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From: nick@sjuvax.UUCP (N. Straguzzi)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Meta-humor in Charles Schulz's Peanuts
Message-ID: <2606@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 11:55:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 11:55:21 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 04:25:49 EST
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Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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Keywords: Lucy, Charlie Brown
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Summary: 

In article <800@h-sc1.UUCP> shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) writes:
>
>	I've noticed that a recent development in net.tv is references
>to meta-humor that appears in the show "Moonlighting".  Some of my
>favorite meta-humor is that which appears in comic strips, when the
>artists get up the courage to take a risk with some unconventional
>humor.  An example is an old Peanuts strip that I came across in one of
>the compilation books, in which Charlie Brown and Lucy are discussing
>(or rather, Lucy is holding forth about) what Lucy's eyes resemble.  In
>the last panel, Charlie Brown manages to sneak a word in edgewise, and
>says, completely deadpan:  "They remind ME [my emphasis] of two dots of
>india ink."


In another one I remember, Schroeder is sitting at his piano listening
carefully to one key over and over.  Then, he runs excitedly to Charlie Brown
and says "Hey Charlie Brown, I think I have perfect pitch!"  To which CB
responds, "You mean *A* perfect pitch.  That's great, but baseball season is
over and besides, you're the catcher" (or something to that effect).  A
disgusted Schroeder walks away saying "Sometimes I think I ought to put in
for a transfer to a new comic strip".

Johnny Hart has, on at least one occassion, written a B.C. strip where the
little king from the Wizard Of Id (which he co-writes with Brant Parker)
strolls through.  In another strip, B.C. asks the wise man on the mountain
"Why are we all here".  Response: "To provide sustenance for Hart".  There
are a lot of other examples of this type of humor in B.C.

But the best of the meta-humor awards has to go to Berke Breathed's Bloom
County.  In one strip, Yaz Pistachio is bemoaning her parents' choice of
girls names to Opus: "I want you to name me one name, just one name, that's
more totally gross than Yaz Pistachio".  Opus thinks for a while and responds,
"Berkeley Breathed".  "OK, name two".

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