![]() ![]() Marcie is considered Peppermint Patty's sidekick and best friend, she likes hanging out with Peppermint Patty. See main article: Peppermint Patty and Marcie's relationship She ends up wondering if a parent can love a child who does not get perfect grades. She also reveals her parents have already picked a college for her and that all they care about is her academic performance. On one occasion, an exhausted Marcie heads to Charlie Brown's house while taking a break from reading "Ivanhoe" and opens up to him about all the pressure she is under. We learn from a series of strips starting October 15, 1990, that Marcie's parents are demanding and expect their daughter to be perfect and get straight A's in school. Marcie later recounts the experience of being "de-programmed", which consisted of being harshly scolded at great length.Īccording to the strip from June 13, 1975, Marcie's grandfather plays left-wing in the World Hockey Association (a short-lived competitor to the National Hockey League that existed from 1972 to 1979). Her family reacts poorly and comes to take her from the pumpkin patch. In a series of strips from October 1977 and November 1977, Marcie joins Linus in waiting for the Great Pumpkin (misidentifying him as "The Great Grape"). In the strip from July 31, 1973, Marcie states that her mother is designing a freeway, indicating that her mother is a civil engineer. In The Peanuts Movie, she wears a red T-shirt with black pants and white sneakers. In most of the animated cartoons, her shirt is colored orange and her pants are shorts. She also wears glasses which hide her eyes that have only been shown in very rare instances. She has never been depicted wearing a dress, unlike most of the other girls. She wears a T-shirt and pants in all her appearances. Marcie has short dark hair (sometimes shown as dark brown and sometimes as black in animated cartoons). Marcie appears without her glasses in the Sunday strip from May 25, 1980. Such outbursts by Marcie, however, are very rare and do not disguise the fact that she is one of the all-around sweetest, most caring, and smartest of the characters in Peanuts. When the actions of Snoopy's World War I Flying Ace alter-ego shifted from fighting the Red Baron to fighting the demons of lost love and loneliness, Marcie would act as friend, confidant, and ultimately the "French Lass" for the flying ace on his sojourns to the Moulin Rouge.ĭespite catering to Snoopy's fantasy thoughts, it is Marcie herself who finally shouts out to Peppermint Patty (after a suspenseful fight sequence) that Snoopy's doghouse is not a guest cottage and that Snoopy himself is a beagle, not "a funny-looking kid with a big nose." While Marcie is very smart and wise, she has sometimes shown naivete and can be goofy as seen in the TV special It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, in which she repeatedly fails to understand the proper way to prepare Easter eggs. In addition to her organ playing, many of the series' later gags involve her attending "Tiny Tots" concerts with Peppermint Patty, where she once again plays "straight man" to Peppermint Patty's cluelessness about the concerts themselves. Marcie also has a deep appreciation for the arts. Although not a hater of athletics (she admired the success of Billie Jean King, for example, and also likes ice skating and caddying golf), her knowledge of sports often seems to be lacking and the rules appear to confuse her (Peppermint Patty: "There's no penalty box in baseball!"). She speaks French fluently and once read The Little Prince in French for a school assignment. She has a talent for music, having taken organ lessons with Mrs. She is well known for the high quality of her schoolwork, which provides a perfect contrast to Peppermint Patty's ineptness and has provided dozens of punchlines in the strip. Marcie is an intellectual and a bookworm. Over time, Marcie's character developed more fully, though she fits best as a supporting player and Peppermint Patty's best friend. ![]() The friendship between Marcie and Peppermint Patty started off unassumingly with Marcie calling Peppermint Patty "Sir" in the very beginning, and Peppermint Patty calling Marcie a "dorky kid" in response. However, she was not given a name until later that year, on October 11. Marcie was first introduced as a camp attendee with Peppermint Patty in July 1971. Marcie is named in the strip from October 11, 1971. The first appearance of Marcie in the strip from July 20, 1971. In the TV special, You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, her last name is Johnson. ![]() Marcie was never given a last name in the strip. ![]()
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