Peggy Jean

Peggy Jean is a fictional character in the comic strip "Peanuts". She was the girlfriend of Charlie Brown for about two years in the early-1990s. Charlie Brown first met her at summer camp in 1990, and she appeared intermittently in the strip until the summer of 1999, a few months before the strip ended. Because of Charlie Brown's extreme nervousness upon meeting her, he mistakenly gave his name as "Brownie Charles," which she continued to use thereafter.

Peggy Jean and Charlie Brown's relationship hit a brief snag almost immediately after it began, however. At summer camp, Peggy Jean once held the football down for Charlie Brown, who apparently declined, worried that she would pull it away like Lucy did. The fact that he took so long to make up his mind led Peggy to think that he didn't trust her and she allegedly went home enraged. Peggy Jean came back and made up, kissing Charlie Brown in the process. Charlie Brown went so far as to call Linus on the phone and tell him that she kissed him. But the phone was actually answered by Lucy who asked "What is this, an obscene phone call??!!"

Later Charlie Brown wanted to buy her some gloves for Christmas but did not have the money for them (Linus suggested he send her a card advising her to keep her hands in her pockets). Charlie Brown sold his entire comic collection in order to buy the gloves, only to meet Peggy Jean in the shop and her telling him that her mother had bought her the same sort of gloves.

Charlie Brown liked Peggy Jean as much as the Little Red-Haired Girl, if not more, but in her final appearance in the strip in 1999, she revealed to him that she had another boyfriend who was waiting at the football field, leaving Charlie Brown brokenhearted.

Peggy Jean's only appearance in the animated specials is in a portion of "It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown" adapted from a storyline from December 1990.