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[wickedflea]

Hey buscemi (or anyone else who might know), do you remember a Peanuts character ever dying? Someone sent me this e-mail, and I think she and her dad are probably on goofballs or mixing up Peanuts with Marmaduke or Wizard of Id or some shit.

subject: peanuts related question

Ok, I read you rpage, and I have a bizarre question. Was there a story line that was based on a death of someone close to Charles Schultz? We are trying to figure this out, my dad seems to remember a very sad story when he was growing up, and can't remember alot about it. Thanks for your time.

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[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I think Charlie Brown went to visit a girl in the hospital once. I don't know the rest of the story.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh yeah, I bet that's what she's talking about--the Snoopy, Come Home storyline.

[dichotomous.livejournal.com]

They have a Peanuts video about, um... leukemia? I think? Our school did some sort of nationally-affiliated fundraiser and they showed the video as part of their intro presentation. Charlie Brown & some of the others go to visit a little girl from their class in the hospital in that one, but she winds up recovering.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Whoa. I went looking for that video and found this.

[dichotomous.livejournal.com]

Eeep! And yet, HAH! :)

[dorkontheloose.livejournal.com]

wasn't her name lilah?
and she wanted to keep snoopy in the hospital but she couldn't?
there was also this one, though i dont remember it

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I think that was her name! That movie was sad, yo. :\

And yeah, I don't remember the other movie, but I think I remember the strips it was based on! I just remember Charlie Brown being in the hospital, and they didn't know what was wrong with him, and in one strip Lucy was all bent out of shape about it, wondering how such a good person could get sick, and it ended with Lucy pounding her fist and saying, "I need somebody to HIT!"

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was "Snoopy Come Home!" I still have the movie on VHS. But Lila didn't die...I think she actually recovered and left the hospital at the end and she wanted to take Snoopy with her, but he wanted to go back to Charlie Brown. Sniff.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

That movie was hard to watch! I didn't give a damn about Lila, but Snoopy leaving home, man, that was rough.

I replied to the person who emailed me, though, and she said that wasn't what her dad remembered. I'll bet anything he got it confused with Snuffy Smith or Hagar or something.

[dangerpest.livejournal.com]

What about the christmas special where Snoopy gets rabies and bites peppermint pattie's little sister? doesn't she die from a poorly administered tetnus shot? I thought Schultz handled the issue of euthanizing a pet with an abundance of tact.

-p

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Good call. That was almost as touching as the time Rerun contracted syphilis.

[dangerpest.livejournal.com]

OMG I forgot about that one, he got it from Pigpen, didn't he?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yep--that dirty little hooker.

hi! wandered in...:)

[(Anonymous)]

i have a feeling it might be his mother's death from colon cancer, as mentioned here (http://www.schulzmuseum.org/schulzbio.html), which probably prompted him to do this (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345455312/102-4615163-6140149?v=glance).

then there's:
A CHARLIE BROWN CELEBRATION
Broadcast Date: May 24, 1982 (Monday), 8:00 - 9:00 PM (CBS)

Synopsis:

Charles Schulz talks about Peanuts and introduces animations based on newspaper strips, including:

Peppermint Patty accidentally enrolls in dog-training classes;
Charlie Brown gets sick, goes to the hospital, and Lucy promises not to pull away the football if he gets better;
While on a field trip, Linus and his new paramour "Truffles" are trapped on top of a barn and must be rescued by helicopter (aka Snoopy);
and others.
Trivia & Notes:

When shown on Nickelodeon in 1998-2000, was split into two half-hour parts.
Music:

Music by Ed Bogas and Judy Munsen

- banshee (can't log in, for some reason)

Re: hi! wandered in...:)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Could well be! Thanks!! :)