Talk:Patty (Peanuts)

1990s

Schulz claimed he used her once more in a 1994 strip, but if it is the same Patty, she is essentially unrecognizable; her hair especially looks radically different.

I recently saw the strip in question. In it, Patty is trying to get Snoopy to chase rabbits. She looks like Patty to me. The only real differences I noticed were that she was wearing pants and had no bow in her hair. By the mid-1990s, it would have been a rare little girl who would wear a dress and bow to go chase rabbits. If no one objects, I will change this reference to reflect this.Rockhopper10r 03:39, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Doesn't Patty also appear in the Thanksgiving 1997 strip (where Snoopy is "ringing the drumstick") along with Violet? Sure looks like her to me. - Aerobird 17:53, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

She does. She appears many times in the later years, as does Violet, but they are never addressed by name. The 1994 appearance is notable because Schulz stated it was Patty in an interview.Rockhopper10r 19:40, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Both Patty and Violet (and even Frieda) appear often after the early '70s, but rarely as named characters. They usually showed up when Schulz needed several girls (to the point that that's the only way they are referred to, as "the girls"), and of course on the baseball team. The '90s rabbits sequence was probably a reference to an old running joke where Frieda was always trying to get Snoopy to chase rabbits. CFLeon 04:14, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

She was also in a comic strip shortly before that (as a brunette), where Charlie Brown gave a holiday card to her. Snoopy claimed to have drawn the bunnies.

The fact that Patty attended school when Charlie Brown did not does not necessarily make Patty the oldest child of the Peanuts team: Shermy did so, too. But that does not really matter: Schroeder and Lucy also end up in the same class as Charlie Brown, although they enter being many years younger than him. The same happens with Sally who, in her early years in Peanuts, is said to be five years younger than Linus but ends up in the same class. (Linus and Sally do not reach the same class as the others, probably only because it would seem too odd that they were in the same class as their older siblings Charlie and Lucy.) -- Voice from Finland, 22 April 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.214.197.173 (talk) 14:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

"Although Patty — or at least unnamed girls who bear a strong resemblance to her — would make cameo appearances throughout the run of Peanuts, she pretty much disappeared as a featured character by the mid-1970s, making her last official appearance on April 11, 1976. Schulz claimed he drew Patty in a 1994 strip in which she wants Snoopy to chase rabbits with her (a role previously usually taken by Frieda), although some fans have stated that the girl in the strip in question does not resemble Patty. Some have postulated that Patty's doom was sealed by the appearance of the similarly-named Peppermint Patty in 1966, but others say her character was already in decline by then. Her most recent appearance to this date was in 1995."

I don't understand the last sentence in this paragraph. Should it be deleted or changed? -- Gerkinstock (talk) 09:09, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

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