My mom used to just LOVE Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts comics! When she was older, I used to read it to her every night. So this really brings back some warm, special, PRECIOUS memories! 😪❤😢
Aww, that's so sweet! That's my favorite part of this, hearing how these characters affect people and bring them together. I'm so glad you shared that!
Schultz’s relationship with Andy is just like the relationship I have with my siamese-snowshoe cat, Clarisse. The two of us sleep together every single night, and the longest time we’ve ever been apart was just one week when I worked on a film production out of town. She’s my best friend. 😊💕🐱
The first ten minutes or so after I get into bed are DaVinci's time. As soon as I lay down she jumps up onto my stomach and won't leave until she's had her fill of skritches and knuckle-rubs. A few people have taken offense at Linus, when he found out that Lilah had owned Snoopy first, referring to Snoopy as a "used dog." I like to think that adopting Andy make Schulz rethink that opinion.
I had the second Charlie Brown Christmas cartoon on VHS at my grandmother's house. I believe she got it from a Shell Station. I particularly liked Peppermint Patty crediting Messiah to "Joe Handel."
@@cynicaladult When I was 10 (1967) my parents bought me some PEANUTS GANG hardback books for Christmas....I have a large PEANUTS library, and I am still adding to it.
@@JEFFREYcjones-xg2cy I only had a handful of the Fawcett paperback collections growing up, but I would *constantly* check the other ones out from the library. Now that I'm a Cynical Adult - and making my own money - I make a point of picking up any of them I run across.
There wasn't time to get into it in the video itself, but I have to call out Jimmy Bennett's performance as Rerun in I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown. Kid was eight years old, and nailed both the little-kid innocence, and the world-weariness inherent to being a character in Peanuts.
Peanuts, Snoopy in particular is my absolute favorite.. Like Charles Shultz, I had a dog change my life as well, his name was Felix. I had him for almost 21 years. He passed away on Nov. 1st of this year.
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss, but imagining all the love that dog must have gotten in all that time warms my heart. The downside of having adopted DaVinci as an adult is that I'll have fewer years with her, but the upside is how much those years with her mean to me.
This was the first video of yours that I’ve seen so I’ve definitely subscribed. I love the peanuts! So generous of you to do a giveaway! It’s easy for some people I think to forget about the other Christmas’ because A Charlie Brown Christmas by itself is so iconic so this was a great idea to cover them in this video!
Welcome, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've loved It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown since it aired - my mom and I had both loved the "hark/hockey stick" bit when it first appeared in the comics so it was good to see that bit get some love.
Great video I just watched all these Christmas specials in the past couple of days ,it’s a yearly tradition just like all the rest of the peanut specials
WOW I just saw my first video of yours! I love it! From the retro CBS type opening with yellow submarine font! Lots of fun...not to plug but I really think you would enjoy the playhouse, episode 6 is all about Peanuts memorabilia....hope you watch and join the playhouse my friend!
Glad you enjoyed it - and you're a person after my own Gen-X heart for getting that! Your username tells me you're a person of taste - I'll check that out ASAP!
It would be interesting to see you make a video about the original 1965 version of A Charlie Brown Christmas and the various changes made to it after the first airing. Maybe next year for the 60th anniversary.
I freaking LOVE I Want a Dog for Christmas Charlie Brown! Rerun was always one of my favorite Peanuts characters as a kid, mainly because I could relate to being the younger brother in my family, so anything with him in it stood out to me. I also really liked how the special was able to balance having the usual one-off scenes and gags adapted from the comics, while still having an original story that didn't feel like a slideshow of unconnected events.
I very much understand being the youngest sibling! Rerun was such a great character - Schulz really captured that little-kid confusion of attempting to understand the world of the older people around you.
Love these deep dives! Its always so fascinating what goes on behind the scenes and all the details we miss on first (or more) watch(es). There were even specials I never knew about that I’m gonna need to watch now! ❤️Snoopy
Thank you! I end up learning as much as you when I do these. And it *has* been a great excuse to watch all the old specials. Some real gems in there that I can't wait to tell you about!
When I was three years old I could understand adults when they talked to me but when talked to each other all I heard was "Gwop Gwop Gwop Gwop Gwop Gwop.
Great video! I remember reading that Charles Schultz originally regretted adding Rerun because he didn't know what to do with him. But eventually I believe he said he warmed up to the character and found him an interesting foil for Lucy, since she was generally nicer to him than to Linus.
I love how Rerun evolved in the 90s! I Want A Dog barely scratched the surface of his kindergarden career; there's so much great material with him and the pigtailed girl.
Behind-the-scenes fun fact: That first shot, with the eggnog and rum? It took me five takes to get that how I wanted it. And after every take my cup would be filled almost to the top with eggnog and rum, which had to be disposed of *somehow*. And since I didn't want it to go to waste...what better way than to drink it?
What i love woth Sally's Hockey stick line is it turned out she was telling the truth. There was a boy he created named Harold Angel who came to Sally's home to apologize for missing his que to sing after she was supost to say her line.
@cynicaladult yes, I cover a movie game of Snoopy by a company named pixowl. It is interesting the update they introduce and include a lot of obscure characters into them.
I remember back when I was a kid growing up during the 70's whenever the Spinning Special would appear on screen, and you'd hear the 🎶music🎵 you KNEW that something that you loved was about to be shown. ☃️⛄❄Frosty⛄the☃️Snowman❄⛄☃️, 🦌Rudolph🦌the🦌Red🔴Nose🦌Reindeer🦌, Charlie Brown's holiday specials, or any number of other wonderful Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day, Easter, even Halloween (The Great🎃Pumpkin🎃). Then later Garfield had some as well. Back in the 70's however Christmas was extra special. It seemed as though everything was just better. Seeing this brings back so many wonderful childhood memories. There was the anticipation that started the day after Thanksgiving. The JC Penny's Christmas Catalog and the Sears Wish Books were a staple in every kids room. List making. Hoping, dreaming about what you hoped for. As each television special would be played you'd get closer and closer to the day! Then Christmas Eve! There was nothing better than that! Going to Church with Grandpa and Grandma! Then the Christmas dinner!🎄🎄🎄🎄🎅🤶🧑🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 🎅🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🎄🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🛷🎅🙇♂️🙇♀️🧏🧏♀️🧏♂️🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷 Charlie Brown was always a really big part of it. Merry Christmas Everyone and God Bless us all.
I love how he's "one of the kids," but is also just outside of the main group and therefore able to notice and comment on their foibles. Have you ever seen the last ever "football gag?" I won't spoil it, but Rerun was involved and it was perfect.
It really was a miracle that the Christmas special got done on time 10 days before airing. Then the special not being canceled because the CBS executives who watched the screening hated it. They couldn't stop the airing since the Christmas special was done so close to the air date on December 9th. In the end, the viewers and the critics loved it. CBS saw the error of their ways and aired Peanuts specials until 1992 until ABC took over. Then Apple bought the rights in 2020. It's amazing that it was rushed together special got the Peanuts franchise to the mainstream in television.
I think about that one executive at that disastrous CBS screening who defiantly stood up and said, "this special is going to run for a hundred years." Whoever that guy was, he got it :D
Rerun van pelt ❤So entertaining as a kid. I forgot about him for over 20 yrs. Thank you 😊I can see hints of how Rerun inspired youths in Wes andersons movies Happily 🚲ed & Described 📝
this is probably the first video i’ve seen that’s given “it’s christmastime again, charlie brown” recognition. i actually have a cd set of that and the revised version of the 1965 special, so i was raised on both of them when i was younger. i do wish the 1990s holiday special was talked about more, but then again, it’s not as iconic as the first one. also your snoopy dolls from the intro are so cute!! cool video btw and happy holidays :-)
One thing you didn't mention was that there's a pinball table for "A Charlie Brown Christmas". I don't know if there's a physical version, but the one I'm referring to is by Zen Pinball, for a game called "Pinball FX", which also has a Snoopy pinball. Also, you get a point for Prep & Landing being mentioned. That deserves more love
Honestly, I ignored Prep & Landing when it first came out. But one year when I was at Disneyland they had the second one playing in "4D" with in-theater effects and I got hooked. I haven't tried any of the Pinball FX games but I'm intrigued. Fun fact: when I worked at Microsoft many many years ago, I pitched the idea of a skinnable, customizable online pinball. But at the time I was just a Photoshop monkey who mainly did banner ads for Bejeweled skins, so the idea never went anywhere.
Well, the Pinball FX games all take pinball presentation to the next level, because there's not only 3D, often moving character models, but many tables have mini games that are often more advanced versions of the video modes from classic machines (for example, there's a Family Guy table with a mini game where you play as Stewie in an airplane fight with his rival, Bertram)
Watching your video and at the 8:16 mark you were saying you think commercials are intrusive, I get an ad break on your video 😂 and cuts you off mid sentence! They do mess with the flow!
I just subscribed to your channel and I’m so glad I did. I am an absolute die hard Peanuts fan so your videos feel close to heart. I can’t wait to see what you have in store for good ol’ Charlie Brown and the gang in 2025. And of course any other videos you plan on making I know will be just as great. Merry Christmas.
Before watching, I had the impression that the later Christmas specials were more or less straightforward strip anthology adaptations, compared to the original story of the first one. They're apparently more closer to "A Charlie Brown Celebration" than most of the classic specials in that regard.
It's Christmastime Again does make a token attempt to tie the storylines together, like the pageant where Sally says "hockey stick" being the same one where Peppermint Patty plays a sheep. But I Want A Dog really put in the extra effort.
Another great video, the CB Christmas tradition is feeling very real. Had no idea they literally just adapted anthologies of his strips straight to video like that.
There were a few specials like that, and that's what The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show was. From what I've read, Melendez and his team found that off-the-shelf adaptation a lot less satisfying than getting to expand on the source material.
They showed the [Most well known] Specials on TV here in England in the 1970's when I was a kid, I thought the "Thanksgiving" one was a made up holiday like the Great Pumpkin [As we don't have Thanksgiving over here]
😂 Sometimes it doesn't seem like a real holiday, more like a dress rehearsal for Christmas, or a speedbump put in to keep people from zapping off directly to Christmas the day after Halloween. I didn't know a single thing about Arbor Day until the Arbor Day special. I figured it was some regional thing we just didn't have in my area, like Dolly Madison.
She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown was first shown on CBS on February 25, 1980, but I think it looks more like an ideal special to watch sometime after Christmas but before New Year's.
Sounds like a perfect time! It's also perfect for when we get late-winter snow here in Seattle. Snow is so infrequent here we have to really lean into it.
psst! if you’re open to requests, any chance of doing an analysis of “girl in the red truck”? there’s honestly a lot to dig upon, especially in how much of it is more or less a self-indulgent puff-piece of schulz by schulz
Oh, absolutely! I know I spend a lot of time in this video talking about what's in *future* videos...but it's a big part of a future video, along with the fully live-action special The Big Stuffed Dog. Those two are *so* far out there they warrant a deeper look.
I think of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" as "Christmassy" as well, because of the Rockefeller Center skating scene, and it debuted and often aired around the time the tree was lit there. So it kind of like represented that time between Thanksgiving and Christmas when the holiday season is officially kicking off. (Though I wonder if it was supposed to take place in spring, since Baseball was featured so much in it, and December was past the end of the season, and the rink is still open in early spring).
@@ETBX1 Ooh, you just named one of the things I love about that "golden age" of Peanuts cartoons: Vince Guaraldi would reuse a lot of the themes, but with some new twist. He'd do Linus & Lucy, but add, say, a harpsichord. It was a little harder to have the opportunity to reuse that skating theme - titled, appropriately enough, "Skating," - so it's nice to hear it turn up again.
I dont know about others. The specials produced after Charles Schulz passed do not seem to have quite the same sparkle as the earlier specials. Anyone else feel this way way? But yes, Peanuts was always melancholy throughout its entire run in the strip and in TV specials. Thank you Charles Schulz regardless 👍
That's an understandable attitude. There's a sort of Golden Age of Peanuts specials, basically from A Charlie Brown Christmas through Vince Guaraldi's death in 1976. There was nothing at all wrong with the music Ed Bogas and Judy Munson (and others) did for the specials after that. In fact, some of it was brilliant. Its only flaw was *not* being Vince Guaraldi, whose music had really defined a certain platonic ideal for Peanuts. And as I've shown, there were some in the 80s and beyond that *really* felt phoned in.
It's cool, not everybody is into the later stuff. I'm open to pretty much any era of Peanuts, out of the fascination of seeing how it evolved over the decades.
@ for me I think the fact they feel like unconnected strips. Not bad mind you, just lack the magic of the original. Which in fairness 99% of Christmas specials don’t have the originals magic.
@@BoyNamedSue4 I put A Charlie Brown Christmas at the top of the hierarchy because it's not just a Christmas special, it's an *event*. No one knew for sure if it would work. The Peanuts cartoon format is well-known now, but ACBC has the energy of people doing something new and different and trusting that it will work. There's a lot of good Peanuts cartoons from after that, but that one is a paradigm shift.
Charlie Browns animation is amazing. Its not the new'ist one piece seasons level of anamtion but it doesn't have to be (and it's not a anime). It's charming
There's a great featurette on the blu-ray of Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!!) called "Travels With Charlie," that includes a segment with Bill Melendez's son talking about the difficulty of translating Schulz's art into animation. Highly recommended!
That's a subject that's *way* beyond the scope of this video, but I will point out that I did not say "only 3 popular Christmas specials." I said that they were the three that, in terms of cultural impact, are at the top of the hierarchy. Frosty is absolutely essential, and were I to expand on that hierarchy, it would be on the very next tier. My favorite tier is the specials that flew under the radar but are low-key brilliant, either in quality or in uniqueness. At the very bottom are a few that are so bad they're educational. Like, future generations will study how Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe In Santa went so wrong.
@ Frosty is actually considered slightly below par because it’s tied with Rudolph for me. Both created a Christmas icon, and not only were of course the same company but the same creator song wise, Gene Autry. Of course Rudolph actually came first as a merchandising gimmick, as did the others as a book and comic strip respectively
@@tigerlord9302 Oh absolutely - let me be unequivocal, Frosty is a stone classic, and a perfect companion piece to Rudolph. Rudolph occupies the position it does because it came first, and became the de facto template for animated Christmas specials to come. I hadn't even realized until I checked just now, that Frosty was a full five years after Rudolph - I would have thought it was the immediate followup. They did *The Little Drummer Boy* before Frosty, that blew my mind.
I’ve owned the complete library of all Christmas specials on DVD for years, but I must admit, the Charlie Brown original just isn’t the same without the Dolly Madison commercials mixed in.
Right? They're burned into my brain. The "buy Dolly Madison" thing started when one of my friends was the first in our group to get a DVD player. We got together to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas on DVD; it had never looked better, but the brief dip to black where the commercials should be was jarring. The first time we all just kind of did a double-take. The second time someone said "buy Dolly Madison," and I've dedicated myself to spreading that stupid inside joke wherever I can.
The one under the opening? That's from the 1974 special "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus." As @polancoboomer correctly guessed, it IS by the Bill Melendez studio, which accounts for the slightly Peanutsy look of the kid characters.
@@cynicaladult // And in case you didn't know, Bill Melendez Productions is also responsible for TV shorts for Fred Bassett and the Perishers, TV films like Molly and the Skywalkerz, Jasper the Mule (their final non-Peanuts production), among others. "Yes Virginia" isn't the only non-Peanuts production from them!
Fun Fact: Schultz was once asked to do a presentation in Cambridge, England. He declined because he didn't want Andy to be alone at home.
Y'know something? I get it. DaVinci is decidedly not a travelin' cat, and I always feel kinda bad for her when I travel.
I loved I Want a Dog for Christmas Charlie Brown. It's so underrated.
It really is! Somehow I missed it when it first aired, and I think I expected another anthology like the other two.
My mom used to just LOVE Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts comics! When she was older, I used to read it to her every night. So this really brings back some warm, special, PRECIOUS memories! 😪❤😢
Aww, that's so sweet! That's my favorite part of this, hearing how these characters affect people and bring them together. I'm so glad you shared that!
Nothing says "holiday" like good ol' Charlie Brown! Gotta love the classics!
A person of good taste!
It wouldn't be Christmas without Charlie Brown.
Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!
Hark the herald angels sing...
Schultz’s relationship with Andy is just like the relationship I have with my siamese-snowshoe cat, Clarisse. The two of us sleep together every single night, and the longest time we’ve ever been apart was just one week when I worked on a film production out of town. She’s my best friend. 😊💕🐱
The first ten minutes or so after I get into bed are DaVinci's time. As soon as I lay down she jumps up onto my stomach and won't leave until she's had her fill of skritches and knuckle-rubs.
A few people have taken offense at Linus, when he found out that Lilah had owned Snoopy first, referring to Snoopy as a "used dog." I like to think that adopting Andy make Schulz rethink that opinion.
I had the second Charlie Brown Christmas cartoon on VHS at my grandmother's house. I believe she got it from a Shell Station.
I particularly liked Peppermint Patty crediting Messiah to "Joe Handel."
I tried to hard to find a commercial for ICTACB at Shell :D Such a weird method of distribution!
Peanuts is one of my favorite comic strips. I like it when they talk in a philosophical way.
That was one of the reasons I loved it as a kid, they were able to put words to the emotions I was feeling.
I am a 67-year-old guy who has been a fan and collector of all things PEANUTS GANG since 1967. this is a great video..thanks for sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it! I love talking to other collectors. What would you say got you into Peanuts?
@@cynicaladult When I was 10 (1967) my parents bought me some PEANUTS GANG hardback books for Christmas....I have a large PEANUTS library, and I am still adding to it.
@@JEFFREYcjones-xg2cy I only had a handful of the Fawcett paperback collections growing up, but I would *constantly* check the other ones out from the library. Now that I'm a Cynical Adult - and making my own money - I make a point of picking up any of them I run across.
@@cynicaladult Those are very collectible....I own some of those also..
There wasn't time to get into it in the video itself, but I have to call out Jimmy Bennett's performance as Rerun in I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown. Kid was eight years old, and nailed both the little-kid innocence, and the world-weariness inherent to being a character in Peanuts.
Met him.
Peanuts, Snoopy in particular is my absolute favorite.. Like Charles Shultz, I had a dog change my life as well, his name was Felix. I had him for almost 21 years. He passed away on Nov. 1st of this year.
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss, but imagining all the love that dog must have gotten in all that time warms my heart. The downside of having adopted DaVinci as an adult is that I'll have fewer years with her, but the upside is how much those years with her mean to me.
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This was the first video of yours that I’ve seen so I’ve definitely subscribed. I love the peanuts! So generous of you to do a giveaway! It’s easy for some people I think to forget about the other Christmas’ because A Charlie Brown Christmas by itself is so iconic so this was a great idea to cover them in this video!
Welcome, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've loved It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown since it aired - my mom and I had both loved the "hark/hockey stick" bit when it first appeared in the comics so it was good to see that bit get some love.
@ Yeah I agree it’s awesome, hockey stick is forever a classic!
Great video I just watched all these Christmas specials in the past couple of days ,it’s a yearly tradition just like all the rest of the peanut specials
Now that this video is out, I'll be spending the weekend watching them all and decorating my apartment!
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WOW I just saw my first video of yours! I love it! From the retro CBS type opening with yellow submarine font! Lots of fun...not to plug but I really think you would enjoy the playhouse, episode 6 is all about Peanuts memorabilia....hope you watch and join the playhouse my friend!
Glad you enjoyed it - and you're a person after my own Gen-X heart for getting that! Your username tells me you're a person of taste - I'll check that out ASAP!
It would be interesting to see you make a video about the original 1965 version of A Charlie Brown Christmas and the various changes made to it after the first airing. Maybe next year for the 60th anniversary.
Next year IS the anniversary, isn't it? Hmm...
I freaking LOVE I Want a Dog for Christmas Charlie Brown! Rerun was always one of my favorite Peanuts characters as a kid, mainly because I could relate to being the younger brother in my family, so anything with him in it stood out to me. I also really liked how the special was able to balance having the usual one-off scenes and gags adapted from the comics, while still having an original story that didn't feel like a slideshow of unconnected events.
I very much understand being the youngest sibling! Rerun was such a great character - Schulz really captured that little-kid confusion of attempting to understand the world of the older people around you.
6:35 my mom wasn't a Peanuts fan like I am, but she loved the story about Sally "falling down a tree" 😹😹😹
My mom would never have admitted to being a Peanuts fan, but there were so many strips she quoted, including "hockey stick!"
This just came up. I subscribed. I love it! Huge Peanuts fan. HUGE. Nice angle. GREAT content!!
Welcome, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! Do you have a favorite Peanuts character or moment?
Love these deep dives! Its always so fascinating what goes on behind the scenes and all the details we miss on first (or more) watch(es). There were even specials I never knew about that I’m gonna need to watch now!
❤️Snoopy
Thank you! I end up learning as much as you when I do these. And it *has* been a great excuse to watch all the old specials. Some real gems in there that I can't wait to tell you about!
When I was three years old I could understand adults when they talked to me but when talked to each other all I heard was "Gwop Gwop Gwop Gwop Gwop Gwop.
And yet somehow we understood them 😅
Great video! I remember reading that Charles Schultz originally regretted adding Rerun because he didn't know what to do with him. But eventually I believe he said he warmed up to the character and found him an interesting foil for Lucy, since she was generally nicer to him than to Linus.
I love how Rerun evolved in the 90s! I Want A Dog barely scratched the surface of his kindergarden career; there's so much great material with him and the pigtailed girl.
Behind-the-scenes fun fact: That first shot, with the eggnog and rum? It took me five takes to get that how I wanted it. And after every take my cup would be filled almost to the top with eggnog and rum, which had to be disposed of *somehow*. And since I didn't want it to go to waste...what better way than to drink it?
lol I can relate.
Thank you for this! Love love love these trips down mem lane you've given us. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too! Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic video! Have a merry Christmas and happy holidays! Liked and subscribed!
Thank you and welcome!
What i love woth Sally's Hockey stick line is it turned out she was telling the truth. There was a boy he created named Harold Angel who came to Sally's home to apologize for missing his que to sing after she was supost to say her line.
Yup, Harold even made a few more appearances!
@cynicaladult yes, I cover a movie game of Snoopy by a company named pixowl. It is interesting the update they introduce and include a lot of obscure characters into them.
I cant say enough good things about this channel!
Thank you so much!
I remember back when I was a kid growing up during the 70's whenever the Spinning Special would appear on screen, and you'd hear the 🎶music🎵 you KNEW that something that you loved was about to be shown. ☃️⛄❄Frosty⛄the☃️Snowman❄⛄☃️, 🦌Rudolph🦌the🦌Red🔴Nose🦌Reindeer🦌, Charlie Brown's holiday specials, or any number of other wonderful Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day, Easter, even Halloween (The Great🎃Pumpkin🎃). Then later Garfield had some as well. Back in the 70's however Christmas was extra special. It seemed as though everything was just better. Seeing this brings back so many wonderful childhood memories. There was the anticipation that started the day after Thanksgiving. The JC Penny's Christmas Catalog and the Sears Wish Books were a staple in every kids room. List making. Hoping, dreaming about what you hoped for. As each television special would be played you'd get closer and closer to the day! Then Christmas Eve! There was nothing better than that! Going to Church with Grandpa and Grandma! Then the Christmas dinner!🎄🎄🎄🎄🎅🤶🧑🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
🎅🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🎄🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🛷🎅🙇♂️🙇♀️🧏🧏♀️🧏♂️🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷 Charlie Brown was always a really big part of it. Merry Christmas Everyone and God Bless us all.
Aww, glad I could stir up some nostalgic memories for you! The day those catalogs arrived was always an occasion for young me...
I love this video! Rerun is such a underrated character!
I love how he's "one of the kids," but is also just outside of the main group and therefore able to notice and comment on their foibles. Have you ever seen the last ever "football gag?" I won't spoil it, but Rerun was involved and it was perfect.
@@cynicaladult Yes, I have read it and yes it was perfect 😄
He didn’t become a main character until the 90’s, which is why he has not popularity
Not appearing in the 2015 movie doesn’t help either
It really was a miracle that the Christmas special got done on time 10 days before airing. Then the special not being canceled because the CBS executives who watched the screening hated it. They couldn't stop the airing since the Christmas special was done so close to the air date on December 9th. In the end, the viewers and the critics loved it. CBS saw the error of their ways and aired Peanuts specials until 1992 until ABC took over. Then Apple bought the rights in 2020. It's amazing that it was rushed together special got the Peanuts franchise to the mainstream in television.
I think about that one executive at that disastrous CBS screening who defiantly stood up and said, "this special is going to run for a hundred years." Whoever that guy was, he got it :D
Hope you have a great Christmas!!
And you too! Glad you enjoyed it!
Rerun van pelt ❤So entertaining as a kid. I forgot about him for over 20 yrs. Thank you 😊I can see hints of how Rerun inspired youths in Wes andersons movies
Happily 🚲ed & Described 📝
Interesting thought! I had never made that connection but now Wes Anderson is the ONLY director I could ever see doing a live-action Peanuts movie...
We need you to write and perform a parody of BILLIE JEAN about Peggy Jean. Search your feelings, young Jedi, you know this to be true.
Hmm, you could be onto something...
"Peggy Jean is not my girlfriend...she's just a girl for who I'm buying some gloves...."
@@cynicaladult I know you were The One for this.
@@mikececconi2677 Dammit, now I'm going to be thinking about this all day...
@@cynicaladult IT IS MY CHRISTMAS GIFT YOU, SIR.
this is probably the first video i’ve seen that’s given “it’s christmastime again, charlie brown” recognition. i actually have a cd set of that and the revised version of the 1965 special, so i was raised on both of them when i was younger. i do wish the 1990s holiday special was talked about more, but then again, it’s not as iconic as the first one. also your snoopy dolls from the intro are so cute!! cool video btw and happy holidays :-)
Aww, I love hearing about other peoples' experience with the specials and the characters! Glad you enjoyed this one!
One thing you didn't mention was that there's a pinball table for "A Charlie Brown Christmas". I don't know if there's a physical version, but the one I'm referring to is by Zen Pinball, for a game called "Pinball FX", which also has a Snoopy pinball.
Also, you get a point for Prep & Landing being mentioned. That deserves more love
Honestly, I ignored Prep & Landing when it first came out. But one year when I was at Disneyland they had the second one playing in "4D" with in-theater effects and I got hooked.
I haven't tried any of the Pinball FX games but I'm intrigued. Fun fact: when I worked at Microsoft many many years ago, I pitched the idea of a skinnable, customizable online pinball. But at the time I was just a Photoshop monkey who mainly did banner ads for Bejeweled skins, so the idea never went anywhere.
Well, the Pinball FX games all take pinball presentation to the next level, because there's not only 3D, often moving character models, but many tables have mini games that are often more advanced versions of the video modes from classic machines (for example, there's a Family Guy table with a mini game where you play as Stewie in an airplane fight with his rival, Bertram)
Watching your video and at the 8:16 mark you were saying you think commercials are intrusive, I get an ad break on your video 😂 and cuts you off mid sentence! They do mess with the flow!
*shakes fist impotently* Youtuuuuuuube!
LOVE your use of the editing timeline lol
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
I just subscribed to your channel and I’m so glad I did. I am an absolute die hard Peanuts fan so your videos feel close to heart. I can’t wait to see what you have in store for good ol’ Charlie Brown and the gang in 2025. And of course any other videos you plan on making I know will be just as great. Merry Christmas.
Welcome, and glad to meet another Peanuts fan! I just wish I could get these out faster...
Before watching, I had the impression that the later Christmas specials were more or less straightforward strip anthology adaptations, compared to the original story of the first one. They're apparently more closer to "A Charlie Brown Celebration" than most of the classic specials in that regard.
It's Christmastime Again does make a token attempt to tie the storylines together, like the pageant where Sally says "hockey stick" being the same one where Peppermint Patty plays a sheep. But I Want A Dog really put in the extra effort.
Are those Nebraska plates in the background? That's the state I live in!
Yup! I have stepfamily there so I've been quite a few times. What part of Nebraska?
Another great video, the CB Christmas tradition is feeling very real. Had no idea they literally just adapted anthologies of his strips straight to video like that.
There were a few specials like that, and that's what The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show was. From what I've read, Melendez and his team found that off-the-shelf adaptation a lot less satisfying than getting to expand on the source material.
They showed the [Most well known] Specials on TV here in England in the 1970's when I was a kid, I thought the "Thanksgiving" one was a made up holiday like the Great Pumpkin [As we don't have Thanksgiving over here]
😂 Sometimes it doesn't seem like a real holiday, more like a dress rehearsal for Christmas, or a speedbump put in to keep people from zapping off directly to Christmas the day after Halloween.
I didn't know a single thing about Arbor Day until the Arbor Day special. I figured it was some regional thing we just didn't have in my area, like Dolly Madison.
I have a major soft spot for It's Christmas Time again due to my fondness for Peggy Jean which goes back to like when I was 8 years old.
She was such a great character - and she opened up a whole new side of Charlie Brown!
She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown was first shown on CBS on February 25, 1980, but I think it looks more like an ideal special to watch sometime after Christmas but before New Year's.
Sounds like a perfect time! It's also perfect for when we get late-winter snow here in Seattle. Snow is so infrequent here we have to really lean into it.
psst! if you’re open to requests, any chance of doing an analysis of “girl in the red truck”? there’s honestly a lot to dig upon, especially in how much of it is more or less a self-indulgent puff-piece of schulz by schulz
Oh, absolutely! I know I spend a lot of time in this video talking about what's in *future* videos...but it's a big part of a future video, along with the fully live-action special The Big Stuffed Dog. Those two are *so* far out there they warrant a deeper look.
Im a big peanuts fan and i love your videos on peanuts it just so cool!
Glad you enjoy them! I love talking Peanuts with fellow fans!
Don't forget Garfield's Christmas
😅 I'm gonna have to do a tier list of animated Christmas specials, aren't I...
@@cynicaladult If you want to do that
@@cynicaladult
Do every single Franken Bass special as well
Funny videos 😂
Glad you're enjoying them! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Have you thought of doing videos on the two Mickey Mouse Christmas specials, Once and Twice Upon A Christmas?
Been a while since I watched those, but it's a possibility. I'd have to get into Mickey's Christmas Carol as well!
i'm replying here in the comments because I didn't see an email. My favorite character is Linus. His voice actor in the 60s has an interesting story.
Christopher Shea? I've heard about Peter Robbins, the voice of Charlie Brown, but nothing about Shea. What happened?
Do you have any of the new vinyl soundtracks?
I didn't realize there *were* new vinyl soundtracks! Are those the ones with all the missing cues restored?
I think of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" as "Christmassy" as well, because of the Rockefeller Center skating scene, and it debuted and often aired around the time the tree was lit there. So it kind of like represented that time between Thanksgiving and Christmas when the holiday season is officially kicking off. (Though I wonder if it was supposed to take place in spring, since Baseball was featured so much in it, and December was past the end of the season, and the rink is still open in early spring).
Oh, good call! It does have that cozy winter vibe, whenever it's supposed to take place.
@@cynicaladult Forgot to mention it even uses the same skating tune from the Christmas special!
@@ETBX1 Ooh, you just named one of the things I love about that "golden age" of Peanuts cartoons: Vince Guaraldi would reuse a lot of the themes, but with some new twist. He'd do Linus & Lucy, but add, say, a harpsichord. It was a little harder to have the opportunity to reuse that skating theme - titled, appropriately enough, "Skating," - so it's nice to hear it turn up again.
I dont know about others. The specials produced after Charles Schulz passed do not seem to have quite the same sparkle as the earlier specials. Anyone else feel this way way? But yes, Peanuts was always melancholy throughout its entire run in the strip and in TV specials. Thank you Charles Schulz regardless 👍
That's an understandable attitude. There's a sort of Golden Age of Peanuts specials, basically from A Charlie Brown Christmas through Vince Guaraldi's death in 1976. There was nothing at all wrong with the music Ed Bogas and Judy Munson (and others) did for the specials after that. In fact, some of it was brilliant. Its only flaw was *not* being Vince Guaraldi, whose music had really defined a certain platonic ideal for Peanuts. And as I've shown, there were some in the 80s and beyond that *really* felt phoned in.
Around the 2000s they use to air the specials back to back. They’re enjoyable but lack the magic of the original.
It's cool, not everybody is into the later stuff. I'm open to pretty much any era of Peanuts, out of the fascination of seeing how it evolved over the decades.
@ for me I think the fact they feel like unconnected strips. Not bad mind you, just lack the magic of the original. Which in fairness 99% of Christmas specials don’t have the originals magic.
@@BoyNamedSue4 I put A Charlie Brown Christmas at the top of the hierarchy because it's not just a Christmas special, it's an *event*. No one knew for sure if it would work. The Peanuts cartoon format is well-known now, but ACBC has the energy of people doing something new and different and trusting that it will work. There's a lot of good Peanuts cartoons from after that, but that one is a paradigm shift.
@@cynicaladult agreed
At 8:19 an ad cut you mid sentence, “I don’t know about you, but I find commercials………..intrusive “. 😂😂😂
Proving my point! 😃
Charlie Browns animation is amazing. Its not the new'ist one piece seasons level of anamtion but it doesn't have to be (and it's not a anime). It's charming
There's a great featurette on the blu-ray of Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!!) called "Travels With Charlie," that includes a segment with Bill Melendez's son talking about the difficulty of translating Schulz's art into animation. Highly recommended!
I don't mind you shooting at me Frank, but take it easy on the Bacardi
I'm ashamed of myself that I had to stop and rack my brain for the source of that one. And I JUST watched Scrooged last week!
I'll take my Egg Nog straight no chaser‼️🥂..🙏🍬🎅🦌🏈🎁🦃🧸🎀🎄✨️🤶❄️🍂🔔🕎🎶🕯🪀🌟🙏📦🍁☃️🍭🧑🎄🎄✨️
That's the beauty of nog, it can be served so many ways. Eggnog neat, eggnog and rum, eggnog and scotch, eggnog and tequila, eggnog martinis...
Andy and marbles are the best
I would have loved to see more with Snoopy's family!
Peanuts should’ve kept Lydia around as a mainstay
I agree! She did make sporadic appearances throughout the 90s, if only to keep messing with Linus.
She technically did keep appearing when the strip was ending, it’s the modern writers that never use her at all
Only 3 popular Christmas specials? You seem to have forgotten about a certain Christmas special involving certain living snowman… 🎅🎄 ☃️
That's a subject that's *way* beyond the scope of this video, but I will point out that I did not say "only 3 popular Christmas specials." I said that they were the three that, in terms of cultural impact, are at the top of the hierarchy. Frosty is absolutely essential, and were I to expand on that hierarchy, it would be on the very next tier.
My favorite tier is the specials that flew under the radar but are low-key brilliant, either in quality or in uniqueness. At the very bottom are a few that are so bad they're educational. Like, future generations will study how Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe In Santa went so wrong.
@ Frosty is actually considered slightly below par because it’s tied with Rudolph for me. Both created a Christmas icon, and not only were of course the same company but the same creator song wise, Gene Autry. Of course Rudolph actually came first as a merchandising gimmick, as did the others as a book and comic strip respectively
@@tigerlord9302 Oh absolutely - let me be unequivocal, Frosty is a stone classic, and a perfect companion piece to Rudolph. Rudolph occupies the position it does because it came first, and became the de facto template for animated Christmas specials to come.
I hadn't even realized until I checked just now, that Frosty was a full five years after Rudolph - I would have thought it was the immediate followup. They did *The Little Drummer Boy* before Frosty, that blew my mind.
My mom loves snoopy
She has good taste!
I’ve owned the complete library of all Christmas specials on DVD for years, but I must admit, the Charlie Brown original just isn’t the same without the Dolly Madison commercials mixed in.
Right? They're burned into my brain. The "buy Dolly Madison" thing started when one of my friends was the first in our group to get a DVD player. We got together to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas on DVD; it had never looked better, but the brief dip to black where the commercials should be was jarring. The first time we all just kind of did a double-take. The second time someone said "buy Dolly Madison," and I've dedicated myself to spreading that stupid inside joke wherever I can.
5:01 The videotape box (incorrectly) called Peggy Jean The Little Red Haired Girl.
I caught that 😅 It didn't help that when the LRHG did appear in the cartoons they couldn't keep her appearance consistent!
is prep really 18 years old?
Sorry if I made you feel old 😅 I just discovered there's a third one due out next year!
Me and lucky agree on something
What's that, about older sisters being a moral compass?
Ironically your rant about commercials got interrupted by a commercial.
Heh heh heh...
What editing software do you use
Adobe Premiere.
What is this cartoon? 1:27
From what I can tell, it is something from the Bill Melendez studio, but it sure ain't related to the Peanuts.
The one under the opening? That's from the 1974 special "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus." As @polancoboomer correctly guessed, it IS by the Bill Melendez studio, which accounts for the slightly Peanutsy look of the kid characters.
@@cynicaladult thanks
@@cynicaladult // And in case you didn't know, Bill Melendez Productions is also responsible for TV shorts for Fred Bassett and the Perishers, TV films like Molly and the Skywalkerz, Jasper the Mule (their final non-Peanuts production), among others. "Yes Virginia" isn't the only non-Peanuts production from them!
@@polancoboomer No to mention all the Garfield specials and the Cathy specials! The man just loved adapting comic strips...
Wait. I see Julius Pierpont Patches! Are you a Patches Pal?
From birth! JP helped make me a cartoon lover!
@@cynicaladult I can narrow down where you grew up. OTA broadcast TV didn't get very far.