Marcie Johnson

Peanuts character
Age	7-8
Gender	Female
Family	Unnamed parents
Original voice actor	James Ahrens

Marcie is a bespectacled fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26 1922 &ndash February 12 2000 was an American Cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts Comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M She serves as comedic foil and best friend to tomboy Peppermint Patty, plays a supporting role in some of Snoopy's heroic fantasies, and displays a romantic interest in Charlie Brown. Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a Fictional character featured in Charles M Snoopy is a Fictional character in the long-running Comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M Charles "Charlie" Brown is the main character in the Comic

History of the character

Marcie probably first made her appearance on the strip on June 18, 1968, even though she was not mentioned by name until October 11, 1971. Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Schulz refers to a bespectacled girl who was introduced on the earlier date as Clara, but she bore so much similarity with Marcie that it is believed he later merged the two personalities together. (However, Clara re-appeared in the strip in 1987, this time without glasses, possibly to avoid being confused with Marcie. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) )

Marcie's animated debut was on the 1973 special There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. There's No Time for Love Charlie Brown is one of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular Comic strip Peanuts

In the animated special You're In the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, Marcie's surname is given as "Johnson", but Schulz never gave her a surname in the comic strip; therefore, Johnson is not considered to be her official name. You're In the Super Bowl Charlie Brown is an Animated Television special based on the Peanuts comic strip [1]

Originally, Marcie was portrayed as a bit dim-witted. For example, in It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown she makes several unsuccessful attempts at boiling eggs to make Easter eggs and then eats one without removing the shell first, to Peppermint Patty's great consternation. It's the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown is a TV special based upon the popular Comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a Fictional character featured in Charles M Later, she was portrayed as an overachiever (she once quipped that she had already chosen her college and enrolled her three children in preschool) and academically the brightest of the Peanuts cast. Even so, she is possibly the most believing and naïve of the gang. She apparently is under a great deal of pressure from her parents to excel in school, and in a story in 1990 sought refuge from her demanding parents at Charlie Brown's house and fell asleep on his couch. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar)

Marcie may have been "aged" over the course of the strip. She first appeared as a named character in a sequence with Peppermint Patty at sleepaway camp; in that sequence, she first calls Peppermint Patty "sir" as a mark of respect for Patty's age and life experience. Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a Fictional character featured in Charles M However, as Marcie joined the regular cast, she often appeared in the same class as Peppermint Patty, sitting in the desk behind her. This isn't necessarily a sign of Marcie's age - Charlie Brown also appeared in the same class as Linus, who is clearly younger. Charles "Charlie" Brown is the main character in the Comic Linus van Pelt is one of the characters in Charles M Schulz 's Comic strip Peanuts. Marcie is smart, and she may have skipped a grade - or the academically troubled Peppermint Patty may have been left back a grade. Socially, she appears to be consistently younger than the more confident Peppermint Patty.

The first actor to do Marcie's voice in the TV specials was a boy, James Ahrens (son of lyricist Lynn Ahrens), from 1973 to 1977. Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American Musical theatre Lyricist who most-frequently works with Stephen Flaherty Various others have played Marcie ever since. As with all of the Peanuts performers who were too young to read a script, director Bill Melendez sometimes had to speak the children's lines to them. José Cuauhtemoc "Bill" Meléndez ( November 15, 1916 &ndash September 2, 2008) was a Mexican -born American Melendez (who has a distinct Mexican accent) has noted with amusement that some of the performers for Marcie imitated his reading so closely, they repeated his accented "Charlce" instead of "Charles. "

Relationships with other characters

She is a close friend of Peppermint Patty (whom she always addresses as "Sir"), and, like Peppermint Patty, has an unrequited crush on Charlie Brown (whom she usually calls "Charles"), whom she once said that she loved and would be willing to marry if he asked her. Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a Fictional character featured in Charles M Sir is an Honorific used as a title (see Knight) and in several other modern contexts Charles "Charlie" Brown is the main character in the Comic Whereas Patty is more likely to flirt with Charlie Brown and play mind games with him, Marcie is more frank in her admissions of her feelings, and often asks Charlie Brown in plain language if he likes her. As he does with Patty, Charlie Brown often responds to Marcie's inquiries by trying to evade the issue, which more than once has made Marcie so angry that she kicked him in the shins in frustration. Marcie and Peppermint Patty also shared a crush on a boy named Pierre in the animated movie Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!). Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!! is a 1980 Animated film produced by United Feature Syndicate for Paramount Pictures, directed While she is typically unskilled at sports, she often acts as Patty's voice of reason, whom Patty typically ignores at her own risk. Sport is an Activity that is governed by a set of rules or Customs and often engaged in competitively However, in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown, she is not able to convince Peppermint Patty to keep reading A Tale of Two Cities. It's Christmastime Again Charlie Brown is a television special based on the Comic strip Peanuts. A Tale of Two Cities (1859 is the second Historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the Instead, Peppermint Patty watches the movie, which she does not understand because of the commercials. Later, Marcie and Peppermint Patty see Handel's Messiah, where Marcie stands up on her chair to get a good view of the chorus, and her chair, which automatically goes up without anything on it, knocks her down. Messiah ( HWV 56 is an Oratorio by George Frideric Handel based on a Libretto by Charles Jennens. Peppermint Patty talks about how often Marcie embarrasses her.

Marcie also "dated" Snoopy when he was in character as World War I ace fighter pilot Roy Brown, and when he suffered the flu, she nursed him back to health - right around November 11, 1918, the date of the signing of the armistice that ended the War. Snoopy is a Fictional character in the long-running Comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Roy Brown may refer to Roy Brown (Montana politician, Montana state Senator and gubernatorial candidate Roy Brown (Manitoba politician Events 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare The armistice treaty between the Allies and Germany was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on November 11, 1918 In the later years of the strip, it was established that the "small French cafe" in which Snoopy the Flying Ace drinks root beer is in fact Marcie's house, and Marcie serves as waitress, serving Snoopy his root beers and doling out words of comfort and encouragement when needed. Root beer, also known as Sarsaparilla, is a carbonated Beverage originally created from Sassafras. In a story in which Snoopy was an airline pilot, she served as flight attendant. Flight attendants or cabin crew (historically known as stewards air hosts/hostesses or stewardesses) are members of an Aircrew This storyline, involving Schroeder as a passenger on "Ace Air Lines" on a flight to music camp, blurred the line of "fantasy" and "reality" within the strip and may or may not be considered "real". Schroeder is a Fictional character in the long-running Comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M

Legacy

Marcie also bears a strong resemblance to tennis star Billie Jean King, a fact reinforced when Peppermint Patty, in a moment of exasperation, refers to Marcie's "Billie Jean King glasses". Billie Jean King ( née Moffitt) (born November 22, 1943, in Long Beach, California) is a retired Tennis Also, the sport of tennis was an occasional theme in the Peanuts strip and King was a close personal friend of Schulz.

Because of the close friendship between Marcie and Peppermint Patty, some have inferred a relationship between them. ^[1][2][3] However, the comic strip's content does not lend support to this conclusion. For example, Marcie's only explicitly depicted romantic interests were (as noted above) male characters.

Notes

External links

• Marcie at Snoopy.com