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Peanuts has really stood the test of time.

Uzumaki Goku

Uzumaki Goku

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Oct 27, 2017
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Yeah Good Ol' Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Lucy, Marcie... all wonderful iconic characters and the specials are so well done, back when animation was hand drawn... just look at this arm wrestle between Lucy and Snoopy.



You can just feel the passion and dedication the animators put into this. Watching Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown was a bit part of my childhood as well as Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown. (Just look the water streams in that movie, all hand drawn and it's so beautiful) Also, I try to watch the holiday specials every year, it's a yearly tradition and I can't wait to watch It's Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown real soon.
 
JamRock7

JamRock7

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I love hand drawn animation. The passion from the animators are literally all over their faces
 
pantsattack

pantsattack

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Oct 25, 2017
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Nonstop bullying and abuse for Charlie Brown from his friends and family. Making WW1 cute.

I really disagree.
 
jett

jett

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Oct 25, 2017
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Hand-drawn animation can't be replaced or simulated, no matter how hard some may try.

I loves me some Penauts.
 
Rhodo

Rhodo

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Oct 27, 2017
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Caught the first four episodes of Snoopy in Space yesterday and i've been thinking about it all day today. So sweet and endearing, highly suggest it.
 

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meowdi gras

meowdi gras

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Classic Schulz humor right here:

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The animated specials and movies never approached the wit or poignancy of the strip at its peak.
 
Hokey

Hokey

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Oct 29, 2017
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Its never been good, I always found it real boring and actually surprised its still going.
 
Persagen

Persagen

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Oct 27, 2017
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Every December I borrow the Peanuts collections from the library - '50 through '78 - and re-read them. I loved the strips when I was a kid, and appreciate them even more now. The ones from the '50s and '60s in particular hold up incredibly well - sharp, clever and intelligent. Much of the commentary is still relevant today.
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Magneton

Magneton

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Jul 31, 2018
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I actually agree with you for the most part, OP, but even as a child, the datedness of this particular strip jumped out at me.

 
Rellodex

Rellodex

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Oct 29, 2017
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The original 1950s strips were awesomely cynical.

Looking back Charles Shultz even said he couldn't write like an angry young man anymore.

Anger was the best element of Peanuts.

A Catholic mass has movements. Every week the same thing. But one of the movements is a freestyle by the priest. Growing up I went to a Catholic Church and the priest would always free freestyle about Peanuts. The lecture was never explicitly religiously focused, but was more about the emotions of day-to-day life. There is a huge amount of humanity in each Peanuts gag.

Then the priest moved on to whatever priests move on to and we got a new guy who just talked about God the whole time, and eventually my family stopped going to church.

Peanuts is great, but there is also a profound amount of truth in humor. Jokes deserve introspection.
 
mikeamizzle

mikeamizzle

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Oct 25, 2017
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Also find it weird that Apple revived this brand for their streaming service. Is it for nostalgic adults? Must be.

Edit: it also must be cheap.
 
EraldoCoil

EraldoCoil

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Oct 28, 2017
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My all time favorite, went to the museum last year and it was absolutely amazing to see everything in person.

Grew up with my mom introducing them to me through the specials and comics, can't wait to do the same with my son. I own lots of peanuts items haha
 
NervousXtian

NervousXtian

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Oct 27, 2017
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Loved Peanuts growing up. I get how people today would think it might have been boring, but Schulz had a great wit about him.
 
thewienke

thewienke

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Oct 25, 2017
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I love the series but in terms of animation Walt Disney was running circles around Peanuts (and really a lot of the "cheap" animation of the 60s and 70s) some 30 years prior since animation budgets were later hacked to death across the entire industry.

I watched "The Reluctant Dragon" on Disney Plus this morning and holy shit was the whole animation process back in the "golden age" a massive undertaking. It's no wonder that didn't keep up when everything moved to television.
 
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