# looking for a specific Peanuts (Linus and Charlie Brown) strip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436 "2016-09-09T16:09:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/1 "2016-09-09T16:09:24Z")
As part of a hypothetical, very nerdy conversation the following question was posed: "Would you rather be on a ship without a planet ( a la Battlestar Gallactica) or a planet without a ship (a la The Martian). " Since I’m a very nerdy person, I immediately thought “Which BSG? The one with a guy Starbuck and metal cylons, or the one with the gal Starbuck and hotty cylons?” But I digress. As part of my answer, I want to refer to a Peanuts cartoon in which someone asks Linus if head like to be the first man on the moon. He thinks about this in a lot of detail, and rules out 1st, 2nd, 3rd man on the moon for various reasons. The payoff is in the last panel, in which Charlie Brown (maybe) tells Lucy that her brother is the only person he knows who’d like to be the 37th (maybe) man on the moon. Can you help me find this cartoon? ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/2 "2016-09-09T16:46:39Z")
> **[Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 09, 2014 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2014/05/09)** > > May 09, 2014 ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/3 "2016-09-09T16:48:18Z")
And here’s the original, non-colored version. May 12, 1967. > **[Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 12, 1967 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1967/05/12)** > > Charlie Brown stands outside at night and asks, "Would you like to be the first man on the moon?" Linus replies, "No, I'm not that brave." Linus says, "I don't think I'd even like to be the second . . . The third man will have quite a bit of... ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/4 "2016-09-09T17:16:20Z")
Beethoven wasn’t so great! ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/5 "2016-09-09T17:28:44Z")
What do you mean, Beethoven wasn’t so great?! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/6 "2016-09-09T17:31:50Z")
Did Beethoven ever bowl a 300 game? How can you be great if you haven’t bowled a 300 game? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/7 "2016-09-09T17:37:27Z")
Poor blighters! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/8 "2016-09-09T17:39:16Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Did Beethoven ever bowl a 300 game? How can you be great if you haven’t bowled a 300 game? _That’ll_ get you on bubble gum cards. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/9 "2016-09-09T17:52:05Z")
43rd man on the moon, not 37th. Otherwise I was on the money. Thanks guys. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/10 "2016-09-09T17:54:35Z")
Can you play “Jingle Bells”? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/11 "2016-09-09T19:49:47Z")
No. Jingle Bells. You know, deck them halls and all that stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/12 "2016-09-09T21:55:30Z")
[He was a dark and stormy knight.](https://fromdusktilldrawnblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/batman-once-upon-a-time-by-len-wein-walter-simonson-usa-1981/) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/13 "2016-09-09T22:01:22Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > [He was a dark and stormy knight.](https://fromdusktilldrawnblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/batman-once-upon-a-time-by-len-wein-walter-simonson-usa-1981/) That’s awesome! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-specific-peanuts-linus-and-charlie-brown-strip/765436/14 "2016-09-10T01:32:14Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > [He was a dark and stormy knight.](https://fromdusktilldrawnblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/batman-once-upon-a-time-by-len-wein-walter-simonson-usa-1981/) That is as cool as it gets!