Schroeder (Peanuts) be asleep on his piano. He addresses her as "pretty girl", and says "I think you're kind of cute! You really fascinate me!" He ends his string of flirtatious remarks with "I guess I love everything about you... Sweet baby!" Lucy cannot help but grin, to which Schroeder exclaims, "Ha! I knew you weren't asleep!" Lucy responds with "Rats!". Schroeder has only been known to kiss Lucy once. Lucy gives Schroeder a cupcake on Beethoven's birthday, and he kisses her on the cheek, but when Lucy turns around she sees Snoopy immediately next to her. Thinking that Snoopy kissed her,
The Perishers remember us with the affecshun we feel for you." The tone of the strip is reminiscent of Charles M. Schulz's final "Peanuts" strip, from which the Perishers strip took its inspiration. The strip was initially replaced by the short-lived "Ronaldinho", during the then-ongoing World Cup. After the tournament, the American "Pooch Cafe" appeared as a more permanent replacement. After a gap of nearly four years, the original cartoon strip returned to the "Daily Mirror" as reprints, on 22 February 2010. Additionally, over the years there have been a number of cheaply printed reprint collections in paperback, all of which went