Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 16, 1966
May 15, 1966
May 17, 1966
Transcript:
Schroeder asks, "Where was that big truck going?" Charlie Brown replies, "That's a moving van . . . Linus and Lucy have moved away . . . "<BR><BR> Schroeder says, "But I thought she was just kidding! I didn't think they'd really go!" Charlie Brown says, "Well what do you care? You never liked Lucy anyway! You were always insulting her!"<BR><BR> Schroeder says, "But I don't understand . . . I mean I . . . " Charlie Brown sucks his thumb and holds Linus' blanket. He says, "Oh stop making excuses! Go on home and play your ol' Beethoven!"<BR><BR> Schroeder sits at his piano and thinks of Lucy asking, "Schroeder, what if you and I got married someday, and . . . " Schroeder says, "I never even said good-bye . . . "<BR><BR>
Charlie Brown is being unduly harsh on Schroeder. Lucy wasn’t exactly making herself likeable, with her unwanted marriage proposals and romantic overtures when Schroeder made it plain he wasn’t interested, her dissing Beethoven (even smashing one of the Beethoven busts that Schroeder placed on his piano). I often wondered why Schroeder even tolerated her.