Did Charlie Brown Deserve A Rock

Seeing "Pumpkin" again made me fall asleep. The dialogue was so slow. Forty years ago I thought it was wonderful.

OP, if your cancer comes back I suppose you'll have to announce it's "YOU."

R1, we can chalk that up due to the destruction of attention spans caused by the instant gratification, err, I mean digital, revolution.

I remember reading an interview with Charles Schulz where he described Charlie Brown as kind of a weakling egomaniac, who basically asked for much of the shit he got... and deserved it.

At first I thought that was way too harsh, but the more I thought of it the more sense it made.

Thats silly -- we all have dreams of being admired like Charlie Brown. That just shows what a cold fish Schulz was, that he'd have such a shitty opinion of his own beloved schlubby character. If CB is an egomaniac we all are, rendering the word meaningless

All one has to do is look at A Charlie Brown Christmas, to see what a passive aggressive asshole CB was.

I recall one comic where CB asks Schroeder what he would do if he felt no one liked him. Schroder says he'd look at himself objectively and change was he felt need to be changed. CB says, "I hate that answer."

CB was a mascochist - after awhile he becomes very tiresome. In the earliest strips, he is very different - more a smartass prankster like Dennis the Menace.

He deserves a good fist

He looks like he's got fetal alcohol syndrome. The facial characteristics work and he doesn't learn from past behaviour. He resembles a kid I went to elementary school with who ate paste (the mint kind). There was one in every class.

Didn't they learn in real life, CS had many sadnesses in his life but his sense of alienation came not from being isolated by others, but from judging his life in terms of the appearance of others' lives?

Schultz himself had a lot of problems with self-loathing which were portrayed in the autobiographical character Charlie Brown. It's a thin line between self-loathing and narcissism, both betray a preoccupation with the self. Schultz was nothing if not self-aware of his foibles.

The rampaging bitch Lucy was based on his first wife.

He deserved a kick in the round apple head

He always reminded me of my dad (RIP). And “I got a rock” is a long-running family joke.

But much of this was when Pet Rocks were a thing, so maybe it was something nice? My mom wouldn’t let us get Pet Rocks, she said it was ridiculous to pay money for something we could go out into the yard and get and put in a box.

So in this day and age, which Peanuts characters would be on Chaturbate and what would they be doing on their channels?

R15, Linus and Rerun would have a brother act.

I wouldn't mind if someone gave me THE Rock.

Charlie Brown is a whimpering asshole; a metaphor of everything wrong with the world. I hated Peanuts when I was a little kid, and remain disgusted by it today. I can't wait for the day that they stop rerunning that insufferable crap.