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Peanuts

Currently the only Big Nate comic where Charlie Brown makes a physical appearance.

Charlie Brown is a character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts”.

The strip's original run extended from 1950 to 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. Peanuts is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all,[1] making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being".[2][3] At the time of Schulz's death in 2000, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of around 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.[4] It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States,[5] and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion.[1]

Peanuts focuses entirely on a social circle of young children, where adults exist but are rarely seen or heard. The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous, and lacks self-confidence. He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football held by his irascible friend Lucy, who always pulls it away at the last instant.[6] Peanuts is a literate strip with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones, which was innovative in the 1950s.[7] Its humor is psychologically complex and driven by the characters' interactions and relationships. The comic strip has been adapted in animation and theater

"He was mentioned twice until he made a physical appearance on May 27, 2000. He was shown as a tribute to Charles M. Schulz.

Appearances[]

  • He was first mentioned on April 25, 1994, when Nate asks Mrs. Clarke if Charlie Brown and Lucy (who was being played by Jenny) will have any makeout scenes during the upcoming "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" school play.
  • On May 14, 1997, Ellen thinks that Charlie Brown has no hair while reading a "Peanuts" comic with Nate, who was trying to teach her about comics.
  • He later makes a physical appearance on May 27, 2000, as a tribute to Charles M. Schulz, the author of Peanuts who had died a little over 3 months before the comic was published. A lot of other comic artists did the same, but most were sad, while the Big Nate comic was happier. This was one of the few strips where a character from another strip makes a physical appearance.
  • The "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" play was mentioned again on April 16, 2001, when Francis says that Nate was playing Snoopy and fell off of the doghouse five times, but Charlie Brown himself was not mentioned in that strip.
  • When Teddy wore a purple shirt once, On November 15, 2019, he was mentioned for always wearing a shirt with a zig-zag on it.
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