Peanuts/Shout Out

• Yes, Woodstock was named after the 1969 music festival.
• One strip featured a shout out to MAD magazine and Alfred E. Neuman.
  • In turn, MAD had done a bit about the Peanuts gang as teens and adults. Schulz wrote in and said "why don't I retire and let you guys take over?" It was signed with a sketch of Snoopy saying "What, me worry?"
• A 1961 strip has Linus filling out a personal information card for school. When asked for the name of his family physician, he doesn't know so he puts down Dr. Seuss.
• Remember Frieda's short-lived pet cat, Faron? His namesake was Faron Young, a country singer most popular in the 1950s and '60s known for his big crossover hit "Hello Walls."
• The 1984 special It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown contains a sequence during the otherwise original song, "I'm in Shape", where Peppermint Patty sings a bridge that clearly is a spoof of Toni Basil's hit "Mickey".
  • That whole special is a Shout-Out to various elements of '80s pop culture. The "Flashbeagle" theme song itself obviously spoofs "Maniac" by Michael Sembello. As if that weren't enough of a Flashdance connection, Marine Jahan - one of Jennifer Beals' body doubles - served as a dance model for Snoopy's breakdancing sequence as well.
• In a 1984 strip, Charlie Brown, exasperated at Lucy for missing another fly ball, asks her why she even plays since she's so terrible at it. Her reply: "Girls just want to have fun."
• In another strip, Lucy's excuse for missing a fly ball: she's listening to a Walkman, and Michael Jackson hit a high note.
• In a 1988 strip, Lucy tells Charlie Brown he needs a dog to cure his loneliness. Snoopy's response: "What do you think I am, Kermit the Frog?!"
• Sally reciting "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" in a 1968 strip: "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Jack Nicklaus soon would be there."
• 1950s songbird Joni James is mentioned in one strip as one of Snoopy's favorite singers (he tells the Cat Next Door not to bother asking to borrow any of his Joni James albums ever again), and in a Sunday strip in 1989 in which Linus is unable to use the telephone for a phone-in contest in which the prize is four tickets to a Joni James concert - because Lucy is hogging the phone.
• A fairly obscure one is Charlie Brown's favorite breakfast cereal, "Snicker Snacks".
• Quite a few to Billie Jean King. In one strip, Sally draws a picture of George Washington and Betsy Ross playing a mixed double against Harry S Truman and Billie Jean King for Independence Day. Her brother comments that Harry and Billie would have won in straight sets. Marcie also strongly resembles King when she's mad, according to Peppermint Patty.
• Charlie Brown mentions he'd like to be known as a "ringer" - meaning, someone with an unfair advantage in some competition - and then sadly quips there's as much chance of that as there is of his marrying Olivia Newton-John.
• One Sunday comic in the mid-90's shows Snoopy about to participate in a hockey game with Woodstock and several other birds, and was surprised to find out that before every game, they do the Macarena.
• Here's one from a 1980 strip involving comic books. The character isn't much of a surprise, receiving shout-outs all the time from one place or another...

Marcie: Did you ever read this one, sir? It's where Spiderperson is on this bridge, and...