Please tell me - Who is your favorite PEANUTS character?

[mdmc]

for me it is Schroeder - I always liked how Charlie Brown loved baseball and Schroeder was his catcher. I had a Schroeder piggy bank when I was a kid.


I wonder who was your favorite character -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Peanuts_characters

[AllenVanAllen]

1. I gotta say Chuck.

He just kept on keeping on.




and never stopped trying to kick that football.

[mdmc]

6. i wonder if anyone ever got to kick that football..

in all those years, did anyone ever kick that thing?

[AllenVanAllen]

8. I think not

Lucy was probably an equal opportunity grief maker.

[HughBeaumont]

20. I think if he'd have just said "Fuck it" and used a tee . . .

.. . . even THAT would have fallen over as he would try to kick it.

Charles Schultz - "I never thought Charlie Brown was a loser, because a loser would give up trying."

[AllenVanAllen]

23. What a great quote from Charles Schultz.

I'm glad he left such a wonderful legacy.

[mdmc]

26. thanks for the reply

peace and low stress

[flvegan]

2. Snoopy.

Good ole Joe Cool.

[Dr. Strange]

36. Yeah, baby!

[Moondog]

3. Lucy - she's an asshole

and she reminds me of my ex. A two-fer.

[Pool Hall Ace]

4. I like the lesbian couple

Peppermint Patty and Marcie

[Aristus]

9. Nope. They weren't lesbians; they both had a thing for CB.

And not in that "he'll make such a great beard!" way, either...

[Pool Hall Ace]

11. Both of them? I knew Patty had a thing for Chuck

but I thought Marcie was strictly into Patty.

[Aristus]

14. I'm pretty sure there were a few strips and I think even one of the TV specials that hinted

at Marcie's attraction to Charlie Brown. She tended to get lost in the shadow of the overbearing Peppermint Patty.

[Pool Hall Ace]

15. Yes, she did get lost in Peppermint Patty's shadow, didn't she.

I guess that's why Marcie called her "Sir."

[Chan790]

5. Linus.

He strikes me as the most human...he's by far the best written character IMO.

[susanr516]

38. Yep, Linus nt

[HopeHoops]

7. Snoopy's brother Spike.

He needs a hug, but all he has are cacti!

[Aristus]

10. Snoopy. For this among many reasons:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQX2B67KL4

[madinmaryland]

25. What would William Shakespeare say about Snoopy and the gang?

I'm trying to give you some new material!

[trof]

12. MR. PEANUT!

[elocs]

13. I'd have to say Snoopy. I had a poly sci prof in college

who went on about what all the Peanuts characters represented.

One of my favorite Peanuts' strips was Linus saying to Snoopy, "I would think it would be boring sitting on top of your doghouse all day".

Snoopy replies, "On the contrary, who could be bored...

sitting at the controls of the Starship Enterprise?"

I always thought there should have been a simple, one-panel final Peanuts strip after Charles Schultz died of all the gang around a grave sight, just standing there and not saying anything.

[pokerfan]

16. Linus was the most philosophical

and had a big sister so I can identify with him.

[surrealAmerican]

17. Woodstock.

I'm not sure why, but he was always my favorite.

[Xipe Totec]

43. Yeah, baby!

[Mist]

18. Linus, by far. Very philosophical. But there were times I really identified with Lucy. nt

[rurallib]

19. Miss Othmar

what that poor woman had to put up with

[HughBeaumont]

21. Franklin.

Because he's grindcore.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Pig Pen.

[peekaloo]

27. same here. That cloud of dirt that surrounded him always made me laugh.

[Iggo]

24. The Little Red-Haired Girl

[Burma Jones]

28. Snoopy......

Although I played Charlie Brown in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" way back in 9th Grade......

[LynneSin]

29. My vote is for Mr. Peanut!

[rockymountaindem]

30. He looks younger than ever

Someone's been nipping into the Botox.

[Blue_Tires]

31. it if funny how much that strip influenced my life

and i came up in the 80s reading my dad's old peanuts books from the 60s and 70s (great stuff)...

Because of Peanuts, as a kid I:

Knew in nauseating detail about who Beethoven was (even wrote a report on him)

Got into baseball, but not as a pitcher

Begged my parents and finally got a dog (beagle was of course my first choice but i got overruled)...Sadly our dog was an inside dog with no cool house in the back

Wanted to be a spelling bee winner

Wanted to set up a psychology stand (parents talked me out of it)

Snatched the football from friends running to kick it

and call this creepy if you want, but i actually had my own security blanket with a multitude of uses (and for a time, i took it EVERYWHERE until my parents "accidentally" left it in a hotel while we were on vacation)...

And the character I related to the most was Charlie Brown, but my favorite was Snoopy and Woodstock

[Louisiana1976]

49. ....

[Bertha Venation]

32. Why, Peppermint Patty, of course.

The first dyke in comics.

Although maybe it should be Pigpen . . .

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. Linus, Snoopy and PigPen

all three.

[MissMillie]

34. The adults in the show... teachers usually

that make that "whah whah whah" sound.

[joeybee12]

35. What about some of the older characters who somehow went away...

...Violet, Patty (not Peppermint Patty) the boy with dark hair, and the girl with naturally curly hair?

[mdmc]

39. i remember them!

[Kali]

48. Sally

she was Charlie's sister.

[LeftishBrit]

37. Linus, and Peppermint Patty

[Heidi]

40. Peppermint Patty. (nt)

[mdmc]

41. kick

[Maccagirl]

42. Linus

The world could use his gentle spirit.

[ThatsMyBarack]

44. Peppermint Patty!

She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown!

[Danger Mouse]

45. I have to say Linus. He was one of the big inspirations behind Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes.

[bluestateguy]

46. Lucy

She doesn't have time for bullshit. She gets things done.

[Kickin_Donkey]

47. Woodstock