:''This article is about Peanuts, the comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. There is a separate article about the peanut, the plant.'' ''Peanuts'' was a syndicated comic strip written and drawn by United States cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. The strip originally ran from October 2, 1950 to February 13, 2000. The strip was one of the most popular in the history of the medium, and helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States; reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in many newspapers. ==History== ''Peanuts'' had its origin in ''Li'l Folks'', a weekly panel comic that appeared in Schulz's hometown paper, the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press'', from 1947 to 1949. When his work was picked up by United Feature Syndicate, they decided to go for the new comic strip he had been working on. This strip was somewhat similar to the panel comic, but it had a cast of characters, rather than different nameless little folk for each page. Maybe the name would have been the same, though, had it been less close to the names of two other comics of the time: Al Capp's ''Li'l Abner'' and a now-forgotten strip entitled ''Little Folks''. To avoid confusion the syndicate settled on the name "Peanuts", a title Schulz himself was not particularly fond of. In a 1987 interview, Schulz said "It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity—and I think my humor has dignity". The strip soon got an obvious main character, which Schulz would rather have named the strip after: "Good Ol' Charlie Brown", a character informed by some of the painful experiences of Schulz's formative years. In fact, the periodic collections of the strips in paperback book form typically had either "Charlie Brown" or "Snoopy" in the title, not "Peanuts". ''Peanuts'' premiered on October 2, 1950 in seven newspapers nationwide: ''The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Tribune'', ''The Allentown, Pennsylvania Call-Chronicle'', ''The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Globe-Times'', the ''Denver Post'' and ''The Seattle Times''. Earlier strips only featured for six days, and the Sunday editions did not appear until January 1952. The strip's early years resembled that which it finally developed into, but with significant differences. The art was cleaner and sleeker, though simpler, with thicker lines and short, squat characters; for example, in these early strips, Charlie Brown's famous round head is closer to the shape of an American football. In fact, most of the kids were initially fairly round-headed. Charlie was unique in having virtually no visible hair. ''Peanuts'' is remarkable for its deft social commentary, especially compared with other strips appearing in the 1950s and early 1960s. Schulz did not explicitly address racial and gender identity social equality issues so much as he assumed them to be self-evident in the first place. Peppermint Patty's athletic skill and self-confidence is simply taken for granted, for example. As illustrated above, Robert L. Short wrote several books in which he claimed he detected theology messages in the strips. Additionally, he used them as illustrations during his lecturing about the gospel. Schulz supported such interpretation but ultimately attempted not to align himself with it. Although he was a Christianity who once taught Bible classes, and whose Linus character routinely quoted scripture, Schulz referred to himself more than once as a secular humanism. Schulz could throw barbs at any number of topics when he chose, though. Over the years he tackled everything from the Vietnam War to school dress codes to the "new math". One of his most prescient sequences came in 1963 when he added a little boy named "5 (Peanuts)" to the cast, whose sisters were named "3" and "4", and whose father had changed the family surname to their ZIP Code to protest the way numbers were taking over people's identities. Another sequence lampooned Little Leagues and "organized" play, when all the neighborhood kids join snowman-building leagues and criticize Charlie Brown when he insists on building his own snowmen without leagues or coaches. The storyline Charles Schulz was most proud of was in the early 1970s, when Charlie Brown came down with a strange ailment that made him see every round and spherical object as a baseball, like the sun and ice cream scoops. This condition soon worsens to the point where he develops a strange rash on his head that precisely resembles the stitching pattern of a baseball. Charlie Brown is sent to summer camp to recuperate, wearing a paper grocery bag on his head at all times. The other kids dub him "Mr. Sack", treat him with unaccustomed respect and even elect him camp president. Eventually, Charlie believes his condition is easing and goes out to see the sunrise hoping not to see it as a baseball. As it turns out, he does not, but Alfred E. Neuman indicates, to his frustration, that his condition has simply become even stranger than before. Peanuts probably reached its peak in American pop-culture awareness between 1965 and 1980, during the heyday of the strip, and there was numerous specials and book collections. However, sometime in the mid 1980s, other strips surpassed Peanuts in popularity, most notably Doonesbury, Garfield, The Far Side, Bloom County, and Calvin and Hobbes, and the number of Peanuts books on store shelves dwindled. However, Schulz still had one of the highest circulations in daily newspapers, and because of licensing and marketing, Peanuts brought in large amounts of income for Charles Schulz. The daily Peanuts strips were formatted in a 4-panel "space saving" format since the 1950s, with a few very rare exceptions of 8 panels. In 1975, the panel format was shorted slightly horizontally, and shortly after the lettering became larger to accommodate the shrinking format. In 1998, Schulz abandonded this strict format and started using the entire length of the strip, in part to combat the dwindling size of the comics page, and to experiment. Schulz continued the strip for 50 years, with no assistants even in the lettering and coloring process. Starting in the 1980s his artistic line started to shake. This became more noticeable in the 1990s, along with his format change--in some ways the art seems to have deteriorated somewhat, especially where character expression was concerned. Nevertheless, he continued the strip until he was unable to due to health reasons, and died the night before the final strip was published in newspapers. The final original ''Peanuts'' comic strip was finished on January 3, 2000 and published in newspapers a day after Schulz died on February 12. Following its finish, many newspapers began reprinting older strips under the title ''Classic Peanuts''. == Cast == ''Peanuts'' did not have a lead character from the onset. Its initial cast was small, featuring only Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty (Peanuts) (not the later character Peppermint Patty), and a beagle, Snoopy. The strip soon began to focus on Charlie Brown, though. Charlie Brown's main characteristic is his self-defeating stubbornness: he can never win a ballgame, but continues playing baseball; he can never fly a kite flying successfully, but continues trying to fly his kite. Others see this as the character's admirable determined persistence to try his best against all odds. Though his inferiority complex was evident from the start, in the earliest strips he also got in his own licks when socially sparring with Patty and Shermy. Some early strips also involves romance attractions between Charlie Brown and Patty or Violet (Peanuts), the next major character added to the strip. As the years went by, Shermy and Patty appeared less often, while new major characters were introduced. Schroeder (Peanuts), Lucy van Pelt, and her brother Linus van Pelt debuted as very young children--Schroeder and Linus both in diapers and pre-verbal. Snoopy began as a more or less typical dog; he did not yet have thought balloons. The ''Peanuts'' characters generally do not age, or age very slowly, except in the case of infant characters who catch up to the rest of the cast, then stop. Linus, for example, is born in the first couple of years of the strip's run. He ages from infancy to right around Charlie Brown's age over the course of the first ten years, during which we see him learn to walk and talk with the help of Lucy and Charlie Brown. Linus then stops aging when he is about a year or so younger than Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown himself was four when the strip began, and gradually aged over the next two decades until he settled in as an eight year old (after which he is consistently referred to as eight when any age is given, so we can safely assume that was his "stopping point"). The Peanuts gang as a whole can be roughly broken up into three generations: # Charlie Brown and his peers (Lucy, Shermy, Violet, Schroeder, and others), who are all in 3rd grade. # the younger siblings Linus and Sally Brown, along with Frieda, Eudora (Peanuts), and a few minor characters. They are 1-2 years behind the older generation, about 1st or 2nd grade. # Rerun van Pelt, Linus and Lucy's youngest brother. Another character who joined the strip as an infant, he eventually reached kindergarten age. In the 1960s, the strip began to focus more on Snoopy. Many of the strips from this point revolve around Snoopy's active fantasy life, in which he imagined himself to be (most famously) a World War I flying ace or an ice hockey star, to the amusement and consternation of the children who wonder what he is doing but also occasionally participate. Snoopy eventually took on more than 150 distinct personas over the course of the series, from "Joe Cool" to Mickey Mouse. Schulz continued to introduce new characters into the strip, particularly including a girl named Patricia Reichardt, better known as Peppermint Patty. Patty is an assertive, athletic, but rather obtuse girl who shakes up Charlie Brown's world by calling him "Chuck", flirting with him, and giving him compliments he's not so sure he deserves. She also brings in a new group of friends, including the strip's first black character, Franklin (Peanuts), and Peppermint Patty's bookish sidekick Marcie Johnson, who calls Patty "Sir" and Charlie Brown "Charles" (all other characters call him "Charlie Brown" at all times, except for Eudora, who also calls him "Charles", and a minor character named Peggy Jean in the early 1990s who called him "Brownie Charles"). Some have speculated that Peppermint Patty and Marcie are portrayals of lesbian, but this may well be idle fantasy, especially considering both girls' admitted affection for Charlie Brown. Marcie resembles, and acts like, a younger version of Doonesbury's Honey Huan. However, from occasional references within the strip, it's clear she was modeled on Billie Jean King. Other notable characters include Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally, who was fixated on Linus; Snoopy's friend Woodstock (Peanuts) the bird, who spoke entirely in vertical lines; Pigpen (Peanuts), the perpetually dirty boy who could raise a cloud of dust on a clean sidewalk, or in a snowstorm; and Spike (Peanuts), Snoopy's desert-dwelling brother from Needles, California, who was apparently named for Schulz's own childhood dog. After some early anomalies, adult figures never again appeared in the strip. "Peanuts" had several other recurring characters who were similarly absent from view. Some, such as the Great Pumpkin or the Red Baron, may or may not have been figments of the cast's imaginations. Others, such as the Little Red-Haired Girl (Charlie Brown's perennial dream girl), Joe Shlabotnik (Charlie Brown's baseball hero), or World War II (the vicious cat who lives next door to Snoopy), are real. Schulz added some additional fantastic elements, sometimes imbuing inanimate objects with sparks of life. Charlie Brown's nemesis, the Kite-Eating Tree, is one example. Sally Brown's school building, which expressed thoughts and feelings about the students (and the general business of being a brick building), is another. Linus' famous "security blanket" also displayed occasional signs of anthropomorphism. == Books == ''Peanuts'' strips have been reprinted in many books over the years. Some represented chronological collections of strips, while others were thematic collections, such as ''Snoopy's Tennis Book.'' Some single-story books were produced, such as ''Snoopy and the Red Baron.'' In addition, most of the ''Peanuts'' television animated specials were adapted into book form. Charles Schulz always resisted publication of early 'Peanuts' strips, as they did not reflect the characters as he eventually developed them. However, in 1997 he began talks with Fantagraphics Books to have all ''Peanuts'' strips published, including every strip from the early years. The first volume in the collection, ''The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1952'', was published in April 2004. ''Peanuts'' is in a unique situation compared to other comics in that archive quality masters of most strips are still owned by the syndicate. The following books publish much of this previously-unreproduced material. * Chip Kidd, ed. (2001) ''Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz''. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0375420975 (hardcover), ISBN 0375714634 (paperback). * Derrick Bang, ed. (2004) ''Lil' Beginnings''. Santa Rosa, California: Charles M. Schulz Museum. The complete run of ''Li'l Folks'' (1947–1950) * Charles M. Schulz (2004) ''Who's on First, Charlie Brown?''. New York: Ballentine Books. ISBN 0345464125. * The entire run of ''Peanuts,'' covering nearly 50 years of comic strips, will be reprinted in Fantagraphics Books' ''The Complete Peanuts'', a 25-volume set to come out over a 12-year period, two volumes per year. The final volume is expected to be published in 2016. ** (April 2004) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1952''. ISBN 156097589X ** (October 2004) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1953 to 1954''. ISBN 1560976144 ** (October 2004) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1954 Box Set''. ISBN ** (April 2005) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1955 to 1956''. ISBN 1560976470 ** (scheduled for October 2005) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1957 to 1958''. ISBN 1560976705 ** (scheduled for October 2005) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1955 to 1958 Box Set''. ISBN ** (scheduled for April 2006) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1959 to 1960''. ISBN 1560976713 ** (scheduled for October 2006) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1961 to 1962''. ISBN 1560976721 == Television, film, and theatre == Aside from numerous books of or about the comic strips, the Peanuts characters have appeared in animated form on television many times. This started when the Ford Motor Company licensed the Peanuts characters in 1961 for black and white television advertisements for the Ford Falcon. This commercial was animated by Bill Melendez who worked at Playhouse Pictures, a cartoon studio that had Ford as a client. Schulz and Melendez became friends, and when then documentary producer Lee Mendelson decided to make a 2 minute short film called ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'' in 1963. he brought on Melendez to work on the animated sequences. Before this project was completed, the three of them (with help from their sponsor, the Coca-Cola Company) produced their first television special, ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'', first broadcast in 1965 on CBS, which featured the music of Vince Guaraldi. The animated versions of Peanuts characters differ in some aspects from the strip. In the strip, adults voices are seldom heard, and conversations are usually only seen from the characters perspectives--in other words, the characters just answer questions or repeat the questions posed to them. To reflect this reality, Melendez used the sound of a modified trombone to simulate this--leading to the legendary "Whaa Whaaaw Whaa" sound attributed to such specials. The most serious deviation from the strip was the treatment of Snoopy. In most specials, Snoopy's thought balloons are ignored and his character's thoughts are not communicated directly, rather only via growls and body language, or other characters vocalizing dialog that Snoopy normally thinks. These treatments have both been abandoned temporarily in the past; they experimented with teacher dialog in ''She's a Good Skate Charlie Brown'', and in the animated adaptations of the plays, Snoopy's thoughts were conveyed by a voice actor. The elimination of Snoopy's thoughts is probably the most controversial aspect of the adaptations, but Schulz apparently wanted or at least suggested this treatment. The success of ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' was the impetus for CBS to air a long-running, celebrated series of prime-time ''Peanuts'' TV specials over the years, including ''It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown''; ''It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown'', and many others. In total, more than thirty animated specials were produced. These were also memorable for their jazz-inspired and piano-led theme tunes, written by Vince Guaraldi. In particular, the piece "Linus and Lucy" has become popularly known as the signature theme song of the ''Peanuts'' franchise. Schulz and team later collaborated on other television specials and full-length feature films, the first of which was ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'' (1969). Most of these made use of material from Schulz's strips, which were then adapted, although in other cases plots were developed around areas where there were minimal strips to reference. The Peanuts specials were most successful during the 1970s, with an average of 1 new special a year. During the mid 1980s, ''Peanuts'' was adapted to a weekly Saturday morning animated series, entitled ''The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show'', which lasted about 2 seasons. In the 1980s, their popularity started to wane, and CBS had sometimes rejected a few specials. An 8-episode mini-series called "This is America, Charlie Brown", for instance, was released during a writer's strike. Eventually, the last Peanuts specials were released direct-to-video, and no new ones were created until after the year 2000 when ABC got the rights to the three fall holiday specials. The ''Peanuts'' characters even found their way to the theatre, appearing in the musicals ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' and ''Snoopy!!!''. ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' was originally an extremely successful off-Broadway musical that ran for four years (1967-1971) in New York City and on tour, with Gary Burghoff as the original Charlie Brown. An updated revival opened on Broadway theatre in 1999. It was also adapted for television twice, as a live-action National Broadcasting Company special and an animated CBS special. The ''Peanuts'' characters are currently spokespeople in television commercials for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company insurance company. Over the years, they have also appeared in advertisements for Dolly Madison snack cakes, Friendly's restaurants and Cheerios. Pig-Pen appeared in a memorable spot for Regina Vacuum Cleaners. == Filmography == === Feature films=== *''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'' (1969) *''Snoopy, Come Home'' (1972) *''Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown'' (1977) *''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!)'' (1980) ===Animated TV specials=== *''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'' (1963) *''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' (1965) *''Charlie Brown's All-Stars'' (1966) *''It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'' (1966) *''You're In Love, Charlie Brown'' (1967) *''He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown'' (1968) *''Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz'' (1969) *''It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown'' (1969) *''Play It Again, Charlie Brown'' (1971) *''You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown'' (1972) *''A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving'' (1973) *''There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown'' (1973) *''It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown'' (1974) *''It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown'' (1974) *''Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown'' (1975) *''You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown'' (1975) *''It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown'' (1976) *''What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown!'' (1977) *''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown'' (1977) *''Happy Birthday, Charlie Brown'' (1979) *''You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown'' (1979) *''Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown'' (1980) *''It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown'' (1980) *''She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown'' (1980) *''It's Magic, Charlie Brown'' (1981) *''Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown'' (1981) *''A Charlie Brown Celebration'' (1982) *''Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?'' (1983) *''What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?'' (1983) *''It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown'' (1984) *''Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!'' (1985) *''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' (1985) *''Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown'' (1985) *''It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown'' (1988) *The ''This Is America, Charlie Brown'' miniseries **''The Mayflower Voyages'' **''The Birth of the United States Constitution'' **''The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk'' **''The NASA Space station'' **''The Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad (North America)'' **''The Great Inventors'' **''The Smithsonian and the President of the United States'' **''The Music and Heroes of America'' *''Why, Charlie Brown, Why?'' (1990) *''You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown'' (1990) *''Snoopy's Reunion'' (1991) *''It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown'' (1992) *''It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown'' (1992) *''You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown!'' (1994) *''It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown! (1997) *''Good Grief, Charlie Brown: A Tribute to Charles Schulz'' (2000) *''Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years'' (2000) *''It's The Pied Piper, Charlie Brown'' (2000) *''A Charlie Brown Valentine, Charlie Brown'' (2002) *''Charlie Brown Christmas Tales'' (2002) *''The Making Of \"A Charlie Brown Christmas\"'' (2002) *''Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown'' (2003) *''I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown'' (2003) ==''Peanuts'' characters == The following characters, listed in order of first appearance, would be considered the major and important minor characters in the strip: *Charlie Brown *Shermy *Patty (Peanuts) *Snoopy *Violet (Peanuts) *Schroeder (Peanuts) *Lucy van Pelt *Linus van Pelt *Frieda *Pig-Pen (Peanuts) *Sally Brown *5 (Peanuts) *Roy (Peanuts) *Peppermint Patty *Woodstock (Peanuts) *Marcie Johnson *Franklin (Peanuts) *Thibault *Rerun van Pelt *Spike (Peanuts) *Belle (Peanuts) *Eudora (Peanuts) == External links == * [http://www.snoopy.com/ Peanuts official web site] * [http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/ Peanuts Collector Club] * [http://g2301m.unileoben.ac.at/~nermal/peanuts/peanuts.html Profiles of the strip's characters] * [http://www.aaugh.com/guide/ AAUGH.com Peanuts Book Collecting Guide] * [http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/peantfaq.txt Comprehensive FAQ] Comic strips Peanuts (comic strip)
''An event mentioned in this article is an Template:October 2 selected anniversaries''. == Images of historical strips == What about asking United Media if we can use some PNG to decorate this page and illustrate the character's page? : Or if not, maybe a more attractive cover, for an actual Peanuts compelation, like the Fantagraphics editions? --User:Misterwindupbird 10:26, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) ::If we're going to use covers, I'd suggest using ones from the better known collections. The Fantagraphics covers are drawn by Seth, not Schulz, and thus are not a good representation of Schulz's characters. --User:JohnRTroy 12:18, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) :I think that strips are more rappresentative of the Schulz's work more than the simple covers. What kind of permissions we have to receive in order to be able to show some strips? Who should we ask? User:GioeleBarabucci 00:00, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC) == Featured article == ''Calvin and Hobbes'' was recently a Wikipedia:Featured article on the Main Page, and I was very impressed. Surely ''Peanuts'' deserves equal or better treatment! I'm already involved in another project to bring an article (Seattle) up to featured article status, so I could only help out here a little bit, I'm afraid. --User:Lukobe 21:13, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC) :: I am thinking about redoing the article. You're right, there's a LOT that can be covered and we should consider making it at least as robust as the C&H article--User:JohnRTroy 21:53, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC) == The Complete Peanuts: == Hello Has anyone a idea when the next volume of the The Complete Peanuts: series will come out ? And how many years will pase before alle the volumes are published ? According to http://www.fantagraphics.com/peanuts/peanuts.html, Volume 2 comes out this October. There will be two volumes each year, covering two years each. Since Peanuts ran for about 50 years, the last volume should come out sometime in 2016? --User:Lukobe 05:32, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC) == The Complete Peanuts: volume 2 == Has anyone any idea when the Volume 2 will be shipped to Europe ? I have made a order for the Volume but the store cant tell me when the comic wil arrive... please help me, I cant hardly wiat. The Volume just arrived (just on time for christmas, oef). Imagine, two (2) months does it take to go from the US to Europe. I think I will conside a express shipment next time. == Adults? == Somebody should add that in the movies & TV things that you can never understand what the adults are saying. It always sounds like "Wah-wah wah wahwah." and things like that. :In the comics, I think you never see an adult person in character, and never see them actually saying something. You just see the children responding to adults supposedly saying something to them. ::There's a very early one where you "hear" Charly Brown being called to dinner by his mother. But since that time, I think the most extreme is that the peanuts sometimes repeat a question they are asked, before answering it. User:Aliter 14:03, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Birds == As far as I know, we didn't see the birds of the early sixties speak at all. They moved their wings asif talking with their hands, and at best you'd read "gripe gripe gripe gripe". Later, young birds would sometimes go "squeek"or "phew". But in one story line in the late sixties Snoopy had a young bird as a secretary, that showed most characteristics of Woodstock. As a secretary, it spoke in punctuation. It only spoke in something like three images, though. User:Aliter 14:03, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC) :I just completed a month of reading all the archived strips at comics.com--I have a membership. Birds spoke with hash marks and punctuation as early as 1962, if not earlier. The birds were present a lot in the 1960's--they evolved from being penguin like and heavy beaked to the typical "Woodstock" type bird. (JRT) You're right, I think. I knew there were quite a bit of birds in Peanuts in the sixties, but now I did find some earlier birds speaking. The heavier build birds, I'd say were grown-ups, while the Woodstock-types are chicks. There's a 1963 story-line, I think, with a pair of hash-mark-speaking birds building a nest on the dog-house, where you can see the difference, though like all characters they've evolved. Then again: when those(?) birds are first introduced, they are in love, and the only thing said is a ♥-character (heart). Is that text of punctuation? User:Aliter 10:58, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Snoopy in MetLife commercials == Does any know when did MetLife begin to use Snoopy in its commercials? * MetLife has featured Snoopy and the Peanuts characters since 1985, according to the United Media Web page (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/news/news_121102.html) == External link == Can someone check the external link I just reverted and re-add it if it is legit? I can't access it due to some filtering software. It was in the middle of a bunch of linkspam added by a user. Thanks - User:Taxman 20:47, May 11, 2005 (UTC) :Taxman is talking of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peanuts&diff=13629624&oldid=13574216 this revision]. I checked the link and it seems fine. -- User:GioeleBarabucci 00:05, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC) == Characters Section == Do we need to keep the Peanuts#Peanuts characters section? There's already a Peanuts characters category, and a much better description in Peanuts#Cast. And despite the line about being for major characters, it lists characters like Roy (Peanuts), who is described as minor in the character's article. The only thing it seems to add is (possibly) the chronology of first appearances, but if this is reason to keep it, I'd strongly argue that dates of first appearance should be added. --User:Misterwindupbird 03:42, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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:''This article is about Peanuts, the comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. There is a separate article about the peanut, the plant.'' ''Peanuts'' was a syndicated comic strip written and drawn by United States cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. The strip originally ran from October 2, 1950 to February 13, 2000. The strip was one of the most popular in the history of the medium, and helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States; reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in many newspapers. ==History== ''Peanuts'' had its origin in ''Li'l Folks'', a weekly panel comic that appeared in Schulz's hometown paper, the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press'', from 1947 to 1949. When his work was picked up by United Feature Syndicate, they decided to go for the new comic strip he had been working on. This strip was somewhat similar to the panel comic, but it had a cast of characters, rather than different nameless little folk for each page. Maybe the name would have been the same, though, had it been less close to the names of two other comics of the time: Al Capp's ''Li'l Abner'' and a now-forgotten strip entitled ''Little Folks''. To avoid confusion the syndicate settled on the name "Peanuts", a title Schulz himself was not particularly fond of. In a 1987 interview, Schulz said "It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity—and I think my humor has dignity". The strip soon got an obvious main character, which Schulz would rather have named the strip after: "Good Ol' Charlie Brown", a character informed by some of the painful experiences of Schulz's formative years. In fact, the periodic collections of the strips in paperback book form typically had either "Charlie Brown" or "Snoopy" in the title, not "Peanuts". ''Peanuts'' premiered on October 2, 1950 in seven newspapers nationwide: ''The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Tribune'', ''The Allentown, Pennsylvania Call-Chronicle'', ''The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Globe-Times'', the ''Denver Post'' and ''The Seattle Times''. Earlier strips only featured for six days, and the Sunday editions did not appear until January 1952. The strip's early years resembled that which it finally developed into, but with significant differences. The art was cleaner and sleeker, though simpler, with thicker lines and short, squat characters; for example, in these early strips, Charlie Brown's famous round head is closer to the shape of an American football. In fact, most of the kids were initially fairly round-headed. Charlie was unique in having virtually no visible hair. ''Peanuts'' is remarkable for its deft social commentary, especially compared with other strips appearing in the 1950s and early 1960s. Schulz did not explicitly address racial and gender identity social equality issues so much as he assumed them to be self-evident in the first place. Peppermint Patty's athletic skill and self-confidence is simply taken for granted, for example. As illustrated above, Robert L. Short wrote several books in which he claimed he detected theology messages in the strips. Additionally, he used them as illustrations during his lecturing about the gospel. Schulz supported such interpretation but ultimately attempted not to align himself with it. Although he was a Christianity who once taught Bible classes, and whose Linus character routinely quoted scripture, Schulz referred to himself more than once as a secular humanism. Schulz could throw barbs at any number of topics when he chose, though. Over the years he tackled everything from the Vietnam War to school dress codes to the "new math". One of his most prescient sequences came in 1963 when he added a little boy named "5 (Peanuts)" to the cast, whose sisters were named "3" and "4", and whose father had changed the family surname to their ZIP Code to protest the way numbers were taking over people's identities. Another sequence lampooned Little Leagues and "organized" play, when all the neighborhood kids join snowman-building leagues and criticize Charlie Brown when he insists on building his own snowmen without leagues or coaches. The storyline Charles Schulz was most proud of was in the early 1970s, when Charlie Brown came down with a strange ailment that made him see every round and spherical object as a baseball, like the sun and ice cream scoops. This condition soon worsens to the point where he develops a strange rash on his head that precisely resembles the stitching pattern of a baseball. Charlie Brown is sent to summer camp to recuperate, wearing a paper grocery bag on his head at all times. The other kids dub him "Mr. Sack", treat him with unaccustomed respect and even elect him camp president. Eventually, Charlie believes his condition is easing and goes out to see the sunrise hoping not to see it as a baseball. As it turns out, he does not, but Alfred E. Neuman indicates, to his frustration, that his condition has simply become even stranger than before. Peanuts probably reached its peak in American pop-culture awareness between 1965 and 1980, during the heyday of the strip, and there was numerous specials and book collections. However, sometime in the mid 1980s, other strips surpassed Peanuts in popularity, most notably Doonesbury, Garfield, The Far Side, Bloom County, and Calvin and Hobbes, and the number of Peanuts books on store shelves dwindled. However, Schulz still had one of the highest circulations in daily newspapers, and because of licensing and marketing, Peanuts brought in large amounts of income for Charles Schulz. The daily Peanuts strips were formatted in a 4-panel "space saving" format since the 1950s, with a few very rare exceptions of 8 panels. In 1975, the panel format was shorted slightly horizontally, and shortly after the lettering became larger to accommodate the shrinking format. In 1998, Schulz abandonded this strict format and started using the entire length of the strip, in part to combat the dwindling size of the comics page, and to experiment. Schulz continued the strip for 50 years, with no assistants even in the lettering and coloring process. Starting in the 1980s his artistic line started to shake. This became more noticeable in the 1990s, along with his format change--in some ways the art seems to have deteriorated somewhat, especially where character expression was concerned. Nevertheless, he continued the strip until he was unable to due to health reasons, and died the night before the final strip was published in newspapers. The final original ''Peanuts'' comic strip was finished on January 3, 2000 and published in newspapers a day after Schulz died on February 12. Following its finish, many newspapers began reprinting older strips under the title ''Classic Peanuts''. == Cast == ''Peanuts'' did not have a lead character from the onset. Its initial cast was small, featuring only Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty (Peanuts) (not the later character Peppermint Patty), and a beagle, Snoopy. The strip soon began to focus on Charlie Brown, though. Charlie Brown's main characteristic is his self-defeating stubbornness: he can never win a ballgame, but continues playing baseball; he can never fly a kite flying successfully, but continues trying to fly his kite. Others see this as the character's admirable determined persistence to try his best against all odds. Though his inferiority complex was evident from the start, in the earliest strips he also got in his own licks when socially sparring with Patty and Shermy. Some early strips also involves romance attractions between Charlie Brown and Patty or Violet (Peanuts), the next major character added to the strip. As the years went by, Shermy and Patty appeared less often, while new major characters were introduced. Schroeder (Peanuts), Lucy van Pelt, and her brother Linus van Pelt debuted as very young children--Schroeder and Linus both in diapers and pre-verbal. Snoopy began as a more or less typical dog; he did not yet have thought balloons. The ''Peanuts'' characters generally do not age, or age very slowly, except in the case of infant characters who catch up to the rest of the cast, then stop. Linus, for example, is born in the first couple of years of the strip's run. He ages from infancy to right around Charlie Brown's age over the course of the first ten years, during which we see him learn to walk and talk with the help of Lucy and Charlie Brown. Linus then stops aging when he is about a year or so younger than Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown himself was four when the strip began, and gradually aged over the next two decades until he settled in as an eight year old (after which he is consistently referred to as eight when any age is given, so we can safely assume that was his "stopping point"). The Peanuts gang as a whole can be roughly broken up into three generations: # Charlie Brown and his peers (Lucy, Shermy, Violet, Schroeder, and others), who are all in 3rd grade. # the younger siblings Linus and Sally Brown, along with Frieda, Eudora (Peanuts), and a few minor characters. They are 1-2 years behind the older generation, about 1st or 2nd grade. # Rerun van Pelt, Linus and Lucy's youngest brother. Another character who joined the strip as an infant, he eventually reached kindergarten age. In the 1960s, the strip began to focus more on Snoopy. Many of the strips from this point revolve around Snoopy's active fantasy life, in which he imagined himself to be (most famously) a World War I flying ace or an ice hockey star, to the amusement and consternation of the children who wonder what he is doing but also occasionally participate. Snoopy eventually took on more than 150 distinct personas over the course of the series, from "Joe Cool" to Mickey Mouse. Schulz continued to introduce new characters into the strip, particularly including a girl named Patricia Reichardt, better known as Peppermint Patty. Patty is an assertive, athletic, but rather obtuse girl who shakes up Charlie Brown's world by calling him "Chuck", flirting with him, and giving him compliments he's not so sure he deserves. She also brings in a new group of friends, including the strip's first black character, Franklin (Peanuts), and Peppermint Patty's bookish sidekick Marcie Johnson, who calls Patty "Sir" and Charlie Brown "Charles" (all other characters call him "Charlie Brown" at all times, except for Eudora, who also calls him "Charles", and a minor character named Peggy Jean in the early 1990s who called him "Brownie Charles"). Some have speculated that Peppermint Patty and Marcie are portrayals of lesbian, but this may well be idle fantasy, especially considering both girls' admitted affection for Charlie Brown. Marcie resembles, and acts like, a younger version of Doonesbury's Honey Huan. However, from occasional references within the strip, it's clear she was modeled on Billie Jean King. Other notable characters include Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally, who was fixated on Linus; Snoopy's friend Woodstock (Peanuts) the bird, who spoke entirely in vertical lines; Pigpen (Peanuts), the perpetually dirty boy who could raise a cloud of dust on a clean sidewalk, or in a snowstorm; and Spike (Peanuts), Snoopy's desert-dwelling brother from Needles, California, who was apparently named for Schulz's own childhood dog. After some early anomalies, adult figures never again appeared in the strip. "Peanuts" had several other recurring characters who were similarly absent from view. Some, such as the Great Pumpkin or the Red Baron, may or may not have been figments of the cast's imaginations. Others, such as the Little Red-Haired Girl (Charlie Brown's perennial dream girl), Joe Shlabotnik (Charlie Brown's baseball hero), or World War II (the vicious cat who lives next door to Snoopy), are real. Schulz added some additional fantastic elements, sometimes imbuing inanimate objects with sparks of life. Charlie Brown's nemesis, the Kite-Eating Tree, is one example. Sally Brown's school building, which expressed thoughts and feelings about the students (and the general business of being a brick building), is another. Linus' famous "security blanket" also displayed occasional signs of anthropomorphism. == Books == ''Peanuts'' strips have been reprinted in many books over the years. Some represented chronological collections of strips, while others were thematic collections, such as ''Snoopy's Tennis Book.'' Some single-story books were produced, such as ''Snoopy and the Red Baron.'' In addition, most of the ''Peanuts'' television animated specials were adapted into book form. Charles Schulz always resisted publication of early 'Peanuts' strips, as they did not reflect the characters as he eventually developed them. However, in 1997 he began talks with Fantagraphics Books to have all ''Peanuts'' strips published, including every strip from the early years. The first volume in the collection, ''The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1952'', was published in April 2004. ''Peanuts'' is in a unique situation compared to other comics in that archive quality masters of most strips are still owned by the syndicate. The following books publish much of this previously-unreproduced material. * Chip Kidd, ed. (2001) ''Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz''. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0375420975 (hardcover), ISBN 0375714634 (paperback). * Derrick Bang, ed. (2004) ''Lil' Beginnings''. Santa Rosa, California: Charles M. Schulz Museum. The complete run of ''Li'l Folks'' (1947–1950) * Charles M. Schulz (2004) ''Who's on First, Charlie Brown?''. New York: Ballentine Books. ISBN 0345464125. * The entire run of ''Peanuts,'' covering nearly 50 years of comic strips, will be reprinted in Fantagraphics Books' ''The Complete Peanuts'', a 25-volume set to come out over a 12-year period, two volumes per year. The final volume is expected to be published in 2016. ** (April 2004) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1952''. ISBN 156097589X ** (October 2004) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1953 to 1954''. ISBN 1560976144 ** (October 2004) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1954 Box Set''. ISBN ** (April 2005) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1955 to 1956''. ISBN 1560976470 ** (scheduled for October 2005) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1957 to 1958''. ISBN 1560976705 ** (scheduled for October 2005) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1955 to 1958 Box Set''. ISBN ** (scheduled for April 2006) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1959 to 1960''. ISBN 1560976713 ** (scheduled for October 2006) ''The Complete Peanuts: 1961 to 1962''. ISBN 1560976721 == Television, film, and theatre == Aside from numerous books of or about the comic strips, the Peanuts characters have appeared in animated form on television many times. This started when the Ford Motor Company licensed the Peanuts characters in 1961 for black and white television advertisements for the Ford Falcon. This commercial was animated by Bill Melendez who worked at Playhouse Pictures, a cartoon studio that had Ford as a client. Schulz and Melendez became friends, and when then documentary producer Lee Mendelson decided to make a 2 minute short film called ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'' in 1963. he brought on Melendez to work on the animated sequences. Before this project was completed, the three of them (with help from their sponsor, the Coca-Cola Company) produced their first television special, ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'', first broadcast in 1965 on CBS, which featured the music of Vince Guaraldi. The animated versions of Peanuts characters differ in some aspects from the strip. In the strip, adults voices are seldom heard, and conversations are usually only seen from the characters perspectives--in other words, the characters just answer questions or repeat the questions posed to them. To reflect this reality, Melendez used the sound of a modified trombone to simulate this--leading to the legendary "Whaa Whaaaw Whaa" sound attributed to such specials. The most serious deviation from the strip was the treatment of Snoopy. In most specials, Snoopy's thought balloons are ignored and his character's thoughts are not communicated directly, rather only via growls and body language, or other characters vocalizing dialog that Snoopy normally thinks. These treatments have both been abandoned temporarily in the past; they experimented with teacher dialog in ''She's a Good Skate Charlie Brown'', and in the animated adaptations of the plays, Snoopy's thoughts were conveyed by a voice actor. The elimination of Snoopy's thoughts is probably the most controversial aspect of the adaptations, but Schulz apparently wanted or at least suggested this treatment. The success of ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' was the impetus for CBS to air a long-running, celebrated series of prime-time ''Peanuts'' TV specials over the years, including ''It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown''; ''It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown'', and many others. In total, more than thirty animated specials were produced. These were also memorable for their jazz-inspired and piano-led theme tunes, written by Vince Guaraldi. In particular, the piece "Linus and Lucy" has become popularly known as the signature theme song of the ''Peanuts'' franchise. Schulz and team later collaborated on other television specials and full-length feature films, the first of which was ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'' (1969). Most of these made use of material from Schulz's strips, which were then adapted, although in other cases plots were developed around areas where there were minimal strips to reference. The Peanuts specials were most successful during the 1970s, with an average of 1 new special a year. During the mid 1980s, ''Peanuts'' was adapted to a weekly Saturday morning animated series, entitled ''The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show'', which lasted about 2 seasons. In the 1980s, their popularity started to wane, and CBS had sometimes rejected a few specials. An 8-episode mini-series called "This is America, Charlie Brown", for instance, was released during a writer's strike. Eventually, the last Peanuts specials were released direct-to-video, and no new ones were created until after the year 2000 when ABC got the rights to the three fall holiday specials. The ''Peanuts'' characters even found their way to the theatre, appearing in the musicals ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' and ''Snoopy!!!''. ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' was originally an extremely successful off-Broadway musical that ran for four years (1967-1971) in New York City and on tour, with Gary Burghoff as the original Charlie Brown. An updated revival opened on Broadway theatre in 1999. It was also adapted for television twice, as a live-action National Broadcasting Company special and an animated CBS special. The ''Peanuts'' characters are currently spokespeople in television commercials for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company insurance company. Over the years, they have also appeared in advertisements for Dolly Madison snack cakes, Friendly's restaurants and Cheerios. Pig-Pen appeared in a memorable spot for Regina Vacuum Cleaners. == Filmography == === Feature films=== *''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'' (1969) *''Snoopy, Come Home'' (1972) *''Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown'' (1977) *''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!)'' (1980) ===Animated TV specials=== *''A Boy Named Charlie Brown'' (1963) *''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' (1965) *''Charlie Brown's All-Stars'' (1966) *''It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'' (1966) *''You're In Love, Charlie Brown'' (1967) *''He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown'' (1968) *''Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz'' (1969) *''It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown'' (1969) *''Play It Again, Charlie Brown'' (1971) *''You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown'' (1972) *''A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving'' (1973) *''There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown'' (1973) *''It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown'' (1974) *''It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown'' (1974) *''Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown'' (1975) *''You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown'' (1975) *''It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown'' (1976) *''What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown!'' (1977) *''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown'' (1977) *''Happy Birthday, Charlie Brown'' (1979) *''You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown'' (1979) *''Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown'' (1980) *''It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown'' (1980) *''She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown'' (1980) *''It's Magic, Charlie Brown'' (1981) *''Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown'' (1981) *''A Charlie Brown Celebration'' (1982) *''Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?'' (1983) *''What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?'' (1983) *''It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown'' (1984) *''Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!'' (1985) *''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' (1985) *''Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown'' (1985) *''It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown'' (1988) *The ''This Is America, Charlie Brown'' miniseries **''The Mayflower Voyages'' **''The Birth of the United States Constitution'' **''The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk'' **''The NASA Space station'' **''The Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad (North America)'' **''The Great Inventors'' **''The Smithsonian and the President of the United States'' **''The Music and Heroes of America'' *''Why, Charlie Brown, Why?'' (1990) *''You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown'' (1990) *''Snoopy's Reunion'' (1991) *''It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown'' (1992) *''It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown'' (1992) *''You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown!'' (1994) *''It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown! (1997) *''Good Grief, Charlie Brown: A Tribute to Charles Schulz'' (2000) *''Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years'' (2000) *''It's The Pied Piper, Charlie Brown'' (2000) *''A Charlie Brown Valentine, Charlie Brown'' (2002) *''Charlie Brown Christmas Tales'' (2002) *''The Making Of \"A Charlie Brown Christmas\"'' (2002) *''Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown'' (2003) *''I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown'' (2003) ==''Peanuts'' characters == The following characters, listed in order of first appearance, would be considered the major and important minor characters in the strip: *Charlie Brown *Shermy *Patty (Peanuts) *Snoopy *Violet (Peanuts) *Schroeder (Peanuts) *Lucy van Pelt *Linus van Pelt *Frieda *Pig-Pen (Peanuts) *Sally Brown *5 (Peanuts) *Roy (Peanuts) *Peppermint Patty *Woodstock (Peanuts) *Marcie Johnson *Franklin (Peanuts) *Thibault *Rerun van Pelt *Spike (Peanuts) *Belle (Peanuts) *Eudora (Peanuts) == External links == * [http://www.snoopy.com/ Peanuts official web site] * [http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/ Peanuts Collector Club] * [http://g2301m.unileoben.ac.at/~nermal/peanuts/peanuts.html Profiles of the strip's characters] * [http://www.aaugh.com/guide/ AAUGH.com Peanuts Book Collecting Guide] * [http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/peantfaq.txt Comprehensive FAQ] Comic strips Peanuts (comic strip)
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''An event mentioned in this article is an Template:October 2 selected anniversaries''. == Images of historical strips == What about asking United Media if we can use some PNG to decorate this page and illustrate the character's page? : Or if not, maybe a more attractive cover, for an actual Peanuts compelation, like the Fantagraphics editions? --User:Misterwindupbird 10:26, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) ::If we're going to use covers, I'd suggest using ones from the better known collections. The Fantagraphics covers are drawn by Seth, not Schulz, and thus are not a good representation of Schulz's characters. --User:JohnRTroy 12:18, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) :I think that strips are more rappresentative of the Schulz's work more than the simple covers. What kind of permissions we have to receive in order to be able to show some strips? Who should we ask? User:GioeleBarabucci 00:00, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC) == Featured article == ''Calvin and Hobbes'' was recently a Wikipedia:Featured article on the Main Page, and I was very impressed. Surely ''Peanuts'' deserves equal or better treatment! I'm already involved in another project to bring an article (Seattle) up to featured article status, so I could only help out here a little bit, I'm afraid. --User:Lukobe 21:13, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC) :: I am thinking about redoing the article. You're right, there's a LOT that can be covered and we should consider making it at least as robust as the C&H article--User:JohnRTroy 21:53, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC) == The Complete Peanuts: == Hello Has anyone a idea when the next volume of the The Complete Peanuts: series will come out ? And how many years will pase before alle the volumes are published ? According to http://www.fantagraphics.com/peanuts/peanuts.html, Volume 2 comes out this October. There will be two volumes each year, covering two years each. Since Peanuts ran for about 50 years, the last volume should come out sometime in 2016? --User:Lukobe 05:32, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC) == The Complete Peanuts: volume 2 == Has anyone any idea when the Volume 2 will be shipped to Europe ? I have made a order for the Volume but the store cant tell me when the comic wil arrive... please help me, I cant hardly wiat. The Volume just arrived (just on time for christmas, oef). Imagine, two (2) months does it take to go from the US to Europe. I think I will conside a express shipment next time. == Adults? == Somebody should add that in the movies & TV things that you can never understand what the adults are saying. It always sounds like "Wah-wah wah wahwah." and things like that. :In the comics, I think you never see an adult person in character, and never see them actually saying something. You just see the children responding to adults supposedly saying something to them. ::There's a very early one where you "hear" Charly Brown being called to dinner by his mother. But since that time, I think the most extreme is that the peanuts sometimes repeat a question they are asked, before answering it. User:Aliter 14:03, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Birds == As far as I know, we didn't see the birds of the early sixties speak at all. They moved their wings asif talking with their hands, and at best you'd read "gripe gripe gripe gripe". Later, young birds would sometimes go "squeek"or "phew". But in one story line in the late sixties Snoopy had a young bird as a secretary, that showed most characteristics of Woodstock. As a secretary, it spoke in punctuation. It only spoke in something like three images, though. User:Aliter 14:03, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC) :I just completed a month of reading all the archived strips at comics.com--I have a membership. Birds spoke with hash marks and punctuation as early as 1962, if not earlier. The birds were present a lot in the 1960's--they evolved from being penguin like and heavy beaked to the typical "Woodstock" type bird. (JRT) You're right, I think. I knew there were quite a bit of birds in Peanuts in the sixties, but now I did find some earlier birds speaking. The heavier build birds, I'd say were grown-ups, while the Woodstock-types are chicks. There's a 1963 story-line, I think, with a pair of hash-mark-speaking birds building a nest on the dog-house, where you can see the difference, though like all characters they've evolved. Then again: when those(?) birds are first introduced, they are in love, and the only thing said is a ♥-character (heart). Is that text of punctuation? User:Aliter 10:58, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Snoopy in MetLife commercials == Does any know when did MetLife begin to use Snoopy in its commercials? * MetLife has featured Snoopy and the Peanuts characters since 1985, according to the United Media Web page (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/news/news_121102.html) == External link == Can someone check the external link I just reverted and re-add it if it is legit? I can't access it due to some filtering software. It was in the middle of a bunch of linkspam added by a user. Thanks - User:Taxman 20:47, May 11, 2005 (UTC) :Taxman is talking of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peanuts&diff=13629624&oldid=13574216 this revision]. I checked the link and it seems fine. -- User:GioeleBarabucci 00:05, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC) == Characters Section == Do we need to keep the Peanuts#Peanuts characters section? There's already a Peanuts characters category, and a much better description in Peanuts#Cast. And despite the line about being for major characters, it lists characters like Roy (Peanuts), who is described as minor in the character's article. The only thing it seems to add is (possibly) the chronology of first appearances, but if this is reason to keep it, I'd strongly argue that dates of first appearance should be added. --User:Misterwindupbird 03:42, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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