The weird thing is I'm not sure I laughed when I first read this Peanuts strip. But I did remember it. Now it's absolutely hilarious to me.
Probably what cinches for me is that Lucy isn't just being mean. Well she is but she isn't. It's not like she's being deceitful when she asks Charlie Brown the question. She just sincerely doesn't get what constructive criticism is.
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There's always something bittersweet in the encounters between Charlie Brown and Lucy. Of course the main one was that he'd always hope she wouldn't pull the football away this time.
Constructive criticism was entirely beyond Lucy. Calvin and Hobbes confrontations with Susie are thoroughly entertaining; Clavin never wins those either but he's always ready for next time.
The football thing is what everyone remembers about him. If they were real he would have stopped letting her hold the football for him after two or three times. Of course if they were real they would have been middle-aged by the time the strip ended.
Calvin and Hobbes was a classic and I think I knew it right away. Calvin was an imaginative kid, which kept readers on his side even when he was bratty. Susie came from outside of his head, so he didn't know what to do about her.
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