Talk:Lucy Van Pelt

Dimwitted?

I've never thought that Lucy has been portrayed as dimwitted. Certainly not any more than other characters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:0:1000:1102:68F1:1061:AF71:7FF0 (talk) 21:27, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Well, seeing as it isn't cited in any sources, feel free to remove it. ~Mable (chat) 04:57, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Her stupidity isn't shown that frequently, but there are a fairly numerous amount of strips where she is clearly depicted as being very dimwitted. I could give some more examples if required. Gonzales John (talk) 08:59, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

@Maplestrip I've already sourced the strip. Gonzales John (talk) 09:04, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

You cannot say that she is portrayed as "dimwitted" without an external source saying that she is, at least if the choice of word is considered disputed. It's somewhat of an opinion and those can't be sourced by the work itself. For example, I could definitely imagine someone saying that Lucy is being really clever in the two strips you used as sources.

Are there any independent sources talking about how smart Lucy is? We could use something like that to quote. ~Mable (chat) 11:14, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

There´s a u-tubib guy using the syllable 'fur' instead of 'van pelt'. Anyone noticed the implication before him? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4DD7:C240:0:495E:BE5C:4AC1:7A2 (talk) 14:16, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

What are GTCC Stories?

"Lucy also appeared in GTCC Stories In S3EP11, Making Her More Annoying Than The Original Versions."Jtyroler (talk) 09:59, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Relationship with other characters

I was thinking about completely deleting the relationships section, as it is completely uncited and leaves you with too much intricate detail which casual readers really wouldn't care about, especially if they don't know much about Peanuts. Any objections? ~Mable (chat) 08:42, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

I went through with it. There must be plenty of non-in-universe stuff to talk about here, right? We don't even have a reception section... ~Mable (chat) 13:19, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

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Inconsistency in History section

In the history section there is this statement in the first paragraph;

"she was the same age as Charlie Brown (the early strips with toddler-age Lucy were not reprinted until after Charles Schulz’s death). Schulz then altered Lucy's eyes to have the same appearance as that of the other characters, except for small extra lines around them which were also sported by her two siblings."

So, the question is, how could Schulz alter Lucy's eyes after he passed away??? Nodekeeper (talk) 06:08, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Undue weight

There are a couple of sentences flagged for undue weight.

In the Charlie Brown article, Charlie Brown is clearly defined as an archetype, and even though this article doesn't say as much about Lucy, it's hard not to view Lucy through a comparable lens.

Given that the article has not introduced the idea that Lucy might represent an archetype, it's hard to see why some of these remarks are germane.

On the other hand, a psychiatrist booking off to chew gum ... well, how can you leave that out, if archetype is anywhere to be found in the Peanuts gallery? — MaxEnt 20:39, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Family name

I think it's somewhat well-known that her name is van Pelt, and yet I can't think of any actual instances where this was mentioned in-comic. I'd like to see a statement of when this was first asserted, and perhaps some discussion of how often it was repeated after that. (Cf. Violet Gray, mentioned only once during the lifetime of the strip.) Joule36e5 (talk) 10:06, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Article move discussion 12 July 2021

We need a reliable source regarding the letter case of Van in Van Pelt. The article title reads lowercase van, while the rest of the article uses uppercase. Checking for sources is more difficult than it would seem, as official Peanuts websites make no mention of Lucy and Linus' family name, and merch that I could find spell everything in all caps.

I was going to move this article Lucy van Pelt → Lucy Van Pelt for consistency, but without a source to verify which (if either) is correct, I can't proceed. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 06:00, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Would suggest an official request to move to initiate some added discussion. For the record, the Schulz museum lists her with a capital V.--☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 15:10, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

While this is not something that has been consistently policed by the rightsholders, a quick check of a few licensed books suggests that capital-V is more common than lower-case, which is consistent with my instinct. 'The licensed Peanuts histories The Peanuts Book, 50 Years of Happiness and The Peanuts Collection (and for COI purposes I should note that I wrote the last of those three and consulted on the first, but do not speak on behalf of Peanuts Worldwide, the Schulz Estate, or anyone else beside li'l ol' me on this matter) use capital V when full names are given; the back cover of the strip collection Lucy: Speak Out uses the lower case.

However, the best case may come from the strip itself. The only time that I can find that the Van Pelt name isn't written in ALL CAPS in the strip is the November 8, 1964 strip, where Linus handwrites the name with a capital V. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:21, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your replies. While I can move articles, it appears that I cannot move this article in the manner described because the lettercase change is being registered as same article title (makes sense). While I feel I could perform the move without objection, this is going to require a Technical RM. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 19:35, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

 Done: Moved per Technical RM; thank you. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 21:10, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Yes I am home

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