characters in pop culture/literature/film/etc that are like charlie brown

linus

waah wah wah, wah wah wah waah

Me.

buster bluth

http://www.geocities.com/anuragbansal_uor/werther.jpg

buster bluth

surely it's george michael bluth. Buster is Linus.

all wes anderson protagonists.

or no, owen wilson in wes anderson movies.

one reason there aren't many good analogs is that peanuts was never forced to resolve. he never had to get the girl, kick the football, etc., but also was never permanently denied them. whereas in books and movies that character either has to end up with the girl (the sad clown keaton/chaplin) or end in a state of implied endless despair (i don't know, beckett? no exit?). whereas charlie brown was allowed this sort of schrodinger's existence of perpetual unrealized potential.

heh, i knew it, schulz was a november sagittarius like me.

And my mom.

and remy.

Form a band.

i have no idea what size shoesign my brmother wearis, nor would i ever want to know.

Thanks for your concern.

In 1979, Charlie Brown winds up in the hospital for surgery. In a fit of
desperation, Lucy promises not to pull the football away the next time,
if only he'll get better. Well, he obviously gets better, and all the
neighborhood kids await the results. This multi-week "novelette"
climaxes in the 8/2/79 daily strip, when she doesn't pull the ball away ... but Charlie Brown misses and kicks her arm instead!

In another strip he threatens to sue and we don't see him miss or succeed.

Overall, good old Charlie Brown tries and fails in all 50 or so different comics that ran during the forth quarter of just about every year since 1951.

The last comic was pretty good (he might have kicked the damn ball):

Forced to retire from the field to eat lunch, Lucy leaves the
football in Rerun's capable hands. When he walks into the house
a few minutes later, she demands to know what happened.
"You'll never know," the little fellow answers,
at which point she wails with frustration.
(And we don't know, either!)

Judging from what I know about Rerun, I think he finally kicks the ball.

Also, on another note, Snoopy's birthday is either august 10 or 28th. Schultz wasn't really specific about it.

but yeah, I like what tipsy mothra said about charlie brown. He was consistent. He never spiraled downward. And he still has a chance of finally kicking the ball or getting with the little red haired girl. I think he kisses a girl in one of the comics (I would have to look it up again though) http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/peantfaq.txt

I know they won a ballgame at least once.

To answer the original question: the Coasters' "Charlie Brown." Because his name is Charlie Brown.

not really an answer to the question but some re-imaginings of CB:

http://whatisdeepfried.com/weaponbrown/weaponbrown.html

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2006/05/09/charlie-brown-gone-anime/

plus the waiter in kill bill had a CB yellow with black zigzag shirt on.