Transcript:
Charlie Brown stands next to Patty, who is sitting in the chair and reading. He looks at her as she asks,"Charlie Brown, see what time it is, please?"
He walks down the hallway.
He looks at the clock which is sitting on a cabinet with a vase of flowers behind it. He is puzzled.
He smiles and looks up at her with his hands outstretched, holding his right hand slightly higher than his left one. She looks at him and says,"Ten minutes to three? All right, thank you"
The first time Charlie Brown appears in his signature zig-zag shirt.
The gag is recycled from the Li'l Folks strip from June 19, 1949:
the joke is he didn't know how to read the clock so instead he held out his arms the same way the clock did. Took me reading the description to get it too lol
Charlie Brown is about 4 in these early comics, so it's understandable he wouldn't be able to read a clock
Do we know how much older Patty is than Charlie Brown? I knew that Linus and Sally were younger, but I always assumed that the rest of the gang were in the same year.
We don't know exactly, but here's this:
I got a wristwatch on my 4th birthday. I'm pretty sure I knew how to read an analogue clock by that age.
Oooooh, I don't know why but I read it as if Charlie Brown was saying the time and doing the thing with his arms lol.