Saturday, August 27, 2005

"All right, so we don't know who Lucy is. But what did she trick you into?"

----Lucy van Pelt is a character in the immensely popular comic strip Peanuts, written and drawn by Charles Schulz. She is the older sister of Linus and Rerun. Lucy has a dominant personality, is crabby and cynical, and is often mean to the other characters in the strip, particularly her brother and Charlie Brown.

Perhaps Lucy's most famous gimmick in her long existence as a character is as the one who pulls the football away from Charlie Brown right as he is about to kick it. The first occasion on which she did this was November 16, 1952, taking over for Violet, who had previously subjected Charlie Brown to this trick on November 14, 1951. This annual scenario has become one of the most famous and popular in the Peanuts universe, as well as highly parodied, as shown in an episode of Family Guy, when she gets punched for pulling her football gimmick.

"Are you Charlie Brown, then?"----Good grief! No, I am Neon Phosphor.

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