[User23]

There’s a reason nobody has any sympathy for Charlie Brown. How many times does the football have to get pulled away for the lesson to sink in I wonder?

Edit: As many metaphors do, it works on multiple levels, but the fundamental message is don’t be a chump.

[exodontist]

I've always felt incredibly sympathetic toward Charlie Brown and often pondered what message Charles Schultz was trying to convey with that trope.

What made Lucy like that?! I often think of the trope in the context of US politics, and specifically progressive capitulation to capital. I find it one of the darkest and yet prescient parts of Schultzes lore.. (Snoopy being an adult with a long, colorful history yet still treated as a dog, being another)