Tags peanuts. Leave a Comment Comments are closed. More Stories from Entertainment. Powered by WordPress. Parenting Expand the sub menu. Health Expand the sub menu. Living Expand the sub menu. Entertainment Expand the sub menu. Peppermint Patty hates how Marcie pesters her about it. In one storyline, Marcie continually reminded Peppermint Patty to do her book report, and then when the assignment came due, Marcie realized she forgot to do her own.
Another thing that gets on Peppermint Patty's nerves is how Marcie knows nothing about sports. She is unable to catch a football or shoot a basket and even calls the Super Bowl the "Splendid Bowl". Marcie has shown some reluctant skill at baseball. What annoys Peppermint Patty more than anything is when Marcie tells Charlie Brown she loves him because Peppermint Patty wants to hide her true feelings from him. In one strip, right before Marcie and Peppermint Patty went to camp, Marcie calls Charlie Brown to tell him she loves him, and that makes Peppermint Patty furious.
When they are not fighting, they are pretty good friends. They like hanging out together, and talking at the wall and Peppermint Patty will always stick up for Marcie when a bully bothers her.
Marcie, who is considered Peppermint Patty's sidekick, likes hanging out with Peppermint Patty, although she can get on her nerves too. It distresses Marcie how poorly Peppermint Patty does in school, and how she will never do her work. However, Marcie looks up to Peppermint Patty. It is rumored that Peppermint Patty and Marcie are a lesbian couple. Many people interpret the two as lesbians and this has been reflected in references on television shows such as Saturday Night Live , "Scrubs", Family Guy , Robot Chicken and The Simpsons.
On The Big Bang Theory , characters Wolowitz, Raj and Leonard argue about whether the two friends are lesbians—while Raj thinks that Peppermint Patty is the lesbian, Leonard thinks she is just athletic and that Marcie is the lesbian.
Again, this is the way a person with low self esteem thinks—that setting limits on her friend would damage their relationship rather than make it healthier. And sometimes, Marcie made her displeasure known through passive aggressive behavior. Marcie had the hidden capacity to be a real smartass, especially in moments like these. When Thibault protested her participation on sexist grounds, Marcie showed exactly how direct she could be.
I sympathized with Marcie in this moment. And on top of that, she had to defend her right to be there? That final strip was thrilling and inspiring. It was a side of Marcie that we rarely got to see, and it was good to know that it existed. There was a point to which Marcie could be pushed too far, where she would assert her self-worth instead of knuckling under. No one handles every situation perfectly. But after this initial experimentation, Marcie found a way to make her friendship with Peppermint Patty more equal.
Starting in , she convinced Peppermint Patty to accompany her to classical music concerts as an apparent trade-off for her athletic participation. It was an arena where Marcie could feel in control, where her peers were at risk of making a faux pas instead of her. Peppermint Patty enjoyed these concerts in spite of herself, and that was an unqualified victory for Marcie. For a rare moment, she could let someone into her world and feel validated for having done so.
She finally engaged in a friendship on her own terms. There is no Peanuts strip more life affirming or uplifting than this one. Friendship—real, raw friendship—can be difficult for someone who struggles with assertiveness and self-image.
But it is worth it for moments like these.
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