The Harvard Law Review in June 1977 identified four other unusual Blawnox town ordinances:
The sewers of Paris figure heavily in the musicals Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables, but the sewer chase scene from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is hardly ever performed, in part because of the difficulty in cleaning up all the pudding for the fight sequence.
The sewer chase scene from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, was the inspiration for the climactic sequence of Stephen King’s It, with Snoopy becoming Pennywise.
When Snoopy portrayed Pennywise he went by his stage name, Hound Foolish.
Shortly before his death, Charles Schultz drew the strips for a 6-week (30 strip) story arc in which it was revealed that Snoopy is in fact Charlie Brown’s grotesquely deformed younger brother, whom the Browns decided to pass off to the world as a dog*. The story arc revisited several pivotal episodes in Snoopy’s life viewed through the lens of this revelation. The only rough draft was burned by the Schultz estate agents as soon as they saw it, and they have gone to great efforts to label its existence as an urban legend.
*Snoopy’s “siblings” were other children born with the same deformity, caused by the off-label use of an unapproved antacid medication. “The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm” was a cover name for the institution run by Johnson and Johnson where they were housed as infants.
Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, is actually the son of Charles Schultz, a fact he has referred to in many of the strip crossovers with Peanuts:
Bill Watterson has a closet full of misshapen Peanuts character dolls in a basement closet in his home. At night, he sits in his damp, dripping cellar in his underwear, sticking voodoo pins into his “dollies” and incessantly muttering “The frequency is wrong.”
Prince Charles’ favorite party game, The Minister’s Catheter, is not popular with much anyone else.
The Minister’s Catheter, the P.G. Wodehouse novel which inspired the game, was first published in 1947. It is one of the few Wodehouse tragedies, and tells the tale of the Rev. U.R. Enn and his recurring urinary tract infections, which interfere badly with the ambitious clergyman’s rise through the Church of England hierarchy and (spoiler alert) ultimately prevent him from becoming Bishop of East Anglia.
Catheter was the 17th most popular name for boys enrolled in boys schools in 2015, sandwiched between Nooky and Downton.
Nooky Downton was a try-sexual (“I’ll try anything sexual”)rock groupie who had flings with all the members of ABBA, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Dead Kennedys, Electric Light Orchestra, Fleetwood Mac, Goldfinger, Heart, INXS, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Nirvana, Oysterhead, Paul McCartney and Wings, Queen, Rush, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Dukes, Toto, U2, Vanilla Fudge, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, XTC, Y0-Yo Ma, and Zager and Evans.
Other reported sexual conquests of Nooky Downton included three of the four Beatles, all but one of the Alan Parsons Project and all of Grand Funk Railroad, but, despite repeated importunings and begging, neither Bruce Springsteen nor a single one of the E Street Band.
The Alan Parsons Project is in competition with Elon Musk to construct a colony on Mars; the music is for seed money–they’re almost there.
David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was actually a warning: YOU DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE!!!
Zippy Stardust was first created as Ziggy Starpucker and the Uranusian Noodle Bowls.
Uranusian Noodle Bowls are far less expensive and more nutritious than ramen noodle bowls, but are not available anywhere in the Solar System, according to a 1977 NASA study.
A 1977 NASA (Nocturnal Annual Sleep Association) study showed that people who sleep have better minds, jobs, and social lives than those that do not. However, the latter group eats more ramen noodle bowls, watches more spiders spinning webs and listens to more David Bowie songs.
The health benefits from ramen noodle bowls are from the bowl itself, which contains iron and magnesium and unobtainium. The noodles themselves should be discarded as ramen is chemically unstable and deadlier than arsenic and Robert Blake combined.
Robert Blake is set to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber And Tim Rice’s Arsenic!!, a musical based on Arsenic And Old Lace