Favourite Peanuts moments
IAN STRUNG
Snoopy advising woodstock on how to keep warm at night: "Put booties on
your feeties and line your nest with warm pizza". Next frame, Snoopy is
hanging from the roof of his house and woodstock is jumping on his hands!!
The string of strips where Sally has 'achieved inner peace'. (It's no
surprise that these last two come from "Get Physical Snoopy", it's one of
my favourites)
Lucy is giving the world "twleve years to get everything straightened out!"
The classic Robert Short pick from "The Gospel According To Peanuts"....
Shermy and Charlie Brown see Snoopy is cold, so they comfort him - "Be of
good cheer, Snoopy!" "Yes, be of good cheer!"
The strip where Lucy complains about overpopulation, and Linus says, "What
are you going to say to all the babies lining up to be born? ... The whole
trouble with you is that you never think these things through!" :-)
Linus tears the top off a box of cereal, and Charlie Brown lectures him on
the amount of time and money that the "Snicker Snack" company went in to
makin an easy to open box. "My heart bleeds for the Snicker Snack
company!" Is Linus' response.
In "Bon Voyage Charlie Brown", Snoopy and Woodstock greet each other with
a "hey!". I love that!
Of course, Linus' philosophy is always welcome.
Anyone else?
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Ian Strung, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Aaron Jeffrey Gage
cereal and tries to find something to read while eating it. The first
book he fins, he has read already. The next, the same. He then looks
through his comic books, and by the time he finds one he hasn't read, he
returns to, of course, soggy cereal.
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"Dullness and crazedness, although they are somewhat different, are the
same in that they both perpetuate an unwholesome perspective."
-- Master T'ien T'ai
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Aaron Jeffrey Gage http://www-personal.umich.edu/~agage
A guy with a VERY unwholesome perspective.
On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, J. Stuart wrote:
> My two favorites involve Linus and food.
> In one of them, Linus is drinking milk while Lucy is eating a cookie and
> Lucy asks if she can dip her cookie in Linus' milk. She does and
> accidentally breaks off the cookie in Linus' milk, saying "oops." Linus
> throws an absolute coniption about his milk being filled with "sludge"
> now and being contaminated. I think Lucy slugs him, but I can't really
> remember the end.
>
> The other one is Linus getting cereal and milk (and being
> very pleased with the food he's about to eat). He pours his milk onto
> the cereal when the phone rings and Linus
> answers and it's Charlie Brown talking about something dumb. Each frame
> Linus' face gets more and more strained and finally he just erupts at
> Charlie Brown, yelling, "My cold cereal is getting soggy!" into the phone.
> I think I like that one so much because I can totally relate!
>
>
J. Stuart
Scott Parker
>I'd like to get a thread going about favourite Peanuts moments. Some of mine:
NOTE: most deleted to save space.
>Lucy is giving the world "twleve years to get everything straightened out!"
Definitely one of the classics. Unfortunately, the world didn't
comply because that strip must be at least 12 years old. Lucy is at
her best when she's giving ultimatums.
A list of my favourites would run on and on. My most recent favourite
from the official website has Snoopy explaining to Woodstock that they
are just common creatures but could have been great - but didn't need
to - but could have - or could they? It sounds like even Snoopy is
falling victim to the craze of self-improvement gurus.
Scott
http://haven.uniserve.com/~lparker/parkersf.html (for SF)
MA k.l.
East side and one from the West. When they meet, nobody would like
to let the other go further. Linus ask Lucy what
is she doing. Lucy answer "What do you think, am I making pancake?"
Tom Barrett
I think one of my fave's is in a strip from around 1964.
Sally: We have to do a book report on Peter Rabbit. I think
I'll do a character analysis of the Farmer in the story--you
know, point up his basic attitudes towards rabbits and so on.
I may even bring in some speculations on his home life which may
prove to be quite shocking. All in all I hope to uncover
some new truths about our culture.
CB: I think you already have.
Merlin Dorfman
strips.
Linus says to Charlie Brown, "I read that it is better to light a
single candle than to curse the darkness." Charlie Brown says, "Yes,
that's true."
Then Lucy walks in carrying an unlighted candle and says, "You
stupid darkness!"
I haven't participated in the recent discussion about how Peanuts
is not as funny as it used to be, or how Schulz is "losing it." But I
have to say that it has been a long time since he wrote one as funny
AND PHILOSOPHICAL as that one.
Merlin Dorfman
DOR...@NETCOM.COM