There was a Peanuts cartoon in the early 80s. Little Sally Brown says “I hate everything, I hate the world.” Charlie Brown says “I thought you had inner peace.” Sally replies “I do have inner peace but I still have outer obnoxiousness.”
I need a copy! I searched Google and Google images. I find the quote, but not the actual cartoon. I have borrowed Peanuts anthologies from the library to no avail.
Any other ideas for locating this?
August 31 (or possibly 30; not sure), 1983.
Apparently available in The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 17.
There are on-line Peanuts archives (though the ones I’ve looked at aren’t as easy to search as they used to be). Now that you have the date, you might be able track it down at one of them.
Kimstu, I’m really impressed. How did you find the exact date?
Does anyone happen to know how to locate the strip where Linus says It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness, then Lucy walks in and yells, “Curse you, darkness?”
I borrowed the 1983-1984 compilation and found it. Apparently I overlooked it the first time I skimmed through the book.
If you know the year, the Fantagraphics collection “The Complete Peanuts” has a pretty good index that you could search with a key word or phrase. (In your case, ‘candle’, ‘curse’, or ‘darkness’.)
GoComics.com has the complete archive online; the calender only goes back ten years at a time: you need to keep clicking back till you get the year you want.
That’s a real oldie. I remember having it in one of my Peanuts collections when I was still in grade school, which would put it sometime between 1963 and '67, I think. As I recall, the line was “You stupid darkness!”
There’s another one I know I saw between '63 and '66, because I was on summer vacation with my dad and older brother in Joliet, Illinois. It was a Sunday comic, and started out with Lucy chasing Snoopy through the neighborhood because he’d stolen one of her shoes.
“You stupid dog!” she yells. “I’ll run roughshod over you!” Finally, she gives up and goes over to Charlie Brown to complain.
“Your stupid dog stole my shoe!” she says. “What are you going to do about it?”
Charlie Brown just stands there, staring at her stockinged foot. “Well?” she says menacingly.
Charlie Brown reaches out and tickles her foot. “Tickle, tickle, tickle!” he says.
The look on Lucy’s face was priceless! You could tell she was about ready to commit murder.
I’ve tried to find this so I could show it to my daughter, but have never been able to pin it down.
As I recall, Lucy is shouting “YOU STUPID DARKNESS!” in the final panel.
One strip I’d like to see is Snoopy in one of his hockey fantasies:
Panel 1: [Snoopy sitting on top of doghouse] Here’s the famous hockey player, in the penalty box.
Panel 2: [Snoopy’s expression becomes angry] Two minutes for tripping! Five minutes for fighting! Game misconduct!
Panel 3: [Snoopy looks bemused] I don’t understand it.
Panel 4: [Snoopy wears goofy smile] I’m so lovable!
I’m partly curious how accurate my recollection is.
Oops, thanks postcards! I found the original reference on a Japanese website and evidently misread the date or else it was mislabeled.
Postcards, do you have to register with gocomics in order to search? I put “candle” in the search box and it found nothing.
September 9, 1965. Can’t find an image of it, though.
ETA: Oh wait, yes I can.
Unfortunately, there are some gaps at GoComics; I count seven missing Sunday strips in the time frames relevant to my search (sometime between 1962 and 1967).
If you have the Fantagraphics collection, could you look up “stupid dog,” “shoe,” “run roughshod,” and “tickle,” and let me know what you find? 
I was referring to searching the indexes of the Fantagraphics books.
You needn’t be registered at GoComics in order to go through their archives; just find the current strip and go through the calendar as I described in post #6. (Open the calendar, open the year box, click on ‘2002’, let it reset, click on the year box, click on ‘1992’, etc, till you get to the decade you want.)
October 23, 1966 ‘Tickle’ was the keyword.
Wow! I would have sworn it was during summer vacation or (unlikely) winter break, since that was the only time the three of us would have been in a restaurant in Joliet. Apparently, it was somewhere else…
Thanks so much!
You can also just use their very simple archive-URL format to find the strip for a particular comic “comicname” for a particular date:
www.gocomics.com /comicname/yyyy/mm/dd
ETA: Ignore extra spaces, I’m trying to show a URL format without having it turn into an actual (non-working) URL, I know there’s a proper way to do it but I’m racing the edit time clock here.