60 Years Later, the Best 'Peanuts' Quote of All Time Still Doesn't Get the Credit it Deserves
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Published Sep 27, 2026, 1:27 AM EDT
Unless Woodstock is saying something even more brilliant, though it's hard to tell
Not even Charles Schulz recognized the brilliance of his most profound Peanuts line
Image: Charles SchulzAmerican cartoonist Charles Schulz died on February 12, 2000, at age 77. The next day, the final Peanuts comic strip ran in newspapers, ending the 50-year run of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the gang. That timing might seem logical — you might assume the comic strip was written and submitted shortly before publication — but Peanuts strips, particularly Sunday ones like this, were done weeks ahead of time, making the timing something of a small coincidence.