Okay, so in the recent thread about male crooners, someone mentioned Bobby Darin. Which got me thinking that I haven’t heard “Mack the Knife” in a long time. It’s a grisly song, but it swings. This being the age of instant gratification, off I go to Napster. It turns out everybody has covered that song. Early nominee for the Hubris of the Year award goes to “Jimmy Buffet – Mack the Knife (with Frank Sinatra)”. I downloaded an Ella Fitzgerald version, too. She forgets the lyrics, so she just sings about the fact that she’s forgetting the lyrics. And she gets away with stuff like that because, well, she’s Ella, and what she makes up is better than what most people write down. Finally I get to the Bobby Darin version. Right at the end there’s a line about “ol’ Lucy Brown”, and at that point in the song I always think that that would be Lucy’s full name in Peanuts if she married Charlie Brown (sidebar, is that weird?). So the question is, which female comic strip characters would keep their maiden names, and which ones wouldn’t?
Wonder Woman definately would. She’s cool like that.
I think Brenda Starr would too.
Cathy, however, would waste about a months worth of strips conflicting over whether to change her name or not.
Brenda Starr did keep her maiden name, Sapphire Bullet. She married Basil many years ago.
Cherry in Mark Trail would of course become Cherry Trail. She doesn’t shit in the woods without deferring to Mark first.
Fat Broad in B.C. would make her husband take her name (“Mr. Broad?” Hmm…).
I think Honi’s name will be Honi Hagarsdottir whether she marries Lute or not.
Miss Buxley is just looking for an excuse to no longer be named “Buxley.”
Barbara Ann Boopstein, of course, uses her maiden name for professional reasons, but legally she’s Mrs. D.
I think Lucy would prefer to be known as Mrs Lucille Van Pelt Brown.
Flashback to the Blondie thread: her maiden name was actually “Blondie Boopadoop,” before she and Mr. Bumstead married around 1930.
If my last name was Boopadoop, I’d change it as soon as possible too.
Actually, I’m kind of disappointed that this isn’t a Mack the Knife thread. And I always thought Lucy would marry Schroeder.
I was thinking about that when I posted before, jr8. Did Schulz ever give Schroeder a last name?
Charlie Brown
Peppermint Patty _____ (she’s the one who’ll marry Charlie, of course)
Sally Brown
Linus Van Pelt
Lucy Van Pelt
Rerun Van Pelt
Marcie _____
Franklin _____
Frieda ______
Hmmm…looks like the Browns and the Van Pelts were the only characters who were ever given last names. How very odd.
I think Paige Fox would take her husband’s name, but Pierre doesn’t strike me as the marrying kind.
Honey, of course, would give her little red book to be Mrs. Duke. And they can give her more storylines now, since the actress who plays her doesn’t have to split her time playing Marcie in Peanuts.
If you’d care for a slight hijack, jr8, feel free. I left ample room in the OP. This is MPSIMS, and for mundanitude and lack of pointliness, I think we’re already pretty far gone.
As for Lucy and Schroeder, well, I don’t think Schroeder has a last name. Besides, I can’t see Lucy quitting the psychiatric profession to go on tour with him.
Peppermint Patty was given a last name, Fiver. It was “Reichart.”
They got married in 1995. I only know this because at the time I was working the graveyard shift at the guard desk in a Georgetown dormitory, and round about 2:30 in the morning, anything that was readable was a welcome diversion. Inlcuding all the damn soap-opera comics in the Washington Post.
Where was she given this name? Cite please.
Most Peanuts characters weren’t given last names because they weren’t meant to be “featured players”, only subsidiary characters. They don’t get much time in the strip, and consequently, there’s not a lot of detail associated with them.
That said, Lucy, as an uberfeminist (she’s appeared on the cover of Ms. magazine), would never take her husband’s name. Peppermint Patty might, but I doubt it.
In the interests of completeness, I should point out that there is a name for a woman who chooses to keep her own name after marriage. She is called a “Lucy Stoner” after Lucy Stone (1818-1893), a Massachusetts women’s-rights activist who kept her own name after marriage.
Robin (who took each of her husbands’ names, but only because they were better than “Rosenthal”.)
Hmmmm… I’d guess that Lucy would take Schroeder’s last name if she could land him. I agree that she’d keep van Pelt if she somehow wound up with Chuck, though.
Of course, I could just be a blockhead here.
Well okay then.
[hijack]I was just wondering if anyone had seen any of the various movies made of Weill and Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, especially either the eerie black-and-white German original or the relatively recent English version starring (the late lamented) Raul Julia as the man himself and Roger Daltrey as the narrator. It’s a very black comedy no matter which version you watch.[/hijack]
Nah, she’s a lesbian. Marcie and Patty will become (already are?) life partners.