As Peanuts matured, however, Shermy became an extraneous character who was used less and less frequently, until his final appearance in 1969.

In a television interview, Schulz said that in the 1950 debut of the strip, it was solely Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and a few minor characters, then showed the first strip, in which the " minor characters " he spoke of were clearly Patty and Shermy.

Shermy was often portrayed as Charlie Brown's superior at the things that mattered to Charlie Brown, especially athletics.

It was unlikely that Charlie Brown knew of Shermy's first sentence, as the two would spend time together ; or it could have been more likely that Shermy did not actually hate Charlie Brown and was annoyed with him the first day of the strip.

Shermy was sometimes said to play the position of first base on Charlie Brown's baseball team.

" Shermy was referred to by name once more after 1969, in a 1977 strip where Charlie Brown and Lucy are discussing players on their baseball team ; he is mentioned as the team's designated hitter.

An unnamed character on November 9, 1975 who looked like Shermy was also in a movie strip.

Patty was one of the four original characters ( along with Charlie Brown, Shermy, and Snoopy ), and Violet was the first new major character to join the cast, debuting on February 7, 1951.

On rare occasions, Violet was shown walking and keeping company with Shermy.

She was apparently the oldest child in the strip ( possibly along with Shermy ), as she attended school when Charlie Brown did not ( strip of September 18, 1951 ).

* This was the final appearance of Shermy in the Peanuts world ( he makes a cameo appearance ), save for an appearance in the " Linus and Lucy " episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show and brief non-speaking cameos in later specials like 1992's It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown.

In Schulz's Peanuts-precursor strip Li ' l Folks, a character resembling Shermy went by the name " Charlie Brown ".

Schulz expressed no regrets at dropping Shermy from the cast, remarking many years later that it had gotten to the point by then where he only used Shermy in situations where he " needed a character with very little personality.

Shermy returns to the animated movies in the 2011 Direct-to-DVD Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, which includes a scene based on the very first Peanuts strip, where Shermy notes how much he hates Charlie Brown.

In one early Sunday strip, Patty and Violet forced Charlie Brown and Shermy to build a clubhouse for them, without even a break, and then hung a " No Boys Allowed " sign on the door.

The two appeared very early — Patty even appeared in the first strip, along with Charlie Brown and Shermy — but lacking the distinguishing characteristics of characters such as Lucy, Linus, or Sally, she became less prominent as years went by.

When Peanuts made its debut on October 2, 1950, Shermy had the first line of dialogue in the series.

Shermy appears in several of the animated Peanuts TV specials, beginning with A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965, where he has one line of dialogue.

In his 2009 treasury Pearls Blows Up, 2000s cartoonist Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine, who cites Schulz as one of his many influences, suggested in relation to a series of strips paying homage to Peanuts with baseball, that Shermy as well as Violet may have died in some way after a game, commenting that " I'm fairly certain the games in Peanuts weren't played to the death ... Shermy and Violet did seem to disappear at some point.

Charlie Brown and Shermy, disillusioned by their continued defeat, see Snoopy arm wrestling with the boys.

Shermy would sometimes make reference to the fact he seemed doomed to have that look ; he complained to Charlie Brown he got a new hairstyle one weekend only to shortly come down with an illness that kept him from attending school.

Shermy is mentioned briefly in the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, in the song " The Doctor Is In ," but does not appear or have a speaking part ; and he also makes a cameo appearance in the feature film Snoopy Come Home.

Shermy returns to his old neighbourhood to find out his former friends have become insufferable egomaniacs swelled with their success.

" Some characters just don't seem to have enough personality to carry out ideas ," he said, referring to Violet, Patty, and Shermy.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

The audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

Of more importance to the West than Poland's boundaries was the character of her government.

Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.

What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

At the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus ballet `` Bayaderka '', which opened the evening.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Susan was an active character ; ;

It was the kind of thing that could ruin a man's life, and it was a tribute to John's strength of character and very real business ability that it hadn't ruined his.