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Sally Brown
Peanuts character
Image:Sally Brown.gif
Age 6
Gender Female
Family Brother Charlie Brown and unnamed parents

Sally Ann Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M Charles "Charlie" Brown is the main character in the Comic Charles "Charlie" Brown is the main character in the Comic 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

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Character

General Traits

Sally has flipped blonde hair with a cluster of curls and sometimes a bow in front, and she wears a polka dot dress, usually pink or light blue. In the winter, and most of the time in the later years of the strip, she switched to a shirt and pants. She has a "take it easy" approach to life, preferring to slide by while doing as little work as possible. Her favorite pastime is sitting in her beanbag chair watching TV. In a series of strips from 1982, Sally actually went to "beanbag camp," which consisted of nothing but lazing around in beanbags, watching TV and gorging on junk food, and returned home fat. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) She can be stubborn sometimes, and is usually convinced she's right until someone proves her wrong, but she also has a good heart and a strong moral sense; like her older brother she is extremely sensitive to the unfairness of life. Charlie Brown usually goes to Lucy in her psychiatric booth when he's feeling depressed, but Sally prefers to confide her troubles to the school building, which is very protective of her and will drop a brick on anyone who doesn't treat her nicely. Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt is a Fictional character in the syndicated Comic strip Peanuts, written Psychiatry is a medical specialty which exists to study, prevent, and treat Mental disorders in Humans Psychiatric

In the later years of the strip, Sally also frequently developed "new philosophies" on life, which were typically short sayings or phrases with little or no philosophical value, such as "We'll always have Minneapolis" (a take on the famous line "We'll always have Paris" from the movie Casablanca), "Who cares?", "Why me?", and "How should I know?" One time, Sally declared that her new philosophy was simply the word "No," which was to be her answer to every question from that moment on, but then Charlie Brown caught her off guard with a question to which she responded, "Yes!," leading her to grumble, "You ruined my new philosophy. Casablanca ( is an American Romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and "

Sally in School

Sally has a lot of trouble with malapropisms, both in speech and writing. A malapropism (also called a Dogberryism) is the substitution of an incorrect word for a word with a similar sound usually to comic effect One of the strip's running jokes is the unintentionally humorous school reports she gives at the front of the class, which are frequently inspired by malapropisms and end with her feeling humiliated as all of her classmates laugh at her. Some of the more memorable reports she has given over the years include "Santa and his Rain Gear," "Handbidextrous" people, and "The Bronchitis" (a dinosaur which supposedly became extinct from coughing too much), or her report on the oceans of the world, then proceeding to state that there are no oceans in individual landlocked states in the U. Ambidexterity is the state of being equally adept in the use of both right and left Appendages (such as the Hands) Bronchitis is an Inflammation of the Bronchi. More specifically it may refer to Acute bronchitis, caused by viruses or bacteria and lasting An ocean (from Greek, ''Okeanos'' (Oceanus) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the Hydrosphere. S. She often struggles with homework despite Charlie Brown's patient efforts to help her, and she has a particular dislike for math, which she largely finds both intimidating and incomprehensible. However, she has expressed interest in becoming a nurse once she becomes an adult (although this is due to her interest in wearing white shoes, as opposed to the job itself)

Relationship with Linus

Sally is in love with Charlie Brown's best friend Linus, and her infatuation with him began in 1960, while her character was still a toddler. Linus van Pelt is one of the characters in Charles M Schulz 's Comic strip Peanuts. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Early on, Linus took on something of a "mentor" role to Sally, teaching her about the ways of the world, tutoring her in the New Math, and even, on one occasion, demonstrating to her how to use a security blanket. New Math was a brief dramatic change in the way Mathematics was taught in American Grade schools during the 1960s The name is commonly given In fact, ironically enough, in an early strip published soon after Sally's birth, proud brother Charlie Brown found Linus doing some complex calculations of the sort usually associated with physicists. A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning When Linus had finished covering a whole wall with these calculations, he asked Charlie Brown if Sally would go out with him once she was older. However, when Sally began to follow him around and it became obvious that she liked him, Linus was visibly uncomfortable and began to try his best to get rid of her.

She calls him her "sweet babboo" (inspired by Schulz's wife Jeanie, who used to call him that), and when Linus says something Sally finds especially witty or intelligent (even--or perhaps especially--if it's an insult), she'll express her admiration by asking, "Isn't he the cutest thing?". Her crush is a frequent source of embarrassment to Linus, but he endures it stoically for the most part, although he is sometimes driven to yell in exasperation, "I'm not your sweet babboo!". On one occasion, Sally also referred to herself as Linus' "Sweet Babbooette" (to which Linus responded, "I've never heard of a 'Babbooette'!").

As Schroeder does with Lucy, Linus often attempts to fend Sally off with a sarcastic remark. No matter how vigorously he protests, though, her devotion remains unwavering. However, in one of the animated episodes, she treated Linus with an air of indifference, which resulted in him growing jealous, much to her enjoyment.

However, Linus is not immune to Sally's wrath. Sally often regards Linus' belief in the "Great Pumpkin" with scorn; more than once (as in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown) she has joined him to sit in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin, only to become disappointed and angry with Linus when the Great Pumpkin fails to show up. The Great Pumpkin is an Unseen character in the Comic strip Peanuts by Charles M It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is a critically-acclaimed and very popular animated Television special, based on the Comic strip Sally is also disgusted with Linus' security blanket habit, and on several occasions has actually yanked his blanket away from him, declaring that no future husband of hers would hold a blanket. A security blanket is any familiar object whose presence provides comfort or security to its owner such as the literal Blankets often favoured by small children

Sally also sometimes becomes so frustrated with Linus' ignoring her romantic overtures that she resorts to physical violence or tries to get Charlie Brown to hit him. One Valentine's Day, when Linus failed to come through with the valentine card she had been expecting, Sally demanded that her big brother punch her "'sweet 'n' sour babboo" in the nose; however, this resulted in Charlie Brown hitting Lucy by mistake when Lucy walked into his fist. Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt is a Fictional character in the syndicated Comic strip Peanuts, written Another time, when Linus told her that if he ever got a valentine from her, he'd throw it in the trash, Sally retaliated by clobbering him with her lunch box. Using Snoopy as his lawyer, Linus decided to sue Sally for the assault, only to have Snoopy drop the case when Sally threatened to throw his supper dish over the fence.

Sports

Unlike most of the Peanuts gang, Sally does not seem to have much interest in playing sports. On the rare occasions when she does play, it's usually because Linus invited her. She is one of the few kids in the neighborhood who has never played on Charlie Brown's baseball team, and her attempts to play catch with a football usually lead to comic results. Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with She is frequently seen sledding downhill in a cardboard box with Linus, and she did join a "snow league" once, when the local adults turned snowman building into an organized sport, but her team wasn't very good. They lost one match when the referee penalized them for "improper mittens," and lost another because their snowman was offside.

Relationship with Charlie Brown

Being Charlie Brown's sister, she refers to him as "big brother", having called him by his full name only on very rare occasions. Charlie Brown doted on her in the beginning, and was usually very patient with her. Yet Sally has never developed proper respect for her big brother, and invariably ends up disappointed in him when he fails to protect her from being teased or threatened by bullies. However, Sally constantly relies on Charlie Brown to help her with her homework, which usually results in his doing her assignments for her.

For his part, Charlie Brown is often frustrated by Sally's laziness and her reluctance to do the right thing when she finds herself in a difficult situation. His attempts to lecture Sally usually either go over her head or simply fall on deaf ears; however, in one episode in which she lied to her teacher about stealing a crayon, Charlie Brown became very upset with her, and when Sally said that "If a lie works, it isn't a lie," Charlie Brown screamed at her in an uncharacteristically angry voice, GEORGE WASHINGTON!!!, wherein Sally burst into tears and sobbed that she would never lie again. As for Charlie Brown, he stands firm saying that although he hated to do that, he felt he had no choice.

History

Sally was born on May 26, 1959, with Charlie Brown receiving a telephone call from the hospital and dashing out of the house yelling that he had a new baby sister (Linus and Lucy happened to be standing nearby and saw him run out, causing Linus to remark to Lucy, "You didn't act like that when I was born. Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "). She was given the name "Sally" a week later, on June 2. Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks Although much talked about, and the cause for a celebration that included Charlie Brown passing out chocolate cigars, it was not until August 23, 1959, that she finally made her first appearance. Chocolate ( pronounced or /-ˈələt/ comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical Cacao tree A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented Tobacco which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the smoker's mouth Events 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan the Roman god of fire As a baby Sally liked playing with empty baby bottles, which she used for everything from building blocks to bowling pins, and being taken out for walks. The latter caused poor Charlie Brown no small amount of frustration when he had to miss an important baseball game to walk her around the neighborhood in her stroller. He ended up leaving her to return to the game due to the pleading of his team, and, in typical Charlie Brown fashion, quickly lost the game, incurring the wrath of both his mother and his teammates.

Like other characters such as Linus and Schroeder who were also introduced to the strip as babies, Sally grew up quickly. On August 22, 1960, she took her first steps, and in the next day's strip she fell in love with Linus for the first time. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Her first day of kindergarten came on September 5, 1962. ( German, literally means "children's garden" is a form of education for young children which serves as a transition from home to the commencement of more formal schooling Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Although the first glimpse of her new school made her run away screaming, she had a wonderful day once she got there. Unfortunately, her lack of aptitude for formal education quickly became apparent, as she nervously admitted in a later strip that she was sure they'd make her go through kindergarten again because she had failed flower-bringing. Nevertheless, she did eventually complete kindergarten, and settled in at about first or second grade age for the remainder of the comic's run.

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