Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 27, 2020

I’m with Sally’s older brother on this one. How does one get penalized for “improper mittens”?

Adults take all the fun out of kids’ games.

I’m glad I never was into organized sports (other than Saturday morning bowling leagues). Just too much structure and too many rules for free spirited me to deal with.

The coach should challenge the play

When they want to disqualify you, they’ll find a way, even if it’s for “using a left-hand sit instead of a right-hand sit.” (Dog obedience trials)

Sally needs to file a formal protest with the league organizers.

At least Charlie Brown knows he made the right decision

They were red mittens, and Sally was caught red-handed.

Perhaps Sally was using oven mittens instead of outdoor snow mittens …

As opposed to the three little kittens who had lost their mittens!

I’m afraid to ask.

Rules are rules!

No one criticizes what you make when you play Minecraft.

Calvin and Suzy are going to always win it all anyhow.

So much for fun….

Charlie’s lucky, he’s a free agent.

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With adults come rules. Rules should be made by the kid when she is playing, like Calvin ball.

This is like Tank McNamara met Peanuts-love it!

what lost your mittens? you naughty kittens, then you shall have no pie.

Too many rules do spoil the fun.

Don’t you hate when you have a perfect quote in mine, but you’re not sure of the phrasing and you can’t find it with google? “I have never helped to organize youth and as a youth, I successfully avoided being organized.” — C. S. Lewis (Yea, I can’t find the exact text)

Oh! “Fun will commence now.” — 7 of 9

Adults should just leave kids games be, for goodness sake.

I love the double overtime endings.

It was rigged……

The adults who organized this need a good a** kicking.

Romney was the referee.

Hope they don’t skip my favorite strip in this arc—it’s about another penalty.

Destroy the snowman. It was made for this idiot contest.

This is some absolutely HORRIBLE vision of the future like “1984” or “Fahrenheit 451”. Too close to the truth!!

How pompous can one get?

These strips that end with a character repeating the last thing another character said are pretty funny. It is an odd way to end a strip, so your mileage may vary.

What I think Schulz was doing here was drawing a parallel with other sports, most likely (U.S.) football, where a player can be penalized for an equipment violation. It could be a real safety issue if a player isn’t wearing all his pads or has one on incorrectly. But the parallel would be a penalty on a player for something like an untucked jersey, which is more of a technicality like “improper mittens”, which is why Sally is upset at the penalty.

It’s all about the mittens

Not everything is meant to be a competitian.

Now what makes mittens improper