Parodies of Peanuts?
richard...@excite.com
have.
There was one by R. Sikoryak of Charlie Brown in Kafka's Metamorphosis
which appeared in a "Raw" comic compilation.
Rerics
Mad Magazine did one in the late 60's where the Peanuts kids were
drugged out hippies, walking through the Berkeley campus, taking LSD
and contemplating their navels, etc. It was pretty funny albeit crude.
Rerics
Ted Nolan <Ted.Nolan>
SNL did an animated parody of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Imho it started
very well then kind of ran out of steam.
Mad did many parodies of Peanuts. One I rememeber was "what if the nudity
trend spreads to comics?" CB visits the new kid on the block, who is nude
(but not drawn frontally). Lucy later asks CB if the new kid is a boy or
girl, and CB says "I forgot to ask".
Not really parodies, but I have seen several times editorial cartoons of
CB & Lucy with the football, with the players and the football labeled
according to the appropos political events of the day.
I think there are a number of parodies in the "Snoopy sells out" vein,
based on his work for Met Life (Mutt Life in some), but I can't give
any definite cites.
Ted
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, Ted Nolan <Ted.Nolan> <Ted.Nolan> wrote:
> I think there are a number of parodies in the "Snoopy sells out"
> vein, based on his work for Met Life (Mutt Life in some), but I
> can't give any definite cites.
"Family Guy" had a painfully long and unfunny bit (which is nothing
unusual) with a great payoff: Brian (the family dog) is dreaming that
he is a "runner" in the "Logan's Run" world, and when the enforcers
catch up with him to kill him for being past his expiration date, he
points and says, "What about that guy? He's got to be at least 50."
Of course, it's Snoopy.
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week. The September 1967 one had a three or four-page dragster-related
Peanuts parody.
Your pal,
Biffy the Elephant Shrew
D. D. Degg
>
> Mad did many parodies of Peanuts. One I rememeber was "what if the nudity
> trend spreads to comics?" CB visits the new kid on the block, who is nude
> (but not drawn frontally). Lucy later asks CB if the new kid is a boy or
> girl, and CB says "I forgot to ask".
Here's a site listing most, if not all, of the appearances of
the Peanuts gang in MAD magazine, with an occasional illustration:
http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/index-peanuts.html
D.D.Degg
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Ah, Thanks!
Looks like I misremembered it slightly:
#130 October 1969
IF THIS 'NUDITY TREND' IN MOVIES EVER SPREADS TO THE COMICS
Charlie Brown meets the new kid on the block who unpacks a moving
van in the nude, but Charlie Brown can't remember if the kid was a
boy or girl because "He wasn't wearing any clothes!"
Ted
Invid Fan
<Ted.Nolan> <t...@brookside.tnolan.com> wrote:
> In article <1119482484.5...@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> Rerics <mcc...@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >richard...@excite.com wrote:
> >> Does anyone collect parodies of Peanuts? I'd like to see what you
> >> have.
> >>
> >> There was one by R. Sikoryak of Charlie Brown in Kafka's Metamorphosis
> >> which appeared in a "Raw" comic compilation.
> >
> >Mad Magazine did one in the late 60's where the Peanuts kids were
> >drugged out hippies, walking through the Berkeley campus, taking LSD
> >and contemplating their navels, etc. It was pretty funny albeit crude.
> >
> >Rerics
> >
>
> SNL did an animated parody of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Imho it started
> very well then kind of ran out of steam.
>
Robot Chicken on the Cartoon Network had a segment where The Great
Pumpkin finally showed up and started killing everyone.
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I just happened to have that issue of mad in electronic format, so
here's the strip in question:
http://www.autographedcat.com/images/mad-peanuts.jpg
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Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Rob Wynne <d...@america.net> wrote:
>
>
>In rec.arts.comics.strips Ted Nolan <tednolan> <t...@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
>>In article <1119571578.6...@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>>D. D. Degg <ddde...@aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Ted Nolan <Ted.Nolan> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Mad did many parodies of Peanuts. One I rememeber was "what if the nudity
>>>> trend spreads to comics?" CB visits the new kid on the block, who is nude
>>>> (but not drawn frontally). Lucy later asks CB if the new kid is a boy or
>>>> girl, and CB says "I forgot to ask".
>>>
>>>Here's a site listing most, if not all, of the appearances of
>>>the Peanuts gang in MAD magazine, with an occasional illustration:
>>>http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/index-peanuts.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>D.D.Degg
>>
>>Ah, Thanks!
>>
>>Looks like I misremembered it slightly:
>>
>> #130 October 1969
>> IF THIS 'NUDITY TREND' IN MOVIES EVER SPREADS TO THE COMICS
>> Charlie Brown meets the new kid on the block who unpacks a moving
>> van in the nude, but Charlie Brown can't remember if the kid was a
>> boy or girl because "He wasn't wearing any clothes!"
>>
>>
>> Ted
>>
>
>I just happened to have that issue of mad in electronic format, so
>here's the strip in question:
>
>http://www.autographedcat.com/images/mad-peanuts.jpg
>
Wow! October 1969. I suspect I didn't see it until a year or two
later when we got a stack of old Mads. Still pretty racy stuff to
a 10 year old though... I do wish they had spent another 5 minutes
on the punch line to work around the awkward generic "he".
Ted
Nat Gertler
> Does anyone collect parodies of Peanuts? I'd like to see what you
> have.
While I certainly have accumulated a number of parodies in my
collection, I'm happiest with owning the original art to
"It's a Municipal Holiday, Charlie Brown", a one-page piece
that ran in the humor comic To Be Announced.
Rerics
Rerics wrote:
>
> Mad Magazine did one in the late 60's where the Peanuts kids were
> drugged out hippies, walking through the Berkeley campus, taking LSD
> and contemplating their navels, etc. It was pretty funny albeit crude.
>
> Rerics
This is the one is was recalling:
#118 April 1968
HIPPIE (THE MAGAZINE THAT TURNS YOU ON)
ARTICLE TITLE -- 'Uptight' Is a Dry Sugar Cube
Patterned after 'Happiness is a Warm Puppy'
Rerics
vmac...@yahoo.com
accepting a double dare', showing Charlie Brown anxiously staring at
his kite up a high-voltage tower as Lucy gives him a challenging smirk.
Hippie Magazine? Never heard of it, but I'm guessing satiric humor - a
put-on (in the argot of the time)?
VMacek
mikepe...@gmail.com
I was guessing a kind of button-down attempt to be hip ... can't
imagine anyone using the term from the inside ...
Mike Peterson
Glens Falls NY
Biffy the Elephant Shrew
>> put-on (in the argot of the time)?
>
>I was guessing a kind of button-down attempt to be hip ... can't
>imagine anyone using the term from the inside ...
It wasn't an actual magazine; Rerics was describing a Mad article.
mikepe...@gmail.com
Biffy the Elephant Shrew wrote:
> >> Hippie Magazine? Never heard of it, but I'm guessing satiric humor - a
> >> put-on (in the argot of the time)?
> >
> >I was guessing a kind of button-down attempt to be hip ... can't
> >imagine anyone using the term from the inside ...
>
> It wasn't an actual magazine; Rerics was describing a Mad article.
>
(scrolls back and reads)
Ah. Yes, I see.
*Ahem*
Well, actually, that was kind of how I felt about Mad back then,
though. (And I liked it a lot in the previous decade or so -- even had
a bust of AEN.)
vmac...@yahoo.com
it. I was kind of hoping it'd be a real publication, with all the
legitimate hippie cred of 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'.
The Lampoon also did a recurring parody 'ghetto' Peanuts (featuring
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown) - I was buying the magazine out of habit by then,
and its satiric edge was dulling into cheap-shot humor.
VMacek
BigStar303
>>Does anyone collect parodies of Peanuts? I'd like to see what you
>>have.
In the late 60s/early 70s there was a pretty well-known "underground"
poster (I have no idea of its origins) that showed a very pregnant Lucy
shouting "Damn you, Charlie Brown!"
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led to a very long & dark Peanuts parody. I don't remember the whole
thing, but it had to do with the end of Peanuts. Awful things happened
to all the characters; Linus hung himself like Judas for letting the
Great Pumpkin down and the Bloom County characters showed up and
started dealing drugs. It was funny and kinda deeply depressing, too.
vmac...@yahoo.com
'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' creator Joss Whedon took over 'Peanuts', and
imbued it with the dark, fairly kinky, sleeping-with-the-enemy tone his
cult tv show was going down.
VMacek
John
I did a parod of Peanuts in m comic strip Three Little Boxes a few weeks
ago. It was the big pitching mound discussion setup. Here's the link.
http://threelittleboxes.hewhocaves.com/index.php?cid=60
it was for the release of Revenge of the Sith. I have one thing to say
about the characters... they are deceptiel hard to draw
John
vmac...@yahoo.com
The list's author ended with 'and I'm sure there's more!' - I remember
an article with comic strips teaching school subjects (where kids might
actually read them). Just off the page edge is 'Peanuts' on physics.
All we see are the word balloons, filled with complex equations.
VMacek
art...@aol.com
David Letterman showed some footage of the Peanuts cartoons, but the
voices were replaced so they were saying cruel things. In the second
half of the Nineties I believe. (He redubbed some other cartoons as
well) I heard Charles Schultz was really upset by it.
Mad TV did a ghetto Charlie Brown, with characters like Lionel and
Snoop Doggy.
Saturday Night Live did a live action Peanuts sketch around 1998. Host
Brendan Frasier was Charlie Brown, and everybody was wearing a giant
round rubber head. Just the heads was enough to recommend it.
vmac...@yahoo.com
his elaborate parody stage numbers address Hispanic issues in a
disarmingly funny manner.
So, I saw him in a Christmas show where he did a spoken-word
poetry-slam thing decrying the scarcity of latin comic-strip
characters. Over Vince Guaraldi's famous theme (and with 'A Charlie
Brown Christmas' projected on a screen) he intoned 'Hey Charlie, I'm
Brown'. It was like he'd never even heard of Jose Petersen!
VMacek
Frumpy
boyfriend (looks similar to Shermy) and gains the self-respect not to put
up with Lucy's abuse any more. The art is dead on, and the tone is very
good-natured. I believed this appeared as one of Dan Savage's "Savage
Love" columns, but I'd have to dig it out of the pile to be sure.
(The general address for Dan Savage's column is
http://www.sfweekly.com/savage/index.html but be aware it's a sex advice
column, so don't go there not expecting sex advice. I couldn't find a
reference to this parody.)
Frumpy
Ryuuseipro
Isn't that where Charlie Brown became a cockroach!? I saw that about
10 years ago while reading it at Tower Records!
My favorite Peanuts parody is, by far, BRING ME THE HEAD OF CHARLIE
BROWN. I first saw that student short (by then CalArts student Jim
Reardon) in 1997 (at Lunacon), and a friend of mine (at OtakuHell) put
it up on video file. I was so elated! I had not seen it in a long
time. Some posters here should show you where it is.
My other favorite CalArts short is Craig McCracken's 1992 short,
WHOOPASS STEW!, which was the basis for THE POWERPUFF GIRLS (one of my
favorite cartoons ever).
-John Cassidy
Richmond, VA
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<richard...@excite.com> wrote:
> Does anyone collect parodies of Peanuts? I'd like to see what you
> have.
>
> There was one by R. Sikoryak of Charlie Brown in Kafka's Metamorphosis
> which appeared in a "Raw" comic compilation.
>
there was also a very dark (and to some, tasteless, i imagine) parody
of A Charlie Brown Christmas, drawn in the style of a sunday page.
The link i have for it no longer works, so i posted it for those of you
who are interested over in alt.binaries.pictures.cartoons
Lee
Ryuuseipro
short-lived (and RARE) WILD CARTOON KINGDOM magazine (which was
originally made to center around the REN & STIMPY craze), which had
some Peanuts parody strips in them! One strip had Charlie Brown
running up to kick Lucy's football, only Charlie Brown instead ravages
Lucy, who turns out to be a robot! I thought this was so cool!
Anybody else seen this?
-John Cassidy
Richmond, VA
BongCrosby
richard...@excite.com wrote:
> Does anyone collect parodies of Peanuts? I'd like to see what you
> have.
>
> There was one by R. Sikoryak of Charlie Brown in Kafka's Metamorphosis
> which appeared in a "Raw" comic compilation.
I'm a little surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, but back in the
late 70's National Lampoon published a Sunday newspaper parody, the
Dacron (Ohio) Republican-Democrat, which included a complete Sunday
comics section.
IIRC, one of the parodies was of Peanuts -- I don't recall what
"Peanuts" was changed to, but the subtitle was something like
"Featuring Good Ol' Weepy Whiner."
Since it's been twentymumblemumble years since the Republican-Democrat
I can't even tell you whether the funnies were, y'know, funny -- but I
do recall poring through the RD for hours trying to discover *all* the
subtle jokes planted throughout the paper.
Mike
Dr. Strangemonde
the strips you mention.
Here's some stuff nobody's mentioned:
By a J.R. McHone in Subliminal Tattoos magazine #1 (1994): If Philip K.
Dick Had Written Peanuts
Blanket Lover Linus tells Philly Dick (C.B.) that he's has a "vision
from VALIP [Vast Active living Intelligent Pumpkin]" which revealed
that they are only characters in a comic strip. Philly responds by
yelling "You blockhead, that's nothing but Gnostic Pogo-ism, and Gaines
refuted Pogo back in MAD #21!" Linus asks, in reply "Then how do you
explain THIS?" He points to a scribble, where Schulz' signature would
normally appear, reading "UBIK".
I'll let a PDK fan explain this one to everyone else.
Hmmm... there was another equally weird one i ran across recently, but
now I can't recall where/what it was. I'll just conclude by saying that
a Cracked Special Edition on the "funnies" from around 3-4 years ago
actually admitted to the mag's lameness and repetition by telling
readers to "play this cool game - see how many times we rehash the same
'final time Lucy pulls the football' gag within the reprints in this
issue!"
- Dr Strangemonde
Oh, I posted links once before to the sick, violent parody in Deep
Fried Comics, which places the Peanuts characters as adult warriors in
a dystopian future world. Do a deja search if you're really curious
about that one.
Dr. Strangemonde
Dr. Strangemonde wrote:
> Oh, I posted links once before to the sick, violent parody in Deep
> Fried Comics, which places the Peanuts characters as adult warriors in
> a dystopian future world. Do a deja search if you're really curious
> about that one.
Well, whaddaya know! I did the search myself, and it turns out that the
guy who did the parody I mentioned above actually came HERE and got
info from YOU GUYS to complete it!
He has since collected the story into a trade paperback:
Weapon Brown: That bald head, that burning desire
to kick a football--Think you know
who Weapon Brown is? Guess again!
He's a walking engine of wishy-washy
destruction, and one thing's for sure:
you don't want to call him "blockhead"
to his face! This 48-page special
collects the entire "A Peanut Scorned"
serial from issues 1-4 of Deep Fried, with
new material added, including a new short
story, "A Weapon Brown Christmas."
Gritty, hardcore and totally outrageous!!
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/
Who'da thunk it?!?
- Dr Strangemonde
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> Does anyone collect parodies of Peanuts? I'd like to see what you
> have.
>
> There was one by R. Sikoryak of Charlie Brown in Kafka's Metamorphosis
> which appeared in a "Raw" comic compilation.
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
One of the Peanuts characters visits a new character, who is (tastefully
depicted) nude. Later Linus or CB asks if the new kid is a boy or a girl
and the character who met the new one says (approx): I'm not sure, they
weren't wearing any clothes. I think "Mad" also did a "Mutt Life" parody
of Snoopy's "Met Life" ads.
Ces at "Medium Large" had a corker combining two tropes several years ago:
https://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/medium-large-comic-unpublished-first-peanuts-strip/
and here are some of his other parodies:
https://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/for-the-love-of-peanuts/
https://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/happy-64th-birthday-to-peanuts/
https://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/happy-65th-anniversary-peanuts/
https://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/deleted-scenes-from-its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown/
https://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/deleted-scenes-from-a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-2/
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> In article <d00b1b14-3514-4196...@googlegroups.com>,
> <mcphee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 8:49:34 AM UTC+10,
>> richard...@excite.com wrote:
>>> Does anyone collect parodies of Peanuts? I'd like to see what
>>> you have.
>>>
>>> There was one by R. Sikoryak of Charlie Brown in Kafka's
>>> Metamorphosis which appeared in a "Raw" comic compilation.
>>
>> I recall 'When Comic Strips turn rotten' in Mad Magazine. I don't
>> recall which issue this was. Charlie Brown kicks Lucy instead of
>> the football.
>>
>
> There was another in "Mad" on the "What if this nudity trend
> continues?"
> ago:
depicted Arlo visiting a piano showroom; the salesman was clearly a
grown-up Schroeder.
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>
> There was an Arlo and Janis arc (October 1997) in which Jimmy Johnson
> depicted Arlo visiting a piano showroom; the salesman was clearly a
> grown-up Schroeder.
G
> On 4/29/2019 1:08 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> In article <d00b1b14-3514-4196...@googlegroups.com>,
>> <mcphee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 8:49:34 AM UTC+10,
>>> richard...@excite.com wrote:
>>>> Does anyone collect parodies of Peanuts? I'd like to see what
>>>> you have.
>>>>
>>>> There was one by R. Sikoryak of Charlie Brown in Kafka's
>>>> Metamorphosis which appeared in a "Raw" comic compilation.
>>>
>>> I recall 'When Comic Strips turn rotten' in Mad Magazine. I don't
>>> recall which issue this was. Charlie Brown kicks Lucy instead of
>>> the football.
>>>
>>
>> There was another in "Mad" on the "What if this nudity trend
>> continues?"
>
>> Ces at "Medium Large" had a corker combining two tropes several years
>> ago:
>
> There was an Arlo and Janis arc (October 1997) in which Jimmy Johnson
> depicted Arlo visiting a piano showroom; the salesman was clearly a
> grown-up Schroeder.
>
abandoned it after a few strips when Schulz said he didn't like it.
G
Darry...@aol.com
>
> >>> On Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 8:49:34 AM UTC+10,
> >>>
> >>>> you have.
> >>>>
> >>>> There was one by R. Sikoryak of Charlie Brown in Kafka's
> >>>> Metamorphosis which appeared in a "Raw" comic compilation.
> >>>
> >>> I recall 'When Comic Strips turn rotten' in Mad Magazine. I don't
> >>> recall which issue this was. Charlie Brown kicks Lucy instead of
> >>> the football.
> >>>
> >>
> >> There was another in "Mad" on the "What if this nudity trend
> >> continues?"
> >
> >> Ces at "Medium Large" had a corker combining two tropes several years
> >> ago:
> >
> > There was an Arlo and Janis arc (October 1997) in which Jimmy Johnson
> > depicted Arlo visiting a piano showroom; the salesman was clearly a
> > grown-up Schroeder.
> >
>
> I remember also a (brief) parody by Al Capp in '68 (I think). Brief because he
> abandoned it after a few strips when Schulz said he didn't like it.
>
> G
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