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Peanutscelebrates all the holidays , whether it be the major holiday like Thanksgiving and Christmas or the lesser acclaimed holidays like April Fools ' Day;the risible strips draw full use of the fatuousness that can come from the April Fools ' Day holiday , with thePeanutsGang getting in on the merriment .
Of course , some fictional character are on the receiving end of April Fools ' Day pranks more than others . For instance , Charlie Brown is always getting flim-flam , unable to escape getting pranked on April Fools ' Day , either by his sister or by Lucy .
Likewise , there are thePeanutscharacters that can not refuse pull up illusion every year , with Lucy being the biggest culprit of April Fools ' Day pranks , though Sally and Linus , and at times all the members of thePeanutsGang , also get in on the tricky celebration .
10"You’re An Easy Target, Charlie Brown"
First Published: April 1, 1971
Here , Lucy break Charlie Brown ’s TV watching to tell him thata little daughter who just so happens to have red hairsbreadth is at his front room access and require about Charlie Brown – before Lucy announce that it is all just an April Fools ' jest . Looking at Charlie Brown ’s shaken face , Lucy point out what an " wanton target " Charlie Brown is to trick .
This comic strip was adapt into a section of the showThe Charlie Brown and Snoopy Showthat aired in 1983 .
The April Fools ' deception that Lucy pulls on Charlie Brown aboutthe Little Red Haired Girlare among her more mean - zippy pranks on him , regardless of it being April Fools ' 24-hour interval . His hopes are always brought up by the estimation of his crush take in a reciprocal in him , something Lucy exploits wholeheartedly . That said , he is partly to blame because he falls for it every single time , no matter how many times Lucy has pull out the same prank .
9"Who’s Coming? The April Fool!"
First Published: April 1, 1979
In thisPeanutscomic , Linus excitedly runs up to Lucy proclaiming the comer of the one and only April Fool . While Lucy may at first cerebrate it is the Easter Beagle , she is not correct , but she is very tight , as Snoopy is really the April Fool as well as the Easter Beagle . Here , the April Fool is dressed like a goof would be , prompting an unimpressed Charlie Brown watch from the sidelines to remark that he care he had a normal dog , like everyone else does .
Snoopy has imagined himself in about every profession thanks to his personas , with one of his most well - have it away being his World Famous Attorney .
" The April Fool " is justone of many character Snoopy has , although it is one of his curious alter egos . Then again , if Linus can come up with a mythological pumpkin creature that gives gifts like Santa , then Snoopy dressing as a clown - jester - like character reference for April Fools ' 24-hour interval is really not that strange .
8"My Favorite April Fool Joke"
First Published: April 1, 1985
In this strip , Snoopy ’s brother Spikegets ready to do his favourite April Fools ' Day joke ; he puts his wallet on a string and hides behind a cactus quick to pull off the twine when someone do along to cull it up . Given that he hold up out in the desert in the middle of nowhere , it is no surprise that he is waiting an extremely long time for someone to come along to enact the whoremaster .
sidereal day turns to Nox as Spike hold for an April Fools ' Day dupe , park out behind the cactus for a very long tim;hilariously , at the terminal of his rope , Spike consecrate to only wait ten more hours before eventually give up . It is a running gag forPeanutsto see Spike deal with the forlornness and purdah that come with exist in the desert with his only friend being a cactus , who is not the proficient conversation partner .
7"That Little Red-Haired Girl Wants You To Come Over And Eat Lunch With Her"
First Published: April 1, 1964
Here , Lucy interrupts Charlie Brown ’s peanut butter sandwich lunch for one to say him that the Little Red Haired Girl wants him to get to him and have lunch with him;Charlie Brown jumps at the opportunity to have lunch with the Little Red Haired Girl , being hs dreaming get unfeigned … or so he think . It all turns out to be an April Fools ' joke on Charlie Brown from Lucy . Unsurprisingly , Charlie Brown is raging with Lucyfor her mean choice of April Fool japery .
Lucy Van Pelt is one of Peanuts ' most beloved role , but before her first appearance , Violet Gray played a persona standardized to hers . Here are her good moments !
Charlie Brown ’s lunches are ordinarily sad enough , with the poor kid spending his time ache after the Little Red Haired Girl while he run through alone . Lucy determine to make his lunch period just a picayune more uncheerful for the erotic love sick kid . Lucy can always trick Charlie Brown when it comes to the Little Red Haired Girl .
6"Nobody Ever Believes My April Fool Jokes"
First Published: April 1, 1967
Linus stress to pull a degraded one on Violetfor April Fools ' twenty-four hours but his endeavor at a practical jape leave a lot of elbow room for betterment . He tells her that she has a huge purpleness , green , and yellow forty - thousand - legged spider crawl up her back at this very moment . Describing the most unrealistic wanderer ever , Linus fail to elicit any form of veneration response from Violet or any response really .
All Violet does is walk away from him with a vacuous expression on her face;as a event , Linus is left alone with the disappointment of all his April Fool Jokes never being believed by anyone . Linus is pretty innocent and moralistic , so it is in theatrical role for him to struggle with lying , even if it is a tiny prevarication for a funny April Fools ' joke .
5"I Can’t Stand It"
First Published: April 1, 1969
Lucy goes up to Charlie Brown , sky-high delivering him the news that he has been pick out for the flattering honor of Manager of the Year;Lucy continues to share thatCharlie Brown ’s managing director of the yearpresentation will be made at the one and only Yankee Stadium , where he will devolve on on the field in a luxurious yellow-bellied transformable with the Little Red Haired Girl at his side .
No character is awaken up in the heart of his sleep as often as Charlie Brown , which is a running gag for the perennially down - on - his - luck reference .
Every single thing Lucy delineate is part of Charlie Brown ’s wildest dreams . Unfortunately , it is all lies , because it is part of an April Fool joke . Lucy get a good jape out of Charlie Brown falling for it but he is emphatically not disport , with him being unable to stand it . Lucy experience how to bear on all of Charlie Brown ’s buttons , informed of all the things that were sure to get Charlie Brown ’s hopes up .
4"That Was In Very Poor Taste!"
First Published: April 1, 1976
In one memorablePeanutsarc , Snoopy bring out his footwhen he jumps down from his doghouse to cannonball along to his dinner party but activate over his own supper peach . The plaster cast turns out to be a major bummer for the beagle , as it would be for anyone , person or dog . Lucy wakes Snoopy up from his rooftop kennel nap to say him that his doctor prognosticate and pronounce that he could finally get his wooden leg cast off today .
Snoopy is over the moon about the news , so happy to get his plaster cast in the end off his pegleg after six foresighted week;Lucy takes away his fervor and hope when she bring out that it was all an April Fools ' Day whoremaster and that he actually does need to keep his cast on . Snoopy , who ordinarily has no egress with letting Lucy have it , knocks her on the head with the cast on his foot , and deride her for her very pitiful gustatory sensation in practical jest .
3"It Could Have Happened"
First Published: April 1, 1970
Telling Charlie Brown to go to the front threshold , Lucy sets the scene for another one of her April Fools ' jokes that always ends up going too far;Lucy play a joke on him that Ted Williams , an MLB player for the Boston Red Sox , is waiting alfresco for Charlie Brown to get some advice on how to manage a baseball team .
Charlie Brown may have girl trouble , but at least one of his protagonist has middle centre for good old Charlie Brown - namely his pal Peppermint Patty .
After Charlie Brown is already outside , Lucy reveals it is all an April Fool laugh . Charlie Brown does not think that the joke is all that mad or outside the realm of hypothesis , with him deciding Ted Williams ' advice enquire could have in reality happen . It is a totally normal thing tohave a pro baseball playerask an eight - year - old for managerial advice , or at least that is what Charlie Brown seems to retrieve anyway . Compared to other April Fools ' jokes from Lucy , this one is in reality not as think as some of her others .
2"There’s A Giant Lizard Crawling Up Your Back"
First Published: April 1, 1997
Sally is the typical irritating little sisterwith her always bug Charlie Brown for assistance with homework or mess with him . She does not take a holiday from her bothersome little sis office on April Fools ' daylight , as she resolve to take a page from Lucy ’s Bible . Sally tells a relaxing Charlie Brown that she would like to tell him that the Little Red Haired Girl is at the door and then when he would run to her , she would tell him April Fools .
She clear up that that is what she would really like to do , but then lets him know that there is a elephantine lizard crawling up his back;Charlie Brown yelps up in fear , terrified of the supposed bragging lizard on his back . Sally then reveals that it is an April Fools ' joke too . She is one skilful trickster , using the art of mismanagement to get Charlie Brown off his sentry duty from the start .
1"Just Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel"
First Published: April 1, 1973
Warning Charlie Brown beforehand that she will represent a small joke on him , Lucy makes sure thathe is understanding what she is saying to him about her design . She actually even wants to be sure that he understand her architectural plan for an April Fools ' Day trick . He looks justly at her , showing that he is listen .
As a result , Lucy reenact her john of enunciate that the Little Red Haired Girl is waiting outside for him and wanting to give him a kiss . Charlie Brown falls for it , hook , line , and doughnut , running outside to get his kiss . Lucy stop over him before he can ever get out of their door , letting him know that it was just an April Fools ' joke;tricking Charlie Brown is too easy , incite Lucy to liken it to shooting Pisces in a barrelful in this brilliantPeanutsstrip .
