Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 16, 2022

No. With your track record, you will never be anyone’s mother, Lucy.

you are more of a mutha Lucy if we are being honest…

Charlie Brown why do you always fall for this?

Thank goodness for that.

Somebody puncture her football!

Karma, Lucy karma

Looks like Lucy is having a “ball”…

And 10 years later, she will wonder why Charlie become so cold and distant towards her.

If only she used her persuasive skills for good!

Charlie is one of the all-time idiots.

No, but there’s a good word for you that begins with ‘mother’!!

Just once I’d like to see CB coming running up and kick Lucy … then say “Ooops .. I missed”.

Charlie Brown celebrates another great Autumn with a tremendous fall.

Lucy uses insane troll logic to make Charlie Brown fall for this trick. That, and reverse psychology.

The annual Charlie Brown/Lucy football trick – and we never see the parents of the Peanuts kids in the strip anyway.

If Lucy were ever distracted at the last second and forgot to pull the ball away, Charlie Brown has so much follow through that he’d probably end up on his back anyway.

That was worth an actual LOL Good one

Does your dog bite?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. Fool me all the time …

Next time get a signed document. And don’t forget to have it notarized.

I wonder if the text in the last panel was ever a Peanuts collection book title?

This is, what CB’s 20,000th concussion?

He wants to believe like the rest of us, but is always disappointed

I mistrust MY mother! Big time!

I wonder how I would handle this situation.

Seems appropriate in the run-up to the midterms.

As bad as they come off in this and similar strips, the annual appearance of one is a sure sign of fall.

“Believe women”

Ah yes, another flat on my back kill myself football kick in position

Nope Lucy is not CB’s mother, but just think, 1975 was 47 years ago. If Lucy was 10 years old back then she would not only be somebody’s mother now, but likely somebody’s grandmother. Don’t you pity the poor kids who had Lucy as a mother! Did they ever once trust her?

You can tell because she doesn’t speak in “wah-wahs”.

Schulz was a prophet with this one

I remember a documentary about Charles Schulz on TV which had a clip from one of his last interviews—perhaps it was with “60 Minutes”—in which he became reflective and sad and said “I never got to kick the football.”

More like a Mother F word.

Never trust Lucy Van Pelt.

Next stop: Marriage.

An annual tradition…

Never trust a smiling Lucy.

In “Its Magic Charlie Brown” he kicks the ball while invisible.

Anybody else watch enough Charlie Brown TV specials that they can actually HEAR him scream?

You know what this reminds me of? In December 2018, after asking his sixth and final question at PMQs, Jeremy Corbyn appeared to mouth “stupid woman” as he sat down. After PMQs were over both he and Teresa May left the chamber, when a flood of Conservative MPs rose to condemn his “sexist remarks.” These Tories, many of them loud and proud members of the “Anti Woke Brigade,” couldn’t stop talking about how offended they were that he had (apparently) referred to a woman as a woman!

What they did not do was take offense at his apparently calling her stupid. Since they had only just called an intraparty confidence vote which she’d survived by the skin of her teeth, I guess they couldn’t bring themselves to take issue with that, so they found another avenue of attack.

That obnoxious girl tricks the roundhead everytime.