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Shermy
Shermy is a fictional character from the comic strip ''Peanuts'', by Charles Schulz. Schulz named him after a friend from high school.〔''Peanuts Jubilee: My Life and Art With Charlie Brown and Others'', (c)1975 by Ballantine Books〕 When Peanuts made its debut on October 2, 1950, Shermy had the first lines of dialogue in the series, ending with "Good ol' Charlie Brown . . . How I hate him!" As Peanuts matured, however, Shermy became an extraneous character who was used less and less frequently, until his final appearance in 1969. In a television interview, Schulz said that in the 1950 debut of the strip, it was solely Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and a few minor characters, then showed the first strip, in which the "minor characters" he spoke of were clearly Patty and Shermy. Shermy's name was first mentioned on December 18, 1950, making him the last of the original characters to have the name revealed. In Schulz's Peanuts-precursor strip ''Li'l Folks'', a character resembling Shermy went by the name "Charlie Brown".
==Personality and characteristics==
Shermy was often portrayed as Charlie Brown's superior at the things that mattered to Charlie Brown, especially athletics. Though he spoke the only lines of dialogue in the first strip and was one of the strip's primary figures in its first few years, he was mainly utilized as a "straight man" for Charlie Brown and soon began to be eclipsed by newer characters who were more developed, such as Linus and Lucy. It was unlikely that Charlie Brown knew of Shermy's first sentence, as the two would spend time together; or it could have been more likely that Shermy did not actually hate Charlie Brown and was annoyed with him the first day of the strip. His disappearance from the strip was even faster and more complete than those of the other early characters, Patty and Violet; as early as late 1952 his appearances were becoming noticeably rare because of the success of newly introduced characters Lucy and Linus. Shermy's major physical characteristic was his short, dark hair, which he had styled in a crew cut on April 18, 1953, and kept that way permanently thereafter. Shermy would sometimes make reference to the fact he seemed doomed to have that look; he complained to Charlie Brown he got a new hairstyle one weekend only to shortly come down with an illness that kept him from attending school. By the time the illness subsided, Shermy's hair had returned to its normal look, to which Shermy exclaims "I wasted a good haircut!" in not getting to model it at school. Apparently Schulz himself was not a big fan of this look, even though he never changed it, as he once commented that he "disliked" the way he drew Shermy's hair.〔''Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Me: And All the Other Peanuts Characters'', (c)1980 by Doubleday & Co., Inc.〕 Shermy was sometimes said to play the position of first base on Charlie Brown's baseball team.
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