Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is one of my top three favorite comic strips of all time, and interestingly, the older I get, the more I can appreciate it. When I was a kid, I used to be almost exclusively into Snoopy, especially in his World War I flying ace and Joe Cool personas, but now I can appreciate the entire cast, including Charlie Brown with his existential angst and Lucy with her cynicism and bad temper. Looking back, I think a lot of my sense of humor was formed from reading my Peanuts collections (along with Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield and The Far Side) over and over again.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Peanuts, and I’ve been wanting to do a tribute to Charles M. Schulz and his strip, hence, today’s homage to one of my favorite Peanuts strips of all time, which also happens to be the first Peanuts strip published, which you can see here.
Although he’s able to mask his rage around cel for now, it’s obvious jefbot’s Wheaton Rage still burns…
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For those who wish to fuel their Wheaton Rage, check Evil Wil Wheaton out on a new episode of The Big Bang Theory on Thursday (11/11/10) at 8pm on CBS. I know I’ll be on my couch, glaring at the screen and clenching my teeth, watching. Here’s what Wil has to say about it on his website:
• Hank Scorpio would really appreciate it if you’d read this post
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congrats on firsting, ESQ! you guys are too fast. just like the last time when Angela della Muerta claimed the top spot, i haven’t even tweeted or emailed about the strip being up, yet! here ya go, speedy – the Shades of Firsting: 😎
Foul, foul. No fair. Duck, Chicken, pheasant.
Just what time is it when you post these things. I was up until 3:00 am. CST. Where is everyone else?
I want to play Donkey Kong with a bar stool, because it hurts my back to stand and stoop over the dang console.
It was about 5:30am EST when I noticed the comic was posted…
Okay, well, I guess that we can make Chicken nuggets out of my post then. No chicken strips. This is a PG 13 joint, am I right? Besides, I don’t know if Jefbot has obtained the proper permits to allow for chicken stripping from his local city hall.
i tend to get the strip done at random times, Bl4ckw0lf – but usually somewhere between 1am and 4:30am PST, which makes Firsting on consecutive strips all the more impressive!
and no, i don’t have the proper City Hall Chicken Stripping permits, sadly.
My husband said I was a ninja, not even 10 minutes before you made that comment. I was in bed when he got up for work, and by the time he was read, I was gone…My ninja skills were very active this morning HA!
Love CF’s “ruh roh” look in the last panel … funny next to ‘bot’s churning rage…
and thanks to you, I now want a fluffy pretzel… 😛
your hubby’s right, ESQ: your ninja skills were strong for this strip! now go ninja yourself a fluffy pretzel. 🙂
Wow, bot! Lots of anger going on. Hahahaha!! But I see that you focused all into making a great strip!
Does the Wil Wheaton conspiracy originate with real life, or is it just a production of the web strip?
yeah, my hate for Wil Wheaton originated in real life, but i’ve been over it for years. now i think he’s a cool guy and am happy for his success. my counterpart in the strip does not share that thinking.
thanks! and yes, the strip makes a great punching bag for the venting of my anger, MC.
the truth will set you free…or end will wheaton in the hospital.
and then there’s the possibility that Wil knows some MMA moves and could put jefbot in the hospital instead, t_d! and nobody wants that. well, hopefully. 😉
Poor Lucy–I mean, jefbot.
heh. did i mention the next storyline will be jefbot filming a Vitametavegamin commerical, Sarah W?
Oooo! LucyFest!
urge to murder rising…
hopefully, jefbot doesn’t have a “murder threshold” John, but you never know…
woohoo…1st without ADM…haha..where is she anyway?
Bloody hell, am I really that noticable?
I was feeling very angry and ranty this morning so I decided not to play until I was in a better mood, otherwise I’d be no fun.
Ahhh you don’t want to rip someones head off why not?? lol Glad you feeling better. and yes you that noticable.
Well, for a start, Sonitan gets first dibs on the violence here.
My next question is: Am I noticable for good reasons or not so much? :/
thank you for giving credit in the evil department to who is so evilly fascinating.
*diabolical laugh of doom*
And you’re noticeable for evil reasons. You’re here to create an evil empire after all.
8D <—- maniacal smile of doom
You’re very welcome. I must give credit where it’s due. ^_^
True, I suppose not everyone is building an evil empire these days… There’s Bill Gates, of course.
You are noticable because you are Fantaburiffic bebe. No more needs to be said.
i second that.
Aww! You guys! ^_^ I love you millions! You’re a truckload of awesome!
define good reasons… As a geek my good reasons not the same as a normal persons good reasons lol. For my good reasons you noticeable. But they may not be your good reasons.
Now I’m REALLY curious!
cooling off before wading into the comments is much appreciated, AdM! i do that all the time – sometimes before i fire off a bitter email, text message or phone call, i’ll just take a breather and then let it pass. 99% of the time, i feel i’ve made the right decision. 🙂
I can rant with the best of them but it would have been horribly off-topic and very bad form to do so here. None of you guys have ever annoyed me, it’d be unfair of me to take it out on you.
I do prefer to vent where it can’t do any harm though, it stops the rage levels (nerd or otherwise) from reaching critical.
i for one loved charlie brown. i first loved snoopy but i went ahead and loved charlie brown….some of his strips touched my heart…..and made me cry…
sigh…..
when can i kick the ball?
NEVER. you can never kick the ball, JF#300. i absolutely love and respect Mr. Schulz’s decision to never let Charlie Brown kick that ball. there’s just something brave and pure about that.
HA Jeff this strip made me giggle. I too loved the Peanuts, both strips and most of the specials. They started to get a little ridiculous after a while. But the Great Pumpkin and that sad lil Xmas tree will forever be burned into my memories as some of my favorite icons.
And dog gone it, You guys are by the pretzel machine again! SO not fair.
Does anyone else remember Snoopy Come Home. I was about 6 or 7 when they showed it on tv in the late 70’s. I freaked my mom out cause I was hysterical! Snoopy ran away to find his “real” owner (I believe cause Charlie Brown yelled at him or something). The dam broke, lil Pixie was a sobbing mess and hysterical. It was very traumatizing.
agreed! i love the Christmas and Great Pumpkin specials too, Pixie! whenever i feel like getting in the “Christmas Spirit” i put on that Vince Guaraldi soundtrack and i’m instantly ready to deck the halls!
and yep: pretzels. at least there are a couple left. i’ll save you one.
i haven’t seen that Snoopy, Come Home special in forever! but i remember loving it, and probably shed a few tears over it, too, seeing how Snoopy was my favorite character at the time. the theme song’s still burned in my brain: “SnooOOooOOoopy, SnooOOooOOoopy, come home, Snoopy, come home.” i was traumatized, too. *tear*
Man I can hate ona guy like that too.Karma can be tricky bastard, Jef just got the girl, and now he has to manage his rage around his nemisis prancing around with said girl.Talk about bout walking a tight rope with a basket of cute puppies over a lava pit.
heheh. let’s just hope jefbot doesn’t miss a step and get those puppies flame-broiled, Prophet! and it’s still possible bot could stay on karma’s good side, as long as he doesn’t give in to his rage… which might prove difficult considering the events of the next couple’a strips… 😉
If you love Peanuts then, sir, you should make a trip to St. Paul, MN…just saying.
i’d love to see the bronze statues of the Peanuts gang over there, theBean! also hoping to get to the Charles M. Schulz Museum sometime soon, which is a bit closer to me. 🙂
There are also Peanuts characters throughout the town. Though, that’s not exclusive to St. Paul.
But with living here, they kind of blend into the background.
ah – didn’t realize you lived there! must be cool/strange to live with the Peanuts characters. kinda like you’re living in Toontown!
well, I actually live in the suburbs of Minneapolis, but I do get over to St. Paul every once and again. I’d like the place more if it wasn’t so far from everything I know. There’s an awesome science museum there and some pretty cool bars and restaurants and a place you can go to to brew your own beer. But pretty much everyone I know is in mpls, so…that’s where I spend most of my time. Sometimes I want to act like a tourist and go get my picture taken in front of all the Peanut’s characters, but I never actually do it.
Has your city ever had the cow statues or anything like that placed about town? I know they’ve traveled about the country, but I’m not sure what cities have had them. Some cities come up with their own statue like that placed about, typically it’s multiple statues of one object that are painted by different people and then placed about the city. It’s novel at first and then they just blend into the background, it’s like that.
nope, i’ve never seen the cow statues, theBean! sounds cool, though.
That about sums it up.
indeed, Maryz. i can now point to this strip when people ask me (jokingly, i assume) who Wil Wheaton is.
I’m loving the Wil Weaton cameo in the latest strips. It would have been hilarious if you put him in his clown sweater though. Probably not fitting, but still funny.
hey! good to see you back here and glad you’re enjoying Wil’s cameo, jh3! and yeah, that clown sweater would be awesome, but a bit distracting, methinks. 🙂
*RAGE MODE ENABLED*
Bahahahahahahahahahaha! Love it!
thanks, TCG! now let’s see if bot can disable RAGE MODE before cel and Wil return. 🙂
Great homage.
thanks, dude!
🙂 JB is turning to the Dark Side, he blame WW. Again, JB and CF faces are great. 😉
glad you enjoyed the expressions, ContableEnorme! and yes… the dark side’s definitely consuming jefbot, even as he tries to remain in the light. help him, Obi-Wan Kenobi!
The rage is building… and I have a feeling Cel is not going to be happy… If I were you, I’d role play with The Cornfather, and take out all of your WW anger on him!
Great strip as always!
heh. i don’t think the Cornfather would like that very much, Funnyshaffer.
Don’t be jealous cuz that nerd was actually successful. That’s mean spirited and won’t get you anywhere.
no worries, dj – i’m over it. and any residual Wheaton jealousies just get pumped into jefbot to deal with. 😉
Umm… ‘bot? Don’t break the counter. I don’t think the lip of it will survive long if you keep that death-grip up.
I can just imagine a little control deck in his head.
“Proximity alert!”
“Shields up! Engage acting skills!”
“They’re holding course… they’ve passed us.”
“Disengage acting skills. Lower shields. Report.”
“Nerd Rage levels are Critical.”
“Vent Nerd Rage.”
“Nerd Rage venting…”
*blinks* I love you so AdM
*chuckles* I’m very flattered, Pixie. ^_^ To what do I owe the honour?
I think it’s because you are who you are…a geek girl with a vivid imagination and a great sense of humor!! AmIrite Pixie?
You are BOTH correct! It’s that whole kindred souls thing and all.
And yer just damned adorable!
Nah. Because we’re so darn evil.
*evil laugh of doom*
Bwuahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
being who you are, geekiness, vivid imagination, humor, kindred souls, adorability and evil – all of that is why i’m loving all of you, right now! you guys are crazy-awesome. 🙂
Well, the ballots are in. The official result is: We all Kick Ass/Kick Arse/Prod Buttock (delete as appropriate).
jefbot will try not to damage the counter on the arcade’s first official day of opening, AdM, but if Nerd Rage reaches critical – no promises. 😉
as i read your scenario, i was totally hearing that classic, Star Trek, “bbrrrrrRRRPP! bbrrrrrRRRPP!” alarm sound in my head!
…Auditory hallucinations are pretty serious; you should maybe see someone about that. :p
*chuckles* No, that was my goal. Mission accomplished. ^_^
thnx! i had no idea who he was
i knew there were a few of you out there who didn’t know who he was. glad this cleared it up, kisame! 🙂
Somebody’s gonna have to distract Jefbot… I say I make Uncle Louie return his hamster.
ha! yeah, Musashi’s return might be the only thing at this point that would surprise jefbot enough to distract him from his Wheaton Rage, rinthia! 🙂
must not break counter and beat Wheaton to death. Must not break counter and beat Wheaton with it. >>>>>>>Nerd rage gaining.>>>>>>>Must not break counter…….
if one says something enough times, it becomes true. right, Will B!? hopefully, jefbot’s mentally chanting a powerful mantra like that to suppress the rage. 🙂
Red eyes… take warning. 😀
is that like the nerd version of that old sailor’s adage, “red skies in morning,” Formel?
Great job! I think that Peanut’s strip was the only time someone actually wished they were Charlie Brown!
I have to tell you tho…when I saw the title in my news feed I was really hoping for Wil to pull a football away from Jefbot 😉
thanks, man! and if Wil pulled a football away from jefbot, it would have to be Mattel’s Electronic Football, naturally. 🙂
Yes, Jefbot. Wait until the girl you like is out of range, then unleash your anger. I wonder when Jefbot will snap and go off on Wil.
When he makes a crack about old video games or the old days when they were kids.
That or when Wil starts talking about his career and who it started. Actually, this will probably be what does it.
jefbot’s not at the breaking point yet, Fijiman – but he’s close! 😀
Oh my, I haven’t seen this much malevolance in one person since I looked in the mirror this morning.
ha! did you mask that rage with a crazy smile before leaving the house, Anime fan?
*evil glare of doom*
let your inner rage free, jefbot. let your inner rage free. Freeeeeeeeeee!!!
*diabolical laugh of doom*
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What? You can’t posibly think that I was gonna say “be nice, jefbot”. C’mon! I’m evil incarnated in a black victorian skirt!!
*runs away laughing manically*
Bwuahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
since i’ve known you for quite some time now, Sonitan, i was under no delusions that you would want jefbot to take the nice way out! but if jefbot wants to keep cel around and hang out in that arcade in the future, he can’t just let loose a *diabolical laugh of doom* and then go on a hunt for Wil’s blood. that would be bad. 😉
But then I could wish him “Good Wil-hunting”! (See what I did there?)
that’s the title of an upcoming strip, AdM! 😀
OMGs! I’m psychic! ^_^
He was in The Big Bang Theory? Hmm don’t remember that episode. Your title reminded me of Charley Brown. (: Jeff, would you mind drawing me a giraffe sometime? <3 My creation (Steve) is now boring to me, I need a new giraffe.
He was on at least two that I know of. Check the website and see if you can catch them online.
The darkside’s cookies are a lie.
*gasp* It’s not true! That’s impossible!
now the cookies are a lie, too, Anime fan!? dagnabbit.
nice Luke Skywalker, Pixie. 🙂
yep! Wil’s been in two episodes of that show so far, with a new one airing tonight, Nat (thursday, 11/11/10), so check it out! i’m going to try and watch, but i’ve had the cable disconnected in my apartment since i’m moving soon, so Mombot’s recording it for me.
and glad the title gave you a Charlie Brown vibe, cuz today’s strip was an homage to Peanut’s 60th Anniversary. check out the blog post.
before i draw you a giraffe, i wanna see what Steve looks like. 🙂
do i sense a bit of jealosy, bot?
still great work JB!
BTW that was me lol
your senses serve you well, Leithal! heheh. actually, i’m just happy for Wil, now. i guess you can say i’ve matured a bit since i had the Wheaton Rage in real life. 🙂
dammit! gravitars are case sensitive… any ways… yeah
you gotta put in the email address you used when you signed up for your gravitar, Leithal! the “Name” and case doesn’t really matter.
IM WITH JEFBOT IM WATCHING BIG BANG THEORY AND HE’S AN ASS!!!!!
ha! he’s doing his job as an actor then, Val, since he’s supposed to be evil in that show and yet he’s a cool guy in real life! 😀
I love a good homage, and this was an inspired one! Looking at how you signed the strip, surely the similarity between Schuetze and Schulz CAN’T be just a coincidence… except for that one L, you have every single letter of his name in yours, including the all-important Z!
I also read some of those old Peanuts collections, back during the height of Snoopy-mania. I actually responded more to the earlier strips than what was then-current, though I’m not sure I ever saw that very first one before now. I really appreciated that juxtaposition of the comparatively primitive artwork with the sophisticated intellectual musings of the characters.
I recognised that it was a ‘Peanuts’ reference even without reading your comment. When I was 6, my grandmother gave me a book: ‘Peanuts: A Golden Celebration’ that came out for its 50th birthday. I’m 15 now, and reread it a couple of weeks ago.