Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.

In Schulz’s Peanuts universe, adults often appear only as disembodied voices issuing rules, cautions, and deflating reminders—an effective comic device that highlights how children experience authority. This line captures that dynamic: the speaker frames enjoyment as suspect and insists the activity’s “proper” purpose is instruction. The humor comes from the blunt opposition between lived experience (having fun) and institutional justification (being “educational”), a tension familiar in school trips, camps, museums, and other supervised outings. Read more broadly, it satirizes a culture that rationalizes leisure through productivity, suggesting that the demand for edification can become a joyless reflex rather than a genuine commitment to learning.