# Favorite Peanut Strip **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722 "2001-08-23T14:12:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/1 "2001-08-23T14:12:36Z")
Tell us your favorite **Peanuts** comic strip, preferably the weekday four panel type, rather than the longer Sunday strip. Here’s mine: Panel 1: Sally walking down an empty hallway. Panel 2: Sally peaks into Charlie Brown’s room. Panel 3: Sally says, “Hello, big brother, it’s seven o’clock… Panel 4: …Time to cringe from another day.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/2 "2001-08-23T14:28:41Z")
Hard to pick one, but my favorite was probably the payoff in the sequence where Charlie Brown kept seeing the rising sun as a baseball. This went on for a week or two, until finally the sun no longer looked like a baseball. It looked like Alfred E. Neuman. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/3 "2001-08-23T14:36:53Z")
Oh, well, if you eliminate all the ones that were Snoopy and Woodstock, that probably cuts it down a few thousand. The one that occurs to me right now is one where Charlie Brown is sitting alone eating lunch, looking at the little red-haired girl from afar. He imagines that if he went over and asked her if she’d like to eat lunch together, maybe she’d say yes. Then a pause. Then, “Maybe if I flapped my arms real hard, I could fly to the moon.” ---
**Author:** ![Mystery\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Mystery\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mystery_Dog)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/4 "2001-08-23T14:43:05Z")
Linus: I think the world is much better today than it was, say, five years ago. Charlie Brown: How can you say that? Don’t you ever read the papers? Don’t you ever listen to the radio? How can you stand there and tell me this is a better world? Linus: **I’m** in it now! ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/5 "2001-08-23T14:47:13Z")
The first one is one of my favorites: Violet and Shermy are sitting on the curb, talking. Charlie Brown is walking along. Panel One: “There goes Charlie Brown” Panel Two: “Good Ol’ Charlie Brown” Panel Three: “Yup. Good Ol’ Charlie Brown.” Panel Four: “How I hate him.” Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/6 "2001-08-23T14:55:14Z")
Of course, I should have, in the OP, said **a** favorite, not **the** favorite. Fenris, if I’m not mistaken, that was the first strip. Another one I like is the one where Charlie Brown and Linus are leaning on a brick wall talking, and Charlie Brown says something like, “Well Linus, it’s December 31st, and I’ve done it again.” Linus says, “Done what.” Charlie replies, “I blew another year.” ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/7 "2001-08-23T15:07:19Z")
There’s one where, after a bizarre turn of events, Linus is yelling at Lucy “IT’S MY HEAD! I CAN’T BLOW ON MY OWN HEAD!” I wish I had a scan of that single panel. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/8 "2001-08-23T15:43:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by notcynical \* > \*\*Fenris, if I’m not mistaken, that was the first strip. > \*\* It is/was, I believe. And, to me, it perfectly sums up what Peanuts is/was all about. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Drogulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Drogulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drogulus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/9 "2001-08-23T15:58:37Z")
Charlie Brown and Linus are looking at a just-planted sapling. ``` Charlie Brown : It's a beautiful little tree. Linus : It certainly is. Charlie Brown : It's a pity we won't be around to see it when it's fully grown. Linus : Why? Where are we going? ``` ---
**Author:** ![Survey1215](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/10 "2001-08-23T16:52:15Z")
As a life-long dog owner, I can relate to the relationship between Charlie Brown and Snoopy. My two favorite Peanuts strips are on my bulletin board at home and work: No. 1 (one panel only) (Snoopy sleeping in Charlie Brown’s lap under a tree): CB: Then again, maybe the only real love is between a boy and his dog. SNOOPY: I could have told you that a long time ago…Are there any more cookies left? No. 2 (one panel only) (Snoopy and Charlie Brown in bed): CB: Regrets…I wonder if other people have as many regrets as I do. SNOOPY: I regret the way I acted at the Obedience School prom…sort of. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/11 "2001-08-23T17:29:54Z")
There’s this one where Lucy is chewing Linus out because the world is overpopulated and since he’s the second one in the VanPelt family, it must be his fault. Fretting about running out of space and resources, Lucy yells at Linus, “The world is too crowded!” to which Linus replies, “So why don’t you leave?” (Having grown up with an older brother who had an only-child wish and was thus an outspoken proponent of zero population growth by around the age of eight, this one has special significance to me.) ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/12 "2001-08-23T18:22:54Z")
Little Sally Brown is ranting about someone or something, and big brother Charlie says “I though you had inner peace.” Sally replies “I do have inner peace, but I still have outer obnoxiousness.” ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/13 "2001-08-23T19:09:56Z")
I don’t generally think Peanuts is very funny (I know you’re not supposed to admit that, but there it is), but one I remember made me laugh out loud: Linus’s little brother (Rerun?) had lost all his marbles (literally) to some neighborhood marble-shark kid. But Charlie Brown challenges the kid to a marble match and wins all Reruns marbles, and gives them back to him. (This is all developed through several strips.) Then Rerun asks if Charlie Brown wants stick around and play marbles and CB says something like “nah; I gotta go,” and walks off. Rerun looks after him silently and then yells “SHANE! SHANE! COME BACK, SHANE!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/14 "2001-08-23T19:42:53Z")
I like the ones with Snoopy talking about visiting Bill Mauldin to share a root beer. I’m a big Bill Mauldin fan. Bill Mauldin is not the actor with the big nose who did the old American Express commercials. He’s another cartoonist. [Link](http://www.45thdivisionmuseum.com/Mainmuseum/Mauldin.htm) [Link](http://www.45thdivisionmuseum.com/Mainmuseum/Mauldin2.htm) Older ChiDopers may remember him from the Chicago Sun-Times. [sub]I got to link the [45th Infantry Division Museum](http://45thdivisionmuseum.com) twice in one day on SDMB:D[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/15 "2001-08-23T19:54:36Z")
I always liked the one where Linus asks Charlie Brown, “Do you ever get the feeling that life has passed you by?” Charlie Brown replies, “No, I get the feeling the life has knocked me down and walked all over me!” ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/16 "2001-08-23T19:55:42Z")
I’ve always liked the one where Charlie Brown says something like, Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” There’s a book out there called, I think, “The Gospel According to Peanuts”. It was written by a minister who looked at religion in Peanuts cartoons. It made me think, especially in the context of the debate over B.C.'s Easter cartoon. Both Jonnie Hart and Charles Shultz are (were) deeply religious Christians, and both put religious messages, and sometimes explicitly Christian messages in their comic strips. In spite of that similarity, I’ve never felt alienated or slapped in the face when I read Peanuts, the way I sometimes do when I read B.C. Thank you, Charles Schultz. You’ll be missed. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/17 "2001-08-23T21:19:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jodi \* > \*\*I don’t generally think Peanuts is very funny (I know you’re not supposed to admit that, but there it is), but one I remember made me laugh out loud: > > Linus’s little brother (Rerun?) … > 🙂 \*\* Since you quote a strip with Rerun, who was one of the last characters (the last?) added, this leads me to believe you may not be familiar with Schultz’s early work. The Peanuts quality dove sharply in the seventies after Snoopy and Woodstock became more prominent, distracting from the early cynicism and irreverance that made it so wonderful. If this is the case, I implore to get the check out the earlier strips. Perhaps you’ll change your opinion. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/18 "2001-08-23T22:16:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Captain Amazing \* > \*\*Both Jonnie Hart and Charles Shultz are (were) deeply religious Christians, and both put religious messages, and sometimes explicitly Christian messages in their comic strips. In spite of that similarity, I’ve never felt alienated or slapped in the face when I read Peanuts, the way I sometimes do when I read B.C. Thank you, Charles Schultz. You’ll be missed. \*\* This is something that I’d subconsciously noticed but never really thought about before. The spiritual/religious/Christian subtext in Peanuts wasn’t really **subtle** …but it was **gentle** in a way that the same subtext in B.C. (and increasingly, in Wizard of Id) is not. Schultz’s subtext wasn’t obnoxious or condescending while Hart’s most definitely is. I can watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, complete with Gospel reading, and still get a warm glow, but reading B.C. in our Sunday paper is a painful slog (especially when paired with _Mallard Fillmore_). jayjay ---
**Author:** ![strangecurrencies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@strangecurrencies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/strangecurrencies)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/19 "2001-08-24T03:52:35Z")
This dates me I guess… Panel one: Charlie Brown and Linus leaning on the wall…CB:“Bob Dylan is thirty years old today…” Panel two: Linus: “That’s the most depressing thing I ever heard!” ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722/20 "2001-08-24T04:42:02Z")
I forget the exact panel breakdown, here’s a guesstimate: Panel One: Linus is in a beanbag, watching TV. Lucy states, “School starts again in three days.” Panel Two: Linus, “ARRRRRRGGGHHH” Panel Three: Linus looking down at his torn shirt, and saying very solemnly, “Only such news could cause me to rend my garment.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-peanut-strip/77722.md?page=2)