Trading Places

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**Trading Places** is the second half of the third episode from the first season of Peanuts in the House.

## Plot

It is once again another nice day in the house. While on the countertop, Mimi is doing some research with a weather machine while Linus is pretending that he is a samurai warrior, wielding a spoon like a sword, before Mimi tells him to be quieter. Mimi then tells Linus that the machine she has will accurately predict the weather and once they find out what the weather will be, they'll be more prepared in advance for it, while Linus becomes surprised from seeing a cloud in the sky, the cloud looking like a frog. This causes Linus to start talking non-stop about the frog cloud that he spotted in the sky, but Mimi tells him that she's busy and that she has to finish her notes, but Linus accidentally breaks the machine while he was laying on top of it, before he asks if the cloud frog was a cloud tadpole first. Charlie Brown and Sally then walk by while Charlie Brown tells Sally, "Okay, Sally, fine, we can try making cookies again, but don't burn them this time! You gotta watch the timer like a hawk!" After Charlie Brown walks off after saying this, Sally then screeches like a hawk, before she walks off after Charlie Brown. Linus then asks Mimi what the frog cloud's name was, before he starts giving off a list of possible names, which annoys Mimi, even while the two brush their teeth. Later, Mimi notices that the room is quiet, so she decides that she can finally read her book in peace, until Linus drops in literally and yells, "Ribbit!", surprising Mimi so much that she throws her book into the air as it lands in the fireplace while the fire is still burning.

Meanwhile, at the home of Charlie Brown and Sally, the oven starts smoking while the smoke alarm is beeping, as Charlie Brown rushes over to take the cookies out of the oven, but the cookies are now burned as Sally shows up and says, "Smoky", while Charlie Brown can only glare at Sally while growling angrily. This time, Mimi and Linus are now strolling through town while Linus is now riding his bike and now talking about if the frog cloud had any friends, such as a cloud bird or a cloud llama. Unfortunately, Linus is so distracted by these thoughts that while Pig-Pen is out taking Rooney on a walk, Linus turns into the leash which acts as a slingshot, sending Linus backwards, and also causing Rooney to get flung around and knock Pig-Pen to the ground, before Linus then runs into Mimi, as the two crash into the fountain afterwards. Charlie Brown is watching TV, when Sally comes into the room while carrying a plate of cookies, which Charlie Brown is elated to hear, but his elation suddenly comes to an end when he sees that the cookies are burnt again before he angrily tells Sally that she's a cookie waster and walks off after that, while Sally picks up one of the cookies and says "Ungrateful", before she eats the cookie, even in spite of it being burnt, as she coughs out some smoke. Back at Mimi and Linus's home, Linus is still rambling on about what the cloud frog's name is, which prompts Mimi to go on a walk by herself in the night while angrily muttering about why Linus doesn't think more like he does, while Charlie Brown is also talking a walk while he too angrily mutters about Sally just speaking only five words at a time. At that moment, while Mimi and Charlie Brown pass each other, they both yell at the same time, "I just want a different roommate!" The two then become surprised when they realize that they have the same problem, with Charlie Brown stating that Sally is too wacky and only has two-word sentences, "Me hungry. Me full. Blah!", while Mimi starts mocking Linus's obsession with the frog cloud. Mimi then tells Charlie Brown that there has to be a solution to their problem, but Charlie Brown has nothing, but just when Mimi and Charlie Brown are about to leave, the two come up with an idea, which is that they'll trade roommates, which Charlie Brown agrees with.

Mimi has packed up her stuff in a suitcase, before telling Linus, who is reading his comic book, that Sally will be his new roommate. Meanwhile, Charlie Brown has also packed up a suitcase for Sally, including throwing an ice cream cone into the suitcase. When Sally questions about this, Charlie Brown tells Sally that she'll be living with Linus, and when Sally asks "Ice cream?", Charlie Brown tells her that the ice cream is all for her , which Sally is convinced by as she also leaves as well. Mimi and Linus both pass each other, while telling each other to have fun. After Mimi meets up with Charlie Brown, Mimi asks him what book he has, with Charlie Brown answering that he has "Stuff-Mart with Prototype Covers", while Mimi has "Of Rice and Men". Sally also meets up with Linus, who then greets her, before Sally asks, "What do we do first?" Later, Linus and Sally are both sitting on the toaster while giggling rather giddily, before the toaster then goes off, propelling the two into the air. Next, the duo then have a marshmallow fight, throwing marshmallows at each other. Linus then throws a marshmallow that nails Sally squarely in the mouth, knocking her backwards, but she gets back up while eating the marshmallow before she yells, "Marshmallow!" Meanwhile, Mimi and Charlie Brown are reading their books, before they both decide to trade books with each other. This time, Linus and Sally are now pretending to be samurai warriors while standing right in the middle of the sink, before the two then start sword-fighting with each other, using spoons as swords. Sally lunges forward, but Linus quickly dodges before he kicks Sally from behind, knocking her into the sink, but when Linus jumps up in celebration, he loses his balance and falls into the sink as well.

Mimi and Charlie Brown are still reading together, while the two start laughing together. Later, the duo have made a large two-layer cake, and when Mimi asks Charlie Brown who the cake is for, Charlie Brown then tosses two ice cream cones into the air. After the ice cream cones land on top of the cake, Charlie Brown answers, "Our stomachs", before he and Mimi once again share another laugh together. This time, Linus and Sally are both riding on a sardine and a lobster, respectively, until they both crash into each other. Linus then jumps back onto the sardine and zooms off before Sally also jumps back onto the lobster and zooms off as well. This time, Mimi and Charlie Brown are both eating sandwiches, with Mimi (trying to start a conversation) telling Charlie Brown that she had a great day and that it's nice to converse with someone, but Charlie Brown rudely interrupts by shushing her, telling her that he's eating right now (as he is more interested in eating than anything else in that moment). Mimi tries again in repeating her statement twice, but Charlie Brown keeps on shushing her, before telling her to eat and drink, before Charlie Brown then scarfs down her sandwich in one bite, obviously more interested in filling his belly, as stated previously. After that, Charlie Brown says that the sandwich was great, before asking Mimi what she was saying, but when Mimi once again tries to repeat her statement, Charlie Brown interrupts her again (this time not by shushing), telling her that they should take a break, or more accurately, a donut-five. When Mimi asks what a donut-five is, Charlie Brown answers that "it's a break where you eat five donuts in five seconds". Of course, Mimi then says that she doesn't really like donuts, which Charlie Brown is both shocked and horrified to hear. After a few seconds of silence, Mimi and Charlie Brown both start to miss Linus and Sally, while Charlie Brown starts wondering if they made a mistake and if they should switch back. Charlie Brown is then sidetracked when he eyes Mimi's sandwich before he scarfs down Mimi's sandwich in one bite, while Mimi then says that she has a plan.

Later, Linus and Sally are both walking across the counter, while Linus tells Sally that it was nice of Mimi and Charlie Brown to invite them to their place to watch a Plantasaurus marathon on TV. Once the duo approach the place and after Linus knocks on the door, Mimi answers it before grabbing both Linus and Sally and pulling them inside. Once inside, Linus thanks Mimi and Charlie Brown for inviting him and Sally over, while Mimi answers that it was no problem, saying that she can't wait to watch "Plantasaurus VS. Shark", before asking Linus what he thinks will happen, before she says that she hears that the Shark has cool ninja moves. Mimi then starts doing her own ninja moves, which surprises Linus, while Charlie Brown tells Sally to take a seat, before asking her if he can offer her anything like "Popcorn? Soda? A donut? Ten donuts? Thirty donuts?", which Sally is also surprised by. Linus then tells Sally that Mimi and Charlie Brown are acting too nice, while Sally quips "Such-picious", before Linus tells her that he means "suspicious", before agreeing with Sally that Mimi and Charlie Brown are acting suspicious, before he tells Sally to let her come up with an excuse for them to leave. Linus then tells Mimi and Charlie Brown that he and Sally would love to stay, but they have their own plans as well, which Mimi and Charlie Brown are surprised to hear, before Linus tells them that he and Sally have to go cloud-hunting (though Sally insists on 'make cookies') before the two then leave after that. Mimi and Charlie Brown are both frustrated that their plan didn't work, while Charlie Brown laments that they really messed up, before he quickly snarfs down a cookie that fell on the floor.

After Linus and Sally have returned home, Linus quips that that was weird, which Sally agrees with, before Linus says that it's time to go cloud-hunting, but Sally still wants to make cookies. Linus can only watch as Sally goes off to the kitchen, while Linus starts to remember all the fun times he and Mimi had together looking for clouds, before he starts to sing about how Mimi is his best friend, while Mimi likewise also starts singing about how Linus is her best friend. The two then sing that through thick and thin, they'll always be "very best friends", even in spite of their flaws and their differences. After the song ends, Sally has made herself a sandwich, which she then scarfs down in one bite, while Linus is still depressed about missing Mimi. Seconds later, Mimi then enters the house and greets Linus, which Linus is happy to see as he runs up to Mimi, who then asks Linus if she wants to go weather-measuring with him. Linus thinks about this, before Mimi tells him that Proverbs 17 says, "A friend loves at all times", before telling Linus that now is one of those "all times", while Linus is still thinking about it. Mimi then tells Linus that they can look for frog clouds and that he can even name them, which Linus is excited to hear, before he rushes off then comes back with a miniature weather device and says, "Ribbit!", before he and Mimi both laugh together. In the final scene, Sally has also decided to return home to Charlie Brown, while still feeling unsure if her own brother wants her back or not. Charlie Brown then opens his mouth and smiles, revealing that he has cookies for teeth. Sally then tells Charlie Brown that she wants "cookie teeth" too, which Charlie Brown obliges to by tossing a few cookies into Sally's mouth, so that Sally can have cookies for teeth too, before they start laughing, happy to be back together again as the episode irises out.

## Characters

* Mimi
* Linus van Pelt
* Charlie Brown
* Sally Brown
* Peppermint Patty (*does not speak*)
* Rooney

## Fun Facts

### Remarks

* The title card depicts Sally with a suitcase. But in the actual episode, it was Charlie Brown.
* Mimi is seen with a big weather measuring machine, but in Linus's flashback, she's seen with a small one. Though this indicate he probably has two.