Thanks for that oddness. BTW, isn’t that poster a guy?
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.
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.
Good grief :smack:
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
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
A Charlie Brown Christmas predated the appearance of Peppermint Patty.
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
I remember it fondly, too. It wa a cartoon episode by Robert Smigel.
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
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.
Nope- that’s the live-action movie. The one on ABC Family you mentioned is, too.
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.
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.”
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?
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
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
Yes, I remember that poll. I don’t believe the results for one minute.