Could be. But it’s been awhile since I read it.
Anyway (and slightly OT), I remember about ten years ago, rights to a live-action version of “Peanuts” were acquired by (shudder) John Hughes. It has yet to be made–which is just as well since Hughes would’ve probably turned it into another retread of “Home Alone”.
Mild mannered Franklin put himself through college on a baseball scholarship (center-field). He started in sociology with a minor in philosophy. He eventually became a social worker but found working with Child Services too stressful. He know runs a bed and breakfast in the modest but comfortable house he inherited from his much-cherished grandfather.
You misspelled “Freida”
Fenris
Glad you’re checking up.
And Frieda’s cat was Faron.
Snoopy’s fantasies get the better of him when a chase with the Red Baron leads him into traffic at the wrong moment. He is buried next to his doghouse. The Brown’s next pet is a cat.
Charlie Brown graduates high school (barely), flunks out of college, then tries to play minor league ball until he’s cut by a single-A team in Owatonna, Minnesota following their fourteenth consecutive loss. Returns home, finds his old baseball card collection, and via Ebay builds it into a huge sports-memorabilia business. Sally is director of the retail division (fourteen stores in high-end shopping centers, with two more opening this fall in Short Hills, NJ and Grosse Pointe, MI) and Sally’s husband Rerun is marketing manager.
Linus graduates from high school with honors. He completes his B.A. summa from Calvin College, but swings wildly left in choosing graduate school at Yale Divinity. There, he falls in love his roommate; after comlpleting their Ph.Ds, they accept joint appointments at Grinnell College, becoming chaplain and assistant professor of history, respectively. They are also the faculty sponsors of the campus lesbian and gay student organization. Repeatedly asked why they don’t adopt children, they answer that they’ve quite enough teenagers in their lives as it is and besides, they like being uncles.
Schroeder’s schizophrenia begins to emerge while he is a student at Julliard. After going missing for several days, he is found cowering in a corner at Film Forum having watched three consecutive screenings of “The Competition.” Admitted to New York-Cornell Hospital for inpatient psychiatric care, he is released when it appears that medication is adequately relieving his illness. But searing headaches leave him unable to play. During one of his headaches, he throws himself in front of an express bus on Columbus Avenue. He is pronounced dead two days later, aged 23.
Lucy, after flunking out of college when she pays more attention to her rock-band musician than to classes, drifts to the East Village after fruitlessly trying to connect with Schroeder. She takes odd jobs and teaches herself to draw comic books. Her graphic novellas, filled with violent, misandrous imagery (edged with loss and softened after Schroeder’s death) attract a cult following - but not quite enough to pay the bills. Still outrageously opinionated and sensitive to criticism, she takes a job at a gallery in Chelsea. Surprisingly, her outsized personality seems to fit. She abandons her graphic novels, eventually purchases the gallery herself when the owner is arrested on drug charges and becomes a fixture in the New York art world.
Hmmm…Well, let’s give this a shot…
Lucy’s film career, aside from a pair of TV movies, never again reached the heights of stardom she enjoyed during the run of “Peanuts.” Following a series of fights with her parents about her increasing drug and alcohol problems, she ran away from home at age 17, only to be found wandering aimlessly and raving about “mind leeches” on a Dallas thoroughfare. She was subsequently diagnosed with progressive schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, mental illnesses that in their early stages, present symptoms that matched exactly with the personality traits that had made young Lucy a star in her early years. Now, after six long years of treatment, Lucy’s life has made a turn for the better, and she works as a spokesman for the National Mental Health Association, touring PTA organizations throughout North America advocating the early diagnosis and treatment of mental illness’ in children.
Charlie Brown found a new passion for life when he entered the ROTC in High School. Graduating from West Point in 1958, he rose through the ranks of the elite army Rangers, his platoon is known or suspected to have performed numerous (And in some cases still classified today) daring commando raids during the cold war, possibly even within the USSR and People’s Republic of China themselves.
Now-Captain Brown was sent to Vietnam in 1967, tragically, just weeks before the Tet Offensive. His last known words, as he charged into battle at the head of his Montanyards, were: “Come on, you apes! 'You want to live forever?” His remains have never been found.
Marcie, devastated by a series personal tragedies, including the loss of “Her one true love,” whom she has never identified, was expelled from MIT after being accused of theft of laboratory equipment, and inciting a riot on campus. She dropped out of sight, her whereabouts unknown, before reappearing on the on the world stage five years later, during the kidnapping of Empire City mayor Ross Hampton and labor leader Chas Gonzal. now calling herself “Madame Athene,” she denounced humanity in general for it’s “inborn adherence to destructive social orders” and vowed to “tear down, piece by piece” human society and ring in an era of “Meta-intellectual technocracy.” Thanks to timely intervention by Major Justice and Lord Engram, the crisis was resolved, but Madame Athene escaped and has continued to plague Empire City and the world at large, and is charged or suspected of being responsible for incidents such as the Burning Man Massacre, the worldwide disruption of satellite communication systems in 2018, and the attempted poisoning of the water supply at Lake Mead. She is still at large, and believed to be in cahoots with Necros Rexi, the Skeleton Man.
How’s that?
Ranchoth
Well, now that I’ve killed THIS thread, do I need to actually buy a pearl-handled revolver to carve a notch into, or can I just carve one into my keyboard? 
Ranchoth
Sally has her own tanning and hair salon. She is now an unnatural blonde. She is married to her high school sweetheart and they own a small house in the suburbs.
Schroeder is a high school music teacher who has a thriving side business as a computer programmer.
Marcie is a physicist at Harvard.
Sally was recently appointed Attorney General by the Bush Administration.
Peppermint Patty is an ESPN sports commentator. Her promising career as a tennis pro was sidelined after a shoulder injury at Wimbledon.
Charlie Brown is serving 7-20 after being handed one lump of coal too many in lieu of a paycheck. (He tried to shoot the payroll clerk, but fortunately she ducked right before the bullet hit her.)
Snoopy is living large at the Hillman Puppy Farm in the sky. He died a heroic death by shooting down the Red Baron right before his Sopwith Camel was tragically downed by a little yellow bird flying into the propeller. He is, as I write, dancing with bunnies in a big circle.
Harold(?) (the black kid) is teaching diversity classes at a fortune 500 company.
Okay, you got me on “Freida.” But I was fairly sure that Shultz named Freida’s cat “Farina” after the folk singer Richard Farina. (What, you think he wouldn’t be hip to 60’s pop culture? Hello, Woodstock anyone?).
Of course, I could be wrong. It’s been decades since I’ve seen that damn cat.
:rolleyes:
The Penuts gang can be seen in their new adventures in
Dilbert
Dilbert-Charlie Brown
Dogbert-Snoopy
Wally-Pig Pen
The Worlds Smartest Trash man- Linus
What’s her name-Lucy
Tina the Tech writer-Peppermint Patty
ect. ect.