History Awesome / Peanuts

--> '''Lucy:''' Welcome home, Charlie Brown. \\

--> '''Charlie Brown:''' Snoopy knows I did it. He made it possible!\\

* Linus explaining the TrueMeaningOfChristmas by reciting a passage from the [[Literature/TheBible Gospel of Luke]] in ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' may be one of the best Moments of Awesome ever.

* The week when Charlie Brown actually hit a home run - against the girl who claimed to be Roy Hobbs' (as in ''The Natural'') great-granddaughter. Not just a Moment of Awesome for the ''Peanuts'' universe, but also an MOA for Schulz pulling a sort of "Tommy Westphal" move on American literature.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiMf5cCDy1I This 2008 Super Bowl commercial]].

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* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron:]] ends with one: when Snoopy gets a new plane from the Great Pumpkin and challenges him again, the Red Baron starts laughing... [[OhCrap Then he notices that]] [[CombatPragmatist Snoopy got him in his sight while he was laughing]], after which "Snoopy fired once, and he fired twice/And that Bloody Red Baron went spinning out of sight".

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* Being a Minnesota native, Schulz loved hockey, ice-skating, and other ice sports. After moving to California, though, he could not find a proper ice arena. His solution? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_Empire_Ice_Arena Build an ice arena near your home with your own money, and invite the public to use it, as well!]] Classy.
* Shortly after Franklin's introduction to the strip, Schulz received a letter from the editor of a southern newspaper stating they didn't mind the introduction of a black character to the strip but requested that he no longer be depicted going to school with the others (Franklin sits in front of Peppermint Patty in class). Schulz never even dignified the letter with a response.
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* Marcie in the arc where Peppermint Patty recruits Charlie Brown to dress up as the mascot for her baseball team. She goes over to Charlie Brown's house and tells him to stand up for himself by refusing to wear the costume. The following day, he takes her advice by dressing Snoopy up as the mascot and sending him to the game.

* In ''A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving'', when Marcie chastises Peppermint Patty for chewing out Charlie Brown for his hastily prepared Thanksgiving dinner.

** Also; Charlie's Grandma solving the whole plot by inviting everybody to her Brown Family Thanksgiving.

* In ''She's a Good Skate Charlie Brown'', Patty's music is broken, which would normally disqualify her, but Woodstock comes in and pulls a Moment of Awesome and SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic by whistling "O Mia Babbino Caro". Bonus points for them getting the world's best whistler.

* ''Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown'' has Snoopy, who had spent the whole movie being intimidated by the bully team's [[CatsAreMean cat, Brutus]], [[BewareTheNiceOnes finally snap and punch out the cat]] [[BerserkButton when he tried to sink Woodstock's raft.]] Snoopy would do it again, this time throttling the cat as well, when he tried to ruin Woodstock's celebration.

* [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/02/22/ In a strip from 1959,]] Lucy puts on one of Charlie Brown's t-shirts and proceeds to mock him, saying, "Nobody likes me! Everybody hates me! Poor, poor me!", while Patty and Violet shriek with laughter. Eventually, Charlie Brown shows up, looks Lucy dead in the eye, and says, "Well hello there, Charlie Brown, you blockhead!" Cue a second round of hysterics from Patty and Violet and a defeated sigh from Lucy.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ItWasMyBestBirthdayEverCharlieBrown!'', seeing Mimi sing to Linus and give him a flower and a kiss is very satisfying when you think about it; Linus has spent the last four specials of the 1990s almost losing Janice to cancer, dealing with Sally, Woodstock, and Snoopy's stupidity and annoyance throughout Christmas, losing a baseball game after Leland quit the team, and Melody-Melody outright betrays him and runs off with the Super Bowl tickets, leaving him with a broken heart. In other words, seeing him FINALLY getting a happy ending, even if it was short-lived, couldn't be any more satisfying!

* In ''It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown!'', seeing Mimi sing to Linus and give him a flower and a kiss is very satisfying when you think about it; Linus has spent the last four specials of the 1990s almost losing Janice to cancer, dealing with Sally, Woodstock, and Snoopy's stupidity and annoyance throughout Christmas, losing a baseball game after Leland quit the team, and Melody-Melody outright betrays him and runs off with the Super Bowl tickets, leaving him with a broken heart. In other words, seeing him FINALLY getting a happy ending, even if it was short-lived, couldn't be any more satisfying!

* In ''It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown!'', seeing Mimi sing to Linus and give him a flower and a kiss is very satisfying when you think about it; Linus has a bully for an older sister and Sally is constantly harassing him. He's a frequent victim of bullying due to his blanket and beliefs of the Great Pumpkin and speaking of which, he always waits out in the pumpkin patch waiting for this mysterious creature, only for it to not so up and him being humiliated. Also, other than his relationships with Mimi, Janice, and possibly even Mary-Jo, his love life is pretty miserable; Miss Othmar left before he could give her a box of candy, Truffles ended up liking Snoopy better, Lydia and Tapioca Pudding both annoy the heck out of him and Melody-Melody outright betrays him and runs off with the Super Bowl tickets, leaving him with a broken heart. So seeing him FINALLY getting a happy ending, even if it was short-lived, was so sweet and satisfying!

* In one early Sunday strip, Lucy was watching TV and Linus complained about how he was tired of always having to watch what Lucy wanted to watch. Lucy then turned to Linus threatening to slug him. After her threat, Linus merely walked over to the TV set and changed the channel. He then looked Lucy directly in the eye and said, "You don't frighten me one bit."

* Marcie gets one in [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1973/07/26 a story arc where she's drafted into Peppermint Patty's Baseball team.]] An extremely sexist boy is giving her trouble, and [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1973/08/03 she has had enough.]]

* Marcie gets one in [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1973/07/26 a story arc where she's drafted into Peppermint Patty's Baseball team.]] An extremely sexist boy is giving her trouble, and [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1973/08/03 she has had enough]].

* Marcie gets one in [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1973/07/26 a story arc where she's Drafted into Peppermint Patty's Baseball team.]] An extremely sexist boy is giving her trouble:

[[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1973/08/03 Her response?]] (Hint: It's the comic published on August 3, 1973.)

* ''WesternAnimation/HappinessIsAWarmBlanketCharlieBrown'' was arguably rather dull, and longer than the average ''Peanuts'' special to boot, but Linus pulls out an MOA at the last second with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQZilj7V1q4 a typically Linus-like speech]] in which he defends his SecurityBlanket and calls the others out on ''their'' insecurities. From the ''top of Snoopy's doghouse'', no less. This scene ends with Linus asking if ''anyone'' is without insecurity. Cue a dialogue-less scene that ends with a silent, simple, yet utterly victorious moment for possibly the only Peanuts character who is truly secure. [[spoiler:It's ''Pig-Pen!'']]
* ''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown'' has one, though we don't see it. After Charlie Brown is able to [[spoiler:finally kiss the Little Red-Haired Girl]], Linus tells him that he danced all the time and was the life of the party. ''Charlie Brown'' was the life of a party.

* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron:]] ends with one: [[spoiler:when Snoopy gets a new plane from the Great Pumpkin and challenges him again, the Red Baron starts laughing... [[OhCrap Then he notices that]] [[CombatPragmatist Snoopy got him in his sight while he was laughing]], after which "Snoopy fired once, and he fired twice/And that Bloody Red Baron went spinning out of sight".]]

*** As a surprising 3) It's a victory that shows that when Charlie Brown [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness gets pissed]] he can do some amazing things, but more importantly, it shows that Charlie, who is as slow a burn as it ever gets to anger, is a genuine case of BewareTheNiceOnes. Joe made his best friend's little brother ''cry''. Charlie is pretty much ''living'' in TranquilFury when he takes Joe on. And for a 4th MOA? Well, think about it. This is '''''[[NiceGuy Charlie Brown]]'''''. Who the hell would figure the guy even '''''had''''' a BerserkButton? Turns out, messing with his friends is a big one. Maybe his ''only'' one. He scored the biggest victory possible of his entire life....and it was done ''purely for the sake of helping someone else''. This kid is basically a saint.

*** As a surprising 3) It's a victory that shows that when Charlie Brown [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness gets pissed]] he can do some amazing things, but more importantly, it shows that Charlie, who is as slow a burn as it ever gets to anger, is a genuine case of BewareTheNiceOnes. Joe made his best friend's little brother ''cry''. Charlie is pretty much ''living'' in TranquilFury when he takes Joe on. And for a 4th MOA? Well, think about it. This is '''''[[NiceGuy Charlie Brown]]'''''. Who the hell would figure the guy even ''had'' a BerserkButton? Turns out, messing with his friends is a big one. Maybe his ''only'' one. He scored the biggest victory possible of his entire life....and it was done ''purely for the sake of helping someone else''. This kid is basically a saint.

*** As a surprising 3) It's a victory that shows that when Charlie Brown [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness gets pissed]] he can do some amazing things, but more importantly, it shows that Charlie, who is as slow a burn as it ever gets to anger, is a genuine case of BewareTheNiceOnes. Joe made his best friend's little brother ''cry''. Charlie is pretty much ''living'' in TranquilFury when he takes Joe on. And for a 4th MOA? Well, think about it. This is ''[[NiceGuy Charlie Brown]]''. Who the hell would figure the guy even ''had'' a BerserkButton? Turns out, messing with his friends is a big one. Maybe his ''only'' one. He scored the biggest victory possible of his entire life....and it was done ''purely for the sake of helping someone else''. This kid is basically a saint.

* Charlie Brown pulls one off in one strip where he talks up to the Kite-Eating Tree and points out that since he's the only one around who flies kites, without him the Tree would starve to death. As he says to Lucy at the end of the strip, "For the first time in my life, I feel needed!" And since this is '''''[[ButtMonkey Charlie]] [[DoggedNiceGuy Brown]]''''' getting a Moment of Awesome, it's practically a Crowning Moment for Charles Schulz.

* Charlie Brown pulls one off in one strip where he talks up to the Kite-Eating Tree and points out that since he's the only one around who flies kites, without him the Tree would starve to death. As he says to Lucy at the end of the strip, "For the first time in my life, I feel needed!" And since this is '''[[ButtMonkey Charlie Brown]]''' getting a Moment of Awesome, it's practically a Crowning Moment for Charles Schulz.

* 1965: Linus's security blanket gets its revenge on Lucy for all the times she's tried to destroy it by ''physically attacking'' her - grabbing her around the ankles and trying to throw her, and leaping on her regularly. It gets to the point where Lucy is afraid to go home for fear of being attacked by the blanket. Eventually she and the blanket sign a "peace treaty" and cease hostilities, but it's fun to see Lucy on the defensive for a change.

** This story line is an awesome moment for two reasons:

* In [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1974/03/11 one 1974 arc]], Peppermint Patty refuses to go to school and sits on top of Snoopy's doghouse all day, much to the annoyance of Marcie. At the end, Marcie ''single-handedly smashes'' Snoopy's doghouse and screams to Peppermint Patty that Snoopy is a dog (and not a "funny-looking kid with a big nose"). Ol' Ms. Reichardt's quite a doofus, wouldn't you say?
* The week when Charlie Brown actually hit a home run - against the girl who claimed to be Roy Hobbs' (as in ''The Natural'') great-granddaughter. Not just a Moment of Awesome for the ''Peanuts'' universe, but also a MOA for Schulz pulling a sort of "Tommy Westphal" move on American literature.

* In one early Sunday strip, Lucy was watching TV and Linus complained about how he was tired of always having to watch what Lucy wanted watch. Lucy then turned to Linus threatening to slug him. After her threat, Linus merely walked over to the TV set and changed the channel. He then looked Lucy directly in the eye and said, "You don't frighten me one bit."

* In a strip Charlie Brown sees the Little Red-Haired Girl being bullied and shoved to the ground. He does his usual spell of {{Wangst}}ing about how he's a coward who can't even talk to her let alone try to save her. Linus, who is also watching, gets fed up and lets out a loud snapping sound with his blanket, mimicking a whip, and deals with the Bully himself offpanel as a loud cracking sound is heard. Linus calmly walks back and says she won't be getting bullied anymore.

** Also one for Schulz for the GeniusBonus[[note]]The machine gun is a Lewis Gun modified to accept belt feeding. The Lewis was the gun mounted on British and Allied aircrafts during WWI[[/note]].
* [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/02/22/ In a strip from 1959,]] Lucy puts on one of Charlie Brown's t-shirts and proceeds to mock him, saying, "Nobody likes me! Everybody hates me! Poor, poor me!", while Patty and Violet shriek with laughter. Eventually Charlie Brown shows up, looks Lucy dead in the eye, and says, "Well hello there, Charlie Brown, you blockhead!" Cue a second round of hysterics from Patty and Violet and a defeated sigh from Lucy.
* During the climax of the obedience school arc, Peppermint Patty learns that she graduated from a dog school, and is so angry that she intends to beat up Snoopy (who had recommended the school to her). While looking for him, she sees the cat who lives next door to Charlie Brown and, mistaking it for Snoopy in a cat suit, starts fighting it. Snoopy comes up and, seeing that Patty is losing, immediately dives in to help her even though she was going to clobber him.

** And let's not forget the ending, where Snoopy uses his magic to have Lucy suspended in the air after telling Charlie Brown he has no proof of him kicking the ball. The music ''sells'' it, not to mentioned them both happily skipping away. [[LaserGuidedKarma Hey, she deserves it]].

* In ''It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown'', the arm wrestling match between Lucy and the Masked Marvel (another one of Snoopy's alter egos). In various interviews, this was Schulz's all-time favorite pieces of animation.

* ''WesternAnimation/HappinessIsAWarmBlanketCharlieBrown'' was arguably rather dull, and longer than the average ''Peanuts'' special to boot, but Linus pulls out a MOA at the last second with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQZilj7V1q4 a typically Linus-like speech]] in which he defends his SecurityBlanket and calls the others out on ''their'' insecurities. From the ''top of Snoopy's doghouse'', no less. This scene ends with Linus asking if ''anyone'' is without insecurity. Cue a dialogue-less scene that ends with a silent, simple, yet utterly victorious moment for possibly the only Peanuts character who is truly secure. [[spoiler:It's ''Pig-Pen!'']]

* ''You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown'' has Charlie Brown in a motocross event. When "The Masked Marvel" (a.k.a. Snoopy) stops for lunch, Charlie Brown valiantly trudges onward through the obstacles. Snoopy gets stuck in a mudtrap, while Chuck goes on to actually win the race. Couple that up with some awesome Vince Guaraldi music, and you have one of the most awesome moments in Peanuts history.

* Shortly after Franklin's introduction to the strip, Schulz received a letter from the editor of a southern newspaper stating they didn't mind the introduction of a black character to the strip, but requested that he no longer be depicted going to school with the others (Franklin sits in front of Peppermint Patty in class). Schulz never even dignified the letter with a response.

* Spike gets one in, ''Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown'', when he wins a dog race against several greyhounds in order to earn enough money to make the trip to Snoopy's wedding.