YAGM - Pigpen Traditional Cache

This cache is dedicated to Pigpen.

Before grunge was cool, Pigpen made his debut in the Peanuts comic strip on July 13, 1954 and since then has been the object of "dirt" gags. He walks around in a cloud of dust, sprinkling dirt on all he comes in contact with. Pigpen is happily messy. He doesn't try to explain it, hide it, fight it. For him, it's just a fact of life. His slovenly ways paid off in 1993 with a series of television commercials for Regina vacuum cleaners which combined animation with live-action. - From The Official Peanuts Website

Did You know:

• On rare occasions Pigpen has very briefly appeared clean, and hence unrecognizable, in the strip. Once this was in order to impress Violet, of whom he was a bit fond.
• In the Peanuts classic holiday television special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," Lucy has Charlie Brown direct the annual Christmas play. Before rehearsal, Lucy hands out scripts and parts to members of the Peanuts gang. Pigpen is assigned the role of the inn keeper for the Christmas play.