History Trivia / Peanuts

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Schulz often stated how much he loved the "Mr. Sack" strip sequence from 1973 (and later adapted part of the animated special ''It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown''), where Charlie Brown goes to summer camp wearing a sack on his head after developing a strange rash, only to become the most popular kid there.

* ImageSource: Aside from the tropes it's named, the comic also provides examples for:
** AbsurdPhobia
** AcidRefluxNightmare
** AmbiguousEnding
** ButtMonkey
** CowboysAndIndians
** IKnowYouKnowIKnow
** InSeriesNickname
** NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity
** OverlyNarrowSuperlative
** SoundDefect
** VolumetricMouth

* QuoteSource:
** RedBaron

* ShortRunInPeru: Interestingly, two classic ''Peanuts'' specials debuted on the Creator/{{CBC}} in Canada before their American premieres. ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown'' aired on October 26, 1966, one day before its CBS debut. ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownThanksgiving'', however, aired in Canada almost six weeks before its American premiere, on October 6, 1972, in the run-up to Canadian Thanksgiving.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Some of the animated specials come off as this.
*** In ''Charlie Brown's All-Stars'' (1966), Charlie Brown wants his team to play on an organized league only to learn that teams with girls on them can't be sponsored. At the time, Little League actually was off-limits to girls.
*** In ''There's No Time For Love, Charlie Brown'' (1973), Peppermint Patty comments that the metric system will probably be official by the time she reaches high school.[[note]]Like the rest of the English-speaking world, the United States was on track to switch to metric by the early 1980s. ''Unlike'' everywhere else, however, the process went completely off the rails by the end of the 70s – major industries were split on the issue (some supported it, but the economically-vital housing sector - construction, engineering, surveying, etc. - was dead-set against), the public was overwhelmingly opposed (this was also true in other countries, but their governments forced it through anyway), and the cost of changing millions of road signs and other official stuff during the era of Stagflation was deemed "not worth it". So, Congress gave up partway through, leaving the weird mix of Customary & Metric that's still in use in the USA today.[[/note]]
*** In ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheEasterBeagleCharlieBrown'' (1974), Sally wants to buy platform shoes which were all the rage in TheSeventies.
*** ''You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown'' (1979) has Charlie Brown thinking that people will "treat [him] like Bruce Jenner" who is known as Caitlyn now.
*** In the decades since ''Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown'' (1980), the popularity of the traditional traveling circus fell into steep decline. Most notably, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed in 2017.
*** There's also ''It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown'' (1984), which could not more obviously be tied to the 1983 film ''Film/{{Flashdance}}''.
** Many strips refer to real world events, but these were rarely reprinted (precisely because they were dated) until ''The Complete Peanuts''. Occasionally some slipped through when the reference was sufficiently obscure: for example, a series of strips in which Snoopy observes birds having furious (but unintelligible) political arguments while holding signs depicting different punctuation marks. This accompanied the bitter polarized political discourse in the US in the run-up to the 1964 election.
** One strip from 1954 has Lucy ask a dumb question, only for Charlie Brown to offer an obvious fact as a sarcastic reply. That fact? ''"I know there are forty-eight states in the union"''. That's right, ''Peanuts'' is so old it was around before Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states.

-->"All of a sudden I thought, 'You know, that poor, poor kid, he never even got to kick the football. What a dirty trick—he never had a chance to kick the football.'"

** According to some of Schulz's autobiographical books made during his lifetime. The reason Franchise/{{Hello Kitty}} and [[Creator/{{Sanrio}} Sanrio characters came into existence]] was due to [[CreativeDifferences a disagreement he had with the company]]. They also grew tired of paying royalty fees to him. [[note]] Sanrio had merchandise rights for Snoopy back in the 60s and early 70s.[[/note]] As a result, [[StartMyOwn Sanrio decided to create their own characters]]. In later years, the company gained back the merchandise rights to the Snoopy/ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} franchise in Japan after Schulz's death.

** With ABC's announcement that it will no longer air the seasonal specials in 2020, ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' and ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown'' among others have now fallen into this. Creator/AppleTVPlus will stream the specials during the appropriate holiday, however.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Two different games were released as ''Snoopy Tennis'': one on UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch and another for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Schulz was never particularly fond of the title "Peanuts", an invention of the syndicate. He was originally going to call it "Lil' Folks", the title of his proto-''Peanuts'' strip, but had to change it because it sounded too much like names of two other strips from the time, Al Capp's ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'' and the now-unknown ''Little Folks''.
** He specifically worried the title was confusing – that people would just ask [[IAmNotShazam "Who's Peanuts?"]], or refer to it as "Charlie Brown" or "Snoopy". And of course, he was completely right. This is why for several strips during the '60s and '70s, the Sunday strips gave it the title "Peanuts featuring Good Ol' Charlie Brown".
*** Not that it's justified, but the strip started in 1950, when the most popular kids' show was ''Series/TheHowdyDoodyShow''. And where did kids sit on ''Howdy Doody''? The ''peanut gallery''. The person who chose the title [[LogicalFallacies fails logic]] ''[[LogicalFallacies forever]]''.
** Schulz's authorized biographer Rheta Grimsley-Johnson argued that it really wasn't that bad of a name. A generic title works well for a strip with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters; and given the direction the strip eventually took, ''Li'l Folks'' would have wound up being too awkwardly cutesy.

* CrossDressingVoices: Peppermint Patty was voiced by a young boy in several of the cartoons.

* TheDanza: In the Mexican Spanish dubs of the recent specials, Peppermint ''Patty'' is voiced by ''Creator/PatriciaAcevedo''.

* PromotedFanboy: Creator/MegumiHayashibara is a big fan of the comic, to the grade she got the chance of voicing Marcie in the Japanese dubs of some specials.

* AscendedFanfic: Soon after UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr was assassinated, a teacher in Los Angeles wrote to Schulz and suggested that he should add a black kid into the strip, as she believed that having a regular black character in a comic read by millions of people could calm down the heated race relations of the time. Schulz responded to her letter, the two swapped notes, and Franklin made his first appearance not long after.
* ApprovalOfGod: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with [[Creator/CharlesMSchulz Schulz's]] reaction to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15v4tTab0Y 1986 animated parody]] of the Charlie Brown/Peanuts series ''Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown''. According to a Youtube comment by Mr Undiyne from a Youtube upload of the short. He knew somebody in the animation trade that managed to get Schulz to watch the short. Schulz watched the short in complete silence and told the crew that while he found it amusing, he wish to never see the Peanuts characters depicted like that again.

* ApprovalOfGod: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with [[Creator/CharlesMSchulz Schulz's]] reaction to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15v4tTab0Y 1986 animated parody]] of the Charlie Brown/Peanuts series ''Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown''. According to a Youtube comment by Mr Undiyne from a Youtube upload of the short. He knew somebody in the animation trade that managed to get Schulz to watch the short. Schulz watched the short in complete silence and told the crew that while he found it amusing, he wish to never see the Peanuts character depicted like that again.

** Starting in 1965 with ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'', the ''Peanuts'' TV specials aired exclusively on Creator/{{CBS}} until 1994, when ''You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown'' aired on Creator/{{NBC}}. CBS still retained the rights to the classic [[WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown Halloween]], [[WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownThanksgiving Thanksgiving]] and [[WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas Christmas]] specials until 2001, when they moved to Creator/{{ABC}}. That lasted until 2020, when all ''Peanuts'' filmed productions, outside of ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' (which is still available for streaming on Creator/DisneyPlus), moved exclusively to Creator/AppleTVPlus. The first such classic special to be posted was ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown'' and the other major ones will be posted when the relevant holidays approach. Furthermore, the Apple service has announced that among other ''Peanuts'' adaptations, they will produce specials for other occasions such as Mother's Day, Earth Day and the return to school etc. While at first it appeared that this spelled the end of the specials airing on broadcast TV, [[https://www.pbs.org/video/charlie-brown-thanksgiving-ti4l9s/ it was announced that]] ''A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving'' will air on Creator/{{PBS}} and Creator/PBSKids.

* ApprovalOfGod: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with [[Creator/CharlesMSchulz Schulz's]] reaction to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15v4tTab0Y 1986 animated parody]] of Peanuts ''Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown''. According to a Youtube comment by Mr Undiyne from a Youtube upload of the short. He knew somebody in the animation trade that managed to get Schulz to watch the short. Schulz watched the short in complete silence and told the crew that while he found it amusing, he wish to never see the Peanuts character depicted like that again.

** For the ''Series/ThisIsAmericaCharlieBrown'' mini-series (if you want to call it that) from the 1988/89 season, Erin Chase became the only female voice for Charlie Brown.

** For the ''This is America, Charlie Brown'' mini-series (if you want to call it that) from the 1988/89 season, Erin Chase became the only female voice for Charlie Brown.