peppermint Patty and Marcy wear more clothing covered with peppermint patties, shirts, shorts and sandals, and Marcy's t-shirt and shorts, plus their hair is left quite short and natural looking.

Peppermint Patty in particular comes across as masculine enough that Marcy literally calls her sir, just the two of them. She has a look that gives off certain vibes, you know how they relate to her appearance, she also has a decidedly strange feeling. Peppermint Patty in particular often hates the way she looks, while other girls are pretty, she feels ugly with her boring hair and big nose. Because of the ideas she has internalized about what someone should look like to be considered beautiful, she feels that she will never be able to meet these impossible standards; perhaps the most visceral example was in June 1972, when he met the little red-haired girl at summer camp.

I stood in front of that little redhead and saw how pretty she was, I suddenly realized why Chuck had always loved her and I realized that no one would ever love me that way. I started crying and couldn't stop. I fell over myself but I didn't care. I just looked at her and cried and cried and cried. I have a big nose and my split ends have split ends and I'll always be funny and I think I'm going to cry. Again, this is as profound as a queer experience, the feeling that your body can't be beautiful because you don't yet appreciate it as your own due to the heteronormative beauty standards imposed on us from every corner, constantly telling yourself You don't have the value of these other people who you don't fit in with and make you miserable because you truly believe you don't deserve the happiness you perceive them to have, but you have someone as close as Marcy, someone you can trust and truly love. , she cheers up and gains self-confidence, the two care about each other and spend all their time together completely inseparable, they make fun of each other, naturally, they always find new ways to call each other weird and they also get involved in everything kind of adventures. together like that time in July 1975 when they entered the 28th annual Derby, an all-female flying race in which Schultz's real-life wife participated.

There is an exit flag. Marcy, we're at the 28th Annual Parapath Derby. I forgot the map, sir. I forgot the stopwatch, I forgot the sandwiches, I wrapped my toothbrush, I forgot my shower cap, I forgot my camera, I forgot to leave you at home, Marcy and no, but to find a point, there are times when being so close to each other another brings them closer. quite nervous, okay sir, I think I have all your measurements as I see them, you are a size 8, your waist is 23 inches, your hips are 28 inches and you are uh, uh, your bust Mossy, that's a sewing term perfectly legitimate 26 inches sir, reading them is strange, it's easy to find comfort, familiarity and humor, although it was almost certainly not close to Schultz's intention when writing the characters, it is a beautiful example of queer people coming together found in the media and allow it to rise. characters to a new level of emotional resonance because, when you get down to it, it's so important that we can connect with media in this way that we can see ourselves in a few thin lines on the page of a newspaper every day.

Charles Schultz created a masterful work. work of art that even accidentally speaks of the very essence of our Humanity. I mean, no, this is not them, they, they, they are even more crushed under the oppressive systems we have discussed because of their alien character, no part of their lives ever being truly happy. They are in this world of Purgatory to suffer this is the only foreign truth Lucy I'm so depressed I don't know what to do. You've tried? Not having a nervous breakdown over the deeper meaning of a newspaper comic strip. I just feel like I have this all wrong and I don't know how to fix it right, what were you trying to do?

I wanted to understand what peanut means, it's something that is very important to me since I was a child, so why did you leave? In this direction, I mean, it's Purgatory, it's the best you can do. I wanted people to know that it's not just kid stuff, that's a lot more than a lot of people seem to think and this is the best way to do it. to invent a dark version that makes no sense. I know, are you interacting with the text? Well, you're acting like the text doesn't have the substance it does, making it unnecessarily nihilistic and pretending you're adding depth without acknowledging the depth that already exists what's the point what's conveying I guess I just felt intimidated how do you mean intimidated by So many things to cover and I don't know how I intended to do it.

Are there shorts? Changing the relationship with your religion the importance of Franklin being one of the first important black characters in a newspaper strip the actual genuine feminism shown and much more I mean, I've barely mentioned Snoopy, for God's sake, why How long do you want the video to be exactly, it is very important, although there are 72 years of material, it is not possible to talk about everything, so what do I do? I think you have to take a long hard look at yourself and ask yourself what all this really means, what it should be. people take away from me I don't know, do you know exactly what it means?

No. I thought I could figure it out. I thought I might delve into the core of this, but there are too many things it can mean. There are too many things people can take away from this. It doesn't have a meaning. I don't know what the answer is. Maybe instead of the answer you need the right question. Oh brother, look, you fool, do you want my help or not, okay? Sorry, what question? Why is Sisyphus chasing the rock? Why are DD and GoGo waiting by the tree? Why is Charlie Brown trying to kick the soccer ball?

You understand? I get it now. I know what I have to do. true friend Lucy true friend that will be five cents please oh uh of course ah five cents five cents oh one more thing you knowHow do I get out of this void? oh, that's simple, get out of there foreigner, I heard you're writing a book on theology I hope you have a good title I have the perfect title Has it ever occurred to you that you might be wrong? Something that I hope I have made clear through this video is that it is really not possible to talk about everything. as if it were a continuity, there is simply too much material to make the newspaper eliminate animation, stage musicals, children's books, they are all their own entities, even then, within each of these different mediums, that peanut exists , there isn't one.

Consistent continuity, operates more on something that my friend Kiki or Glenn from Transparency, who if you are a subscriber you are objectively a fool, call broadcast continuity, that is, a continuity that really only refers to what comes right before and after when It's about the daily gag. newspaper strips that ran for almost 50 years, it's safe to assume that most people won't have read every single one of them; It's quite unreasonable to think that someone who read the strip in the mid-1990s will have been there when the strip began in 1950. In fact, you can't even assume that they were reading yesterday or that they will necessarily read tomorrow;

It is a product and a medium designed for the most casual consumption imaginable; People will come and go at random points, maybe they are too busy to buy a newspaper on a particular day, maybe their newspaper stops publishing the strip altogether, maybe they just got bored of the comic pages for a while, people don't like them. You will follow closely enough to read and remember every piece of the story that happens throughout the day. course of 360 25 comics a year the same goes for animation, the main target audience for these peanut animations is kids, an audience that isn't exactly likely to go back and watch a random 1975 special about Charlie Brown and Snoopy competing in a motocross. tournament, they are very firmly in the here and now and would honestly be bothered by something like Snoopy in space if it had some kind of backstory that they had to refer to in order to understand it all, so this one is made by different teams with clearly different styles Who would expect any kind of coherence between This is America, Charlie Brown, 2008 iTunes motion comics, and Schultz's Peanuts.

All of this is compounded by the lack of availability of many of the media in question, animation being one of the best. My Loved Ones is available albeit locked behind a paywall on Apple TV Plus, but the vast majority currently have no official release. I'm sure I was able to get them all, but most people don't have my commitment to destroying my own sanity by looking at everything available. piece of media I can find on a single topic. I've seen the Snoopy on Ice musical. Furthermore, for decades, many of the strips were never republished after their initial appearances in newspapers, while extremely popular paperback collections existed from which many strips were excluded.

These, especially the early ones, of which Schultz was not as proud as the later work, many remained unpublished until the fantographic books that The Complete Penis Collection began publishing in 2004, four years after Schultz's death, so that there was no way to legitimately access such kind of media that is already experienced in an extremely irregular way, it would be absolutely ridiculous to expect people to be familiar with everything that is going on, so instead it operates on this continuum of rebroadcast for the sake of some stories and ideas, there has to be some level of continuity of the strip, for example, in November 1965.

Sally is discovered to have amblyopia, exxonopsia or lazy eye and has to wear an eye patch to correct vision. Some stupid kid at school was making fun of me for my eye patch, he said I looked like Long John Silver. Well, don't let that bother you, this is just one of those things you have to learn to get used to, it's not like I hurt my hand doing a judo punch, this is something that stays with the character for six months , so at any time. If you saw her within that period, she would have the patch.

Similarly, there was a period when Linus wore glasses until his doctor told him that he didn't need to wear them all the time and the shorts never had to be put back on except for a short time. period, Linus appeared with glasses and even appeared in Ford advertisements with the characters of the time she also When Snoopy broke his foot tripping on his superdition he had to wear a cast, Peppermint Patty spent her summer abroad in France or Spike was given shoes. him for Mickey Mouse some things we will carry out for a while this way, but only for a while, the strip will eventually move on and the reader who picks up a newspaper a year later will not need to remember that Charlie Brown continued the race when the EPA wanted to interrogate him about biting the kaititi tree to enjoy watching his new kite fall prey to him once again the extent of the continuity that exists could also be used to introduce new stories and characters, perhaps most notably in the summer of 1965 Charlie Brown Becomes friend of the character Roy at summer camp.

He would appear again. A year later, he met Linus at camp and later used him as a means to introduce Peppermint Patty to the strip. Hi Roy, who are you writing to? I am writting to him. a little boy named Linus that I met at camp several weeks ago is cute, if he is, tell him your very good friend Peppermint Patty says hello, tell him he's a real swinger. I speak well of myself, Roy, and the next time I fight Indian. I'll try not to hit you. I really don't think any character that has entered the belt is as fully formed as Peppermint Patty.

Other examples of this would be the story where Linus gets trapped on the roof of a barn after he and Sally meet. truffles a character he met briefly at some point before I thought about you all year long Linus who you never wrote to you called me but I still thought about you you love me you love me more than life itself well right now I'm thinking a lot about life Snoopy and her doubles partner Molly volley's repeated tennis games against crying goofball and bad name Benny hey cry baby, why don't you shut up and serve these walls?

Feel the life. His shoulder hurts. The sun is killing me. The network seems too high. I told him to shut up and sir, now he's trying to upset me and Tebow reappears after harassing me. Charlie Brown in 1970 to be misogynistic with Marcy three years later, now look, you concrete-headed macho macho fool. I'm going to tell you something and I want you to stay still and listen if you say a word. I'm going to belt. you're on the other side of the line, oh that was a word, so continuity exists, but only to the extent that it's relevant to the specific period in which a story or joke takes place, it will essentially exist for a certain period of time and then you will continue to abandon the things you don't need to basically imagine that the concept of peanut is the battle and the current continuity is the racer running down that particular stretch of track, they have points where they intersect but ultimately, the penis will always move forward into a new continuity without relying on strips that people won't necessarily have read, it's not one continuous story, it's 72 years of smaller stories and pockets of continuity that change along with its audience that sits and reads the strip complete comic and watch all the animation in space.

After about two months, I can safely attest that it simply doesn't work that way and I wouldn't recommend anyone try it. It broke my brain, but having this flexible approach to continuity doesn't make it any less significant throughout this video. I've been pointing out examples of the depth that peanuts contain. I just talked about it. I hesitate to say it in an incorrect but unsatisfactory way, taking what is really there and turning it into fanciful ideas that make no real sense or twisting it to fulfill it. some predetermined outcome of doing this might get me tantalizingly close to a real reading, but would always fall short of providing an emotional response to the text.

I did this to emphasize how often we intentionally ignore the depth of this type of media. I think it's fair to say that most people perceive Peanuts as being aimed exclusively at children. During its prime, the newspaper strip was actually most popular among college-aged young adults, but due to the popularity of the animation and the strip that ends with Shelter's death has changed. becoming known in the public consciousness as four children and a lot of people, this creates a tendency to treat it as less creative than adult media, perhaps because the morals and stories are often greatly simplified to make it more digestible for a younger audience we serve. as if he is worthless or somehow beneath us, which leads certain people, especially on this ridiculous website, to create truly baffling takes.

So often the way these people look to add depth to a children's show is to try to make It Darker, they present them as fan theories that actually all the babies on Rugrats are dead and Angelica is imagining them. or that Hey Arnold has hydrocephalus or, in my silly example, that Charlie Brown has been in purgatory the whole time instead of really looking at what the text is trying to say they are just making up things that make him more adult, this is easy to selling to an audience that is nostalgic for a certain property from their youth but feels that revisiting it directly would be too childish by inventing these narratives that don't actually align with the media in question, but present them with evidence as if they do, which allows people to feel a hit of nostalgia and at the same time allows them to feel that they are smart, by drawing many specific examples within their theories. they can give it an air of credibility because how many people who watch them will actually go back and watch the show and check it out by making this video.

I overlooked so many points that would go against the theory knowing that no one else is. I'm really going to spend enough time reading 26 volumes of Peanuts comics just to see if I lied about Charlie Brown. We also often see people trying to make children's media darker for lack of more accurate descriptive comedy. This comes down to the taboo of taking something more innocent and subverting it. Wouldn't it be funny if the Peanuts Gang were all miserable adults? Wouldn't it be funny if Peter Griffin kicked Lucy in the face? Wouldn't it be funny if Snoopy violently attacked Linus?

No, not really, it wouldn't be. I have a folder on my computer called Darkpeanuts. I've seen you shrink, people wouldn't believe autoerotic asphyxiation almost without fail. These attempts at making peanuts adults end up feeling a lot more juvenile than the work they're supposed to be, so the cast of scripts dubbing Charlie Brown's Christmas is pretty good, though yeah, I'll give them that one, now listen up, honey , this is the music written for the Christmas party, speaking of Christmas, could you understand me this year? Turk, now this ain't no baby, this is the music I wrote you for Christmas, maybe there's no attempt to turn peanuts into something darker that I don't like more than Royals' Birthday 2004 opus Dog Sees God Confessions of a Teenage Dumb, most of the really bad stuff in The content warning at the beginning appears in this piece, so if you need to skip this, jump to the timecode on the screen, there will be a version where it can be done Click on the ETC to make it easier and I'll only give you a few seconds.

To do that before I get this out of my system, this unauthorized play imagines the Peanuts characters as teenagers when the play begins. Snoopy is dead, Eaton Woodstock has gone rabid and has been euthanized. Lucy is being held in a mental institution for setting up the little redhead. the girl's flaming-haired lioness is a stoner Peppermint Patty and Marcia Mean Girls and Sally is written with such a poorly defined personality that her character's joke is that she constantly changes her Persona for legal reasons, they don't have the names of her original characters, which leads to Sally and Lucy being only referred to in the script as CB's sister and Van's sister, respectively, but I'll still refer to them by the names we know they should be.

The main drama of the play revolves around Charlie Brown Schroeder and everyone's pigsty. at school believes that Schroeder is gay largely because he was sexually assaulted by his own father, Pig Pen, now a germaphobe has been bullying him relentlessly for repeatedly calling him the F slur, while Charlie Brown stood by and let him happened, sometimes even joined once. Dislocating Schroder's shoulder by twisting his arm behind his back one day feeling sad because his dog died.Charlie Brown fan show in the music room and after an argument the two kiss later at a party the two kiss again in front of everyone and after leaving they have sex they are falling in love with each other while they discover their sexuality the pigsty is furious about this and attacks Schroeder by smashing his hands on the piano lid stimulated by this Schroeder dies by suicide while grieving and angry Charlie Brown receives a letter from his mysterious pen pal essentially telling him that he is in heaven and that Snoopy Woodstock and Schroeder are also bad at signing the letter c.

Words cannot emphasize how much I actively hate this piece. I can say without a doubt that it is one of the most anger-inducing. things I've ever read, it has a nihilistic, mean-spirited Edge-loading streak throughout the entire thing and then tries to be serious at the end without earning a second of the sheer misery of how it treats Schroeder, making for a strange experience. of the play is defined by violence and tragedy and linking it to a child sexual assault is unspeakably vile, especially to Charlie Brown, who then brushes it off as just a phase when asked about it.

Let's link it all to a letter from CS, as if Charles Schultz had agreed with these bastardizations. of his child characters calling each other Fs slurring arsler making fun of eating disorders drinking cocaine having threesomes and bullying a gay kid so much that it ends in suicide I actively despise this doxy God is kind of the pinnacle of thinking he's smart and fun to make characters known for their simplicity and joy and turn them into something dark, substituting genuine depth for superficial impact Factor material a novelty that allows you to pretend that you have actually contributed something to a text that you are passing off as childish peanuts is a comic about children and animation that is made for them, but it is far from being childish.

Every time people try to put it in some kind of space where it has more adult themes, they fail because they ignore what the strip actually says and reduce it to immature ideas of adult depth, so how deep is the peanut? It really was hmm, it was dark, it was a dark and stormy night. Writing well is hard work. I have personally connected with peanuts since I first came into contact with them above ground. is a series of incredibly clever jokes delivered with absolute mastery of their craft the character's role is instantly identifiable and endlessly lovable peeling back just a layer reveals the often tragic and emotional text with Charlie Brown's struggles echoing so clearly one of those that many of We recognize that in our daily lives it becomes easy to focus on this Melancholy as it begins to become clear that all the other characters also have their unique struggles.

Peanuts can in many ways be seen as a sad text above all else, but I think just focusing on this, which really makes much of the series shine, is a disservice: the strip is also full of moments of ecstatic joy. that serve to contrast our moments and give them even more impact when they arrive. Schultz had a tough tonal needle to thread and he succeeded with flying colors. There are several elements of the strip that highlight how meaningful starting this can be. We need look no further than Snoopy. No element of the peanut strip is as significant and beloved as Snoopy Charlie Brown can be. the main character of The Strip, but Snoopy is the star; he has some of the most memorable moments; he appears on most products;

He's been a fixture at the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade since the '60s, and as of this writing, he's literally in space on NASA's Artemis. mission to travel to the Moon, oh god, this video has taken so long to edit that they've already been back for months. His popularity and focus within the series has only grown through animation, where he lacks his articulate thoughts on the strip with which he delights children. animated pantomime and the incredible vocal work of Bill Melendez and more recently Terry McGuran to put it simply, everyone loves Snoopy and if you don't then why have you seen so much video about peanuts?

Shouldn't you be doing the dishes or something? For perhaps the clearest example of how Snoopy is now a major focus of peanuts, we only need to look at how the naming conventions for animated specials have changed. When we look at the previous specials and movies, we see that they are all named after Charlie Brown. A Charlie Brown Christmas is the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown is Arbor Day Charlie Brown and so on, even the ones that focus primarily on other characters are named after Charlie Brown Play It Again Charlie Brown what a nightmare Charlie Brown she's a good skater Charlie Brown the The only exceptions are the movie Snoopy Come Home and the specials Snoopy the Musical and Snoopy Assembling.

Of 45 specials and four movies, only three are named after Snoopy, but now we have Snoopy in Space the Snoopy Show and all the new specials start their titles with Snoopy. Present in many foreign markets, the peanut is named after Snoopy, as in Sweden, where he is called snobben for all intents and purposes. Snoopy is the brand, so what is it about this beagle that we love so much? Snoopy is most easily perceived as a happy girl-looking character. Someone who never has a care in the world, as long as the round-headed boy brings dinner every night, then he is as happy as possible, but this is not always the case, we can see that he is a character who really struggles.

Like everyone else, I envy you, Snoopy, you always seem so relaxed. I'm glad to give that impression. Unfortunately, inside I am a fuss, but this fuss is a sign of him. We don't see him as often because he has an antidote to Snoopy's anxieties. There's nothing Snoopy likes more than getting lost in fantasy. This started out relatively small with him impersonating animals, neighborhood kids, and other scary things, right? ? But soon things will start to become more elaborate as we see. He first slept on top of his doghouse on December 12, 1958. Foreign life is full of rude awakenings, although we fell over the first few times, it soon became one of the most iconic images in the Snoopy comic strips. lying on the roof of the doghouse.

Viewed only from one side, this feels like a turning point in that Snoopy has become so different from a normal dog that Schultz could get away with making Sidon's doghouse even more unusual, a blank stage where everything became possible, the first big step that This occurred on July 12, 1965, when Snoopy looks at a typewriter toward the doghouse and begins to write. It was a dark and stormy night. Snoopy's writing is a common sight for decades to come, and Schultz uses it to deliver some brilliant jokes. He opens Snoopy's fantasy world to other characters as they read his works and make suggestions for him to try writing an adventure story about a dark and stormy night;

However, Snoopy's biggest fantasy characters arrived just a few months later. on October 10, 1965. When we first see him appear as the flying ace of World War I, here is the flying ace of World War I. Posing next to his dinner with camel contact is the dawn patrol route to hunt down the Red Baron I cross the enemy lines I can see the network of trenches below suddenly a focker triplane appears in the clouds it's the Red Baron jumping from the sun anti-aircraft fire exploding around me I catch him in my sights I read maybe I can get a job on a good commercial airline Snoopy's Flying Ace Person is such a brilliant fantastic image that it reminds me of the classic adventure comics that Schultz so much Admired but with a comic touch, Snoopy with his camel dinner in constant conflict with the Red Baron boils down to this incredibly minimalist image of him just sitting on the roof of his doghouse and cracking fantastical jokes.

I hate it when the Red Baron shoots holes in my airplane root beer leaks and memorable animated sequences, this really cemented Snoopy's position as a dreamer. The reason so few people tend to think about Snoopy's most depressive moments is because of how much he gets lost in these identities. He is the flying ace. Novelist Joe Cool. The world's most famous grocery store clerk and many others over the years is a complete counterpoint to the more melancholic nature of much of the strip. We have these episodes that are just creativity and fun, something that makes the reader indirectly share in Snoopy's Joy.

This is something that Modern animations have embraced wholeheartedly starting with the 2015 Peanuts movie and continuing in the snubian space and the Snoopy Show. In fact, we begin to see inside Snoopy's fantasies in a much more visual way, often with the human derived from these sudden leaps into reality. seems to be taking inspiration from Calvin and Hobbs, a comic that proudly wears the influence of peanuts on its sleeve, as well as opening up a whole new world of possibilities to explore with Snoopy as the character, the flying ace of the First World War. World Cup also released the shots.

For something that was taken much more seriously for decades, on November 11, Snoopy and his flying ace would wake up to spend Remembrance Day, or, I guess, Veterans Day, since it's American, with the famous cartoonist and Schultz hero, Bill Molden. Malden was famous. for his William Joe comic strip written during World War II about two soldiers based on real-life Malden experiences that often show the true miseries of war. Schultz, also a soldier in World War II, had wanted to make his own war comic but it never came to fruition. So every year, to pay tribute to his experiences in the war, his fellow soldiers and modern-day Snoopy would head out to have a root beer with him;

However, it seems clear that this alone was perhaps not enough for Schultz and the final years of the strip we began. see more elaborate scenes of what he experienced in the war with Snoopy dressed as a soldier, looking downright surreal compared to the images, none more surreal than the trip on Sunday, May 31, 1998, where a photograph of General Eisenhower is imposed on him talking to the troops before the D-Day landing and none more meaningful than the strip of November 11 of that same year where in the strips only the collaboration of Charles Schultz and Bill Mauldin allowed Snoopy to meet Willie in prison.

I think the new Replacements are getting smaller Willie and Joe My Heroes, Happy Veterans Day. Men, keeping alive the memory of the wall he faced was very important to Schultz, he felt that if we didn't keep the lives that were lost in our memory, then it would all have been in vain, the true culmination. This came in 1983 with the special What Have We Learned Charlie Brown After the Events of the Movie Good Trip Charlie Brown and Don't Come Back Charlie Brown Snoopy Linus Peppermint Patty and Marcy get lost in France on their way back to the airport there There are some shenanigans along the way, but after spending the night outside on a beach, Linus wakes up and recognizes where they are going in this sequence.

Line of sight is juxtaposed with actual images of the stylized Normandy Landings in these vibrantly colored scenes. It is fascinating. completely changes the tone of the special as the rest is dedicated to the characters visiting and honoring the war sites, we hear a speech Eisenhower gave about the battle, we see the graves of World War I soldiers and Linus recites in Flanders Fields before asking the title. ask in Flanders Fields the poppies blow between the crosses row after row what have we learned Charlie Brown this special really shows how much depth the peanut is capable of what could easily have been inappropriate for these characters to be doing only works decision seriousness for the delivery It's hard not to feel at least a little moved by this, this was something that ALS felt strongly about and used their larger platform to spread the idea in a way that feels natural and relevant to the characters that when you start looking hard enough Closely, I can see it applying to other themes throughout the strip's history.

There are many entries in the strip that address issues of its time both directly and indirectly. There are more that I can visibly talk about, but to name a few, there are references to children receiving vaccines. of the economic struggle and the 1990 special Why Charlie Brown And focuses on cancer This Journey is also often feminist in its depiction of characters such as Peppermint Patty taking on Umbridge with the underrepresentation of women in the world of sport and that's sports for tonight, that's Sports What do you mean they're sports? All you talked to us about were men.What about women in sports?

You can say anything about Joanne Connor or Sally Little or Hollis Stacy or Billie Jean King or Rosie Castles or Sharon Walsh and about Donna Adamek Beth Hyden or Mary Decker. Did you tell us what Connie Place has been up to and what about Alison Rowe and Tracy Corkins and Karen Rogers and Evelyn Ashford and Anne Myers and Judy Sledaki and Sarah Doctor? Did you say anything about Jennifer Harding or Shirley Muldowney? You mean you did that? Sports What do you want to see next, sir? There are some older movies on the other channels The Men A Man for All Seasons and All the King's Men.

I can't stand it, but perhaps one of the most significant things about the script at its peak was introducing the Franklin character after the diabolically brutal injustice of Martin Luther King's assassination on April 4, 1968. Schultz received a letter from the teacher schoolgirl Harriet Glickman urging him to introduce a black character in the shorts. He was initially hesitant to do so, as I was concerned that he was patronizing black readers by doing so, but after further correspondence with Glickman, Franklin first appeared on July 31 of that same year. Is this your beach ball? Hey, yes, thank you very much.

I was swimming there and he came floating next to my sucker. my sister threw it into the water. I see her making a sand castle. It looks a little crooked. I guess maybe that's where I come from. I'm not famous for doing things right. Franklin was treated no differently than any of the other characters he had a clear personality with. He was involved in many jokes and has remained a major part of the cast ever since, but he appeared at a time when the Human Rights Movement Civilians still had such a battle on its hands for the rights of black Americans that it was a big deal for a black character in a comic to feel like just another character.

Of course, there was a racist reaction to his presentation. Several newspapers pulled the strip in response, and Schultz received many angry letters. In fact, I have celebrated this book by celebrating the The 50th Anniversary of the Peanuts actually reprints one of the racist letters that Shields received outraged by the image of a black child in school with white children, but Schultz never gave an inch and Franklin stayed. The representation has not always been perfect, there are often points in the strip where it disappears for long periods of time and the animations fall victim to some stereotypes, such as in 1984 it is Flash Beagle Charlie Brown where he break dances and in 1996 it is his spring training Charlie Brown, he raps, it's all about everything. time and we are not going to waste it is time for you to start if we are confusing your strategies if you are a small plane with a space shuttle are you telling me that white people wrote these fresh and original gems?

I don't believe it. and in the entire series of strips there are only two that actually even reference him being black, one from November 6, 1974 in which Peppermint Patty is deeply insensitive. I'm practicing for a figure skating competition. What about me? I'm practicing. to become a great hockey player, how many black players in the NHL Franklin, oh my god, that is so bleak, which just goes to show that even well-intentioned people will sometimes say offensive things if they don't open themselves up to learning the other better. strip of January 18, 1993 was done with much more sensitivity. Martin Luther King said.

I had a dream before that we wouldn't be sitting here and I wouldn't trade you a carrot stick for a French fry. That is not an equitable exchange. Franklin this trip clearly. To me, Franklin sums up the introduction of him as a very specific gesture in response to the racism of the time and then he was largely allowed to be a character alongside the others. Schultz can hardly be considered an activist or any kind of significant voice within a movement, but he added a black character in a neutral manner at a time when that simply wasn't done.

Aside from occasionally discussing social issues, the strip also dealt with some depth. staff for Schultz. One thing well known about Charles Schultz is that he was a specifically Christian religious man, he found great comfort in the Church after the death of his mother and his time in the war and it was natural that he would want to incorporate some of this firmly held belief into his art. The entire tour focuses heavily on the character of lightness. Schultz sometimes referred to Linus as representing the spiritual side of him, and if that is true, it certainly reveals a lot about how Shields became engaged with Christianity.

Linus considers himself an old theologian, he has scripture passages memorized and occasionally reads them to people, either to discuss their meaning or, quite often, to use them to escape an argument hmm, stop that stupid sigh, there's nothing bad in Zion, if it bothers someone, it is biblical, it is what in the same way the spirit helps us in our weakness because we do not know how to pray as we should but the spirit itself intercedes for us with a size too deep for words Romans chapter 8 .I don't know, I'll have to hit him or start going back to Sunday school.

He approaches the text of the Bible as a scholar according to his moral intellectual personality, not seeing it simply as a set of imposing rules, but as an actual text that must be studied and explored in a way that has to find meaning by yourself and not just Trust the words that another person tells you, as a non-religious person. I think this is a very interesting way of looking at a religious text in a way where the person reading it is the one who finds their own message through it, even if it doesn't stop preaching a little when people ask for guidance, as seen in one of Peanuts' most iconic moments in A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Charlie Brown is increasingly frustrated and tormented by how Christmas seems to have lost all meaning in the commercialized world and has just ended. They've been mocked mercilessly for his choice of Christmas tree and he desperately asks if there's no one who knows what Christmas is all about, pure Charlie Brown. I can tell you what Christmas is all about. Linus then proceeds to quote the Gospel of Luke because behold, I bring you, news of great joy will be for all people because for you there has been born this day in the city of David, a savior, simply Christ, Mr.

Charlie Brown, is encouraged by this and is determined not to let the commercialization of Christmas get him down any further. The nose keeps the message of Christ at Christmas on the surface, but has a little more complexity afterwards. Charlie Brown takes the overgrown little Christmas tree home to decorate, but it doesn't exactly go according to plan. Me, children, oh, everything I tell is ruined then. The other children arrive and fix the tree to make it look pretty. Charlie Brown sees their act of kindness and they sing Hawk the Herald Angels Sing Together, the true meaning of Christmas is not just the words from the Bible, but they come together in this way and acting with kindness a mix of the commercial with decorations from the First prize winning Christmas display of Snoopy and the spiritual with Linus' words of Faith moving children to act in this way.

He uses the biblical text as a step towards something more personal than Faith should be something personal. A meaningful and not just recitation of Scripture without a purpose behind it is further reflected in how the strip sometimes mocks certain elements of organized religion, as perhaps seen most brilliantly in the July 23, 1981 strip, where Peppermint Patty believes she has witnessed a miracle and is trying to convince several churches of it you seem tired sir I am exhausted Marcy I have been to three Tabernacles 14 churches and two temples no one wanted to hear about your Miracle all I got was a bunch of treaties and this I want to receive a blessing donate to our new lawn sprinkler system clearly Schultz had a problem with churches that were more concerned with getting money than any spiritual method.

Faith should not be a business but a personal journey to find meaning, which is why, even as an atheist, although I imagine people of other religions may feel otherwise and that is not my place to comment. Peanuts is a text with a lot of interesting depths to Plum and any of the issues I've mentioned in this section could probably form a full discussion pieces on their own, but none of them are really what I take from it overall, so what do they mean? exactly peanuts for me? Do you really think I'm that stupid? I kick that soccer ball I can't believe it no again I'm really going to try no again I can't believe I'm trying it's really happening again Charlie Brown and over and over again throughout this video I've largely had He been characterizing peanuts as something that has the capacity to be quite depressing.

I've talked about the circles that Charlie Brown and his friends face as if that's the only emotion I carry, but that's not the case. The penis is something that brings enormous comfort to me, partly because of how I associate it with positive memories from my childhood, but mainly because the emotion that remains with me when I read the strip is one of hope. Charlie Brown is a character who fails at everything he tries. He doesn't win a baseball game He doesn't know how to fly a kite He's not good at school He's just a born failure, although it's true that this affects him and depresses him so much that often this is how we think he sees it as Only this depression is a more pessimistic perspective than the one Schultz imbued into his work.

Charlie Brown may never succeed, but this is not what defines him. What defines him is that he will never give up. He knows his team will lose. He knows the Kai. The trickster tree will take the kite from him. He knows Lucy will take the ball away, but he still always tries. He remains such an endearing character for so long. That's why we support him even though we know it won't work because he does. We feel the same hope that he feels, we know it won't happen, but we still think that maybe this time there is a moment towards the end of the movie, a boy named Charlie Brown that I think sums up the attitude that Peanut leaves me with Charlie. .

Brown spent the film competing in a national spelling bee and made it all the way to the finals. He hasn't slept because of worry and studying. He's nervous, but he gets on stage and makes it to the last two, where he fails. It's for spelling beagle wrong. The kind of dog that Snoopy is. He is humiliated and distraught. When he returns home, he locks himself in his room in the dark and doesn't come out all day. Linus comes to see him, mainly saying things that make him feel worse, but when he va says well, I can understand how you feel like you worked hard studying for the spelling bee and I guess you feel like you let everyone down and made a fool of yourself and all that, but did you notice anything, Charlie Brown, what is that? the world did not end and with this thought Charlie Brown can only get out of bed get dressed and return to the world things can get difficult you can fail and you can feel that nothing is going right but the world does not come to an end, continue and The best thing you can do is be a part of it, so when we see Charlie Brown running towards a football that he knows for sure is going to get away from him, there are a couple of things we can think about, or we can despair about his gullibility and ask how Charlie Brown could possibly fall into this again or we can embrace his optimism knowing that he still believes that this year things will be different no matter how dark and unpleasant the world becomes.

Depressed and desperate we can feel. We know that good old Charlie Brown will always be trying to kick the ball. Good old Charlie Brown. How I love him. I know that nobody loves me. I know it smells a lot even there. Charlie Brown. I would just like to thank my sponsors for putting up with me while I spent the most time I have ever spent on a single video, making this really mean a lot to me that so many of you continue to support me on the next special thanks to Chris Harper Dan Brown Justine Hunted Snark William Gray Finnegan Duncan and Jeremiah Ventura If you want to support my work, head over to patreon.com David J Bradley If not, you can still help a lot by liking, commenting, subscribing and sharing this video with your friends and enemies.

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