Peanuts: Search and Destroy

I have to say, I didn't know much (any) of Franklin's backstory, either as a character or in Schulz' introduction/incorporation of him into the strip. The hockey strip stuck out in my memory largely because Franklin seemed to be the butt of the joke. But based on how he was introduced, and Schulz' threatening to quit, I can see that strip now as an awkward attempt to say the opposite of how it comes off.

It's totally in character for Peppermint Patty to be that much of a jerk. (It would be for Lucy too, but Lucy's about honing in on people's insecurities; Patty is more accidentally insensitive when aiming to drop truths on people.)

xxp yeah that's the odd thing about this strip. are there any others where the fact of franklin being black is explicitly mentioned?

most unsettling thing about franklin's first appearance is the casual vietnam reference imo:

http://museumofuncutfunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Franklin-5.gif

he was in a war, too, but i don't know which one.

pretty definitive third panel there.

There does seem like a lot of "code" with Franklin's first appearances:

http://museumofuncutfunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pe681016.gif

http://mashable.com/2014/11/26/franklin-black-peanuts-character-history/

http://gothamist.com/2015/10/30/lucy_had_a_lumpy_head.php

Kathie Lee and Woodstock speak the same dialect anyway.

In the behind-the-scenes package, Kathy Lee actually said "Why do I have to be Woodstock? He doesn't talk!" and I kept thinking "you have all the pieces, now put them together"

http://i.imgur.com/WXSQMqP.jpg

I can say, without reservation, that those are the most frightening costumes I have seen or will see this Halloween season. What the everloving fuck were they thinking.

it reminds me of that creepy snl sketch where brendan fraser is charlie brown and gets a severe head injury
http://www.oocities.org/sunsetstrip/disco/6857/brown4.jpg

Holy Jesus

http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/alien-from-talosian-star-trek-1360238035_b.jpg

is there anybody at all that wants to see this movie? do kids even know who the Peanuts gang are these days (apart from those kids of ILX0rs that are way into the Fantagraphics reprints)?

Swear to God, if there's a fart joke in this movie...

... you will see it multiple times in the theater?

this film seems destined to satisfy noone

http://www.bbkingblues.com/inc/artists/606-3.jpg

He certainly looks satisfied.

Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter.

Hell, PN even looks like one of the new Peanuts.

I got some piece of spam about the movie that blurbed "the Peanuts gang in their FIRST big-screen outing" blah blah...

If it happened before Star Wars, it didn't happen.

If it's genuinely in the spirit of the strip and/or the original movies and animated specials, I'd give it a shot. I'm extremely wary, though (because, yes, potential for farts, and also Black Eyed Peas songs or whatever). And while I love Peanuts, I'm totally in agreement that owning the rights to a 50+ year old property doesn't mean that there's any real reason to adapt it to another medium at this point or that there's any real market for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2AS51xJ9iE

im not sure i trust the favorable reviews that have come out, but this is an interesting look at how they worked to keep the imagery in line with schultz's drawings as possible (keeping the motion lines, etc.) http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/03/movies/08the-peanuts-movie-scene.html

I guess I should clarify: "If it's genuinely in the spirit of the strip and/or the pre-'80s original movies and animated specials, I'd give it a shot."

^^ WHY IS CHARLIE BROWN SMILING AT THE END OF THAT FOOTBALL CLIP?

Because he just farted, beat you all to it.

i would be stunned if they can even muster the spirit of the metlife commercials, but i've been wrong before

There's gonna be turf warfare with the Family Circus clan iirc

For people who get their newspaper comics fix online, comics.com now offers "Peanuts Begins," really early strips, separate from the more recent Peanuts strips.

Maybe I posted these before, but Schultz did some Peanuts ads for the Ford Falcon in the early '60s...

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/fordad.jpg

https://triviahappy.com/images/articles/03182014charliead.jpg

http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1963-ford-falcon-peanuts-ad-charlie-brown-lucy.jpg

https://media2.wnyc.org/i/620/372/l/80/1/charlie_brown_and_lucy_ford_falcon.jpg

The Falcon campaign also boasted the first Peanuts animations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHtX2FEVyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u43ExlkXmQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x58TMNiQ_5Y

Cool. I'm always interested in ancillary Peanuts stuff. Hopefully, since there's only one more Fantagraphics reprint still to be issued, they'll compile a book of extras to fill out a twelfth box set.

Okay, so it appears that two of Schulz's sons are the writers and Paul Feig is a producer and there's no obnoxious stunt voice casting from what I can tell. Aside from a Meghan Trainor song and a Flo Rida song (which I hope good sense will relegate to the end credits), nothing is jumping out as glaringly troublesome. Maybe this will be okay?

Speaking of the Fanta reprints, the 1995-1998 slipcase came out last week. I'm determined to complete the collection at this point, but this is, eh, not exactly top-shelf material. If it needs to be said.

i'm cautiously excited about this but sort of bracing myself bcz i'm not really 100 percent convinced that anyone but schulz can write peanuts dialogue.

^^ WHY IS CHARLIE BROWN SMILING AT THE END OF THAT FOOTBALL CLIP?

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I read an interview with Feig that sounded very promising.

Feig was on The Soup and was surprisingly hilarious

Pretty sure Peanuts is still huge, I have a 4-year-old niece who loves all the old specials and at one point recited the intro to "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown!" from memory.

Aside from a Meghan Trainor song and a Flo Rida song (which I hope good sense will relegate to the end credits), nothing is jumping out as glaringly troublesome.

this is a very big "aside from..."

http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/other-than-that-mrs-lincoln-how-did-you-enjoy-the-play-d74a2.png

xpost Oh, I most definitely agree. Based on the information I can glean from the credits, though, this looks like the one glaring concession the filmmakers made to the studio. Assuming Flo Rida isn't the director's cousin or something.

vince guaraldi ft. flo rida - "linus and lucy (got dem apple bottom jeans)"

The Meghan Trainor song is fine

3D animation looks horrible here.

I slept through most of it but as I recall none of the pop songs from the trailers appear in the actual movie.
Bilge Ebiri's review seems about right I think.

Now will they make a Dog Sees God movie?