Only a European, and one who grew up on US stuff, fondly so, charlie brown feels very low on the exposed and perceived American ethos / values. I saw a few strips and refs .. but that's about it.

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iterateoften 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s practically institutionalized at school. Major holidays are marked by watching Charlie Brown in class at a young age.

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agumonkey 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So it's very much present as inner culture but not much an influence big mainstream productions (tv shows, movies) that we see as exports, is that right ?

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jimbokun 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As iterateoften points out, the TV shows are mainly tied to US holidays, or at least how those holidays are celebrated in the US. This also makes Peanuts merchandise tied to those holidays very popular.

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas are the major ones. I think New Year and Easter were added at some point but not as well known.

Having said that, it makes sense that those shows wouldn't translate as well to a non-US audience.

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msabalau 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it depends where you live. Peanuts seems to have fairly large presence in Taiwan and Japan--it's currently owned by Sony. It's one of the tentpoles on Apple TV.

According to Wikipedia, as a franchise it's brings in more revenue than Star Trek or the Avengers.

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zdragnar 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly, in my experience the original stuff largely disappeared. I vaguely remember watching some of it back in the early 90's, but never in school. The holiday specials would be on TV if you went looking for them, but that's about it.

Snoopy was more ensuring than Charlie Brown, but even that was more "cute cartoon" than anything to do with any message.

Edit: I see some sibling comments that it's making a comeback, though I've no idea if any of it is all that faithful to the original.

Charlie Brown had a lot of Christian messaging reflecting Schultz's devout beliefs, and I doubt any of that will show up in whatever Apple and Target and current schools are putting together.

	▲	agumonkey 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		talking about snoopy, it was quite popular in france in the 80s, i even have a kid thermos (https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1478487195/thermos-snoopy-an...). but yeah it felt acultural to me at least (to be honest i would have said it was english)

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alistairSH 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't recall EVER watching Charlie Brown shows at school (Fairfax Co, VA in the mid 80s).

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interloxia 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I only remember watching Flight of the Navigator year after year.

	▲	esafak 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At school??

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t-3 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nope. Schoolhouse Rock, multiple Monty Python films, The Last Samurai, The Magic Schoolbus, Romeo and Juliet... but never any Charlie Brown. Oh yeah, and The Sandlot. 2 or 3 times I think.

	▲	alistairSH 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Huh, we didn't get those either. Except Schoolhouse Rock. The only other TV I remember was we'd watch every Space Shuttle launch, up until the Challenger explosion, then we didn't watch them any more. And of course, there was the Oregon Trail video game in middle school. But, as far as I can tell, that was a pretty short-lived thing.

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educasean 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Charlie Brown does feel more like a symbol of a bygone era rather than an embodiment of the 21st century American psyche

	▲	jimbokun 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, a time when children entertained themselves outside interacting with other children, and adults were so peripheral to their lives that they could be portrayed always off screen by a mumbling voice.
	▲	t-3 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah. I remember thinking it was old and boring as a kid in the 90's... Have children born after the millennium even ever seen a newspaper, let alone read the comics?