History Awesome / Peanuts

* There was a week of strips where Charlie Brown taught Rerun to play marbles; Rerun then went on to play against an older kid who pretended that they were playing for fun but, when he won, said "Keeps" and took all of Rerun's marbles. In retaliation, Charlie Brown challenges the older kid and wins back all of Rerun's marbles.

** Also one for Schultz 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]].

* 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"=].]]''

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* Being a Minnesota native, Schulz loved hockey, ice-skating, and other ice sports. After moving to California, tho, 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.

* Schroeder's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Violet in ''Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown'' for giving Charlie Brown a Valentine's card out of pity. Which is later broken by Charlie Brown, who accepts the card nevertheless.

* [[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!"

** Also one for Schultz for the GeniuBonus[[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]].

* 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!"

* In ''Film/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'', Rod [=McKuen=] singing the title tune after Lucy says, "Welcome home, Charlie Brown!", followed by the images of everyone who worked on the film was a Moment of Awesome and SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic at the same time, as well as Linus' speech that gets Charlie out of bed after an [[EpicFail Epic Fail to end all Epic Fails]]:

* ''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]] 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.

* Marcie gets one. An extremely sexist boy is giving her trouble:

* BewareTheNiceOnes indeed. Charlie Brown is slow to anger, but when he gets pissed.... Lucy has been spending the whole week trying to get the kids in the neighborhood to call her "Cutie." Ol' Chuck finally loses his temper and lays down a '''brutal''' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Lucy: "You want someone to call you 'cutie?' Ha! That's a laugh! You've never acted cute in your whole life. You're crabby, you're bossy and you're inconsiderate! You're just about as 'uncute' as a person can get!" He storms off, and Lucy stands there in shock, saying to herself, "I'm an uncutie!"

* Charlie Brown's other greatest reaction to the kite-eating tree... getting so mad at it, that he goes right ahead and BITES ITS TRUNK HALFWAY THROUGH! "''Didn't think I'd do it, did you?''"

* Eight years before ''Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown'', when the strip featuring Schroeder's speech in defense of Charlie Brown appeared in papers, it was just as awesome.

* Snoopy gets a big one in a classic strip. Linus runs over to him screaming that he saw Woodstock get caught by the cat next door, (a LightningBruiser cat who can cut down trees with alarming, often artistic precision). Snoopy's '''immediate''' reaction is to fling himself off his doghouse, over the fence and become the losing end of a CurbStompCushion to rescue his friend. He succeeds. As it turns out, "Woodstock" was a simple yellow patch of cloth that the cat was playing with that from a distance, resembled the bird. But as Linus states; Woodstock would have been honored to know what Snoopy went through for him.

* Schulz loved ice-skating, but after moving to California, he could not find a proper ice-skating arena. His solution? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_Empire_Ice_Arena Build an ice skating arena near your home with your own money, and invite the public to use it, as well!]] Classy.

-->'''Marcie:''' One more word and I'll punch you in the face.
-->'''Thibault:''' Oh?
-->[[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1973/08/03 Her response?]] (Hint: It's the comic published on August 3, 1973.)

** Charlie Brown's other greatest reaction to the kite-eating tree... getting so mad at it, that he goes right ahead and BITES ITS TRUNK HALFWAY THROUGH! "''Didn't think I'd do it, did you?''"

** Many of the cast get theirs when Charlie gets one of his. Lucy is holding out the football again, and he decides to walk away. He calls over his shoulder that he's just glad nobody else thinks he's dumb enough to fall for ''that'' one again. The last panel shows several girls, as well as Snoopy and Woodstock, holding footballs for him.

* In 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").
** The "Peppermint Patty/Doghouse" arc starts here (with exception of the Sunday strips) [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1974/03/11]]. Ol' Ms. Reichardt's quite a doofus, wouldn't you say?

** Hell, any time Charlie Brown actually succeeds in baseball is a Moment of Awesome. In 1993, he went up to bat so nervous he left the bat on the bench and the next day showed him bounding home with a big grin on his face yelling about how he hit a homer at the bottom of the ninth, winning the game.
* BewareTheNiceOnes indeed. Charlie Brown is slow to anger, but when he gets pissed.... Lucy has been spending the whole week trying to get the kids in the neighborhood to call her "Cutie." Ol' Chuck finally loses his temper and lays down a '''brutal''' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Lucy: "You want someone to call you “cutie?” Ha! That’s a laugh! You’ve never acted cute in your whole life. You’re crabby, you’re bossy and you’re inconsiderate! You’re just about as “uncute” as a person can get!" He storms off, and Lucy stands there in shock, saying to herself, "I'm an uncutie!"

* Schroeder's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Violet in ''Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown'' for giving Charlie Brown a Valentine's card out of pity.
** Which is later broken by Charlie Brown, who accepts the card nevertheless.
* There was also the time, in the infamous cancer special ''[[WesternAnimation/WhyCharlieBrownWhy Why, Charlie Brown, Why?]]'' where Linus threw a fit at some random jerk for making fun of his friend Janice, who had leukemia. Had ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' not been a kids' show, there would have been a lot of cussing.

-->'''Linus:''' Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?
-->'''Charlie Brown:''' What's that?
-->'''Linus:''' The world didn't come to an end.

--> '''Charlie Brown''': ''(turned invisible, parading the ball around Lucy)'' "Whats the matter? Did you ''lose'' something? ''Is this'' '''''yours?'''''"
--> (Charlie Brown shoves the ball into Lucy's hands, then forces her arm out to hold the football, ''then kicks it again'')
--> '''Charlie Brown''': *EvilLaugh*

* ''[[WesternAnimation/HappinessIsAWarmBlanketCharlieBrown Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown]]'' was arguably rather dull, and longer than the average ''Peanuts'' special to boot, but Linus pulls out a MOA at the at the last second with 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. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQZilj7V1q4 Enjoy]].
** 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!'']]

* In a strip Charlie Brown sees the Little Red-Haired Girl being bullied and shoved to the ground. He does his usual spell of Wangsting 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.

--> '''Charlie Brown''': ''(turned invisible, parading the ball around Lucy)'' "Whats the matter? Did you ''lose'' something? ''Is this'' '''''yours?'''''."