Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 04, 2024

Should have got the angry pro player version, Snoopy.

Well he certainly did make a racket.

separate!

It reminds me of an anecdote from the early days of Saturday Night Live.

Michael O’Donoghue was its head writer and occasional performer. He was known for a nasty temper. One day, he smashed a telephone into pieces in a temper tantrum (think back to the 1970s and remember how sturdy the old phones were — he put some effort into it).

When the telephone repairman arrived, all O’Donoghue would say was “It doesn’t work!”

Do you still have the receipt?

…just so we’re clear, was it defective before or AFTER you got hold of it, Snoop?

Snoopy, channeling his inner Jimmy Connors (Connors was a star tennis player known for his temperamental outbursts)

Looks to me like there are far more than just a double fault.

John McEnroe must have used this for motivation during some of his epic meltdowns! You can not be serious!!!!!!!!!

Are you Molly Volley in disguise?

Snoopy, racket QC tester.

Snoopy more entertaining to watch having a fit than certain other player.

John McEnroe? Calm down.

Where’s the spell checkers when you need them?

Isn’t that the one he borrowed from John McEnroe?

This is far and wide the most edgy Peanuts strip I’ve ever saw. That eight panel is totally out of Schultz’s norm. And then, two panels later, everything comes back to earth again. I love it.

He’s about to find out no return isn’t just a tennis term.

Snoopy shouldn’t be such a spoil sport.

Snoopy did raise a racket.

Too early to be a John McEnroe reference. Mac didn’t turn pro until 1978, a year after this strip.

Stupid dog! You can’t return a product you’ve damaged yourself!

Shades of John McEnroe.

My roommate once threw his racket, and it hit a Porsche in the parking lot. Never saw my roommate again.

Like the guy who took advantage of Lowe’s “Full Refund Any Time” who returned the Christmas tree in mid January or the mattress five years after he bought it.

Ol’ ‘Snoop’ apparently has a ‘short fuse’ when it comes to tennis ! ! !

He’ll receive a response that the racket warrantee is void due to damage.

After he smashes it, it is clearly bent, but when he wangs it, it is new again. A regenerating tennis racket, of sorts.

That’s what happens when your doubles partner is Molly Volley. Not only does she rub people the wrong way, she rubs off on Snoopy.

Obviously a factory defect

How about returning a defective dog?

Walmart will take it back

It’s a poor workman that blames his tools.

Not as bad as a triple bogey!

Bad tennis racket! Bad! Bad!

I laugh when I see baseball players take striking out on their bat.

Connors and McEnroe have already been mentioned, but don’t forget Ilie “Nasty” Nastase – he was a piece of work, too! Well, he was a piece of something…apparently, he still is, or at least as of 2017: Google “Ilie Nastase Fed Cup ban”

Sore loser, man!

Snoopy you remind me of Jimmy conners give up tennis

Snoopy, thy name is John……

Must have bought it at Costco

Snoop’s channeling McEnroe there

Beagle Mc Enroe??