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Good Grief!

zarq — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:03:45 -0800

"Thank you dear sister, greatest of all sisters, without whom I'd never survive."
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show aired on Saturday mornings on the CBS network from 1983 - 1986. Only 18 episodes were ever produced.

Background * Peanuts, from TV Tropes. * The Lucy and Linus scene linked above was based on this strip. The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show Season One: 1983 * "Snoopy's Cat Fight" (Woodstock, Baseball, Sally, Peppermint Patty, Piano, Blanket) * "Snoopy: Team Manager" (Shoveling, Rerun, Lost Blanket, The Manager) * "Linus and Lucy" (Sally and Snoopy, Football, Beads, Love, Snowballs, Kite Flying, Linus and Lucy, Baseball) * "Lucy VS the World" (Straws, Lucy Baseball, Peppermint Patty, Daisy Hill Puppy Cup, Linus and Lucy) * "Linus' Security Blanket" (Snoopy and Woodstock, Sally, Piano, Baseball, Sunsets, Football, Security Blanket, Kite, Woodstock, Clinging Snoopy) * "Snoopy: Man's Best Friend" (Kiss, Peppermint Patty, Charlie Brown is Lost!, Snoopy) * "Snoopy the Psychiatrist" (Charlie Brown & Lucy, Kite, The Dance, Thibault) * "You Can't Win, Charlie Brown" (Shaking, Spaghetti, Football, Baseball, Toast, Snow Sculpture, Sit, School, Kite, The Blanket, Sally) * "The Lost Ballpark" (Crawl, Marcie, Truffles, The Lost Ballfield) * "Snoopy's Football Career" (Gold Stars, Blanket, Piano, Teaching) * "Chaos in the Classroom" (Sally at School, Football, School Patrol, Blanket, The Team) * "It's that Team Spirit, Charlie Brown" (Vulture, Blanket, Peppermint Patty, Rerun, Rainy Day) * "Lucy Loves Schroeder" (Tree-Eating Kite, Sally, Camp, Lucy Loves Schroeder, Scared Snoopy) Season Two: 1985 * "Snoopy and the Giant" (Snoopy's Foot, Giant, Rerun) * "Snoopy's Brother Spike" (The Pelicans, Great Pumpkin, Spike) * "Snoopy's Robot" (Snoopy's Robot, Linus and the Blanket, Friends) * "Peppermint Patty's School Days" (School Days, Snoopy's Trick, Snoopy's Flight) * "Sally's Sweet Babboo" (The Play, Sweet Babboo!, Snoopy's Story) Feature Films 1969: A Boy Named Charlie Brown 1972: Snoopy, Come Home 1977: Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (Turn off annotations for a better viewing experience) 1980: Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) Specials (Some were not online. This list includes their names for a proper timeline.) 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas 1966: Charlie Brown's All-Stars 1966: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 1967: You're in Love, Charlie Brown 1968: He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown 1969: It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown 1971: Play It Again, Charlie Brown 1972: You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown 1973: There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown 1973: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving 1974: It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown 1974: It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown 1975: Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown 1975: You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown 1976: It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown 1977: It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown (Alternate link) 1978: What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! 1979: You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown (Alternate link) 1980: She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown, Parts 1, 2 1980: Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown (Alternate link) 1981: It's Magic, Charlie Brown (Alternate link) 1981: Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown 1982: A Charlie Brown Celebration 1983: Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? 1983: It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown (Alternate link) 1983: What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? 1984: It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown 1985: Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown 1985: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 1986: Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! 1988: Snoopy!!! The Musical 1988: It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown 1990: Why, Charlie Brown, Why? 1991: Snoopy's Reunion 1992: It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown 1992: It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown (Alternate link) 1994: You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown (Alternate link) 1997: It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown 2000: It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (Straight to video - Unaired) 2002: A Charlie Brown Valentine (Alternate link) 2002: Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales 2003: Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown (Alternate link) 2003: I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (Alternate link) 2006: He's a Bully, Charlie Brown 2011: Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown This is America, Charlie Brown! Miniseries * "The Mayflower Voyagers" (Alternate link) * "The Birth of the Constitution" * "The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk" * "The NASA Space Station" (Alternate link) * "The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad" * "The Great Inventors" * "The Smithsonian and the Presidency" * "The Music and Heroes of America" Documentary 2000: Good Grief, Charlie Brown (An hour-long documentary on Peanuts narrated by Walter Cronkite. Featuring interviews with "Peanuts" creator Charles Schultz and "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening) 2007: Good Ol' Charles Schulz (PBS American Masters Series) (Alternate link)

By: thelonius

thelonius — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:05:11 -0800

The legendary "I'll See You In Hell, Charlie Brown" special never aired, sadly

By: Rob Rockets

Rob Rockets — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:12:39 -0800

Parody A Charlie Brown Christmas Reunion (Animation Domination Hi-Def) O Great Pumpkin (Robot Chicken)

By: mintcake!

mintcake! — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:14:38 -0800

Well this is fantastic. The fact that 'Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown' still doesn't have a DVD release is a continual source of WTF-ness for me, especially now that there is a Baby Mintcake toddling around. That sucker was one of those first-couple-of-things-we-taped-off-HBO VHS tapes that my family watched about a zillion times. Do it, Paramount/whomever.

By: infinitewindow

infinitewindow — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:16:51 -0800

I still have the horrible bubblegum from Snoopy, Come Home stuck in my head.

By: Chrysostom

Chrysostom — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:39:00 -0800

CB is a bit of a creeper about the little red-haired girl.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:39:19 -0800

I remember Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown being utterly terrifying, but I've not seen it since I was a young child so I don't remember why.

By: Atom Eyes

Atom Eyes — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:46:18 -0800

mintcake!: It's not ideal, but they do have Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown on Youtube, though broken into parts. Here's part 1. Also, this show looks surprisingly not crummy for a Saturday morning cartoon series. I'm guessing having original creative team Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez still on-board contributed to that.

By: ZeusHumms

ZeusHumms — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:46:49 -0800

'Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown' was apparently released on DVD in Feb. 2015. According to Wikipedia, it's also been released in VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc, and RCA's CED format.

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:50:05 -0800

I remember Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown being utterly terrifying, but I've not seen it since I was a young child so I don't remember why. The characters are repeatedly menaced and attacked by bullies and a vicious cat named Brutus. Charlie Brown is left behind at a bus stop twice. Later in the movie, there's a storm and Woodstock gets lost. It could easily be scary to a little kid.

By: Atom Eyes

Atom Eyes — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:51:02 -0800

CB is a bit of a creeper about the little red-haired girl. If nursing prolonged unrequited childhood crushes counts as creeping these days, then I guess everyone has a dark history of creeping.

By: asperity

asperity — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:56:14 -0800

Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown had a memorable dynamite blasting sequence that I thought was pretty scary. And Snoopy, Come Home is a guaranteed tear-jerker. I love that movie so much.

By: mintcake!

mintcake! — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:57:57 -0800

'Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown' was apparently released on DVD in Feb. 2015. According to Wikipedia, it's also been released in VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc, and RCA's CED format. WHAAAAAAAAAAT - ordering now. Thanks, ZH! Now I have to make up for the four months I could've been watching this. All of the features get a little sad/creepy at points, no? I'm guessing that's why they stuck with me, maybe (along with that wild anime Jack & The Beanstalk & 'Hugo The Hippo' etc.)...

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:02:38 -0800

Nobody ever believes me when I tell them about 'Why, Charlie Brown, Why?' (It's the one where the little red-haired girl gets cancer). Now I have proof. Thanks.

By: Omon Ra

Omon Ra — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:26:22 -0800

"Un Petit Garçon Nommé Charlie Brown" by Serge Gainsbourg

By: happyroach

happyroach — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:36:41 -0800

And then of course, there's Bring me the Head of Charlie Brown, from someone who insist watched way too many of these Armenians m specials.

By: fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit

fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:01:11 -0800

The existence of Flashbeagle says a lot about the 80s. Though I also recall they manufactured a Snoopy doll dressed as Boy George, which was pretty subversive for the Reagan era.

By: blucevalo

blucevalo — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:32:34 -0800

It could easily be scary to a little kid. It was scary to a non-little kid (me).

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:44:53 -0800

I can no longer deal with anything Peanuts-related without thinking of this. Now THAT is scary for a non-kid. (Jason Yungbluth is a total Evil Genius, in all interpretations of the term) But if you'd like a little brain wash, gocomics has put two Peanuts dailies reruns online, the one that is also still running in newspapers (currently pulling from mid-1968, definitely Snoopy's Golden Age) and "Peanuts Begins" that started in January of this year with day one (Oct. 1950 - the first "good old Charlie Brown") and going day-by-day through the slow growth and almost unrecognizable character designs. (All the long-running strips started out with the characters all wrong... if you don't evolve your design in the first five years, you end up with "Drabble".)

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 15:07:24 -0800

I was going to express dismay for it being this far into the thread and there being no mention of A Peanuts Halloween II: Electric Boogaloo. Then some Googling seems to indicate that there's only one site of it left on the web. That fills me with great dismay. You all must read it, and then reproduce it so that bit of hysterical BBS-i-cana doesn't die.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:30:49 -0800

FLASHBEAGLE! That's my childhood. Must show it to my kids pronto.

By: We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese

We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:41:02 -0800

Nobody ever believes me when I tell them about 'Why, Charlie Brown, Why?' (It's the one where the little red-haired girl gets cancer). Now I have proof. Thanks. It isn't the little red-haired girl, it's Linus's crush. Man, there were so many educational shows/cartoons about leukemia during my childhood.

By: lagomorphius

lagomorphius — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 20:54:49 -0800

Which was the one where Snoopy and Woodstock have to get back to Needles for Life Day?

By: parliboy

parliboy — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:02:25 -0800

Did things ever get better after "You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown"? That thing hit me as such a low at the time that I stopped reading the strip too.

By: BiggerJ

BiggerJ — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:56:42 -0800

Most if not all of the missing specials can probably be found at this YouTube channel - under deliberately deceptive names, so start digging. Also, one 'episode' seems to be missing from it and I don't know which.

By: TheSecretDecoderRing

TheSecretDecoderRing — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 22:58:56 -0800

I remember what-used-to-be Disney Channel airing the series after-school in the early 90s, but I don't remember there being that few episodes.

By: Halo in reverse

Halo in reverse — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 04:33:52 -0800

I recently had the opportunity to visit the Charles Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa (CA) and it really brought home the humanism in Schulz's work and more than a little nostalgia for the days when Snoopy - a stuffed animal whose neck was hanging on by a thread to his body* - was my best friend. The museum is truly worth a visit if you are in the area. I went straight home and watched a number of the old specials back to back. I'll be saving this thread to continue that endeavour. Thanks for all the work putting this together! *I believe my mother had to sew his head back on at least a couple of times.