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Post by xxshoppergurlxx on Apr 14, 2011 20:19:14 GMT -5
It has come to my attention that Peanuts bears several similarities to the little rascals, So I thought it would be fun to ask who's your favorite peanuts character? mine's Linus, but I like snoopy too(:
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Post by mtw12055 on Apr 14, 2011 20:58:28 GMT -5
Like with the Rascals, it's really hard for me to choose a favorite Peanuts kid. Charlie Brown's the everyman (or kid) that tries to have an easy life. Linus is the sweet lovable kid that everybody would want to hang out with. Lucy is bossy as heck, but you still got to love her. Snoopy is lovable nut. Sally is the type of little sister that everybody would want. Peppermint Patty is like a slightly edgier Mary Ann Jackson (and she sort of looks like her too). I guess love 'em all, from Charlie Brown and Snoopy to Pig Pen and Shermy.
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Post by littlerascal4891 on Apr 14, 2011 21:26:31 GMT -5
I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I've never liked Peanuts. I always thought there was a mean-spirted feel to it, the way everyone ganged up on Charlie Brown (and even Linus at times). I found it sad, even when I was younger. I just never got the appeal.
That being said, Linus was always my favorite. I liked Marcy too, mostly because they were the only ones who weren't complete brats (at least from what I remember). I liked Schroder, the kid who played the piano, only because he told off Lucy and I hated Lucy. And I did find Sally's crush on Linus to be kind of cute. But the overall comic strip and specials, I just wasn't a fan.
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Post by rascalwatcher on Apr 15, 2011 7:10:14 GMT -5
I was always partial to the obscure Shermy. Shermy was the Boba Fett of the Peanutverse. Which, I guess, would make Franklin the Bossk of the Peanutverse.
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Post by rlh on Apr 15, 2011 7:46:18 GMT -5
I like Snoopy
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Post by antifrodis on Apr 15, 2011 10:58:21 GMT -5
My favorites are Crybaby Boobie and 5.
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Post by rascalwatcher on Apr 15, 2011 11:23:36 GMT -5
My favorites are Crybaby Boobie and 5. I had forgotten about 5! Didn't Linus suggest 3.1416 in that strip?
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Post by RJH on Apr 18, 2011 3:41:57 GMT -5
It's great to see someone knows who Shermy is. Having had a chance to read the early comics, I got to like Shermy, Violet, Patty (not Peppermint), Frieda with the naturally curly hair, 5, and Pigpen. Of the characters that weren't in effect killed off I pick Schroeder, for the same reason as above, being able to stand up to Lucy.
To me the last twenty years of the strip were rather repetitive, and it bugs me that many of the characters that made the strip popular in the first place didn't even so much draw a mention of their continued existence for twenty or thirty years.
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Post by ymymeatemup on Apr 18, 2011 17:44:49 GMT -5
I've been collecting those 'complete' Peanuts volumes that have come out in recent years, but so far, I've only read up through 1959. While the strip was a bit overly childish for the first few years, I think it became quite classic by the middle of the '50s. My recollection as a youngster is that it kept a high standard up until around 1980 when it kind of became senile for the rest of its run (even though Shultz himself was sharp as a tack otherwise).
I tend to favor Schroeder and Linus simply because they're both more or less prodigies. I've always found it amusing when such young kids are smarter than everybody else. In a way, about half of Schroeder's personality disappeared as it was transferred over to Linus (once the latter stopped being a baby and reached kindergarten age). If Linus hadn't come along, I imagine Schroeder would have been a much more prominent character. This is similar to Patty, who basically had Lucy's personality and then lost most of her 'screen time' after Lucy emerged. Funny how those things work out.
I'm also a big fan of Pig-Pen, though by necessity, he couldn't possibly appear any more than occasionally - he was kind of a one-joke character, but it was a funny joke nonetheless.
I'm also very partial to Snoopy, if only because he was so original for that time. It's interesting to see how much his personality evolved over the years. And I like some of the later characters, like Peppermint Patty and Marcie and Woodstock.
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Post by rascalwatcher on Apr 19, 2011 9:07:10 GMT -5
What about Peanuts adults? Their teacher got to sing guest vocals on Peter Frampton's hit songs "Show Me The Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do".
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Apr 22, 2011 0:00:09 GMT -5
I guess that Linus would have to be my favorite. He won me over initially by his combination of wisdom and humor, along with some of the innovative ways that he thinks up to include his blanket in the group's activities when Lucy tries to get him to discard it.
Snoopy has some incredible, wacky skills, though, especially for a dog. It's hard not to admire someone who is so good at just about everything he tries.
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Post by ymymeatemup on Apr 22, 2011 0:29:11 GMT -5
Snoopy has some incredible, wacky skills, though, especially for a dog. It's hard not to admire someone who is so good at just about everything he tries. This comment made me think of something that never occurred to me before. Snoopy's ability to master everything he tries puts him in the same category as Bugs Bunny, which I think might inspire a new thread....
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Post by antifrodis on Apr 22, 2011 16:04:29 GMT -5
I've been collecting those 'complete' Peanuts volumes that have come out in recent years, but so far, I've only read up through 1959. While the strip was a bit overly childish for the first few years, I think it became quite classic by the middle of the '50s. My recollection as a youngster is that it kept a high standard up until around 1980 when it kind of became senile for the rest of its run (even though Shultz himself was sharp as a tack otherwise). I was a huge Peanuts fan as a child and collected close to 100 of those Fawcett Crest books that came out. I have the new "complete" volumes as well. I feel that the strip hit its stride in the late 60's and lasted that way until the early 80's. I stopped following the strip as I grew up, but I would occasionally read a comic in the paper and scratch my head and wonder what happened to Schulz. I figured he had lost his mind. They made no sense and were downright bizarre at times. Of course, the drawing was very shaky towards the end as well. All understandable, but I did think it was kinda sad. My favorite storyline of all time still has to be where Charlie Brown takes a bite out of the kite-eating tree.
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Post by antifrodis on Apr 22, 2011 16:06:01 GMT -5
This comment made me think of something that never occurred to me before. Snoopy's ability to master everything he tries puts him in the same category as Bugs Bunny, which I think might inspire a new thread.... Snoopy never did quite master writing a book...or handling the cat next door, for that matter.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Apr 23, 2011 0:03:08 GMT -5
I stopped following the strip as I grew up, but I would occasionally read a comic in the paper and scratch my head and wonder what happened to Schulz. I figured he had lost his mind. They made no sense and were downright bizarre at times. Of course, the drawing was very shaky towards the end as well. Ah, I guess that this must have been what was meant by ymymeatemup's phrase, "it kind of became senile for the rest of its run". I used to read through a few collections of Peanuts comic strips that my grandmother had at her house, and there were occasional stretches during which I didn't really get the jokes. If I didn't understand what a particular strip was about, then I would ask my father to interpret it for me; sometimes the humor was simply over my head, but usually if I didn't get it, then he didn't, either. I wonder if some of those strips may have been from the later years of the Peanuts franchise. Personally, I never noticed a decline in the quality of artwork; then again, I probably just figured any change in drawing style to have been an artistic choice by Charles Schulz.
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