I wonder how many Dopers have had handles that wouldn’t have likely been chosen if Snoopy hadn’t existed…
I think my favorite Peanuts merch was the sno-cone maker.
One of my favorite YouTube videos. Two model airplanes, one a model of Snoopy on his doghouse, the other a model Fokker triplane, fighting it out in the skies set to the Royal Guardsmen hit song Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.
“If they could make a washing machine fly, my Snoopy could land it.”
Whoda thunk you could make a doghouse fly?
Snoopy, one ear raised high, on his doghouse with stars in the background: “On a clear night I can get Mexico City.”
I loved the one where Linus, I think it was, was worried about burglars, and Charlie Brown pointed out Snoopy was a watchdog. The last panel had Snoopy on top of his doghouse, manning a Vickers water-cooled machinegun.
The one where Linus was trying to break his security blanket addiction by giving his blanket to Snoopy who had it made into a sport coat.
Linus screaming at Charlie Brown: Do you know what I just read in a medical journal? A person who gives his blanket to a dog who then has it made into a sport coat cannot possibly survive more than 24 hours!!!
Charlie Brown: That must be an interesting medical journal.
AFAICT, there are 2 Snoopys. Comic strip Snoopy- self absorbed asshole. Cartoon Snoopy- lovable angelic elf. I’m wondering if children would be as drawn to the Snoopy merchandise if all they had for reference was the comic strip.
Had a stuffed Snoopy as a kid.
Don’t. Disrespect. Da. Snoopy!
That is all
As seen in this thread, comic Snoopy was not always an asshole. And as a child I loved Snoopy. I had every collection book I could get.
Snoopy did take over in a lot of ways.
I was never a big Snoopy fan I must admit. As a boy back in the late sixties/early seventies I went back and forth between Linus, Charlie Brown, and Schroeder as my favorite characters. Snoopy was pretty far down the list.
I liked the WWI flying ace strips very much (in part perhaps because this was always clearly fantasy world on Snoopy’s part), and some of the other flights-of-fancy strips and sequences were pretty good as well. But a lot of the Snoopy-based strips just felt like too much of a stretch. Snoopy as golfer, tennis player, I dunno what all else. They never quite worked for me. I thought the kids were more fun, more interesting, and more real. YM obviously Vs.
Opus the Penguin was an homage to Snoopy, and Opus is my second favorite comic strip character ever, and one of my favorite fictional characters of all time. The world would be bleaker without Opus (tried to work a “Beaker” joke in there, and just couldn’t manege).
First favorite, is anyone cares, is Moonbeam McSwine. She probably would have liked Snoop.
“A boy and his penguin.”
“A penguin and his boy.”
“Two dips and a Dad.”
Opus was a (an?) homage to Snoopy? I’ve never heard that. Loved that silly little penguin too. Is there somewhere this is documented that I can look at? Genuinely curious, not meant in a “got a cite” sort of way.
I liked the angst of Lucy over Schroeder and her fanciful ideas of what their future married life might entail. “Wouldn’t it be romantic if you broke both your arms and I had to go work in a laundry to support us?” And “I think it would be nice if you gave me one perfect rose”. And he played away on his toy piano, either oblivious or shooting down some of her fantasies.
If you’re pronouncing it correctly (the French way), you use the indefinite article “an” because the “h” is silent.
Sorry, that’s the English teacher in me. :o
I actually made one for my baby sister back in 1972.
Snooooopy, Snooooopy
Where oh where have you gone? (Come home!)
Snooooopy, Snooooopy,
Come home, Snoopy, come home!
If there were no Snoopy, Calvin Broadus, Jr., would have had to pick another nickname.
Likewise, Calvin and Hobbes owes a lot to Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Disfunctional kid and imaginative pet who speak to adult themes works well.