

She seems to be one of the few characters in the neighborhood that Charlie Brown feels confident enough to stand up to. She eventually joins Charlie Brown's baseball team as an outfielder but refuses to wear a baseball cap because it would hide her naturally curly hair, though she does make rare exceptions, such as the ApSunday strip. Although she becomes angry with Charlie Brown on a few occasions, she never teases him or puts him down (except for rare moments in the Peanuts television specials). Unlike Lucy, Patty, and Violet, Frieda is usually a lot nicer to Charlie Brown and seems to be mindful of his feelings. In The Peanuts Movie, her dress is colored dark pink, the stripes on her saddles are brown instead of black, and also her hair is bright orange rather than red, probably so the viewers wouldn't think she was Heather. She usually wears a dress, which is colored violet in her animated appearances and has a pleated skirt, and black and white saddle shoes similar to those of Lucy, although on rare occasions (in animated appearances), she is seen wearing black Mary Janes, similar to those of Violet and Patty. In her animated appearances, her hair is red. AppearanceĪs she always says, Frieda has "naturally curly hair", of which she is extremely proud. Faron was named after country singer Faron Young. She replied, "I recognize myself," adding as an example that while talking to Schulz once about Universalists and Congregationalists, she had jokingly called herself a "conversationalist," and Schulz borrowed that for the strip. She has also admitted that she used to be an avid reader until she started getting too busy.įrieda Rich, a Minnesota artist whom Schulz knew and the character's namesake, was once asked whether she bore any character resemblances to her cartoon counterpart. Nevertheless, enough people in the neighborhood like her that she got thirty valentines one year. Frieda also believes people expect more from her because she has naturally curly hair. In turn, Frieda believes the other girls are jealous of her hair and becomes disappointed when a girl says otherwise. This self-love about her hair leads people to believe that she is rather vain. She manages to bring up the topic of her hair in every conversation, which is shown to annoy the people around her. She sits behind Linus in class, but due to her constant talking, Linus claimed not to have heard a word that their teacher has said all year.įrieda is very proud of her "naturally curly hair". In her early appearances in the strip, Frieda is presented as a chatterbox.

Her relatively brief tenure was partly due to a one-joke physical characteristic: her "naturally curly hair". Her first television appearance was in A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965.Īlthough blessed with one of the strip's most immediately memorable debuts, Frieda's place as a regular among her neighborhood friends was one of the shortest at a mere 15 years.

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She served as a major part of the comic strip for a brief period of time and appeared in the TV specials. Unlike in the strip, Frieda is depicted as a bit meaner to Charlie Brown (especially in Charlie Brown's All-Stars, where she and the other, kids incorrectly assumed that Charlie Brown lost their team the game on purpose and got angry over his failure even though logically his attempt for a home run should be a success given real-world physics and helping your teammate is better even if a loss is their fault).įrieda's first appearance in the strip from March 6, 1961.įrieda was first introduced to Charlie Brown by Linus on March 6, 1961. She is willing to help her friends if it is necessary as well. Frieda is nicer in the strip, never putting down anyone unless that person really deserves it. Frieda's biggest flaw is how vain she is, which often distracts her.
