On this page,
http://www.jabootu.com/horror_e-i.htm#IT’S%20THE%20GREAT%20PUMPKIN,%20CHARLIE%20BROWN
it says that Peanuts creator Charles Schulz made a cartoon named “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown…Worship It Before It Destroys You” and it involved all sorts of gross things like Charlie Brown getting dunked in a vat of acid, etc.
Huh?
Is this for real? Or is the author just yanking the reader’s chain? Anyone know anything more about this?
I am pretty sure that was one in a series called “Charlie Brown brings his gun to school”. Check with the Chicago Reader to see if they still have copies of it.
Since this is a question about a TV special, I’ll move this thread to our arts forum, Cafe Society.
It’s a joke. Ken Begg at Jabootu.com is a seriously funny (Woohoo! Oxymoron!) writer; his reviews have literally had me in tears from laughter at times.
Notice that, in his list of Halloween Flicks, among other titles that begin with the phrase, “House Of . . .” he has “House of Pancakes,” with a link to the IHOP website.
Ah ha, I must have missed the “house of pancakes” bit.
Well, that’s good to know at least!
Seemed a touch too far out to be true.
There was a one-page parody in “Cracked” magazine awhile back…In the first Panel, Charlie Brown is calling Lucy from a payphone, telling her that he has good news and bad news…The good news is, Linus isn’t crazy, and that there really IS a Great Pumpkin. Lucy asks what the “bad news” is…
Cut to the third panel, which takes up most of the page…and features a giant Elder-God style Great Pumpkin, taking up most of the pumpkin patch, grabbing and consuming children as they pass by.
sigh You can’t buy memories like that. Good times, Good times…
Ranchoth