'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving:' "But my grandmother lives in a condominium!"

[terentii]

@SmellMyWort

I think it’s pretty much this. The juxtaposition of fitting a modern, urban experience into an old-timey, country setting.

That said, my condo was warm, cozy, and inviting, and was even across the street from a small patch of woods (before it was developed into duplexes:().

See? There goes the neighborhood!

[Chronos]

Also, at the very end, Snoopy has prepared a turkey and real Thanksgiving goodies for him and Woodstock. Earlier, for the kids, he had made toast and pretzels.

Well, yeah, but he’s got a lot more room to entertain in his house.

[MrAtoz]

@Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker

Also, at the very end, Snoopy has prepared a turkey and real Thanksgiving goodies for him and Woodstock. Earlier, for the kids, he had made toast and pretzels.

Well, why should Snoopy waste his Thanksgiving dinner on that round-headed kid and his annoying friends?

Do you think Woodstock, who is a bird, feels any existential horror at the idea of eating a turkey?

[DrCube]

@MrAtoz

Do you think Woodstock, who is a bird, feels any existential horror at the idea of eating a turkey?

Well, I’m a mammal, and I have no problem eating beef, lamb and pork.

[MovieMogul]

@MrAtoz

Do you think Woodstock, who is a bird, feels any existential horror at the idea of eating a turkey?

Maybe he’s a bird of prey still waiting for his growth spurt.

[Johnny_L.A]

@DrCube

Well, I’m a mammal, and I have no problem eating beef, lamb and pork.

What about Great Apes? Or other primates? :dubious:

[Turpentine]

Yecch, the idea of eating a great ape is pretty grody.

But turkeys are Galliformes. Unless Woodstock is a turkey, quail, pheasant or some kind of chicken, his eating turkey should be no less unsettling than a human eating a cow.

[Turpentine]

Then again, a coyote will cheerfully feast on a cat if given the chance and they are both of the Order Carnivora. So there are a lot of animals within the same Order that have no qualms over eating eachother. Why should Woodstock be any different?

[Backwater_Under_Duck]

@MrAtoz

I think the joke is simply the contrast between the song mentioning “Grandmother’s house,” and the reality that they were going to “Grandmother’s condominium.”

Yes. It’s just a joke. We used to go to my grandmother’s farm house. To Grandmother’s house we go. Except Grandma don’t live in a house anymore. It’s a condominium. Get it? Seriously, Get it? On the other hand, what’s with Charlie Brown knowing all these latch-key kids who have no family to give them Thanksgiving dinner? Do they go to some homeless camp under the freeway after their free meal at Charlie Brown’s grandma’s house?