Nothing to do with him but....I can’t stand Charlie Brown. I get depressed within 3 minutes of one of those shows. Gave me the creeps as a child. Hated it. Snoopy fantasy segments were boring as well.
Maybe it depends on if you grew up on “Leave it to Beaver” or the “Telli-Tubbies”
I never thought the melancholy characters were anything but... melancholy and depressing. Basically sunshine thieves. I thought Lucy was just plain duplicitous and cruel. Lucy needed karma. Playground justice.
The only good parts were where the kiddies were in school and the teacher was the unseen whaw-whaw-whaw-whaw voice.
It was the one place of any humor to be derived from my own experience of school, a jail sentence that seemed like an eternity of hell with no end in sight. To this day I remember that horrid feeling of how many more years.
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This story is especially sad because it was Charlie. He really did have many troubles in real life. Maybe they began in the animation studios themselves.
RIP