[Groop]Cartoon show....

[Mark Evanier]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:40:25 -0500, "Ugly Person"
<msudol0928 at rogers.com> wrote:

>Sadly I've learned that what you say is true from follwing Charles Schulz's
>"Peanuts" comic strip.
>Two glaring discrepancies:
>
>1) In the comic strip, the little red-haired girl is never seen.
>    In animation one is seen, although the jury is still out whether it's
>the "real" little red-haired girl or not.
>
>2) In the comic strip, adults are NEVER seen or heard. Even in the classic
>cartoon specials from the 60's, adults are never seen, and the most you get
>from adult dialogue is "mwa-mwa-mwaa".  Later cartoons, the occasional adult
>IS seen and/or heard. At my first encounter with this, I thought the world
>turned upside down. Really. I could hardly believe it. A usenet discussion
>revealed just as you said - the animation powers-that-be at the time
>superceded Schulzs' creative standards and apparently deemed adult
>appearances to be necessary or at least acceptable.

ME: No, they didn't.  Schulz had absolute control over the PEANUTS
animation.  I was peripherally involved in some of those shows, and
nothing happened in them unless he wanted it to happen.

But that kind of control is the exception, not the rule.
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