History Trivia / Peanuts

** For the first couple years of ''Peanuts'', Schulz re-used a bunch of gags from his earlier local newspaper feature ''ComicStrip/LilFolks''.

** For the ''WesternAnimation/ThisIsAmericaCharlieBrown'' mini-series (if you want to call it that) from the 1988/89 season, Erin Chase became the only female voice for Charlie Brown.

* ApprovalOfGod: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with [[Creator/CharlesMSchulz Schulz's]] reaction to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15v4tTab0Y 1986 animated parody]] of the Charlie Brown/Peanuts series titled WesternAnimation/BringMeTheHeadOfCharlieBrown. According to a Youtube comment by Mr Undiyne from a Youtube upload of the short. He knew somebody in the animation trade that managed to get Schulz to watch the short. Schulz watched the short in complete silence and told the crew that while he found it amusing, he wished to never see the Peanuts characters depicted like that again.

** In 1990, UsefulNotes/McDonalds releaed a set of four figures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy dressed as farmers, each with two interchangeable accessories. Charlie Brown had a push mower and a feed bag, Snoopy had a handcart and a hay bale, Linus had a hand truck and a milk churn, and Lucy had a wheelbarrow and a basket of apples.

* ExecutiveVeto: Despite being quite verbose in the strip, Schultz expressly forbid Snoopy from talking in any of the animated specials (with the exceptions of ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' and ''Snoopy! The Musical'').

** Schulz also disliked the short-lived character of Faron, Frieda's pet cat who never walked and was always being carried. This was partially because Schulz couldn't draw cats very well, but also because Snoopy didn't speak in words, so the only way to have him interact with Faron would be to have them ''think'' at each other (as Snoopy would later do with his siblings). Schulz's only regret after retiring Faron was naming him after Faron Young, his favorite country singer. In the late 1960s, Schulz would introduce the unseen, (originally) unnamed "The Cat Next Door", and was much more pleased with the results.

* BeamMeUpScotty: "Good grief, Charlie Brown!" is like [[Franchise/StarTrek "Beam me up, Scotty!"]] or [[Literature/SherlockHolmes "Elementary, my dear Watson!"]], in that it's made up of two elements that were said frequently, but hardly ever said together, but people still think it's a trademark {{Catchphrase}}.

* TroubledProduction: ''It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown'' (1989), [[MagnumOpusDissonance a hoped-to-be masterpiece for Schulz]] [[RogerRabbitEffect combining live action and animation]] ended up taking four years to make, went overtime and overbudget (costing "millions of dollars"), and director Walter C. Miller was difficult to work with (Schulz notes that he was strict around his daughter Jill, yelling at her, for example). The special, originally targeting for a March 1988 airdate, ultimately came out in October (some months after ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''), calling critics to declare it (despite being a year earlier in starting production) a cheap knock-off.

** In the current Japanese dubs (from 2010s onwards), Linus is voiced by Creator/AkaneFujita, a voice actress normally typecasted on voicing the TokenMiniMoe or TheCutie, like [[LightNovel/EromangaSensei Sagiri Izumi]].

* AdoredByTheNetwork: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation repeated ''The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show'' ad-nauseum in the mid-80s before doing it again (alongside many of the ''Peanuts'' specials) between 2003 and 2006.

* InternationalCoproduction: The second season of ''The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show'' was partially made in England and Spain.

* ApprovalOfGod: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with [[Creator/CharlesMSchulz Schulz's]] reaction to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15v4tTab0Y 1986 animated parody]] of the Charlie Brown/Peanuts series ''Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown''. According to a Youtube comment by Mr Undiyne from a Youtube upload of the short. He knew somebody in the animation trade that managed to get Schulz to watch the short. Schulz watched the short in complete silence and told the crew that while he found it amusing, he wished to never see the Peanuts characters depicted like that again.

** Schulz noted that Snoopy was the easiest character for him to draw. By contrast, Charlie Brown was the toughest, because of the difficulty of getting the roundness of his head correct.

* CreatorsFavorite: In the retirement announcement used for both the final daily and Sunday strips, Schulz mentioned Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and Lucy by name, and pictures of those four characters are engraved on the marble bench that's part of his burial site (in Sebastopol, California), so they clearly were his favorites.

* PromotedFanboy: Creator/MegumiHayashibara is a big fan of the comic, to the degree that she got the chance go voice Marcie in the Japanese dubs of some specials.

* OldShame: ''It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown'', [[MagnumOpusDissonance an attempt by Schulz to make his best special ever]] was a massive regret for just about everyone involved. Bill Melendez even went so far as to call it "the worst film we ever did." It has yet to be released officially on home video beyond Paramount's 1995 VHS release, and the only way to watch it (as mentioned before in KeepCirculatingTheTapes) is at the Charles Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California.

** Schulz was never particularly fond of the title ''Peanuts'', an invention of the syndicate. He submitted it as ''ComicStrip/LilFolks'', the title of his proto-''Peanuts'' strip, but had to change it because it was too close to ''Little Folks'', a defunct 1930s strip whose title was still trademarked. The similarity to ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'' was also deemed problematic. United Features Syndicate production manager Bill Anderson was asked to come up with a title for the strip without having seen it; he came up with a list of 10 suggestions, including "Peanuts", which was inspired by the "peanut gallery" on ''Series/TheHowdyDoodyShow''. Schulz thought the title would lead to readers asking [[IAmNotShazam "Who's Peanuts?"]], and indeed at first he got letters from fans about "that comic strip with Peanuts and his dog". He tried several times to change the title to ''Charlie Brown'' but realized it would be too expensive and time-consuming to get all the licensees to change it, though he managed to avoid using "Peanuts" for the TV specials and the Sunday strips were billed as "''Peanuts'' featuring Good Ol' Charlie Brown". Schulz's authorized biographer Rheta Grimsley-Johnson argued that it really wasn't that bad of a name. A generic title works well for a strip with a large cast; and given the direction the strip eventually took, ''Li'l Folks'' would have wound up being too awkwardly cutesy.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Schulz was never particularly fond of the title "Peanuts", an invention of the syndicate. He was originally going to call it "Lil' Folks", the title of his proto-''Peanuts'' strip, but had to change it because it sounded too much like names of two other strips from the time, Al Capp's ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'' and the now-unknown ''Little Folks''. United Features Syndicate production manager Bill Anderson was asked to come up with a title for the strip without having seen it; he came up with a list of 10 suggestions, including "Peanuts", which was inspired by the "peanut gallery" on ''Series/TheHowdyDoodyShow''. Schulz thought the title would lead to readers asking [[IAmNotShazam "Who's Peanuts?"]], and indeed at first he got letters from fans about "that comic strip with Peanuts and his dog". He tried several times to change the title to ''Charlie Brown'' but realized it would be too expensive and time-consuming to get all the licensees to change it, though he managed to avoid using "Peanuts" for the TV specials and the Sunday strips were billed as "''Peanuts'' featuring Good Ol' Charlie Brown". Schulz's authorized biographer Rheta Grimsley-Johnson argued that it really wasn't that bad of a name. A generic title works well for a strip with a large cast; and given the direction the strip eventually took, ''Li'l Folks'' would have wound up being too awkwardly cutesy.

* TalkingToHimself: Bill Melendez voiced both Snoopy and Woodstock, so...

* AluminumChristmasTrees (along with the real ones, but ''Peanuts'' is the TropeCodifier)

** Plans for a Live Action Film was in development in 1992 by writer Creator/JohnHughes but due to the critical failure of ''Film/{{Dennis The Menace}}'' the film was never made.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Schulz was never particularly fond of the title "Peanuts", an invention of the syndicate. He was originally going to call it "Lil' Folks", the title of his proto-''Peanuts'' strip, but had to change it because it sounded too much like names of two other strips from the time, Al Capp's ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'' and the now-unknown ''Little Folks''. United Features Syndicate production manager Bill Anderson was asked to come up with a title for the strip without having seen it; he came up with a list of 10 suggestions, including "Peanuts", which was inspired by the "peanut gallery" on ''Series/TheHowdyDoodyShow''. Schulz thought the title would lead to readers asking [[IAmNotShazam "Who's Peanuts?"]], and indeed at first he got letters from fans about "that comic strip with Peanuts and his dog". He tried several times to change the title to ''Charlie Brown'' but realized it would be too expensive and time-consuming to get all the licensees to change it, though he managed to avoid using "Peanuts" for the TV specials and the Sunday strips were billed as "''Peanuts'' featuring Good Ol' Charlie Brown". Schulz's authorized biographer Rheta Grimsley-Johnson argued that it really wasn't that bad of a name. A generic title works well for a strip with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters; and given the direction the strip eventually took, ''Li'l Folks'' would have wound up being too awkwardly cutesy.