Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for October 06, 2020

Freudian slip.

Charlie Brown as a robot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAA67a2-Klk

Sort of like calling Professor Calculus “a goat”…

I thought it was baboon.

Not to be confused with Pat Boone’s daughter Babs.

And so it begins.

Better than being the butt of everyone’s jokes.

And yes, I know that “butt” means target in that context.

Well, could’ve been worse. She could have said “baboon”.

(On a related note, some of Charlie Brown’s long-winded meanderings in these early strips would also make him a bassoon).

And a bellicose buffoon at that.

If we’re going for comic sound effects, “bassoon” is not wrong.

Just when Charlie Brown was able to grow a pair, his lack of vocabulary shrivels them.

Try being the oboe.

Poor Charlie Brown, comparing himself to the instrument derided as a “burping bedpost.”

as long as you don’t have to play second fiddle in the orchestra of life Charlie Brown.

The bassoon is the place to be if you’re doing The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

and that’s how it goes