Can you imagine Charlie Brown texting? Snoopy barking about a nasty tweet? Lucy worrying if she’s being exclusionary with her psychiatric advice?

What about Pig Pen bemoaning how his classmates shame him for his bathing habits … or lack thereof?

The notion of a new “Peanuts” film brought those fears to mind. Which is why we can collectively exhale as a nation now. The minds behind “The Peanuts Movie” didn’t follow the Muppets template.

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ABC’s “Muppets” reboot updated the beloved kid’s show in ways many fans didn’t recognize. Kermit is now a cynical bachelor. The jokes are decidedly mature, with the kind of sexual innuendo most young viewers will (hopefully) miss. Would Peanuts suffer a similar fate, all in the name of being hip, cool or even, gasp, gritty?

Turns out the Schulz family helped make sure that Charles M. Schulz’s delightful characters and tone remained more or less the same.

The new film, opening Friday nationwide, features all the characters we grew up watching. The story features Charlie Brown pining for the new girl in school, but he isn’t sure how to grab her attention without having one of his “Charlie Brown” blunders.

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“The Peanuts Movie” will be shown in 3D and features animation far more sophisticated than the kind used in past “Peanuts” projects. The visuals still retain the lines and feel that Schulz brought to the strip for decades.

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Paul Feig, the director of “Bridesmaids” and the upcoming “Ghostbusters” reboot, adored the “Peanuts” cartoons as a child. When he signed on to executive produce “The Peanuts Movie” he had a firm vision for how it should play out.

“We wanted to make sure we didn’t break the tone or try to make it something it’s not, or try to modernize it,” Feig told the Star Tribune.

It’s always a challenge to update iconic material. Ironically, the 2011 “Muppets” movie reboot managed that feat with a mostly nimble touch. The film did fall back on the lazy trope of casting an oilman as the villain, but the story kept the Muppet characters intact with only a few nips and tucks for today’s audiences.

The film earned a solid, but not spectacular, sum at the box office. The 2014 sequel, “Muppets Most Wanted,” featured a darker tone. It bombed, paving the way for the ABC brand revision.

Will an old-school “Peanuts” saga score with viewers? The franchise’s annual yuletide special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” has been a consistent ratings winner for ages.