Peanuts: Search and Destroy

I'm talking about the images, stevie!

schulz museum posted this on twitter today:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjG0ClBCcAAM5xD.jpg

the trailer isn't too bad sic!

Except for when Snoopy breakdances to Smash Mouth.

"hey dog / you're a rockstar..."

this looks repulsive

― Charles, hatless (sic), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:09 PM (Yesterday)

^^^

They're going to show the redheaded girl? Really? _Really_?

― abcfsk, Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

characters from throughout the Peanuts universe will appear, including the Little Red-Haired Girl (who was never seen in the strips, but did appear in one TV special).

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C5MkqLIuL._SY300_.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjWxzKwic0c

There is btw nothing in this teaser at all that would lead to any of the histrionic pre-condemnation people are making here. Literally nothing.

I do get that it's sort of less offensive that the animation has a friendly, homemade, almost quasi 1950s stop-motion feel that is true-ish to the world/mind from which the characters come. But... it doesn't do any of that better than the cheap crummy TV animation of forty years ago, and in the meantime it acquires a really dubious sheen. The opening Strauss gag is cute, but it's "cute" in the exact way Peanuts isn't, and in a way from which I can't see Charlie Brown benefiting, or getting more human or relatable. In the world of winking meta-gags, it's very mild, but the world of winking meta-gags isn't really Peanuts to begin with. It makes me wonder whether the handlers really 'get' the kind of funny that the strip did so well at its best.

It doesn't look like it's going to be a 'rapping Snoopy' Dreamworks/Fox type animated movie - but why does it need to exist at all? I'm reminded of the Jim Carrey Grinch movie - even if it hadn't been godawful, it would still be a redundant cash-in.

Why does any of pop culture exist at all? Why are we wasting our time w this when we could be curing cancer/exploring space/finding god in our fellow man.

i think ppl are responding more to the idea of a cgi peanuts movie than anything in the teaser (which i found charming and really better than i'd expected). tbh schulz's heirs seem to be showing more restraint and respect for the use of his characters than he often showed himself.

It's just fun to be the backlash to the backlash. Yes, stuff that was relentlessly marketed to you as a child is still being relentlessly marketed. Personally, I think it looks interesting, and plenty of actual young Peanuts fans are super psyched for this.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bg_yafsHd-E/TXsvpsxBQQI/AAAAAAAAAgY/Z1NGcpjUDu4/s1600/11-16-1953.gif

yall just be happy it isnt this

http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=hgpUc6bUagA&p=n#/106;107

Peanuts has been a kid targeted franchise since like the 70s

― open-y, ob-la-da (Whiney G. Weingarten)

No you're thinking of the plushies, not the actual strip. Although I've most frequently seen Snoopy on adult underwear in H&M.

― abcfsk, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It has been my experience that for most people "Peanuts" = plushies and tv specials.

i know no one reads newspapers anymore but i think peanuts the strip -- which is not particularly geared toward children -- is central to the franchise in a way that isn't the case with smurfs or chipmunks et al.

watched the trailer.
vince g piano grooves.
woodstock.
sod the cynicism.
cant wait.

wolves are making a comeback

animation looks fine but people itt being inappropriately kind to an also sprach zarathustra joke in 2014

remember when it ruined clueless

http://c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/dyn/str_strip/238434.full.gif

haha, sparky clearly loved that 'gnus' joke:

http://assets.amuniversal.com/980ed1f01dc7012ea5ca00163e41dd5b

Haha, did you do a gnus search?

had to look up the date, but i actually remembered that strip from one of these books, which i read to death as a kid and prob still remember a lot of outdated facts from:

https://p.gr-assets.com/max_square/fill/books/1216182388/697934.jpg

La de dah, we don't care..

(possibly my favourite CB strip)

Peanuts treasuries and 'cyclopedias of all kinds were among the finest of things to seek at yard sales in my childhood.

i had a bunch of those too! wish i still did.

GO GO TODAY
RAIN SOME WAY
AGAIN SOME DAY!

the trailer isn't too bad sic!

OK, I watched it:

1] jaunty, playful tone / bright imagery / zero other content: uh and ehhhhh.
2] presumably hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on designing and animating a 3D Charlie Brown, that at every step decides that each Schulz penline delineating a visible edge of Charlie Brown’s hairline should be translated into thick, floating, tendril-like antennae protruding from his naked scalp: ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?

I hope half of the movie is just extreme close-ups of Charlie Brown's crown.

one of us! one of us!
http://www.calvin-und-hobbes.com/images/stories/fanart/Calvin_and_Hobbes_by_wender.jpg

Oh crap i should make a fake Calvin & Hobbes one. Has anyone done that yet?

Like, a CGI trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkEglfv8a-g

LOLLLL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7Alug6bBM

kinda cool, actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPqFRe1-m5w

xps yeah the hairline rendered as a single tendril is terrible.

i'm reading 1987-88 and looking at the index i noticed "assault rifle". kind of a surprise to see this:

http://assets.amuniversal.com/23d5b4c01dd4012ea5ca00163e41dd5b

Looks halfway between an m16 and a Bren LMG or something

This one always struck me as pretty fucked up, unless the point is to show what a jerk Peppermint Patty is...but I'm not sure that's the case:
http://www.thesneeze.com/art/franklin/strip.gif

i recall a long and rather heated discussion on the now-gone TCJ message board about what message schulz was trying to convey with that one

whoa! i don't remember that one... yeah that is messed up.

found this:

http://www.thesneeze.com/art/franklin/letter.jpg

back story here: http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000485.php

Wow.

Well, Schulz wasn't just pointing out that fact; he had Patty use it to discourage Franklin from practicing hockey. "There's hardly any Black NHL players, Franklin, so give up" was how I interpreted it.

i think i come down on the side of the point being 'peppermint patty is being a jerk,' though that is maybe the single jerkiest thing i have ever seen a peanuts character say.

i wrote a fan letter to schulz in the early '90s but got a form letter back; now i'm kinda wondering if i'd have gotten a response if i'd written something to piss him off!

that is all pretty depressing, guilty lols at the little picture of Snoopy typing up defensive responses to people who've accused him of racism that appears at the bottom of the letter, though

i'm seeing it as a clumsy and tasteless punchline that's somewhat uncharacteristic for schulz (and p. patty).

"number one snoopy place".

Later on, when Franklin was introduced into the strip, the little black kid—I could have put him in long before that, but for other reasons, I didn't. I didn't want to intrude upon the work of others, so I held off on that. But I finally put Franklin in, and there was one strip where Charlie Brown and Franklin had been playing on the beach, and Franklin said, "Well, it's been nice being with you, come on over to my house some time." Again, they didn't like that. Another editor protested once when Franklin was sitting in the same row of school desks with Peppermint Patty, and said, "We have enough trouble here in the South without you showing the kids together in school." But I never paid any attention to those things, and I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin—he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, "Well, Larry, let's put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How's that?" So that's the way that ended. But I've never done much with Franklin, because I don't do race things. I'm not an expert on race, I don't know what it's like to grow up as a little black boy, and I don't think you should draw things unless you really understand them, unless you're just out to stir things up or to try to teach people different things. I'm not in this business to instruct; I'm just in it to be funny. Now and then I may instruct a few things, but I'm not out to grind a lot of axes. Let somebody else do it who's an expert on that, not me.

also, like, ppl have made the point that Franklin was just introduced and one of the gang with no set-up, no big political statement, no nothing; which is pretty radical in 1968, considering, as this piece points out, this is the stuff Dennis the Menace was running two years AFTER franklin was introduced

http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/edgeofthewest/files/2008/11/27/dennis.jpg