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  • Peanuts, this week (re Lucy)

    From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 8 10:50:53 2023
    It's from November, 1976.

    https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2023/11/06
    (first strip, from two days ago)

    I don't recall ANY other arc that features Lucy addressing a teacher or the whole class.

    Does anyone here? Where can I find them?

    (Maybe Schulz felt she was too dominant in general - or that Peppermint Patty was more funny in school.)

    I was going to post this at the Peanuts newsgroup - but at this point, I doubt anyone would see it.

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  • From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to Lenona on Wed Nov 15 23:09:52 2023
    On 11/8/2023 1:50 PM, Lenona wrote:
    It's from November, 1976.

    https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2023/11/06
    (first strip, from two days ago)

    I don't recall ANY other arc that features Lucy addressing a teacher or the whole class.

    Does anyone here? Where can I find them?

    Good observation!

    Here's the only other instance I can find where Lucy addresses
    a teacher:

    https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1996/09/05

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  • From Lenona@21:1/5 to Timothy Chow on Thu Nov 16 11:30:29 2023
    On Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 11:09:56 PM UTC-5, Timothy Chow wrote:

    Good observation!

    Here's the only other instance I can find where Lucy addresses
    a teacher:

    https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1996/09/05

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    Tim Chow


    Thanks.

    Even though I knew, from the drawing style (without even looking at the date, I mean), that it wasn't part of a truly funny arc.

    IMHO, Schulz stopped being funny, in the dailies, after 1970 or even earlier.

    But the 1970s movies were SOMEWHAT funny...

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Nov 16 20:20:54 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Lenona <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 11:09:56 PM UTC-5, Timothy Chow wrote:

    Good observation!

    Here's the only other instance I can find where Lucy addresses
    a teacher:

    https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1996/09/05

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    Tim Chow


    Thanks.

    Even though I knew, from the drawing style (without even looking at the
    date, I mean), that it wasn't part of a truly funny arc.

    IMHO, Schulz stopped being funny, in the dailies, after 1970 or even earlier.

    But the 1970s movies were SOMEWHAT funny...

    For sure the ratio dropped, but he never stopped.
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  • From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 17 12:15:59 2023
    On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 3:20:57 PM UTC-5, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

    Lenona wrote:

    IMHO, Schulz stopped being funny, in the dailies, after 1970 or even earlier.

    But the 1970s movies were SOMEWHAT funny...

    For sure the ratio dropped, but he never stopped.


    If you say so.

    I looked up a Sunday strip about Linus, his blanket and his grandma. As I remembered it, the solution/punchline was definitely forced. I.e., clever but more annoying than funny.

    To my surprise...it was published on August 16th, 1964!

    https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/August_1964_comic_strips
    (this also has quite a few strips I'd never seen)

    So I'd say he started going downhill around then.

    But I WILL admit the 1973 arc about Snoopy/Hank Aaron was funny.

    https://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2021/01/henry-louis-aaron-1934-2021.html

    Note: This was back when the sports term "goat" had the opposite meaning!

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  • From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to Lenona on Mon Nov 20 17:49:22 2023
    On 11/17/2023 3:15 PM, Lenona wrote:
    I looked up a Sunday strip about Linus, his blanket and his grandma. As I remembered it, the solution/punchline was definitely forced. I.e., clever but more annoying than funny.

    To my surprise...it was published on August 16th, 1964!

    https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/August_1964_comic_strips
    (this also has quite a few strips I'd never seen)

    So I'd say he started going downhill around then.

    But I WILL admit the 1973 arc about Snoopy/Hank Aaron was funny.

    Nobody hits a home run every time, even Hank Aaron.

    But in any case, I don't judge a character-driven strip like Peanuts
    primarily by how funny it is. I judge it more by the depth of the
    personalities and the strength of the story arcs. Toward the end,
    I think Schulz developed Rerun in remarkably fresh ways. The weakest
    period, IMO, was the early 1980s, and it's probably not a coincidence
    that that's when the Fawcett Crest and Peanuts Parade books fizzled
    out.

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    Tim Chow

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