To Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and especially Lucy

I just ran into a Peanuts reference that I had not remembered in a favorite piece of pop culture, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. It’s a second season episode, “The Care and Feeding of Parents”. Bess, the daughter of Phylis, Mary’s downstairs neighbor, is writing a book, and she proposes to dedicate it “To Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and especially Lucy”… a dedication that Mary likes. Ah, the little touches.

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