I know what Peppermint Patty said about "his kind". If you follow the strip, she's ALWAYS criticizing him. For not being aggressive enough. For being too shy and sensitive. For being too quiet. She has a crush on him, but tends to want him to be more suave and assertive (like Joe Cool).
I was 6 years old when this was in theaters. I distinctly remember crying my eyes out at the party scene. This is truly the most depressing Peanuts film.
Same here. Was about 6 years old when I saw it in the theater in 1972. It was a tear-fest. Everyone in the theater was crying during the farewell party for Snoopy.
This movie still moves me to tears to this day. The song "Suddenly it Changes" is such a relevant song to me...even as an adult. I just lost my best friend to cancer a week ago so I totally need more hellos now instead of all these goodbyes. And then there is that scene in the song where he pours himself a bowl of cereal and doesn't eat it because he's too damn sad. I've had those days Charles...
Jesus. I found a clip of that song somewhere around 10 years ago; maybe even found the whole movie. At any rate, made a pact with myself to never watch this movie/listen to this song again because it was just. Too. Much.
UPDATE: my IRL dog is between 12-13. He can't see or hear very well anymore but his personality is largely unchanged. But still, I'm thinking of what will be happening in the coming years, I'm thinking about that goddamn song, and am now openly sobbing. 😔
I am pushing 60 yes old. I say, unashamedly, this makes me bawl...every...time. It's not nostalgia, because it has always happened. It just gets me in the "feels," and I dig it.
"Does your kind ever think of love", what I get from it is that she was asking if he as a boy ever thinks of love. Peanuts usually puts some rather profound thoughts in the mouths of its characters, but in this instance I think they were just trying to portray the difference in thoughts between the two, as a girl she probably sees the thought process of a boy as foreign to her, hence the "your kind" phrasing. Or maybe she was just specifically asking the always mopey and wishy-washy Charlie Brown if he ever thinks of love.
That is a great angle I never even once thought of. It was such a vague line I probably over complicated it in my head, but that makes a ton of sense. Thanks for that!
That’s the way I interpreted the line when I saw it as a kid. As a little girl with an older brother, the “your kind” phrasing made perfect sense to me! 🤣
@@loftus4453 lol Yeah, children have a particular way of looking at things that it makes sense to them but not so much to adults. I guess one of the writers really tapped into a kid's mind or had a small kid in the house to help use a inspiration.
A favourite film. I like to think that in a fictional future universe, Charlie Brown and Lila will meet and they fall in love, and finally, in his dotage, Snoopy will finally have his two favourite owners/caretakers, whom he both loves deeply, in one place and that he never needs to separate from either of them ever again - and best of all, Charlie gets a sweet girl who may care about him, Lila gets a kind and loving boy who cares about her, and they both deeply care about their mutual dog, Snoopy.
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose Yeah, but that's only in a fictional world. Though, even if someone were to make such a version, I'd still want Lila's cat and Woodstock there, as well as Snoopy to still be his ever smart sassy self. :P hehe (I know some don't like that, but Snoopy is ever himself - like Garfield. Even Garfield honestly admits after kicking Odie off of a table - "I'm not known for my compassion". Seriously, I can imagine Snoopy and Garfield getting on well, they are both cool)
Oh wow, I LIKE your headcanon! It gives Charlie Brown the happy ending he needs and deserves, and Snoooy a complete family to spend his senior years with.
I am 66 years old. As long as I live I'll never forget the time my sisters and I went to see this film in the theater. We were avid Peanuts fans, watching the classic TV specials on their original air dates, and reading the original paperbacks, so we thought it would be something to do on a Sunday afternoon. The theater was packed, but we were some of the few adults there, mostly kids under ten years old. When the goodbye party scene came up we looked around, and there wasn't a dry eye in the crowd. Little kids bawling their little eyes out like they had just lost their best friend. I sat there with a sympathetic smile, and a tear in my eye not for Snoopy, but for all the kids who had their hearts broken for a few minutes. Gladly, Snoopy did come home and all was right with the world.
I was one of the little kids watching it. Don't cry for us. It was still a good experience. As Gandalf said, not all tears are an evil. We needed to learn that to love makes you vulnerable, that it will inevitably hurt and hurt badly, but that it's still worth it. It was a cathartic and important lesson to learn and Schultz did it in a more effective way than any parental lecture could.
The entire scene with Lila looking out her hospital window, going to get pen and paper to write the letter... At some point as an adult, I thought it seemed like an animated music video and I think I must've been 20 or 21 when I heard those lyrics and *felt them too!* I nearly cried my heart out, but I adore it!
Charles Schulz's mother Dena Halverson Schulz was suffering from terminal cancer when Schulz was drafted into World War II and she passed away in 1943 after Schulz left home in St Paul MN for Army Training in Kentucky and then was shipped out to France to fight in the war. Before leaving for Army training camp, Schulz said his good-byes to his mother (whom he was close), knowing that he would not see her alive again. Schulz's father Carl Schulz passed away from a heart attack while visiting his son in Sebastopol, CA after travelling from St Paul in 1966...the same year Schulz's studio had burned down in the same town from an electrical malfunction. In 1972, the same year when Snoopy Come Home was released, Schulz divorced from his first wife Joyce after 21 years of marriage. Snoopy Come Home was a story of loss from Schulz's experiences. The effects of his own parents' deaths and his divorce were not sugar-coated and softened and Schulz took that approach when the Peanuts kids feel the loss of Snoopy's presence and Snoopy's emotions at his departure from Charlie Brown's, Lila's , Woodstock's, and the other kids' lives. Real as it gets.
Charles Schulz did like to incorporate parts of his life into Peanuts. The little red haired girl was based on a childhood crush of his and I think that I heard his own father was a barber just like Charlie Brown’s.
@ang436 Yes. Charlie Briown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy were extensions of Schulz's personality...Charlie Briown representing Schulz's frustration at the failures in his life, Snoopy as the creative daydreamer, Linus as the quiet philosophical one, and Lucy as Schulz's outspoken, brutally honest, perfectionist professional side.
Peanuts shaped me into the creative person that I am today. To have a character like Charlie Brown, who faced many inauspicious situations, but always tried no matter what, was always relatable to me. I believe that life, no matter how many times we fail or mess up, is dictated by our willpower to take risks and chances. No matter how many times we might fail along the way, we should never fear making mistakes and grow to become someone as resilient as Charlie Brown.
12:40 It’s a reoccurring staple of the Peanuts franchise that Peppermint Patty has a crush on Charlie Brown but it’s always a case of will-they, won’t-they. In her own brash and tomboyish way, she’s asking “are you interested in love”, but in a way that comes naturally to her, she’s asking it so it doesn’t come on so direct, asking it about boys as a generalization. “Your kind” = “boys”. Charlie Brown naturally doesn’t understand and another one of Patty’s attempts to confess her feelings to him falls flat.
@@keithmoon3190 True. the Disney Animated Canon (Especially the earlier ones) may have it's share of tragic and terrifying moments (Sad scenes like Baby Mine, The opening of Up, etc.The deaths of Snow White, Bambi's mom, Mufasa, Clayton, etc. and scary scenes like Night on Bald Mountain, Pink Elephants on Parade, etc.). but at the end of the day, there will always be a happy ending. Before Snow White was released to start a trend at tugging people's heartstings through emotional animated movie scenes, we all keep lauging at Bugs Bunny and Mickey doing silly things.
I’m a film buff, I love watching many many movies, but I’m not a crier. Very very few movies can make me cry, especially upon multiple watches. But this is literally the only one where I can’t make it through without sobbing hard, and I have no idea why, and I have tried many times
I was 8 when this came out and I remember crying like a baby when I saw this in the theater. I love the Peanuts and Snoopy to this day and even have a few Snoopy tats. The question Patty asks CB is about the type of person he is. Sad, lonely and always negative. Patti of course is none of those things.
I can only imagine how seeing it in theaters must have been! And that’s a great take on what Patty asked Charlie Brown. It’s such an open ended comment, I never could quite pin down just quite what she meant.
For me (then and now), it wasn't the going-away party scenes that really got to me, it was the scenes with Lila. I guess that even as a kid, I knew that Status Quo Is God, so I knew deep down that Snoopy would end up back with Charlie Brown. But...this meant that Lila, this sweet little girl who'd been hospitalized for a serious illness, who'd been heartbroken to lose her puppy and never had a say about losing him in the first place, was going to have to lose out--and that's why I still choke up at her first scene, and the hospital scenes where Snoopy's getting ready to leave. It's also interesting to consider the whole Snoopy/Lila thing as a metaphor for adult relationships. (Indeed, in the strips, Lila was mentioned a few times before the sequence that inspired this movie. We never saw her, but she came to visit and Snoopy hid from her. Every indication was that she was a former girlfriend--Snoopy's words were "We had something once but now it's over." Then, when we saw her in the hospital and she was a HUMAN, it came as a complete surprise. (There was no question as to whether he'd stay with her, though...once he'd visited her, he just came back.) So it's interesting to compare this to, say, a past relationship where you're tempted to revive things out of nostalgia--but you realize that it can't be the same because neither of you are the same people anymore. Lila wanted the puppy she knew back, but Snoopy had grown up and made a whole different life for himself by then.
You give a very unique take on their relationship I hadn't considered! To be honest, if there were a Charlie Brown movie thay would benefit from a remake or a sequel, this one would be it. Lila has so much potential as a character and the further dynamics she could influence on the Peanuts gang is such a missed opportunity.
To be fair most dogs in real life never see their previous owners again if they get removed from their former homes. Frankly if it was from an abusive situation than it's better off that they don't.
I barely remembered this movie but I did rewatch it recently and I loved it. I did think it was sad but I disagree with your opinion. Snoopy showed admirable qualities such as love and loyalty to his first owner and his rescuing Woodstock from the girl. His tears at his going away party showed his love for the peanuts gang but also his desire to keep his promise to Lila. Charlie represents how we all feel at times in our life but he has a close group of friends and a dog that he loves. So I don’t think it’s as dark as you do. The only truly dark line in the movie is funny because it’s so true. It’s when Linus says something like “Charlie, today’s happiness is like a cloudless sky until the storms of tomorrow come and destroy your dreams.” That’s life in reality and even though I have even very blessed in my life, I can tell you that as an elderly person it’s a true statement but funny coming from a child.
what makes it sadder is snoopy had to choose Lyla or Charlie brown and no matter what one of them would definitely be sad/heartbroken because they both really cared about snoopy
August 9, 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of Snoopy Come Home. When America’s favorite beagle received a mysterious letter from a girl named Lila, he hits the road with his best bird-friend Woodstock, evading danger at every turn, while Charlie Brown and the rest of the peanuts gang are left wondering if Snoopy will ever return. That’s interesting. it feels sad in the end during the farewell party, but I like the next movie, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown. 👍
Everyone: Little Foot's mother's death in "The Land Before Time" is the saddest scene in a kids' movie ever. Charles M. Schulz/Peanuts: Hold my security blanket
@@landyachtfan79 That and Mufasa was pushed to his death by Scar and the stampede of wildebeests in "The Lion King" in 1994. And Simba trying to get his dad back up but to no avail.
After watching The Peanuts Movie for the first time in theaters, I watched any Peanuts animated specials and movies. This is the movie I've kept watching many times on TH-cam before it was taken down. Sadly, I didn't have the DVD of this movie with me. I honestly find this movie pretty depressing after watching it many times. Yes, I agree that this movie is depressing. This movie is already now 50 years old. Time sure flies fast.
The "no dogs allowed in the apartment" scene reminds me of the "Zuzu's petals" scene in "It's a Wonderful Life" where Jimmy Stewart had lost everything and then got it back again. The ending was so happy because the rest of the movie was so dark.
I was 6 when I first saw this movie. My sister and I had no dry eye at all. I still remember sobbing watching it. My own mother, who was a kid when this movie came out, cried too again like she did as a kid herself. Shows how good this movie was at tugging your heartstrings.
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose My Mom still Remembers how HARD i was Crying. She heard me from the friggin back patio. She is a Big fan of Snoopy specifically, but she got upset at snoopy that day.
this special, to this day, still manages to make me absolutely sob. it was utterly heartbreaking as a kid and it's even more depressing now. Lila writing the letter, the farewell party and 'Changes' are the absolute saddest parts, they _always_ make me burst into tears without fail. it's one of my favourite Peanuts specials and it's a nostalgic tearjerker for me :')
Honestly to me this is the best of the Peanuts theatrical movie quadrilogy during the Schulz/Melendez era. While Snoopy can seem a bit unlikable at first in the film, and a little in the end, I wouldn’t say his character is terrible. He does also hug Charlie Brown before he decides to move to Lila’s apartment and he does miss Charlie Brown and his friends back at home. A worse version of Snoopy would be him not missing everyone back at home and only escaping Lila because he’s treated differently. He does have some kind of character development in this movie and the songs honestly weren’t bad either. One thing that really made this movie better than the first film A Boy Named Charlie Brown is that the pacing is also better, not the best but still an improvement. The first movie wasn’t bad at all but it seemed to have more plot pauses with the visuals which felt a bit distracting. I really did enjoy the darker story this movie had, the Peanuts are still quite remarkable here and I think it does its best as a theatrical feature aside from The Peanuts Movie in 2015.
There’s definitely a good story here, it could have just used a few tweaks with how characters and ideas were interconnected. I think Snoopy getting upset at not being allowed places and taking it out on the Peanuts gang, and leaving them to wrestle with guilt even while throwing him a goodbye party, makes him unsympathetic. Then when he gets to Lila’s, which is what he ultimately wanted to do, he decides he wants to go back to Charlie Brown and is more than fine with abandoning her. I doubt the intention was to make him look selfish, and I think the major flaw wasn’t allowing us to get a great glimpse into Snoopy’s thought process. It also misses out on some potentially huge opportunities for the series. A scene with Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lila would be something that could have possibly expanded the Peanuts lore, and maybe added a Lila as a fun, occasional peripheral character for Snoopy to visit. With some restructuring, it could have been another Charlie Brown Christmas, but to me it falls short. The songs weren’t bad, but In my opinion, future Peanuts movies were able to better mesh the music with the property. I’d agree with you about the 2015 Peanuts film though, it’s everything that makes Peanuts wonderful and I think Schulz would be proud. I still want to do a review of that movie one of these days…
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose To be fair Snoopy reluctantly decided to go live with Lila because she had just been in the hospital for unknown reasons. Lila shouldn't have put Snoopy on the spot like that in the first place. I feel sorry for her being forced to give up Snoopy because her family was moving. However I just wished that she could accept the fact that Snoopy is living with Charlie Brown and be done with it.
They recently showed this on Me-TV . I was excited to watch it and it was extremely sad but at the same time, it's a Snoopy universe. I agree with most of what you said, and I'll say Lighten up! Yes, I would like Charlie Brown to kick the football but this is how Charles Schultz saw the character. I didn't get to see the end of the movie....(unforseen circumstances... I had to go to the hospital with a bad back) so I was glad to see this. I'm glad Snoopy went back and that is funny that he didn't go to live with Lila since he got around all those other No dogs allowed'. I was picturing Lila as dying so I'm glad it ended like that. Snoopy is Snoopy and we love him. I loved Charlie Brown's explanation of love.
I used to watch this so much when I was younger. I remember watching the dvd of the movie up to like 1 AM. A few years ago I looked back on the film at the party scene and I finally got the emotions I felt all those years ago when I used to watch it regularly.
I really enjoyed this video. You definitely deserve many more subscribers. What does it for me is how the movie captures (and sometimes exaggerates) real human experiences and emotions. Losing loved ones and coping with the sadness that ensues (pushing the cereal bowl away really hits hard), feeling conflicted over loyalty to different people, dealing with rejection, feeling like life continually is against you. You did an excellent job showing how the movie conveys all these. I do like your idea of how the movie could have been changed, but at the same time I think the original movie really speaks from the heart.
The pushing of the cereal bowl is definitely one of those subtle moments that screams of inner turmoil. Those are my favorite instances that really define characters and their reactions to the situations life throws at them. And thank you! I just released a big video a few days ago and am already working on the next one!
I think they were trying to remind us of the not-so-good parts of our childhood. The part we try to forget or even deny. Charlie Brown and Peanuts were always basic and down to earth. No sugar coating it. As demonstrated by the pushing away of the sugary cereal!
Being that Charles Schultz was born in 1922, I'm guessing the story about the 34 sedan was his very own. I wish they still made classics like this. Thanks for posting!
I'd like to think so. It's one of my favorite parts of the movie with how real it seemed. Thanks for watching, nice to know there's like-minded people out there!
Saw this on VHS as a kid in the 80s Now that I have the 4 pack Blu-ray of the Peanuts Movies, I still have not gotten up the nerve to watch one this again.
This movie is strange for me. I watched it once as a kid and remember it well but also not really. You describing it brought back the memories of it but it feels more like I’m remembering a dream than something real
When I first saw it, it was depressing. Watching again as an adult, it’s actually kind of humorous. Especially how he shakes the girls hand then shakes the cats hand before running back to Charlie Brown.
Peppermint Patty has always had a crush on "Chuck" so "does your kind ever think about love" is just her weird way of asking "is there someone you're interested in"
I thought the opening of the movie was a SCREAM! All the little Snoopies marching, the trumpets. and then Snoopy raising his eyebrows and smiling a nervous smile (my daughter watching this was so impressed by that---she started doing it!) 😄
There is something about this film that rocks the soul profoundly. Many people agree. I hardly ever cry sincerely in watching a film unless it is tears of joy. I had a dog named Snoopy, a small stocky snow white American husky. After watching this for the first time, I went to the backyard and hugged him so hard for minutes. Perhaps my personal child hood connection. Snoopy would pass away the following winter of 1989. But I think beyond that, as Shultz does in his comics with humor and heart, this work epitomizes how a cartoon strip and characters can touch human emotions deeply.
"Suddenly it changes" was easiest, THE most depressing song that I have ever heard to this very day and I heard it first nearly 40 years ago when I was a little kid. To this day, still the most depressing song.
I totally agree! That farewell party for Snoopy made me want to cry along with everyone else in tears there, and Lila and Snoopy were so busy thinking about Lila’s health at the hospital that they forgot why Lila had to take Snoopy back!
I loved this movie as a kid! My favorite song was the one sung by the girl that temporarily captured Snoopy and Woodstock. I called her the Crazy Girl.
Even when I was a kid, I've always felt bad for Snoopy in certain scenes of the "Snoopy, Come Home" movie.... I especially felt really bad for him (and his Nose) in that one scene where he and Linus were fighting over Linus' Blanket! :'(
She's saying "Hey dummy, you got a girl right here, why not make a move?" A Ferris wheel is a perfect setting for romance in stuff for kids. It's obvious and Patty is saying that they're on a Ferris wheel, why aren't you holding my hand at least? So her joke is essentially, "They don't have romance on your planet, do they Chuck?"
I think I saw this for the first time in 1978 or 1979 as they presented as a movie on special movie on TV probably CBS and I have always bawled my eyes out from watching this movie.
This film had to be the saddest peanuts movie made. The saddest short film has to be Why Charlie Brown Why. Even though Linus was the main character in that. Either way, I'm glad they both had satisfactory endings. My heart went out to not only Charlie Brown in Snoopy come home, but Woodstock as well.
Watching this years later when I'm much older I do see things in it I didn't think about before. When it comes to Lila it is a heartbreaking scene. You see her alone in this hospital and remember in the Peanut's universe adults are never seen so when she's there she's not only sick but also alone. Throw in the score and it makes it more heartbreaking. We hear that score again when Snoopy gets the letter and he rushes to see her again. For me these scenes are genius, not because they're funny, but because they're heartbreaking.
I watched this movie on tv back in my childhood and during the party scene, I balled my eyes out so much, I never watched it or focused on the movie again for 7 years
i loved this movie as a kid (I think it was the peanuts special I watched the most bc I had the DVD) but id argue that the leukemia special was sadder bc id never heard of cancer before and watching that in 2nd grade with absolutely no talk before it I was crying my eyes out in the back of the classroom bc we watched it in school
0:31 One time at school, while everyone was waiting in their homerooms to be called down for an assembly, I got bored and decided to walk around surveying people for their favorite Peanuts character. It was one of those things that you look back on where you felt really cool doing the thing, and it was just really fun. Anyways, as a professional, I can confirm that Snoopy is the most popular Peanuts character (he won by a *landslide*). Side note, I came into this video thinking it couldn’t possibly be sadder than “Why Charlie Brown, Why?” and was honestly blown away. This is one of the few Charlie Brown specials I have not yet seen, but thanks to you, I think that’s going to change (:
I watched this all the time as a kid! I remember walking to the library with my mama to check out their DVD of it, and being absolutely terrified of the "no dogs allowed" theme. To be fair, I was five, but still. It's so funny that I was scared of that but didn't notice all the depressing stuff (though I did cry during the party scene). This was in the early 2010s, so I'm sure it was crystal clear how depressing the movie is, but for some reason, Mama and Dad let me watch it all the time. Honestly, as much as I'm looking back and realizing that this movie is depressing as shit, I do have some good memories of watching it as a kid. Wouldn't trade that for the world.
I remember crying when I first saw the film, on a teeny tiny portable DVD player on a rainy-day car ride, when Lila's Theme came on. I found a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl last week and put it on and cried all over again. A truly moving and deeply emotional film.
This had to be The saddest CB cartoon movie ever. I saw it when I was a kid and it wrecked me. ( Also the 1 where Linus lost his blanket and he got very sick!)
as a young kid i witnessed this like a dumpster fire while feeding my dose of the peanuts lolol. i rewatched years later and i see it as a journey to back and forth and back again, snoopy traveled like a nomad lol. the dream sequence was trippy.
This is the best Snoopy movie and the sadness played a big part of my life...many of us relate with rejection...and love to give love and be loved...this is what this movie is about. For me.
I disagree that it is strange to have musical numbers in peanuts. It got two broadway musicals and they got animated adaptations. They also had Flashbeagle.
Those are definitely valid points. I'd say theater is different since the tone of the strip doesn't necessarily have to translate to the stage, but Flashbeagle is a great example of what "Snoopy, Come Home" should have been music wise. You really got my brain working there, thanks for that!
This Movie made me cry truly a dark movie but It drives a stake in the emotional content of what peanuts is...ABNCB had its moments too....With CB losing the spelling bee... Just grazed the surface..... in SCH....its just so emotional.... It was also based on Charles Shultz story line in the comic strip
"Your kind" meaning the Melancholic. In the 60s you were either a Job Turkey (Person who works and conforms to society and its norms), Crunchy (Hippy) or Melancholy (Goth, emo, punk). So, thats what Peppermint Patty is implying. She likes people who are balanced but also enjoy the company of rebels.
(If I remember correctly)The reason I didn't count it was due to the singer not being the same person to voice Charlie Brown, and CB did not explicitly sing it. Either way, it's a great tune!
I saw this when i was 16 i think and i had cried so did my mom it's a beautiful story and I think the sadness is why. You remember a sad story and learn and grow from it. It's also a real problem children face is illness. I never had leukemia but I knew a kid who had cancer from afar and the whole school sent him off to disney world in a limo.
I was a sensitive little kid and this movie just laid me out at several places, like when Lila walked to the window and rested her forehead against it and cried a little wtf Peanuts
So I've had the VHS tape (still do). This is my favorite Peanuts movie of all time. But I've watched it so much growing up, that I still cry and I'm in my mid 20's! And I know you said Linus getting hurt was comical but to me even watching that scene when I was little and now makes me feel so bad for Linus
According to Robbie Sherman, whom I chatted with on Yahoo about 20 years ago, the song "No dogs allowed" was inspired by a sign "No dogs or blacks or Jews" on an apartment. I don't think the whole sign would have gone over very well with TV execs, or with the tone of the picture, but it's interesting to know where that song came from.
I believe that when Patty asks how “his kind” thinks she might mean someone who is wishy washy or maybe a loser. It’s a mean, tactless thing to say. Patty is a talented baseball player, an optimist and doesn’t understand Charlie Brown’s misfortune.
I know what Peppermint Patty said about "his kind". If you follow the strip, she's ALWAYS criticizing him. For not being aggressive enough. For being too shy and sensitive. For being too quiet. She has a crush on him, but tends to want him to be more suave and assertive (like Joe Cool).
I was 6 years old when this was in theaters. I distinctly remember crying my eyes out at the party scene. This is truly the most depressing Peanuts film.
It's so sad but so good at the same time!
@Vincent Franklin, I wasn't even born yet when this was in theatres! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@victoriaramos1972 Same here. I wasn't born until seven years later in 1979.
@@victoriaramos1972 Hi youngster.
Same here. Was about 6 years old when I saw it in the theater in 1972. It was a tear-fest. Everyone in the theater was crying during the farewell party for Snoopy.
This movie still moves me to tears to this day. The song "Suddenly it Changes" is such a relevant song to me...even as an adult. I just lost my best friend to cancer a week ago so I totally need more hellos now instead of all these goodbyes.
And then there is that scene in the song where he pours himself a bowl of cereal and doesn't eat it because he's too damn sad. I've had those days Charles...
Jesus. I found a clip of that song somewhere around 10 years ago; maybe even found the whole movie.
At any rate, made a pact with myself to never watch this movie/listen to this song again because it was just. Too. Much.
UPDATE: my IRL dog is between 12-13. He can't see or hear very well anymore but his personality is largely unchanged.
But still, I'm thinking of what will be happening in the coming years, I'm thinking about that goddamn song, and am now openly sobbing.
😔
Sorry for your loss. I hope you're feeling better as time goes on.
hi... you are not alone
Same here it’s one of the most depressing songs ever
I am pushing 60 yes old. I say, unashamedly, this makes me bawl...every...time. It's not nostalgia, because it has always happened. It just gets me in the "feels," and I dig it.
This movie can definitely bring out the emotions in you!
I always do too
Exactly.
"Does your kind ever think of love", what I get from it is that she was asking if he as a boy ever thinks of love. Peanuts usually puts some rather profound thoughts in the mouths of its characters, but in this instance I think they were just trying to portray the difference in thoughts between the two, as a girl she probably sees the thought process of a boy as foreign to her, hence the "your kind" phrasing. Or maybe she was just specifically asking the always mopey and wishy-washy Charlie Brown if he ever thinks of love.
That is a great angle I never even once thought of. It was such a vague line I probably over complicated it in my head, but that makes a ton of sense. Thanks for that!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose No prob, have a good one👍
You should try playing "the world's easiest quiz"
That’s the way I interpreted the line when I saw it as a kid. As a little girl with an older brother, the “your kind” phrasing made perfect sense to me! 🤣
@@loftus4453 lol Yeah, children have a particular way of looking at things that it makes sense to them but not so much to adults. I guess one of the writers really tapped into a kid's mind or had a small kid in the house to help use a inspiration.
A favourite film. I like to think that in a fictional future universe, Charlie Brown and Lila will meet and they fall in love, and finally, in his dotage, Snoopy will finally have his two favourite owners/caretakers, whom he both loves deeply, in one place and that he never needs to separate from either of them ever again - and best of all, Charlie gets a sweet girl who may care about him, Lila gets a kind and loving boy who cares about her, and they both deeply care about their mutual dog, Snoopy.
That would be a most wonderful ending!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose Yeah, but that's only in a fictional world. Though, even if someone were to make such a version, I'd still want Lila's cat and Woodstock there, as well as Snoopy to still be his ever smart sassy self. :P hehe (I know some don't like that, but Snoopy is ever himself - like Garfield. Even Garfield honestly admits after kicking Odie off of a table - "I'm not known for my compassion". Seriously, I can imagine Snoopy and Garfield getting on well, they are both cool)
Oh wow, I LIKE your headcanon! It gives Charlie Brown the happy ending he needs and deserves, and Snoooy a complete family to spend his senior years with.
I am 66 years old. As long as I live I'll never forget the time my sisters and I went to see this film in the theater. We were avid Peanuts fans, watching the classic TV specials on their original air dates, and reading the original paperbacks, so we thought it would be something to do on a Sunday afternoon. The theater was packed, but we were some of the few adults there, mostly kids under ten years old. When the goodbye party scene came up we looked around, and there wasn't a dry eye in the crowd. Little kids bawling their little eyes out like they had just lost their best friend. I sat there with a sympathetic smile, and a tear in my eye not for Snoopy, but for all the kids who had their hearts broken for a few minutes. Gladly, Snoopy did come home and all was right with the world.
I was one of the little kids watching it. Don't cry for us. It was still a good experience. As Gandalf said, not all tears are an evil. We needed to learn that to love makes you vulnerable, that it will inevitably hurt and hurt badly, but that it's still worth it. It was a cathartic and important lesson to learn and Schultz did it in a more effective way than any parental lecture could.
I think 'Do You Remember Me?' is one of the saddest and beautiful songs ever written
It certainly is a memorable song!
The saddest songs for me in this movie are "Lila's Theme" (Do You Remember Me?) and "It Changes".
The entire scene with Lila looking out her hospital window, going to get pen and paper to write the letter... At some point as an adult, I thought it seemed like an animated music video and I think I must've been 20 or 21 when I heard those lyrics and *felt them too!* I nearly cried my heart out, but I adore it!
When Charlie brown pours the bowl of cerial and pushes it away I can relate to that. When my uncle died I wasnt sure what I wanted
It's a nuanced but incredibly powerful moment.
Charles Schulz's mother Dena Halverson Schulz was suffering from terminal cancer when Schulz was drafted into World War II and she passed away in 1943 after Schulz left home in St Paul MN for Army Training in Kentucky and then was shipped out to France to fight in the war. Before leaving for Army training camp, Schulz said his good-byes to his mother (whom he was close), knowing that he would not see her alive again. Schulz's father Carl Schulz passed away from a heart attack while visiting his son in Sebastopol, CA after travelling from St Paul in 1966...the same year Schulz's studio had burned down in the same town from an electrical malfunction. In 1972, the same year when Snoopy Come Home was released, Schulz divorced from his first wife Joyce after 21 years of marriage. Snoopy Come Home was a story of loss from Schulz's experiences. The effects of his own parents' deaths and his divorce were not sugar-coated and softened and Schulz took that approach when the Peanuts kids feel the loss of Snoopy's presence and Snoopy's emotions at his departure from Charlie Brown's, Lila's , Woodstock's, and the other kids' lives. Real as it gets.
I had no idea! Thank you for that tidbit of information!
That divorce was ugly...The Schulz family try not to talk about it but...there's a story there
Charles Schulz did like to incorporate parts of his life into Peanuts. The little red haired girl was based on a childhood crush of his and I think that I heard his own father was a barber just like Charlie Brown’s.
@ang436 Yes. Charlie Briown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy were extensions of Schulz's personality...Charlie Briown representing Schulz's frustration at the failures in his life, Snoopy as the creative daydreamer, Linus as the quiet philosophical one, and Lucy as Schulz's outspoken, brutally honest, perfectionist professional side.
Peanuts shaped me into the creative person that I am today. To have a character like Charlie Brown, who faced many inauspicious situations, but always tried no matter what, was always relatable to me.
I believe that life, no matter how many times we fail or mess up, is dictated by our willpower to take risks and chances. No matter how many times we might fail along the way, we should never fear making mistakes and grow to become someone as resilient as Charlie Brown.
I’m glad Charlie Brown was such a great inspiration for you!
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It’s a reoccurring staple of the Peanuts franchise that Peppermint Patty has a crush on Charlie Brown but it’s always a case of will-they, won’t-they.
In her own brash and tomboyish way, she’s asking “are you interested in love”, but in a way that comes naturally to her, she’s asking it so it doesn’t come on so direct, asking it about boys as a generalization. “Your kind” = “boys”.
Charlie Brown naturally doesn’t understand and another one of Patty’s attempts to confess her feelings to him falls flat.
I, for one, saw the irony in Snoopy reading a book about "The Bunnies" and laughing. For did you know, that Beagles were bred to chase rabbits!
I never thought of that! What a great layer of irony!
This movie is a crowning example that cartoons aren't always about laughs, there should be a tear.
Excellent point!
A quote usually attributed to Walt Disney says that kids can handle anything including light and dark moments as long as you attach a happy ending.
@@keithmoon3190 True. the Disney Animated Canon (Especially the earlier ones) may have it's share of tragic and terrifying moments (Sad scenes like Baby Mine, The opening of Up, etc.The deaths of Snow White, Bambi's mom, Mufasa, Clayton, etc. and scary scenes like Night on Bald Mountain, Pink Elephants on Parade, etc.). but at the end of the day, there will always be a happy ending.
Before Snow White was released to start a trend at tugging people's heartstings through emotional animated movie scenes, we all keep lauging at Bugs Bunny and Mickey doing silly things.
I’m a film buff, I love watching many many movies, but I’m not a crier. Very very few movies can make me cry, especially upon multiple watches. But this is literally the only one where I can’t make it through without sobbing hard, and I have no idea why, and I have tried many times
This one seems to get a lot of people. It's so sad but yet so good!
I was 8 when this came out and I remember crying like a baby when I saw this in the theater. I love the Peanuts and Snoopy to this day and even have a few Snoopy tats. The question Patty asks CB is about the type of person he is. Sad, lonely and always negative. Patti of course is none of those things.
I can only imagine how seeing it in theaters must have been! And that’s a great take on what Patty asked Charlie Brown. It’s such an open ended comment, I never could quite pin down just quite what she meant.
I recently watch this as a 53 yeer old man with a dog...and cried my eyes out.
No matter how old you get, it always seems to hit just as hard!
For me (then and now), it wasn't the going-away party scenes that really got to me, it was the scenes with Lila. I guess that even as a kid, I knew that Status Quo Is God, so I knew deep down that Snoopy would end up back with Charlie Brown. But...this meant that Lila, this sweet little girl who'd been hospitalized for a serious illness, who'd been heartbroken to lose her puppy and never had a say about losing him in the first place, was going to have to lose out--and that's why I still choke up at her first scene, and the hospital scenes where Snoopy's getting ready to leave.
It's also interesting to consider the whole Snoopy/Lila thing as a metaphor for adult relationships. (Indeed, in the strips, Lila was mentioned a few times before the sequence that inspired this movie. We never saw her, but she came to visit and Snoopy hid from her. Every indication was that she was a former girlfriend--Snoopy's words were "We had something once but now it's over." Then, when we saw her in the hospital and she was a HUMAN, it came as a complete surprise. (There was no question as to whether he'd stay with her, though...once he'd visited her, he just came back.) So it's interesting to compare this to, say, a past relationship where you're tempted to revive things out of nostalgia--but you realize that it can't be the same because neither of you are the same people anymore. Lila wanted the puppy she knew back, but Snoopy had grown up and made a whole different life for himself by then.
You give a very unique take on their relationship I hadn't considered! To be honest, if there were a Charlie Brown movie thay would benefit from a remake or a sequel, this one would be it. Lila has so much potential as a character and the further dynamics she could influence on the Peanuts gang is such a missed opportunity.
To be fair most dogs in real life never see their previous owners again if they get removed from their former homes. Frankly if it was from an abusive situation than it's better off that they don't.
I barely remembered this movie but I did rewatch it recently and I loved it. I did think it was sad but I disagree with your opinion. Snoopy showed admirable qualities such as love and loyalty to his first owner and his rescuing Woodstock from the girl. His tears at his going away party showed his love for the peanuts gang but also his desire to keep his promise to Lila. Charlie represents how we all feel at times in our life but he has a close group of friends and a dog that he loves. So I don’t think it’s as dark as you do. The only truly dark line in the movie is funny because it’s so true. It’s when Linus says something like “Charlie, today’s happiness is like a cloudless sky until the storms of tomorrow come and destroy your dreams.” That’s life in reality and even though I have even very blessed in my life, I can tell you that as an elderly person it’s a true statement but funny coming from a child.
what makes it sadder is snoopy had to choose Lyla or Charlie brown and no matter what one of them would definitely be sad/heartbroken because they both really cared about snoopy
What makes it really sad was that Lyla was forced to give Snoopy up because her family was moving to an apartment where dogs weren't allowed.
I cried at the song about changes. Poor Charlie Brown
It's so very good!
August 9, 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of Snoopy Come Home. When America’s favorite beagle received a mysterious letter from a girl named Lila, he hits the road with his best bird-friend Woodstock, evading danger at every turn, while Charlie Brown and the rest of the peanuts gang are left wondering if Snoopy will ever return. That’s interesting. it feels sad in the end during the farewell party, but I like the next movie, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown. 👍
Both great movies!
I swear I thought Charlie Brown was the one who had cancer in this, that’s how sad I remember it being
No, but in “Why, Charlie Brown, Why” in of Charlie Browns’s classmates does! Another sad one too!
Everyone: Little Foot's mother's death in "The Land Before Time" is the saddest scene in a kids' movie ever.
Charles M. Schulz/Peanuts: Hold my security blanket
And it’s not like this was the only sad Peanuts movie either!
@@landyachtfan79 That and Mufasa was pushed to his death by Scar and the stampede of wildebeests in "The Lion King" in 1994. And Simba trying to get his dad back up but to no avail.
After watching The Peanuts Movie for the first time in theaters, I watched any Peanuts animated specials and movies. This is the movie I've kept watching many times on TH-cam before it was taken down. Sadly, I didn't have the DVD of this movie with me.
I honestly find this movie pretty depressing after watching it many times. Yes, I agree that this movie is depressing.
This movie is already now 50 years old. Time sure flies fast.
As sad as it is, it sure is memorable and I can’t help but keep coming back to watch it!
That's a fact.
The "no dogs allowed in the apartment" scene reminds me of the "Zuzu's petals" scene in "It's a Wonderful Life" where Jimmy Stewart had lost everything and then got it back again. The ending was so happy because the rest of the movie was so dark.
This is no joke the only movie I have ever cried from watching, and my little sister loves it, so I have to deal with it once a month.
Sounds like you're very familiar with this one!
I was 6 when I first saw this movie. My sister and I had no dry eye at all. I still remember sobbing watching it. My own mother, who was a kid when this movie came out, cried too again like she did as a kid herself. Shows how good this movie was at tugging your heartstrings.
Generational heartache, but it’s oh so good!
Bro I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt this way
I thought I was the only one who had seen it too but oh how wrong we were!
I can't watch it. It made my daughter cry a lot and then we lost her.
I'm so sorry to hear that!
This is the ONLY movie to u have ever seen in my life that actually made me cry. I didn't even cry at Marley & Me
That's how you know it's sad!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose My Mom still Remembers how HARD i was Crying. She heard me from the friggin back patio. She is a Big fan of Snoopy specifically, but she got upset at snoopy that day.
I had this movie when i was child
Me too!
The movie was so sad but yet the sweetest movie I watched since I was 7
It’s up there as one of the best Peanuts movies in my opinion!
this special, to this day, still manages to make me absolutely sob. it was utterly heartbreaking as a kid and it's even more depressing now. Lila writing the letter, the farewell party and 'Changes' are the absolute saddest parts, they _always_ make me burst into tears without fail. it's one of my favourite Peanuts specials and it's a nostalgic tearjerker for me :')
It's still one of my favorite Peanuts specials!
I loved Lila, Sally, and Snoopy. My favorite characters will always have a special place in my heart.
Three great ones for sure!
Honestly to me this is the best of the Peanuts theatrical movie quadrilogy during the Schulz/Melendez era. While Snoopy can seem a bit unlikable at first in the film, and a little in the end, I wouldn’t say his character is terrible. He does also hug Charlie Brown before he decides to move to Lila’s apartment and he does miss Charlie Brown and his friends back at home. A worse version of Snoopy would be him not missing everyone back at home and only escaping Lila because he’s treated differently. He does have some kind of character development in this movie and the songs honestly weren’t bad either. One thing that really made this movie better than the first film A Boy Named Charlie Brown is that the pacing is also better, not the best but still an improvement. The first movie wasn’t bad at all but it seemed to have more plot pauses with the visuals which felt a bit distracting. I really did enjoy the darker story this movie had, the Peanuts are still quite remarkable here and I think it does its best as a theatrical feature aside from The Peanuts Movie in 2015.
There’s definitely a good story here, it could have just used a few tweaks with how characters and ideas were interconnected. I think Snoopy getting upset at not being allowed places and taking it out on the Peanuts gang, and leaving them to wrestle with guilt even while throwing him a goodbye party, makes him unsympathetic. Then when he gets to Lila’s, which is what he ultimately wanted to do, he decides he wants to go back to Charlie Brown and is more than fine with abandoning her. I doubt the intention was to make him look selfish, and I think the major flaw wasn’t allowing us to get a great glimpse into Snoopy’s thought process. It also misses out on some potentially huge opportunities for the series. A scene with Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lila would be something that could have possibly expanded the Peanuts lore, and maybe added a Lila as a fun, occasional peripheral character for Snoopy to visit. With some restructuring, it could have been another Charlie Brown Christmas, but to me it falls short. The songs weren’t bad, but In my opinion, future Peanuts movies were able to better mesh the music with the property. I’d agree with you about the 2015 Peanuts film though, it’s everything that makes Peanuts wonderful and I think Schulz would be proud. I still want to do a review of that movie one of these days…
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose To be fair Snoopy reluctantly decided to go live with Lila because she had just been in the hospital for unknown reasons. Lila shouldn't have put Snoopy on the spot like that in the first place. I feel sorry for her being forced to give up Snoopy because her family was moving. However I just wished that she could accept the fact that Snoopy is living with Charlie Brown and be done with it.
Can't completely agree with you on the 2015 Peanuts film. It's not bad, but not quite what Sparky Schulz would have done, I think.
They recently showed this on Me-TV . I was excited to watch it and it was extremely sad but at the same time, it's a Snoopy universe. I agree with most of what you said, and I'll say Lighten up! Yes, I would like Charlie Brown to kick the football but this is how Charles Schultz saw the character. I didn't get to see the end of the movie....(unforseen circumstances... I had to go to the hospital with a bad back) so I was glad to see this. I'm glad Snoopy went back and that is funny that he didn't go to live with Lila since he got around all those other No dogs allowed'. I was picturing Lila as dying so I'm glad it ended like that. Snoopy is Snoopy and we love him. I loved Charlie Brown's explanation of love.
I used to watch this so much when I was younger. I remember watching the dvd of the movie up to like 1 AM.
A few years ago I looked back on the film at the party scene and I finally got the emotions I felt all those years ago when I used to watch it regularly.
Easily one of the most memorable scenes in the movie. How could it not be!
OMG, I remember being 6yo, or maybe younger, when this was shown on TV. I cried thru the whole thing!
How could you not!
I've seen this movie multiple times on DVD. Makes me cry like a baby every single time
Yet we come back to it every time!
Yep
I really enjoyed this video. You definitely deserve many more subscribers.
What does it for me is how the movie captures (and sometimes exaggerates) real human experiences and emotions. Losing loved ones and coping with the sadness that ensues (pushing the cereal bowl away really hits hard), feeling conflicted over loyalty to different people, dealing with rejection, feeling like life continually is against you. You did an excellent job showing how the movie conveys all these.
I do like your idea of how the movie could have been changed, but at the same time I think the original movie really speaks from the heart.
The pushing of the cereal bowl is definitely one of those subtle moments that screams of inner turmoil. Those are my favorite instances that really define characters and their reactions to the situations life throws at them. And thank you! I just released a big video a few days ago and am already working on the next one!
I think they were trying to remind us of the not-so-good parts of our childhood. The part we try to forget or even deny. Charlie Brown and Peanuts were always basic and down to earth. No sugar coating it. As demonstrated by the pushing away of the sugary cereal!
One of my favorite moments of the movie! And yes, Peanuts always reveled in its matter of factness, that's part of what made it so great!
Yeah I remember watching this movie and couldn't get through it without crying.
You're not alone there!
Lol I've been binging all your videos. Charlie Brown is one of my all time favorites, no matter how bad things went he always tried again.
He’s emotionally invincible!
Your videos are so good and I’m really glad TH-cam recommended you to me
That's very kind of you to say. I hope you'll enjoy the new video I put out on Monday!
Omg I agree I was a kid watching this and I cried still
It's difficult keeping a dry eye throughout this entire film!
Being that Charles Schultz was born in 1922, I'm guessing the story about the 34 sedan was his very own. I wish they still made classics like this. Thanks for posting!
I'd like to think so. It's one of my favorite parts of the movie with how real it seemed. Thanks for watching, nice to know there's like-minded people out there!
Saw this on VHS as a kid in the 80s
Now that I have the 4 pack Blu-ray of the Peanuts Movies, I still have not gotten up the nerve to watch one this again.
If you decide to watch it again, have a box of tissues nearby!
I remember Snoopy Come Home when I was a baby this is my favorite Peanuts movies
It's a classic that can't help but be loved!
This movie is strange for me. I watched it once as a kid and remember it well but also not really. You describing it brought back the memories of it but it feels more like I’m remembering a dream than something real
If you end up rewatching it, let me know what you thought of it!
When I first saw it, it was depressing. Watching again as an adult, it’s actually kind of humorous. Especially how he shakes the girls hand then shakes the cats hand before running back to Charlie Brown.
I always thought that was a nice little touch!
Peppermint Patty has always had a crush on "Chuck" so "does your kind ever think about love" is just her weird way of asking "is there someone you're interested in"
I like that way of thinking of it!
I thought the opening of the movie was a SCREAM! All the little Snoopies marching, the trumpets. and then Snoopy raising his eyebrows and smiling a nervous smile (my daughter watching this was so impressed by that---she started doing it!) 😄
That's hilarious! It's definitely a roaring start to the movie.
There is something about this film that rocks the soul profoundly. Many people agree. I hardly ever cry sincerely in watching a film unless it is tears of joy. I had a dog named Snoopy, a small stocky snow white American husky. After watching this for the first time, I went to the backyard and hugged him so hard for minutes. Perhaps my personal child hood connection. Snoopy would pass away the following winter of 1989. But I think beyond that, as Shultz does in his comics with humor and heart, this work epitomizes how a cartoon strip and characters can touch human emotions deeply.
Very sad, very 1970s. I remember it and it is melancholy - a bittersweet sadness.
Bittersweet is a great descriptor for this one!
"Suddenly it changes" was easiest, THE most depressing song that I have ever heard to this very day and I heard it first nearly 40 years ago when I was a little kid. To this day, still the most depressing song.
I totally agree! That farewell party for Snoopy made me want to cry along with everyone else in tears there, and Lila and Snoopy were so busy thinking about Lila’s health at the hospital that they forgot why Lila had to take Snoopy back!
It certainly was an emotional affair!
This was and still is my favorite Snoopy movies. I remember every song still to this day.
It's an unforgettable Snoopy adventure that's for sure!
I loved this movie as a kid! My favorite song was the one sung by the girl that temporarily captured Snoopy and Woodstock. I called her the Crazy Girl.
A funny song and scene for sure!
She looks like Marcie without glasses.
That was always my favorite part.
my most watched movie from my childhood. such a great video analysis, keep it up!
It's a great one for sure. And I appreciate it!
First time I watched this was when I was in elementary and it made me depressed to another level
Hopefully you can watch it today and feel less depressed after!
Even when I was a kid, I've always felt bad for Snoopy in certain scenes of the "Snoopy, Come Home" movie.... I especially felt really bad for him (and his Nose) in that one scene where he and Linus were fighting over Linus' Blanket!
:'(
one of the first movies I remember actually crying at as a kid..
How could you not!
She's saying "Hey dummy, you got a girl right here, why not make a move?" A Ferris wheel is a perfect setting for romance in stuff for kids. It's obvious and Patty is saying that they're on a Ferris wheel, why aren't you holding my hand at least? So her joke is essentially, "They don't have romance on your planet, do they Chuck?"
I like that interpretation!
I think I saw this for the first time in 1978 or 1979 as they presented as a movie on special movie on TV probably CBS and I have always bawled my eyes out from watching this movie.
It's an emotional one, for sure!
This is seriously really great though what? You did a good job making the video, good job :)
Thank you! I’ve got a new one coming out tomorrow, hope you’ll check out and enjoy that one too!
I watched it and it was great too! :)
This film had to be the saddest peanuts movie made. The saddest short film has to be Why Charlie Brown Why. Even though Linus was the main character in that. Either way, I'm glad they both had satisfactory endings. My heart went out to not only Charlie Brown in Snoopy come home, but Woodstock as well.
It was a satisfactory end!
This movie and A Boy Named Charlie Brown were my favorite movies as a kid
Two classics!
Watching this years later when I'm much older I do see things in it I didn't think about before. When it comes to Lila it is a heartbreaking scene. You see her alone in this hospital and remember in the Peanut's universe adults are never seen so when she's there she's not only sick but also alone. Throw in the score and it makes it more heartbreaking. We hear that score again when Snoopy gets the letter and he rushes to see her again. For me these scenes are genius, not because they're funny, but because they're heartbreaking.
I watched this movie on tv back in my childhood and during the party scene, I balled my eyes out so much, I never watched it or focused on the movie again for 7 years
That was a pretty rough scene!
i loved this movie as a kid (I think it was the peanuts special I watched the most bc I had the DVD) but id argue that the leukemia special was sadder bc id never heard of cancer before and watching that in 2nd grade with absolutely no talk before it I was crying my eyes out in the back of the classroom bc we watched it in school
It's one of the rare IP's intended for children that's not afraid to tackle very real life circumstances!
0:31 One time at school, while everyone was waiting in their homerooms to be called down for an assembly, I got bored and decided to walk around surveying people for their favorite Peanuts character. It was one of those things that you look back on where you felt really cool doing the thing, and it was just really fun. Anyways, as a professional, I can confirm that Snoopy is the most popular Peanuts character (he won by a *landslide*).
Side note, I came into this video thinking it couldn’t possibly be sadder than “Why Charlie Brown, Why?” and was honestly blown away. This is one of the few Charlie Brown specials I have not yet seen, but thanks to you, I think that’s going to change (:
Everybody loves Snoopy! And I would love to hear your take on the movie if you decide to watch it.
I watched this all the time as a kid! I remember walking to the library with my mama to check out their DVD of it, and being absolutely terrified of the "no dogs allowed" theme. To be fair, I was five, but still. It's so funny that I was scared of that but didn't notice all the depressing stuff (though I did cry during the party scene). This was in the early 2010s, so I'm sure it was crystal clear how depressing the movie is, but for some reason, Mama and Dad let me watch it all the time.
Honestly, as much as I'm looking back and realizing that this movie is depressing as shit, I do have some good memories of watching it as a kid. Wouldn't trade that for the world.
I remember crying when I first saw the film, on a teeny tiny portable DVD player on a rainy-day car ride, when Lila's Theme came on. I found a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl last week and put it on and cried all over again. A truly moving and deeply emotional film.
Wow, what a neat find! I hope they were happy tears!
This had to be The saddest CB cartoon movie ever.
I saw it when I was a kid and it wrecked me.
( Also the 1 where Linus lost his blanket and he got very sick!)
For this one to be the saddest Peanuts movie ever is really saying something!
I remember the scene that broke my heart as a kid was seeing Lila standing at her hospital room's window and looking down at Snoopy.
The whole movie is sad, but does have a happy ending for all parties involved. At least there's that!
as a young kid i witnessed this like a dumpster fire while feeding my dose of the peanuts lolol. i rewatched years later and i see it as a journey to back and forth and back again, snoopy traveled like a nomad lol. the dream sequence was trippy.
It's still the most distinct Peanuts film in my book!
one of my favorite peanuts movies of all time
It's just that good!
I just lost my cat, and it is making me cry to watch this again after a few years of not watching it.
I'm sorry to hear that! Hopefully the movie helped in dealing with your loss.
Thanks@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose , I'm still looking but I don't think he's alive. :(
This is the best Snoopy movie and the sadness played a big part of my life...many of us relate with rejection...and love to give love and be loved...this is what this movie is about. For me.
The sad tone certainly makes it stand out against a typically melancholy series. It's unforgettable to say the least!
You have to remember; even the most sweetest angel that you know on Earth can change, given the time, place and provocation. Snoopy is no different.
Too true!
I disagree that it is strange to have musical numbers in peanuts. It got two broadway musicals and they got animated adaptations. They also had Flashbeagle.
Those are definitely valid points. I'd say theater is different since the tone of the strip doesn't necessarily have to translate to the stage, but Flashbeagle is a great example of what "Snoopy, Come Home" should have been music wise. You really got my brain working there, thanks for that!
This was the first time they had musical numbers in peanuts I believe
This Movie made me cry truly a dark movie but It drives a stake in the emotional content of what peanuts is...ABNCB had its moments too....With CB losing the spelling bee... Just grazed the surface..... in SCH....its just so emotional.... It was also based on Charles Shultz story line in the comic strip
It's the most emotional one for my money!
"Your kind" meaning the Melancholic. In the 60s you were either a Job Turkey (Person who works and conforms to society and its norms), Crunchy (Hippy) or Melancholy (Goth, emo, punk). So, thats what Peppermint Patty is implying. She likes people who are balanced but also enjoy the company of rebels.
Very cool lingo! And that seems in line with what she would probably be alluding to.
They really animated the heck out of this. Well as far as Peanuts is concerned.
They go from the strip to the screen effortlessly!
Charlie Brown sings "It Changes." Major character, major emotions.
(If I remember correctly)The reason I didn't count it was due to the singer not being the same person to voice Charlie Brown, and CB did not explicitly sing it. Either way, it's a great tune!
How tf does this channel not have more subs keep up the good work
Thank you! I’m surprised these videos have any views, so anything I appreciated.
I was five when I saw this and cried.
How could you not!
Me and a couple of my friends always root for Charlie Brown because his perseverance is infectious.
I agree! People say he's a sad sack, I say he's resilient!
This movie really creeped me out. I found the "tearful farewell" segment to be a pathological experience.
Still one of my favorite films growing up.
There's something about it that just sticks in people's minds so many years later.
I love peanuts so much! God Bless You All!
Me too! You said it as good as tiny tim!
I saw this when i was 16 i think and i had cried so did my mom it's a beautiful story and I think the sadness is why. You remember a sad story and learn and grow from it. It's also a real problem children face is illness. I never had leukemia but I knew a kid who had cancer from afar and the whole school sent him off to disney world in a limo.
It's great! It's probably my third favorite Peanuts film after A Boy Named Charlie Brown and The Peanuts Movie
A trio of great movies!
I super agree with you
So emotional
It hurts so good!
I was a sensitive little kid and this movie just laid me out at several places, like when Lila walked to the window and rested her forehead against it and cried a little wtf Peanuts
Such a touching moment!
So I've had the VHS tape (still do). This is my favorite Peanuts movie of all time. But I've watched it so much growing up, that I still cry and I'm in my mid 20's! And I know you said Linus getting hurt was comical but to me even watching that scene when I was little and now makes me feel so bad for Linus
It really does feel so different from the usual Peanuts romps. It’s somehow so sad, but so good at the same time!
According to Robbie Sherman, whom I chatted with on Yahoo about 20 years ago, the song "No dogs allowed" was inspired by a sign "No dogs or blacks or Jews" on an apartment. I don't think the whole sign would have gone over very well with TV execs, or with the tone of the picture, but it's interesting to know where that song came from.
I believe that when Patty asks how “his kind” thinks she might mean someone who is wishy washy or maybe a loser. It’s a mean, tactless thing to say. Patty is a talented baseball player, an optimist and doesn’t understand Charlie Brown’s misfortune.
Tbh it is pretty emotional but was overall a decent 1972 film
I like it too, despite it being one of the stranger Peanuts stories.