Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for September 09, 2016

good grief indeed

Little boys are supposed to like things like bugs. Just not thrown in their faces like that.

Funny, the only bugs I really liked were lightning bugs.

I think this is the first time they used that Good Grief exclamation. I wonder if that’s where Doc Brown got it.

Actually, I misread it the same way at first. Only after the punchline did I see what Lucy really said.

Charlie Brown reads a lot in this strip huh?

You better get the wax out of your ears, there Bud.

Strip is too small for dotted lines.

And what has been said this morning is true. June 6, 1952: the first appearance of “good grief.”

Lucy is testing the waters by bugging Charlie Brown…

So did I.

I used to do that to my father all the time, with those huge golden orb weaver spiders. He is absolutely terrified of anything with more legs than him, so the results were always spectacular. I’m surprised he’s still with us…

Where did the tree stump in panel 4 come from?

It was out of shot till P4 of course.