Patricia Reichardt
Peppermint Patty is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip, Peanuts. Her full name is Patricia Reichardt, which is very rarely used in the strip. She is one of a small group in the strip who live across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends (although in The Peanuts Movie, Snoopy in Space, and The Snoopy Show, she, Marcie and Franklin live in the same neighborhood and attend the same school). She has freckles and "mousy-blah" hair and generally displays the characteristics of a tomboy, although she also demonstrates an obsession with the smaller things in life. She made her first appearance on August 22, 1966. In the following year, 1967, she made her animated debut in the TV special, You're in Love, Charlie Brown, and began (in the comics) coaching a baseball team that played against Charlie Brown and thereafter had other adventures with him. Uniquely, she refers to Charlie Brown and Lucy as "Chuck" and "Lucille", respectively. In most of her appearances, she is attracted to Charlie Brown, based on her reactions. Her birthday is on October 4.
Appearence[edit | edit source]
Peppermint Patty has chin-length hair that she describes as "mousy-blah", most often depicted as a medium brown (though the color has sometimes appeared as orange-red or auburn, as in The Peanuts Movie), and has freckles. She wears a green, striped collared shirt, black or dark blue shorts (long pants in The Peanuts Movie) with two vertical white stripes on each side and she almost always goes barefoot with sandals (brown in the comic strip and merchandise; green in animated appearances except in The Peanuts Movie). Although her implied attachment to having her toes in the open is never clarified, in one series of strips where she is forbidden to wear the sandals in school, it is revealed they were a gift from her father because she was "a rare gem".