Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 11, 2023

Starting a moo-vement

That’s what she gets for not listening

get a Moo-be on Marcy!

Moo.

WTG Marcie and Snoopy!

I don’t think you can milk anymore sympathy from this Peppermint Patty. I believe that you reached the udder end of this trade.

Interesting that things were the same 47 years ago.

(not related to my first sentence) Patty bullied Charlie into a trade, came off second best and is now complaining about it. You kinda made your bed, kindly lie in it and be quiet.

Herd mentality

Just wait till the cows come home.

Freakin’ hilarious!!

Poor Marcie got such a raw deal in Peanuts. She’s a far more interesting character than Peppermint Patty. I wish that Schulz had done something more with her than used her merely as Patty’s sattelite – what a waste of a fantastic character. She deserved strips and story arcs of her own with no Peppermint Patty in sight.

Well, Ms. Reichart, if you’d just let Chuck explain about Snoopy’s injury…..

How times have changed since the original publication date. These days our big boss owners in charge are treating us common players as ignorant sheep to have the wool pulled over! Baa baa.

And you should be able brand them on the butt.

I think Snoopy and Marcie captured the moo-d and expressed it very well!

To practice your Mooo-ing, go to a rural county fair for some pointers. Bonus points if your moo is good enough that one of the cows looks at you!

Always knew Peppermint Patty could be two-faced

in the words of Chico Ruiz…Bench me or trade me……..

You tell her, Marcie.

A very relevant strip for the time. Baseball owners did treat players like cattle before the 1976 season. Because of the “reserve clause”, once a player signed with a major league team, he was their property for life. An owner could cut a players salary, send him to the minors, trade him and the player could do nothing. Even if his contract had expired. On December 23rd, 1975, an arbitrator ruled that the Reserve Clause was invalid and a player could sign wherever he wanted when his contract was over. For good or evil, the free agency era had begun in 1976, when the strip was run.

The whole thing is udderly ridiculous.

Are they saying “Moo” or “Moo-urns”? I wonder if general audiences are not too young to get that Simpsons reference.

the genius of Schultz, to have the kids be kids yet reflect his opinion of the societal trends of the time was why his readership was massive across all ages

Maybe Marcie and Snoopy should get an agent and force lucrative multi-year contracts out of those fat cat owners, Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty.

You tell her, Marcie. Moo, moo, moo to Patty. Patty also says “Good grief” but without Charlie’s sympathy.

I agree. MOO!

The cattle are indignant.

I don’t feel all that sorry for you Peppermint Patty.

Screaming funny !

Get them some hay and they’ll be quiet

They’re milking it for all it’s worth….

They sure do

Didn’t I see this scene in “Rent”?

Who “herd” a moo? Horton, that’s who.

Moo!

That’s your own fault, Patty! You never gave Charlie Brown a chance to tell you about Snoopy’s broken foot.

Wrong, Peppermint Patty. You attempted to steal a good player, not trade. You were giving Marcie to Charlie Brown to make it look like a trade, but you never gave him a chance to negotiate. Had he been able to do so, then you could have called it a trade.

The more things change . . .

Today’s strip belongs in a moo-seum! o<[|;o)

Marcie refers to PP as the “owner” of the team. CB is always called the manager, never the owner. Which makes more sense – one can’t “own” players without paying them.

Now we know why sports commentators use the term “bell cow” for certain key players…

;-)

This is a very moooooving comic strip.

Don’t have a cow, man!

Ehh, I’ve seen better grief.

Moo point An issue that is subject to, or open for, discussion or debate, to which no satisfactory answer is found

I’m laughing my head off.I hope Curt Flood got a good laugh out of this in the old days