Fan Casting Missy in Peanuts Gallery

Snoopy's mother is one of only two Peanuts characters to have first appeared in an animated television special before later appearing in the comic strip, (the other one being Snoopy's brother Andy). Snoopy's mother, named as Missy in the special, is seen in a flashback in Snoopy's Reunion, which was first televised on May 1, 1991. Her first appearance in the comic strip is in the strip from July 26, 1996, in which she travels on a World War I troopship to visit Spike, (in the infantry), who is ill.