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21 December 1950 (midwest.social)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by m_f@midwest.social to c/peanuts@midwest.social

Transcript:

Charlie Brown stands next to Patty, who is sitting in the chair and reading. He looks at her as she asks,"Charlie Brown, see what time it is, please?"

He walks down the hallway.

He looks at the clock which is sitting on a cabinet with a vase of flowers behind it. He is puzzled.

He smiles and looks up at her with his hands outstretched, holding his right hand slightly higher than his left one. She looks at him and says,"Ten minutes to three? All right, thank you"

The first time Charlie Brown appears in his signature zig-zag shirt.

The gag is recycled from the Li'l Folks strip from June 19, 1949:

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[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago

So is it canon that Charlie Brown's left arm is shorter than his right arm?

[-] m_f@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

As canon as it gets. His right arm is about 63 pixels from shirt sleeve to fingertip, and his left arm is about 50 pixels. The angle depicted, if anything, would exaggerate the difference

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Is there supposed to be a joke here?

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago

the joke is he didn't know how to read the clock so instead he held out his arms the same way the clock did. Took me reading the description to get it too lol

[-] m_f@midwest.social 11 points 6 days ago

Charlie Brown is about 4 in these early comics, so it's understandable he wouldn't be able to read a clock

Do we know how much older Patty is than Charlie Brown? I knew that Linus and Sally were younger, but I always assumed that the rest of the gang were in the same year.

[-] m_f@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

We don't know exactly, but here's this:

Patty was apparently the oldest child in the early days of Peanuts, as shown by one strip which revealed that she attends school but Charlie Brown does not.

I got a wristwatch on my 4th birthday. I'm pretty sure I knew how to read an analogue clock by that age.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Oooooh, I don't know why but I read it as if Charlie Brown was saying the time and doing the thing with his arms lol.

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