In 1943 the
Howdy Doody children's radio show adopted the name for its live audience of children.
Howdy Doody is most remembered for its later transition to television, which included the Peanut Gallery audience, then on camera. "Peanut gallery" may have been the source of the name for
Charles Schulz's comic strip,
Peanuts, a name chosen by
United Features Syndicate (UFS) as a solution to a trademark issue, but against the wishes of Schulz, who bitterly resented and never understood the name. Schulz had wanted to keep the name of his previous strip, ''
Li'l Folks. However, UFS pointed out that the name was too similar to other strips such as Little Folks and Li'l Abner. Thus, Peanuts'' was chosen. A similar term was introduced to Brazilian football by coach
Luiz Felipe Scolari. He called
Palmeiras' complaining audience that sat in the closest seats "peanut gang" ().
C. J. Dennis's poem "
The Play" from
Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, recapitulating the suicide scene from
Romeo and Juliet, ends
bathetically with ''"'Peanuts or lollies!' sez a boy upstairs."'' ==See also==