What do you think happened to the Peanuts gang when they finally grew up?

Marcie transitioned and is working at Advanced Auto Parts.

Peppermint Pattie weighs 300 lbs and rides a Harley.

Linus is ace.

Patty is most definitely not a trophy wife. She and Marcie run an organic farm and rescue group in upstate NY.

Charlie is thrice divorced, since he keeps marrying gold diggers.

Schroeder is gay, yes.

Sally and Violet are trophy wives, yes.

Lucy is divorced and a successful real estate agent a la Barbara Corcoran.

Pig Pen disappeared after high school and no one has ever heard from him again. Rumor had it he joined the Marines but no one knows for sure.

Franklin went to an HBCU and is a politician in a Blue state somewhere.

Did I forget anyone?

I think OP meant the original Patty, who disappeared when Peppermint Patty arrived.

Frieda is a millionaire after creating a special shampoo for naturally curly hair.

Linus is a conspiracy nut and lives off the grid.

Snoopy is dead because he was a dog.

Family Guy did something like that.

What about me?

Or me?

Or me?

Or me?

Charlie Brown became a cannibal serial killer.

Patty is a vegan sous chef and side hustles repairing suburus.

Subarus

[quote] Linus is a conspiracy nut and lives off the grid.

Not true.

He's a barista in Brooklyn and very popular in the Fort Greene poetry slam circuit.

Snoopy and Woodstock are living together in Chelsea or West Hollywood.

I'd prefer they not make a Riverdale version to cheapen it. I'd like to think they're all figments of the socially anxious creator's imagination and personify his various philosophical thoughts. If you read between it, Peanuts definitely reflected post-WW2 suburban angst in a way that's hard to understand now.

That said Charlie Brown would remain mediocre but never gives up despite his depression. He'll be a barber like his dad and his business will be adequate but not exceptional.

Linus would be a writer and college professor fitting his free-spirited and literary nature.

Lucy would be a CEO or politician. Definitely becomes rich. Nuff said.

Peppermint Patty be a construction worker or truck driver. She swings both ways.

Marcy would a scientist for NASA or a computer programmer. Lesbian.

Franklin would own a store or be a clergyman. Something very humble.

Sally would be a former model and actress turned lifestyle guru as she loves attention. And probably settle down with a rich man.

Snoopy will never die. He's not even a regular dog. Some kind of immortal being.

[quote] I think OP meant the original Patty, who disappeared when Peppermint Patty arrived.

Yep, that's who I meant in the original post. Cheers, R3.

[quote]Or me?—Shermy

Seems totally like the kind of guy who becomes a jock at college, fucks lots of girls, then marries his own boring trophy wife who he can't stand so he just gets older but keeps fucking around on his wife with girls in their 20s.

I kinda think Sally was the kind who might end up being very hippie-ish and alternative. She was certainly very dumb at school, so I could see her going down a different path.

Speaking of which, what about her friend, Eudora? Complete pothead?

R13, I feel similarly to you about Peppermint Patty and Marcie... it's Marcie who is the true lesbian, PP swings both ways.

* After a harrowing month-long, seedy motel tryst with Aileen Wuornos, Marcy found religion and married a closeted pastor. No kids, 4 Bichon Frises.

* Linus is a self-proclaimed playwright, but has never actually finished one. He starts gofundmes for projects that never materialize. He gave a stranger a blowjob behind a Hooters dumpster once, but he definitely (according to him) is hetero.

* Charlie Brown is a head-to-toe tattooed, full-blown nihilist who fronts a hardcore White-power band called "Ditch" in Idaho. He has 27 piercings.

* Lucy is married to a meek, but successful attorney and is running for School Board. She drinks boxed white wine until she passes out in front of the TV most every night. She's a bloated mess, and both her daughters (Olivia, age 13 and Ava age 8) have come out as nonbinary.

*Sally ran away from home and joined a sex cult in Arizona at age 17. She gave birth to an armless son named Buster who can wash dishes with his feet at the diner where they both work.

* Peppermint Patty is a WNBA Referee who is married to Junior College Volleyball coach named Kathy. They are both obsessed with Harry Potter, and pretend to be Vegan.

* Franklin gained 378 lbs, moved to Baltimore, and became a front stoop crack dealer named "Woo Woo".

* Pigpen disappeared after giving the entire High School football team MRSA infections, after which 3 of them died.

What about Rerun?

Peppermint Patty OD’d at 16.

Lucy became a career criminal.

Charlie Brown works in the mailroom for a state agency. They want to fire him but are hesitant because of his mental deficiency.

Charlie Brown became a manager at a big law form. He still isn't happy or lucky. Happy-go-lucky he is not. No spouse. No rugrats. Every ten years or so, he gets a new Snoopy to replace the one who just died.

Snoopy invaded and occupied a small island in the Pacific. After a wild life of parties and short love affairs, he went out on his terms with three bars of the best Hershey chocolates. By doing so, he avoided trials for his crimes and prison time. Suicide was also closely related to his hefty burden of child support payments. Many child support payments. Anyway, Snoopy has gone to the place where flamboyant dogs go when they die: a distant world called Fleas-No-More.

Lucy became the first president of the newly formed nation state, Matriarcana. She was popular, successful, and highly efficient in her three terms in office. Lucy remains a role model to her admiring constituents. She married once to a famed pianist with whom she raised seven kids. All daughters. Lucy and her spouse became the world's first trillionaires. She spent her long retirement setting up a charity to serve future generations of Matriarcana.

Linus became a part-time teacher. With his friend, Sally, he moonlighted as a blanket salesman, manufacturer, and spokesperson. His life was long and happy. With his loving wife, Marcy, he fathered two kids. They still live at home in Chicago. Linus teaches World Literature at a community college. The blanket firm with Sally has been modestly profitable. It's called the Safe and Warm Co.

Well, considering the fact that they were baby boomers, they grew up to be hated.

It took some time for me to figure out what became of Peppermint Patty.

Peppermint Patty entered the military. She eventaully became a two star general in the navy. She is dearly loved by all of her subordinates. She clashes with the brass frequently. They complain about her compassion, but not her courage or her devotion to service. Patty is in a long relationship with two other women, both of whom are cute moms with careers in interior design. The trio are media darlings, Patty is eyeing a political career.

The Peanus gang were already "grown up," in the sense that they spoke to each other in adult terms and not as kids typical of most comic strips.

Linus and Schroeder hooked up a few times...er...it's complicated. Lucy found out and didn't speak to Linus for a decade, she'd bother Charles but he decided to ghost her. Charles is a frustrated, non-violent incel.

Linus is an organic pumpkin farmer.

Lucy married and divorced 3 gay men and straight one. He loathed her hysterics and left the country. She ran back to Schroeder and begged him to marry her.

Please clarify, R24:

Was Schouder one of the 3 gay men she had previously divorced?

Pig Pen is a night clerk at a Motel 6 off the interstate in Nebraska.

[quote] Pig Pen is a night clerk at a Motel 6 off the interstate in Nebraska.

He is also trying to overthrow the government

R26, Schroeder didn't marry her. Secretly, he hooked up with Linus.

Schroeder transitioned, and he now travels the country to appear in local productions of "The Music Man" as Ethel Toffelmeier, the Pianola player.

None of these predictions are touching upon Linus' deep religiosity.

Shermy's not gay, but he let Schroeder give him a hand job once. Strong fingers on those pianists.

Snoopy lived to the ripe old age of 14 and was active all the way up to the end. He was run over by a car during one of his extended Red Baron fantasies.

r30 is right. Linus probably ended up as an adjunct theology professor and part-time pastor.

Thinking about it, I reckon Eudora grew up to be Rickie Lee Jones. "Chuck E's in Love" was written about Charlie Brown and the Little Red Haired Girl.

[quote] We have had it confirmed recently that Velma is a lesbian, so would the same happen with Peppermint Patty and Marcie?

Velma is of college age, and so has been through puberty and knows her sexuality.

Peppermint Patty and Marcie are pre-pubescents, so they do not likely know fully what their sexual identities are. Some children do; some young children are vaguely aware and yet cannot articulate it at a young age. Some children have no idea until they become older.

You sound fun, R33.

Also, as directly quoted above: "[italic]would[/italic] the same happen with Peppermint Patty and Marcie?"

It is very clear that the topic is about when the Peanuts gang "finally grew up".

They don’t age.

[quote] Linus is an organic pumpkin farmer.

R23 And is STILL waiting for the Great Pumpkin to rise out of his pumpkin patch.

They all fell down the Q Anon rabbit hole.

[quote] You sound fun, [R33].

Thanks!

You sound like a control freak, frankly.

I actually knew a guy with the name of the title character for real. He was a Boomer. So:

He got out of school and joined the Air Force. Married and divorced young. I never saw his first wife, but their kid had red hair and he didn’t, so you can draw the conclusions.

Got a job working doing programming work back when it was a new thing. Moved from one corporation to another, somehow always landing on his feet, ending up with a pension even though he was a slacker. Had a drinking problem. Came to work hungover a lot. Everybody knew, but somehow he was never fired over this. A lot of people got promoted over his head though.

Ended up buying a house on the GI bill that has now appreciated a huge amount. He’s on his third wife the last I heard. He must be retired by now.

[quote] Every ten years or so, Charlie gets a new Snoopy to replace the one who just died.

might be the saddest thing I've read on DL in years.

Peppermint Patty and Lucy manage the lesbian bar Henrietta Hudson.

Snoopy invested quite well, he started an airline. Woodstock was hired as a pilot.

Playwright Bert V. Royal Jr. had his own ideas about this, and wrote about it.

I also feel that Marcie and Peppermint Patty ended up as a lesbian couple. I'll let you guys come up with stories about their relationship. I just like the picture and the idea of them together.

Peppermint patty could be abusive to Marcy (remember how angry she became when she insisted Marcy make her a skating outfit, and all marcy could make was the cone of fabric with no sleeves?), so i would guess if they became a couple as adults that Patty physically abused Marcy.

Charles Schulz certainly coded PP and Marcie as sapphic. I'm sure Schroeder was gay-coded too. I mean Schulz fought against angry racists to include Franklin in the gang back in 1968 (when most of the US still was very segregated socially). He certainly wasn't conservative given in the later years, he incorporated a lot of modern pop culture into the scrip and even was a big fan of Flashdance and approved the Flashbeagle special. The fact he made PP a tomboy with sandals and shorts who looked like a boy was pretty progressive and he allegedly based Marcie on Billie Jean King and Marcie is very analytic and stoic with a flat affect rather than overemotional which made her a female non-stereotype.

The speculative question reminds me of that 2000s spinoff series they did for Rugrats, ageing up all the Millennial babies & toddlers into teens and the young Boomer/X parents into middle-aged people.

Imo, when the kids got old enough Angelica Pickles & Chuckie Finster definitely had something going on between them, an 'opposites attract' dynamic. She still bossed him around and dominated him in their teens, but she seemed more caring and compassionate about it (having become a victim of bullying herself in middleschool). In AGU!, it seemed Angelica spoke to Chuckie and showed more interest in him than any of the other "dumb babies" (or "dumb tweens" as I guess they'd have become by then). Iirc Chuckie was the only other boy--besides her coded-gay & sidekick friend Harold--shown to be allowed inside teen Angelica's room or her house, though she'd also occasionally deign to stand or walk next to her cousins Tommy & Dil in public.

As for College and beyond, it's easy to imagine Angelica going on to become a boardroom boss-bitch just like her mother, Charlotte. We saw her soft underbelly in AGU!, but she still never lost her drive or her status-obsession or her alpha qualities. Chuckie is harder to pin down in later life, not sure what he'd do or become as he never really had many attributes beyond 'fraidy' and neurotic--perhaps a good therapist or social scientist?

I imagine it would be something like this.

[quote]I actually knew a guy with the name of the title character for real.

You knew a guy named PEANUTS?

Charlie Brown was clearly a homosexual. But he was repressed and so would've married any girl who'd have him and stay in the closet till he was 60 then join the Datalounge and bitch about how the world screwed him over.

Lucy would go on to be an actual doctor

Linus would wind up in a mental institution

Schroeder would be some sort of musician but would have little money because he would not compromise his love of classical music for monetary gain.

Snoopy would finally snap and eat Woodstock. and be long dead before the others grew up.

Peppermint Patty would be a some sort of low level lesbo sports success. She never had any real talent or luck at sports, sort of like the Al Bundy of the Peanuts gang

Marcie would go on to be a bi-sexual politican "a la" Sheila James Kuehl

Shermy, Patty and Frieda were normal so we see no need for them to have anything but "normal" "typical" lives.

Violet had rich parents and was a snob so she will marry into what she needs "a la" Hyacinth Bucket

Neither Pig Pen nor Rerun had an actual name. The fact they had no real names means they would become criminals in the real world

Sally was beyond stupid, and a lazy cunt. She'd marry a guy who beat her up and she'd like it

Franklin had was a token. Long after Schulz had written out others like Shermy for having "no personality" and "Being boring" Schutz kept Franklin in. Thus he'd be the type of person to think it was a good thing to be given a job because of his race and no other reason

All the above are the most realistic endings based on the threads of the daily strip

If they got in on the licensing of Peanuts products they're all rich, entitled assholes.

That thumb-sucking messy one definitely turned into a meth head.

Lucy became a MAGAt (she was WAY ahead of her time in 1957).

Wasn't there a kid called 5 in this? That sounds like these days he'd be famous, probably for doing not much at all.

R55 Yes. He was a background character. You'd see him as one of the Peanuts gang, but Schulz have him so little dialog it was hard to remember who he was. I thought he looked like Pig-Pen without all the schmutz.

It's been a long time since I've seen any of the movies, but they were more melancholy and grim than fun or whimsical, particularly the one where CB goes to France.

Pigpen & Franklin got married because the poorest white kid and the only black kid found out they had more in common despite the different socioeconomic backgrounds with being outsiders to all these suburban crackers. They have 2.5 kids, a picket fence. Pigpen is only a pig in the bedroom while Franklin has topped every election in town.

Linus and Schroeder are living in sin, no kids but a disposable income to whore from sea to shining sea ... he still has blanket but he's no longer sucking his thumb. Schroeder still plays but mostly for onlyfans.

Sally never got over it and became a fire and brimstone born-again christian preacher and runs against Franklin every year and lost. Fraggin Woman Hating Fraggits

Marcie spent most of her life being Peppermint Patty's bitch only to come to find out that cunt was str8 and wouldn't even let her get to first base! Lucy on the otherhand... how could she not see it before!They've been indefinitely engaged for years - who needs a honeymoon when you can court your true love forever? Lucy opted out of mental health and became a life/fitness coach instead - "the best way to get through to a client is to take away his balls before you give him advice." while Marcie is a public speaker and assertiveness trainer.

Peppermint Patty and Chuck are hitched, their animal friends are but a faint memory yet might explains why Patty's fursona is named Joe Cool and Chuck's Woodstock. They travel the world in a rv doing human interest stories; Chuck writes, Patty takes photos...

Dang, that lardass can really belt one out.

r58 She was a good belter for a few years but they trained it out of her