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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?
Peppermint Patty has brown chin-length hair, and she has freckles on her face.
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 ".

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Peppermint has a high menthol content, and is often used in tea and for flavouring ice cream, confectionery, chewing gum, and toothpaste.
Originally, Peppermint Patty played reverse psychology ; she would often say, " You kind of like me, don't you, Chuck?
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.
While Peppermint Patty is more likely to flirt with Charlie Brown and play mind games with him, Marcie is more frank in her admissions of her feelings, and often asks Charlie Brown in plain language if he likes 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.
In so doing, Marcie also made Peppermint Patty face the reality that Snoopy was a beagle, and not the " funny-looking kid with the big nose " that Peppermint Patty often referred to him as.
Patty is a character in the comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz ( often confused with Peppermint Patty, a different and later character from the same strip ).
The band has a catalogue of six releases: Happy Songs ( EP, 2002 ), Ultrasounds ( EP, 2002 ), Man Bites God ( LP, 2003 ), Boob Job for Sweetie Pie ( EP, 2005 ) The Popular Alternative ( LP, 2005 ) and Peppermint Superfrog ( LP, 2007 ); and is notorious for twisted, dark and often blasphemous sense of humour.

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On the final scene, Peppermint Patty apologizes to Charlie Brown for saying bad things to him and that it was not easy for a girl to talk like that to a boy.
However, after a tough talk from Peppermint Patty, a great showing in the pole vault and first-place finishes in the discus and javelin throw catapults him into first place.

Peppermint and Charlie
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 ").
The first time, Snoopy was unable to get off Peppermint Patty's waterbed in the guest room to catch the burglars who were robbing the house at that very moment, and the second time, Snoopy was distracted by a girl poodle who became his fiancee ( the engagement was called off on the day of the wedding ), leading Peppermint Patty to angrily call Charlie Brown in the middle of the night and demand that he come to her house to serve as watchdog in Snoopy's place.
Peppermint Patty mentions her mother over the course of the television special He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown, but Schulz repeatedly stated that the situations presented in the cartoon adaptations are not canonical to the strip.
She also called her " Priscilla " in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, but the shock on both Peppermint Patty's and Charlie Brown's face may imply that the name was in jest.
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.
Peppermint Patty frequently plays lovers ' games with Charlie Brown, and gets frustrated or even angry when he does not take the bait ; he does like Peppermint Patty, but only as a friend ( though their friendship is occasionally strained by her strong personality and bossiness toward him ).
" when it was clear that it was Peppermint Patty who had the crush on Charlie Brown, while he not only did not have a crush on her, he also did not quite know what to make of her.
Yet it was still obvious to Marcie that Peppermint Patty liked Charlie Brown as more than a friend, wishy-washy or not.
In one Sunday strip from 1979 ( drawn as part of a storyline in which Charlie Brown was in the hospital ), Peppermint Patty essentially admitted her feelings for Charlie Brown and, in the same strip, Marcie admitted loving " Chuck ," so far as to affirming her willingness to marry Charlie Brown.
Peppermint Patty also developed a crush on Pig-Pen for a while in 1980, after Charlie Brown set them up on a date for a Valentine's Day dance.
She serves as comedic foil and best friend to tomboy Peppermint Patty, plays a supporting role in some of Snoopy's heroic fantasies, and displays a romantic interest in Charlie Brown, who seems to love her in return.
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.

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