Why does woodstock fly upside down

In the strip from March 3, , a bird makes a nest on Snoopy's stomach. In the next day's strip two birds hatch. Snoopy wants the birds to leave. They aren't very good at flying and fly upside down. One of the birds leaves. The other stays. It continues to appear occasionally in the April and May comic strips, still flying upside down. Then no birds appear at all in any of the strips from the next eleven months. The April 4, strip is the next time we see a little bird. In the April 6 , strip it flies upside down.

There's no real way of knowing if Schulz intended them to be the same bird or not. A lot of readers would remember the baby bird from the year before that wouldn't leave Snoopy's home. But on the other hand, Schulz could have just decided to recycle the gag about a bird flying upside down. To tell the truth, he probably wasn't that bothered. After all, the strips were only intended to give newspaper readers a little chuckle while eating their breakfast.

They weren't intended for fanboys and fangirls to obsess over more than 50 years later. But I suppose obsess we must. And if Woodstock isn't one of the baby birds in the March 4, strip, his mother didn't appear the day before either.

OK, I propose this solution. For March 3, we say, "Possible appearance of Woodstock's mother". In an interview in Schulz said; "I had been reading the Life magazine article about the Woodstock festival and I had the little bird in the strip. It was a she and she was Snoopy's secretary and I was doing secretary jokes quite often so then I thought Woodstock would be a good name for this bird and also, it will get the attention of these people that liked that kind of thing.

Suddenly she was not a secretary; she became Woodstock, the boy. It just happened. But that's what's good about a comic strip - you can just do it. Schulz's interview answer is inaccurate, however, because Woodstock is referred to as "he" and "guy" just after being introduced in strips from the 8th and 9th of April ; then again in strips from the 5th and 6th of April , which is considered his first appearance on the official Peanuts website , indicating that Woodstock was always a boy in the comics.

In the Norwegian translation of Peanuts the bird is named Fredrikke - a female name - and it is always referred to as a female. Peanuts Wiki Explore. April comic strips April comic strips April comic strips August comic strips April comic strips April comic strips April comic strips. The Musical TV special. World of Peanuts. Doin' the Foxtrot Strips about holidays.

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Woodstock on his lounge chair, listening to music with his quadraphonic stereo system. Woodstock can be seen on the bottom of the box dress like a mummy with Snoopy. Woodstock can be seen in snoopy spot the difference app.

There's a hidden genius in the simplicity of Schulz's drawings — and a simple message, says Jean Schulz, that might explain Peanuts' enduring popularity. They have critics. They have their own world with all the things that adults have, which I think is why I think adults like it.

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