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Around the holidays, that bongo-infused remix of a Hawaii 5-0 song that preceded a CBS Special Presentation was one of the most anticipated things on television for me as a kid. It (probably) meant that some cartoon was about to be shown, and CBS had the broadcast rights to all the Peanuts films.

But now that I go back and look at them as an adult, they're damn depressing. Charlie Brown is a manic depressive. His sister is a homicidal maniac in the making. Lucy is a sociopath. Linus is mentally defective. All of the characters have some sort of strange mental malaise that prevents them from being likeable. Even the situations are depressing, everyone is a loser that apparently has no parental guidance in their lives, they're just mini-me adults going through a parody of life itself. Even the dog is crazy, somehow imagining itself to be a WWI pilot.

I guess it's the different between being wide-eyed and suddenly figuring out how the world works.

Around the holidays, that bongo-infused remix of a Hawaii 5-0 song that preceded a CBS Special Presentation was one of the most anticipated things on television for me as a kid. It (probably) meant that some cartoon was about to be shown, and CBS had the broadcast rights to all the Peanuts films. But now that I go back and look at them as an adult, they're damn depressing. Charlie Brown is a manic depressive. His sister is a homicidal maniac in the making. Lucy is a sociopath. Linus is mentally defective. All of the characters have some sort of strange mental malaise that prevents them from being likeable. Even the situations are depressing, everyone is a loser that apparently has no parental guidance in their lives, they're just mini-me adults going through a parody of life itself. Even the dog is crazy, somehow imagining itself to be a WWI pilot. I guess it's the different between being wide-eyed and suddenly figuring out how the world works.

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I disagree about Linus. He's pretty intelligent imho. Peppermint Patty was a dyke. Charlie was manic depressive, like me as a kid. Also the adults were non entities , totally useless to the kids , or just an annoyance at best , pretty spot on.

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Schulz did not write Peppermint Patty as a dyke.

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She represented the new found feminist who thought power was dressing and acting like men. It spawned the dyke lifestyle. Thus the "tomboy" comments.

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Maybe not , but she sure looked and acted the part

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She was a boy crazy tomboy.

She had a huge crush on Charlie Brown, figure skated, and also had a massive crush on the French kid in Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown.