The History of Peanuts (Part VI)

(Links to the first five parts can be found on the right, most contained around the beginning and ending of 2008. As always, clicking on the pictures makes them bigger.)

A regular joke in the early Peanuts strips - and being 1954, this is still early - contained Lucy asking a peculiar question which demonstrated a poor grasp of science, Charlie Brown providing the rebuttal, and Lucy waxing philosophical as the punchline. Here's one example:


But for every scientific miscuriosity Lucy had, Charlie Brown was always there with an all-too-literal grasp on the English language:


(Actually, I'm intrigued by the concept. "Power motor" is an inherently funny term.)

Sometimes the Charlie Brown/Lucy misunderstanding would go on for a few days, and be dragged out a lot more than it was in the first strip of this batch. Here's an example of that:


And we'll end with one of the very, very, very few jokes that can be made about Pig-Pen:


--Ryan