It's from November, 1976.

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2023/11/06
(first strip, from two days ago)

I don't recall ANY other arc that features Lucy addressing a teacher or the whole class.

Does anyone here? Where can I find them?

(Maybe Schulz felt she was too dominant in general - or that Peppermint Patty was more funny in school.)

I was going to post this at the Peanuts newsgroup - but at this point, I doubt anyone would see it.

On 11/8/2023 1:50 PM, Lenona wrote:
> It's from November, 1976.
>
> https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2023/11/06
> (first strip, from two days ago)
>
> I don't recall ANY other arc that features Lucy addressing a teacher or the whole class.
>
> Does anyone here? Where can I find them?

Good observation!

Here's the only other instance I can find where Lucy addresses
a teacher:

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1996/09/05

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Tim Chow

On Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 11:09:56 PM UTC-5, Timothy Chow wrote:
> Good observation!
>
> Here's the only other instance I can find where Lucy addresses
> a teacher:
>
> https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1996/09/05
>
> ---
> Tim Chow

Thanks.

Even though I knew, from the drawing style (without even looking at the date, I mean), that it wasn't part of a truly funny arc.

IMHO, Schulz stopped being funny, in the dailies, after 1970 or even earlier.

But the 1970s movies were SOMEWHAT funny...

In article <f3df5c14-de19-424a-be7a-d6330508b12bn@googlegroups.com>,
Lenona <lenona321@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 11:09:56 PM UTC-5, Timothy Chow wrote:
>
>> Good observation!
>>
>> Here's the only other instance I can find where Lucy addresses
>> a teacher:
>>
>> https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1996/09/05
>>
>> ---
>> Tim Chow
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>Even though I knew, from the drawing style (without even looking at the
>date, I mean), that it wasn't part of a truly funny arc.
>
>IMHO, Schulz stopped being funny, in the dailies, after 1970 or even earlier.
>
>But the 1970s movies were SOMEWHAT funny...

For sure the ratio dropped, but he never stopped.
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On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 3:20:57 PM UTC-5, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> Lenona wrote:
> >
> >IMHO, Schulz stopped being funny, in the dailies, after 1970 or even earlier.
> >
> >But the 1970s movies were SOMEWHAT funny...

> For sure the ratio dropped, but he never stopped.

If you say so.

I looked up a Sunday strip about Linus, his blanket and his grandma. As I remembered it, the solution/punchline was definitely forced. I.e., clever but more annoying than funny.

To my surprise...it was published on August 16th, 1964!

https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/August_1964_comic_strips
(this also has quite a few strips I'd never seen)

So I'd say he started going downhill around then.
But I WILL admit the 1973 arc about Snoopy/Hank Aaron was funny.

https://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2021/01/henry-louis-aaron-1934-2021.html

Note: This was back when the sports term "goat" had the opposite meaning!

On 11/17/2023 3:15 PM, Lenona wrote:
> I looked up a Sunday strip about Linus, his blanket and his grandma. As I remembered it, the solution/punchline was definitely forced. I.e., clever but more annoying than funny.
>
> To my surprise...it was published on August 16th, 1964!
>
> https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/August_1964_comic_strips
> (this also has quite a few strips I'd never seen)
>
> So I'd say he started going downhill around then.
>
> But I WILL admit the 1973 arc about Snoopy/Hank Aaron was funny.

Nobody hits a home run every time, even Hank Aaron.

But in any case, I don't judge a character-driven strip like Peanuts
primarily by how funny it is. I judge it more by the depth of the
personalities and the strength of the story arcs. Toward the end,
I think Schulz developed Rerun in remarkably fresh ways. The weakest
period, IMO, was the early 1980s, and it's probably not a coincidence
that that's when the Fawcett Crest and Peanuts Parade books fizzled
out.

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Tim Chow