"A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving"

[dth1971]

Is anyone familiar with the 1973 Peanuts animated special "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving"? When ABC airs this since 2001, 2 parts are omitted: 1 part omitted of the 2 is when Snoopy and Woodstock have the Thanksgiving turkey and then pull the wishbone.

[Sharklady]

I certainly remember that special- it involved Peppermint Patty inviting herself to Charlie Brown's house for Thanksgiving, and Charlie struggling to prepare a meal with limited cooking skills (come to think of it, the current 'Pieces of Amy' movie has a suspiciously similar plot!)

But I haven't seen this show in years now. If they're still broadcasting it, I must keep missing the ads.

[Viceroy]

But I haven't seen this show in years now. If they're still broadcasting it, I must keep missing the ads.

It appears that ABC this year is skipping the Thanksgiving special and going straight to the Christmas special. Tuesday, Dec.2 at 8pm.

[Daffyfan2003]

Actually, I think ABC already played the Christmas special last Sunday.

[Lightwave]

I don't think they aired it yet. There was a newspost recently about a new Charlie Brown Christmas special. It's going to focus on Rerun...and stuff. >_>

Anywho, I think I remember reading that they would air back to back. And I've seen no commercials for either of the two yet, so it's highly unlikely that it's been aired, if you ask me.

[Aberration]

X-Entertainment did a tribute to the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special here:

http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0845/

[Batgirl Beyond]

I don't think they aired it yet. There was a newspost recently about a new Charlie Brown Christmas special. It's going to focus on Rerun...and stuff. >_>

Anywho, I think I remember reading that they would air back to back. And I've seen no commercials for either of the two yet, so it's highly unlikely that it's been aired, if you ask me.Actually, I just watched the Thanksgiving special on Sunday. The classic Christmas special will be airing next week, Tuesday Dec. 2, 7:00 (I *think*, but I may be wrong) followed by another previous Christmas special. The week after that, Dec. 9, a new hour long Christmas special will air. Then, the week after that week a re-airing of the classic Christmas special and the other previous Christmas special.

As for changes to the Thanksgiving special; I really hadn't noticed. But I wasn't watching that closely so you may be right. In fact the only thing I had noticed was that some color was added to some of the scenes that wasn't there before. Cuts for time, maybe?

[Elven Moon]

I try to watch it every year. My dad taped it off the TV in the 80s, and we recently bought the DVD with the extra Pilgrim special.

[TacoKid]

X-Entertainment did a tribute to the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special here:

http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0845/

Great read. And yeah, saw the Thanksgiving Charlie Brown last Sunday. Loved it.

[Carolina Red]

1 part omitted of the 2 is when Snoopy and Woodstock have the Thanksgiving turkey and then pull the wishbone.
That's the best part! It's so funny because Woodstock is being cannibalistic. :D And I did see that article a week ago; who needs turkey and stuffing when you can have jellybeans and toast prepared in those old-time toasters that you push in on the sides?

Here's an interesting story: I was covering yesterday's NCSU men's basketball game at the RBC Center in Raleigh, and about an hour before tipoff they were playing that show on the Jumbotron! Of course, only a few hundred fans were at the arena at the end of the show. Now that's something I didn't expect to see, but it was an hour before the actual game started anyway. Some security guards who were watching it were also impersonating the adult voices in there. :)
I missed it when it got on ABC, but I still got to see it this year, including the turkey part.

[Sharklady]

> It's so funny because Woodstock is being cannibalistic. <

Not really. Cannibalism is eating members of one's own species, and Woodstock is not a turkey.

[TnAdct1]

> It's so funny because Woodstock is being cannibalistic. <

Not really. Cannibalism is eating members of one's own species, and Woodstock is not a turkey.

However, Woodstock still fears Thanksgiving in the comics.

[Sharklady]

> However, Woodstock still fears Thanksgiving in the comics. <

He's probably worried there are nuts out there who are so indiscriminating they'll roast any kind of bird.
He's probably right.

[Nin-Nin69]

I was just talking about this over at the CN forums. They should be showing this on CN instead of The Thanksgiving that almost wasn't. It hits closer to home and would give them huge ratings. :cool:

[Cactusjack1999]

Anyone know if they are showing teh Garfield Thanksgiving and/or X-mas specials this year?

[Viceroy]

Anyone know if they are showing teh Garfield Thanksgiving and/or X-mas specials this year?

All signs point to "no".

[Martianinvader]

The Garfield Thanksgiving hasn't been aired since its initial airing in 1989. I miss the Garfield Christmas though, even if it wasn't all that great.

Yes, they NEED TO PUT THE CREDITS SEQUENCE BACK IN A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING. They cut out the best joke in the show -- that Snoopy knew how to cook the whole time, but was saving it for Woodstock. Without it, the show ends with a weak joke about condominiums.

[Daffyfan2003]

That's true. I always felt it needed a stronger ending. I think I do remember seeing "A Garfield Thanksgiving" once in the afternoon, some time in the 90s I believe.

[Trevor]

I just got the DVD for this show today, and while I seem to have faded memories of seeing this show on the air sometime back in the 90's, I was really seeing this for the first time today. Plus with Thanksgiving coming up this weekend I thought that it was appropriate.

Of course it is funny how Sally mentions that she hasn't finished her Halloween candy yet, even though we haven't even hit Halloween yet (obviously by that joke the special is referring to the American Thanksgiving, which makes me wonder if Canadian broadcasters, if they do broadcast the show, cut out that line inorder to make the special just be about Thanksgiving and not making any mention as to what month the special takes place in?), and how Lucy still has Charlie Brown try to kick the football.

Having not seen the special before or in years, whatever the case may be, I can't really say whether this is improved over the broadcast or Paramount DVD versions, but the colors are good. It was also interesting to watch the bonus feature Popcorn & Jellybeans: Making A Thanksgiving Classic and to learn that Peppermint Patty was actually voiced by a young boy instead of a girl (usually it's the other way around, you hear of young boy parts being voiced by women).

The episode of This Is America, Charlie Brown, while interesting, I found to be of a cruder animated form than the main feature which is surprising when you compare it to any of the other Charlie Brown specials that have aired over the years.

I popped the DVD into my computer and it looks like, while the Popcorn & Jellybeans feature was put on in a 1.33:1 "pillar-boxed" 1.37:1 format, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and The Mayflower Voyagers appear to have been transferred to the disc at 1.37:1 which is nice when viewing the specials on a Widescreen monitor or TV.

Anyway I don't think A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and The Mayflower Voyagers are going to live up to the legacy of A Charlie Brown Christmas or It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown or even It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, or the highly-sought after Happy New Year, Charlie Brown, but it was still a very interesting special.

[Mister Donut]

No doubt this thread will be closed after my bumped statement, but I just like pointing out how murderous it has been for these specials to air on ABC at all (except for A Charlie Brown Christmas I guess, they made concessions for that) given how many minutes had to be snipped in the process. Most of the Peanuts specials made up to 1976 ran at about 25 minutes in length, and as such, are incompatible with today's 22 minute standard for most half-hour broadcasts. Thanks to this, most of the ones ABC has been airing often have certain sequences removed in order to fit it all in, but it's a shame to see certain things go, and I'd rather people go buy the DVD's and see how it should be seen.

[bbeagle]

Who am I to tell you how to make sausage gravy? The ??????? County gravy champion that's who

This always bothered me too!

Turning on the closed captions, she actually says, "The Green County gravy champion..."

:)

[Steve Carras]

One thing that was surreal about this is that Charlie Brown does the WB cartoon "YiebbityYiebbity" sound FX orginated in the very early 1930s before the regular sound effects head SFX creator, Tregoweth Brown,
arrived there, as he's running up to kick the football that Lucy holds, and that Pepperrmint Patty invited HERSELF and the nerdy Marcy along.

[AnimationX]

The Peanuts Thanksgiving special is definatly an awesome classic, but the Halloween and Christmas specials are definatly more enjoyable and rate a little more higher on the classic scale in my book, but the Thanksgiving special is still awesome to me. I own the triple pack DVD boxed set of the Peanuts holiday specials and it's one of my most prized set's that I own, every year I always make sure to enjoy these timeless classics with friends and family.

I should get some of the other Peanuts boxed sets out there, like the one from the 1960's that I keep seeing at Wal-Mart.

[Trevor]

The Peanuts Thanksgiving special is definatly an awesome classic, but the Halloween and Christmas specials are definatly more enjoyable and rate a little more higher on the classic scale in my book, but the Thanksgiving special is still awesome to me. I own the triple pack DVD boxed set of the Peanuts holiday specials and it's one of my most prized set's that I own, every year I always make sure to enjoy these timeless classics with friends and family.

I should get some of the other Peanuts boxed sets out there, like the one from the 1960's that I keep seeing at Wal-Mart.


Well we might see some of the other Charlie Brown specials that have only appeared on the 60's box set released seperately (likeCharlie Brown's All-Stars) sometime in the future, but if you don't want a ton of DVD's taking up space on you shelf, then the Decades collections might be the best way to go.