Miss Othmar

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Miss Othmar is an unseen character (like all adults) in Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip.

She is Linus van Pelt's schoolteacher. She was first mentioned in the 1959, shortly after Linus was shown to be in school. Almost immediately, Linus developed a crush on her, which lasted for many years.

After an extended sequence where Linus repeatedly forgot to bring in egg shells for a class project, Miss Othmar quit her job to get married (Linus gave her the egg shells as a wedding present). Now named "Mrs. Hagemeyer", she wrote to Linus telling him that she missed all her students, but misses him most of all. Linus floated on air upon reading this.

A few years later, Miss Othmar returned to teaching. Although she was presumably still married, she used her maiden name professionally. As Linus put it, "In real life, she's Miss Othmar!"

During the late 1960s, Miss Othmar went on a teacher's strike. Exhausted from several days' picketing, she fell to her knees. Linus rushed to her side and picked up her sign. The next day, she was fired. Her replacement, Miss Halverson, met with some resistance from Linus, who remained very loyal to Miss Othmar. Miss Othmar eventually returned again.

In the Peanuts television cartoons, Miss Othmar was voiced by a trombone, as were many of the adults. In an episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, her red-sleeved arm can be seen while handing a paper to Sally Brown. Other than that, the closest the audience has ever come to seeing her was a shot of her from behind in the animated version of Snoopy!!! The Musical.

Miss Othmar is often assumed to be Charlie Brown's teacher. In the mid-1960s, it was revealed that Charlie Brown's teacher's name was "Mrs. Donovan." However, Charlie Brown did show up in Miss Othmar's classroom (usually sitting behind Linus) starting in the late 1960s. In one series of strips, Miss Othmar continually selected Charlie Brown to pound the chalkboard erasers, filling his lungs with so much chalk dust that he exhaled it for days afterward.

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