In the “Peanuts” cartoons, Lucy consistently invites Charlie Brown to kick a football she holds out from him, only to pull the ball away at the last moment and watch him fall on his back.
“Charlie Brown, oh Charlie Brown!” she called in the Thanksgiving special while asking Charlie Brown to kick the football. “I can’t believe it! She must think I’m the most stupid person alive,” Charlie Brown murmered. “You’ll pull it away, and I’ll land flat on my back and kill myself!”
In this particular instance, Lucy manages to convince Charlie Brown that she would never pull away the football on Thanksgiving. The invitation provoked some serious consideration from Charlie Brown. “She wouldn’t try to trick me on a traditional holiday,” he reasoned
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