Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 01, 2021

Peppermint Patty is the poster child for Murphy’s Law.

Reminds me of that Shel Silverstein poem except the narrator brought roller skates to an ice skating rink.

Yep…exactly what she deserves

This is great—I did not remember this AT ALL!! Love it!

i guess her performance didn’t cut the ice this time…

Can she roller skate?

Patty will find someone to blame her mistake on—probably Snoopy, her trainer.

Oops.

Ohhhhh sheeeeeeeeeeez.

Uh oh, meltdown in 3,2,1…

Aww! Poor Peppermint Patty!

Why does that kid look like Roy without his hat?

If PP were Lucy, she’d pop that kid with the roller skates, take them off, and use them herself to enter. But PP, while clueless, isn’t the fiend that Lucy is …

I was so focused on knowing that Patty’s hair would be ruined, I forgot that this is how the storyline ends. She could probably still win, unless you have to bring your own roller skates.

Ice skating and roller skating don’t mix?

You’d think that PP would have checked to see what kind of skating competition it was, but then again this is PP that we’re talking about!

I think I just predicted todays strip.

@dlkrueger33 is going to be disappointed.

I didn’t remember this storyline, and was hoping for a happy ending.

At least this saves her the humiliation of coming in last.

After all that….

If you want a happier ending, seek out the TV special “She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown” (a few changes from the strip: Snoopy is the one who fixes the dress, there is no haircut (but Snoopy does get her a wig), and she does compete in an ice skating competition, but when her music tape breaks, she stands to be disqualified, only for Woodstock to start whistling a Puccini aria (IIRC, done by someone who won a “Puccini whistling” competition))

I did NOT see that coming!

oh the irony

What we have here is a failure to communicate. Several, in fact.

Go on, do the triple axle

♪♫ “Oh, I’ve got a brand new pair of icy skates, you dropped a bomb on me…” ♪♫

oh, no….

Now that’s a problem.

I was much better at roller skating than ice skating…and I looked super cool with my Sergio Valente jeans with a large comb in the back pocket to tease my perfectly feathered hair…that is before I discovered the Aqua Net “wet” look…

I was not a good skater. Does being good at one transfer to the other type?……

She’s sometimes the female version of Charlie Brown

How are you going to blame this on Marcie?!?

Ouch. So much drama, so little success.

To quote a well known cartoon phrase: “Now s/he tells me!!”

HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

Must not have read the information very well.

OOPSIES!

D’oh!

Is that a sad trombone, or a Peanuts adult discussing the Profumo Affair?

Wrong kind of blades.

Looks like someone might literally “cut a rug…”

Could have been worse; could have been the demolition derby.