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Violet was a bitch

posted 12 years ago by charlesadams1
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We never knew much about Violet. She never had a backstory to her character but apparently she was a bitch. She WAS Lucy's friend I guess and birds of a feather, as they say.

But seriously, what kid sits down and makes TWO party lists. One for those she wants to invite and one specifically for kids she DOESN'T want to invite?

And given she still invited a disease covered person like Pigpen to her party what kind of hygiene would a kid need not to be invited?

[–] Stanley-6 12 years ago

Charles Schulz based the characters on people in his life. As one example, Lucy was somewhat based on his first wife. I suspect that Violet was a caricature of someone that he knew, who had excluded him socially.

[–] nutsberryfarm 11 years ago

probably a diabetic. and all the sugar being handed out made her uppity.

Aloha, Mr. Hand.

[–] elisedfr 11 years ago

Agree with the first answer. In the script, Violet does not have a very complex personnality but her most distinct trait is her snobbery. She's always mean to Charlie Brown for being "just" a barber's son, while her own father is much richer or something.

" You ain't running this place, Bert, WILLIAMS is!" Sgt Harris

[–] gpicto 10 years ago

Wasn't it Violet who, when Lucy was about to show how to bob for apples, said, "Yea, Lucy, you should be good at this, you have the perfect mouth for it!"?

Marriage is between one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others.

[–] cold_sky 10 years ago

"Yea, Lucy, you should be good at this, you have the perfect mouth for it!"

I noticed that line, and then in "It's Magic, Charlie Brown!", one of the tricks is called "Stick in a Hole".

I was wondering if maybe Schultz was having a bit of fun with innuendo, or maybe I'm just reading things that aren't there.

[–] tmaj48 10 years ago

Violet Grey was inspired by Elizabeth Taylor's character in National Velvet. She was very beautiful and knew it, which allowed her to unleash her snobbery on the other characters. Her usual modus operandi was exclusion; she often snubbed
Lucy, preferring to hang out with her little toady Patty, and frequently informed
Charlie Brown that she would be throwing a party, to which he wasn't invited. The Peanuts strip for September 1, 1954 is especially creepy: when she and Patty tell
Charlie Brown that he is not invited to Violet's next party, he snaps and threatens to bomb and strafe her house! She quickly tells him that he is now
invited.

In the final years of the strip, Violet did not appear at all, and her rotten
little friend Patty had also disappeared from the strip by then.

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

[–] liscarkat (18886) 2 years ago

I don't remember Elizabeth Taylor's character in "National Velvet" being a snobby bitch.

[–] gpicto 10 years ago

I just watched this on DVD, with subtitles, and the subtitles credit this line, about Lucy having the perfect mouth for it, to Schroeder!?

Schroeder has no lines in the whole episode!

Marriage is between one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others.

[–] crlnrgbrght5 9 years ago

That line directed at Lucy, sounded like a girl's voice, besides Schroeder isn't insulting or rude like that.