Ever notice that? Very raraely are any of the kids parents, teachers, or any other adults ever seen.
shareI noticed, we very rarely see sny adutls, some can be heard, even with the case of Snoopy Come Home, how can they really get away with this?
shareI believe Schultz made that intentional... the children converse in a world of their own and parents/adults are irrelevant.
shareYou could be right, as to why we almost very rarely see any adults on any specials or the movies, but I would also like to see more peanuts movies, or specials that don't have the name "Charlie Brown". After all, that was done with the 2nd feature, look at almost any special or movie, and you will see the name Charlie Brown, including this special.
shareWell, they're about Charlie Brown, aren't they? Honestly, I don't particularly like the title "Peanuts." Don't get me wrong-- I love the comic and the specials and everything (I'm wearing a Snoopy t-shirt as I type this), but I think it's great that the specials are in the same category with Garfield and Scooby-Doo (though he's not from a comic strip.)
"Don't let a suitcase filled with cheese be your big fork and spoon." -"Everybody Loves Raymond"
I believe its not you "hardly ever see adults" but you never see them in PEANUTS cartoons. I don't recall seeing any. You "hear" them occasionally - in that garbled instrumental sound someone mentioned earlier - but they are not shown. I think it's a clever touch to illustate the Peanuts live in a child's world which is so different from the world of adults.
shareYes, I've always noticed that clearly in all the holiday specials we watched as children, then I as a teen/adult, and once in the late 1970s during a holiday special my sister asked our mother where were all the adults, and she said, "You know they never show them." That wasn't really an answer, just a factual point, and I've never known this myself since watching these as a child myself, but my best assesment is that Charles Shultz felt that the Peanuts should just concentrate on the children, and any adults whatsoever would distract from their impact and overall effect in this.
"I happen to be a vegetarian". Lex, from Jurrasic Park
The stories were told from the kids perspective. It's to show how children live in their own worlds that adults can't understand. This is why when an adult IS present in a scene you can't understand what they are saying. It's just sounds like "Wa,Wa,Wa". It shows the seperation between adults and children.
It's not an uncommon theme within children stories/fairy tales.
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Don't you get the idea of this strip? It is supposed to be about a child's world.
shareLike everyone said, I think it's because the whole strip is from the kids' point of view.
I usually find it funny, but for some reason in Great Pumpkin it kind of bothers me that it's Lucy that goes and gets her freezing brother from the pumpkin patch at 4 am. Nice parenting job there, Van Pelts. It is kind of touching though, after all the ridicule Lucy gave him.
"Milo, I've told you again and again - please, don't walk on the chickens!"