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Post by lauraingallsw777 on Oct 10, 2011 19:44:40 GMT -5
Snoopy!
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Post by classixrbest on Jan 2, 2012 19:04:43 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(: It's funny you said that about some of the similarities between Little Rascals and Peanuts... that reminds me, I was browsing the Web sometime back, and had read something about Charles Schulz somewhat loosely patterning Snoopy after Petey in that they were basically "everyone's dog"... that, and the fact that Snoopy was based on a dog Schulz had when he was a kid. But I can imagine that Schulz, seeing that he was born in 1922, could have easily grown up with Our Gang, mainly the Jackie Cooper years, therefore I wouldn't have a hard time believing that he could have been influenced in some way. But I don't really know; that's just a wild speculation on my part, so I'll have to do a bit more research. At any rate, I'll have to go with Linus, Charlie, Snoopy, and Schroeder as far as being personal favorites of mine. Linus because he is so meek and gentle (as is Charlie Brown, that's why they take to one another as best friends), Snoopy because of his wild imagination, and Schroeder for the musician in me.
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Post by booklover on Feb 22, 2012 14:44:32 GMT -5
Always loved "Peanuts", hard to pick a favorite, but it would probably be Peppermint Patty and Marcy. They were very interesting characters and they make a great team. Just curious, has anybody ever considered how daring and unusual "Peanuts" was for it's time? It really turned the comic strip art form over on it's head. Think about it... You had a main character, a seven something year old boy, who if he was to be professionally analyzed, would probably be diagnosed as a manic depressive. You had another little boy who quoted long scriptures from the bible. You had a dog who thought he was a fighter pilot in World War 1. You had a little girl who thought she was a professional psychiatrist. And so on. Readers had never seen characters like this before. It was pretty wild for it's time, and still is, when you think about it.
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Post by rascalstooge on Nov 18, 2013 14:39:57 GMT -5
I was a Peanuts fan until more than 40 years ago when for various reasons-particularly the way Charlie Brown was treated-I lost interest. I'd love to see CB throw a rock at Lucy for all the times she'd yank the football from him.
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Dec 10, 2013 18:34:42 GMT -5
The only character that I like is Pig-Pen, he looks like he'd have fitted right into the Little Rascals, in their early silent era.
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Post by rascalstooge on Aug 11, 2014 13:34:56 GMT -5
Speaking of Peanuts adults, how about Peter Griffin-no. That was a Family Guy episode where he beat up Lucy after she snatched the football from CB.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2015 18:03:39 GMT -5
Lucy. Because she's a loudmouth, and the way she treats many of her contacts (except for Schroeder), sparks a laugh in me.
The only time Lucy is not aggressive is when Lucy takes out her obsessive crush on Schroeder, like she would be a passionate fan of N'Sync in the 2000s, or Alfalfa was to Darla. However, Lucy did get mad at Schroeder numerous times because her obsessive crush got the best of her - so much, she threw his piano in a kite-eating tree, and eventually she threw his piano into a storm sewer - so that she would get Schroeder to fulfill her obsession.
Marcie and Peppermint Patty are also two of my favorite characters, because in Marcie's early days in the strip, she used to annoy Peppermint Patty by repeatedly addressing her with "sir" and PP would repeatedly tell her "stop calling me sir" (there was a lot of that in the Peanuts special There's No Time For Love, Charlie Brown). Her plea for Marcie to stop calling her "sir" started to fizzle out by the 80s, though such plea did make one final appearance in a Sunday strip in the early-90s, and led to a fight in the classroom, ending to a visit to the principal's office. Such plea never appeared again after that.
And one of the voices of Sally Brown - Stacy Ferguson - would later become a member of the pop group The Black Eyed Peas.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2016 14:22:42 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. In my opinion, I gained interest in Peanuts in late 1983, but started to lose interest by the fall of 1984. It almost seems as if The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show airing on CBS on Saturday mornings during the 1983-1984 season may have sparked my interest in said strip, until the TV series went on hiatus after a low-rated first season. In that time period, Roy made his final appearance in May 1984, and the short-lived Harold Angel befriended Sally and appeared from Christmas 1983 until May 1984. Personally, I think 1979 and 1984 were my most favorite years in the Peanuts series.
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Post by wheezer on Apr 23, 2016 15:14:57 GMT -5
Linus, definitely. Maybe I'm a sucker for kindhearted, quiet characters, but it's also very nice that he's a display of people just being different from what you're used to -- sucking his thumb and having a security blanket -- and the normalization of such is splendid. Also, he likes baseball, and that has very recently become my favorite sport.
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Post by Buppster on Apr 10, 2018 4:50:48 GMT -5
Although I'm aware of the existence of Peanuts I've never actually seen any example of it in a newspaper/magazine/book, on TV or the cinema. Consequently I don't have a favourite character.
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Post by rascalflats on Apr 13, 2018 12:11:03 GMT -5
Although I'm aware of the existence of Peanuts I've never actually seen any example of it in a newspaper/magazine/book, on TV or the cinema. Consequently I don't have a favourite character. That's probably because Peanuts ended its run in 2000, and syndicated reruns of strips from the 60s and early 70s have since been republished in many newspapers.
It is also possible that the popularity of Peanuts may be starting to fizzle out as of lately. My local newspaper dropped Peanuts in 2015, supposedly due to the looming second runs of strips previously published in 2005 at the time, and also due to a dramatic overhaul of the comics page - possibly in an effort to reboost readership for the newspaper. I bet more newspapers are likely following suit. Also, if memory serves correctly, there have not been a new Charlie Brown special on television since November 2011. And I don't see much popularity in Peanuts merchandise these days (except for maybe Snoopy greeting cards). I don't know how successful A Charlie Brown Christmas is doing in ratings in modern-day Decembers. MetLife also dropped Snoopy from its commercials a few years back.
I feel as if the kids in Peanuts draw comparison to The Little Rascals. They are roaming the streets freely, without adult supervision. After reading TV Tropes, I must say, I am glad the Peanuts kids at least didn't do stuff like what the Rascals did in their cartoon spinoff.
As for my favorite character, it is Schroeder, more due to his die-hard fandom of Beethoven. I agree with a former user that Lucy's crush on Schroeder draws comparison to Alfalfa vs. Darla - only Schroeder hated Lucy and she constantly leans on his toy piano.
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Post by Buppster on Apr 13, 2018 14:03:16 GMT -5
I think it's also because I don't watch TV, don't go to the cinema and I don't read newspaper. I also don't live in the USA, so I'm going to assume that Peanuts was never as popular here as it was over there to begin with.
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