Talk:Peppermint Patty/Archive 1

message: Charles Schulz named the character after the York Peppermint Pattie, and in response the makers of the candy, Peter-Paul (later Peter-Paul Cadbury) ended up being one of the exclusive sponsors (along with McDonald's and Dolly Madison) of the animated Peanuts television specials on CBS in the 1970s.
I'm pretty sure this is apocryphal. Schulz always said that the character was named after a dish of peppermint candies; also, I don't think the York Peppermint Patty came along until well after 1966. I'm changing this until I can find out elsewise. --RMc
:The York Peppermint Pattie actually came out in 1940. 
::According to the official website as cited in the above article , the candy was around in the northeast starting in 1940, but did not go national until 1975. However, their site says nothing about sponsorship of any "Peanuts" specials, although the absence of any such comment does not prove anything either way. Wahkeenah 11:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apocrypha 

message: I called the part about Peppermint Patty's relationships with Marcie and Chuck "Relationships with other characters." Should it be separated into two sections? Dave 20:24, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say revisionist is probably a bit of a weasel word (I think that's the term, not sure). "Contemporary interpretations"? Dave 20:39, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Contemporary interpretations is a more politically correct weasel term than revisionist, so go for it. Wahkeenah 20:43, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Fomat

message: I am new to contibuting to Wikipedia, having registered just this evening.  There are two issues I want to mention in regards to the Peppermint Patty entry.
1) Regarding Peppermint Patty's last name, Reichardt, a line in the Wikipedia article reads: "Besides guard duties, Peppermint Patty also retains Snoopy's services as an attorney, once even enlisting his help to openly defy the school's dress code (the only strip in which the character's full formal name, Patricia Reichardt, has ever been mentioned)."  While the strip in question was published on 15 January 1972, her last name did appear at least one more time, in the 05 February 1993 strip, in which she reads to Marcie an ad she has placed in the paper: 
   First panel: See Marcie?  My ad is in the paper.. 
   Second panel: "Help wanted.. attractive young lad can't remember history dates."  
   Third panel: "Doesn't understand fractions.. Call Patricia Reichardt at number below.."
   Fourth panel: What do you think, Marcie?  You are extremely weird, sir.
2) My last name is also Reichardt.  When I read the strip in which "Patricia Reichardt" first appeared, 15 January 1972, I was astonished to see my last name in a Peanuts comic strip.  I wrote Charles Schulz a letter asking him how he chose that name, never thinking he would respond.  He did.  He wrote me a short letter, dated 26 January 1972, in which he explained that his secretary always loved Peppermint Patty above all other Peanuts characters, and that she and Peppermint Patty had a lot in common.  So when it came to giving her a last name, Schulz gave her the last name of her secretary at the time, Susan Reichardt.
I still have the original letter and the envelope in which it was mailed.
:You're pretty lucky he ever responded to you.
::Actually, Schulz made every effort to respond to every letter that was ever written to him (however much in brief).  He viewed it as a matter of uncompromising courtesy.  tuttlemsm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.232.161.243 (talk) 05:42, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As the above information confirms, the recent edit changing her last name was in error (and calling "He's a Bully" her last appearance is a bit of a crystal ball; if animated appearances are included, well, they're continuing to do more animation and will likely use her again.) I am avoiding directly editing Peanuts articles due to some recent direct professional involvement with Peanuts, but I hope someone else will take care of this correction. --Nat Gertler (talk) 03:06, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peppermint Patty's last name - Reichardt 

message: I have removed the following text, with my formatting edit, from the article as trivia. 
**Directors of YAGMCB often exercise their artistic prerogative to turn the Patty character into Peppermint Patty and instruct the actor accordingly.  It's not correct, but it is understandable: Peppermint Patty is a much richer character than the original patty.  tuttlemsm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.232.161.243 (talk) 07:02, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia removed from article: Justice Roberts 

message: Whether or not the character is actually lesbian, the fact they she's become something of an icon is worth noting --especially after its parodied in such mainstream venues as Family Guy (and that was years ago), The Boondocks comic strip, and others. Seriously now. --76.93.253.93 (talk) 23:09, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That someone makes fun of tomboys as lesbians is not the same as making them lesbian icons; I don't know of any lesbians holding up P.Patty as an icon. Not every reference that Family Guy makes is noteworthy. If you can find a viable third party discussion of how Peppermint Patty is treated when parodied, that might survive notability, but a collection of "ha ha, she's a dyke references" on its own just becomes a needless list.--Nat Gertler (talk) 23:48, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Parodies by the Family Guy don't really cut it.  But how do any of the deniers account for Marcie's constantly calling her "sir"? Dogru144 (talk) 01:46, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Lesbian icon?

message: Michaelis does not say that Patty Swanson inspired Peppermint Patty, merely that her temperment is more like P.Patty than like flavorless Patty, the character whose name she inspired (footnoted on page 223). As such, I've excised the bit that claimed she was an inspiration. --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:28, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patty Swanson 

message: I was the physician for Patricia, the niece of Schultz.  She was under the impression that she was the inspiration for Peppermint Patty.  Someone should look into this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.111.95.106 (talk) 22:44, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The origin of Peppermint Patty 

message: Someone just updated "Last appearance" to be He's a Bully, Charlie Brown. I think we should stick with the source material - the strip - on this, but even if we don't, it is unlikely that He's a Bully is her final appearance. They have, after all, continued to do Peanuts animation since then - the motion comics, Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown -- and while PP may not be in those, she's likely to be in a future project. I will not edit it myself due to my Peanuts COI, but I thought I'd note that. -Nat Gertler (talk) 19:11, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And now a date of "197?" has been added as her final appearance in the strip, when actually her final non-reprint appearance was 2? years later, on January 2, 2000. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:42, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And now, another date has been added... one months after the last new Peanuts strip of any sort. Really, it's January 2, 2000, folks. --Nat Gertler (talk) 14:39, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last appearance