Snoopy is the deuteragonist of the Peanuts franchise.
He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle, one of his best friends and who cares for him. Snoopy is blessed with a rich, Walter Mitty-like fantasy life. Snoopy is the oldest living Peanuts character due to his natural age in dog years and the real age of his family in the series.
In the cartoons and in the 2015 film The Peanuts Movie, he is voiced by the late Bill Melendez.
In Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, he is voiced by Andy Beall.
In the Apple TV tv shows and specials, he is voiced by Terry McGurrin.
History[]
He is Charlie Brown's beagle dog who acts anthropomorphic and never acts like a real dog, except he almost never wears anything except a collar, and he almost never speaks or sings (the exception of the latter two being You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy!!! The Musical, but in neither one's animated version does his mouth move to his dialogue because none of the human members hear him talk; however, the children do seem to hear him in the number "Just One Person" as Snoopy counts himself as the first, and then he is joined).
Personality[]
Snoopy is a funny, imaginative, good-natured and genuinely happy dog. A running gag within the strip is that he does a "happy dance", which annoys Lucy because she believes that nobody can ever be that happy. However, Snoopy just thinks Lucy is jealous because she is not capable of being as happy as he is. The only thing that truly upsets him is a lack of supper. Snoopy, being a dog, has a strong hatred of cats, often making rude remarks to the cat next door (who usually attacks him and destroys his doghouse) and in one series of strips writes stories for a magazine which just points out that cats are stupider than, and inferior to, dogs. However, Snoopy has on occasions tried to be nice to the cat next door, but their relationship always remains antagonistic.
He is an immensely loyal pet and caring brother.
Snoopy loves root beer, pizza, and ice cream, hates coconut candy and listening to balloons being squeezed, gets claustrophobia, which keeps him out of tall weeds and even his own dogho
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- Despite being a dog, Snoopy is apparently capable of communicating words other than "woof" and even being understood by the other Peanuts characters outside of writing his thoughts on his typewriter. One such instance is when his brother Spike was introduced: Snoopy heralds Spike's entrance in the August 13, 1975 strip by declaring in a thought bubble Spike should be served Eggs Benedict, but Lucy responds that the order should be changed to "ten pounds of buffalo steak", leading the reader to infer she somehow heard him. In a more explicit example, in the December 23, 1989 strip, Snoopy vocally says to Sally (so indicated by a speech bubble instead of the usual thought bubble) "Who cares? Merry Christmas, sweetie! Woof woof woof!"
- Terry McGurrin, Snoopy's voice actor for all media 2019-onwards, was originally cast due to his ability to mimic Snoopy's voice naturally. However, when he was cast, it was decided that they would record his voice the same way Melendez recorded it, i.e. speaking slowly in a deep voice and speeding up the recording in post-production.
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