Favotie Secondary "Peanuts" Character

[TGTheodore]

Okay, we all know that Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, Sally, Schroeder and Peppermint Patty all had better press agents, but who was your favorite secondary character in the Peanuts comic strip?

MOD: Please correct the typo in the title of this thread. Old "Blazing Fingers" here did it again ... thanks.

--Ted

 

[Kegek]

Woodstock.

Actually, isn't it a little unfair to the others (some of which are particularly obscure) to include him as a secondary character? He's one of the best known Peanuts characters.

 

[Michael]

I voted "other" because I can't find the Little red-haired girl. Just like Charlie I always had a crush on her. Yeah, we never see her, but I LOVE red-haired girls!

 

[TGTheodore]

Woodstock.

Actually, isn't it a little unfair to the others (some of which are particularly obscure) to include him as a secondary character? He's one of the best known Peanuts characters.

Yeah, you're probably right. To those who have read the strip from the early days, the others aren't obscure at all, but the second-half readers (post-1975) probably won't know them by name.

--Ted

 

[INACTIVESamusAranX]

Rerun!

 

[Vendikarr]

I have to go with Peppermint Patty's sidekick Marcie. Always calling Patty 'Sir', and being Patty's voice of reason.

Was I mistaken, or did it seem like Marcie had a tiny crush on Charlie? It's been a long time since I read any Peanuts, so I'm not sure.

 

[J.T.B.]

Yeah, you're probably right. To those who have read the strip from the early days, the others aren't obscure at all, but the second-half readers (post-1975) probably won't know them by name.

--Ted

Likewise, Rerun became a major player in the '90s, bigger than Sally, for one. I voted for Marcie, she was a good soul.

Shermy, Violet and Patty were there from the early days, but you have to go pretty far back to find anything worthwhile with them.

--Justin

 

[M'Sharak]

Marcie, I think. So many things conveyed with a simple "You're weird, Sir."

 

[ToddPence]

What about "5"?

 

[TGTheodore]

What about "5"?

I almost put him in there, but he's even more obscure (by name) than Shermy, Violet or Patty.

--Ted

 

[J.T.B.]

What about "5"?

5 would go under "other," with Frieda, Pigpen, Franklin, Eudora, that obnoxious kid from the baseball games with the French name I can't remember, and a bunch more I'm forgetting...

--Justin

 

[Christopher]

The Peanuts strips on Comics.com have recently been running through the period when Frieda was first introduced. She was quite heavily featured for a while, mainly going on about how she had "naturally curly hair" and how special that made her.

I don't remember a character named Eudora. Or "5," for that matter.

How about Miss Othmar? Does a character who was only talked about but never seen count?

 

[Vanyel]

I voted for Woodstock, but otherwise I liked the Kite-Eating Tree and The Great Pumpkin.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I voted for Rerun.

First, he and I were both born the same year.

Second, I loved how the strip became Rerun's strip in its final years. Rerun had a completely skewed view of the world, and Peanuts became fun to read again. Schulz in interviews said that he regretted introducing Rerun, which is why he vanished, only to be brought back in the Saturday morning cartoon series, and then when he began to use Rerun as a regular character he enjoyed the way it made Charlie Brown into a respected, older character.

Rerun has several great moments over the years. A visit to the museum where he looks at a painting of Earl from Mutts stands out. As does the final football gag -- "You'll never know," Rerun tells Lucy when she wants to know what happened.

Definitely Rerun.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I voted for Marcie (with Patty as a close second), but I would have voted for either Franklin or Pigpen if I had the opportunity (behind "Other").

Or "5," for that matter.

He was the kid who had parents who named all of their children various numbers. He often wore a shirt with 5 on it. I believe was on the baseball team for a bit, too.

 

[J.T.B.]

Or "5," for that matter.

He was the kid who had parents who named all of their children various numbers. He often wore a shirt with 5 on it. I believe was on the baseball team for a bit, too.

5 was also the kid in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" who danced with his shoulders shrugged up and his head turning from side to side.

Eudora was an '80s character who was a friend of Sally's. She had dark hair and wore a knit cap.

--Justin

 

[Peacemaker]

5 you say?! Aha! The Final Cylon is Lucy!

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Shermy, but only because MAD magazine did a bit where it revealed that he had moved and then he came back to visit only to discover how much success had changed Charlie Brown and company.

 

[Mistral]

I think PigPen should have had his own voting slot-he was a genius character-what kid doesn't like to get dirty?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The teacher who always spoke like this: wa-wa-wah-wa-wa-wah.