“Poor Charlie Brown…I see the cats have been using you to sharpen their claws again, huh?” “Yeah, I’m sort of a spiritual scratching post!”
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Why am I so fond of these two HORRIBLE GIRLS.
It strikes me that the strip, if it did not exactly become kinder, at least took on a mellower undertone when Patty and Violet were largely supplanted by Peppermint Patty and Marcie, both of them sweet clumsy dorks who meant well (and who somehow managed to simultaneously crush on Charlie Brown without altering his loser status one iota).













