The Peanuts Gang

[happyfilmluvguy]

 

[Kimberly]

I LOVE the Peanuts!! Snoopy was always my favorite because he was so funny! I can still watch them to this day without getting bored. They don't make cartoons like that anymore.

 

[Lady Day]

Charles Schultz was a genius.

LD

 

[Adelaidey]

My mum and I love Peanuts so much...

we named my puppygirl Lucy.

'Nuff said

 

[LizzieMaine]

I had a whole shelf full of the paperback collections of the strip, and would read them over and over and over again. The kids in "Peanuts" seemed so much more real and honest than any other comic strip kids -- there really *were* kids I knew who would gladly pull a football away -- and Schulz was the only cartoonist on the comic page in those days who was honest enough to admit that childhood wasn't always cute and sweet and innocent. (No wonder Shermy and Violet moved away!)

 

[pretty faythe]

Gosh, they just don't play their holiday specials like they used to when growing up. I remember watching a Peanuts special more than once a year, on regular television. Now its hard to even find them once, even on cable.

 

[dhermann1]

It was from Linus that I first learned my cri du coeur: "There is no heavier burden that a great potential!"

 

[olive bleu]

I've always felt a close kinship with Lucy.Just ask my Mother.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

I remember wanting a baby piano with Beethoven's head on top of it.

 

[cooper]

I had a whole shelf full of the paperback collections of the strip, and would read them over and over and over again. The kids in "Peanuts" seemed so much more real and honest than any other comic strip kids -- there really *were* kids I knew who would gladly pull a football away -- and Schulz was the only cartoonist on the comic page in those days who was honest enough to admit that childhood wasn't always cute and sweet and innocent. (No wonder Shermy and Violet moved away!)

My mothers friend across the street used to buy me the paperbacks all the time. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

 

[June]

My very favorite comic. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Charlie Brown and the gang.

 

[manton]

I had a whole shelf full of the paperback collections of the strip, and would read them over and over and over again. The kids in "Peanuts" seemed so much more real and honest than any other comic strip kids -- there really *were* kids I knew who would gladly pull a football away -- and Schulz was the only cartoonist on the comic page in those days who was honest enough to admit that childhood wasn't always cute and sweet and innocent. (No wonder Shermy and Violet moved away!)

I had a lot of these too, and I always preferred the earlier strips to the later ones.

When they began publishing the entire strip from day one, I bought some of the early volumes, and it's remarkable how largely unsentimental they are. They are also much funnier than what came later. In the newspaper of my youth, Peanuts was treacley. Back in the 50s and 60s, it wasn't.

 

[SinatraStyle]

I love Peanuts. As many have already mentioned, Christmas would be missing something without "A Charlie Brown Christmas". It's hard to believe that CBS almost decided not to air the special. I'm glad they went ahead with it. The reasons for their hesitation are the same qualities that make the movie great.