# Is "Peanuts" still popular with kids today?

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**Created:** [June 21, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peanuts-still-popular-with-kids-today/966536 "2022-06-21T03:07:39Z")\
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> [@Frosted\_Glass](#):
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> I polled my friends young kids (3, 4, 4, 7) and they all know Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, and Lucy. None of them knew what I was talking about when I initially asked about Peanuts.

That would seem pretty normal to me as much as 20-30 years ago. I know I originally thought of the comic and TV shows as “Snoopy” or at least “Charlie Brown.” Learning the actual comic was named “Peanuts” seemed more like a trivia thing. It’s similar when you learn a song you know by the first line or chorus is actually called something else never mentioned in the song.

“Peanuts” is just not very unique like the other “titles” that people have given it themselves over the years. I’d be tempted to write “Peanuts (Snoopy)” when referring to it, per the above.

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Yeah, as mentioned earlier, Schulz himself didn’t like the title “Peanuts,” and avoided using it whenever possible.

Almost none of the TV specials, which is where young people today are most likely to encounter the characters, had the word “Peanuts” in their titles. Instead, they tended to be called _Something Something, Charlie Brown_ or _A Charlie Brown Something Something_.

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Then there’s this short-lived series from the Eighties:

> **[The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charlie_Brown_and_Snoopy_Show)**
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> Pages for logged out editors learn more
> The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (known as You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown during reruns on Nickelodeon) is an American animated television series featuring characters and storylines from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts as first presented for television in the Peanuts animated specials. It aired Saturday mornings on the CBS network from 1983 to 1985.
> Due to lower-than-expected ratings, in an attempt to boost viewership, CBS moved ...

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