I've seen a few amusing strips in which Piggy tried to clean himself up. It lasted but a brief moment.

eweh nice but ugh

used to dislike......now i know several who must have taken his lead...........

the sucking fish in my fish tank who cleans up the tank is named Pigpen

I kind of liked the kid. Besides, when he got older, he cleaned up in the sanitation business, and is pulling down two comma's a year these days.

He makes me laugh!

i love the way he dances.

Always liked the cloud of dust.

the patron saint of filthy people.

I love pigpen for many reasons: because of his dustclouds, his funny voice, his poor clothes, his hairdo ecc. I always imagined how fun would it be to be pigpen: every time you move a dustcloud occurs, and if somebody tells you"YOU ARE A COMPLETE MESS" I would respond with a smart remark. PIGPEN...YOU'RE GREEEEEAAAAAT!!

Cute kid, but underused.

I always kind of felt sorry for little Pig Pen. He was so nice, but the other kids wanted to avoid him and his perpetual dust cloud and he never seemed to know why. Made you wonder if he even had a home.

dirty funny kid

Don't lose that dustcloud, Pig.

You can beat good old fashioned dirt! Who, as a kid, does love it! The only confusion, was there always dirty flying off of him, or being attracted to him! Either way, this guy had some fun!

pdenny beat me to it, as far as there being a pigpen where ever you go.

While a little bit underdeveloped, this is the one Peanuts character that has become a cultural reference point that you can drop in conversation and everyone knows what you're talking about. The quintessential dirty bird who just can't help himself, Pig Pen rules!

Pig Pen is one of the few realistic characters in the Peanuts strip. In every school in America there is at least one kid nicknamed Pigpen because of his resemblance to this character.