Peanuts

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Peanuts is a multimedia entertainment franchise created by Charles M. Schulz. The franchise is best known for the Peanuts comic strip, whose original print run was from 1950 to 2000 and has since been published in reruns. The franchise has also spawned numerous animated television specials, four feature-length films, an animated television program, video games and a stage musical. In addition, numerous books exist, both compilations from the comic strip and original works based on the franchise.

Peanuts and its characters have been referred to numerous times on The Simpsons, both in television episodes and in the comics.

References

Episodes

Picture Season Episode number Episode name Reference 1 1 "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" Bart says, "If TV has taught me anything, it's that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas" and cites Charlie Brown as an example, referring to the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas. 5 86 "Treehouse of Horror IV" In the segment "Bart Simpson's Dracula", the Simpsons are all transformed into vampires and are about to attack Lisa. At the last second, they all stop, look into the camera and say "Happy Halloween!" Then, in a parody of the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas, they sing "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" while Milhouse plays the piano (a. la. Schroeder) and Santa's Little Helper dances (a. la. Snoopy). 200px 12 254 "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" During the couch gag, when the family enter the living room they find Santa's Little Helper dancing in front of the couch like Snoopy, while "Linus and Lucy" (the up-tempo piano jazz tune which has become the de facto theme song of Peanuts) plays in the background. 15 327 "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" The movie You're in the Matrix, Charlie Brown (a parody of the film The Matrix and the television special You're in Love, Charlie Brown) was shown at the Springfield Googolplex movie theatre. 200px 17 359 "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" Bart, Lisa and Milhouse watch an episode of The O.C. where in the opening credits, the characters visit a theme park and hang out with a cast member in a Snoopy costume. Later, "Snoopy" forces them at gunpoint to withdraw cash from an ATM and give it to him. 200px 18 381 "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" When Marge learned that someone at Springfield Elementary School had a life-threatening peanut allergy and peanut products were no longer allowed on school property, she immediately removed all the peanut products from Bart's lunchbox—including a copy of Good Grief, More Peanuts. 20 424 "Treehouse of Horror XIX" The segment "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse" is a parody of the franchise and its characters: Specifcally, of the TV special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. 432 "No Loan Again, Naturally" Lisa mentions Peppermint Patty as being among personal heroes of hers who are or were gay, qualifying her statement by adding that she only suspects that Peppermint Patty is gay. 22 472 "The Fight Before Christmas" Bart sees a boy who resembles Schroeder playing a piano in the Clausco building.

Comics

Picture Comic issue Story name Reference The Simpsons Winter Wingding 6 Grampa's Christmas Origins: Christmas Cards When Lisa can't reach the opening on a mailbox, Bart offers to open it with his scarf, using a trick he learned "from watching old Christmas cartoons on TV". Actually, the trick happens in the Peanuts Halloween special (It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown) when Linus uses his blanket to open a mailbox for Charlie Brown.

External links

• Peanuts at Wikipedia

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