The reason A Charlie Brown Christmas is my favorite is because in 1965 my Dad was in the military and was missing presumed dead overseas. Fifteen minutes before the cartoon came on, my Dad came in the house safe and sound. Best Charlie Brown special and Christmas ever!
My only gripe with the Thanksgiving one was the Football gag at the beginning. Lucy is only there for that one scene, and then disappears for the rest of it. Linus is there, but her absence is never explained. I'd wish she got invited to CB's impromptu Dinner, but she'd be roasting him harder than Patty was.
Charlie Brown is a true patriot who orchestrated a series of events meant to bait Russia into war with the United States causing World War 3 in response to the Iraq war believing it severely handicapped the US's reputation as the strongest world power.
Top 10 Peanuts Characters 1. Molly the waitress 2. Based Schroeder 3. Based Schroeder 4. Based Schroeder 5. Based Schroeder 6. Based Schroeder 7. Based Schroeder 8. Based Schroeder 9. Based Schroeder 10. Woodstock
Linus: christmas is about the birth of Jesus. Also Linus: i'm going to spend the entirety of easter celebrating a figment of my imagination that being the easter beagle, no mention of religion whatsoever.
I laughed SO DAMN HARD at the comments about Linus stealing Charlie Brown’s girl all the time. Also, you are SO on-point about the current Peanuts rights holders just protecting a brand now. I think that was going on long before Apple entered the picture, though - once Schulz and Melendez were out of the picture, it became a Product Factory designed to sell more Snoopy holiday decorations and Joe Cool sweatshirts from Kohls. What true Peanuts had was a core of dark and weird stuff under the witty quips and precocious wisdom - your jokes about Linus’ faith in the Great Pumpkin being cult-like are on target. I’d like to see you do a video about the Peanuts feature films - your commentary is fall-on-the-floor hilarious and very insightful.
Okay... in their 57 years of existence (72 if you're counting the comic strips), HOW have they not made a 4th of July special??? They're already rehashing Christmas, Valentines Day, and New Years, but you're telling me they haven't done Independence Day yet!?
I've been thinking about that and the only reason I can think of is that people go out and watch fireworks at night on the 4th of July, not TV. So no network ever ordered a Peanuts special for independence day.
At the risk of coming off edgy: it may also be because the sincerity of 4th of July was in decline from the 1960s onward. The trend of "America Bad" began, in good faith, with the Vietnam War protests. By the late 1960s a holiday like 4th of July was starting to be scrutinized. That scrutiny has since morphed into a really scratter-brained, and frankly childish knee-jerk cry to hate the US at all times (including being okay with very dictatorial nations like Russia) but at the time of the specials even Schulz had misgivings about nationalism.
I want AppleTV to make a Peanuts special or show based on the super _old_ strips Schultz made in the early ‘50s. I’m talking the strips where everyones’ heads were oversized, Charlie Brown didn’t have depression, Snoopy was an ordinary dog, and Lucy was a psychotic, bug-eyed toddler.
I miss weird vocal cadence of the old shorts. Nobody Ive ever known talks that way and I wonder if they ever did. You know, where every sentence ends with a really upbeat emphasis.
I miss weird vocal cadence in general. It seems like every movie and cartoon from the 1940’s to the early 1980’s had characters that spoke with strange cadence that is not heard today.
Watching Peanuts specials was never a traditional thing in my country like it is in America, so that nostalgia was never really there. But for some reason, I'm not really sure why, i started watching A Charlie Brown Christmas every year since my late teens to the point that its become my own tradition and i read like a decades worth of the comic strips, and i still feel some level of nostalgia even though i didn't grow up with it. I think i just relate to Charlie Brown on such a deep level that i adopted it into my own tradition. It fills me with a warm fuzzy comfortable feeling that's hard to describe.
The fact that Molly the Waitress isn't mentioned at least once in the specials after her debut gives me less hope that the peanuts will make another timeless classic like It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown. In all seriousness great vid, your humor is perfect.
Make a Logan-style Molly movie with Molly the waitress. Don't tie it in with any cinematic universe what-so-ever. Just do a rough, beautiful, emotional tale about an older Molly. Have Jill Schulz direct. Give her full control. Watch the box office explode.
Now rank the Peanuts children based on how physically strong they are. Like we all know Charlie Brown could take Linus or Rerun, but he would get his ass whooped by Lucy. But can he take Franklin? Pigpen?
Are you talking "Who would win in a fight?" I think the rankings heavily depend on circumstances. Linus w/o blanket is low tier, but Linus w/ blanket is high tier, he can expertly use the blanket as a whip. Marcie is very high tier as well, she punched a kid out with one blow when angry, and beat up a camp bully off screen as well. Charlie Brown has insane endurance and impressive feats, but he has a bad habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. If they had a fighting tournament, Charlie would probably make it to the grand finals, and then somehow knock himself out before landing the final blow.
tournament seeding is also important cause while charlie brown and linus could easily overpower sally i don't think they'd have it in them to beat her up cause she's like 5. lucy though would have no such scruples. you'd think peppermint patty would be the winner cause she's the jock but if snoopy was included (cause he always gets in on the competitions) he'd win.
The Robot Chicken take on "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" is destined to be a classic in itself. Meanwhile, there's the question of how Charlie Brown ended up with all of those rocks. Did the grown-ups call each other on the phone and say, "Let's all play a prank on the kid with the holes in his sheet!"?
My name is Charlie brown. I am 8 years old. My house is in suburban America, where all the cul-de-sacs are, and I am no married. I am a student at an elementary school, and i get home everyday by 2PM at the latest. I don't smoke, and I don't drink I'm in bed by 9PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.
21:29 to 23:10, and 28:07 to 28:40 are SO TRUE! I’ve always been thinking this about the new Peanuts content, but here you’ve said it better than I ever could. I totally 100% agree with you, it seems like all the newer Peanuts content only cares about being “super wholesome heartwarming comfy sappy cuteness!” and not, you know, actually being funny. (And J know humor is subjective, but personally I always found the old Peanuts comics were actually very funny to read)
Alright eventually you better talk about "I want a dog for Christmas Charlie Brown" it is honest to God my favorite special. Rerun is such a GOAT character
7:52 ok ok WOAH. Hold on there pal. As someone who watches that film every thanksgiving, to me it just brings the thanksgiving spirit to me. And you put it in A tier? In my eyes, it is 100% S tier.
Watched It's the Small Things a few weeks ago and it kills me. I love the vibrant colors and I feel like they really captured the look of the character in motion while making each scene look like a painting. I enjoyed how they got Snoopy and Woodstock bits in more as background gags so to not break up the pace and each child got a time to shine, even if Chuck and Patty sound a bit off (I also don't think Patty, the most athletically proud kid would use a motor on her bike). You get that great scene where Sally shows up wanting to play since she's 5 and Charlie promised. I thought they'd have him weasel out of it but no; he's a great older brother and really lets her try, much to the dismay of his players, but he cares about the promise he made to her. Then the flower plot comes in and you see the tension building. At this point I was on board. I figured everyone would be pushing Charlie to get her to leave / kill the flower but again he stands by her and lets he stay with the flower. I was hoping the lesson would be that Sally finally realizes that her little escaped is taking something away from her brother that he truly cares about; his baseball game. The one he's been looking forward to and practicing for all year. She would remember how he unconditionally supported her joining the team and protecting her flower and now that she sees him upset but still standing by her she would agree to move the weed... But no. They fight over it and the weed dies and they play it like it's Charlie's fault? I went from loving it to hating it so quickly my head spun. Are the other AppleTV ones that bad, I haven't watched them yet. I skipped those parts as to not spoil, if I do watch them. Great video. :)
I noticed some other things when I watched the Christmas special as an adult. I noticed that we were supposed to get a sense of time passing when Charlie Brown was directing the Christmas play. And they could have given us that with a few simple crossfades. The hard cuts make it feel like an unbroken few minutes. I also realized, finally, that the piano music and dancing were the play all along. Or perhaps they were a symbolic stand-in for the actual play. When I was a kid, I always thought that Charlie Brown's actors cared so little about him that they just played music and danced instead of rehearsing.
Linus and Sally are two sides of the same coin. Childlike innocence and belief. Also I fully believe that Linus talked to Little Red Head Heather and orchestrated Charlie's first kiss to make up for all the times he stole his girl.
No wonder Sally has that hopeless crush on Linus. She's unironically more unlucky than her brother in that regard because even with so many heartbreaks elsewhere (like with Peggy Jean), Charlie still has that crush on Heather to go back to and it's even implied she does return those feelings despite him being unable to even talk to her most of the time. And I totally buy your theory if the animations can be chronologically set out of their release order. What Linus did in the New Year's special needed something big to make up for it. And as cruel as the Homecoming special's ending was, Charlie forgetting everything after the kiss makes it so that it doesn't "break continuity" and still makes the ending of the 2015 movie work.
I started watching Peanuts animations because of your last video. Peppermint Patty is so cool. So thanks for that, even the strip adaptations are a lot of fun. What you said about the Apple TV specials rang true for me. They're written well, but thats the issue. Its a boiler plate sappy children's special script. But it misses the point of the characters and the strips. I think people want to uplift the material because that's what is best for the corporate image of Peanuts at this point in time. Not that Schulz didnt do impressive things with the strip, or people weren't inspired by it. But still... I think they're trying to give peanuts more staying power in this current political climate. I guess Obama giving the foreword of the final compilation book in 2016 was cool. But Peppermint Patty once told Franklin there arent Black players in the NHL in the strip. She's still cool though, and I do like the idea of exploring her family. But the mother's day special is just... idk, I can sort of see her behaving that way. But I think I prefer the version of her that invites herself over to others' Thanksgiving because her dad left her alone.
I was OBSESSED with the Easter Beagle special as a kid! I would watch it every Saturday religiously to the point where I'd have the whole special memorized by heart. "I brought the eggs, sir. I brought the eggs..." "AAAAUGH! MARCIE! YOU JUST MADE EGG SOUP!"
8:47. Marci and Peppermint Pattie with the eggs bit is honestly one of my favorite gags in the entire series or at least one of yhe funniest. A close second is Snoopy laughing at the movie on the plane to Paris in Bon Voyage Charlie Brown
Peanuts is a pretty apt name considering the original comics had a hearty crunchiness to them. That crunch is no long present in the Apple TV specials.
As a kid, I assumed that Charlie Brown had to go to his grandmothers at 4:30 was because she lived out of town, and it was a really long drive. That's what we had to do every Thanksgiving at Christmas with going to my grandparents because they live in Pennsylvania and we live in Maryland.
My name is Charlie Brown. I’m 8 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Hennepin County, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I'm head of the local baseball team, and I get home every day by 5 PM at the latest. I don’t smoke, but I occasionally drink. I’m in bed by 9 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning.
The special about the Mayflower voyage from "This Is America, Charlie Brown" should have also been included in your list of Peanuts holiday specials since ABC frequently aired it after "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving."
But it's not a special. That is an episode from the miniseries This is America, Charlie Brown. It was paired with A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (in a slightly abridged format) but it is still from a series and not considered a special.
Came across this channel at random, and I’m glad to see someone covering peanut’s material. Going through the lesser known specials I had myself saying “hey I saw that one” for damn near most of them, and I’m proud of that 🙂. Keep up the good work!
How odd, I was also marathoning Peanuts specials this year. And yeah they can be pretty tiring if you watch em in a row. Also your humor is on point, too, made me laugh a couple of times. Would you ever consider ranking the Peanuts theatrical movies?
i'm honestly a bit saddened to know how criminally underrated u are. i found you thru ur first peanuts video today and watched this and ur james bond vids (so glad to see another timothy dalton fan, living daylights is one of my personal all-time faves), and ur editing n comedic timing is one of the few times i've consistently laughed while watching something, and one of the very few times i've actually commented on a video. i can't wait to see what else you review in the future!
@@BigBeakEntertainment Peppermint Patty operates on "Fool me once? Shame on you. Fool me twice? Shame on you again. Fool me three times? You're a bitch!"
Actually, Beethoven didn't own a dog, but he was friends with a dog from a relationship he had with a student he proposed to, Gigons. So Schroeder was right on a technicality.
I have absolutely watched your peanuts videos too many times for someone who's never actually watched a Peanuts special (but who read the comics a lot). But you have absolutely SchroederPilled me Big Beak.
Same here, I was familiar with Peanuts since childhood thanks to the strip and various merch (like Snoopy Happy Meal toys and some tie-in encyclopedias with the characters) but Big Beak's videos are what got me to finally watch the animations. I'm at around the early 80s and it's been mostly great.
I think the Peanuts specials on Apple seem cute but they definitely feel more sincere than you'd really expect from Peanuts. It'd be like if a Calvin and Hobbes special was about Calvin learning to appreciate his mom. There should be a little bit of edge Also glad I'm not the only one pushing the Marcy x Peppermint Patty agenda. They knew what they were doing with the rose pedals
Have you seen A Charlie Brown's Christmas Reunion? It's a fan-made animation where the characters meet as adults. It's definitely not perfect, but it's worth watching. I've also never spent so much time reading comments.
I just watched It's the Small Things and I've gotta say you are spot on at 25:35. Why is Sally's care about the flower she met yesterday more important than Charlie Brown's about his years-long hobby? 🤬
Woodstock is an eagle, which is known to eat other birds. Also, I see it as a joke: the bald eagle is the national bird of the US. Benjamin Franklin wanted that symbol to be a turkey. So, Woodstock the eagle eating a turkey is a visual representation of one bird winning over the other to become a symbol.
Aw, dude. "It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown" was my favorite when I was a teen. I think we got it from a gas station with a full tank of gas or something like that. My brother and I watched it so many times that we knew the whole thing by heart. It was hilarious and we loved it. I still do.
Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack cocaine (or acting like you were), but was reclaimed by rapper Lil B for being yourself and not caring what others think of you-to carry yourself with swagger
I liked the Condominium joke as a kid because my Grandparents actually lived in a condominium back then. I don’t think it’s as funny anymore because now they live in a hole in the ground
By the way, I wanted to point out that a peanuts character did die on screen. And it was the school building of all things. It literally collapsed due to depression and a new one had to be rebuilt. Just letting you know that beforehand. Anyways I love your videos. Happy new year to you!
If history is to be believed, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" single-handledly caused the downfall of "aluminum Christmas trees" -- the big, gaudy, obviously fake kind, at least -- and for the next few decades we saw mostly "realistic" Christmas trees in the stores.
1. Humans eating chimpanzees would absolutely be cannibalism. 2. Birds are more diverse than mammals, therefore a bird eating a distantly related bird would be like us eating a cow. 3. Woodstock is a sparrow-like bird of the neo-aves clade; turkeys are fowls meaning they would be as distantly related as we are to marsupials.
10:59 THANK YOU for pointing out that chocolates are deadly to dogs, and here Snoopy is eating a gigantic heart box of them! Was everyone just ignorant about dogs and chocolate until a decade ago?
Schroder a real one out there for sticking up for his man Charlie brown. also my headcanon is that snoopy got pulled a captain america and got frozen during ww1 and then was unfrozen and became Charlie browns dog. and his moment in the great pumpkin is just him going on a ptsd trip from his service in the war.
I think you really got to the heart of what's wrong with the Apple specials and with how people see Peanuts in general. There are literal decades worth of Peanuts comics to adapt or get more direct inspiration from, and yet people have come to see Peanuts as something more on par with a greeting card-- cute and disposable. Disney did similar with Mickey Mouse for years before those recent shorts came out that are absolutely hilarious. Peanuts kiiiinda did this when they got the Pearls Before Swine guy to make Happiness is a Warm Blanket, but it's admittedly a "meh" special that I have a feeling spooked the Peanuts people into staying in their lane, which is a bit of a bummer. Good video. Have you considered doing other newspaper comics videos, or is Peanuts the only one you're familiar enough with?
Honestly I really loved Happiness Is A Warm Blanket. Shermy and Patty being back somewhat in the spotlight and having lines was fun since I really love them as characters and wash oping for it for a while. Patty's a fun character and has a few handfuls of hilarious lines and moments from the comics when she was relevant and she acts a bit different without Violet or Lucy, and Shermy I like for his athleticism, the older strips where he was basically Charlie Brown's one step up in everything and his original closest friend
16:42 THANK YOU! That is the main issue with A Charlie Brown Valentine. Saying "Little Red-Haired Girl" 31 times! Thirty-One times! Even Ferdinand didn't say "That's right!" this many times throughout Misty Island Rescue! Just call the god dam girl Heather, you blockhead! For Auld Lang Syne should be higher. Happy New Year, Charlie Brown was downright awful. Saying For Auld Lang Syne was far better than HNYCB would be putting it just as lightly as saying Banjo and Kazooie look far better in Smash Brothers than they did in Nuts and Bolts, or saying Widget was better than Captain Planet.
I'd blame Charlie's sheer insecurities for him being unable to call Heather by her name, but by that point he should've already been used to that. Even in the new year's special he did call her by name in one scene. Though the worst offender is how that newer Valentine's special completely redesigned TLRGH for no reason. And since she went unnamed there it kinda appears to be a totally different character. Thankfully the 2015 movie gave her a design that is both reminiscent of the earlier specials and her lone silhouette cameo in the strip, as well as her name being directly referenced in the test scores list.
Part of Apple's deal when they bought the streaming rights says that they must provide A Charlie Brown Christmas, It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for free for a three day window around their respective holidays.
I genuinely didn't know Apple TV was making new specials. They should've stopped with the movie, that was peak Peanuts. Also "Linus's incel rage" genuinely had me rolling. Subscribed.
I revisited I Want a Dog for Christmas Charlie Brown with my family last Christmas and I cannot understate how painful it was to get through. The four panel format gets old real fast especially with the B of the B Day bits. The whole thing ends up feeling 3x longer than the actual runtime
"Charlie Brown Christmas" and "Great Pumpkin" vie for best. In the 1970s they went downhill fast, not helped by the original voices and Vince Guaraldi's score being not easily replaced, and a general lack of inspiration that caused rules to be broken (such as a visible Little Red-haired Girl, and Snoopy imagining himself to become a more realistic dog). Aside from maybe Paul Reiser's apocryphal Passover special "Let My People Go, Charlie Brown."
I would have put Happy New Year Charlie Brown in F tier because Charlie Brown suffers throughout the entire special and gets a D minus despite all the work he's put in. It teaches a terrible moral, and the teacher needs to be thrown in jail immediately. This special should have never seen the light of day, which is why it deserves to be blown up by New Years Day fireworks.
Check out my video on the forgotten Peanuts specials if you want context. th-cam.com/video/IbHPpTmCgd4/w-d-xo.html
Acid was a thing in the 70s. It made a comeback in the 90s 😂
The reason A Charlie Brown Christmas is my favorite is because in 1965 my Dad was in the military and was missing presumed dead overseas. Fifteen minutes before the cartoon came on, my Dad came in the house safe and sound. Best Charlie Brown special and Christmas ever!
My only gripe with the Thanksgiving one was the Football gag at the beginning. Lucy is only there for that one scene, and then disappears for the rest of it. Linus is there, but her absence is never explained. I'd wish she got invited to CB's impromptu Dinner, but she'd be roasting him harder than Patty was.
Why do you sound like Running Shine's younger crack head brother.
Charlie Brown is a true patriot who orchestrated a series of events meant to bait Russia into war with the United States causing World War 3 in response to the Iraq war believing it severely handicapped the US's reputation as the strongest world power.
Thanks for opening my eyes to how based Schroeder is. Under-appreciated character
Top 10 Peanuts Characters
1. Molly the waitress
2. Based Schroeder
3. Based Schroeder
4. Based Schroeder
5. Based Schroeder
6. Based Schroeder
7. Based Schroeder
8. Based Schroeder
9. Based Schroeder
10. Woodstock
Schroeder is the best one and people dont recognize that
Charlie brown is the Pikachu of Peanuts
As a kid, I always thought Schroeder was the most cool and swag. Even his name is awesome.
@@BigBeakEntertainment Franklin deserves top three for how smooth he dapped up Charlie Brown in the Thanksgiving special
Im such a based notepilled schroedcel
Linus: christmas is about the birth of Jesus.
Also Linus: i'm going to spend the entirety of easter celebrating a figment of my imagination that being the easter beagle, no mention of religion whatsoever.
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@@piper888Easter has to do with Jesus, Halloween doesn’t.
@@Shrimpfriedpee Halloween is the eve of All Saints Day.
I laughed SO DAMN HARD at the comments about Linus stealing Charlie Brown’s girl all the time. Also, you are SO on-point about the current Peanuts rights holders just protecting a brand now. I think that was going on long before Apple entered the picture, though - once Schulz and Melendez were out of the picture, it became a Product Factory designed to sell more Snoopy holiday decorations and Joe Cool sweatshirts from Kohls. What true Peanuts had was a core of dark and weird stuff under the witty quips and precocious wisdom - your jokes about Linus’ faith in the Great Pumpkin being cult-like are on target. I’d like to see you do a video about the Peanuts feature films - your commentary is fall-on-the-floor hilarious and very insightful.
Okay... in their 57 years of existence (72 if you're counting the comic strips), HOW have they not made a 4th of July special??? They're already rehashing Christmas, Valentines Day, and New Years, but you're telling me they haven't done Independence Day yet!?
I've been thinking about that and the only reason I can think of is that people go out and watch fireworks at night on the 4th of July, not TV. So no network ever ordered a Peanuts special for independence day.
Same for April fools or Beach one
But then , This is America, Charlie Brown.....exists...for some reason.
They made a Memorial Day special where Linus talks about the horrendous casualties taken on Omaha Beach and WW1.
At the risk of coming off edgy: it may also be because the sincerity of 4th of July was in decline from the 1960s onward.
The trend of "America Bad" began, in good faith, with the Vietnam War protests. By the late 1960s a holiday like 4th of July was starting to be scrutinized. That scrutiny has since morphed into a really scratter-brained, and frankly childish knee-jerk cry to hate the US at all times (including being okay with very dictatorial nations like Russia) but at the time of the specials even Schulz had misgivings about nationalism.
I want AppleTV to make a Peanuts special or show based on the super _old_ strips Schultz made in the early ‘50s. I’m talking the strips where everyones’ heads were oversized, Charlie Brown didn’t have depression, Snoopy was an ordinary dog, and Lucy was a psychotic, bug-eyed toddler.
Charlie Brown: Origins
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I miss weird vocal cadence of the old shorts. Nobody Ive ever known talks that way and I wonder if they ever did. You know, where every sentence ends with a really upbeat emphasis.
I miss weird vocal cadence in general. It seems like every movie and cartoon from the 1940’s to the early 1980’s had characters that spoke with strange cadence that is not heard today.
@@dylanbjustrom6096bad child acting and directing that’s all 😂 but it’s so charming
Watching Peanuts specials was never a traditional thing in my country like it is in America, so that nostalgia was never really there. But for some reason, I'm not really sure why, i started watching A Charlie Brown Christmas every year since my late teens to the point that its become my own tradition and i read like a decades worth of the comic strips, and i still feel some level of nostalgia even though i didn't grow up with it. I think i just relate to Charlie Brown on such a deep level that i adopted it into my own tradition. It fills me with a warm fuzzy comfortable feeling that's hard to describe.
It just relates to childhood in general
You know what this video made me realize that Charlie Brown would definitely fit right in the silent of the lambs movie as Hannibal Lector
I couldn't help but notice your pretty hands, Clarice.
@@BigBeakEntertainment Charlie finally got revenge
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Alternatively, Charlie as Kira from Jojo part 4.
@@DeanRocks-kr7wv "Charles Brown... is Yoshikage Kira!!!"
The fact that Molly the Waitress isn't mentioned at least once in the specials after her debut gives me less hope that the peanuts will make another timeless classic like It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown.
In all seriousness great vid, your humor is perfect.
Make a Logan-style Molly movie with Molly the waitress. Don't tie it in with any cinematic universe what-so-ever. Just do a rough, beautiful, emotional tale about an older Molly. Have Jill Schulz direct. Give her full control. Watch the box office explode.
I say throw in based Schroeder and you got the perfect, most splendid Peanuts special that's graced the earth.
@@BigBeakEntertainmentfirst movie to sell Mollyllion tickets
Now rank the Peanuts children based on how physically strong they are. Like we all know Charlie Brown could take Linus or Rerun, but he would get his ass whooped by Lucy. But can he take Franklin? Pigpen?
Are you talking "Who would win in a fight?" I think the rankings heavily depend on circumstances. Linus w/o blanket is low tier, but Linus w/ blanket is high tier, he can expertly use the blanket as a whip. Marcie is very high tier as well, she punched a kid out with one blow when angry, and beat up a camp bully off screen as well. Charlie Brown has insane endurance and impressive feats, but he has a bad habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. If they had a fighting tournament, Charlie would probably make it to the grand finals, and then somehow knock himself out before landing the final blow.
Would the folding chair from the Thanksgiving special be counted in this? Cause I think it would potentially beat out everyone else as the strongest
tournament seeding is also important cause while charlie brown and linus could easily overpower sally i don't think they'd have it in them to beat her up cause she's like 5. lucy though would have no such scruples. you'd think peppermint patty would be the winner cause she's the jock but if snoopy was included (cause he always gets in on the competitions) he'd win.
@@prestong.6391 Snoopys the only one with a confirmed body count. He wins hands down but whos second?
Schroeder the gigachad can lift his piano by its legs and make Lucy spin around in the air, so he's gotta be the strongest.
The Robot Chicken take on "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" is destined to be a classic in itself. Meanwhile, there's the question of how Charlie Brown ended up with all of those rocks. Did the grown-ups call each other on the phone and say, "Let's all play a prank on the kid with the holes in his sheet!"?
You are right-it’s a pretty nasty thing to do to a child,repeatedly giving him rocks.
Ikr everyone knows you give the kid with a lazy shit tier costume candy corn.
Charlie Brown is so obsessed with hands that even Kira thinks he's a bit weird
My name is Charlie brown. I am 8 years old. My house is in suburban America, where all the cul-de-sacs are, and I am no married. I am a student at an elementary school, and i get home everyday by 2PM at the latest. I don't smoke, and I don't drink I'm in bed by 9PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.
@@SJrad Charlie Brown’s stand is the Kite Eating Tree
@@DwayneTheSquidJohnson its power allows him to turn kites into bombs
@@DwayneTheSquidJohnson KITE EATING TREE, DAISAN NO BRANCHO-DAN: BAITSU ZA STRING-DO
@@DwayneTheSquidJohnson The Kite Eating Tree feels more like the Peanuts equivalent to Stray Cat. Charlie Brown's stand would be Snoopy.
A moment of silence for Thompson.
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21:29 to 23:10, and 28:07 to 28:40 are SO TRUE!
I’ve always been thinking this about the new Peanuts content, but here you’ve said it better than I ever could. I totally 100% agree with you, it seems like all the newer Peanuts content only cares about being “super wholesome heartwarming comfy sappy cuteness!” and not, you know, actually being funny. (And J know humor is subjective, but personally I always found the old Peanuts comics were actually very funny to read)
Oh my God, yes. I've been thinking about how goddamn squeaky Peanuts is now and like, this nails it.
Alright eventually you better talk about "I want a dog for Christmas Charlie Brown" it is honest to God my favorite special. Rerun is such a GOAT character
It's my favorite too! Rerun is so funny, I can't get enough of him.
18:55 is the timecode for that one
Rerun deserves SO much better, bruh.
7:52 ok ok WOAH. Hold on there pal. As someone who watches that film every thanksgiving, to me it just brings the thanksgiving spirit to me. And you put it in A tier? In my eyes, it is 100% S tier.
Watched It's the Small Things a few weeks ago and it kills me. I love the vibrant colors and I feel like they really captured the look of the character in motion while making each scene look like a painting. I enjoyed how they got Snoopy and Woodstock bits in more as background gags so to not break up the pace and each child got a time to shine, even if Chuck and Patty sound a bit off (I also don't think Patty, the most athletically proud kid would use a motor on her bike). You get that great scene where Sally shows up wanting to play since she's 5 and Charlie promised. I thought they'd have him weasel out of it but no; he's a great older brother and really lets her try, much to the dismay of his players, but he cares about the promise he made to her.
Then the flower plot comes in and you see the tension building. At this point I was on board. I figured everyone would be pushing Charlie to get her to leave / kill the flower but again he stands by her and lets he stay with the flower. I was hoping the lesson would be that Sally finally realizes that her little escaped is taking something away from her brother that he truly cares about; his baseball game. The one he's been looking forward to and practicing for all year. She would remember how he unconditionally supported her joining the team and protecting her flower and now that she sees him upset but still standing by her she would agree to move the weed...
But no. They fight over it and the weed dies and they play it like it's Charlie's fault? I went from loving it to hating it so quickly my head spun. Are the other AppleTV ones that bad, I haven't watched them yet. I skipped those parts as to not spoil, if I do watch them. Great video. :)
Lucy’s school is more boring and For Mom and Dad was mediocre
The only good special in my opinion was Fir Auld Lang Syne, the rest of the specials are either badly written or mediocre
Just goes to show you how important an ending can be
The running joke about your hateboner for Linus really cracked me up 🤣and I say this as someone who genuinely loves the character
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@@pancakes8670 Thanks!
I noticed some other things when I watched the Christmas special as an adult. I noticed that we were supposed to get a sense of time passing when Charlie Brown was directing the Christmas play. And they could have given us that with a few simple crossfades. The hard cuts make it feel like an unbroken few minutes. I also realized, finally, that the piano music and dancing were the play all along. Or perhaps they were a symbolic stand-in for the actual play. When I was a kid, I always thought that Charlie Brown's actors cared so little about him that they just played music and danced instead of rehearsing.
Linus and Sally are two sides of the same coin. Childlike innocence and belief.
Also I fully believe that Linus talked to Little Red Head Heather and orchestrated Charlie's first kiss to make up for all the times he stole his girl.
No wonder Sally has that hopeless crush on Linus. She's unironically more unlucky than her brother in that regard because even with so many heartbreaks elsewhere (like with Peggy Jean), Charlie still has that crush on Heather to go back to and it's even implied she does return those feelings despite him being unable to even talk to her most of the time.
And I totally buy your theory if the animations can be chronologically set out of their release order. What Linus did in the New Year's special needed something big to make up for it. And as cruel as the Homecoming special's ending was, Charlie forgetting everything after the kiss makes it so that it doesn't "break continuity" and still makes the ending of the 2015 movie work.
When I was a kid they had these plastic Easter eggs you could look into for an Easter scene if holding up to a light. Like a view finder .
I started watching Peanuts animations because of your last video. Peppermint Patty is so cool. So thanks for that, even the strip adaptations are a lot of fun.
What you said about the Apple TV specials rang true for me. They're written well, but thats the issue. Its a boiler plate sappy children's special script. But it misses the point of the characters and the strips. I think people want to uplift the material because that's what is best for the corporate image of Peanuts at this point in time. Not that Schulz didnt do impressive things with the strip, or people weren't inspired by it. But still... I think they're trying to give peanuts more staying power in this current political climate. I guess Obama giving the foreword of the final compilation book in 2016 was cool. But Peppermint Patty once told Franklin there arent Black players in the NHL in the strip. She's still cool though, and I do like the idea of exploring her family. But the mother's day special is just... idk, I can sort of see her behaving that way. But I think I prefer the version of her that invites herself over to others' Thanksgiving because her dad left her alone.
Just imagine how depressing it would be to be Charlie Brown, knowing each day you are a massive fail
I don't need to imagine, I'm a Charlie Brown-Tier TH-camr
Hey, com'on, man. Why did you have to call me out like that?
I mean that’s the best part of Charlie Brown, almost every day for him is terrible, but he never gives up.
I live that life
it sucks
@brennanlaskas9849 Like baseball. He's failed so many games, yet he still tried to lead his team to victory each time.
I Just noticed that the part where Violet is dancing in this video is one of the most replayed..
I was OBSESSED with the Easter Beagle special as a kid! I would watch it every Saturday religiously to the point where I'd have the whole special memorized by heart. "I brought the eggs, sir. I brought the eggs..." "AAAAUGH! MARCIE! YOU JUST MADE EGG SOUP!"
8:47. Marci and Peppermint Pattie with the eggs bit is honestly one of my favorite gags in the entire series or at least one of yhe funniest. A close second is Snoopy laughing at the movie on the plane to Paris in Bon Voyage Charlie Brown
Peanuts is a pretty apt name considering the original comics had a hearty crunchiness to them.
That crunch is no long present in the Apple TV specials.
As a kid, I assumed that Charlie Brown had to go to his grandmothers at 4:30 was because she lived out of town, and it was a really long drive. That's what we had to do every Thanksgiving at Christmas with going to my grandparents because they live in Pennsylvania and we live in Maryland.
My name is Charlie Brown. I’m 8 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Hennepin County, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I'm head of the local baseball team, and I get home every day by 5 PM at the latest. I don’t smoke, but I occasionally drink. I’m in bed by 9 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning.
18:15 This part caught of guard and was absolutely hilarious. I haven’t finished this video but I already love it.
The special about the Mayflower voyage from "This Is America, Charlie Brown" should have also been included in your list of Peanuts holiday specials since ABC frequently aired it after "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving."
I was going to comment about this too, we always watched both growing up and we honestly like it more than the "actual" Thanksgiving special!
But it's not a special. That is an episode from the miniseries This is America, Charlie Brown. It was paired with A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (in a slightly abridged format) but it is still from a series and not considered a special.
The Easter Beagle was a favorite at my house. The scenario of Peppermint Patty and Marcie screwing up the eggs cracked up my boys every year.
Came across this channel at random, and I’m glad to see someone covering peanut’s material. Going through the lesser known specials I had myself saying “hey I saw that one” for damn near most of them, and I’m proud of that 🙂.
Keep up the good work!
How odd, I was also marathoning Peanuts specials this year. And yeah they can be pretty tiring if you watch em in a row. Also your humor is on point, too, made me laugh a couple of times. Would you ever consider ranking the Peanuts theatrical movies?
5. Bon Voyage
4. A Boy Named Charlie Brown
3. The Peanuts Movie
2. Snoopy Come Home
1. Race For Your Life
@@BigBeakEntertainment Wow! You just saved me 30 minutes! Thanks man!
@@BigBeakEntertainment Can yu explain? I really like Bon voyage.
@@matthewhenningervonada9914 There's only 5. I just like all the others more
@@BigBeakEntertainment
Better list
5. Bon Voyage
4.Race for your life
3. A boy named Charlie
4. Snoopy come home
5. Peanuts movie
i'm honestly a bit saddened to know how criminally underrated u are. i found you thru ur first peanuts video today and watched this and ur james bond vids (so glad to see another timothy dalton fan, living daylights is one of my personal all-time faves), and ur editing n comedic timing is one of the few times i've consistently laughed while watching something, and one of the very few times i've actually commented on a video. i can't wait to see what else you review in the future!
I always thought Peppermint Patty might've considered supervising Marcie re: the Easter Eggs, but what can you do
After the first two batches of eggs, I would have switched tasks. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... can't get fooled again.
@@BigBeakEntertainment Peppermint Patty operates on "Fool me once? Shame on you. Fool me twice? Shame on you again. Fool me three times? You're a bitch!"
The Easter Beagle special is brilliant if only for the trippy Tardis that is Woodstock's birdhouse. It doesn't need any more to make it amazing.
I would actually pay out my entire life savings to watch a peanuts special about the murder of Thompson
10:36 Given that Snoopy's hands are both full and there was no way for him to throw that, we can only HOPE it was mud...
Actually, Beethoven didn't own a dog, but he was friends with a dog from a relationship he had with a student he proposed to, Gigons. So Schroeder was right on a technicality.
21:57 The dark side of Peanuts is just the best. RIP Thompson.
I have absolutely watched your peanuts videos too many times for someone who's never actually watched a Peanuts special (but who read the comics a lot). But you have absolutely SchroederPilled me Big Beak.
Same here, I was familiar with Peanuts since childhood thanks to the strip and various merch (like Snoopy Happy Meal toys and some tie-in encyclopedias with the characters) but Big Beak's videos are what got me to finally watch the animations. I'm at around the early 80s and it's been mostly great.
I never had any real love or fascination for Peanuts but somehow you made this a riveting watch.
"in his blind incel rage, Linus decides to kill Snoopy" literally made me cry with laughter
FWIW, I'm *pretty* sure my late father (b. 1926 - d. 1993) had me named Lucy after pre-1964 Lucy Van Pelt.
I think the Peanuts specials on Apple seem cute but they definitely feel more sincere than you'd really expect from Peanuts. It'd be like if a Calvin and Hobbes special was about Calvin learning to appreciate his mom. There should be a little bit of edge
Also glad I'm not the only one pushing the Marcy x Peppermint Patty agenda. They knew what they were doing with the rose pedals
I'd put the Earth Day one in S just because Shermy gets a line.
Didn’t ever expect a DAVID S. PUMPKIN SNL skit in a peanuts video. Bravo.
I absolutely love your peanuts content and the way you rant about it it’s so entertaining
Well that’s your opinion.
Good shit, now all we need is the educational specials, the space station one was always my favorite as a kid
This was totally worth the time...thanks for taking one for the team.
Hi please keep making content like this. I just watched your original show last night about the Peanuts specials and laughed my ass off😂
Same
Cannot believe I’ve still not seen anything on Charlie Browns Mayflower Voyage🙄
I love the 2014 peanuts show, it's so underrated! Just while watching this video, it made me remind of it for some reason..
I love how Linus quickly went from the voice of reason to this shithead incel and after he snapped in happiness is a warm blanket he kinda just reset
The Vince Guaraldi trio just tied those earlier specials together, it all together. The great pumpkin waltz is perfect fall music.
I just watched your other Peanuts video and loved it, and now I get to watch another one :)
Glad you like them!
3:23
Sally: “are you sure it’s legal?”
Lucy: *I* *will* *make* *it* *legal*
Have you seen A Charlie Brown's Christmas Reunion? It's a fan-made animation where the characters meet as adults. It's definitely not perfect, but it's worth watching. I've also never spent so much time reading comments.
I just watched It's the Small Things and I've gotta say you are spot on at 25:35. Why is Sally's care about the flower she met yesterday more important than Charlie Brown's about his years-long hobby? 🤬
The comedy of this channel is on point.
I love that Big Beak talked himself into marking Shroder as even more based than he was already. Hahah.
ayo I did a legit spittake at "don't you realize you're contributing to the overcommercialization of Christmas?" "not till I sell one!"
14:51 chuck is like Dan Schneider, but instead of getting a bonger over kid feet, he gets a bonger over kid hands
chuck schneider
Woodstock is an eagle, which is known to eat other birds. Also, I see it as a joke: the bald eagle is the national bird of the US. Benjamin Franklin wanted that symbol to be a turkey. So, Woodstock the eagle eating a turkey is a visual representation of one bird winning over the other to become a symbol.
8:35 RIP Norm Macdonald
Aw, dude. "It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown" was my favorite when I was a teen. I think we got it from a gas station with a full tank of gas or something like that. My brother and I watched it so many times that we knew the whole thing by heart. It was hilarious and we loved it. I still do.
Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack cocaine (or acting like you were), but was reclaimed by rapper Lil B for being yourself and not caring what others think of you-to carry yourself with swagger
29:32
My dad works at a peanuts factory, he's miserable. He's turned to drinking sickened by his line of work.
I liked the Condominium joke as a kid because my Grandparents actually lived in a condominium back then.
I don’t think it’s as funny anymore because now they live in a hole in the ground
By the way, I wanted to point out that a peanuts character did die on screen. And it was the school building of all things. It literally collapsed due to depression and a new one had to be rebuilt. Just letting you know that beforehand.
Anyways I love your videos. Happy new year to you!
Oh yeah I forgot the literal school committed suicide
@@BigBeakEntertainment yeah. It was very weird for a peanuts comic. Oh and happy new year!
Came for the Fallout hot takes, stayed for the deep Peanuts lore. We in the club jorkin it with this one.
If history is to be believed, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" single-handledly caused the downfall of "aluminum Christmas trees" -- the big, gaudy, obviously fake kind, at least -- and for the next few decades we saw mostly "realistic" Christmas trees in the stores.
I adore the Easter Beagle, always been my favorite lol
The whole "Marcie doesn't know what boiled eggs are" gag is a highlight of all Peanuts media imo. It was way too funny.
10:18
The tone in which he said "I'm calling the police", though 😂😭. Why is this enough to make a young man die of laughter? M callin da 🅱olice!
18:11 It may be because I’m extremely tired but this is the funniest thing I’ve heard in a very long time
I look forward to Snoopy fighting the chair in Thanksgiving every year. And every year I laugh like I've never seen it before.
He gave us not what we wanted,but what we needed
1. Humans eating chimpanzees would absolutely be cannibalism.
2. Birds are more diverse than mammals, therefore a bird eating a distantly related bird would be like us eating a cow.
3. Woodstock is a sparrow-like bird of the neo-aves clade; turkeys are fowls meaning they would be as distantly related as we are to marsupials.
I'm genuinely glad TH-cam is a place we can adjudicate whether or not Woodstock committed cannibalism in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
10:59 THANK YOU for pointing out that chocolates are deadly to dogs, and here Snoopy is eating a gigantic heart box of them! Was everyone just ignorant about dogs and chocolate until a decade ago?
This guy must have a machine making these Peanuts videos because of them being close in time. Lol 😆 Also Pig Pen is underrated.
Every character that isn’t Charlie, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, Woodstock, Peppermint, and Marcie are underrated and mega underused
Schroder a real one out there for sticking up for his man Charlie brown.
also my headcanon is that snoopy got pulled a captain america and got frozen during ww1 and then was unfrozen and became Charlie browns dog. and his moment in the great pumpkin is just him going on a ptsd trip from his service in the war.
I think you really got to the heart of what's wrong with the Apple specials and with how people see Peanuts in general. There are literal decades worth of Peanuts comics to adapt or get more direct inspiration from, and yet people have come to see Peanuts as something more on par with a greeting card-- cute and disposable.
Disney did similar with Mickey Mouse for years before those recent shorts came out that are absolutely hilarious. Peanuts kiiiinda did this when they got the Pearls Before Swine guy to make Happiness is a Warm Blanket, but it's admittedly a "meh" special that I have a feeling spooked the Peanuts people into staying in their lane, which is a bit of a bummer.
Good video. Have you considered doing other newspaper comics videos, or is Peanuts the only one you're familiar enough with?
Honestly I really loved Happiness Is A Warm Blanket. Shermy and Patty being back somewhat in the spotlight and having lines was fun since I really love them as characters and wash oping for it for a while. Patty's a fun character and has a few handfuls of hilarious lines and moments from the comics when she was relevant and she acts a bit different without Violet or Lucy, and Shermy I like for his athleticism, the older strips where he was basically Charlie Brown's one step up in everything and his original closest friend
16:42 THANK YOU! That is the main issue with A Charlie Brown Valentine. Saying "Little Red-Haired Girl" 31 times! Thirty-One times! Even Ferdinand didn't say "That's right!" this many times throughout Misty Island Rescue! Just call the god dam girl Heather, you blockhead!
For Auld Lang Syne should be higher. Happy New Year, Charlie Brown was downright awful. Saying For Auld Lang Syne was far better than HNYCB would be putting it just as lightly as saying Banjo and Kazooie look far better in Smash Brothers than they did in Nuts and Bolts, or saying Widget was better than Captain Planet.
I'd blame Charlie's sheer insecurities for him being unable to call Heather by her name, but by that point he should've already been used to that. Even in the new year's special he did call her by name in one scene. Though the worst offender is how that newer Valentine's special completely redesigned TLRGH for no reason. And since she went unnamed there it kinda appears to be a totally different character. Thankfully the 2015 movie gave her a design that is both reminiscent of the earlier specials and her lone silhouette cameo in the strip, as well as her name being directly referenced in the test scores list.
I finished ur other peanuts video this weekend and now I get another classic
Part of Apple's deal when they bought the streaming rights says that they must provide A Charlie Brown Christmas, It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for free for a three day window around their respective holidays.
“It’s Easter morning. No one is in church. Everyone is depressed.”
I watched the entire 1 hour and seventeen minute original video
Im gonna watch this 30 minute one
I would have made it longer if I knew people actually sat through the hour and half one.
I genuinely didn't know Apple TV was making new specials. They should've stopped with the movie, that was peak Peanuts. Also "Linus's incel rage" genuinely had me rolling. Subscribed.
Thanks for posting this I needed more of you and the peanuts gang!
im so happy this was in my recommended after your last peanuts video
2:29 was a lot funnier than it should've been.
Splicing the audio when you said “disjointed” got me
not gonna lie, i thought it was only the Christmas and Halloween specials, yall opened my eyes to a new set of specials.
I revisited I Want a Dog for Christmas Charlie Brown with my family last Christmas and I cannot understate how painful it was to get through. The four panel format gets old real fast especially with the B of the B Day bits. The whole thing ends up feeling 3x longer than the actual runtime
"Charlie Brown Christmas" and "Great Pumpkin" vie for best. In the 1970s they went downhill fast, not helped by the original voices and Vince Guaraldi's score being not easily replaced, and a general lack of inspiration that caused rules to be broken (such as a visible Little Red-haired Girl, and Snoopy imagining himself to become a more realistic dog). Aside from maybe Paul Reiser's apocryphal Passover special "Let My People Go, Charlie Brown."
I wasn’t prepared for “I like the way your mom handles that bike.”
I am beyond ecstatic that I found this video! However, I do believe you should have taken into account the soundtracks! Beautiful beautiful music
Ah yes, this features even more reasons why Schroeder is the best character
I would have put Happy New Year Charlie Brown in F tier because Charlie Brown suffers throughout the entire special and gets a D minus despite all the work he's put in. It teaches a terrible moral, and the teacher needs to be thrown in jail immediately. This special should have never seen the light of day, which is why it deserves to be blown up by New Years Day fireworks.