# It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown...Worship It Before It Destroys You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-worship-it-before-it-destroys-you/122829 "2002-08-07T19:48:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stephi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stephi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephi)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-worship-it-before-it-destroys-you/122829/1 "2002-08-07T19:48:04Z")
On this page, [http://www.jabootu.com/horror\_e-i.htm#IT’S%20THE%20GREAT%20PUMPKIN,%20CHARLIE%20BROWN](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? ---
**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-worship-it-before-it-destroys-you/122829/2 "2002-08-07T19:53:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-worship-it-before-it-destroys-you/122829/3 "2002-08-07T20:04:20Z")
Since this is a question about a TV special, I’ll move this thread to our arts forum, Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-worship-it-before-it-destroys-you/122829/4 "2002-08-07T20:29:01Z")
It’s a joke. Ken Begg at [Jabootu.com](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![Stephi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stephi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephi)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-worship-it-before-it-destroys-you/122829/5 "2002-08-07T20:43:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > \*\*It’s a joke. Ken Begg at [Jabootu.com](http://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! ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-worship-it-before-it-destroys-you/122829/6 "2002-08-07T21:07:01Z")
Seemed a touch too far out to be true. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-worship-it-before-it-destroys-you/122829/7 "2002-08-08T04:00:19Z")
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