# I want a dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-dog-for-christmas-charlie-brown/429491 "2007-12-10T16:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-dog-for-christmas-charlie-brown/429491/1 "2007-12-10T16:36:56Z")
This special is on tonight. Is it any good? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-dog-for-christmas-charlie-brown/429491/2 "2007-12-10T21:00:43Z")
one quick bump. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-dog-for-christmas-charlie-brown/429491/3 "2007-12-10T21:33:57Z")
I wasn’t impressed when I saw it a few years ago. I don’t know that it was horrible, but I don’t recall it striking me as an insta-classic either. Smallish children might think differently than a 30ish person, though. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-dog-for-christmas-charlie-brown/429491/4 "2007-12-10T22:26:20Z")
Heinous. My wife picked it up from the library a few weeks ago, and we had to turn it off. Again: heinous.