Awesome Peanuts

The Vince Guaraldi Trio’s Linus and Lucy from A Charlie Brown Christmas brings happy memories flooding in. While the jazzy original was performed on piano, bass, and drums, Foggy Mountain Spaceship gave it a twangy new sound by playing the track on banjos. For more banjo goodness, check out their cover of Walking on the Moon by The Police.

Happiness is a warm puppy… with a surfboard ready to shred waves. Eco-friendly Brazilian shoemaker Cariuma salutes everyone’s favorite beagle on their cotton canvas OCA low-top sneakers with a cork insert and slip-resistant rubber. Charles M. Schulz would be stoked that two trees are planted for every pair sold.

For those of us mourning the loss of the Choco Taco, the Choco Tacotini cocktail will aid the healing process. Cody Goldstein of Brooklyn-based hospitality group Muddling Memories has created a dreamy, sweet ‘n’ salty dessert cocktail featuring Tequila Cazadores, amaro, cold brew, cream, peanuts, and fudge-shell chocolate.

We’ve long been fans of artist Glenn Jones’ cheeky illustrations. Here, he envisions a world in which Snoopy and Woodstock are balloon animals. Even their doghouse is inflatable. The playful image is available on various shirts, including tees, tanks, sweatshirts, and hoodies. Now we want to see the rest of the balloon Peanuts.

Pintrill’s offers an extensive collection of brass and enamel pins inspired by the world of Peanuts. We particularly love these two-pin sets that compare what Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Linus looked like at the beginning of the beloved cartoon in 1950 vs. what they look like now.

Created by Jakob Burgsø’s Boyhood Design, these solid oak sculptures pay tribute to the comics of childhood. While he’s officially named Mr. B’Eagle we think you can call him Snoopy once he’s sitting on your bookshelf. Available with light ears, dark ears, or completely dark, and in small (5.9″ h) and large (8.6″ h) sizes.

One of the more popular things to do with footage from the classic Peanuts cartoons is to edit them dancing and singing to make them look like they’re performing a different song. Garren Lazar’s latest edit has the gang tackling the 1971 Yes track Roundabout, and it’s quite perfectly synced up with the prog-rock masterpiece.

Timex infuses its classic Weekender watch with a bit of color and whimsy, offering a collection of officially-licensed Peanuts characters, including Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy. Each one features a nylon strap, an Indiglo light-up dial, and is water resistant to 30m.

Expert engraver Shaun Hughes turns his attention to Charles Schultz’s lovable loser, as he deftly carves his famous expression and “Oh, Good Grief” catchphrase into an old Buffalo nickel. Fortunately, five cents is just enough for Lucy’s psychiatric help booth.

It’s a Festivus Miracle, Charlie Brown! The Peanuts gather ’round the Festivus pole to air their grievances in Nutmeg’s amusing mashup video that combines the classic animated series with a classic episode of Seinfeld.

Animator Leigh Lahav’s latest clip is a hilariously dark mashup of A Charlie Brown Christmas and Stranger Things, which picks up where season one left off, as Will Byers tries to cope with reality after coming back from his time in a creepy parallel swamp universe.

A Charlie Brown Christmas is a holiday tradition around here. Here’s a slightly edgier take on the Christmas classic, set to the hardcore thrash punk sounds of Bad Brains. Say, that kid at 1:14 stole our dance moves.

As a promo stunt for the upcoming Peanuts movie, Otto Dieffenbach – the guy who made us believe a man could fly – created this impressive R/C flyer that looks just like Snoopy as he takes on the Red Baron from the roof of his doghouse.

It’s rare that we’re excited about a CGI remake of a hand-drawn cartoon (think Garfield), but Blue Sky seems to have gotten the style just right in their upcoming reboot of Charles Schulz’ classic. Too bad we have to wait until November 2015.

How cool would it be to own one of these tiny and exquisitely detailed celebrity peanut sculptures, handpainted by Midwestern artist Steve Casino? Pretty frickin’ cool, that’s what we think. You can see how he does it right here. (Thanks Ira!)

Good grief! Charles Schulz’s classic cartoon is headed to the big screen, using a unique CGI style that does an impressive job honoring the style of the original characters. Let’s hope the humor and voice acting seal the deal.

Like peanuts? Lord Nut Levington offers tasty nuts with awesome flavor profiles like cheddar/jalapeño, cinnamon/apple/vanilla, thai curry/lemongrass, tomato/garlic/cheese and a spot-on bloody mary.

Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang define love in simple but true terms in Charles M. Schulz’ 1965 book, Love is Walking Hand in Hand. The book is out of print, hence its high price. (Thanks Bea!)

A short clip from a never-released documentary featuring the hand of Charles Schulz drawing Charlie Brown as he describes what’s behind Charlie’s insecurities and perpetual bad luck.

Linus and his blanket star in the new Peanuts movie Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, based on 1960s comic strips. The animation and voices are wonderful blasts from the past.

Show your love for Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Patty and Woodstock with these limited-edition Peanuts journals in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Charles Schultz’s classic comic.