Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 04, 1978
December 03, 1978
December 05, 1978
Transcript:
Schroeder plays the piano. Lucy leans on the piano and holds some papers. She says, "I'm writing a book on Beethoven."<BR><BR> Lucy continues, "There's this girl who likes him, see, but he won't pay any atention to her . . . So you know what she does? Guess!"<BR><BR> Schroeder tumbles in the air. Lucy kicks his piano and says, "She kicks his piano!"<BR><BR> Lucy smiles and says, "'What do you think of that?' She said."<BR><BR>
When I first saw this “cartoon serial”, I knew Lucy had based this story on her relationship with herself and Schroeder—you can tell the girl in the story is supposed to be her, and Beethoven is supposed to be Schroeder. And yes, another of Schulz’ fine examples, of unrequited love, in Peanuts, as well as Sally’s with Linus, Peppermint Patty’s with “Chuck,” and even Charlie Brown’s with the little red-haired girl(of course, in his case, he can’t even bring himself to go near her, but even so, she acts like he does not exist.)