Peanuts by Charles Schulz for February 21, 2021

buying Schroeder a new piano is bound to come out of your allowance, young lady

Losing you is not what worries me. It’s not losing you that worries me.

Right now, I think Schroeder is thinking about getting a restraining order.

Oh, yeah, he’s sure.

He doesn’t know what he will do without you but he can’t wait to try…

Okay, take her to the mental ward. Not only is she stalking, now she’s threatening violence.

When they get older there is no way Lucy would end up with Schroeder, she would probably end up married to Chuck living paycheck to paycheck in a duplex next to Marcie and P. Patty while Snoopy would run off to live with the little red headed girl. Schroeder may end up as the “swinging” bachelor playing in nightclubs and ballrooms entertaining older ladies.

He knows the memory of a lost love now. She just killed Schroeder’s one and only love! His little red piano.

Schroeder … time to go to Court and get a Restraining Order issued against Lucy .. plus court costs and cost of a new piano.

At least he now has a prequel to a marriage.

That piano is done for. Kindling. Even some smoke rising from the wreckage.

This was also used for “Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown” a year later from its original 1974 release.

He’ll take his chances.

Sure would’ve worth a try!!!!

No, I just want you to buy me a new piano!

That is NOT how you tune a piano!

Yeah, sure….

In a word, Yes.

Now that I’m older, I identify so much with Lucy. I can still remember sitting on the piano bench while he played.

Lucy, he never was with you

I have felt this way before, but not about a piano that was my rival.

He will take his chances.

Looks like the bigger risk would be in keeping her…

Yes.

Lucy, to answer the question you posed in the last panel, a loud, resounding YES!

This was in ‘Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown’. Every year I watch my DVD of that, by the time Schroeder’s piano is destroyed, I’m sure he wonders what he has to gain with Lucy.

He’d be happy to lose her. “How can I miss you if you won’t go away?”

What a psycho. He needs a restraining order.

I’ll take my chances……

I kinda enjoy memories of lost loves. One married a guy 30 years her senior. Another’s been married 4 times. Another lives in a trailer in rural Oklahoma.

A classic temper tantrum from the fussbudget.

If by doing so, my pianos don’t end up being smashed, I’m willing to take the chance!

Yyyup.

hey destructo girl, cool it!

“Doc, will I ever play the piano again?”

Heck hath no fury like a Lucy scorned.

Yup.

Unpopular opinion: Lucy’s having a hard time, too. Clearly she knows at least a bit of the broken heart she’s talking about, and you can see the suffering in her actions. Yes, she smashed Schroeder’s piano, and no, that’s not okay, but she’s been dealing with Schroeder’s rejection for so long, and everyone has their breaking point. I’m not condoning Lucy’s past actions in which she did awful things to Schroeder’s piano/other people, but I’m just saying, I have sympathy for her because I can see that she’s gone through tough times, too. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Just here for the comments today. You all came through. Thanks.

Annnnd it’s over between Lucy and Schroeder

From the movie “The Money Pit”:

Do you realize what you’ve done? You’ve taken a woman who loves you, one of the great women in the world and thrown her away. I lost her too, but I will get over it because I am shallow and self-centered. But you, you wont, because you are “complex”. You will feel terrible anguish for the rest of your life. This is turning out to be a pretty good day!

He ignores you all the time and you just trashed the thing he loves. Do you REALYY think he cares if he looses you, Lucy?

I don’t think Schroeder would wanna be married to psycho like her

So did Schultz write this before or after he told his wife he was cheating on her?

Bonk her while she’s down, Schroeder!

“Hello?Steinway Piano? Schroeder Glockenspiel, here! got anything in a used Baby Grand?”

Love is magic. But that can sometimes be black magic.

If he doesn’t like her why is he always letting her into the house?

Right now…Yes.

This is copied over verbatim into “Be My Valentine Charlie Brown,” which I watched last week.

“I don’t want to keep you but i’m not sure i can afford to lose you”

Run a mile young man, she’s a bunny boiler in the making.