Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 01, 2016

it’s kind of a shame we don’t see the other Peanuts characters’ other members of their extended families… well, there’s Snoopy’s other siblings (Spike, andy, Olaf, etc.), but but no cousins

“Happiness is a thumb and a blanket.”

Tell her or not, it won’t change her opinion.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a witty child.

By this point it was long forgotten that Lucy used to have blanket too. Those strips were never collected until the new reprint collections.

I watched that movie “Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown” involving Linus’s grandma ordering Linus to give up his blanket.

Good call, Lucy: Grandparents don’t appreciate sarcasm.

I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning.

At least Grandma can take comfort in Linus’s vocabulary and mastery of complex sentence structure.This implies the existence of cousins. I don’t recall any Peanuts character being introduced as a cousin of another. Are they as unseen as the adults?

Quite likely Lucy already forgot what Linus said, anyway…

“It’s possible—I think—to make a mistake in the strip and without realizing it, destroy it … I realized it myself a couple of years ago when I began to introduce Snoopy’s brothers and sisters … It destroyed the relationship that Snoopy has with the kids, which is a very strange relationship.” – Charles Schulz, 1987

For me the appeal of Peanuts comes from varying and deepening the well-known relationships. Introducing more and more characters would have had a broadening and flattening effect.

He’ll dispose of his blanket when he’s good and ready.

How does “Never” sound?

xxx