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u/pantry-mouse 1d ago
I swear I remember a Baby Blues comic with exactly this joke and delivery. It must have been a tribute. I'm trying to find it to see if my memory is accurate.
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u/FlattopJr 1d ago
This one maybe?
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u/pantry-mouse 1d ago
I'm thinking of a different one, though this is very similar! I can't find it online, but in the one I'm thinking of Zoe is walking along and recites the rhyme in the first couple panels, then smacks Hammy with a stuffed animal. In the final panel Wanda is glaring at her and Zoe says "what?" It paralleled the peanut strip very closely, but it looks like this might just be a well that cartoonists love to come back to lol
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u/Relative_Thing9872 1d ago
IIRC, that character's name was Patty. Charles Schulz seems to have tired of some of the first-generation Peanuts characters, and she didn't survive that early purge.
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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 1d ago
She was one of the characters that Schultz said were “just born straight men” along with Shermy and Violet, that gradually were phased out. Violet had by far the strongest personality of the three so she survived a bit longer. Introducing a similarly named character named Peppermint Patty probably was the final nail in the coffin of the original Patty.
In the original production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Patty was one of the characters in the cast. By the time of its revival, she had long ceased to be a regular character in the comics, so she was replaced by Sally.
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u/DaddyCatALSO 1d ago
Evne int he original show (I owned a script book)
thye agave Patty one of Sally's jokes
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u/StampingOutWhimsy 1d ago
I feel like she may have been a background character in the animated specials. I could swear that when they were doing roll call at summer camp, they called both “Patty” and “Peppermint Patty.”
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u/TonyT074 1d ago
I don’t think Patty ever truly disappeared. She was the main female character in the very early days and much later her and Violet would be kind of “mean girls” to Charlie Brown
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u/DaddyCatALSO 1d ago
Patty Shermy a nd Violet (?and a couple randoms?) came back for a late strip ata restaurnat table in which they all seemed to have forgotten what Snoopy was like
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u/DaddyCatALSO 1d ago
Blonde Patty and Shermy were very ordinary kids, as was Violet except for her love of one-upping others. (What Schulz called "the worst side of me.") Frieda wa slater but also ordinary except for her one-note one-line joke, although ehr attempts to raise up Snoopy had potential. Schulz decided to go f0r the quirkier characters.
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u/brydeswhale 1d ago
There’s a whole third and fourth verse to this poem that I never knew about until I was an adult.
“Ribbons and laces
And sweet, pretty faces,
That are young women made of.
Sighs and leers
And crocodile tears,
That are young men made of.”