Peanuts by Charles Schulz for February 23, 2024

Taking a bite out of crime?

those are some choppers Charlie Brown!

Nice bite for not having any teeth, CB. I am soo envious.

One way to get your fiber.

He must be part termite.

Today’s strip reminds me of Eull Gibbons, who was one of my heroes when I was a teenager. Gibbons was famous for his Grape Nuts commercial (“Did you ever eat a pine tree?” {Check it out on YouTube}). I came home from school one day and my dad asked me if I’d hear about Gibbons dying. I hadn’t of course as this was long before cellphones everywhere. I asked Dad what the cause was and Dad said, “Natural causes”. I told Dad I didn’t find that to be a funny joke. So we waited until the half hour to hear the news round-up on the radio and it wasn’t a joke.

Reminds me of the phrase, If a wood chuck could chuck wood, how much wood, would a wood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood.

Is the tree’s bark as bad as his bite?

VIOLENCE! OMG!

Many parts are edible, you know!

In panel 4, the tree looks properly surprised.

Charlie Brown’s teeth are very powerful.

This strange arc has begun with a very memorable peanuts moment.

Funny, I read “Forest violence” on The Far Side right before this today. Check it out at >

Oh, wow. I remember this now. Back in my yout. Long, long, loooong ago…

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At least Charlie Brown is getting his fiber.

I never figured ol’ CB for an eager beaver.

I love Charlie’s winner’s expression in the fourth frame…

Back in the time of Euell Gibbons, I had an angry friend yell at me “Aw go eat trees!”

CB got quite a bite on him.

I didn’t think Chuck wood do it.

One wonders why he didn’t try this on some of his, er, “friends.”

CB proved that he wasn’t wishy-washy all the time!

Charlie may need to come up with another nickel & pay a visit to Lucy and talk about biting a tree. How does that make you feel CB?

Chuck’s teeth must be made of a sturdier stuff.

One more bite like that Charlie, and you could take the whole tree down and get your kite back.

“Honey, the kid’s outside, and he’s biting the trees. Are you going to do something?”

Is this Charlie’s most unhinged moment?

A human taking a bite from a tree doesn’t taste good.

He actually did it. He bit the kite eating tree. That must’ve been really painful.

Ooh, you shouldn’t have done that…

Good to see CB fighting back.

So, now we know why he is sometimes called Chuck. He could also be called Beaver. Wow. Those are a great set of choppers. I should be so lucky.

Whoa!! Whole Grain Goodness!!

Charlie Brown’s bite is worse than the tree’s. bark.

Didn’t think Charlie would/could get up that much adrenaline to do anything ! ! !

I’ve heard of high fiber diets, but this is ridiculous.

Chuck’s got some chops!

“OH MY ARBOR DAY!!!!!!! Call a tree surgeon immediately!! Quick start the filler, stop the SAP from flowing. DOWN WITH TREE-BITERS!!!!!!! Oh, Charles Brown how could you????” -——- OR “There goes Charlie Brown’s cover of a tree hugger!” (Pick your headline —-I blame the pressure of climate change demonstrations)

Strong teeth, Chuck.

Dang! CB, you really got some chops on ya Dude!

Leave it to Beaver

>Greenpeace rolls up< “THAT TREE SPECIES IS ENDANGERED, PUNK!!!” >19 men and women dressed in hippie attire leap out and beat him with signs until he falls unconcious<

I didn’t think you’d do it either, Charlie Brown!

So he’s a woodChuck?

This is not Charlie Brown’s personality

I thought that I would never see

A great big hole in the kite-eating tree

He bit it off like it was a candy bar.

I had an uncle who once bit a horse, after it bit him. True story!

Time to go on the lam, Chuck.

impressive choppers

Wow, CB could have been cast as Jaws for that Bond flick

I guess his bite was worse than the bark.

You need help, Charlie Brown.

Enjoy your emergency dental appointment, Charlie!

I know this arc. He gets in trouble with the EPA and is forced to run away where he ends up coaching an even littler league

A meal that comes with built-in toothpicks.

Well, I guess at some point of time beyond the Peanuts end Chuck will marry Lucy to mortify his flesh and soul, and become a mass murderer of kite eating trees

A lot of pent up anger there.

I remember seeing this animated on The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show. I just cracked up at that.

Who’s Charlie’s dentist? (And is he/she taking new patients?)

That must have hurt- for Charlie Brown and for the tree.

Time to see the dentist, Chuck.

He finally got payback!!

Yep he’s totally lost it