Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 29, 1977

I SYMPATHIZE with Schroeder’s look of PURE SHOCK, and even FEAR, as Lucy proceeds to TAKE A BITE, out of his piano,in the closing panel. Did this mean he was going to have to order still a FOURTH piano, real soon? (Yes, this actually WAS his THIRD piano, believe it or not—his first piano Lucy threw up into the NOTORIOUS kite-eating tree, his second, Lucy threw down the sewer—you can tell she threw out both of his first two, for basically the same reason—to get him to notice her more often), which would have been her motive HERE, of course, for threatening to destroy this, his THIRD piano. Poor Schroeder.

Like this one thing Schulz himself even admitted once, that the Peanuts strip is so full of unrequited love, and as he said,“I seem to be fascinated by unrequited love, if not obsessed with it, as there are several cases of it, in Peanuts: while Lucy loves Schroeder, he wants nothing to do with her, by the same token, while Sally loves Linus, same business-he wants nothing to do with her, Charlie Brown loves the little red-haired girl, but in his case, he can’t even bring himself to go near her.”(and of course, even there, the way the little red-haired girl acts like he doesn’t exist, even denies him, in fact, at times—denies that she knows him, or knows who he is.)

She’s doing a Charlie Brown!

YuMmY pIaNo.

I wish there was another panel where he yanks the paino and it ends up damaging her teeth.