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Most kids probably didn't think this, but I always thought Charlie Brown's stories were sad. I found everyone else funny, I loved Peanuts obsessively actually, but I never understood why I was supposed to think the shit the kid got was comedy.

No, you're doing it right.

I mean, it is comedy, but it's a kind of quietly pathetic, very sad comedy. It's absolutely very sad and that's exactly why it's so brilliant and one of the best newspaper strips of all time. Schultz is able to strike that tone so precisely and carry it off so well. I think this is less true of the animated adaptations, which is maybe why the popular imagination remembers it as happier than it is, but it's very, very sad.

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Yeah, and come to think of it the one that really bothered me was actually the animated movie (I... think), You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown which may have stayed more faithful to the comics. I read the comics too, I read anything with words on a page as a kid, but I think I was mostly familiar with the animated adaptations which tended to have more focus on the happier stuff, I think.

I did, too.

Like...I never found it funny what happened to him. It was always 'that poor kid.' Especially in the Hallowe'en episode where he gets a bag full of rocks instead of candy. What adult gives a child a rock for trick or treating, much less a whole town full of them? Damn.

Same here.

I found it boring.

Supposedly (though Schulz's family denies loudly), Schulz fought with depression most of his life, and on his worst days, he'd take it out on Charlie Brown.

That being said, everything I've read from other cartoonists about him makes him sound like a marvelous, generous human being.

Charlie Brown's stories are sad. He's too shy to talk to the little red-haired girl, his dog has a more adventurous life than he does, he really only has one friend (Linus), he can't win at anything he loves...he's a very sad little kid. But he usually faces things with a smile and hope, which is why I love him.

You're perfectly right, the Halloween one especially is depressing and melancholy. I still like them, but they're sad.

I'm with you. I always felt/feel like Charlie Brown.

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