Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 01, 2020

the Brown family is quite the host, aren’t they?

Footnote for the young readers, that wooden cabinet thing in panel 4 isn’t a shelf or bookcase that is holding the TV – that IS the actual TV set way back in 1973.

Get out of my head! We were just talking about the old style American TVs compared with their European counterparts. Apparently here they never had the huge, heavy wooden cabinets with doors to hide the TV screen when not watching.

I am going to guess that Chuck and Sally are watching an old RCA or Zenith, probably 25 inch. The rabbit ears are either out of view or if Chuck’s Dad was like mine was, he probably mounted an old Archer aerial antenna on the roof from Radio Shack to bring in a few more stations from neighboring markets (in our case Fort Myers and Orlando, sometimes to pick up the Dolphins in those pre Buccaneer days)……

Peppermint Patty made many truly lovely and creative suggestions for a wonderful afternoon of fun together, and Charlie Brown wordlessly ignored her and glued himself to the T.V. like a boring loser. How very rude of him! Especially considering that Patty is a girl. I’m sure that Linus wouldn’t have responded to her suggestions like this.

Maybe after the apocalypse, Patricia…

When your program is calling you there’s nothing else that matters! I thought like that at their age.

Just the opposite in my apartment. No cable TV, but I do have checkers, several stamp collections and quite a few puzzles. :)

Nice try, PP!

I’m not sure that I appreciated it at the time, but we didn’t have a TV until I was in my early teens, some time in the early 70s. I don’t know that Patty would have had much more fun at our house, though, with everybody sitting around reading a different book, with a different cat on each lap.

“Don’t forget to drink your Ovaltine!”

Screens started to creep into our world. Who knew what was to come 50 years later?

I remember my family watching TV together when I was a kid. We liked game shows. My parents loved to see how fast I could name a song on “Name That Tune”. “Don Adams’ Screen Test” was another fun watch: I remember watching a contestant re-enact the climactic scene from “Psycho”.

The Brown Family is rather introverted, one might say.

This could happen today PP. Except they’d have gaming consoles.

Schulz was way ahead of his time.

I’m with Patty on this one. Watching crap… What a waste of a life!

I’m with Patty on this one. I’d rather be out and get some exercise than sit and watch TV.

Patty really did not know the person she expected to be her host very well did she? Marcie would have been a better choice.

Sometimes Charlie reads a book. (This was better then the comment I was thinking of entering.)

I’m with Patty on this one.

Board games and comic books around here. And, beer, of course.

Oh, poor PP. This is the future, like it or not!

“I want a girl, just like the girl that married dear old Dad”. She’s the one….

PP may not be the school genius by a long shot, but she certainly has the right ideas to spend quality time. Too bad she’s stuck with the “idiot box Browns”! :D

my life to a “T”…

I would think Chuck would be open to the suggestions. But there is little chance Sally would pull herself away from the TV.

I threw out my TV over a dozen years ago and have never looked back.

Back when this came out – there was still a real contest between TV and those other options. Today, as people talk about screen time control, not so much …

And you were the remote.

Kids need time without ALL ELECTRONIC gadgets. Those were times we learned to create.

An old friend of mine decided she was going to paint with water colors. 9,000 paintings later, she has gotten amazing at it. She still uses a kid’s pallet (palette?) of primary and secondary colors, but she’s very particular about the paper matching the intended piece. It’s an obsession that carries over to Facebook with detailed reviews of paper that only she could care about.

Sounds like Patty would do just fine in quarantine.

Huh, for once I think Peppermint Patty has some good ideas there.

I got nicely zinged during a demonstration of HDTV about twenty years ago.

The guy said, “Who knows what NTSC stands for?”

I raised my hand.

“And isn’t going to say ‘Never Twice Same Color’?”

I lowered my hand. ;D

Patty has pointed to all the good activities to be done by kids instead of watching the stupid box.

I’m with Patty, TV is a snooze….

Feel free to make us some fudge and popcorn while we watch TV