Just aired here on ABC. I believe it was missing a scene, after the commercial break Charlie tells Lucy to pass out the scripts and it seems like there is a scene right before that that they cut to make room for more commercials. It seems like sacrilege to me, but that’s what DVDs are for, I guess.
Anyway, my question is about the three nameless characters seen in the show. There are the twin girls, wearing purple and dancing on stage and the boy, wearing orange (later a blue coat) with the spikey hair. They have no lines and are never addressed by the other characters, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that they are named characters from the strip. Anybody know?
The twin girls are named “Three” and “Four,” and they have an older brother named “Five” (the boy with spiky hair). In the “Peanuts” comic strip, we learn that their father gave them numbers instead of names in protest of the tendency of modern society to reduce people to mere statistics.
The characters are 5 and his two sisters, 3 and 4, though they are not named as such.
I didn’t watch this year’s telecast, but A Charlie Brown Christmas has been cut from its original length for years. The year ABC acquired it from CBS, they showed it uncut in a full hour time slot.
Does the network air it more than once annually? Now, “The Grinch…”, yeah that’s hard to miss. And “A Christmas Story” gets “Dirty Dancing” amounts of air time around this time of year. But I think “Charlie…” just gets the one.
I don’t believe a scene was cut, but a second or two was. Snoopy licks/kisses Lucy, Lucy aaaaaauggghs, and ABC goes to commercial. When we come back from commercial, Charlie Brown starts handing out scripts. We miss the cut to Charlie Brown, Lucy entering on the left, aaaaaauggghing behind Charlie Brown, and exiting on the right.
Anyone else hungry for some Dolly Madison Zingers right about now?
I only discovered that the two girls were called ‘Three’ and ‘Four’ a few months ago. They only appear in a couple of strips, and I stumbled across them in one of “The Complete Peanuts” volumes - the 1963/1964 one I believe.
“Those are the girls from the Christmas special!” I said to my wife. She was underwhelmed.
I don’t have the reference and I’m too lazy to search, but I remember that his name is actually longer than 5…5 is his shortened version. Kinda like Bob.
Oh, is that “I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown?” My wife checked that out of the library last week and it was so brutally bad, we had to jam forks in our eyeballs.