The Peanuts Gallery

It Was A Short Summer, Charlie Brown – w/ Nicole Dieker

Episode Summary

Children go to summer camp. The boys are terrible at everything, and the girls are great at everything. Also, a dog pretends to drive a bus.

Episode Notes

We wrist-wrestle with 1969's IT WAS A SHORT SUMMER, CHARLIE BROWN, in which the boys take on the girls in a summertime battle of the sexes, and get their dumb, uncoordinated butts handed to them for the better part of a half-hour. Special guest Nicole Dieker joins us in an episode recorded in the middle of the damn ocean during this year's JoCo Cruise.

Pour yourself a tall glass of Electrolyte Solution and watch it on DailyMotion.

Topics of discussion include:

• adults vs. children vs. tall children;
• a stone soup / Wizard of Oz mashup (not in Latin);
• the proper rules of "hangman", and Nicole coining the phrase "hangdoodle";
• Garbage Snoopy Land, with alternate Snoopy creatures;
• You can hug a meatlump, but can a meatlump hug you back?;
• Asshole Blanket Gymnastics;
• the migratory habits of Brazilian potato chips;
• the rise of the Matriarchy.

Our guest Nicole Dieker is a freelance writer and a senior editor at The Billfold. She can be found at @hellothefuture or NicoleDieker.com.

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We wrote a holiday musical a couple years ago, inspired in no small part by the Peanuts holiday specials. It's available to stream or purchase on Bandcamp.

Audio blandishment by Ken Plume.