# A Charlie Brown Christmas: Tuesday **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270 "2005-12-06T00:25:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/21 "2005-12-06T20:57:20Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > [Yup](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5618409&postcount=54) Thanks for that oddness. BTW, isn’t that poster a guy? ---
**Author:** ![eveanyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@eveanyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eveanyn)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/22 "2005-12-07T00:05:28Z")
The Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack CD is my favourite background music for the Christmas season. If you haven’t heard it, please check it out. ---
**Author:** ![flex727](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flex727](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flex727)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/23 "2005-12-07T01:25:28Z")
Just saw an old episode of Saturday Night Live late Saturday night - dunno if it was local or national broadcast, but it had a cartoon that I fondly remember (Come back with my show!). It showed Jesus come back to Earth and visiting with a number of famous TV evangalists, who all ignored him while performing their “miracles” or hawking their prayer cloths, etc. Finally a dis-spirited Jesus stumbles across A Charlie Brown Christmas playing in a store window. Linus was giving his wonderful recitation from the bible. The great part is the animation of the, now overjoyed, Jesus dancing away Charlie Brown style. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/24 "2005-12-07T01:39:48Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > [Yup](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5618409&postcount=54) Good grief :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/25 "2005-12-07T01:57:04Z")
Was it sped up with time compression? Linus’ speech sounded very different than I remember. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/26 "2005-12-07T02:09:23Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Was it sped up with time compression? Linus’ speech sounded very different than I remember. Something seemed different. I wasn’t sure what. That could be part of it. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/27 "2005-12-07T02:19:24Z")
Watching that darn tree tip over still cracks me up to this day. Yeah, they are jerks to Chuck (BTW, where’s Peppermint Patty in the Xmas special? She’s my favorite character.), but come on. There’s a such thing as over-protection. Thanks to Arrested Development I now associate a sad George Michael with that music. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/28 "2005-12-07T02:44:13Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Watching that darn tree tip over still cracks me up to this day. > > Yeah, they are jerks to Chuck (BTW, where’s Peppermint Patty in the Xmas special? She’s my favorite character.), but come on. There’s a such thing as over-protection. > > Thanks to Arrested Development I now associate a sad George Michael with that music. The Special was made before Peppermint Patty was introduced and before WoodStock. Sherman pretty much disappeared somewhere after this. I think he was replaced by Franklin. Marcie and Rerun came along later also. Characters that appeared and disappeared over the years include Violet and Patty (not the later Peppermint Patty). Five, (I kid you not long before 7 of 9 there was Five in the Peanuts) Frieda had minor roles with “naturally curly hair,” Eudora join late in the 70’s to be Sally’s friend. Snoopy had several siblings: Spike from Needles, Andy, Belle, Marbles and Olaf (Olaf was rotund). I am sure there were others. These are the ones I remember. Characters never actually seen were the viscious cat next store, adults, Joe Shlabotnik the baseball player and CB idol. Jim ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/29 "2005-12-07T02:44:49Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > (BTW, where’s Peppermint Patty in the Xmas special? She’s my favorite character.) _A Charlie Brown Christmas_ predated the appearance of Peppermint Patty. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/30 "2005-12-07T03:34:23Z")
And to be precise, Peppermint Patty made her debut in print on August 22, 1966 [http://www.peanuts.com/comics/peanuts/meet\_the\_gang/meet\_peppermint\_patty.html](http://www.peanuts.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/meet_peppermint_patty.html) ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/31 "2005-12-07T05:11:02Z")
> [@flex727](#): > > Just saw an old episode of Saturday Night Live late Saturday night - dunno if it was local or national broadcast, but it had a cartoon that I fondly remember (Come back with my show!). It showed Jesus come back to Earth and visiting with a number of famous TV evangalists, who all ignored him while performing their “miracles” or hawking their prayer cloths, etc. Finally a dis-spirited Jesus stumbles across A Charlie Brown Christmas playing in a store window. Linus was giving his wonderful recitation from the bible. The great part is the animation of the, now overjoyed, Jesus dancing away Charlie Brown style. I remember it fondly, too. It wa a cartoon episode by Robert Smigel. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/32 "2005-12-07T05:17:45Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > The Special was made before Peppermint Patty was introduced and before WoodStock. Sherman pretty much disappeared somewhere after this. > I think he was replaced by Franklin. > Marcie and Rerun came along later also. > Characters that appeared and disappeared over the years include Violet and Patty (not the later Peppermint Patty). Five, (I kid you not long before 7 of 9 there was Five in the Peanuts) Frieda had minor roles with “naturally curly hair,” > Eudora join late in the 70’s to be Sally’s friend. > Snoopy had several siblings: Spike from Needles, Andy, Belle, Marbles and Olaf (Olaf was rotund). I am sure there were others. These are the ones I remember. > > Characters never actually seen were the viscious cat next store, adults, Joe Shlabotnik the baseball player and CB idol. > > Jim i am impressed with your knowledge btw - Five was named such because his dad had had it up to his arm pits with the digitalization of society (5 digits zip codes were relatively new in the 60’s - anyone else remember “Chicago 69 Illinois” as the address of the Speigel Catalogue people?) it was also in the early 60’s that Ma Bell dropped the word exchanges in favor of numeric ones ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/33 "2005-12-07T05:44:49Z")
> [@eveanyn](#): > > The Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack CD is my favourite background music for the Christmas season. If you haven’t heard it, please check it out. Be sure not to confuse the soundtrack CD with the 40th Anniversary CD, like I did. At least the tunes are still good even though they ain’t Vince. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/34 "2005-12-07T06:35:01Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Also 12/11 on ABC. Nope- that’s the live-action movie. The one on ABC Family you mentioned is, too. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/35 "2005-12-07T06:43:30Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > 8 to 9? How many Dolly Madison commercials are there going to be? Ever since ABC bought the rights to air _A Charlie Brown Christmas_, they have put the special in an hour timeslot to show it without cuts. (For many years, CBS cut a brief scene in which the kids throw snowballs at tin cans. The ABC showings of _It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown_ and _A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving_ are cut to fit the 30-minute time slot.) The first year, they filled the remaining time with a making-of special. Every year since, they have shown _Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales_, small viginettes with gags taken directly from the comic strip. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/36 "2005-12-07T12:46:57Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > (For many years, CBS cut a brief scene in which the kids throw snowballs at tin cans. I love that scene. Lucy starts it. She appropriately thinks, “there’s a can on a fence. gotta whip something at it.” Then, after like 5 of them take a couple shots each, Charlie Brown packs one up and goes into his pitcher’s wind-up. Every time I see it, I go, “No, Charlie. You are not going to hit that can.” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/37 "2005-12-07T13:27:34Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > Ever since ABC bought the rights to air _A Charlie Brown Christmas_, they have put the special in an hour timeslot to show it without cuts. A truly brilliant move, I might add. Why not milk a little bit more viewership out of the most beloved Christmas special of all time? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/38 "2005-12-07T13:27:37Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > i am impressed with your knowledge > > btw - Five was named such because his dad had had it up to his arm pits with the digitalization of society (5 digits zip codes were relatively new in the 60’s - anyone else remember “Chicago 69 Illinois” as the address of the Speigel Catalogue people?) it was also in the early 60’s that Ma Bell dropped the word exchanges in favor of numeric ones What’s bugging me is I am missing about 1/2 a dozen repeat characters and I gave all my peanuts books away 18 years ago. I think I had everyone in print up to around 1980. Hopefully my daughter will like them and I will have an excuse to start buying them again. Jim ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/39 "2005-12-07T13:30:25Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > A truly brilliant move, I might add. Why not milk a little bit more viewership out of the most beloved Christmas special of all time? I love Charlie Brown Christmas Special but in one of those silly TV guide Polls the Grinch was # 1 and Charlie Brown Christmas Special was #2. Jim ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-christmas-tuesday/334270/40 "2005-12-07T13:40:29Z")
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