Charlie Brown

  • First appearance: October 2, 1950

  • “Good ol’ Charlie Brown” is the lovable loser in the zig-zag t-shirt—the kid who never gives up (even though he almost never wins). He manages the world’s worst baseball team…yet shows up for every game. He can’t muster the courage to talk to the Little Red-Haired girl…yet keeps hoping. Even though he gets grief from his friends, his kite-eating tree, even his own dog, Charlie Brown remains the stalwart hero.

  • Did you know: Charlie Brown's dad is a barber just like Charles Schulz's father was.
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Latest appearance: March 30th, 2018 / First appearance: April 2nd, 1971 Charlie Brown and Snoopy stand on the pitcher's mound. Snoopy holds his supper dish in his mouth. Charlie Brown says, "Oh, no you don't!" Charlie Brown continues, "You get fed after the game, not before!" Snoopy walks away with the supper dish still in his mouth. Charlie Brown stands on the pitcher's mound and says, "I hate these salary disputes." Latest appearance: March 7th, 2018 / First appearance: March 10th, 1971 Peppermint Patty and Charlie Brown sit at the table. Peppermint Patty holds up a piece of paper and says, "I've worked out the baseball schedule for our two teams, Chuck . . ." Peppermint Patty slides the paper over to Charlie Brown and says, "Here, take a look at it, and see what you think . ." Charlie Brown reaches for the paper. Peppermint Patty smiles and says, "You tou Latest appearance: February 16th, 2018 / First appearance: February 19th, 1971 Charlie Brown sits in front of Lucy's psychiatric booth. He says, "Sometimes I ask myself questions . ." Charlie Brown continues, "Sometimes I ask myself, 'Is this your real life, or is this just a pilot film?'" Charlie Brown holds his arms out and asks, "Is my life a thirty-nine week series or is it a special?" Lucy replies, "Whatever it is, our ratings are down . . Five c Latest appearance: December 21st, 2017 / First appearance: December 24th, 1970 Sally lies in bed and says, "So here it is, Christmas Eve, but there'll be no sleigh bells outside my window tonight . ." Sally continues, "Why? Because I've totally rejected the concept of the fat guy in the red suit! For the first time in my life I feel free! For once I . . ." Sally sits up and listens. She says, "What's that? I thought I heard a sleigh bell . . ." Sally Latest appearance: December 6th, 2017 / First appearance: December 9th, 1970 Charlie Brown sits at the table and writes, "Dear Little Red-Haired Girl, Evening is coming on." Charlie Brown continues to write, "I wish it were snowing huge white flakes, and you and I were walking along holding hands and." Charlie Brown stops and looks at the paper. Charlie Brown crumples up the paper and throws it over his shoulder. He says, "A lot of great letters nev Latest appearance: November 11th, 2017 / First appearance: November 14th, 1970 Snoopy sits on the ground with a rope tied around his neck. Woodstock stands in front of him. Snoopy smiles and thinks, "Woodstock is going to rescue me . ." Woodstock climbs on the rope. Snoopy thinks, "Woodstock will have me untied in no time at all . . ." Woodstock struggles with the rope. Snoopy thinks, "Woodstock is going to untie me, and we're going to . . ." Woodstoc Latest appearance: October 1st, 2017 / First appearance: October 4th, 1970 Peppermint Patty runs along. Peppermint Patty is on the telephone: "Hey, Chuck, come on over, and see what my Dad gave me for my birthday.." She points: "Roses!" Charlie Brown stands behind her. He says, "Wow!" Peppermint Patty adds, "And you know what he said?" They face each other. "He said that I'm growing up fast, and soo I'll be a beautiful young lady, and all Latest appearance: September 23rd, 2017 / First appearance: September 26th, 1970 Snoopy sits in the grass and turns his head. Lucy stands next to him and holds her hand out. Lucy says, "It's bad luck to turn away from a 'Beep.'" Lucy grabs Snoopy's nose and says, "Beep!" Snoopy thinks, "I didn't know that." Latest appearance: September 22nd, 2017 / First appearance: September 25th, 1970 Linus stands in the wind. He sucks his thumb and holds his blanket. Linus' blanket is blown out of his hands. Linus runs. Linus stands next to the doghouse. The blanket completely covers Snoopy. Snoopy thinks, "I hate to see fall come . . . It gets dark so early . ." Latest appearance: July 17th, 2017 / First appearance: July 20th, 1970 Linus stands behind Lucy and says, "I have a question." Linus asks, "What would happen if there were a beautiful and highly intelligent child up in heaven waiting to be born, and his or her parents decided that the two children they already had were enough?" Lucy says, "Your ignorance of theology and medicine is appalling!" Linus says, "I still think it's a good question . Latest appearance: July 16th, 2017 / First appearance: July 19th, 1970 Snoopy is wearing a baseball cap. He runs backwards, looking up at the sky. CLOMP! Snoopy stands up straight in the air and catches the ball in his mouth. Snoopy runs, his cap flying off his head. CLOMP! He jumps in the air and catches another ball. CLOMP! Snoopy catches the ball, hanging upside down the air. CLOMP! His cap flies off as he catches the ball. Latest appearance: July 15th, 2017 / First appearance: July 18th, 1970 Snoopy sits on the doghouse and sniffles. He thinks, "What do you do?" Snoopy lies on the doghouse and thinks, "What do you do when the girl-beagle you love more than anything is taken from you, and you know you'll never see her again as long as you live?" Snoopy sits up and thinks, "What do you do?" Snoopy eats and thinks, "Back to eating!" Latest appearance: July 14th, 2017 / First appearance: July 17th, 1970 Snoopy lies on the doghouse. Charlie Brown carries an envelope and says, "I have bad news for you." Charlie Brown continues, "That last letter you sent to your girl friend at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm never reached her . . She's not there any more . . ." Charlie Brown explains, "She's been sold!" Snoopy screams and runs off the doghouse. Latest appearance: July 13th, 2017 / First appearance: July 16th, 1970 Snoopy lies on the doghouse and thinks, "That girl-beagle I met at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm is really something." Snoopy sits up. He smiles and thinks, "I wonder why I liked her so much? I think it's because we teased each other . . ." Snoopy lies on his stomach and thinks, "We laughed a lot, and we teased each other . . ." Snoopy turns over and smiles. He thinks, "And the Latest appearance: July 12th, 2017 / First appearance: July 15th, 1970 Snoopy sticks his tongue out at Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown shouts, "Now you cut that out!" Snoopy walks away. Charlie Brown continues, "Just because you can't go running off to see that girl-beagle you met, you don't have to be so obnoxious!" Charlie Brown points and shouts, "By golly, you'd better start behaving yourself!" Snoopy drops the phone. Charlie Brown shouts, "A Latest appearance: July 11th, 2017 / First appearance: July 14th, 1970 Charlie Brown stands in front of Snoopy. Snoopy wears his supper dish on his head. Charlie Brown asks, "You want to go to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm again?" Snoopy's ears stand up. Charlie Brown walks away and thinks, "No, I don't think you should . . . You've been out enough lately . . ." Snoopy kicks his supper dish and thinks, "Rats!" Snoopy sits on the ground and leans a Latest appearance: July 10th, 2017 / First appearance: July 13th, 1970 Charlie Brown stands next to Snoopy and talks into the phone. He says, "Hello? Is this the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm?" Charlie Brown continues, "I'm calling for a friend of mine . . . He wants to speak to one of your dogs . . No, he doesn't know her name . . Describe her?" Snoopy holds out his paws and smiles. Charlie Brown says, "She has very soft paws . . ." Latest appearance: July 9th, 2017 / First appearance: July 12th, 1970 Charlie Brown stands on the pitcher's mound. Lucy stands on the slope of the pitcher's mound. She holds out a piece of paper: "Here, Charlie Brown...Sign this petition!" "What's it for?" "Don't be so wishy-washy..just sign it!" He yells: "WANTING TO KNOW WHAT YOUR SIGNING IS NOT BEING WISHY-WASHY!" Lucy asks, "Why are you so crabby?" He looks up and wails, "YELLIN Latest appearance: July 8th, 2017 / First appearance: July 11th, 1970 The Literary Ace types, "Dear Sweetie, Have you missed me?" The Literary Ace continues to type, "I think about you all the time. I can hardly wait until Sunday morning. Don't forget . ." The Literary Ace thinks of hearts, hugs and kisses. Snoopy smiles and thinks, "I think I'm in love!" Latest appearance: July 7th, 2017 / First appearance: July 10th, 1970 Linus looks at a newspaper and approaches Charlie Brown. He says, "According to the paper, the riot was about war dogs . . ." Charlie Brown looks at the paper. Linus says, "Apparently there's been some trouble about dogs being sent to Viet Nam, and then not getting back . . ." Snoopy thinks, "All I know is, I went to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm to make a speech . . . I got whomped wi
First appearance: February 28th, 1988 The world famous surgeon stands looking at an x-ray. Snoopy sits atop his doghouse next to Woodstock reading a letter. He thinks, "Hmm.." He reads the letter and thinks, "Dear Snoopy, recently you avoided having knee surgery by claiming that dogs don't have knees..." He continues, "As a physician, I must tell you that dogs do indeed have knees...." Woodstock starts First appearance: February 28th, 1975 Rerun rides on the back of the bike and says, "Look out for the tree!" Rerun shouts, "Look out for the fence! Look out for the truck!" Rerun grabs his hat and says, "Look out for the brick wall! Look out for the car!" Rerun sits back and sticks out his tongue. He says, "Look out for your poor, innocent son who wants to grow up, and have a life of his own!!" Latest appearance: February 26th, 2008 / First appearance: February 28th, 1961 Snoopy sits on his doghouse and looks at a bird. Two birds sit next to Snoopy on his doghouse. A group of birds gather on the doghouse and begin to chatter. Snoopy smiles and thinks, "My home is always open to those who enjoy discussion groups!" First appearance: February 28th, 1991 Linus, Sally and six other students stand in the pouring rain. Linus says, "I remember once when we went on a field trip, and it didn't rain, and we all learned a lot and we all had a good time . . .." Sally asks, "When?" Each of the students asks, "When?" First appearance: February 28th, 1982 Charlie Brown sits in a chair in the living-room reading. Snoopy jumps down from atop his dog-house. He kicks on the door with his foot. Charlie Brown opens the door for him and he walks in. Charlie Brown asks,"Is it suppertime already?" He follows Snoopy and says,"I'm sorry..you may not believe this, but I was reading the book on psalms, and forgot what time it was..." H First appearance: February 28th, 1984 Peppermint Patty and Marcie sit in theatre seats. Peppermint Patty asks, "What kind of a show is this, Marcie? There aren't any pictures . . What do we look at?" Marcie says, "This is a concert, sir . . Just listen to the music . . ." Peppermint Patty says, "I don't believe this . . . An auditorium full of people just sitting here listening to music . ." Peppermint Patty First appearance: February 28th, 1989 Snoopy sits on the doghouse with a sheet of paper and reads, "Feed a cold, and starve a fever." Snoopy jumps off the doghouse. Charlie Brown opens the front door. Snoopy stands with his food dish in his mouth and thinks, "A cold just came by, and said it was hungry . ." First appearance: February 28th, 1995 Marcie and Peppermint Patty sit at their desks in class. Marcie says, "The teacher says we're supposed to read a biography next week . ." Marcie asks, "Whose biography are you going to read, sir?" Peppermint Patty says, "I don't know . . Somebody who didn't live very long." Latest appearance: March 2nd, 2003 / First appearance: February 28th, 1971 Charlie Brown stands in front of his snow covered pitcher's mound. He sighs. He says, "Here's my ol' pitcher's mound...covered with snow..." He stands on top of it and looks down, saying, This mound and I have been in some great ball games." He looks up and says, "What memories..." He closes his eyes: "I'll never forget that game when the other team came to bat in t First appearance: February 28th, 1987 Charlie Brown stands on a chair and looks on a counter. He says, "I'm still looking for my baseball glove! Has anyone seen it?" The baseball glove hangs in the closet and thinks, "Please don't look in the closet . . . It's embarrassing to be the glove for a kid who's never won a game . . ." Charlie Brown asks, "And my baseball cap . . Has anyone seen my cap?" The cap hide First appearance: February 28th, 1957 "I just shined my shoes..look pretty good, don't they?" Linus lifts up a foot to show Lucy. "You only shined the toes...How about the heels?" Lucy asks as Linus walks away. Linus turns back to Lucy and explains, "I'm interested only in what people think of me as I ENTER the room.." "I don't care what they think of me as I LEAVE!" He adds as he walks away. First appearance: February 28th, 1976 Snoopy lies on the doghouse with his foot in a cast. Charlie Brown says, "I have a message from the people next door." Charlie Brown continues, "They want to know if you'd accept a 'Get well' card from their cat . . ." Snoopy thinks, "Certainly . . . I think that would be very nice!" Snoopy is hit on the head by a card. Latest appearance: February 26th, 2016 / First appearance: February 28th, 1969 Linus lies in bed. Lucy stands next to the bed and says, "Get up! It's time to go to school . . The teacher's strike is over . . ." Linus sits up and says, "Really? That's great! It'll be good seeing Miss Othmar in class again." Lucy says, "Don't count on it . . She's been fired!" Linus shouts, "Fired?! That can't be! They can't fire Miss Othmar!" Linus cries and shouts, "S Latest appearance: February 25th, 2006 / First appearance: February 28th, 1959 Patty glances up from her book when a voice shouts, "Sixteen! Wow! Seventeen! Wow! Eighteen! Wow!" She glances to her left. The voice continues, "Twenty-eight! Wow! Twenty-nine! Wow! THIRTY! WOW!!" Patty walks off towards the voice. She approaches Charlie Brown and Snoopy, who are sitting in the grass. Charlie Brown exclaims, "Thirty-three marshmallows!" First appearance: February 28th, 1978 Peppermint Patty sits at her desk in school and writes, "I will not fall asleep in class. I will not fall asleep in class." Peppermint Patty writes, "I will not fall asleep." Peppermint Patty falls asleep. Peppermint Patty wakes up. Peppermint Patty continues to write, "In class." First appearance: February 28th, 1956 Schroeder and Charlie Brown are sitting on a plank in the field. Charlie Brown is confused: "?" as he sees a grimacing Snoopy slinking by. He asks, "What in the world was THAT?" Schroeder says, "I think it was an alligator..." Charlie Brown covers his face and says, "Oh, Good Grief! Here we go again.." Latest appearance: February 25th, 2010 / First appearance: February 28th, 1963 Charlie Brown says to Linus, "What if everyone were like you?" Charlie Brown says, "What if we all ran away from our problems? Huh? What then?" Charlie Brown raises his arms over his head and says, "What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?" Linus replies, "Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!" First appearance: February 28th, 1992 Charlie Brown reads a book in a chair. Sally holds a paddle connected to a ball. Sally asks, "May I try this ball and paddle thing, big brother?" Charlie Brown says, "Be my guest . ." Sally walks away. Sally examines the ball and paddle thing. Sally asks, "What does it do?" First appearance: February 28th, 1990 Peppermint Patty stands in the front of the classroom with her hair disheveled. She says, "This is my report on the wind . . ." Peppermint Patty says, "Wind blows your hair around when you're walking to school, and after you get there, you don't have a comb . ." Peppermint Patty says, "It also gives you something to write about when you can't think of anything else, and you can't First appearance: February 28th, 1983 The Foreign Legionnaire stands on a hill and thinks, "There it is, men . . The fantastic little town of Needles!" The Foreign Legionnaire thinks, "And somewhere out there in the desert, my brother, Spike, is surrounded by coyotes . . . We have to rescue him!" The Foreign Legionnaire thinks, "All right, I need one volunteer to act as scout . . ." One of the birds speaks. Sn
Charlie Brown must be the one who suffers, because he’s a caricature of the average person. Most of us are much more acquainted with losing than winning. Winning is great, but it isn’t funny.
Charles Schulz

Interests

  • Baseball

    Charlie Brown always looks forward to baseball season and is his team’s manager and pitcher.

  • Kites

    Charlie Brown always tries, but rarely succeeds. He has several run-ins with the “kite eating tree.”

  • The Little Red-Haired Girl

    Charlie Brown has a crush on the Little Red-Haired girl. She is never seen in the strip.

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