# Which of the Peanuts specials is your favorite? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296 "2007-03-17T02:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/1 "2007-03-17T02:59:07Z")
1. Halloween 2. Christmas 3. Easter 4. Valentine’s Day ---
**Author:** ![badkittypriestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@badkittypriestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badkittypriestess)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/2 "2007-03-17T03:01:02Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/3 "2007-03-17T03:12:48Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/4 "2007-03-17T04:05:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/5 "2007-03-17T04:15:23Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/6 "2007-03-17T04:19:27Z")
The Great Pumpkin for the same reason Enter The Flagon gave. I like the Christmas Special though for the tree. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/7 "2007-03-17T04:22:33Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/8 "2007-03-17T05:42:31Z")
_A Charlie Brown Christmas_. The original and still the best. ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/9 "2007-03-17T06:02:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/10 "2007-03-17T06:43:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/11 "2007-03-17T09:00:41Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/12 "2007-03-17T09:14:28Z")
It’s real, but was not one of the TV specials. [Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!)](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080461/) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/13 "2007-03-17T12:51:35Z")
[QUOTE=MrDibble] 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? [/QUOTE] [What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Have_We_Learned,_Charlie_Brown%3F) My second favorite, in between “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/14 "2007-03-17T13:04:27Z")
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? 😃 Halloween is my second favorite. Lucy at the end, putting her little brother to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/15 "2007-03-17T13:05:46Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] I consider it the 2nd best Christmas special after the Grinch who Stole Christmas. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/16 "2007-03-17T13:06:58Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] 1. Halloween 2. Christmas 3. Easter 4. Valentine’s Day [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/17 "2007-03-17T13:11:13Z")
Christmas, then Halloween a distant second. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/18 "2007-03-17T14:36:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/19 "2007-03-17T17:09:48Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] [What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Have_We_Learned,_Charlie_Brown%3F) My second favorite, in between “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” [/QUOTE] That’s the one! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296/20 "2007-03-17T17:12:49Z")
Wow. That’s a tough one. I guess the Christmas one, but the Halloween one is a very close second. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-the-peanuts-specials-is-your-favorite/396296.md?page=2)