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* UglyCute: Spike, a disheveled stray dog who is as thin as a twig, looks cute because of the art style and has a certain charm to his character.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: There are some fans who really liked Robert Tower’s and/or Cam Clarke’s voices for Snoopy’s dialogue in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown/Snoopy the Musical’s animated specials, and thought it was a shame that they were never used again, even though Schulz never wanted Snoopy to have dialogue in the cartoons.
** In fact, some would even go as far as to say that Snoopy being pantomime only works as funny small slapstick scenes in a B-plot to the plot of a special, and feel as though newer animated stuff like The Snoopy Show focusing mainly on him just doesn’t work, while him having thoughts adds more to his character/personality.
** Many characters in the comic strip such as Violet or Frieda had a lot of appearances before barely appearing near the end of the strips run, marking some fans wish they were used more.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: There are some fans who really liked Robert Tower’s and/or Cam Clarke’s voices for Snoopy’s dialogue in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown/Snoopy the Musical’s animated specials, and thought it was a shame that they were never used again, even though Schulz never wanted Snoopy to have dialogue in the cartoons.
** In fact, some would even go as far as to say that Snoopy being pantomime only works as funny small slapstick scenes in a B-plot to the plot of a special, and feel as though newer animated stuff like The Snoopy Show focusing mainly on him just doesn’t work, while him having thoughts adds more to his character/personality.
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Many characters in the comic strip such as Violet or Frieda had a lot of appearances before barely appearing near the end of the strips run, marking some fans wish they were used more.
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* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Believe or not, Charlie Brown. In ''Peanuts'' fanfiction (yes, there is ''Peanuts'' fanfiction), he's been paired up with [[{{Tomboy}} Peppermint Patty]], [[{{Canon}} The Little]] [[SatelliteLoveInterest Red-]]{{H|eroesWantRedheads}}aired [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen Girl]], [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Lucy]] and [[CrackPairing Frieda]]. In the strip, there's also Marcie, who has a huge crush on Charlie Brown, and he also had a short-lived romance with a girl named Peggy Jean. And in the early days, [[ThoseTwoGuys Patty and Violet]] sometimes showed romantic interest in him.

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* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Believe or not, Charlie Brown. In ''Peanuts'' fanfiction (yes, there is ''Peanuts'' fanfiction), he's been paired up with [[{{Tomboy}} Peppermint Patty]], [[{{Canon}} The Little]] [[SatelliteLoveInterest Red-]]{{H|eroesWantRedheads}}aired [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen The Little Red-Haired Girl]], [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Lucy]] and [[CrackPairing Frieda]]. In the strip, there's also Marcie, who has a huge crush on Charlie Brown, and he also had a short-lived romance with a girl named Peggy Jean. And in the early days, [[ThoseTwoGuys Patty and Violet]] sometimes showed romantic interest in him.
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** In the same strip, after Doozy adopts Guard Dog, a tethered dog, she renames him to Sparky, the exact same nickname Schultz had growing up. [=McDonnell=] later claimed [[https://mutts.com/blogs/news/a-letter-from-patrick-the-guard-dog-story in a blog post]] that this was done as a tribute to his childhood idol, saying that ''Mutts'' nor Guard Dog would've been possible without Schultz's inspiration.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: There are some fans who really liked Robert Tower’s and/or Cam Clarke’s voices for Snoopy’s dialogue in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown/Snoopy the Musical’s animated specials, and thought it was a shame that they were never used again, even though Schulz never wanted Snoopy to have dialogue in the cartoons.
** In fact, some would even go as far as to say that Snoopy being pantomime only works as funny small slapstick scenes in a B-plot to the plot of a special, and feel as though newer animated stuff like The Snoopy Show focusing mainly on him just doesn’t work, while him having thoughts adds more to his character/personality.
** Many characters in the comic strip such as Violet or Frieda had a lot of appearances before barely appearing near the end of the strips run, marking some fans wish they were used more.



* WastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: There are some fans who really liked Robert Tower’s and/or Cam Clarke’s voices for Snoopy’s dialogue in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown/Snoopy the Musical’s animated specials, and thought it was a shame that they were never used again, even though Schulz never wanted Snoopy to have dialogue in the cartoons.
** In fact, some would even go as far as to say that Snoopy being pantomime only works as funny small slapstick scenes in a B-plot to the plot of a special, and feel as though newer animated stuff like The Snoopy Show focusing mainly on him just doesn’t work, while him having thoughts adds more to his character/personality.
** Many characters in the comic strip such as Violet or Frieda had a lot of appearances before barely appearing near the end of the strips run, marking some fans wish they were used more.
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* Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: There are some fans who really liked Robert Tower’s and/or Cam Clarke’s voices for Snoopy’s dialogue in You’re a Goon Man Charlie Brown/Snoopy the Musical’s animated specials, and thought it was a shame that they were never used again, even though Schulz never wanted Snoopy to have dialogue in the cartoons.

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* Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: WastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: There are some fans who really liked Robert Tower’s and/or Cam Clarke’s voices for Snoopy’s dialogue in You’re a Goon Good Man Charlie Brown/Snoopy the Musical’s animated specials, and thought it was a shame that they were never used again, even though Schulz never wanted Snoopy to have dialogue in the cartoons.

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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: The strip sometimes suffers from this, due both to its own cultural ubiquity and to the influence it's had on countless other comics over the last half-century. Consider this: Schulz's characters were considered ''dysfunctional'' in the 1950s and '60s. After comics like ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' or ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'', it can be hard to believe this considering any parent would dream to have kids as intelligent and introspective as the Peanuts Gang are.
** As ''Calvin and Hobbes'' creator Bill Watterson once put it in an interview:
--->"Every now and then I hear that ''Peanuts'' isn't as funny as it was or it's gotten old or something like that. I think what's really happened is that Schulz, in ''Peanuts'', changed the entire face of comic strips, and everybody has now caught up to him. I don't think he's five years ahead of everybody else like he used to be, so that's taken some of the edge off it. I think it's still a wonderful strip in terms of solid construction, character development, the fantasy element...Things that we now take for granted--reading the thoughts of an animal for example--there's not a cartoonist who's done anything since 1960 who doesn't owe Schulz a tremendous debt."



* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The strip sometimes suffers from this, due both to its own cultural ubiquity and to the influence it's had on countless other comics over the last half-century. Consider this: Schulz's characters were considered ''dysfunctional'' in the 1950s and '60s. After comics like ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' or ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'', it can be hard to believe this considering any parent would dream to have kids as intelligent and introspective as the Peanuts Gang are.
** As ''Calvin and Hobbes'' creator Bill Watterson once put it in an interview:
--->"Every now and then I hear that ''Peanuts'' isn't as funny as it was or it's gotten old or something like that. I think what's really happened is that Schulz, in ''Peanuts'', changed the entire face of comic strips, and everybody has now caught up to him. I don't think he's five years ahead of everybody else like he used to be, so that's taken some of the edge off it. I think it's still a wonderful strip in terms of solid construction, character development, the fantasy element...Things that we now take for granted--reading the thoughts of an animal for example--there's not a cartoonist who's done anything since 1960 who doesn't owe Schulz a tremendous debt."
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**Many characters in the comic strip such as Violet or Frieda had a lot of appearances before barely appearing near the end of the strips run, marking some fans wish they were used more.
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** In fact, some would even go as far as to say that Snoopy being pantomime only works as funny small slapstick scenes in a B-plot to the plot of a special, and feel as though newer animated stuff like The Snoopy Show focusing mainly on him just doesn’t work, while that him having thoughts adds more to his character/personality.

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** In fact, some would even go as far as to say that Snoopy being pantomime only works as funny small slapstick scenes in a B-plot to the plot of a special, and feel as though newer animated stuff like The Snoopy Show focusing mainly on him just doesn’t work, while that him having thoughts adds more to his character/personality.
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* Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: There are some fans who really liked Robert Tower’s and/or Cam Clarke’s voices for Snoopy’s dialogue in You’re a Goon Man Charlie Brown/Snoopy the Musical’s animated specials, and thought it was a shame that they were never used again, even though Schulz never wanted Snoopy to have dialogue in the cartoons.
** In fact, some would even argue that Snoopy being The Silent Bob only works as a B-plot to a plot of a special, and feel as though newer animated stuff like The Snoopy Show focusing mainly on him just doesn’t work, and that him having thoughts adds more to his character/personality

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* Wasted *Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: There are some fans who really liked Robert Tower’s and/or Cam Clarke’s voices for Snoopy’s dialogue in You’re a Goon Man Charlie Brown/Snoopy the Musical’s animated specials, and thought it was a shame that they were never used again, even though Schulz never wanted Snoopy to have dialogue in the cartoons.
** In fact, some would even argue go as far as to say that Snoopy being The Silent Bob pantomime only works as funny small slapstick scenes in a B-plot to a the plot of a special, and feel as though newer animated stuff like The Snoopy Show focusing mainly on him just doesn’t work, and while that him having thoughts adds more to his character/personality character/personality.
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* Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: There are some fans who really liked Robert Tower’s and/or Cam Clarke’s voices for Snoopy’s dialogue in You’re a Goon Man Charlie Brown/Snoopy the Musical’s animated specials, and thought it was a shame that they were never used again, even though Schulz never wanted Snoopy to have dialogue in the cartoons.
** In fact, some would even argue that Snoopy being The Silent Bob only works as a B-plot to a plot of a special, and feel as though newer animated stuff like The Snoopy Show focusing mainly on him just doesn’t work, and that him having thoughts adds more to his character/personality
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** ''You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown'' would become quickly and oddly prophetic, having aired alongside Super Bowl XXVIII. The special depicts Snoopy's team defeating a team of small buffalo, while the winner of the Pass and Punt competition, Melody Melody, was adorned in a Dallas Cowboys helmet and jersey. The Cowboys would go on to win that very Super Bowl, with the opponent they defeated being the Buffalo Bills.
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** In 2021, a graphic novel titled ''Scotland Bound, Charlie Brown'' would be released, based upon the concept for a scrapped special decades prior. Charlie Brown and the gang travel to Scotland, and Charlie Brown gets to meet his pen pal - a girl named Morag. The trip also involved a tour of several Scottish landmarks, one of which was Loch Ness. Just a few months later, [[Characters/TheLoudHouseLincolnLoud another round-headed kid]], one who happens to be based on good ol' Chuck himself, [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouseMovie would go on a Scottish adventure of his own]], where both a Loch and a woman named Morag would play major roles.

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* HilariousInHindsight: In 2021, a graphic novel titled ''Scotland Bound, Charlie Brown'' would be released, based upon the concept for a scrapped special decades prior. Charlie Brown and the gang travel to Scotland, and Charlie Brown gets to meet his pen pal - a girl named Morag. The trip also involved a tour of several Scottish landmarks, one of which was Loch Ness. Just a few months later, [[Characters/TheLoudHouseLincolnLoud another round-headed kid]], one who happens to be based on good ol' Chuck himself, [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouseMovie would go on a Scottish adventure of his own]], where both a Loch and a woman named Morag would play major roles.



* HoYay: Marcie and Peppermint Patty are sometimes seen as lesbians, due to Patty's tomboyishness and Marcie's worshipful attitude towards her. This has mainly been picked up on by later works referencing the original comic. Subverted in that [[WordOfGod Charles Schulz himself]] stated that the two have no romantic attraction towards each other whatsoever, and that they're "too young to worry about these kinds of things". The duo's respective crushes on Charlie Brown only adds to this.



* LGBTFanbase: Despite being (presumably) straight in canon[[note]]they both have crushes on Charlie Brown and have displayed an attraction towards several guys in the TV specials[[/note]], Peppermint Patty and Marcie have garnered a large lesbian following, Peppermint Patty due to her tomboyish looks and personality resonating with many lesbians, and Marcie due to her closeness with Peppermint Patty and tendency to call her "sir". Unsurprisingly, it is very common to see them portrayed as a [[AdaptationalSexuality lesbian couple in parodies and fanworks]]. Peppermint Patty has also attracted some non-binary fans as well due to her dislike of being referred to as sir or ma'am.

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* LGBTFanbase: Despite being (presumably) straight in canon[[note]]they both have crushes on Charlie Brown and have displayed an attraction towards several guys in the TV specials[[/note]], and never having shown attraction towards each other or other girls, Peppermint Patty and Marcie have garnered a large lesbian following, following. Peppermint Patty due to her tomboyish looks and personality resonating with many lesbians, and Marcie due to her closeness with Peppermint Patty and tendency to call her "sir". Unsurprisingly, it is very common to see them portrayed as a [[AdaptationalSexuality lesbian couple in parodies and fanworks]]. Peppermint Patty has also attracted some non-binary fans as well due to her dislike of being referred to as sir or ma'am.
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* HoYay: Marcie and Peppermint Patty are sometimes seen as lesbians, due to Patty's tomboyishness and Marcie's worshipful attitude towards her. This has mainly been picked up on by later works referencing the original comic. Subverted in that [[WordoOfGod Charles Schulz himself]] stated that the two have no romantic attraction towards each other whatsoever, and that they're "too young to worry about these kinds of things". The duo's respective crushes on Charlie Brown only adds to this.

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* HoYay: Marcie and Peppermint Patty are sometimes seen as lesbians, due to Patty's tomboyishness and Marcie's worshipful attitude towards her. This has mainly been picked up on by later works referencing the original comic. Subverted in that [[WordoOfGod [[WordOfGod Charles Schulz himself]] stated that the two have no romantic attraction towards each other whatsoever, and that they're "too young to worry about these kinds of things". The duo's respective crushes on Charlie Brown only adds to this.

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* HilariousInHindsight: In 2021, a graphic novel titled ''Scotland Bound, Charlie Brown'' would be released, based upon the concept for a scrapped special decades prior. Charlie Brown and the gang travel to Scotland, and Charlie Brown gets to meet his pen pal - a girl named Morag. The trip also involved a tour of several Scottish landmarks, one of which was Loch Ness. Just a few months later, [[Characters/TheLoudHouseLincolnLoud another round-headed kid]], one who happens to be based on good ol' Chuck himself, [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouseMovie would go on a Scottish adventure of his own]], where both a Loch and a woman named Morag would play major roles.



* HoYay: Marcie and Peppermint Patty are sometimes seen as lesbians, due to Patty's tomboyishness and Marcie's worshipful attitude towards her. This has mainly been picked up on by later works referencing the original comic.

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* HoYay: Marcie and Peppermint Patty are sometimes seen as lesbians, due to Patty's tomboyishness and Marcie's worshipful attitude towards her. This has mainly been picked up on by later works referencing the original comic. Subverted in that [[WordoOfGod Charles Schulz himself]] stated that the two have no romantic attraction towards each other whatsoever, and that they're "too young to worry about these kinds of things". The duo's respective crushes on Charlie Brown only adds to this.

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* NauseaFuel: An early 1970s Sunday strip has this, when Lucy drinks some soda with a straw that Snoopy used without her knowledge. The disgusted expressions that Charlie Brown makes because of this distract Lucy from their conversation.

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* NauseaFuel: An early 1970s Sunday strip has this, when Lucy drinks drink some soda with a straw that Snoopy used without her knowledge. The disgusted expressions that Charlie Brown makes because of this distract Lucy from their conversation.


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*** ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' (1965), Lucy comments on Beethoven never being featured on bubblegum cards. Said cards are usually referred to as "trading cards" nowadays, as the majority of them stopped being packaged with bubblegum in the early '90s.


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*** In ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown'' (1966), the kids refer to trick-or-treating as "tricks or treats", which was used interchangeably with the singular version during the decade before falling out of use in the 1970s.

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* CatharsisFactor:
%%zce** Charlie Brown and Peggy Jean becoming friends.
** In one story arc, Charlie Brown is so sick he goes to the hospital. Lucy tells him that she won't pull the ball away. She doesn't... but Charlie misses and kicks her hand instead. Intended to be EpicFail, but many people had wanted Charlie to do ''just that''. He also finally kicks the ball in the animated "It's Magic, Charlie Brown!" special.

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CatharsisFactor: In one story arc, Charlie Brown is so sick he goes to the hospital. Lucy tells him that she won't pull the ball away. She doesn't... but Charlie misses and kicks her hand instead. Intended to be EpicFail, but many people had wanted Charlie to do ''just that''. He also finally kicks the ball in the animated "It's Magic, Charlie Brown!" special.
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** The September 30th, 1971 strip has Linus find a discarded pair of disposable anaglyph 3D glasses and give them to Snoopy, who is happy because now he’ll be ready if “3D comes back.” 3D would indeed return (and subsequently disappear again) several times over the following years for movies and television.

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** The September 30th, 1971 strip has Linus find a discarded pair of disposable anaglyph 3D glasses and give them to Snoopy, who is happy because now he’ll be ready if “3D comes back.” 3D would indeed return (and subsequently disappear again) several times over the following years for movies and television.television, albeit using glasses more sophisticated than disposable anaglyphs.

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