Which of the Peanuts specials is your favorite?

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  1. Halloween

  2. Christmas

  3. Easter

  4. Valentine’s Day

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Can I pick all of them??? Snoopy and Woodstock rule! “Race For Your Life Charlie Brown” was on a few months ago and I still giggled at it. :smiley:

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  1. Christmas - I love how the little tree looks so good with a blankie wrapped around it to shore it up. I have a mini-tree every year that I call my Charlie Brown tree.

  2. Halloween - “I got a rock.”

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Thanks for asking! This one’s easy: Halloween. I find it the funniest and most entertaining. The interweaving plot lines make for a pretty sophisticated script, and the music puts most big-budget features to shame.

In comparison, the Christmas special feels to me as though it was put together in a something of a hurry, with a bit of a makeshift plot. Although the payoff at the end: “Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown! Hark the herald angels sing…” always manages to make me grin.

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The Original and the Classic Christmas Special. I consider it the 2nd best Christmas special after the Grinch who Stole Christmas.

It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is #2 for me.

Down in my basement I have an ancient crayon picture of Snoopy that my sister made when I was only 3 and she was 14. The paper is brittle, but I still have it and I just put it up next to my old posters. Snoopy was always my favorite.

Jim

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The Great Pumpkin for the same reason Enter The Flagon gave.

I like the Christmas Special though for the tree.

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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. I always looked forward to A Charlie Brown Christmas, of course. It, and How The Grinch Stole Christmas and the Rankin-Bass shows were signals that Christmas was coming! But the Halloween show had Snoopy as The Great WWI Fighter Ace, and I’ve always been into airplanes.

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A Charlie Brown Christmas. The original and still the best.

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  1. Christmas

  2. Halloween

  3. Charlie Brown All Stars. This hasn’t been shown for years. But Charlie managing the baseball team. Trying to find a sponser for them so they can get uniforms. In the end he turns down the uniforms (and maybe joining an offical little league? it has been years since I saw it) because he would have had to dump the girls and snoopy from the team.

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I still read and love the daily cartoon strip, which was pretty much started over by the syndicate that handles Shultz. But the TV specials always put me to sleep. They are (to me) unbearably boring.

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The one where they go to European battlefields, and Linus reads “In Flanders Fields” - what one is that? Or am I totally imagining this one?

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It’s real, but was not one of the TV specials.

Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!)

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What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? My second favorite, in between “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”

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I was ten when the Christmas special first aired, more than forty years ago. It will always be my favorite, and I consider it the best Christmas special of them all. The only one that talks about what Christmas really IS all about.

One year I got the chance to read the second chapter of Luke in a church service at Christmas. I was SO tempted to end with “And that’s what Christmas is all about” instead of the correct “The word of the Lord” But I chickened out and went conventional. If I ever have that chance again I’ll quote the show! Hmm, do they still excommunicate people? :smiley:

Halloween is my second favorite. Lucy at the end, putting her little brother to bed.

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Two of the only Christmas specials that buck the common theme where Santa cannot or will not deliver the toys, thereby causing the whole holiday to be in danger of being cancelled. Nice message, eh? The Grinch’s epiphany and Linus’s “That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown” are both lovely moments. Not a coincidence that these are two of the best if not the best.

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Thanksgiving! When Snoopy and Charlie Brown make popcorn and toast for all their friends and then go off to grandma’s house after.

Christmas is still my absolute favorite, though.

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Christmas, then Halloween a distant second.

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My Favorite :
It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

People even made the Ghost outfit for Halloween. That outfit is a classic that no other show will top. What are you supposed to be? I had a little trouble with the holes. All I got was a rock. I think every person from 20 to 50 knows what your refering to if you say the last in general conversation.

I always enjoy Linus and Lucy at the Piano. An irratated Schroeder “Plink plink plink… Plink plink plink.” Lucy “That’s it!” and Schroeder gets bowled over.

My favorite Snoopy song is “The Smalllest Astronaut” by the Royal Guardsmen.

Others:
Snoopy Verses The Red Barron
The Return Of The Red Barron
Snoopy For President
It Kind Of Looks Like Christmas

Charlie Brown song:
Charlie Brown by the Coasters

Has any other cartoon character been in more songs?

I don’t think Charles Shultz ever tried to stop bands from writting about his characters, or sued individuals that drew a picture of Snoopy on their garage, unlike Disney.

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That’s the one! Thanks.

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Wow. That’s a tough one. I guess the Christmas one, but the Halloween one is a very close second.