Andrew Blauner

“This theme—cash before all—is also a hoary one. George Gershwin relied on it in his song “Freud and Jung and Adler” for the 1933 musical Pardon My English. In a repeated refrain, the doctors sing that they practice psychoanalysis because it “pays twice as well” as specialties that deal with bodily ailments. Therapists are inherently comical Luftmenschen, impractical, except on this one front. They like their fees. Lucy’s perky insistence about billing gives the five-cents-please strips their final kick.”
― Andrew Blauner, The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang,and the Meaning of Life: A Library of America Special Publication