Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 27, 1969
Transcript:
Schroeder stands next to a tree. He frowns and looks up. Charlie Brown and Linus stand next to the tree. Linus asks, "What's going on?" Charlie Brown replies, "Your sister threw Schroeder's piano up into a kite-eating tree."<BR><BR> Linus stands next to Lucy and says, "What a stupid thing to do!" The tree thinks, "Chomp chomp chomp."<BR><BR> Lucy says, "He never pays any attention to me! This will teach him a lesson . . Musicians are a peculiar lot . . They always have to learn the hard way."<BR><BR> Snoopy wears a fireman's hat and smiles. Charlie Brown stands next to him and shouts, "Everybody stand back! Here comes the captain of the rescue squad . . ." Snoopy thinks, "You'd better use flash bulbs, boys!"<BR><BR>
MrJamie1062 almost 11 years ago
Re: Panel 3-No, Lucy, that’s NO excuse, to destroy Schroeder’s piano-“Well, he never pays any attention to me!” And yes, same difference, with Linus’ blanket, on Sunday, February 20, 1966, I think, when Sally did the exact same thing, to the blanket, for the exact same reason-for Linus “not caring if she liked him or not,” which set her off into a great rage, thus she snatched the blanket from him, and threw it up into a tree. Apparently, that was not the kite-eating tree; Linus’ blanket never got eaten, even if he would have to wait till it got windy out, to get it back. Yes,SO MUCH unrequited love, in Peanuts—even Linus himself had been such a victim, in June 1986, when Lydia was introduced(his love interest, and she wanted nothing to do with him.)
G00dgrief over 9 years ago
I like the note in the second frame
The Lone Beagle Premium Member over 7 years ago
Here’s something to think about. The Kite Eating Tree is eerily reminiscent of the legendary Man Eating Trees of Africa. It looks like an ordinary tree. It probably smells like an ordinary tree. But it clearly has limited intelligence and carnivorous tendencies. Okay, we have only seen it eats kites and a small plastic piano – but what else does it eat? Supposing this is a juvenile Man Eating Tree… and that that is why Charlie Brown makes the Environmental Protection Agency’s wanted list for injuring it in a later strip?
I know this is just a harmless comic strip, but still…
COMICSRLIFE over 6 years ago
Lucy is so dumb…I completely hate her. Who cares if he doesn’t pay attention to her?
thatdarnfurry almost 3 years ago
Flash bulbs??