rustywire wrote:Bloodhammer wrote:Some of the core members of the Peanut Gang have always struck me as misfits with various psychological/social problems. Charlie Brown himself seems to be the poster child for clinical depression. Linus has some kind of security/abandonment issues or something that prevents him from going anywhere without his blanket. Lucy is obviously a sociopath, and also plays the dual role of being the group psychiatrist (as well as Linus' chief antagonist), Patty probably has BPD, Schroeder appears to have OCD, and Marcie is clearly a lesbian, which back then was probably still considered a mental disorder. Pig Pen is the poor kid I guess, which isn't a mental problem per se but can lead to the development of an inferiority complex.
This is the kind of shit that I've thought about since I was about 12. Probably says more about me than Charles Schulz.
Marcie isn't a lesbian, she's a thoughtful, heady sadgirl and the only female in the gang who treats CB with regular decency. At one point in the cartoon's history, she had something of a crush on CB, a plot device in a short where she & PP went away to summer camp and Marcie began writing letters to CB and PP got jealous when CB wrote back, then realizing her feelings for him. The theme of PP having a crush on CB while bullying him and/or inviting herself on dates, to holiday dinner & events spans movies, shorts and decades. In Bon Voyage, CB Marcie becomes romantically involved with their French host, Pierre...while PP is convinced Pierre is crazy about her when again, it's her who is into him
There is def depth to the characters, even the loathsome ones.
I stand corrected.
