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-->'''Snoopy:''' My books! My records! My pool table! [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers My Van Gogh!]]\\

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-->'''Snoopy:''' My books! My records! My pool table! [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers My Van Gogh!]]\\Gogh!\\
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''Peanuts'' has a very well-known reputation for being surprisingly melancholic compared to other comic strips, especially when it comes to [[ButtMonkey poor ol' Charlie Brown]], who makes his misery very clear.

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''Peanuts'' has a very well-known reputation for being surprisingly depressing and melancholic compared to other comic strips, especially when it comes to [[ButtMonkey poor ol' Charlie Brown]], who makes his misery very clear.

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''Peanuts'' has a very well-known reputation for being surprisingly melancholic compared to other comic strips, especially when it comes to [[ButtMonkey poor ol' Charlie Brown]], who makes his misery very clear.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome''. Especially the farewell party, at which Charlie Brown is supposed to give a speech but is too emotional to say a single word and just stands there with tears running down his face.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome''. Especially the farewell party, at which Charlie Brown ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'' is supposed to give such a speech but is too emotional to say a single word and just stands there with tears running down his face.tearjerker fest, it has its own page [[Tearjerker/SnoopyComeHome here]].
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* The special [[WesternAnimation/WhyCharlieBrownWhy "Why, Charlie Brown, Why?"]] in which one of their classmates gets leukemia is one big tearjerker as [[LittlestCancerPatient she just gets sicker and sicker]]. Also when she got better at the end.
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** And of course the [[https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2000/02/13 final comic strip ever made.]] Of all the top [[CashCowFranchise Cash Cow Franchises]] in the ''world'', "Peanuts" was the longest running of ''any'' of them that had a definite end. Schulz always thought the comic would outlive him and it did...by ''one day''.

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** And of course the [[https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2000/02/13 final comic strip ever made.]] Of all the top [[CashCowFranchise Cash Cow Franchises]] in the ''world'', "Peanuts" was the longest running of ''any'' of them that had a definite end. Schulz always thought the comic would outlive him and it did... by ''one day''.



-->'''Charlie Brown:''' Ha ha Herman...*sigh*.

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-->'''Charlie Brown:''' Ha ha Herman... *sigh*.



--->'''Snoopy:''' I just '''KNOW''' that this is the end! Those bulldozers will be here first thing on Monday morning to wipe me out! The night is dark and I am lonely...there are so many things I've left unsaid...so many things left undone...

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--->'''Snoopy:''' I just '''KNOW''' that this is the end! Those bulldozers will be here first thing on Monday morning to wipe me out! The night is dark and I am lonely... there are so many things I've left unsaid...unsaid... so many things left undone...



* ''Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown'' (the 2011 DirectToVideo film) adapts a well-known story arc in which Lucy turns Linus's blanket into a kite -- and it winds up drifting away. The arc had previously been adapted into a segment of the 1983 special ''It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown'', but in this version the filmmakers show the kite gliding over the school, over a tree-covered hill...and, later, out to the ocean, where it lands in the water and is bashed by the waves. Between this and Linus's palpable sense of loss, it's remarkably tearjerking.

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* ''Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown'' (the 2011 DirectToVideo film) adapts a well-known story arc in which Lucy turns Linus's blanket into a kite -- and it winds up drifting away. The arc had previously been adapted into a segment of the 1983 special ''It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown'', but in this version the filmmakers show the kite gliding over the school, over a tree-covered hill... and, later, out to the ocean, where it lands in the water and is bashed by the waves. Between this and Linus's palpable sense of loss, it's remarkably tearjerking.
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* [[A Sunday page from 1975 https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1975/02/23]] starts innocuously with Snoopy playing a seemingly harmless prank on a sleeping Woodstock, moving his nest from a tree to a fence post. The strip turns into an absolute gut punch when Woodstock recounts (with Snoopy [[RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear translating) the dream he had when Snoopy moved his nest:

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* [[A Sunday page from 1975 https://www.[[https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1975/02/23]] com/peanuts/1975/02/23 A Sunday page from 1975]] starts innocuously with Snoopy playing a seemingly harmless prank on a sleeping Woodstock, moving his nest from a tree to a fence post. The strip It turns into an absolute gut punch when Woodstock recounts (with Snoopy [[RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear translating) translating for us]]) the dream he had when Snoopy moved his nest:

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* [[A Sunday page from 1975 https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1975/02/23]] starts innocuously with Snoopy playing a seemingly harmless prank on a sleeping Woodstock, moving his nest from a tree to a fence post. The strip turns into an absolute gut punch when Woodstock recounts (with Snoopy [[RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear translating) the dream he had when Snoopy moved his nest:
-->"I dreamed that [[MissingMom my mother]] had come back to the nest and that she and I were flying through the air together, and I was so happy... Then I woke up... my nest was sitting on a fence post... My mother really hadn't come home... I was all alone!"
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-->'''Linus:''' Poor Snoopy.. I see he's lost another friend. It's too bad, he's so sensitive.\\

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-->'''Linus:''' --->'''Linus:''' Poor Snoopy.. I see he's lost another friend. It's too bad, he's so sensitive.\\

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-->'''Snoopy''' ''(to the sun)'' '''Don't melt him!''' He's my friend! He's a good guy! Please don't melt him!! '''Please!''' He's never hurt anyone in his life! '''Please! Please!'''

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-->'''Snoopy''' ''(to the sun)'' sun)'': '''Don't melt him!''' He's my friend! He's a good guy! Please don't melt him!! '''Please!''' He's never hurt anyone in his life! '''Please! Please!'''
** [[https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1962/02/18 The following month, Snoopy gets a new snowman neighbor]] with the same coal eyes and carrot nose, and explains that he's reluctant to strike up another friendship after seeing other snowmen melt away: "I can't stand the agony... the terrible sense of loss... I've been hurt too often." After he decides to risk making friends anyway, the sun immediately comes out and melts this snowman too, leaving Snoopy in tears as Charlie Brown and Linus watch from indoors:
-->'''Linus:''' Poor Snoopy.. I see he's lost another friend. It's too bad, he's so sensitive.\\
'''Charlie Brown:''' Uh, huh... [[MoodWhiplash but I notice he wasn't too sensitive to eat the carrot!]]

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* A week of strips in 1962 has Snoopy strike up a one-sided "friendship" with a snowman near his doghouse, only for the sun to come out and melt it. [[https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1962/01/19 Snoopy's reaction]] is written [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything exactly like the reaction of a real person to the unpreventable death of a loved one]], and the fact that it's only an inanimate object is the only thing that keeps it comedic at all.
-->'''Snoopy''' ''(to the sun)'' '''Don't melt him!''' He's my friend! He's a good guy! Please don't melt him!! '''Please!''' He's never hurt anyone in his life! '''Please! Please!'''
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** Just watching Linus's harrowing reaction to Melody-Melody's betrayal is really depressing when you think about it: his love isn't the best; his favorite teacher ran with her boyfriend before he could her a box of candy, his short-lived romance with Truffles was thwarted by both Snoopy and Sally and Lydia just annoys the heck out of him, and he put a lot of value and trust in Melody, [[YankTheDogsChain only to find out she was just playing him.]] It doesn't take until the * [[WesternAnimation/ItWasMyBestBirthdayEverCharlieBrown next special]] for him to finally get his happy ending.

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** Just watching Linus's harrowing reaction to Melody-Melody's betrayal is really depressing when you think about it: his love isn't the best; his favorite teacher ran with her boyfriend before he could her a box of candy, his short-lived romance with Truffles was thwarted by both Snoopy and Sally and Lydia just annoys the heck out of him, and he put a lot of value and trust in Melody, [[YankTheDogsChain only to find out she was just playing him.]] It doesn't take until the * [[WesternAnimation/ItWasMyBestBirthdayEverCharlieBrown next special]] for him to finally get his happy ending.
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** Just watching Linus's harrowing reaction to Melody-Melody's betrayal is really depressing when you think about it: his love isn't the best; his favorite teacher ran with her boyfriend before he could her a box of candy, his short-lived romance with Truffles was thwarted by both Snoopy and Sally and Lydia just annoys the heck out of him, and he put a lot of value and trust in Melody, [[YankTheDogsChain only to find out she was just playing him.]]

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** Just watching Linus's harrowing reaction to Melody-Melody's betrayal is really depressing when you think about it: his love isn't the best; his favorite teacher ran with her boyfriend before he could her a box of candy, his short-lived romance with Truffles was thwarted by both Snoopy and Sally and Lydia just annoys the heck out of him, and he put a lot of value and trust in Melody, [[YankTheDogsChain only to find out she was just playing him.]]
]] It doesn't take until the * [[WesternAnimation/ItWasMyBestBirthdayEverCharlieBrown next special]] for him to finally get his happy ending.
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* In "You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown", seeing Linus's harrowing reaction to [[BitchInSheepsClothing Melody-Melody's]] betrayal is really depressing when you think about it: his love isn't the best; his favorite teacher ran with her boyfriend before he could her a box of candy, his short-lived romance with Truffles was thwarted by both Snoopy and Sally and Lydia just annoys the heck out of him, and he put a lot of value and trust in Melody, [[YankTheDogsChain only to find out she was just playing him.]]

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* In "You're ''You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown", seeing Brown'', just as Linus is about to win the Punt, Pass and Kick contest, [[YankTheDogsChain a new player shows up at the last minute,]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing and it's none other than Melody-Melody!]] This shocks both him and Charlie Brown as they thought she wanted to see them play. Melody ends up doing a fantastic job and blows Linus' score away, leading her to win the contest. This greatly upsets Linus who ends up telling Charlie Brown he was in love with her before having a mental breakdown. As Melody comes to accept her prize, she brags to Linus about how she'll be at the Super Bowl before biking away, leaving Linus heartbroken.
** Just watching
Linus's harrowing reaction to [[BitchInSheepsClothing Melody-Melody's]] Melody-Melody's betrayal is really depressing when you think about it: his love isn't the best; his favorite teacher ran with her boyfriend before he could her a box of candy, his short-lived romance with Truffles was thwarted by both Snoopy and Sally and Lydia just annoys the heck out of him, and he put a lot of value and trust in Melody, [[YankTheDogsChain only to find out she was just playing him.]]

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