Peanuts

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Various aspects of the famous Peanuts comic strips and television specials have been referenced and parodied by The Brothers Chaps in Homestar Runner cartoons.

Contents 1 Sightings 1.1 Toons 1.2 Strong Bad Emails 1.3 Other 1.4 General

Sightings

Toons

• A Holiday Greeting
  • The page title "Sponsered By Dolly Madison!" refers to the snack cake company that sponsered the Peanuts holiday specials.
  • The spinning "SPECIAL" logo is the same one used by CBS at the beginning of the holiday specials.
  • The Stage and Strong Bad saying "Lights, please" is a reference to the famous scene with Linus on the stage in A Charlie Brown Christmas.
  • The screen at the end reading "Copyright 1965 Free Country, USA is a reference to the year in which A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted.
• The Best Decemberween Ever
  • Homestar Runner's hat is similar to the one worn by Charlie Brown in A Charlie Brown Christmas.
  • Homestar's House resembles the ones that the Peanuts kids live in. It later appears in rampage.
  • Homestar and Strong Sad talking at The Brick Wall is a reference to the brick wall that Charlie Brown and Linus would frequently have conversations at.
  • The main characters singing a song at the end of the toon is a reference to the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
• Halloween Fairstival
  • Marzipan's stall of fruit reading "A Chorus Of Autumnal Vegatables [sic] Is In" is a reference to Lucy's psychiatric help booth.
• The House That Gave Sucky Treats
  • The Poopsmith holds up a sign saying "Give us something good instead". The font used for the sign is called Peanuts, a font made to look like Charles Schulz's lettering used in Peanuts comics.

Strong Bad Emails

• do over
  • Coach Zed looks similar to the dog Spike from the Peanuts comic strips.
• old comics
  • Mushy Chamberpot from the comic strip Castlefunnies speaks in commas, just like the bird Woodstock did in Peanuts comics.
• kids' book
  • In the DVD commentary, Matt Chapman says that Fran from the book looks similar to Marcie.
• comic
  • The album on the far right is A Boy Named Charlie Brown by The Vince Guaraldi Trio.

Other

• Hairstyle Runner
  • The description for one of the hairstyles is "marcy from peanuts w/soul patch".
• Peasant's Quest
  • If you type "look tree" at the bale of hay, it says, "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown," a 1976 Peanuts TV special.
• Main Page 16
  • Rolling the mouse over Downloads will add decorations to The Stick, a reference to A Charlie Brown Christmas.
• The Secrets That I Keep
  • There is a picture of Strong Sad wearing Charlie Brown's shirt.

General

• Tooty-two is a reference to Sally Brown thinking that "Two plus two is tooty-two."
• A. Chimendez is a reference to B. Melendez, the maker of the Peanuts television specials.