Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 17, 1977
April 16, 1977
April 18, 1977
Transcript:
Lucy stands on the baseball field holding her hand out and looking up at the falling rain.<BR><BR> She sits on the bench next to Charlie Brown and exclaims,"It's raining harder, manager! Let's call the game!"<BR><BR> He replies,"Are you crazy? This is just a drizzle!"<BR><BR> She walks off with a frown and says,"I call it rain! I think I'll go home..."<BR><BR> He says,"You can't go home now, Lucy...it's your turn to bat!" She says,"It is?"<BR><BR> He shouts,"Get up there, and get a hit!!"<BR><BR> He grimaces as she stands at the plate, holding an umbrella like a bat.<BR><BR>
Strangely enough, just two years earlier, on Sunday, April 20, 1975, a strip with a fairly similar plot, was published—it was raining, Lucy arrived on the scene carrying an umbrella, CB says,“OK, so it’s raining slightly, but you can’t play right field when you have an umbrella over your head!” he frowned, pitched the ball, it landed on Lucy’s umbrella, and she walked over to the mound, and tilted the umbrella towards him, thus handing him the ball, and the punch line, as the cartoon ends:CB:“Well, what do you know? I can’t even CRITICIZE good!”