A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

I will be reposting some of my Thanksgiving Posts along with some music until Thanksgiving. I’m so ready for Thanksgiving this year…we will be going over to a relative of mine and I get to see some family members I don’t get to see during the year.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone…we are only two days away for those who celebrate it. This special first premiered on November 20, 1973, on CBS and won an Emmy Award. Great Thanksgiving special as always with the earlier Peanuts.

The Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Peanuts specials I always looked forward to. The way their world was only for kids where grownups were heard but only as noise in the background. It starts off with Lucy tempting Charlie Brown with that football. Just one time I want to see Charlie kick the football…or Lucy.

It’s Thanksgiving and Peppermint Patty invites herself and Marcie over to Charlie Brown’s house but Charlie and Sally are ready to go to their grandmothers. Charlie talks to Linus and he suggests having two Thanksgiving dinners.

The only thing Charlie can come up with is feeding his friends toast and cold cereal which does not make Peppermint Patty happy whatsoever. She lets Charlie have it really bad until Marcie reminds her that she invited herself over.

Not going to give it away for those who have not seen this wonderful holiday cartoon. The music by Vince Guaraldi is excellent and makes every Peanuts cartoon special.

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

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45 thoughts on “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”

  6. Like my brother & I had all of the ‘Charlie Brown’ books you guys probably did also. I’m gonna have to look for the Thanksgiving Special unless it’s already aired & I always seem to miss the Christmas Special…I catch ’em all (Grinch, Frosty, Rudolph & the Grinch) online now.

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      2. Stay tuned…I always repeat my Christmas posts…one of the only times I do…but if Television can do it…I can as well lol.

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  7. A classic, not a Charlie Brown Christmas but as good as the Great Pumpkin and a ‘kids’ special that still stands up to me as an adult. Peanuts was way deeper than most of us realized as kids, but it taught some messages as well as entertained. Well, enjoy tuning in ! This might be the year Chuck slips on wet grass and hoofs Lucy’s head !

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    1. Just once I wanted him to kick that damn football…just once…or Lucy would suffice. I think this one, the Halloween episode, and the Christmas one are the three standouts…I like the others as well…but yea…this one is the weakest one…still not bad though.

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      1. There must be some youtoober who has done that! I’ll go exploring after doing my e-mails due diligence; see if there is someone who has done it justice. Lucy… by now, after all these years of not playing ball- she deserves at least an ass-kicking.

        Enjoy Thanksgiving Max, and then the next weeks worth of turkey sandwich packed lunches. Put ’em in a brown paper bag and savour the nostalgia?!

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      2. well there IS Family Guy lol…. he does end up kicking it!
        I sure will obbverse…2 more days away. Yes it’s turkey everything after Thanksgiving.

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  13. I work in a high school kitchen, and every year they show this on a loop on the screen in the cafeteria during lunch, so by chance it was showing today. I saw bits and pieces of it as I went in and out. They do the same at Christmas with A Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty, and Rudolph.

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    1. That is so awesome. I’ll never forget the cafeteria in school….it’s where we caught up with friends… they never showed anything inside…of course in the 70s and 80s that would not have been as easy.

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  14. These Peanuts cartoons are just adorable. You can’t go wrong with them. I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving but like the idea of family get-togethers.

    I have fond memories of spending Christmas and Easter at my grandma’s back in Germany, together with my sister, parents and my other grandparents. BTW, our traditional Christmas meal was turkey, prepared by my grandma and my mom – the best!

    Happy Thanksgiving, Max, and safe travels!

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    1. We go over my cousins house and we have a great time. I cannot wait to go Thursday…it is a fun get together….I see some family at Thanksgiving and Christmas that I don’t see the rest of the year…which is sad.

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  15. It’s not Thanksgiving until I watch this one. We had our meal today because some of the kiddos have to fly back to Colorado tomorrow and the rest of them are heading to south Texas, leaving me and Momo by ourselves on Thursday ( sniff..sniff). It’s supposed to be cold here so we will huddle down and enjoy our three days of winter, then it’s back to summer.

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    1. Glad you had your Thanksgiving Phil….hope you two have 3 days of peace. I went out and bought all of these specials so I didn’t have to catch it on some cable channel.

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