Good ol' Charlie Brown
I'm a fan of Peanuts, and today is Charles Schulz's birthday. Thus...
...I guess I should've titled this post "Good ol' Snoopy" since Snoopy's the one on the bow, but...well, oh well. Peanuts has always been big with my family; during Halloween and Christmas we'd drop everything to watch the appropriate specials. "I got a rock" and "YOU! ARE! COMMITTED!!!" are family catchphrases (the second one stems from the more obscure Snoopy's Getting Married). We had characters that we related to; my music-loving father liked Schroder the best, while my mother was the oldest of three kids and related most to Lucy. She has always been very quick to defend Lucy's actions, unless they involved being mean to Snoopy, which Lucy sometimes was. In Lucy's defense, Snoopy sometimes needed it; I never understood what crawled up his nose and died at the beginning of Snoopy Come Home, for example. Snoopy picked a fight with both Lucy AND with Linus, with no provocation whatsoever, and the scuffle with Linus grew pretty nasty. But anyway, Mama relates with Lucy to the point that she often defends Lucy's behavior. Indeed, I can remember my toddler self being outraged at Lucy's abuse of both Schroder (seen in this clip) and Charlie Brown (seen in this clip), and the ensuing conversation that I had with Mama:
FOUR-YEAR-OLD ME (yelling for the whole family to hear): LUCY'S STUPID!!!
MAMA (confidently): No! Lucy is SMART!
How about "Lucy's a bitch"? I'm sure we can all agree on that. However, when the chips were down, Lucy did have her brothers' backs. She was allowed to pick on Linus and Rerun, but no one else had better ever. Now that I think about it, Lucy was every older sister, including me. I was sadly the bully, the know-it-all, the bitch to my poor sister, but Heaven help anyone else who tried to pick on her. Oddly, despite being bossy and noisy to a fault I related most to Peppermint Patty's best friend, Marcie. I'm not as quiet or as level-headed as Marcie, but we looked a lot alike when I was a little girl, and like Marcie I can be both intelligent and a tremendous flake. I even sometimes call women "Sir," by accident, of course. But I know how to boil eggs, thank y'all too much! Poor Marcie can't even do that. She can FRY them, but she can't BOIL them properly. But for her faults Marcie is quiet, thoughtful, loyal, and tactfully honest, like I wish I had been when I was young. Even today my mouth's filter has quite a few holes, LOL.
For some reason or another, I also loved Woodstock as a little girl. I think it was because he was stubborn and had a temper, kinda like I did at the time. My favorite scene involving him is this one, from It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown!, where Snoopy and Woodstock bicker over the birdhouse. Again, I'm not sure what crawled up Woodstock's nose and died, because at the very beginning of the scene he is scowling. But either way Woodstock got a birdhouse (from Snoopy), got it demolished (by Snoopy), and got a new one (from Snoopy). The whole schtick was hilarious. Easter Beagle is my favorite of the Peanuts holiday programs, both due to Woodstock and Snoopy's bickering, and to Marcie's shenanigans with the eggs.
But then again, it's Charlie Brown! It's hard to pick a favorite program, OR a favorite character! My family loves Peanuts, period, and we've got a lot of friends who do too.
Hugs,
RagingMoon1987
FOUR-YEAR-OLD ME (yelling for the whole family to hear): LUCY'S STUPID!!!
MAMA (confidently): No! Lucy is SMART!
How about "Lucy's a bitch"? I'm sure we can all agree on that. However, when the chips were down, Lucy did have her brothers' backs. She was allowed to pick on Linus and Rerun, but no one else had better ever. Now that I think about it, Lucy was every older sister, including me. I was sadly the bully, the know-it-all, the bitch to my poor sister, but Heaven help anyone else who tried to pick on her. Oddly, despite being bossy and noisy to a fault I related most to Peppermint Patty's best friend, Marcie. I'm not as quiet or as level-headed as Marcie, but we looked a lot alike when I was a little girl, and like Marcie I can be both intelligent and a tremendous flake. I even sometimes call women "Sir," by accident, of course. But I know how to boil eggs, thank y'all too much! Poor Marcie can't even do that. She can FRY them, but she can't BOIL them properly. But for her faults Marcie is quiet, thoughtful, loyal, and tactfully honest, like I wish I had been when I was young. Even today my mouth's filter has quite a few holes, LOL.
For some reason or another, I also loved Woodstock as a little girl. I think it was because he was stubborn and had a temper, kinda like I did at the time. My favorite scene involving him is this one, from It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown!, where Snoopy and Woodstock bicker over the birdhouse. Again, I'm not sure what crawled up Woodstock's nose and died, because at the very beginning of the scene he is scowling. But either way Woodstock got a birdhouse (from Snoopy), got it demolished (by Snoopy), and got a new one (from Snoopy). The whole schtick was hilarious. Easter Beagle is my favorite of the Peanuts holiday programs, both due to Woodstock and Snoopy's bickering, and to Marcie's shenanigans with the eggs.
But then again, it's Charlie Brown! It's hard to pick a favorite program, OR a favorite character! My family loves Peanuts, period, and we've got a lot of friends who do too.
Hugs,
RagingMoon1987
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