Snoopy sleeps on top of his doghouse.
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| ~ Charles M. Schulz[1] |
Snoopy's doghouse is where Snoopy lives. It is located in the Brown house's backyard, and is where Snoopy usually sleeps.
History[]
First appearance of Snoopy's doghouse in the strip from September 4, 1951.
Snoopy has had television installed in the strip from November 19, 1951.
Snoopy first sleeps on top of his doghouse in the strip from December 12, 1958.
The secret of Snoopy's ears revealed in the strip from April 29, 1963.
Snoopy's doghouse was first shown on September 4, 1951. It appeared again on November 19, 1951, when Snoopy first got television. In these earlier days of the strip, Snoopy treated it more like a normal doghouse. He would be seen sleeping in the archway. However, on December 12, 1958, Snoopy slept on top of his doghouse, rather than inside it, for the first time. Thereafter, Snoopy was seldom seen to venture inside the doghouse, except to retrieve something, instead spending the bulk of his time sitting or lying on its gable roof. One strip ascribed Snoopy's ability to sleep there to his long floppy ears, which—like the feet of a perching bird – "lock" him to the top so that he does not fall. After a while of Snoopy sleeping on top of his doghouse, it just seems normal to him. In the strip from January 27, 1963, Linus even suggests for Snoopy to sleep inside of it, when Snoopy was cold at night, but everyone thought that was the most ridiculous thing they had ever heard.
At this point, the side view of the doghouse became standard in the strip, which allowed the imagination of Schulz (and Snoopy) to expand this dwelling beyond the limits of a normal doghouse. The house's most unusual feature is that it has an enormous inside. Either the entrance leads to an expansive basement with a few other rooms and ample storage space or the inside is a fourth-dimensional tesseract space. Either way the inside is much larger than the outside and contains many objects.
Although normally Snoopy is the only one who lives in his doghouse, Woodstock and his friends stay with him, occasionally. Some other characters have stayed in the doghouse as well. In a storyline from September and October 1973, Peppermint Patty moves in to what she thinks is Chuck's guest cottage, because she needs a place to stay while her father is away. Linus chooses to move into the doghouse, although he calls it Joe Cool's dorm, as part of a May 1972 storyline in which Lucy throws him out of their home.
Interior[]
Strip from January 31, 1954.
Snoopy's doghouse is much bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. This was first shown on January 31, 1954.
The doghouse contains or has had attached the following:
- A TV antenna (November 19, 1951)
- A hotel entrance (February 07, 1952)
- A color TV set (October 19, 1952)
- A birdhouse (May 12, 1953)
- A recreation room (January 31, 1954)
- an air-conditioning unit with extra door (August 10, 1956)
- Space for Thirty-two children (May 18, 1959)
- A clock (October 03, 1958)
- A guest room (October 21, 1961)
- A pipe and deerstalker hat (January 28, 1962)
- A bone, dog dish, shoes, sock, glove and a box (April 08, 1962)
- A basement (November 09, 1962)
- A den (January 05, 1963)
- A closet with a faulty latch (February 16, 1963)
- A clock radio (December 22, 1963)
- An electrical outlet (December 22, 1963)
- carpeting (June 23, 1964)
- Snoopy's beloved Van Gogh painting (June 22, 1964)
- (replaced by an Andrew Wyeth painting when it was destroyed in a fire) (November 04, 1966)
- A pool table (June 06, 1964)
- A stairway (June 24, 1964)
- boxes of empty soda bottles (June 24, 1964)
- more closets (June 26, 1964)
- flooring (June 29, 1964)
- counter tops (June 29, 1964)
- A library with fluorescent lights (August 24, 1964)
- A ceiling mural painted by Linus (September 22, 1964)
- A ping pong table (November 20, 1964)
- A potted philodendron (November 23, 1964)
- A basketball hoop and net (March 21, 1965)
- A shower (April 21, 1965)
- A typewriter (July 12, 1965)
- A surfboard (August 5, 1965)
- silver candlesticks (January 27, 1966)
- A grandfather clock (March 06, 1966)
- A cedar closet (September 10, 1966)
- books (September 19, 1966)
- LP records (September 19, 1966)
- A pair of pinking shears (September 28, 1966)
- ceramic tiles (September 30, 1966)
- A set of dominoes (April 29, 1967)
- A photo album of every supper dish that Snoopy has owned (August 25, 1967)
- A postage meter (January 05, 1968)
- A servant's entrance (February 24, 1968)
- A teakettle (May 14, 1968)
- A picture of Tiny Tim (September 10, 1968)
- A stereo (November 03, 1968)
- A stained-glass window (December 20, 1968)
- A carpeted front hall (February 23, 1969)
- A bottle of cologne (January 21, 1970)
- A waffle iron (October 17, 1970)
- A supply of TV dinners (October 24, 1970)
- electric socks (November 19, 1970)
- A formal suit for a turn-about dance (December 01, 1970)
- A whirlpool bath (October 10, 1971)
- A downstairs refrigerator (August 09, 1975)
- A CB radio (April 25, 1976)
- an automatic door (August 26, 1978)
- A fishing pole (July 08, 1973)
- A hat for wearing whilst fishing (August 28, 1979)
- wading boots and bunk beds.(August 28, 1979)
- Uncountable items and Snoopy's antique dog dishes (October 14, 1991)
In the television special It's Magic, Charlie Brown we see an interior of Snoopy's doghouse which includes a room with exercise equipment, sports equipment, lockers, awards and trophies; and a lab with a bunsen burner, flasks and distillation equipment. In I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown, Snoopy tries to serve his brothers Andy and Olaf root beers in a small living room area, with paintings on the wall, decorative lamps, and a coffee table. The room is rather quickly thrown into disarray due to the pair's rush to get the root beers, and Snoopy is left with a massive mess to clean up.
In the movie A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Snoopy brings two speakers from his doghouse. In the movie Snoopy, Come Home, he brings toy shovels, a radio, some foods, sunscreen, blanket, a bucket, coca-cola, a cup, a basket, slippers, a kettle, a glasses, a hat and a surfboard from the doghouse.
Destruction[]
Snoopy escapes from his doghouse in the nick of time in the strip from February 13, 1960.
Snoopy's doghouse has been destroyed and rebuilt several times.
- The house is destroyed after hitting a tree, the results of a furious blanket chase between Linus and Snoopy, in the July 26, 1959 Sunday strip.
- Snoopy's home is destroyed by a huge icicle, in the February 13, 1960 daily strip.
- Disaster strikes when a fire burns Snoopy's house to the ground in the strip from September 19, 1966.
- The doghouse is accidentally destroyed by Marcie, when she tries to get Peppermint Patty to come down from its roof and go back to school in the strip from March 20, 1974.
- It is destroyed by a cannon blast in a series of strips from April 1986. This blast also destroys Lucy's psychiatry booth and Schroeder's piano.
- Snoopy's doghouse has also been destroyed by the cat next door, many times.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Charles M. Schulz., & M. Thomas Inge. (2010). "My Life with Charlie Brown", p158, University Press of Mississippi; Illustrated edition