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Charlie Brown also constantly falls for Lucy's " football gag ". Sometimes, it seems that Charlie Brown does regard Lucy as a close friend and occasionally cares about her. In one strip, Lucy gives him a list of things she wants for Christmas, he does not throw it away like Schroeder does, instead, he goes to a shop and says, " Yes, ma'am, I'm looking for a gift for a friend of mine, a girl Linus is Charlie Brown's best friend, who initially appeared as an infant, but aged and grew to be only slightly younger than Charlie Brown.

The two often support each other in small ways when the other's foibles have been painfully exposed. Indeed, it is often Charlie Brown who is seen commiserating with Linus on November 1, after the Great Pumpkin fails to appear. They are commonly seen having discussions when leaning up against the brick wall , when walking to school or when sitting on a street curb.

Rerun and Charlie Brown appear to have little interaction with each other in strips from the s and 80s. The main exception being the storyline from in which Lucy convinces a reluctant Charlie Brown to allow infant Rerun to join Charlie Brown's baseball team. Rerun is instrumental in the team's win, as he is so small that the opposing pitcher cannot throw any strikes at him, and Rerun gets a game-winning walk.

However, the victory is later voided because Rerun and Snoopy had bet five cents on the game. However, the two have more contact between the s when Rerun grew beyond infancy. Rerun is often shown asking Charlie Brown if he can play on his baseball team or if he can borrow Snoopy. Charlie Brown usually is unwilling to let Rerun play on his team, but usually allows Rerun to play with Snoopy. Unlike the other children, Rerun comes to admire Charlie Brown, while watching Charlie Brown warm up on his pitcher's mound on one occasion, he refers to Charlie Brown as "the Master".

Charlie Brown also became somewhat of a mentor to Rerun, teaching him how to feed a dog , how to deliver newspapers, and how to play marbles. When bully Joe Agate tricks Rerun into losing all of his marbles, Charlie Brown wins them back for him. Schroeder is one of Charlie Brown's closest friends, they commonly have conferences on the pitcher's mound in between pitches, mostly about hand signals one finger means a fastball and two fingers means a curveball, etc.

Charlie Brown is also one of the few people who Schroeder will let lounge against his piano, as he knows Charlie Brown respects his love of Beethoven. In fact, when Schroeder was younger, Charlie Brown would read the life of Beethoven to him. Charlie Brown was also the one who introduced Schroeder to the piano.

One on occasion the two had an argument in where Charlie Brown insulted his "yellow hair" and the fact he plays on his piano all day, Schroeder then made fun of his coonskin cap he was wearing at the time and also Charlie Brown's round head.

Schroeder at times is usually the first to defend Charlie Brown. An example of this was when Violet offers Charlie Brown one of her leftover Valentine's Day cards on the day after the holiday. Schroeder thoroughly chastises her, however, Charlie Brown accepts the Valentine's card regardless, although he expresses appreciation for Schroeder's gesture.

Like all adults in the strip, Charlie Brown's parents are never seen but occasionally referenced. His father is a barber. His mother is a housewife. In the early years of the strip, Violet 's relationship with Charlie Brown seems to change day to day.

In some strips, Violet would tell Charlie Brown how much she likes him and be concerned about whether or not he liked her back. On other occasions, she would be mean and rude to Charlie Brown and try to annoy him and hurt his feelings. As her appearances became less frequent in the later years of the strip, her mercurial nature was, however, unchanged: sometimes she would use any excuse to bring Charlie Brown down or elevate herself above him; while other times the two were quite cordial, often spending the day together chatting.

Charlie Brown has a pen-pal but because he uses a fountain pen and because he has less skill than others at keeping the ink flow under control, he resorts to graphite and starts off the letters, "Dear Pencil-Pal". These correspondences, which began in the August 25, strip, are usually one-way; but on April 14, , Charlie Brown reads Lucy a letter he has received from his pen pal.

In response to which, Charlie Brown utters a vigorous "HA! In a series of strips from , the Pen Pal is revealed to be a girl from Scotland named Morag. Charlie Brown fantasizes about a future romance with Morag, but his plans are crushed when he learns Morag had sixty other pen pals.

He is never able to get this close to her in the strip. Charlie Brown is in love with an unseen character known simply as "the Little Red-Haired Girl ", though he rarely has the courage to talk to her, and when he does it always goes badly.

For instance, when he finally gets the nerve to call her, he accidentally calls Marcie's house instead. It is never revealed in the comic strip whether she has any feelings towards to Charlie Brown. In The Peanuts Movie , she reveals that she has a liking for Charlie Brown because he is honest and caring toward others. The two even promise to write to each other.

In particular, he has a tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, to both of them; Peppermint Patty when she seeks reassurance over her "big nose" and her femininity, and Marcie when she tries to show that she cares about him. However, sometimes Charlie Brown might return feelings for one of them; for example in You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown near the end after Marcie winks at Charlie Brown, he blushes, which can be interpreted as saying he likes her.

Although "Pig-Pen" is one of Charlie Brown's friends, he initially did not appreciate the cloud of dirt that follows him. While he sometimes used to reprove "Pig-Pen" for his consistent messiness, he is usually impressed by how "Pig-Pen" manages to stay messy, even in a rainstorm. In one strip, "Pig-Pen" is embarrassed when Charlie Brown deduces—simply from the dirt on his clothes—where he has been playing for the past three days.

However, despite this, Charlie Brown is the only person to accept "Pig-Pen" for who he is, In one strip he even defended his uncleanliness "Don't think of it as dust. Just think of it as the dirt and dust of far-off lands blowing over here and settling on 'Pig-Pen! He may be carrying the soil that was trod upon by Solomon or Nebuchadnezzar or Genghis Khan!

Charlie Brown has a brief, yet surprisingly successful flirtation with a minor character called Peggy Jean whom he meets at summer camp. She kisses him and says she loves him. He is not always as successful with camp friends, including having a bunkmate who exclusively says to him, "Shut Up and Leave Me Alone". Franklin and Charlie Brown are always on good terms, Franklin is seen as a good friend to Charlie Brown and is arguably the nicest person to him in the strip.

The two occasionally build sandcastles together on the beach, go to Charlie Brown's house and watch movies together. Franklin was introduced building sand castles with Charlie Brown and the two remain on good terms—Franklin has an even-keeled personality and is neither a bully, a possible love interest, or a flighty daydreamer, so he provides some stability in Charlie Brown's life.

Charlie Brown and Shermy were considered best friends in the early years of the strip, they were both generous to each other and were commonly seen playing together. However as Shermy started gradually disappearing from the strip around , he was only seen with Charlie Brown on rare occurrences before he completely disappeared from the strip on June 15, Shermy's role at the straight man was overtaken by Linus, Schroeder and Franklin over time, leaving him without a purpose in the strip.

Although the first several girls introduced into the strip would bully, harass, or tease Charlie Brown—likely mirroring Schulz's feelings that he had bad luck with women—the two boys were friends who bonded over playing pretend, reading comic books, and having lazy Sundays together.

Peanuts Wiki Explore. April comic strips April comic strips April comic strips August comic strips April comic strips April comic strips April comic strips. The Musical TV special. World of Peanuts. Doin' the Foxtrot Strips about holidays. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Lucy, the fussbudget, who was based at first on young Meredith, came in March. And then, of course, there was Snoopy, who had been around from the outset Schulz had intended to name him Sniffy and was fast evolving into an articulate being.

I like to think that Peanuts and identity politics grew up together in America. By , the main characters—Charlie Brown, Linus, Schroeder, Snoopy—had their roles and their acolytes. Even Lucy had her fans. The filmmaker John Waters, writing an introduction to one of the Fantagraphics volumes, gushes:. It was a big part of the appeal of Peanuts. Every character was a powerful personality with quirky attractions and profound faults, and every character, like some saint or hero, had at least one key prop or attribute.

In this blessedly solid world, each character came to be linked not only to certain objects but to certain kinds of interactions, too, much like the main players in Krazy Kat , one of the strips that Schulz admired and hoped to match. But unlike Krazy Kat , which was built upon a tragically repetitive love triangle that involved animals hurling bricks, Peanuts was a drama of social coping, outwardly simple but actually quite complex.

In fact, all of the characters were survivors. They just had different strategies for survival, none of which was exactly prosocial. Linus knew that he could take his blows philosophically—he was often seen, elbows on the wall, calmly chatting with Charlie Brown—as long as he had his security blanket nearby.

In the child psychiatrist D. Five cents, please. Snoopy figured that since no one will ever see you the way you see yourself, you might as well build your world around fantasy, create the person you want to be, and live it out, live it up.

Most of the kids saw him as just a dog, but he knew he was way more than that. Those characters who could not be summed up with both a social strategy and a recognizable attribute Pig-Pen, for instance, had an attribute—dirt—but no social strategy became bit players or fell by the wayside.

Shermy, the character who uttered the bitter opening lines of Peanuts in , became just another bland boy by the s. Violet, the character who made endless mud pies, withheld countless invitations, and had the distinction of being the first person to pull the football away from Charlie Brown, was mercilessly demoted to just another snobby mean girl. Patty, one of the early stars, had her name recycled for another, more complicated character, Peppermint Patty, the narcoleptic tomboy who made her first appearance in and became a regular in the s.

Her social gambit was to fall asleep, usually at her school desk. Once the main cast was set, the iterations of their daily interplay were almost unlimited. She was so strident, Michaelis reports, that Schulz relied on certain pen nibs for her. Lucy was, in essence, society itself, or at least society as Schulz saw it.

Charlie Brown, for instance, responded to her with incredible credulity, coming to her time and again for pointless advice or for football kicking. Linus always seemed to approach her with a combination of terror and equanimity.

Woman is winning!! Woman is winning!!! I n this deeply dystopic strip, there was only one character who could—and some say finally did—tear the highly entertaining, disturbed social world to shreds. And that happens to be my favorite character, Snoopy.

Before Snoopy had his signature doghouse, he was an emotional creature. In one strip, for instance, Linus and Charlie Brown are talking in the background, and Snoopy comes dancing by. But by the late s, Snoopy had begun to change. He needed only his imagination. More and more often he appeared alone on his doghouse, sleeping or typing a novel or a love letter. Like the flying and morphing mouth of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland , Snoopy can become all the things he wants to be in life, be it Surgeon Snoopy, Author Snoopy, or, of course, the Flying Ace.

Well, he can as long as he has his pal Woodstock and his doghouse. Cover art to a digital collection of Doraemon comics. The more I think about it, I guess the characters in Doraemon really are spoiled amattareta. Whenever Nobita-kun gets into trouble he can always ask Doraemon, who is always there to save him with unconditional love. It is the source of a very Eastern deferment moratoriamu of duty and responsibility. On the other hand, in Peanuts , Charlie Brown never relies on Snoopy for anything.

Somehow, Snoopy could always say to Charlie Brown that he actually has always been quite happy, even before Charlie decided to dedicate his life to the happiness of his dog. There is no need to mention their personal responsibility. It is funny that Doraemon at this point [in ] has become such a classic manga character for people all over Asia, but the series never really has caught on in Western countries.

I wonder why that is. In many of these countries, they do not even broadcast the anime version of Doraemon. There are a probably many reasons why it never became a television staple there like it did in Asia. For example, and I am guessing here, but perhaps the people who own the rights to the property gave up on doing it because they felt Western children had a different sense of values from that of their Asian peers, like I mentioned earlier.

We do not really know if American and European children ever would like Doraemon , but that is a whole other ball of wax. The real problem must have more to do with the values of adults, not those of their children. In at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D. Part of the guidebook copy reads:.

But the truth is that everywhere there are Charlie Browns, Linuses, and Lucys. However, we [Japanese] love our Doraemon.