That warm, special time each year when families come together, put their differences aside and all agree: “Wow, Peppermint Patty is a bitch!”
It’s just not a “classic” Peanuts special if it is new enough that Marcie is in it.
Trivia point: today is Charles M. Schulz’s birthday.
And Woodstock is a cannibal. I mean seriously, do the catch the grin and rubbing of the belly as he eats his portion of turkey?
For that matter, since Snoopy is a decent enough cook to make a turkey, couldn’t he have helped out his … well, owner, if not master?
Do catch Charlie Brown’s greeting for Franklin. Charlie Brown may fail at most things he attempts, but at least he can give a proper soul handshake.
And yet note that when seating his friends, Franklin gets a seat by himself on one side of the table. All the white kids sit on the other side. What’s up with that?!
My wife is fond of keeping track of the ever-changing number of chairs around the table.
And just to balance out the Thanksgiving Warm Fuzzies a bit, anyone who gets AntennaTV (at least the local version listed as WGNDT2 in the Chicago area YahooTV listings) can enjoy the “Turkeys Away” episode of WKRP In Cincinnati a bit later, at 9:30PM Central. YESSSS !!!
Doncha just LOVE the holidays!
Not his responsibility. He did help out making toast and popcorn.
Marcie first appeared in the strip in 1971. The Thanksgiving show first aired in 1973, and has been shown every year since.
Seems classic to me.
Indeed! I still remember the tune of the song that plays as Snoopy and Woodstock prepare the feast.
It’s a classic. Yet there’s only two über classic Peanuts shows.
Happy Birthday, Charles M. Schulz!
I hated how many ads for Black Friday they crammed into one half hour. Bring back the ads for Dolly Madison pies and piss off with the faux-savings.
Well, Woodstock isn’t a turkey. We don’t know exactly what he is, but he’s almost certainly a passerine, and no more closely related to turkeys than humans are to pigs or cows.
God, I love that lawnchair fight!
It’s not Thanksgiving until Snoopy gets splashed!
Agreed! The only thing about this otherwise lame installment is Snoopy vs. the Folding Chair.
That’s an interesting observation. Ravens are passerines (not that Woodstock is a raven) and I could see them pecking away at turkey roadkill.