Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 01, 1964
March 31, 1964
April 02, 1964
Transcript:
Charlie Brown sits on the bench with his lunch bag, holding a sandwich. Lucy stands beside him and points. She says, "Charlie Brown, that little red-haired girl wants you to come over, and eat lunch with her.."<BR><BR> Lucy watches Charlie Brown leave.<BR><BR> She watches.<BR><BR> She says, "April fool!" Charlie Brown glares at her.<BR><BR>
The 50th anniversary of this daily strip, as I post this comment—April 1, 2014. It just FIGURES, that someone as CRUEL as Lucy would pull such a SICK April Fool’s joke on someone as gullible, or naïve, as Charlie Brown. Knowing how much CB has always suffered from “unrequited love,” Lucy pounced RIGHT on that, and played a sick joke on him, even if for April Fools’ Day. Don’t forget, she would do something very similar, just nine years later, on April 1, 1973—April Fool’s Day was on a Sunday that year, so naturally, the cartoon was in “story” form then(you know what I mean, as was and still is typical of Sunday funnies strips.)