Mo Rocca described her on VH1's I Love the 80s: Strikes Back as the " Buck the establishment Fraggle " ( comparable to Peppermint Patty of the Peanuts Gang ).

* Emily Eby as Peppermint Patty

For example, Peppermint Patty was on the strawberry pie and peach pie label, Sally Brown on the coconut cream pie, Charlie Brown on the cherry pie, Linus van Pelt on the apple pie, Lucy van Pelt on the lemon pie, Schroeder on the berry pie, and Frieda on the chocolate pie.

He also does the " stick-in-the-hole " trick to Franklin ( which apparently doesn't work ), the " amputation-decapitation " trick to Peppermint Patty, cutting Linus's trademark security blanket into strips ( which appears to fail ), the " levitation " trick to Lucy van Pelt, and biggest of all, making Charlie Brown literally disappear.

* Brent Hauer: Peppermint Patty

In 1983, she played Peppermint Patty in the Off Broadway production of Snoopy !!!

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( Not to be confused with another Peanuts character, Peppermint Patty.

Patricia " Peppermint Patty " Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.

One story about Peppermint Patty has it that Charles Schulz named the character after the York Peppermint Pattie, and in response the makers of the candy, Peter-Paul ( later Peter-Paul Cadbury ) ended up being one of the exclusive sponsors ( along with McDonald's and Dolly Madison ) of the animated Peanuts television specials on CBS in the 1970s.

However, the York Peppermint Pattie was not introduced nationally until 1975, several years after Peppermint Patty was introduced ( it had been previously available only in the Northeast, where the California-based Schulz was unlikely to come across one ).

Schulz has said in several interviews that he named Peppermint Patty after a dish of peppermint candies he had in his office, and simply thought the name too good to pass up.

( He once said he originally intended to develop Peppermint Patty as a character distinct from the Peanuts strip ; however, he never had time to pursue a separate project and ended up introducing the character into the strip.

Schulz said that he had developed the Peppermint Patty persona in response to the burgeoning Women's Liberation Movement that was sparked in the latter half of the 1960s, and that he desired to create a character that defied gender stereotypes and embraced social norms that had yet to become fashionable.

Peppermint Patty was the first female character outfitted with shorts and sandals, rather than dresses ; and had a personality with much more easygoing tomboyish behaviour without forcing mean aggressiveness than the girls who played on Charlie Brown's baseball team, a more truly careless boyishness not competitive and measuring up to with the boys, thus her closeness with Charlie not as the other girls condescending but as pal to go by nicknames, Chuck ; and the first character to be the product of a single-parent household.

Peppermint Patty was first voiced by Gail DeFaria in the CBS specials, then by various other child performers both male ( such as Christopher DeFaria and Stuart Brotman ) and female ( including Donna Forman ( 1974 ), Linda Ercoli ( 1974 ), Victoria Vargas ( 1983 ), Gini Holtzman ( 1984 – 1985 ).

" Peppermint Patty " was also the title of a song by pianist Vince Guaraldi which appeared in Peanuts specials in the 1970s.

Peppermint Patty is noted for her persistent habit of profoundly misunderstanding basic concepts and ideas that most people would consider obvious, leading to ultimately embarrassing situations.

By the end of this particular story arc, Marcie, in a fit of exasperation, angrily informed Peppermint Patty exactly what the " funny looking kid with the big nose " actually was, which left Patty in stunned shock for several strips.

In a later phone call to Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty finally accepted the truth: " Let's just say my pride had the flu, okay, Chuck?

In a series of strips in 1984, Peppermint Patty was held back a grade for failing all of her classes — only to be allowed to return to her old class when her old desk in front of Marcie started to emit snoring noises, leading kids and faculty alike to suspect that the classroom was haunted by a " snoring ghost ".

Peppermint has a long tradition of medicinal use, with archaeological evidence placing its use at least as far back as ten thousand years ago.

Peppermint has a high menthol content, and is often used in tea and for flavouring ice cream, confectionery, chewing gum, and toothpaste.

One animal study has suggested that Peppermint may have radioprotective effects in patients undergoing cancer treatment.

Peppermint oil has a high concentration of natural pesticides, mainly menthone.

Peppermint oil has been traditionally used as an antispasmodic, and a review of studies on the topic found that it " could be efficacious for symptom relief in IBS " ( as an antispasmodic ) although more carefully controlled studies are needed.

She calls Charlie Brown " Chuck " and Lucy " Lucille " and is the only character to do so ( although Peppermint Patty's close friend Marcie has been known to call Charlie Brown " Chuck " on occasion, she usually calls him " Charles ").

Peppermint Patty lives with her father and enjoys a particularly close relationship with him, even though he apparently has to do a lot of traveling.

Her mother apparently died long ago, for Peppermint Patty has no memories of her.

Recently production of the York Peppermint Pattie has shifted to Mexico.

She has dark brown chin-length hair and she usually wears a t-shirt and shorts, like Peppermint Patty.

Like Peppermint Patty, Marcie also has an unrequited crush on Charlie Brown ( whom she usually calls " Charles ", or occasionally " Chuck ", like Peppermint Patty does ); she once confessed a fondness for Charlie Brown and would be willing to marry him if he asked her.

As he does with Peppermint Patty, Charlie Brown often responds to Marcie's inquiries by trying to evade the issue, though it seems as if Charlie has feelings for her, which more than once has made Marcie so angry that she kicked him in the shins in frustration.

The suburb has long been associated with Western Australia's wealthiest and oldest families: see Robert Pascoe's " Peppermint Grove: Western Australia's Capital Suburb ".

Peppermint has muscle relaxant properties and therefore may relax the smooth muscles of the GI tract, allowing for easier passage of food contents.

Since the show, she has signed to Mousse T's label, Peppermint Jam, and recorded an album in Germany.

This telecast also deleted the " Peppermint Mine " scene ( to date, it has never aired on CBS ).

Peppermint Patty asks who Violette could be, but Charlie Brown has no idea.

When Snoopy arrives at Peppermint Patty's house, he sees he has as an opportunity to avoid going to obedience school and decides to stay at the girl's house instead.

* After Patty gets her dress she wants to do something with her self-described " mousy-blah " hair, so she ultimately decides to go to Charlie Brown's dad's barber shop, but Charlie Brown forgot to tell his dad she was a girl ( added to which Peppermint Patty told Charlie Brown's dad that she could strike him out in three pitches ), so he gives her a boy's haircut, much to her despair.

As a younger child, she was seen on WFAA-TV's Mr. Peppermint Show with host Jerry Haynes.

Peppermint Patty hired Snoopy twice to serve as her watchdog so she could sleep better at night, but both incidents ended disastrously.

Not until a few years after she was introduced into the strip did it become apparent that Peppermint Patty had a crush on Charlie Brown.

Originally, Peppermint Patty played reverse psychology ; she would often say, " You kind of like me, don't you, Chuck?

As Marcie became a part of the regular cast, she appeared in the same class as Peppermint Patty, sitting in the desk behind her.

In the strip, Marcie was a soft-spoken voice of reason to Peppermint Patty, but in most of her earliest TV appearances she was usually portrayed as naïve and somewhat dim-witted.

An example of the former showed in the 1973 Emmy Award winning special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving ; when Peppermint Patty throws a fit about the " dinner " Charlie Brown made for them, Marcie gently reminds her that he didn't invite her to dinner, but she invited herself.

Marcie is close friends with Peppermint Patty, constantly addressing her as " sir " ( she called her " sir " in her first line in the strip ).

Although Marcie repeatedly professes her dislike of sports, particularly baseball, she will occasionally take part in whatever sport Peppermint Patty is involved in at the time, though more often than not Marcie, upon showing her lack of athletic prowess and lack of knowledge of the game, usually only succeeds in frustrating Peppermint Patty.

The first time was in the 1973 special There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown, but she only did it so Charlie Brown could pretend that it was a goodnight kiss from Peppermint Patty.

Case in point, in a sequence from July-August 1973, when she reluctantly joins Peppermint Patty's baseball team, she becomes the target of a male teammate named Thibault ( pronounced TEE-bo ), who constantly follows Marcie around tormenting her with chauvinistic insults until she ultimately slaps him senseless.

In the same year, she also began what would become a significant collaboration when she starred in Carlos Saura's Spanish language psychological thriller, Peppermint Frappé.