Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 25, 1952
January 24, 1952
January 26, 1952
Transcript:
Patty approaches Charlie Brown sitting behind a table (with a slip of paper on it)with a pencil tucked behind his ear and holding a box. He shows the box to her and says, "If I can save two-thousand of these box tops, I get a tricycle!"<BR><BR> She sits on the opposite side of the table and watches him write. He continues, "I've got it all figured out...I eat about one box of this stuff every week..."<BR><BR> They walk off as he looks at the paper and continues, "That means I'll have enough box tops by the time I'm forty!"<BR><BR> They stop, and he concludes, "But what am I going to do with a tricycle when I'm forty years old?"<BR><BR>
Approximately a decade later, a series of “Rocky and Bullwinkle” episodes would show Boris and Natasha plotting to destroy the US economy by mass producing and passing counterfeit boxtops.