Celebrate Thanksgiving with one of animation’s oldest gay couples - Yes, of course they're children

Celebrate Thanksgiving with one of animation’s oldest gay couples

Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch. The Feast-ive: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Before Trey Parker & Matt Stone created the empire of kiddie satire, political commentary, and scatological jokes that is...

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The Feast-ive: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving​

Before Trey Parker & Matt Stone created the empire of kiddie satire, political commentary, and scatological jokes that is South Park, another great artist built a career on send-ups of American childhood: Charles Schultz, creator of Peanuts.

There’s a reason that the Peanuts gang and all the Charlie Brown animated TV specials still capture an audience after more than 70 years: the characters capture humor with heart. Take, for example, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving the 1973 animated special that followed the titular, long-suffering kid trying to wrangle his social circle through Thanksgiving at his grandmother’s house. In short order, Charlie Brown must play host for his pals Lucy, Linus, Franklin, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, his sister Sally, and of course, his dog Snoopy and feathered friend Woodstock. The gang revisits the story of the original Thanksgiving when Pilgrims and Native Americans shared a meal (too bad that friendship didn’t last), and renew their bonds of camaraderie.


It might sound trite, but damn it, it warms our hearts every time. Of course, Peanuts and its subsequent animated specials also proved far ahead of their time in terms of including coded queer characters: Marcie and Peppermint Patty. Charles Schultz created and modeled Marcie on lesbian tennis player Billie Jean King, and even as early as the 1970s, the overt slave/master relationship of Marcie & Patty raised more than a few eyebrows. Of course, for we queers, we always knew what was really going on.

In the run-up to this Turkey Day, we suggest giving this underrated classic a new viewing. Besides the coded gayness, and as with all Peanuts tales, the story testifies to the beauty and importance of a chosen family, of enduring friendship and the need to reflect on gratitude. Revisit it, laugh, and enjoy the queer & fuzzy feeling.

 

[Heeb Weeb]

Dear Faggots,

Stop trying to claim every tomboy in media as a closeted rugmuncher.

Signed,

A Concerned Citizen

 

[Troutsmacked]

Weren't woketards trying to say the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special was racist a year or two ago?

 

[WeWuzFinns]

If they are gay someone must have molested them. The media isn't satisfied until everything is covered in ADIS.

 

[Product Placement]

Was expecting it to be Bert and Ernie

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Charles Schultz created and modeled Marcie on lesbian tennis player Billie Jean King,

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[Billy Beer]

Charlie Brown is a white character??!?!?! How offensive to PoC, time to cancel and/or race change

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Stop trying to queer erase Woodstock and Snoopy ffs not cool frendos

 

[Merrick]

Weren't woketards trying to say the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special was racist a year or two ago?

That was before they decided to play up the nonexistent "gay" angle in an attempt to recruit.

 

[Screw Danlon]

Wasn’t Schultz fairly conservative and religious? Is this why they specifically want to stake the claim here?

 

[MasterCylinder]

What a total lesbian am I right?

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

Marcie and Patty are friends who like the same boy, they ain't gay.

I love joking about them being in love because their dynamic does make quite fun couple, but in the canon they are clearly just two little girls who are friends, not girlfriends. They only show any romantic intrest towards boys for one but mostly nothing about them is romantic. Most they do just kid stuff like go to school, camping, wierd nicknames, sports and watch a mandatory boring play. They clearly care about each other but also get jealous and angry with each other. Patty is more outgoing and outwardly pushy of the two but Marcie can and does stand up for herself and regularly makes fun of Patty. That's what makes their relationship so interesting and balanced but that doesn't mean automatically in love.

 

[The Last Stand]

Remember that A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving was crucified because of a Black character's seating arrangement.

 

[Mr. Bung]

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What a total lesbian am I right?

I think Marcy just likes everyone tbh. She has a sort of new age unconventional vibe to her but without the thottery, libtarded views, assholery, and need to paint herself up in danger hair and tattoos.

Peppermint Patty is just a tomboy though, she's shown to brush Marcy off frequently.

 

[Open Window Maniac]

I thought A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving was problematic because Franklin sat on the opposite side of the table away from every one else.

 

[Corpun]

Nothing is sacred for these people is it?

 

[Samir]

I saw Peppermint Patty in the website thumbnail and thought they were trying to say that she's a guy. This is much worse.

 

[Coldgrip]

Really proving that one GOP lawmaker might have a point, queers.

 

[The Last Stand]

I think Marcy just likes everyone tbh. She has a sort of new age unconventional vibe to her but without the thottery, libtarded views, assholery, and need to paint herself up in danger hair and tattoos.

Peppermint Patty is just a tomboy though, she's shown to brush Marcy off frequently.

Marcie is the one who called the blond sir? I'd figure she was just anti-social but meant well.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Every. Fucking. Time.

The whole "They're gay!" is trotted out all the time since the 1990's, when anyone who knows anything about Peanuts know that they could make a better case for Peppermint Patty being into bestiality than her being a rug muncher.