Charlie Brown is a lovable loser, a child possessed of endless determination and hope, but who is ultimately dominated by his anxieties and shortcomings, and is often dominated and taken advantage of by his peers. These traits are best-shown from his baseball team: Charlie Brown is the manager of the team and its pitcher, but the team consistently loses (their all-time record is 2–930). Charlie Brown is constantly cursed as a pitcher, often giving up tremendous hits which either knock him off the mound or leave him with only his shorts on. The team itself is poor, with only Charlie Brown's dog Snoopy being particularly competent; however, most of the occasions when his team has won games have been when Charlie Brown is not playing, while Charlie Brown did help the team win with a home run on one occasion. On the rare occasion that he does succeed at something, circumstances invariably arise to lessen his victory, such as when he wins a bowling trophy on which his surname is misspelled. Charlie Brown is also an avid kite-flyer, but a running joke is that his kites keep landing in a "Kite-Eating Tree" or suffering even worse fates. Once in 1958, he finally got the kite to fly before it spontaneously combusted in the air. However in the 13 July 1961 strip Charlie Brown not only gets his kite to fly, but to fly so high that he has to ask Lucy to tie on some extra string. The punch line is that Lucy does this in a huge bow. The kite is airborne through the four panels of the strip.A Sunday episode showed that once Charlie Brown tried to fly his kite in winter-and it froze solid in the air.He is often called "blockhead" by Lucy van Pelt, despite his rather round head. Every autumn Lucy promises to hold a football for Charlie Brown to kick, and every year she pulls it away as he follows through, causing him to fly in the air and land painfully on his back. He was never shown as succeeding to kick the football in the comic strip. When Charlie Brown was ill in the hospital in a 1979 sequence, Lucy promised she would never pull the football away again. She did not pull the football away when Charlie Brown tried to kick it after he got well, but he missed the football and kicked her hand. He was depicted as kicking it in a 1981 TV special, It's Magic, Charlie Brown, in which he was invisible. In 1999, Lucy delegated the task of holding the ball to her brother Rerun, but he did not reveal whether he pulled the ball away or not.Charlie Brown is drawn with only a small curl of hair at the front of his head, and a little in the back. Though this is often interpreted as him being bald, Charles Schulz has explained that he saw Charlie Brown as having hair that was so light, and cut so short, that it was not seen very well.Charlie Brown has often mentioned getting a haircut, or his hair in general, throughout the strip's run. Snoopy thinks of his owner as "that round-headed kid". He almost always wears black shorts and a short-sleeved shirt, usually yellow, with a black zig-zag stripe around the middle.Charlie Brown often utters the catch-phrase "Good grief!" when astonished or dismayed. In moments of extreme disappointment or despair he sometimes simply cries out, "I can't stand it!". Other times, he will exclaim 'Augh!' when particularly frustrated or surprised.
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