Peanuts

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Violet kneels on the floor holding a football upright with her finger. In a panic, she exclaims,"He'll kick my hand! I just know he will!"

As Charlie Brown runs up to kick the ball, she let's it go saying,"I can't go through with it!"

As she kneels nearby, he kicks the unbalanced ball and in surprise, falls down.

Violet stands over a dazed and pained Charlie Brown asking,"You didn't kick the ball, Charlie Brown...why didn't you kick it?"

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The first strip to feature the football gag

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Patty approaches Charlie Brown sitting in a chair next to the table. As he listens to the radio atop the table, he exclaims,"I think I'll enter that contest!"

She sits in the chair and watches as he rummages through a drawer. He continues,"All you have to do is complete the sentence in fifty words or less"

He stands in front of her with a pen and a piece of paper. He says,"Of course, with me it's going to have to be 'less'..."

As they sit across from each other at the table, he starts to write and concludes,"I don't know fifty words!"

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Charlie Brown stands between the chair and table talking on the phone. He says,"A party? Why, yes, I think I can come..."

He leans back in the chair and asks,"Who else is going to be there?"

He continues,"Will you be serving ice cream?"

He looks at the reader and says,"She hung up!"

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Charlie Brown walks off as Violet stands and exclaims,"Go on home, Charlie Brown!" A sitting Patty agrees,"Yeah, scram!"

Violet sits down and says,"Maybe we were too hard on him" Patty replies,"I'll go call him"

She walks over to the open door saying,"Come back, Charlie Brown!...We're sorry..we didn't mean it!"

She turns around as he sticks his head out from behind the door and says,"I didn't think you did!"

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Patty and Charlie Brown sit across from each other at a table filled with food. She asks,"Did you wash your hands, Charlie Brown?"

He picks up his fork and replies,"Why should I? I'm not going to touch anything....I'll be using a fork!"

She points to the table and says,"What about bread? You'll have to use your hands to eat that!"

He stands on a stool washing his hands over the sink in the bathroom. He exclaims,"Rats!! Bread isn't worth it!"

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Schroeder sits at the piano playing.

He turns around grimacing.

He smiles and starts plinking his piano as Patty arrives. She says,"Playing your toy piano, eh, Schroeder? That's a nice boy..." "I'll leave so as not to bother you"

Alone again, he resumes pounding out complex pieces on the piano.

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Shermy and Charlie Brown run along in their cowboy gear holding their guns and shouting,"Bang!"

They hide behind rocks and trees continuing to shout.

Violet stoops behind a tree stump, points her gun, and says,"Ping" Charlie Brown looks back at her and says,"'Ping'?!"

Charlie Brown spreads his hands and exclaims to Shermy,"What did I tell you?! Girls just aren't cut out for this sort of thing!"

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A puzzled Patty walks by a sad Charlie Brown standing next to the lane.

She walks over to him and asks,"Say, you've been standing in the same spot for the last half hour...what's wrong?"

She stoops and looks at his thigh-high boots. He sticks his foot out and replies,"It's these new cowboy boots..."

He concludes,"I can't bend my knees!"

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Snoopy sits watching Shermy fix a puzzle.

Shermy looks up questioningly as Snoopy's nose starts to twitch and he prepares to sneeze.

Shermy starts as Snoopy sneezes loudly and blows his puzzles pieces all over.

Snoopy sits outside the house on the step.

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Charlie Brown stands in the living-room, in his pajamas, looking out the window. He exclaims,"It snowed last night!" "Oh, boy!! Where's my sled? Where's my over-boots?"

He tosses clothes out of the drawer in his bedroom. He continues,"I'll need my sweater, an' scarf an' mittens..."

Dressed in full winter gear, he trots off. He exclaims,"An' my wooly hat, an' my earmuffs an' my heavy coat!"

He stands on the step outside of the house, looking at the clean pavement. He exclaims,"It's melted!"

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Charlie Brown walks up to a house, bag in his hand, and knocks on the door.

Patty appears at the door and he exclaims,"Tricks or treats...money or eats!" She exclaims,"What?!"

He jumps as she shouts,"Get out of here!!! Halloween was yesterday!"

As the door slams in his face, he replies,"I'm still hungry!"

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A child in a ghost/sheet says, "Boo!". Shermy walks by wearing a mask and shouts,"BOO!"

Patty joins him and the kid in the sheet and they walk down the lane exclaiming, "Boo!"

They stop in front of Charlie Brown, who is balancing a pumpkin atop his head and waving his arms. He says,"Boo!", and they respond likewise.

They jump as Snoopy suddenly pops up from in the pumpkin shouting, "Boo!!"

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A smiling Patty leans over Charlie Brown as he sits on the floor reading. He asks,"You want Me to model for you?"

As they walk down the lane, he asks,"Are you sure I'm qualified?" She replies,"Absolutely!"

She holds the door to the house open for him and continues,"I wouldn't have asked you if I didn't think you'd be perfect for the job..." He exclaims,"Gee!"

He stands in the room glowering as she sits on a stool carving a pumpkin.

This strip is adapted in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

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Two children walk along the sidewalk dressed as ghosts in sheets.

A puzzled Patty watches them walk up to her and shout, "Boo!"

They stop in front of her and one explains,"We're doing our Halloween ghosting early!"

She watches them walk off. One says,"Only two more ghosting days 'til Halloween!" The other replies,"Boo"

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Violet runs down the lane, with her hands in the air, after Charlie Brown shouting,"You ran over my dolly!" He sits on his tricycle and looks behind him questioninly at the flattened doll.

He jumps off the tricycle as she swings at him with the doll. She exclaims,"Oh, you heartless wretch!" He shouts,"Hey!"

He falls and exclaims, "Ow!", as she whacks over his head with the doll. She shouts,"You hit-run driver! You murderer!!"

He sits on the ground in pain and dazed as she walks off comforting her doll and saying,"Poor dolly..."

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Violet stands behind a crate wearing a waitress hat and an apron. She asks Charlie Brown (who is sitting on a stool and licking his lips), "And what would you like to have for dessert, sir?"

He asks,"What kind of pie do you have?" She replies,"Lemon, pumpkin, apple, and peach!"

She leans on the crate and continues, "Of course, it won't matter which you order..."

She spreads her hands and concludes,"They're all made out of mud!!"

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Patty stands with her hands clasps looking at the gift Charlie Brown is holding out to her. Snoopy sits and looks up at her as she exclaims,"A present? For me?!"

Charlie Brown replies,"Uh, huh...a little surprise from Snoopy an' me.."

She bends down and hugs an in-love Snoopy tightly. She says,"Oh, thank you, Snoopy..." Charlie Brown watches and says,"Gee!"

He grimaces and Snoopy laughs as she vigorously shakes his hand and says,"And thank you, too, Charlie Brown"

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Shermy walks along smiling with a box in his hand.

He puts the box on the floor and laughs as a Jack-in-the-box springs out and frightens Snoopy.

He starts as Snoopy jumps up, teeth bared, towards the jack.

Shermy walks off with his broken Jack-in-the-box in tow.

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Charlie Brown: Carameled apples are much better than plain ones

Patty: You like caramel, huh, Charlie Brown?

Charlie Brown: It's not that...

Charlie Brown: It's just that you can't see the worm holes until it's too late!

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Charlie Brown is digging in the soil with his shovel as Patty counts,"Forty-five, forty-six..."

He digs deeper as she continues,"Forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty!"

He continues to dig as she says,"Here I come, ready, or not!"

She turns and leans over Charlie Brown, who is buried up to his neck in the soil. He exclaims,"I'm not ready!"

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Patty smiles as she goes skipping with her jump-rope down the lane.

She skips pass the gate.

She skips through two trees.

She is puzzled as she dangles from her rope which is caught on a branch.

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Shermy stands watching Violet water a small fir tree. She says,"This year, I've planted my own Christmas tree!"

He stoops in front of her and asks,"Do you think it'll be grown by then?"

She stands, alone, and says,"Gee, maybe it won't...."

She leans over to the tree and exclaims,"C'mon, tree, grow!! You've got a deadline to meet!"

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Charlie Brown, in his robe, stands in the bathroom holding the edge of the tub. He looks over his shoulder and calls,"Mom! This bath water is too hot! I'll scald myself!"

He stands by the door and continues,"Now it's too cold!" "I'll freeze to death!"

He leans over the tub and looks at the water. He says,"Now it's too deep!" "Do you want me to drown?!"

He sits in the bathtub and concludes,"No matter how much you stall, you can't win!"

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