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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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Maybe not , but she sure looked and acted the part

[–] • 3 pts

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.

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Perhaps my memory fails , but even as a kid I thought she was a lesbo.

[–] • 4 pts

The only people who considered her a lesbian are either jews or those who fell prey to the jews who subverted the character interpretation as part of their destruction of tomboys.

The entire point of the character was to add a tomboy for little girls to relate to. She represents the girls who climb trees, play baseball, spit, and use tools, but who grow up to be interesting and well-rounded beauties.

Peppermint Patty was an unrelenting romantic, constantly fell for boys, especially Charlie Brown, and any time Snoopy would dance with her, or give her a kiss on the cheek, she'd swoon, and so would Marcie.