Peanuts

Peanuts is a popular comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz. It ran in newspapers from October 2, 1950 until Febuary 13, 2000. The comic has spawned many television specials, four animated feature films, two stage musicals, and two television series (The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show and This is America, Charlie Brown).

References

• Snoopy is quoted in the documentary Youth '68.
• Snoopy can be seen in a Sesame Street live-action film about circles which appeared in the Sesame Street Pitch Reel.

• The Muppet Babies episode "Comic Capers" made extensive use of Peanuts, including an extended parody, with Baby Kermit as Charlie Brown, Baby Rowlf as Shroeder, Baby Piggy as Lucy, and Baby Skeeter as the Peppermint Patty-like "Butterscotch Skeeter". This sequence also featured a few clips from the various Peanuts animated specials. The episode also included the babies looking at a Peanuts Sunday comic strip, a brief clip of Charlie Brown being drawn, and a still from the very first Peanuts comic strip. In another scene, Baby Scooter, inside a computer, is turned into a variety of comic strip icons, including Charlie Brown

• Snoopy: The Musical, featured the original song "Just One Person", which has been used in many Muppet productions over the years.

• In the book One Frog Can Make a Difference, Kermit expresses his disgust with being kissed by princesses by recalling a famous Peanuts moment: "Remember how when Snoopy kissed her, Lucy used to say, 'Yecch. Dog lips'"?

Connections

Several performers and crew members have worked on Peanuts adaptations, as well as with the Muppets.

• Roger Bart played Snoopy in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999, Broadway revival)
• Kristin Chenoweth played Sally in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999, Broadway revival)
• Clark Gesner, author of the original You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, produced framing segments and inserts for the early production pilots and test episodes of Sesame Street. Although the framing segments were abandoned, some of the inserts were kept.
• Larry Grossman composed the songs for Snoopy: The Musical (1975, stage)
• Jeremy Miller voiced Linus in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (1986, TV), Snoopy: The Musical (1988, TV), and one episode of This is America, Charlie Brown (1988, TV)
• Joe Raposo was the musical supervisor, arranger, and composed additional music for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1971, Broadway debut)
• Judy Sladky plays the costumed Snoopy in various live appearances
• Frank Welker voiced various historical characters in This is America, Charlie Brown (1988-1989, TV)