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Showing posts with label fussbudget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fussbudget. Show all posts
Sunday, July 29, 2012

July 4-9, 1955: Getting more unpopular every day

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July 4: The "fussbudget" joke continues. Despite what Lucy says this is far from the last we'll be hearing of it. July 5: B...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Sunday, March 27, 1955: Bumpety-bump

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Read this strip at gocomics.com.   The best thing about this strip is the lead panels, the two that some newspapers would strip out.  That h...
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Sunday, December 25, 2011

March 14-19, 1955: ALL RIGHT, THAT'S ENOUGH

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March 14 Lucy sticks with this fussbudget thing for a good while.  I don't think she ever gets it into her head that her mother wasn...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

February 14-19, 1955: Snoopy hates that balloon

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February 14 Sight gag.  Did kids of Charlie Brown's age play hockey?  I think he's around seven at this time. The splash lines aroun...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

December 6-11, 1954: The Fussbudget Sonata

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December 6 This is an intensified version of a previous snubbing strip.  Charlie Brown still hasn't quite started taking snubs to hea...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Week of August 9-14, 1954: Things like that make my stomach hurt

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August 9 As Lucy becomes more bullheaded and cantankerous, Linus would grow into the role of asking Charlie Brown science questions. In one...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Sunday, February 28, 1954: Willful Little Lucy

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Read this strip on gocomics.com . How much of this is meant to depict Lucy herself being stubborn, and how much just a very young kid reb...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

February 25, 1953: The Peanut Butter Sandwich That Broke the Camel's Back

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Read this strip at gocomics.com . I love this one. How is Peanuts unlike other comic strips?  Look here.  It's not that Charlie Bro...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

November 19, 1953: Third use of "Fuss-budget"

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Read this strip at gocomics.com. Fuss-budget became one of those terms that identified Peanuts, like "good grief!"  It's pr...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

August 28, 1953: Lucy fusses, again

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We've seen this setup several times by now. Whether Lucy's asking for a glass of water, or for sandwiches with the crusts cut off...
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Monday, December 6, 2010

July 30, 1953: Lucy is inappropriately happy

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Lucy's being pleased at her own orneriness is interesting. Being happy that she's difficult to be around is a very Lucy attitude...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

April 13, 1953: Second Use of "Fuss-Budget"

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The first time it was used Lucy wasn't really all that fussy. Her behavior has been edging closer towards making the label a reality.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

March 16, 1953: Lucy's sense of propriety

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More of Lucy's fussiness. What is interesting I think is that later on Lucy's fussy behavior is actually mostly taken for granted...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

February 7, 1953: Lucy's Fussiness

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At this point we've heard Lucy described as a "fussbudget" once, but the only times she's really been fussy are with Cha...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

November 7, 1952: Fussbudget

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This is the first time the word "fussbudget" has been used in the strip. Now this word is almost impossible to separate from Pe...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

March 3, 1952: Dear god, it's HER

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Aww, isn't she cute? Little did anyone, least of all Schulz himself, know that with the introduction of that (literally) wide-eyed li...
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