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What A Cartoon! - A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Patreon)

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2026-11-02 04:00:03
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Back in 2019, we covered the most popular Peanuts specials: A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. And now, as we head closer to Turkey Day, it's time to talk about one that's not quite as essential—but still fairly memorable. This month, we're discussing A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: where jelly beans and popcorn are dinner, dogs fight anthropomorphic chairs, and nothing is as it seems. So listen in as we deal with the holiday that, quite possibly, depresses Charlie Brown the least.

Previous Peanuts Podcasts:

What A Cartoon! - A Charlie Brown Christmas

What A Cartoon! - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

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Deez

What a cartooooooon

Luke Gordnier

Oh man, don’t even get me started with the way Charlie Brown acts in snoopy come home or someday you’ll find her Charlie Brown.

Dennis K

Marcie -totally- has a thing for Charlie Brown. There’s a great summer camp story where Marcie and Charlie are at Camp, but Peppermint Patty isn’t. Marcie then revels in pretending Charlie is flirting with her while on the phone with Patty, with Patty reacting as you’d expect. Also, I forget if it was in the comic or a cartoon, but Marcie has kissed Charlie Brown at least once.

Argent You Glad I Didn't Say Banana

Good ol Charlie Brown... How I hate him On a more serious note I love the early art style of Peanuts. I've got a couple of the hardback physical books and they're always a good time to go look at when boredom strikes

Devon Baxter

The animator responsible for Snoopy’s fight with the lawn chair was Bill Littlejohn—just as important a figure in the animated “Peanuts” specials as Bill Melendez. Bill Littlejohn animated many iconic Peanuts sequences, most notably Snoopy dancing on the piano in “Christmas” and Snoopy's pretend aerial battle with the Red Baron in “Great Pumpkin” (in fact, Bill was an aviator and liked to invent and tinker with airplanes—he was an Army test pilot during World War II). But my absolute favorite Littlejohn animation for Peanuts is Snoopy as the Masked Marvel arm-wrestling Lucy in the 1969 special "It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown."

Tyler M.

Vince Guaraldi has so many tracks and damn if “Little Birdie” isn’t one of the best of them.

mavrick

I hate Charlie Brown for the same reasons I hate Doug Funny - no agency! They don't do anything, they just panic about every situation they are haphazardly thrown into and then things just magically work themselves out in the end. Terrible lesson for kids watching.

tiny crow

I must admit my fondness for the 70s Peanut specials. They’re noticeably less dynamic and more focused on atmosphere than jokes. More in-tune with the sensibilities of the decade. But I think that’s what I enjoy about them. It’s a more relaxed interpretation of the comics, at times letting more space for characterizations. And an equal amount of distractions. But seeing more space for Peppermint Patty (my favorite Peanuts character) provides more spice to the character dynamics. Giving some slightly more interesting stories than just “holidays make me depressed”. Perhaps not always thrilling but consistently cozy. And the distractions are easier to stomach since the animation is so refined and slyly polished. Vince Guaraldi’s more modal, jazz fusion soundtracks are more my speed on a personal level. I love 70s jazz as a whole. Not all of them are winners. And by the time Guaraldi passes away you can forget these things even exist. The problems are more exemplified once the funky soundtracks are replaced with 80s aerobic music and more room for padded indulgence. Perhaps my interest comes down to purely personal fascinations but I’ll always have a fondness for this era of Peanuts specials. Also Bill Littlejohn, as Devon Baxter mentions in his comment, gets a lot of room to show off his skills in the 70s cartoons. He’s undoubtedly my favorite animator of all time and his scene of the lawn chair fight in this special is a key factor why I even love cartoons in the first place. I even edited a Sakuga reel dedicated to his work.

RF is a theory

Peanuts specials made me feel depressed. Like on a Sunday afternoon before going back to school after a long break.

Mike Kachur

Minor correction about the retiring of that Emmy's category in 2020: While the reason behind it definitely had to do with streaming, it was more specifically because streaming made the distinction between Primetime and Daytime programming much less meaningful, particularly when it comes to children who rarely watch linear TV. This was part of a larger restructuring by the Emmys that ultimately resulted in the Children's and Family Emmy Awards, presented and distributed by the same company as the Daytime Emmys, making its debut in December 2022.

Giovanni

I didn't air fry actual bread but I did eat some French toast that I put in the air fryer. Pretty good. I honestly prefer it to French toast from the toaster! I highly recommend you to try it, Henry

Joe Hodgson

This one is an annual viewing in my house thanks mostly to my son. When he was probably 3, he developed a little obsession with this one. This was around 2018 and by then it was back on TV in annual rotation and we still had cable so it was on our DVR for him to watch over and over. I have no idea what appealed to him so much about it. He never got that attached to the other Peanuts specials, but something clicked. He was a pretty chill toddler and one of the few meltdowns I can remember is when I turned it off after Thanksgiving concluded and he flipped out. In the 2010s, it was always paired with a Peanuts Mayflower special to fill an hour. If you think the Thanksgiving special is boring, try and sit through that one. It's almost intolerable, but apparently he liked that too and he was upset I stopped it before that one got to air. I never did that again, though thankfully that one has not stayed in the annual rotation. As for the special itself, I think it's fine. Definitely behind Great Pumpkin and Christmas and probably not as good as the Easter one too. And speaking of jokes about Christmas coming earlier and earlier, they have such a joke in the Easter special so clearly that sentiment stretches back decades. I don't hate returning to this one annually and pretty much anything designed to fit into a half hour feels short at this point. I also had to buy it on physical media when we had to switch out the cable box and lost our DVR contents and now we don't have cable at all. No idea if my son cares about watching it this year, but his enthusiasm as a wee one rubbed off on my daughter and she still looks forward to it.

PurpleComet

Out of curiosity I checked out the cast of the 2015 Peanuts movie to see if they still cast child actors and they do. Charlie Brown was played by Noah Schnapp (pre-Stranger Things). A few of the other voices have Wikipedia pages and the actors are all 22-23, which means they would've been around 11-12 when the movie released.

David Louis

Wow probably my fave peanut special, something about the strange patheticness of the meal and Snoppy's involvement cooking speaks to me so much more as a adult, thanks for covering it Bob and Henry! 😁

Bob Mackey

They should change the title "Peanuts" to "Sunday Scaries"

Dan Vincent

My nephew (about the same age) also was obsessed with this one, mostly because of the Little Birdie song.

Jason Lew

Maybe today's version of Woodstock would be named "Fyre Festival"?