Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 30, 2021

very nice, Sally

Put it on the back of your bike Sally…

Chucky?

So what are you going to pay Snoopy for doll sitting? It has to Snoopy, who else would Sally know to get as a doll sitter.

Where can I apply for that? My current boss always tells me the only thing I can do well is sitting.

My sister had her birthday yesterday…am still full from the dinner…

I am just wondering how many kids today under the age of 16, who text everything these days, can actually read that script?

Annabelle doll?

The doll could be a Barbie doll.

Practicing for her career in stand up comedy.

How real is this doll?

wow. okay. i think your being a little extra, sally.

She’ll pay the baby doll sitter with play money.

Ah letter writing. Decades before text and email.

It’s a Betsy Wetsy doll, so she has to hire a plumber, too.

So unreal these days… writing a thank you note? …in CURSIVE???

Sally, I think someone is gaslighting you.

Annabelle?

Like Baby Think-About-It in today’s Stone Soup Classic!

What doll is it? Chucky, Annabelle? Good luck in finding a baby sitter

Annabel or Robert? This strip is pre-Chucky franchise so it’s certainly not that fictional doll. But Annabelle and Robert are real dolls whose stories might have helped contribute to the Chucky creation (well, Annabelle is said to have been a contributing factor to Chucky, don’t know about Robert). And both are purported to be possessed and in recent years have had horror movies made based on them.

Robert has been around since at least 1904 and is supposed to have been manufactured by the renowned Steiff Company of Germany. He was given to a young Robert E. Otto, a future author and painter, as a birthday gift by his grandfather in 1904. Otto, coincidently, died in 1974, the year this strip ran.

Annabelle may be a good bit younger, depending on if the doll was already used when her story begins. She’s a Raggedy Ann doll, so it is possible the doll could be nearly as old as Robert (the first Raggedy Ann dolls came out in 1915). But the story of Annabelle begins in 1970 when the doll was first given to a student nurse.

I thought Sally was born in May.