10 Funniest Peanuts Comics Where Snoopy Fights Lucy

Summary

• Snoopy and Lucy’s fights are fueled by their stubborn and opinionated personalities, leading to humorous clashes over trivial matters.
• Despite their frequent conflicts, Snoopy and Lucy genuinely care for each other, shown through hugs and dog kisses in various Peanuts works.
• Snoopy’s unconventional fighting style of dog kisses often throws Lucy off guard, making him the peaceful yet effective victor in their tussles.

Despite their similarities, Snoopy and Lucy frequently clashed throughout the long run of Peanuts. Whether it was due to Snoopy sniffing in Lucy’s root beer or Lucy insulting Snoopy’s writing, the pair always seemed to find themselves going back and forth. Both characters have bold and often brash personalities, making fights between them unavoidable. They are both stubborn and opinionated, refusing to budge in their ways unless they really prefer a different option. As a result, punches (and dog kisses) have flown in a number of comics.

Lucy and Snoopy may be at each others’ throats a lot, but they do genuinely care for one another, a trait present in the comics, TV specials, and movies. In fact, Snoopy may be the sole character that Lucy is seen giving a hug to, a massive testament to how much Lucy loves Snoopy, even if they do come to blows more often than not.

10 “Kissing My Hand”

April 1966

Lucy and Snoopy tend to clash all the time, usually over nothing. Sometimes Lucy starts the fight, other times Snoopy, both being feisty personalities. When Snoopy insults Lucy, she throws down the gauntlet, ready to fight. All too eager, Snoopy prepares to jump in the fight. However, when Charlie Brown announces that Snoopy’s dinner is ready, the pup has to make the difficult decision of finishing the fight or kissing her hand in apology and getting to eat his meal.

It’s Snoopy, so every ardent Peanuts reader knows that the obvious choice he will make is his food, requiring him to eat crow. Yet, he doesn’t really mind since he gets to eat; one of his favorite things to do. It may not take much for Lucy and Snoopy to fight but all it takes to end a tussle is a bowl of dog food…sometimes.

9 “Bug off!”

June 1974

Snoopy has the lofty fantasy of him being a famous writer despite his work rarely getting any praise or even acceptance. Lucy thinks that she is the one to help Snoopy with his writing quality, volunteering for the position of writing buddy completely unsolicited. When Lucy critiques Snoopy’s writing as being without feeling, she takes matters into her own hands and demands Snoopy write what he feels in that instance. Instead of some heartfelt story being typed on the paper, Lucy finds the words “bug off” typed instead.

While Snoopy’s typed response may not be the nicest, the reader can definitely understand where he is coming from with Lucy staying true to her obnoxious and bossy personality characteristics. Snoopy does not usually take kindly to anyone’s criticism, constructive or otherwise, making Lucy’s writing help ill advised from the beginning.

Lucy and Snoopy went against each other in an arm wrestling tournament in a series of strips from February 1967.

8 “Get Out Of Here!”

November 1960

Cats and dogs are often at odds, yet that does not mean that the two species do not have anything in common. Snoopy, despite his belonging to the genus of Canis (AKA dogs), enjoys playing with yarn like a cat would. Most think that cats playing with yarn is adorable so it only makes sense that people would find a dog as cute as Snoopy playing with yarn just as endearing. Lucy, however, is not like most people, becoming furious when she sees Snoopy with the ball of string and shoos him out of her house.

Given Snoopy and Lucy’s back and forth relationship, it’s not an outlandish assumption that had any other dog been playing with the yarn, she would’ve found it cute, but since it’s Snoopy, it’s maddening to her instead. Lucy and Snoopy would have many more petty squabbles for years to come, making this earlier comic just a peek of the fights they would get into in the future.

7 “Prepare To Meet Your Doom”

October 1967

While a dog kiss would not be considered a powerful weapon, it is the only defense needed when Lucy, who loathes dog germs, is the opponent. When Lucy has had enough of Snoopy’s insults, she is determined to fight. However, Snoopy resorts to some dirty tricks, knowing that kissing her will effectively see the end of any possible fighting. The kiss is so effective that Snoopy compares it to the effect of not just one but two judo chops.

Snoopy knows Lucy almost better than anyone, except her two little brothers, of course, making him a very precarious sparring partner. He knows all her weaknesses, like her fear of dog germs, and her strengths, like knowing that she would be hard pressed to back down from a fight unless extreme measures are introduced, as Snoopy enacts.

6 “Back-Talk”

March 1968

Typically, Charlie Brown is the manager of his baseball team. Given the lousy track record of the baseball team under Charlie Brown’s management, it is not a surprise at all that the Peanuts team were willing to give another player a shot at manager, even the shortstop-playing Snoopy. When he got yelled at by Charlie Brown, he quit the team and was only willing to come back if he would be able to be manager.

In his new role as manager, Snoopy decided to rule with an iron fist, kicking the bottom of any player who dare go against him, play badly, or give him backtalk, as Lucy tends to do, like in this comic. Snoopy is obviously taking his position as baseball manager seriously, a little too seriously, not earning any admiration from Lucy as the new team leader.

5 “Stepped On Your Tale”

March 2000

Despite previous attempts at helping Snoopy with his writing proving to be contentious, Lucy did not learn her lesson as evident by this later Peanuts work. Likewise, Snoopy has also had little patience for cheesy jokes, an example being him throwing his doggy dish at Charlie Brown when he made a joke. When Lucy offers up a pun-heavy joke of her own after criticizing Snoopy’s writing which Snoopy does not think is funny, he throws his entire typewriter at her.

Having a beagle throw his typewriter at you would be super painful physically and a bit of a bruise to the ego as well, making one question their comedic abilities. While Snoopy is usually a pretty easy going, fun dog, one thing he cannot stand are bad jokes, making him irrationally throw things at the unlucky jokester. As a result, the Peanuts kids should be careful to avoid any puns around this beagle with an all-star throwing arm.

4 “What In The World”

May 1965

Snoopy and Lucy’s arguments tend to escalate into fist fights. Technically, they’re fist and dog kiss fights but their fights get physical nevertheless. One comic sets the scene mid-fight, where they are already coming to blows. Therefore, readers get an up close seat at the different fighting styles of them; Lucy the more traditional punching method, Snoopy the more unique approach of licking her face.

As much as his fighting style is unconventional, it works, effectively throwing Lucy off her game. She is so perturbed and angry by his dog kisses that it stops her in her tracks and causes her to actually momentarily stop throwing punches. It’s not an advisable fighting style but apparently it works wonders for Snoopy. It also allows Snoopy to be the peaceful fighter of the two, never hitting but still winning.

3 “I’ve Got You In My Power”

September 1952

Holding food above all else, Snoopy is always willing to prioritize his supper above all else. However, in some cases, pride usurps hunger, as this comic illustrates. When Charlie Brown has, perhaps unwisely, given Lucy the duty of feeding Snoopy his dinner, Lucy decides that she will accept her duties and rule over the pup with a diabolical glee now that she has complete control over his food.

To her surprise, Snoopy would rather eat wild berries than try to appease Lucy and gain her favor for dinner, showing his absolute disdain for her newfound power. He would rather insult Lucy and eat berries off a bush than enact a truce for the singular night that Lucy has the dinner responsibility. While Snoopy possesses many adjectives, petty is one that gets added to the list thanks to this sidesplitting strip.

When Charlie Brown and his family go on vacation, he usually has Snoopy stay at Lucy’s where things rarely go smoothly, as to be expected.

2 “There’s Biting!”

March 1980

Snoopy’s happy dance is infectious… except for the crabby Lucy. Instead, she loathes his happy dance, often airing her annoyance openly and in front of Snoopy himself. When Lucy tries to get him to stop his dancing, she is more successful than she imagined, as seen when Snoopy does actually stop dancing only to then run after her to bite her. They get on each other’s nerves constantly, with Snoopy’s happy dancing a major pet peeve of Lucy’s, almost always resulting in some sort of argument if not an all out fight.

Nevertheless, Snoopy will not be held down, always either joyfully continuing his dance or biting back against Lucy, in this case, literally. While it’d be wise to let Snoopy do his happy dance without any pointed comments, the past between Lucy and Snoopy shows that she’ll stay true to her heckling ways.

1 “Your Stupid Dog Sniffed In My Root Beer!”

June 1967

Lucy is terrified of dog germs. As a result, she cannot stand it when Snoopy kisses her or, most of all, when he sniffs in her beloved root beer. There is little else that angers her more than Snoopy sniffing in her root beer, being a total no-no to anyone who knows her. Charlie Brown takes the blame for Snoopy’s beverage sniffing behavior, thinking he should’ve taught him etiquette, which would include not sniffing their hostess’ drink.

Rather than take the advice seriously after he gets kicked out of Lucy’s house, Snoopy decides that next time he’ll bite her leg instead of sniffing her drink, which doesn’t seem like much of an upgrade. One of the many funny aspects of the comic is the length that Lucy is willing to go to to make her point about dog germs in her drink, even getting her binoculars and looking at the root beer as if it is under a microscope.

• Peanuts

  Created by:

  Charles M. Schulz

  First Film:

  The Peanuts Movie

  Cast:

  Christopher Shea, Kathy Steinberg, Bill Melendez, Sally Dryer, Peter Robbins, Noah Schnapp, Hadley Belle Miller, Mariel Sheets, Lisa DeFaria, Venus Omega Schultheis

  TV Show(s):

  The Snoopy Show, Peanuts by Schulz

  Character(s):

  Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy van Pelt, Linus van Pelt, Sally Brown, Pig-Pen, Marcie (Peanuts), Peppermint Patty, Woodstock

  Movie(s):

  The Peanuts Movie, A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown’s All Stars!, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown