Peanuts by Charles Schulz for July 08, 2013

And that’s back when there were only 4 channels.

Funny, I was just thinking about this story arc this morning. Let’s just say that the effect on Lucy will be quite interesting.

The TV is Lucy’s blanket.

I bet this is how pre-TV people also reacted when the radio was taken away.

Die then. Nobody likes you anyway.

We went thru something similar with my dad in the seventies; he would turn the TV up loud and “hide” in the cop shows (sirens etc). One day my brother unscrewed the back cover and pulled a couple of wires loose. “Oh, it’s broken!” He knew dad was so lazy it would take him weeks to take it in to be fixed. After a few days, mom turned it to the wall and threw a cloth over it. We went without a TV for a couple of years.

These days, it would be iPhone, tablet, TV, DS, console, and laptop. And Lucy would STILL find a way to mindlessly stare at some form of technology.

These days it would just be internet instead of TV.

I remember when my mom DID do this. Sadly, the only reason she allowed the TV back in the house was 11/22/63.

Lucy’s still around, now doing MetLife commercials.

People feel that way about the Internet today.

Hank Moody nods sadly

I have been without TV for 2 years now. No commercials with netflix, and soooooo much more choices!!

When I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s I would’ve felt the same way as Lucy. It was awful if we couldn’t watch TV for some reason and my mom knew the best way to punish me was to take away the TV for a week.

What about a radio? Do they have one of those?

ours broke in 1961 and we finally got a free one in 1968, when I was in Jr High. How do you tell a teacher that you can’t do a TV homework assignment, when you have no tv? They never believed me.

In the case of Linus and Lucy, the TV is being taken away as a result of their inability to get along, not how much or what they were watching. Of course, the only way for Linus to get along with Lucy is to only watch what she wants to watch.

I was laid up with a knee replacement for a couple of weeks. I was glad that I could log into work. I have seen daytime TV and it is indeed, “a vast wasteland.”

My favorite TV network is OFF.

Promises, promises.

I don’t have a TV and haven’t had one for years. I’ve lived more years without than with. However, my computer can easily account for the time I would have spent watching. I like interactive entertainment better.

@DunestriderOh, and Calvin and Hobbes said the same thing about Karl Marx years ago. Google it, it pops up quickly.Also, people have always had their eyes glued to something in a subway. People hate making eye contact with anyone, and DO NOT want to talk with anyone, so always try to look engaged. Cell phones just make it easy. I’ve always hated cities for that. All those people and you’re still alone.

This strip was from 1966. Television had only been around in most homes for about ten years. It was already as much of a fixture as the toilet. Well, not really, the toilet IS a fixture, but you know what I mean.

Well, somebody had to. These days we use the hard disk of the DVD recorder to select a few films, documentaries etc from the flow of trash-tv. I see young people on the bus or train, glued to the screen of their smart phone, watching daytime talk shows etc…sad. It’s like they’re afraid to be alone with their own thoughts.

Lucy, You don’t NEED TV! Fighting over the remote and channel changing isn’t the only thing you fight with Linus about.

I’m sure you’ll find something else to squabble about in 3…2…1

LOL xxx

And the withdrawal begins.

Could have been worse. At the time this cartoon was published we had 1 (one!) TV station in the city were I live and it was just over 100,000 people. We eventually got a second station in 1971…and the quality of the programming on the two of them was nowhere near as good as when we had just one station.

Lucy, to quote Calvin’s dad: “it builds character.”

I have this strip Lucy couldn’t believe they had no tv I don’t want to be a spoiler but later it was returned and Linus was watching something and Lucy was bothering him so it disappeared again