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- "Pig-Pen" is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. He is a young boy who is, except on very rare occasions, very dirty. "Pig-Pen" is a nickname, invariably written in quotation marks in the strip. In the character's first appearance, (July 13, 1954), in a strip directly parodying the first chapter of Lord of the Flies, he declares, "I haven't got a name . . . People just call me things . . . Real insulting things. " If he does have a real name, it is never mentioned. In a 2000 Gallup Poll "Pig-Pen" was found to be the fifth most popular Peanuts character. "Pig-Pen" is known for the cloud of dirt and dust that follows him wherever he goes. When he takes a deep breath (to sing, for example), the dust rises briefly around him. He sometimes refers to the cloud that surrounds him with pride as the dust of ancient civilizations. He cannot seem to rid himself of the dust for more than the briefest of periods--indeed, in spite of his best efforts, it appears that he cannot stay clean. He is referred to in an early strip as the only person who can get dirty while walking in a snowstorm. Nevertheless, on rare occasions he has very briefly appeared clean, and hence unrecognizable. Once this was in order to impress Violet, of whom he was a bit fond. Once, after bathing and dressing in clean clothes, "Pig-Pen" stepped outside his house, and instantaneously became dirty and disheveled, whereupon he declared to Charlie Brown, "You know what I am? I'm a dust magnet!" On another occasion, "Pig-Pen" decided it was important to have clean hands, but after failing to wash them, realized that he had "reached a point of no return. " Charlie Brown is the sole Peanuts character to unconditionally accept "Pig-Pen" for who he is, even defending "Pig-Pen's" uncleanliness in one strip (which was re-used in A Charlie Brown Christmas): Charles Schulz admitted that he came to regret "Pig-Pen's" popularity, given the character's essentially one-joke nature; he utilized the character very rarely in the later years of the strip's run. Like most of Schulz's characters, "Pig-Pen" appeared in several of the animated Peanuts television specials beginning in the 1960s. In the 1990s, he appeared (in an animated overlay against a live-action backdrop) in a series of television commercials for Regina vacuum cleaners where all the dirt is sucked off his filthy trousers by one of the company's products. Geoffrey Ornstein first voiced "Pig-Pen" in the 1965 movie A Charlie Brown Christmas. Although he also later played the role in A Boy Named Charlie Brown, other various actors have voiced him ever since. "Pig-Pen" last appeared in the Peanuts comic strip on September 8, 1999. That strip was very uncharacteristic of him in that it showed him embarrassed to the point of shame in his dirtiness, with none of the pride or sense of destiny that he expressed in earlier strips. "Pig-Pen" is very good at playing the drums, as shown in the special Play it Again, Charlie Brown.
- Pig-Pen è un personaggio secondario della striscia dei Peanuts di Charles M. Schulz. È il bambino più sporco della compagnia, benché sia comunque molto orgoglioso della sua sporcizia (dice che "lo caratterizza"); alcuni ritengono anche che su di lui potrebbe esserci anche "la polvere delle antiche civiltà". Viene molto criticato dalle ragazze, soprattutto da Patty e Violet, che, non appena lo vedono, non fanno altro che correre da lui e importunarlo con le loro frasi sciocche. Un segno di quanto sia orgoglioso della sua sporcizia è una striscia nella quale Violet gli rimprovera con tono ironico "Ecco Pig-Pen, guardati allo specchio! Guarda come sei sporco!", ma egli ribatte "Caspita! Non pensavo di essere così bello!". Al contrario di Patty e Violet, Charlie Brown, pur raramente, parla volentieri con Pigpen, confidandogli abbastanza cose da poterlo considerare suo amico. Quando Pigpen cerca di pulirsi della sua polvere, tanto criticata da tutti, combina solo guai. Nessuno lo riconosce e nessuno lo invita alle feste. Chissà perché l'unico a capire che è lui, è Charlie Brown che lo consola e lo tranquillizza. Pigpen ha anche avuto una storia con Piperita Patty; la bimba lo conosce ad una festa, per la quale ha incaricato Charlie Brown di trovarle un compagno, che si rivela poi essere Pigpen. Prima scettica sul suo conto - per via della sua sporcizia - Piperita Patty, inizialmente osservando le sue inaspettate doti di ballerino, finisce per innamorarsene.
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- "Pig-Pen" is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. He is a young boy who is, except on very rare occasions, very dirty. "Pig-Pen" is a nickname, invariably written in quotation marks in the strip. In the character's first appearance, (July 13, 1954), in a strip directly parodying the first chapter of Lord of the Flies, he declares, "I haven't got a name . . . People just call me things . . . Real insulting things. " If he does have a real name, it is never mentioned.
- Pig-Pen è un personaggio secondario della striscia dei Peanuts di Charles M. Schulz. È il bambino più sporco della compagnia, benché sia comunque molto orgoglioso della sua sporcizia (dice che "lo caratterizza"); alcuni ritengono anche che su di lui potrebbe esserci anche "la polvere delle antiche civiltà". Viene molto criticato dalle ragazze, soprattutto da Patty e Violet, che, non appena lo vedono, non fanno altro che correre da lui e importunarlo con le loro frasi sciocche.
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