From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.animation
Subject: THE DEFINITIVE PEANUTS LIST - VERSION 1.2
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:35:43 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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THE DEFINITIVE PEANUTS CHARACTERS LIST (still incomplete, of course)
VERSION 1.2, OCTOBER 13, 1992.
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Here is the latest update. I do have lots more stuff to add, but I don't
have time at this moment, and I know that some of you are waiting for this.
I'm poring through a boxed collection of 9 hardcover books that 
contain 4 softcovers each (that's 36 books, for you math majors) that I
found in a used bookstore here in Worcester for only $20! Now that's a
good way to build a collection - check a used book store in your town!
Anyway, mail me (Peter Dutton) with any additions/corrections/help. And
thanks for all the help you've given me so far!

By the way, post any questions you may have on who some characters are, etc.,
but send me any corrections or additions!
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Initiators:	Charles M. Schulz (of course)
		Greg Barnes (greg@cs.washington.edu)
     		Anthony Olejnik (tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu)
		Peter Dutton (padutton@wpi.wpi.edu)

Other contributors to Version 1.1:
	Andy G. Ihnatko (andyi@world.std.com)
	Brent M. Lofgren (blofgren@phoenix.Princeton.EDU)
	Lisa Nyman (panda@sytinx.umd.edu)
	Will Bell (bell@cs.tamu.edu)

Other contributors to Version 1.2 (hope I didn't forget anyone):
	Chris Page (page@student.physics.upenn.edu) [A MAJOR help]
	Paul "Monty" Ashley (pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu)
	Jean-Marc Rocher (rocher@husc.harvard.edu)
	Mike Procopio (procopio@attmail.att.com)
	Glenn Krell (gck@ITSA.UCSF.EDU)
	James Davies (jrbd@craycos.com)
	Lawrence Kaminsky (kaminl@rpi.edu)
	Peter Kwangjun Suk (pksuk@mailbox.syr.edu)
	James Langdell (James.Langdell@Eng.Sun.COM)
	Daniel Blum (blum@medici.ils.nwu.edu)
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MAJOR CHARACTERS:
1)  Charlie Brown
2)  Sally Brown
3)  Linus Van Pelt
4)  Lucy Van Pelt
5)  Snoopy
6)  Spike (Snoopy's brother - he's been carrying alot of strips lately)
7)  Woodstock
8)  Peppermint Patty (Patricia Reichardt)
9)  Marcie
10) Schroeder (the sixth character introduced)
11) Shermy (one of the original four characters)
12) Patty (one of the original four characters)
13) Violet (the fifth character introduced)

SOMEWHAT MAJOR CHARACTERS:
1)  Freida
2)  Franklin
3)  Rerun Van Pelt
4)  Pig Pen
5)  Roy
6)  5 (short for 555 95472 - he has two sisters named "3" and "4")
7)  Eudora 
8)  Conrad (one of the other birds)
9)  Harriet (yet another bird - got married to Bill)
10) Bill (yet another bird)
11) Olivier (yet ANOTHER bird)

NAMED MINOR OR ONE-SHOT CHARACTERS:
1)  Lila (Snoopy's original owner)
2)  Poochie (blond-haired girl who first called Charlie Brown "Charlie Brown")
3)  Peggy Jean (the girl who likes "Brownie Charles")
4)  Snoopy's grandfather - did he have a name? I don't remember this one
5)  Marbles (One of Snoopy's other brothers)
6)  Olaf (Snoopy's fat ugly brother)
7)  Belle (Snoopy's sister)
8)  Molly Volley (Snoopy's doubles partner)
9)  Jose Peterson (player on other baseball team)
10) Clara (who did NOT become Marcie), Sophie, and Shirley (counseled by
	Peppermint Patty at camp)
11) The "Goose Eggs" (the team CB coached when he ran away) - Ruby, Austin,
	Leland, Milo
12) Faron (Freida's cat)
13) Truffles (Linus likes her, but only Snoopy knows how to get to her place)
14) Crybaby Boobie (see Bad Call Benny)
15) Bad Call Benny (Molly Volley and Snoopy's doubles opponents)
16) Thibault (sexist baseball player on PP's team; has sideburns)
17) Tapioca Pudding (her father is in licensing)
18) Harold Angel
19) Cormac (the guy at camp who liked Marcie and sits behind Sally in class)
20) Floyd (the guy who bugged Marcie at camp, calling her "Lambcake")
21) Randolph - the guy who came to Linus with a blanket over his head. He
	was actually Sally, though.
22) Snoopy's almost-bride (Genevieve was her name in the TV show, and she
	was shown there)
23) Alfred E. Newman (yes, the character from "Mad")
24) Loretta (the girl who sells girl-scout cookies)
25) Joe Richkid (played golf with PP and Snoopy (as the Masked Marvel))

"INANIMATE" CHARCATERS THAT HAVE THOUGHT, MOVED UNDER THEIR OWN VOLITION, OR
HAVE BEEN INTEGRAL TO THE STRIP.
1) The dreaded Kite-Eating Tree
2) Charlie Brown's kite
3) Linus's blanket
4) The school building
5) Schroeder's piano (the object of Lucy's jealousy)
6) MINOR - pitcher's mound, CB's glove, the garage (Snoopy's original mixed-
	double's partner), Sally's beachball

UNNAMED MINOR OR ONE-SHOT CHARACTERS THAT ACTUALLY WERE SHOWN
1)  Belle's son (reminds Snoopy of Pink Panther)
2)  The "shut up and leave me alone" kid (one of CB's tentmates)
3)  The campers who called Charlie Brown "Sack"
4)  The campers who made fun of Charlie Brown's baseball-playing ability
5)  The girl who found Snoopy once and tied him up with a BIG rope
6)  The playground bully who threatened Sally
7)  The kids that Sally retaliates against by carrying Snoopy as protection
8)  The kid that beats her up when Snoopy runs away
9)  The worms who mugged Woodstock when he and Snoopy went fishing
10) The "aren't you kind of old for me" girl
11) The kids who sit next to CB when he watched the Waffletown Syrups play.
12) Miscellaneous bunnies

OTHER NAMED OR MENTIONED CHARACTERS THAT WERE NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN:
1)  Charlie Brown's Dad (a barber) (and of course, all the other parents)
2)  Miss Othmar (Linus's favorite school teacher - became Mrs. Hagermeyer)
3)  Helen Sweetstory (writes the "bunny wunny" books that Snoopy likes)
4)  Joe Shlabotnik (Charlie Brown's favorite baseball player)
5)  The Great Pumpkin (he or she may not exist, though)
6)  The Head Beagle (Snoopy was the Head Beagle for a short time, though)
7)  World War II (the cat next door to Snoopy)
8)  The Little Red-Haired Girl
9)  The Red Baron
10) Charlie Brown's Pencil Pal (originally his Pen Pal)
11) Thompson (as in "Thompson is in trouble")
12) Craig Bowerman (Violet's Valentine's Day card labelled "C.B." was for him)
13) Bill Mauldin (WWII cartoonist that Snp. quaffs root beers with on Vets Day)
14) Charlie Brown's pediatrician
15) Aunt Marian (Charlie Brown, Violet, and Lucy all have one. Lucy also
	has an "Aunt Marion")
16) School librarian, principal, psychologist, etc.
17) Other teachers: Mrs. Donovan (CB's after the spelling bee), Miss Swanson
	(one of Patty's), Miss Tenure (one of Patty's)
18) Mr. Martin, the umpire
19) Mrs. Nelson and Mrs. Bartley (Marcie and PP caddied for them)
20) As a world-famous checkout clerk, Snoopy talks to Mrs. Bartley, Mrs.
	Lockhart, Mrs. Mendleson, Mrs. Albo, and Fred
21) Linus's blanket-hating grandmother (and all the other grandparents)
22) Joe Mouth (a radio talk-show host that PP called)
23) Linus's and Sally's opthamologists and optometrists
24) John Doe and Richard Roe
25) Various waitresses that Snoopy meets in his "French cafe"
26) Snoopy's Christmas Card list - Millie, The O'Haras, Tina, Janet, Kim,
	Poochie (see above, though), Randi, Norma, Amy
27) The women Snoopy gets Valentine's Day cards from: Joyce, Peggy, Zelma,
	Janell, Boots, Pat, Sydney, Winnie, Jean, Rosemary, Courtney,
	Fern, Meredith, Amy, Jill, Betty, Marge, Kay, Frieda, Annabelle,
	Sue, Eva, Judy, Ruth, Barbara, Helen, Ann, Jane, Dorothy, June,
	Margaret, Clara, Virginia, Ruby, Jo, Cecille, Julie, Hedy, Marie,
	Kathleen, Maggie, Diane, Vivian, Charlotte, Tekla, Lillian, Edna,
	Naomi, Fran, Connie, Chiyo, Marylin, Aileen, Shirley (but not Lila!)

REAL LIVE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THE STRIP:
-Bill Maudlin (see above)	-Dr. Spock (the baby doctor)
-Rachel Carson			-Santa Claus :-)
-MUSICIANS: Beethoven, Tschaikovsky, Bartok, Chopin, Bach, Mozart, Bloch,
	Bartok, Berlioz, Bizet, Brahms, Delius, Debussy, Dvorak, Elgar,
	Franck, Glinka, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Humperdinck, Liszt, Mahler,
	Mendelssohn, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Sibelius, Sinding,
	Tschaikowsky [sic], Vivaldi, Irving Berlin
-Charles M. Schulz (not by name, but he was the Grand Marshall of the Rose
	Bowl Parade. Lucy told Linus that he would have never heard of him)
-ARTISTS: Van Gogh, Andrew Wyeth (both from Snoopy's art collection)
-Lots of Biblical characters and references
-Genghis Khan, Nebuchadnezzar (in reference to Pig Pen's dirt)
-AUTHORS: Edgar Allen Poe ("The Pit and the Pendulum"), Thomas Wolfe
-BASEBALL: Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey (Charlie
	Brown and Linus were SF Giants fans!), Joe Garagiola, Casey Stengel
-GOLF: Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Patty Berg
-OTHER SPORTS: Minnesota Fats, Billie Jean King, Bobby Orr, Olga Korbut,
	Peggy Fleming, Sonja Henie, Bobby Hull, Pancho Gonzales,
-WHO?: Liv Ullman, Fred Glover, Carol Mann
-PRESIDENTS: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln

AGES:
-When Schroeder was introduced, he was just a little baby. Same with Linus,
	however, all their ages have kind of blurred together.
-Linus is five years older than Sally - this was mentioned in a few places.
	When she is born in 1959, he wonders if she'll go out with him when
	she is 17 and he is 22. Little did he know she didn't want to wait
	that long. He later gives as a reason why he could never marry her
	(after she begins chasing him) the fact that when he is ninety-five,
	she'll only be NINETY!
-Lucy at some point says that she wants the world fixed up by the time she
	is eighteen, or ELSE. That gave the world twelve years - meaning 
	she was six at that time.
-Charlie Brown says he is eight-and-a-half when he checks into the Ace
	Memorial Hospital. However, from above, Charile Brown is at least
	five years older than Sally. That would make her three at the most,
	which of course, can't be.
-In the early strips, Patty, Violet, Charlie Brown were all in kindergarten,
	Shermy was in first grade, Lucy was in nursery school. So they've
	aged a little bit. Which is fine. But it seems that they've been
	aging at different rates!

ETCETERA:
-The forerunner to "Peanuts" was Schulz's comic "Li'l Folks" with many
	familiar characters...
-The first "Peanuts" strip was on October 2, 1950, about the same time that
	"Beetle Bailey" premiered. The first three characters were Charlie
	Brown, Shermy, and Patty. Snoopy appeared soon after, then Violet,
	then Schroeder.
-According to "It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown", the Little Red-Haired
	Girl is named "Heather". But she was never named in the strip.
-Snoopy was born at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm (there is a six-story parking
	garage there now)
-At the time of Sally's birth, Snoopy mentions that he never knew what it
	was like to have a younger sister - he was an "only dog". But later
	it is revealed that he was "one of eight Beagles", and we even get
	to meet some of them. At some point before that, he says he was
	one of SEVEN puppies. And after his family reunion in the 60's, he
	said he was disappointed that none of them spoke the same language
	nor had anything in common! Now THIS is an inconsistency!



ANY ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS E-MAIL TO PETER DUTTON (padutton@wpi.wpi.edu)
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