Violet (Peanuts)
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Violet Gray is a fictional character in the comic strip
Peanuts
by Charles M. Schulz
.
Violet has shoulder-length dark hair, and she frequently wears green dresses (switching to pants and jeans in the winter and in later years). Schulz changed her hairstyle between pigtails
, a ponytail
, and a bun
in the early strips, but after a few years she dropped the braids and went exclusively with the ponytail, which became arguably her most famous trademark. Violet also wears front bangs. It became so rare to see her without a ponytail, in fact, that when she showed up without it on the way to school one day, Linus
was startled enough to ask why she was wearing her hair down. She yelled that it was because her mother hadn't had time to comb her hair, since she was in such a hurry to go to Linus's house to play pool with his mother. Based on the character of Elizabeth Taylor
in National Velvet
, she only wears braids when she is wearing blue jeans.
Her birthday is unofficially celebrated by Peanuts fans on June 17, as Charlie Brown
and Pig-Pen
attended her birthday party on that date in 1962. This appears to be a retcon; prior to 1962, earlier strips implied that her birthday was January 28 (in the February 22, 1951, strip, she had said her birthday was a month ago, and in the January 29, 1955, strip, Charlie Brown
claimed her birthday was "yesterday").
One of the strip's earlier characters dating from 1951, Violet was seen less frequently after other female characters such as Lucy, Sally and Peppermint Patty were introduced and developed in the 1950s and 60s. Post-1960s appearances by Violet are rare, with the character making a final speaking appearance in 1984 (followed by a total of 4 "cameo" appearances as a background character between 1985-1997.)
are best friends, and the two began appearing together almost from the beginning of the strip. Patty was one of the four original characters (along with Charlie Brown, Shermy, and Snoopy
), and Violet was the first new major character to join the cast, debuting on February 7, 1951. Her surname was mentioned only once, on April 4, 1953. In the early strips, Violet often acted like a preschool-age Suzy Homemaker: making mud pies, playing "house," and being linked to romantic scenarios involving Charlie Brown. She also collects stamps
as a hobby. On rare occasions, Violet was shown walking and keeping company with Shermy.
Violet never really developed a strong personality, especially compared to the next three characters who would be introduced after her (Schroeder
, Lucy
, and Linus). She tended to be used mostly as a straight woman to set up the punchline. Schulz admitted as much in a 1988 interview. "Some characters just don't seem to have enough personality to carry out ideas," he said, referring to Violet, Patty, and Shermy. "They're just almost born straight men."
A good example has Violet setting up a toy farmyard, including a house, barn, tractor and tree which is suddenly hit by Charlie Brown's kite. Charlie Brown looks embarrassed, but not so worried as he was when his kite had hit Lucy's hand in a previous strip.
As the cast of characters grew, Violet was left with very little to do besides antagonizing Charlie Brown. She also played outfield (and sometimes third base) on Charlie Brown's baseball
team, and popped up in that capacity from time to time in later strips.
, very conscious of appearances and status. It is implied that her family enjoys a considerably higher class
position than the other characters'. Both of her parents are college graduates and her father makes more money than Charlie Brown's, though the latter isn't much of a claim since Mr. Brown is a barber. When walking with Linus once, she insisted she wasn't going to be seen walking with a boy holding a blanket, whereupon he quickly transformed his blanket into an ascot
(May 18, 1956). She also frequently criticizes Pig-Pen for his inability to keep himself clean. Violet often looks down on people who fail to meet her social standards, especially Charlie Brown, to whom she once stated flatly, "It simply goes without saying that you are an inferior human being." His adroit reply to that was, "If it goes without saying, why did you have to say it?!"
Being supposedly of upper-class upbringing, Violet also makes it a point to brag frequently about her father, especially to Charlie Brown, sometimes driving him to the point of aggravation. Violet's fatherly boastings were always comparative; to wit, she would say, "My dad is taller than your dad", or "My dad has more credit cards than your dad". But in a Father's Day strip her boasts are quelled, at least for the moment, when Charlie Brown takes her to his dad's barber shop. After telling her about how his dad would always smile at him no matter how bad of a workday he was having, a humbled Violet walked away, but not before quietly wishing Charlie Brown a Happy Father's Day. Her bragging on her dad backfired another time when 555 95472 fired back at her with "My dad goes to PTA
meetings!" Charlie Brown once managed to deflate her with the comeback: "My dad has a son." (April 30, 1958)
She thoroughly disliked Charlie Brown and clearly made no bones about it. Violet would insult him viciously and with the utmost cruelty, and was very remorseless and even shameless about it.
On occasion, she and Patty will talk about how gentle and kind girls are, then, in the same breath, lash out at Charlie Brown to leave them alone after he showed up. They would also talk about how people should understand others more, especially children, and then, again showing their hypocrisy, cruelly scream at Charlie Brown to go away and leave them alone.
A classic example of her attitude was where Violet is lashing out at Charlie Brown, yet again, and then finishes him off with "And I don't care if I ever see you again, do you hear me?" Apparently, this tongue lashing was quite vicious, as Linus walks in and notices that Charlie Brown was really hurt. Charlie Brown said that Violet hadn't taken all the life out of him, "but you can number me among the walking wounded."
Schroeder also dislikes the idea of Violet and Patty insulting Charlie Brown all the time. He comes in while the vicious girls insulted him again. (In this one, they called him weak, a real jellyfish; also saying that he was dumb, stupid, ignorant and had a silly face!) As the girls walked off with cruel smiles on their faces, Schroeder calls them "the cats" who had once again used Charlie Brown to sharpen their claws on. Charlie Brown said to Schroeder, "I am sort of a spiritual scratching post
."
Even when Charlie Brown doesn't do anything to them, Violet and Patty basically see his mere presence as an affront to their supposed and self-professed superiority and they viciously yell at him to go home. After completely demoralizing him, Violet said, "You know, it's a strange thing about Charlie Brown, you almost never see him laugh."
In the August 16, 1951 strip Violet was the first to call Charlie Brown a "Blockhead," an insult Lucy would later use far more frequently and with other characters.
Another example had Patty and Violet reciting a very mean-spirited poem basically pointing out that "Boys are rotten filled with cotton" and that "Girls are dandy filled with candy!" and then walking off smugly, where Charlie Brown retaliates with the phrase, "Generalities!!!"
Still another involved the two shamelessly berating Charlie Brown about a wrong answer Charlie Brown gave to a teacher's question, both going so far as to call him "stupid" and then walking off laughing at him. ("The teacher asked him why they have so much rain in Oregon
... and [Charlie Brown] said, 'Because they have a lot of clouds!'")
Once, after yet another one of Violet's verbal assaults on Charlie Brown (wherein this time she called him, weak, spineless and wishy-washy), Charlie Brown remarked to Linus that she took him down "step by step, line by line, verse by verse". Linus replied, "It sounds like you are a victim of higher criticism!".
In A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Violet, Patty and Lucy taunted Charlie Brown with the derisive song "Failure Face", in a cold-hearted attempt to stop him from entering a spelling bee
and to solidify in his psyche that he was nothing more than a born loser.
On many other occasions, especially in the early years of the strip, Patty and Violet went out of their way - sometimes with unconcealed glee, to make sure Charlie Brown knew that they were throwing a party and he wasn't invited. But Charlie Brown sometimes managed to turn the tables on the two girls. For example:
But Violet's fighting side backfired on her at times, too; In one particular Sunday strip Violet tries matching her in-fighting prowess against Lucy's by throwing a barrage of insults at her- from a distance. But when Violet physically gets in Lucy's face, Lucy blasts back with, "You're a no-good, tale-tattling, little sneaking snip-snap pony-tailed ape!!". Visibly shaken, Violet retreats, as Lucy smiles smugly. (The whole incident was observed by Linus and Charlie Brown, the latter remarking on Violet's choice of words saying "I'm glad it's not me she's yelling at. I'd never be able to take it!")
Notably, Violet was the first character ever not to let Charlie Brown kick a football (on November 14, 1951). However, her reason for pulling away was for fear of him kicking her hand, whereas Lucy's motivation was usually sheer malice.
Peanuts television specials. Voice actors who played Violet over the years include Ann Altieri (who also voiced Frieda
) from 1965-1969, Linda Ercoli
(who also voiced Peppermint Patty
) from 1972-1975, and most recently Jolean Wejbe in 2006's He's a Bully, Charlie Brown.
Comic strip
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Peanuts
Peanuts
Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...
by Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.-Early life and education:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in Saint Paul...
.
Violet has shoulder-length dark hair, and she frequently wears green dresses (switching to pants and jeans in the winter and in later years). Schulz changed her hairstyle between pigtails
Pigtails
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, a ponytail
Ponytail
A ponytail is a hairstyle in which most or all of the hair on the head is pulled away from the face, gathered and secured at the back of the head with a hair tie, clip or similar device, and allowed to hang freely from that point. It gets its name from its resemblance to the undocked tail of a...
, and a bun
Bun
A bun is a small, usually sweet, bread. Commonly they are hand-sized or smaller, domed in shape, with a flat bottom. A bun can also be a savory bread roll similar to a bap or barmcake....
in the early strips, but after a few years she dropped the braids and went exclusively with the ponytail, which became arguably her most famous trademark. Violet also wears front bangs. It became so rare to see her without a ponytail, in fact, that when she showed up without it on the way to school one day, Linus
Linus van Pelt
Linus van Pelt is a character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. The best friend of Charlie Brown, Linus is also the younger brother of Lucy van Pelt and older brother of Rerun van Pelt. He first appeared on September 19, 1952; however, he was not mentioned by name until three days later....
was startled enough to ask why she was wearing her hair down. She yelled that it was because her mother hadn't had time to comb her hair, since she was in such a hurry to go to Linus's house to play pool with his mother. Based on the character of Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
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in National Velvet
National Velvet (film)
National Velvet is a 1944 drama film, in Technicolor, based on the novel by Enid Bagnold, published in 1935. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and a young Elizabeth Taylor....
, she only wears braids when she is wearing blue jeans.
Her birthday is unofficially celebrated by Peanuts fans on June 17, as Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Charles "Charlie" Brown is the protagonist in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.Charlie Brown and his creator have a common connection in that they are both the sons of barbers, but whereas Schulz's work is described as the "most shining example of the American success story", Charlie...
and Pig-Pen
Pig-Pen
"Pig-Pen" is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. He is a young boy who is, except on very rare occasions, very dirty.-History:"Pig-Pen" is a nickname, invariably written in quotation marks in the strip...
attended her birthday party on that date in 1962. This appears to be a retcon; prior to 1962, earlier strips implied that her birthday was January 28 (in the February 22, 1951, strip, she had said her birthday was a month ago, and in the January 29, 1955, strip, Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Charles "Charlie" Brown is the protagonist in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.Charlie Brown and his creator have a common connection in that they are both the sons of barbers, but whereas Schulz's work is described as the "most shining example of the American success story", Charlie...
claimed her birthday was "yesterday").
One of the strip's earlier characters dating from 1951, Violet was seen less frequently after other female characters such as Lucy, Sally and Peppermint Patty were introduced and developed in the 1950s and 60s. Post-1960s appearances by Violet are rare, with the character making a final speaking appearance in 1984 (followed by a total of 4 "cameo" appearances as a background character between 1985-1997.)
Role in Peanuts
Violet and PattyPatty (Peanuts)
Patty is a character in the comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz . Her closest friend is Violet...
are best friends, and the two began appearing together almost from the beginning of the strip. Patty was one of the four original characters (along with Charlie Brown, Shermy, and Snoopy
Snoopy
Snoopy is an fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly conventional dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip's most dynamic character—and among the most recognizable...
), and Violet was the first new major character to join the cast, debuting on February 7, 1951. Her surname was mentioned only once, on April 4, 1953. In the early strips, Violet often acted like a preschool-age Suzy Homemaker: making mud pies, playing "house," and being linked to romantic scenarios involving Charlie Brown. She also collects stamps
Stamp collecting
Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is one of the world's most popular hobbies, with the number of collectors in the United States alone estimated to be over 20 million.- Collecting :...
as a hobby. On rare occasions, Violet was shown walking and keeping company with Shermy.
Violet never really developed a strong personality, especially compared to the next three characters who would be introduced after her (Schroeder
Schroeder (Peanuts)
Schroeder is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz. He is distinguished by his precocious skill at playing the toy piano, as well as by his love of classical music and the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in particular...
, Lucy
Lucy van Pelt
Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt is a fictional character in the syndicated comic strip :Peanuts, written and drawn by Charles Schulz. She is the main bully and the older sister of Linus and Rerun. Lucy is a crabby and cynical eight-year old girl, and often bullies the other characters in the strip,...
, and Linus). She tended to be used mostly as a straight woman to set up the punchline. Schulz admitted as much in a 1988 interview. "Some characters just don't seem to have enough personality to carry out ideas," he said, referring to Violet, Patty, and Shermy. "They're just almost born straight men."
A good example has Violet setting up a toy farmyard, including a house, barn, tractor and tree which is suddenly hit by Charlie Brown's kite. Charlie Brown looks embarrassed, but not so worried as he was when his kite had hit Lucy's hand in a previous strip.
As the cast of characters grew, Violet was left with very little to do besides antagonizing Charlie Brown. She also played outfield (and sometimes third base) on Charlie Brown's baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
team, and popped up in that capacity from time to time in later strips.
Snobbery
Violet's most consistent personality trait is that she tends to be a bit of a snobSnob
A snob is someone who believes that some people are inherently inferior to him or her for any one of a variety of reasons, including real or supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, taste, beauty, nationality, et cetera. Often, the form of snobbery reflects the snob's personal attributes...
, very conscious of appearances and status. It is implied that her family enjoys a considerably higher class
Social class
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position than the other characters'. Both of her parents are college graduates and her father makes more money than Charlie Brown's, though the latter isn't much of a claim since Mr. Brown is a barber. When walking with Linus once, she insisted she wasn't going to be seen walking with a boy holding a blanket, whereupon he quickly transformed his blanket into an ascot
Ascot tie
An ascot tie, or ascot, is a narrow neckband with wide pointed wings, traditionally made of pale grey patterned silk. This wide, formal tie is usually patterned, folded over, and fastened with a stickpin or tie tack. It is usually reserved for wear with morning dress for formal daytime weddings and...
(May 18, 1956). She also frequently criticizes Pig-Pen for his inability to keep himself clean. Violet often looks down on people who fail to meet her social standards, especially Charlie Brown, to whom she once stated flatly, "It simply goes without saying that you are an inferior human being." His adroit reply to that was, "If it goes without saying, why did you have to say it?!"
Being supposedly of upper-class upbringing, Violet also makes it a point to brag frequently about her father, especially to Charlie Brown, sometimes driving him to the point of aggravation. Violet's fatherly boastings were always comparative; to wit, she would say, "My dad is taller than your dad", or "My dad has more credit cards than your dad". But in a Father's Day strip her boasts are quelled, at least for the moment, when Charlie Brown takes her to his dad's barber shop. After telling her about how his dad would always smile at him no matter how bad of a workday he was having, a humbled Violet walked away, but not before quietly wishing Charlie Brown a Happy Father's Day. Her bragging on her dad backfired another time when 555 95472 fired back at her with "My dad goes to PTA
Parent-Teacher Association
In the U.S. a parent-teacher association or Parent-Teacher-Student Association is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school. Most public and private K-8 schools in the U.S. have a PTA, a...
meetings!" Charlie Brown once managed to deflate her with the comeback: "My dad has a son." (April 30, 1958)
Verbal abuse
Violet's verbal assaults of Charlie Brown (sometimes in tandem with Patty, although Patty wasn't as dominant as Violet) could be quite cruel - sometimes exceeding even the severity of Lucy's insults.She thoroughly disliked Charlie Brown and clearly made no bones about it. Violet would insult him viciously and with the utmost cruelty, and was very remorseless and even shameless about it.
On occasion, she and Patty will talk about how gentle and kind girls are, then, in the same breath, lash out at Charlie Brown to leave them alone after he showed up. They would also talk about how people should understand others more, especially children, and then, again showing their hypocrisy, cruelly scream at Charlie Brown to go away and leave them alone.
A classic example of her attitude was where Violet is lashing out at Charlie Brown, yet again, and then finishes him off with "And I don't care if I ever see you again, do you hear me?" Apparently, this tongue lashing was quite vicious, as Linus walks in and notices that Charlie Brown was really hurt. Charlie Brown said that Violet hadn't taken all the life out of him, "but you can number me among the walking wounded."
Schroeder also dislikes the idea of Violet and Patty insulting Charlie Brown all the time. He comes in while the vicious girls insulted him again. (In this one, they called him weak, a real jellyfish; also saying that he was dumb, stupid, ignorant and had a silly face!) As the girls walked off with cruel smiles on their faces, Schroeder calls them "the cats" who had once again used Charlie Brown to sharpen their claws on. Charlie Brown said to Schroeder, "I am sort of a spiritual scratching post
Scratching post
A scratching post is a wooden post covered in rough material that cat owners provide so their pets have an acceptable place to scratch. Cats have a natural urge to scratch: the action helps them remove old material from their claws, and they mark territory with scent glands in their paws...
."
Even when Charlie Brown doesn't do anything to them, Violet and Patty basically see his mere presence as an affront to their supposed and self-professed superiority and they viciously yell at him to go home. After completely demoralizing him, Violet said, "You know, it's a strange thing about Charlie Brown, you almost never see him laugh."
In the August 16, 1951 strip Violet was the first to call Charlie Brown a "Blockhead," an insult Lucy would later use far more frequently and with other characters.
Another example had Patty and Violet reciting a very mean-spirited poem basically pointing out that "Boys are rotten filled with cotton" and that "Girls are dandy filled with candy!" and then walking off smugly, where Charlie Brown retaliates with the phrase, "Generalities!!!"
Still another involved the two shamelessly berating Charlie Brown about a wrong answer Charlie Brown gave to a teacher's question, both going so far as to call him "stupid" and then walking off laughing at him. ("The teacher asked him why they have so much rain in Oregon
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
... and [Charlie Brown] said, 'Because they have a lot of clouds!'")
Once, after yet another one of Violet's verbal assaults on Charlie Brown (wherein this time she called him, weak, spineless and wishy-washy), Charlie Brown remarked to Linus that she took him down "step by step, line by line, verse by verse". Linus replied, "It sounds like you are a victim of higher criticism!".
In A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Violet, Patty and Lucy taunted Charlie Brown with the derisive song "Failure Face", in a cold-hearted attempt to stop him from entering a spelling bee
Spelling bee
A spelling bee is a competition where contestants, usually children, are asked to spell English words. The concept is thought to have originated in the United States....
and to solidify in his psyche that he was nothing more than a born loser.
"We're Having A Party, and You're Not Invited!"
While Lucy's insults tend to be fairly blunt—calling Charlie Brown names like "blockhead" and making sarcastic remarks at his expense—Patty and Violet preferred to use social exclusion as their weapon, sometimes going to extremes to make him feel like an outcast. For example, they once invited him to join their "secret club", then rejected him after he accepted. In one early Sunday strip, Patty and Violet forced Charlie Brown and Shermy to build a clubhouse for them, without even a break, and then hung a "No Boys Allowed" sign on the door.On many other occasions, especially in the early years of the strip, Patty and Violet went out of their way - sometimes with unconcealed glee, to make sure Charlie Brown knew that they were throwing a party and he wasn't invited. But Charlie Brown sometimes managed to turn the tables on the two girls. For example:
- November 23, 1951: When they mentioned excluding Charlie Brown from their party, he let it roll off his back saying he didn't want to go to their "dumb ol' party" anyway. After he left, they pondered whether he meant it. Violet was convinced he did, so Patty suggested "In that case, maybe we'd better invite him."
- January 29, 1954: Charlie Brown replied to them saying if they didn't like him they were better off not inviting him. Stunned to silence, the girls just walked away, with Charlie Brown smiling after them.
- September 1, 1954: Charlie Brown uncharacteristically threatened to strafe, then bombBombA bomb is any of a range of explosive weapons that only rely on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy...
their house if he wasn't invited, to which both girls replied, "Okay, you're invited."
Physical violence
Another contrast to Lucy was physical violence; Violet's physical attacks, especially on Charlie Brown, were much fewer and further between. In one 1963 Sunday strip, an angry Violet was chasing Charlie Brown threatening to "knock (his) block off". Before she could throw the punch, Charlie Brown stopped her and tried to reason with her that there were better ways to solve problems than with violence. Violet ended up punching him anyway in the middle of his speech, and in the final panel admits to Patty, "I had to hit him quick. He was beginning to make sense!"But Violet's fighting side backfired on her at times, too; In one particular Sunday strip Violet tries matching her in-fighting prowess against Lucy's by throwing a barrage of insults at her- from a distance. But when Violet physically gets in Lucy's face, Lucy blasts back with, "You're a no-good, tale-tattling, little sneaking snip-snap pony-tailed ape!!". Visibly shaken, Violet retreats, as Lucy smiles smugly. (The whole incident was observed by Linus and Charlie Brown, the latter remarking on Violet's choice of words saying "I'm glad it's not me she's yelling at. I'd never be able to take it!")
Notably, Violet was the first character ever not to let Charlie Brown kick a football (on November 14, 1951). However, her reason for pulling away was for fear of him kicking her hand, whereas Lucy's motivation was usually sheer malice.
Portrayals
Violet also appeared in several of the animatedAnimation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
Peanuts television specials. Voice actors who played Violet over the years include Ann Altieri (who also voiced Frieda
Frieda (Peanuts)
Frieda is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. According to Schulz, Frieda's character was inspired by his longtime friend Frieda Rich, a local artist whom he met while taking classes at the Art Instruction Schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
) from 1965-1969, Linda Ercoli
Linda Ercoli
Linda M. Ercoli is an American actress. As a child she was regularly featured as one of the voice actors in the Peanuts cartoons, playing various parts in the films and television specials.-Acting Roles:...
(who also voiced Peppermint Patty
Peppermint Patty
Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. A freckle-faced auburn/brunette, she is one of a small group in the strip who lives across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends...
) from 1972-1975, and most recently Jolean Wejbe in 2006's He's a Bully, Charlie Brown.