Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 06, 2020

I’ve never watched it, and I guess it’s ruined for me now

That’s not really a spoiler. What leads up to the ending is what matters — I think. I’ve never actually seen “Citizen Kane” myself — too boring.

Somewhat similarly, I’ve seen The Breakfast Club plenty of times on the telly, but never watched it all the way through.

Could’ve been worse. Linus could’ve had the movie spoiled by Peter Griffin.

This one never gets old for me. As an old movie buff, this is just so good.

I liked them old movies the first time I see them. The second time I wonder what I ever liked in them.

Odd name for a sled.

The first time I saw Citizen Kane, I actually had that figured out fairly early on in the plot.

Citizen Kane was of course the inspiration for the name of the basselope character in Bloom County.

There’s a rather good crime drama called The Usual Suspects, which I saw for the first time many years after it came out. Unfortunately, one of the first things I’d heard about it was the big secret which you’re supposed to learn at the end. But I enjoyed it anyway.

If a movie is well done, then one spoiler shouldn’t spoil it. And Citizen Kane is about much more than the identity of “Rosebud”.

I think that people born after 1980 are ill equipped to enjoy a cerebral movie like Citizen Kane. They need a constant input of explosions, flashes and bangs to hold their attention. YMMV.

And this is why we now have “spoiler alert” warnings these days.

I saw The Sixth Sense two years after it came out. By some miracle, I never encountered any spoilers!!

I remember an episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show, where his son asks him why it says “ROSEBUD” on his birth certificate.

Next time, Lucy, NO SPOILERS!

Don’t tell anyone, but Racer X is secretly Speed’s older brother Rex, who left home many years ago…

Wait…Racer X is Rex Racer??!!

Everybody knows that, Linus. Common knowledge.

It also refers to Hearst’s mistress.

Odd that this particular strip appears the day after “Mank” premiered on Netflix. Coincidence?

Just ignore her and stay with it, Linus – it’s a great movie!

Lucy would become someone who now goes around social media spoiling things. There was later a strip where Rerun is watching this same movie, and Linus aimed to keep Lucy from spoiling it again.

This reminds me of the time my brother and me went to see Titanic. We were waiting in line and I said to him, jokingly, “You know it sinks in the end”. A woman behind us gave me the nastiest look as if I’d given away the entire plot. So funny.

A kid Lucy’s age who’s watched CITIZEN KANE ten times has to be pretty advanced and precocious.

I really hate people that do that.

Still one of THE best movies that I can watch HUNDREDS of times!!! The cinematography is just . . . WHOA.

Don’t worry Linus, that alone explains very little.

BTW I found out from TCM that Bernard Herrmann was nominated both for “Citizen Kane” and for “The Devil and Daniel Webster” AKA “All That Money Can Buy” in the same year. He won for the latter. Incredible. He never won again. Amazing.

Greatest Movie of All Time? Not ‘Citizen Kane.’

Don’t worry, Linus. It’s the MEANING of the sled that’s more important.

[And you REALLY don’t want to know where the term came from….]

I never watched Citizen Cane but I’ve seen the Simpsons version.

One of many Citizen Kane references in Peanuts. Charles Schulz claimed to have seen at least 40 times.

Sounds like my sister.

WHAT!? NOOOO!!!

A funny story about this movie. We had a dog that would be really sensitive to people making a lot of racket, even if it wasn’t necessarily done in anger. I think it happened after a time when my mom was having a nervous breakdown and was kicking and breaking things all the time. Anyway, my dad was in another room watching this movie and it got to the point where Kane was trashing his house. Our poor dog started trembling because of all the racket it was making.

we used to watch that stuff during Saturday Matinees back in the day…they’d show cartoons, Three Stooges, maybe a Buster Keaton, a Western, during the winter a movie serial, they may throw in a Beach movie, just for a laugh, and then ‘the movie’

she is such a brat!

Hey, “Spoiler Alert,” Lucy.

She’s wrong! The butler did it!

“Witness for the Prosecution” is another great movie that can be spoiled by a single revelation. The ending credits actually implored the audience to not give it away to their friends and family who had yet to see it. One of the best final scenes I think I’ve ever seen in a movie.

Currently on Netflix: “Mank”. The story about how the screenplay for Citizen Kane came to be written. If you’re a fan of old Hollywood, you’ll find it interesting..