Schroeder (Peanuts) arrives with a toy violin and asks Schroeder if he could play Beethoven on it, and Schroeder scoffs at such an absurd idea. Peppermint Patty once called Schroeder a "miniature Leonard Bernstein" after she heard him whistling a classical piece during a ball game shortly after she was introduced to the strip and briefly took over management of the team. Schroeder's other distinguishing mark as a character is his constant refusal of Lucy's love. Lucy is infatuated with Schroeder, and frequently lounges against his piano while he is playing, professing her love for him. But Beethoven was a lifelong bachelor,
The Complete Peanuts titled "Peanuts Every Sunday", collecting only the Sunday strips of the "Peanuts" series, was launched by Fantagraphics in 2013 and is scheduled to run until 2022. Schulz began to discuss an anthology of his work with Fantagraphics Books in 1997. The idea of a complete compendium of all published "Peanuts" strips was long resisted by Schulz; he did not want some early strips reprinted as he felt they were not as good as the ones he drew later in his career. Approximately 2,000 of the 17,897 strips had never appeared in a previous U.S. collection. The first book in the