A.N. For those who are wondering about the story title, peanut butter is what sometimes happens to peanuts, and this story is about what happens to the main characters of the comic strip Peanuts (or my version of it anyway).
Time had passed since the strip had ended, and Charlie and his friends were now thirteen. Sally and her friends were now eleven. Apart from age, not much had changed among the characters. Lucy was still selfish and crabby, and actually got more vain (which the others didn't think was possible). Sally still kept getting things wrong, but at least she never repeated a grade. Schroeder kept playing classical music, but he upgraded to a real piano since he outgrew his toy one (he kept it for nostalgic reasons though). Linus kept his blanket, but his mom changed it into a vest since Lucy and their grandma continued complaining about it. Snoopy had gotten older, but due to living in a comic strip world he didn't become too old to continue role playing. Woodstock kept flying upside down now and then, but at least stopped crashing as much. Rerun finally managed to save enough money for his own dog, and he got a female black dachshund named Darcie that eventually became Snoopy's girlfriend. Peppermint Patty and Marcie didn't change at all, Peppermint still fell asleep in class and Marcie still called her 'sir'. Pig-Pen also hadn't changed that much, though he finally found a way to keep from getting dirty all the time. He tied a soap bar around his waist one day when he was going to Lucy's tenth birthday party so that he wouldn't have to keep using the Van Pelt's soap, and to his surprise didn't get dirty one bit on the way there! Remembering that Pig-Pen was a dust magnet, Charlie suggested that the soap acted like a counter-magnet that scared the dust away from him. Realizing that Charlie was probably right, he decided to carry a soap bar on him at all times, except for when he was going to get dirty anyway (like one of Peppermint Patty's football games). To make look more like an accessory rather than a health device, Pig-Pen used shaped soaps tied around his waist to resemble a decorative belt.