Peanuts why me

Sweepstakes entry. Received free product. Peanuts, love it! Bought for: Child Was this review helpful? Peanuts nook I bought this for my daughter-in-law who loves Snoopy and just loved it!!!

A book to get you through the rough spots I gave this to a little neighbor girl after she broke her leg. It will make you smile! Bought for: Spouse Was this review helpful? Back to top. Close dialog. Read it again. Click on the book to turn the pages. Remember back when "The Simpsons" movie came out in ?

Everybody you knew was making their own using the movie marketing site's character generator. The version of this phenomenon is peanutizeme. Characters have rounded tummies, flat feet and big heads. This isn't the most flattering look when you're trying to re-create yourself in comics form.

The site lets you control variables ranging from eyebrows to the color of your pants or dress. It was Charlie Brown and his friends—children who lived in a world defined by unrequited love—who resided in the real one. As it turns out, there was one person who could: Pigpen.

But Pigpen will have none of it. The side facing away from Patty is still covered with grime. Charles Schulz was said to have grown tired of the character in later years, in part because it was hard to write material for him outside of the one basic joke. I wondered: Did Pigpen never feel the yearning to be clean?

Or had he accepted that purity was not in the cards? Was the secret of his grace that he lived in a world without desire? It was not so unlike Pigpen showing Patty only his clean side.

In the mornings, I lay listening to her tender breaths, taken in sleep. I pictured myself knocking on her door en femme, her startled expression as she realized that the strange woman before her was someone she already knew.

On the contrary, I might reply. If Pigpen was an emblem of self-acceptance, an even better example was Peppermint Patty. She and her friend Marcie attend a different school than Charlie Brown, on the other side of town. But Patty is almost always smiling, upbeat.

She is, other than Pigpen and maybe Snoopy , the most consistently optimistic member of the cast. Part of her attitude may be the result of her strange obliviousness to the world around her. In this oblivious self-sufficiency, she resembles no one so much as the solitary Pigpen—although, unlike him, she has a sidekick, Marcie, whose love for her is unconditional.

Marcie is a strange character, in some ways. My guess is that Marcie, who looks through glasses that make her actual eyes invisible, sees something in Peppermint Patty that no one else can see.

Reading the strip in the nineteen-sixties, this was not the ending that I would have imagined for Patty. Later, Charlie Brown and Pigpen discuss Patty. Patty, for her part, calls up Marcie in the middle of the night.

It is surely one of the most heartbreaking sentences in comics history.