How Times Have Changed: The 80s vs Now

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Pick Your Valentines

Elf on the Shelf

Back in the days of yore, you gave Valentine’s Day cards to who you wanted to give them to. Plain and simple. In the short animated feature, “Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown” which initially aired in 1975 and played on television every year until 2000, one of the Peanuts gang, Violet, gives Charlie Brown a used valentine, despite Schroeder, another member of the Peanuts gang, berating her for dropping by on the day after Valentine’s Day and acting purely out of guilt. Charlie Brown then expresses hope that Violet’s pity valentine will start a trend so that he will get more valentines the following year. This concept of a ‘pity valentine’ seems to have caught on in recent years, with kids having to make cards for their entire class (so that nobody’s feelings get hurt). Sheesh.