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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a 1973 American television special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. The tenth prime-time animated television special in the Peanuts, it originally aired on the CBS network on November 20, 1973, and won an Emmy Award the following year. It was the third holiday special after A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965 and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown in 1966. Except for the opening football gag, it is the first Peanuts TV special to have a completely original script without relying on the strip.
Lucy encourages Charlie Brown to try and kick her football to honor the tradition of Thanksgiving football, then as usual pulls the ball away just before Charlie Brown reaches it and tells him that some traditions fade away.
Charlie Brown and his sister Sally discuss their lack of enthusiasm for the holidays, Charlie Brown because of his usual holiday-related depression, and Sally because she only sees it as a reason for schoolteachers to assign her essays—her mood changes when Linus arrives to explain Thanksgiving's importance. As the Browns prepare to go to their grandmother's for Thanksgiving dinner, Charlie Brown gets a phone call from Peppermint Patty, whose father is out of town so she invites herself — and soon after, Marcie and Franklin — to the Browns' house for Thanksgiving, even though Charlie Brown is not having dinner there nor can he cook anything beyond "maybe toast." Linus suggests that they have time before the Browns' Thanksgiving to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner for their friends and recruits Snoopy and Woodstock to help; Snoopy sets up a ping pong table and chairs outside. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock and Linus then prepare a feast of toast, pan-fried popcorn, pretzel sticks, jelly beans and sundaes.
Once the friends arrive, Linus says a grace based on the First Thanksgiving and Snoopy deals the plates like a casino dealer. An enraged Peppermint Patty rejects the meal for not including traditional foods. Marcie reminds Peppermint Patty that she invited herself to the meal. Peppermint Patty humbly asks Marcie to apologize to Charlie Brown on her behalf (unintentionally paralleling The Courtship of Miles Standish). Marcie reluctantly agrees, but Peppermint Patty soon follows and apologizes directly. Charlie Brown calls his grandmother to explain why his family is late to dinner; she invites all his friends to join them. On the drive over, they sing "Over the River and Through the Wood"; Charlie Brown remarks the one thing wrong with a song about "grandmother's house:" his lives in a condominium. Back at Snoopy's doghouse, he and Woodstock partake in a traditional meal among themselves.
This is the last TV special that uses the same cast from Snoopy Come Home, You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown, and There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown. In the next television special, Kohn, DeFaria, and Momberger would be succeeded in their respective roles by Melanie Kohn (Robin's younger sister), Donna Forman, and Lynn Mortensen, respectively.
The special first aired on CBS on Tuesday, November 20, 1973, two days before Thanksgiving. It placed third in the Nielsen ratings for the week, behind All in the Family and Sanford & Son.
The special continued to air every year on CBS (skipping 1982, 1983, and 1988) through Nov. 23, 1989.
The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon returned the special for re-airing in the 1990s (in the latter channel's case, under the "You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown" umbrella of productions) and then, in 2001, it moved, along with the rest of the Peanuts specials, to ABC. In contrast to CBS, ABC aired the special every year through 2019, on several days in the week leading up to Thanksgiving, and it regularly won its time slot. As the special runs slightly over a half-hour with commercials, ABC typically filled the remaining portion of the full hour with other Peanuts programming. From 2008 to 2019, the remaining time was filled by a slightly abridged edit of "The Mayflower Voyagers," the premiere episode of the 1988 miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown.
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a 1973 American television special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. The tenth prime-time animated television special in the Peanuts, it originally aired on the CBS network on November 20, 1973, and won an Emmy Award the following year. It was the third holiday special after A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965 and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown in 1966. Except for the opening football gag, it is the first Peanuts TV special to have a completely original script without relying on the strip.
Lucy encourages Charlie Brown to try and kick her football to honor the tradition of Thanksgiving football, then as usual pulls the ball away just before Charlie Brown reaches it and tells him that some traditions fade away.
Charlie Brown and his sister Sally discuss their lack of enthusiasm for the holidays, Charlie Brown because of his usual holiday-related depression, and Sally because she only sees it as a reason for schoolteachers to assign her essays—her mood changes when Linus arrives to explain Thanksgiving's importance. As the Browns prepare to go to their grandmother's for Thanksgiving dinner, Charlie Brown gets a phone call from Peppermint Patty, whose father is out of town so she invites herself — and soon after, Marcie and Franklin — to the Browns' house for Thanksgiving, even though Charlie Brown is not having dinner there nor can he cook anything beyond "maybe toast." Linus suggests that they have time before the Browns' Thanksgiving to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner for their friends and recruits Snoopy and Woodstock to help; Snoopy sets up a ping pong table and chairs outside. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock and Linus then prepare a feast of toast, pan-fried popcorn, pretzel sticks, jelly beans and sundaes.
Once the friends arrive, Linus says a grace based on the First Thanksgiving and Snoopy deals the plates like a casino dealer. An enraged Peppermint Patty rejects the meal for not including traditional foods. Marcie reminds Peppermint Patty that she invited herself to the meal. Peppermint Patty humbly asks Marcie to apologize to Charlie Brown on her behalf (unintentionally paralleling The Courtship of Miles Standish). Marcie reluctantly agrees, but Peppermint Patty soon follows and apologizes directly. Charlie Brown calls his grandmother to explain why his family is late to dinner; she invites all his friends to join them. On the drive over, they sing "Over the River and Through the Wood"; Charlie Brown remarks the one thing wrong with a song about "grandmother's house:" his lives in a condominium. Back at Snoopy's doghouse, he and Woodstock partake in a traditional meal among themselves.
This is the last TV special that uses the same cast from Snoopy Come Home, You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown, and There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown. In the next television special, Kohn, DeFaria, and Momberger would be succeeded in their respective roles by Melanie Kohn (Robin's younger sister), Donna Forman, and Lynn Mortensen, respectively.
The special first aired on CBS on Tuesday, November 20, 1973, two days before Thanksgiving. It placed third in the Nielsen ratings for the week, behind All in the Family and Sanford & Son.
The special continued to air every year on CBS (skipping 1982, 1983, and 1988) through Nov. 23, 1989.
The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon returned the special for re-airing in the 1990s (in the latter channel's case, under the "You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown" umbrella of productions) and then, in 2001, it moved, along with the rest of the Peanuts specials, to ABC. In contrast to CBS, ABC aired the special every year through 2019, on several days in the week leading up to Thanksgiving, and it regularly won its time slot. As the special runs slightly over a half-hour with commercials, ABC typically filled the remaining portion of the full hour with other Peanuts programming. From 2008 to 2019, the remaining time was filled by a slightly abridged edit of "The Mayflower Voyagers," the premiere episode of the 1988 miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown.