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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,489 posts) Mon May 10, 2021, 12:25 PM May 2021

"I'm reposting the Mother's Day thread from two years ago. This is still my favorite Peanuts thread"

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I'm reposting the Mother's Day thread from two years ago. This is still my favorite "Peanuts" thread.

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"I'm reposting the Mother's Day thread from two years ago. This is still my favorite Peanuts thread" (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2021 OP

I have to admit that I have always always found Peanuts to be a very depressing cartoon. CentralMass May 2021 #1

Charles M Schulz, like most Minnesotans, was a sunlight deprived morose Lutheran Bucky May 2021 #2

CentralMass

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1. I have to admit that I have always always found Peanuts to be a very depressing cartoon.

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Mon May 10, 2021, 12:51 PM

May 2021

Bucky

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2. Charles M Schulz, like most Minnesotans, was a sunlight deprived morose Lutheran

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Mon May 10, 2021, 01:05 PM

May 2021

Most of his female characters were mankilling harpies who tormented Charlie and Linus. It was only after his remarriage to a younger more supportive woman that his "second generation" more positive characters like Peppermint Patti and Marcie came along and lightened the mood of the strip.

Honestly, the darker themes is what set Peanuts apart from the Howdie Doodie antics of the other newspaper funnies.

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