Best Charlie Brown/Peanuts Holiday Special (1 Viewer)

[zamboni]

Follow up on Encylcopedia Brown's thread on best song from the Christmas special.

It's about time we settled this (or maybe we have - didn't see it via search.)

I only put the big three, as the others (e.g., Easter) are weak and need not apply.

 

[sho nuff]

Great Pumpkin for sure.

My kids love the "I got a rock" line...just kills them every time.

Christmas is good too...but nothing beats the Great Pumpkin.

 

[Christo]

Christmas

 

[zamboni]

Great Pumpkin for sure.

My kids love the "I got a rock" line...just kills them every time.

Christmas is good too...but nothing beats the Great Pumpkin.

I'm with you - probably my favorite as well my kids' favorite.Thanksgiving though is also underrated in its own right, especially Snoopy versus the lawn chair.

 

[sho nuff]

Great Pumpkin for sure.

My kids love the "I got a rock" line...just kills them every time.

Christmas is good too...but nothing beats the Great Pumpkin.

I'm with you - probably my favorite as well my kids' favorite.Thanksgiving though is also underrated in its own right, especially Snoopy versus the lawn chair.

I agree in how underrated it is.Love the whole popcorn and toast thing...always cracked me up as a kid.

 

[zamboni]

Great Pumpkin for sure.

My kids love the "I got a rock" line...just kills them every time.

Christmas is good too...but nothing beats the Great Pumpkin.

I'm with you - probably my favorite as well my kids' favorite.Thanksgiving though is also underrated in its own right, especially Snoopy versus the lawn chair.

I agree in how underrated it is.Love the whole popcorn and toast thing...always cracked me up as a kid.

Snoopy's ear in the toaster =

 

[NJDawgPound]

Love em all but as the years go on, I can no longer tolerate Lucy being such a see you next Tuesday.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Went with the toast & popcorn TG because it's lessed played out.

 

[zamboni]

Always got a kick out of the ending of the Christmas one when the kids are singing in unison - taking a breath at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiBD5Arq34 (go to 2:25 mark)

 

[ODoyleRules]

Very close for me between Pumpkin and Christmas, but went with Christmas because the whole Snoopy WWI Red Baron thing drags down the Halloween one.

I also love the "I got a rock" line from the Great Pumpkin... use that year round with my girls.

 

[Al Czervik]

Very close for me between Pumpkin and Christmas, but went with Christmas because the whole Snoopy WWI Red Baron thing drags down the Halloween one.

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[zamboni]

Very close for me between Pumpkin and Christmas, but went with Christmas because the whole Snoopy WWI Red Baron thing drags down the Halloween one.

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I do like the way Snoopy fires the bullets with the fist pumps though.

 

[Godsbrother]

Really tough choice. Gotta go with the Pumpkin followed closely by a CB Christmas.

The most underrated Peanuts special is "He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown" which blows away the Thanksgiving one.

 

[ODoyleRules]

Very close for me between Pumpkin and Christmas, but went with Christmas because the whole Snoopy WWI Red Baron thing drags down the Halloween one.

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I do like the way Snoopy fires the bullets with the fist pumps though.

It goes like this at my house:Kids: Why is Snoopy dressed like that?Me: He's trying to pretend he's a pilot and flying a war plane.Kids: Why would he be doing that?Me: So back in the 1960's, um, ... let's just fast forward through this and get to the halloween party part.

 

[Hov34]

Christmas for the music alone.

 

[Hastur]

There are 54 specials??? Holy crap. I think I know of 8 or so.

The Great Pumpkin is my favorite, but I'm biased because I like Halloween.

The Great River Race is a good one too, though not a holiday special.

 

[zamboni]

Very close for me between Pumpkin and Christmas, but went with Christmas because the whole Snoopy WWI Red Baron thing drags down the Halloween one.

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I do like the way Snoopy fires the bullets with the fist pumps though.

It goes like this at my house:Kids: Why is Snoopy dressed like that?

Me: He's trying to pretend he's a pilot and flying a war plane.

Kids: Why would he be doing that?

Me: So back in the 1960's, um, ... let's just fast forward through this and get to the halloween party part.

If you want to talk about acid trips in Charlie Brown specials, check out this clip from the 1969 movie "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" where Schroeder plays Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata (amazing piece BTW).Starts at the 7:40 mark of the first clip, and wraps around for the first two-and-a-half minutes of the second clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iejCKuzFrS0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=pUh7eWjJt7M

 

[zamboni]

The Great River Race is a good one too, though not a holiday special.

Do you mean Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown - the one where they go to summer camp.Really like that one as well.

 

[Hastur]

The Great River Race is a good one too, though not a holiday special.

Do you mean Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown - the one where they go to summer camp.Really like that one as well.

Thats the one.

 

[Doug B]

Great Pumpkin is better from start to finish (and the Red Baron scenes are a plus for me & my kids ), but the Christmas special has the single best scene (Linus's recitation of Luke 8-14, explaining what "Christmas is all about").

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Zamboni, the Easter one's not weak IMHO ... wish they'd show it more often. Always got a kick out of Marcy & Peppermint Patty screwing up the boiled eggs.

 

[zamboni]

Zamboni, the Easter one's not weak IMHO ... wish they'd show it more often. Always got a kick out of Marcy & Peppermint Patty screwing up the boiled eggs.

I guess it's not terrible, but IMO certainly pales in comparison to the big three.

 

[Doug B]

If you want to talk about acid trips in Charlie Brown specials, check out this clip from the 1969 movie "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" where Schroeder plays Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata (amazing piece BTW).

I watched that when I was a little kid several times. Then I saw it again with my kids about a year ago. Holey moley, I didn't recall all that trippy stuff. I kept waiting for "Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida" to start up or something.Something else: A Boy Named Charlie Brown is really fracking sad. The scriptwriters back then just pummeled that kid with misfortune.

 

[Don Quixote]

There are 54 specials??? Holy crap. I think I know of 8 or so.

The Great Pumpkin is my favorite, but I'm biased because I like Halloween.

The Great River Race is a good one too, though not a holiday special.

There's an Arbor Day special?

 

[Doug B]

Re: A Charlie Brown Christmas, did you all know this (from Wikipedia):

A total of 50% of the televisions in the United States were tuned to the first broadcast (in 1965)

I realze there were only a few channel choices at the time, but still. That's Super Bowl numbers.

 

[zamboni]

If you want to talk about acid trips in Charlie Brown specials, check out this clip from the 1969 movie "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" where Schroeder plays Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata (amazing piece BTW).

I watched that when I was a little kid several times. Then I saw it again with my kids about a year ago. Holey moley, I didn't recall all that trippy stuff. I kept waiting for "Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida" to start up or something.Something else: A Boy Named Charlie Brown is really fracking sad. The scriptwriters back then just pummeled that kid with misfortune.

Having Chuck misspell "beagle" in the final round was particularly harsh. :(

 

[Doug B]

Love em all but as the years go on, I can no longer tolerate Lucy being such a see you next Tuesday.

Schroeder needed to man up & smackahoe.

 

[Doug B]

There's an Arbor Day special?

... and the article says it was in CBS's programming schedule until 2000?What? Pretty sure I never saw it even once -- no way it was an annual broadcast. Unless it was on at 3 am or something.

 

[Al Czervik]

There's an Arbor Day special?

... and the article says it was in CBS's programming schedule until 2000?What? Pretty sure I never saw it even once -- no way it was an annual broadcast. Unless it was on at 3 am or something.

Is the Arbor Day one where they plant stuff around the baseball diamond including a tree on pitchers mound?

 

[Al Czervik]

There's an Arbor Day special?

... and the article says it was in CBS's programming schedule until 2000?What? Pretty sure I never saw it even once -- no way it was an annual broadcast. Unless it was on at 3 am or something.

Is the Arbor Day one where they plant stuff around the baseball diamond including a tree on pitchers mound?

Just read the Wiki link... that's the one.It's actually a really good one. My kids have the Easter Beagle DVD which includes the Arbor Day special.

 

[bigbottom]

If you want to talk about acid trips in Charlie Brown specials, check out this clip from the 1969 movie "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" where Schroeder plays Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata (amazing piece BTW).

I watched that when I was a little kid several times. Then I saw it again with my kids about a year ago. Holey moley, I didn't recall all that trippy stuff. I kept waiting for "Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida" to start up or something.Something else: A Boy Named Charlie Brown is really fracking sad. The scriptwriters back then just pummeled that kid with misfortune.

That pretty much sums up the central theme of Charlie Brown. From the musical You're a Good Man Charlie Brown:

 

[zamboni]

If you want to talk about acid trips in Charlie Brown specials, check out this clip from the 1969 movie "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" where Schroeder plays Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata (amazing piece BTW).

I watched that when I was a little kid several times. Then I saw it again with my kids about a year ago. Holey moley, I didn't recall all that trippy stuff. I kept waiting for "Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida" to start up or something.Something else: A Boy Named Charlie Brown is really fracking sad. The scriptwriters back then just pummeled that kid with misfortune.

That pretty much sums up the central theme of Charlie Brown. From the musical You're a Good Man Charlie Brown:
Thanks to more acid.

 

[B-Deep]

My kid actually loves the thanksgiving one because after it now they play the one where the Peanuts kids are pilgrims coming to America battling dysentery and sea sickness

he loves that one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1A0MfAWFk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTYjwDOZqtQ

 

[Jules Winnfield]

There are 54 specials??? Holy crap. I think I know of 8 or so.

The Great Pumpkin is my favorite, but I'm biased because I like Halloween.

The Great River Race is a good one too, though not a holiday special.

There's an Arbor Day special?

SureThat's when all the ships come into the arbor!

 

[grateful zed]

went with great pumpkin.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Always got a kick out of the ending of the Christmas one when the kids are singing in unison - taking a breath at the same time.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=iUiBD5Arq34 (go to 2:25 mark)

That's my favorite part, as well.But for unintentional comedy, Charlie Brown high-fiving Franklin when he comes over for Thanksgiving dinner is also very good.

 

[Tom Servo]

Christmas for the music alone.

as well as Linus explaining the real meaning of Christmas.

 

[glumpy]

There are 54 specials??? Holy crap. I think I know of 8 or so.

The Great Pumpkin is my favorite, but I'm biased because I like Halloween.

The Great River Race is a good one too, though not a holiday special.

Had no clue there were that many. Scanned several and it seems that over the years I've caught a whole lot of 'em!!

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I love the Peanuts Christmas special. Love that whole Vince Garaldi album too, great stuff, everyone loves this time of year when those gentle soothing tones come across the tv and radio waves right?

 

[Two Deep]

Great Pumpkin for sure. My kids love the "I got a rock" line...just kills them every time. Christmas is good too...but nothing beats the Great Pumpkin.

The I got a rock line and his ghost costume with all the eyeholes.

 

[Jayrok]

Boy, are you stupid, Charlie Brown.

 

[bushdocda]

Still pissed at Peppermint Patty after the bull #### she pulled at thanksgiving.

 

[Christo]

Christmas

 

[PIK95]

I liked the one when Snoopy's house burned down. Was that the Christmas one? Does cbs not show that scene anymore? They also cut half of Rudolph when they air it these days. Its unfortunate that big businesses is ruining the art, just to sell more commercials.

 

[zamboni]

May have been mentioned up thread, but an underrated part of the Christmas special is the end when all the kids are singing and take deep breaths/pauses in unison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0UTEVtDm0M

For some reason, always get a kick out of that.