Fuck You, Charlie Brown

"Fuck You, Charlie Brown" is the title of a long-lost, never-aired Peanuts special.

Written by Schulz on his deathbed, FYCB follows the Peanuts Gang of Millenial misfits as they graduate from college and strike out into the real world of careers, relationships, and financial independence in the grim shadow of the Great Recession. You know how you always sort of vaguely thought that Charlie Brown having the football moved out from beneath him was some sort of dark metaphor for the disappointment of adult life? You're goddamn right it is.

Watch the whole gang have their naive assumptions about our just and fair world torn to shreds in front of them and have them shoved straight up their ass by a cruel, uncaring, random world ruled by greed, money, lies and desperation.

Schroeder busks outside of Union Station on his little piano, trying to make enough for just a little bit of H, just a skin pop to get him through the day.

Peppermint Patty joins the Occupy movement and has her idealism shattered, peppersprayed and handcuffed inside of a police truck by Bloomberg's Boys in Blue.

Lucy finds out that confidence and a take-charge attitude will get you far, but not quite far enough, as she bounces from job to temporary, contingent job.

Charlie Brown's untreated depression, compounded by his lack of health insurance, makes him basically unemployable, and Snoopy, well... Snoopy got let out of the house by the movers after the bank foreclosed on Charlie's parents' house, and that was pretty much the last we heard of him.

---

Credited to muypeligroso 

Comments • 4

Loading comments...