History ComicStrip / Peanuts

* EskimosArentReal: Lucy once spent several strips mocking Charlie Brown for telling her that birds fly south for the winter: "In all my life, Charlie Brown, I have never met anyone with an imagination like yours!" When Chuck insisted, and also added that they fly north during the summer, Lucy sarcastically retorted that they must fly east during the spring and west during the fall. Then she pressed the issue further with "Chickens are birds, aren't they?! You never see a chicken flying south for the winter, do you?! CHICKENS ARE BIRDS, AREN'T THEY?!" Eventually Lucy learned (from a third party) that Charlie Brown was right about (some) birds flying south for the winter, and had to [[JustForPun eat crow]].

* UnraveledEntanglement: Poor old Charlie Brown fame not only never manages to keep his kite in the air, but often ends up incapacitated by the kite string, ranging from a few strands wrapped around him to a huge snarl of twine that hides him completely from view.

* AnAesop: One story had the moral that sometimes, people only tell you things are wrong because it's new to them. Throughout the Story Arc, everyone who saw Linus doing that told Lucy "Your brother pats birds on the head", which prompts Lucy to demand that Linus stop it. Linus is bewildered that people would have a problem with something that only alleviates the birds' depressions and in turn gives Linus a great sense of fulfillment. When he asks just what is wrong with it, all Charlie Brown can give for an answer is "no-one else does it!"

* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Among the main cast, Linus and Schroeder, probably the two most intellectually-inclined characters, hardly ever interact. Peppermint Patty and Marcie also don't interact much with the main group outside of Charlie Brown and Snoopy (though Linus managed to briefly convert both of them into believing in The Great Pumpkin at different times).

* VisualPun: Playing football against Snoopy, Charlie Brown tells Linus that he suspects Snoopy is going to try the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_play Statue of Liberty Play]]. Cut to Snoopy [[https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1977/09/12 wearing a crown and robe and holding a book and lifting the football up like a torch]].

* VisualPun: Playing football against Snoopy, Charlie Brown tells Linus that he suspects Snoopy is going to try the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_play Statue of Liberty Play]]. [[https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1977/09/12 Cut to Snoopy wearing a crown and robe and holding a book and lifitng the football up like a torch]].

* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Among the main cast, Linus and Schroeder, probably the two most intellectually-inclined characters, hardly ever interact. Peppermint Patty and Marcie also don't interact much with the main group outside of Charlie Brown (though Linus managed to briefly convert both of them into believing in The Great Pumpkin at different times).

** Also getting the axe over the years were Charlotte Braun (in her case ''literally''), Frieda, Eudora, and 5, to name a few.

* FriendlyTickleTorture: In one strip, Lucy decides to tickle Snoopy's feet while he's sleeping on his doghouse. It makes him giggle uncontrollably until he falls off his doghouse. Lucy thinks she killed him, but is relieved that she didn't when Snoopy continues to giggle.

* BubblePipe: Snoopy uses one of these in the special ''It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown'', where he's playing a detective trying to find Woodstock's nest.

* ADayInTheLimelight: ''It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown'' is mainly focused on Woodstock.

* UmpteenthCustomer: In one Sunday strip, Charlie Brown goes to the movie theater because they're offering free candy bars to the first 500 children in line. He lets Lucy ahead of him, and she's the 500th child.

** Zamboni [[note]]The brand name for the most popular ice resurfacing machine for ice rinks, which became a RunningGag in the strip's later years.[[/note]]

** Schulz's vocabulary used in the strip sometimes showed favor towards using Midwestern terminology ("supper", "tricks or treats", "sliver" rather than "splinter") or outdated usages ("good-by" instead of "goodbye").
** The characters get "slivers" instead of "splinters".

* InsistentTerminology: Snoopy's fantasy alter egos are almost always "The ''World-Famous'' (X)", even if it's absurd. (For example, if he gets roped into being a golf caddy, his InternalMonologue cuts to "Here's the World-Famous Caddy stepping out on the green...")

** Schulz himself seemed to use a lot of outdated terminology with surprising persistence, such as "tricks or treats" instead of "trick or treat", and "good-by" instead of "goodbye".

** Petaluma [[note]]A town near Schulz's home base of Santa Rosa that similarly got lots of name-checks in the strip.[[/note]]

* {{Slapstick}}: More for pratfalls than actual punches, but the girls take their lumps too. Brawling is not completely exempted.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: More for pratfalls than actual punches, but the girls take their lumps too. Brawling is not completely exempted.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Inverted. Frieda appeared in ''The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show'' (and got name-checked in its opening theme song) despite having [[BrotherChuck disappeared from the strip]] at least ten years prior. Similarly, Violet, who was DemotedToExtra in the '70s, got an appearance in the 2006 TV special ''He's a Bully, Charlie Brown''.

** Another EasterEgg was when Snoopy was dictating to Woodstock, who snickered, and Snoopy said "Never dictate a love letter". The shorthand that appeared in the first panel read "To my dearest darling precious sweetie."

** Violet seemed to be presented as a child LoveInterest and was a relatively reserved girly girl type character. Before suddenly [[TookALevelInJerkass Taking A Level In Jerass]] out of no where.

* MeddlingParents: Linus gets notes in his lunch from his mom encouraging him to do well in school and giving him other advice, in an early example of "helicopter parenting".

* AssInALionSkin: Snoopy has a penchant for pretending to be various other kinds of animals -- including an alligator, an anteater, a bald eagle, a [[BatOutOfHell bat]], a beaver, a songbird, a boa constrictor, a cow, a cricket, a dinosaur, an elephant, a giraffe, a [[ExtremeOmniGoat goat]], a gorilla, a [[BoxingKangaroo kangaroo]], a [[KingOfBeasts lion]], a moose, a mountain lion, a [[StubbornMule mule]], an [[TheOwlKnowingOne owl]], a partridge (in a pear tree), a pelican, a [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguin]], a {{piranha|Problem}}, a [[BearsAreBadNews polar bear]], a prairie dog, a rabbit, a {{rhino|Rampage}}ceros, a {{sea monster}}, a [[ThreateningShark shark]], a [[CountingSheep sheep]], a [[PantheraAwesome tiger]], a vulture, and a wolf.

** Petaluma [[note]]A town near Schulz's home base of Santa Rosa[[/note]]