Charlie Brown - Season 1, Episode 3: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Please read the following before uploading. Do not upload anything which you do not own or are fully licensed to upload. The images should not contain any sexually explicit content, race hatred material or other offensive symbols or images. Remember: Abuse of the TV. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Western Animation). P. S.: If you really are a fake, don't tell me. I don't want to know. It's the Halloween special. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz, first aired on CBS in 1. It was the second holiday- themed Peanuts special after the sensation that was A Charlie Brown Christmas, and is nearly as beloved today. USA TODAY's Robert Bianco previews October 31st's TV lineup from the Critic's Corner, with a classic, 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' on ABC. Charlie Brown episode guides on TV.com. Linus patiently waits in the pumpkin patch for the arrival of the Great. When the special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Linus frequently got him to wait in a local pumpkin patch in. Watch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown online at XFINITY TV. Find the latest on It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Movie. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. So when Linus invites Sally to wait in the pumpkin patch with him. Lucy can be seen reading a TV Guide that has her.As night falls on Halloween, Linus is headed for the local pumpkin patch and, he hopes, the arrival of the Great Pumpkin — a Halloween analogue to Santa Claus that only he believes in. While he and Charlie Brown's sister Sally (who has a crush on him) wait on the Great Pumpkin, the other kids go trick- or- treating and attend a party. Meanwhile, Snoopy is off on his own pretending to be a World War I flying ace. A Day in the Limelight: Linus is the biggest focus of this one. Berserk Button: At the end of the special, Charlie Brown tries to console Linus by relating, . Sally after realizing that they've wasted Halloween night in a pumpkin patch (see Woman Scorned below). Black and Grey Morality: As with Peanuts in general, everyone in the cartoon is mean to everyone around them or ends up getting hurt or angry in some way. Except when they aren't. Bootstrapped Theme: The music from the Cold Open, . Or, more to the point, who would give one specific kid a rock, while all the others get what sounds like great candy. Crisis of Faith: ! Sally misses out on trick- or- treating. Linus spends the night in the pumpkin patch, waiting in vain, but learns nothing, and vows that the Great Pumpkin will come next year. Expressive Mask: Lucy's witch mask loses its scowl while she asks for extra candy she can give to Linus later. Fainting: Linus faints when he thinks he sees the Great Pumpkin coming (it's actually Snoopy). Fantasy Sequence: . However, she does ask for candy for him, too, when she goes trick- or- treating (albeit begrudgingly), and when he does not return home from the pumpkin patch by 4 a. More than that- it wasn't that he just wasn't home, she set her alarm to make sure he got to bed. Kick the Dog: Again, the neighbors that give all the kids candy but keep giving Charlie Brown rocks. Long Runners: It's only one special, but considering how many consecutive years it's aired on TV? It definitely counts. Loophole Abuse: Lucy gets Charlie Brown to kick the football by showing him a document saying she won't pull it away when he kicks. Turns out the document wasn't notarized. Love Makes You Dumb: Sally loves Linus so much that she's willing to stay the nigh in the Pumpkin patch to wait the Great Pumpkin with him. In the end, she realizes that she missed all the candy for nothing. She was not pleased with her sweet baboo. Not on the List: Lucy believes Charlie Brown got invited to the Halloween party by mistake, being put on the list of people to invite rather than the one of people not to invite. Off Model: Like its predecessor, this special was produced cheaply and quickly; the animation suffered as a result. Product Displacement: The opening credits sequence originally ended with two references to the special's original sponsors: the kids running past a scarecrow holding the Coca- Cola logo, and Snoopy dancing next to a scarecrow with a Dolly Madison sign on its post. Modern broadcasts and home video releases remove these references by ending the main title right when the owl flies towards the camera. Pumpkin Person: The episode features Charlie Brown being asked to model for a Halloween Party. By this, we mean Violet drew a Jack- O' Lantern face on the Back of his head for reference. Recursive Canon: At one point Lucy is shown reading an issue of TV Guide with her own picture on the cover. Selective Obliviousness. Linus: STUPID? WHAT DO YOU MEAN STUPID? Just wait 'til next year, Charlie Brown. Next year at this same time, I'll find a pumpkin patch that is real sincere! And I'll sit in that pumpkin patch until the Great Pumpkin appears! He'll rise out of that pumpkin patch and he'll fly through the air with his bag of toys! The Great Pumpkin will appear! And I'll be waiting for him! I'll be sitting there in that pumpkin patch.. And I'll see the Great Pumpkin! Just wait and see, Charlie Brown! I'll see that Great Pumpkin! I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown! The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him! I'll be sitting there in that pumpkin patch.. Just wait and see! Shout- Out: Snoopy's imagination sequence about being shot down and trekking to the Halloween party references Wings. Writing to the Great Pumpkin, Linus notes that not as many people believe in him as Santa Claus, then adds, . And, of course, the Great Pumpkin himself. Viewers Are Geniuses: How many watching the show realize that when Snoopy smiles, smiles, smiles as Schroeder is playing ? Well, perhaps the parents did at the time. Or grandparents, at least. Windmill Crusader: Linus' insistence that the Great Pumpkin is real likely makes him this. Woman Scorned: Parodied when Sally flips out at Linus for convincing her that the Great Pumpkin exists: Linus: You've heard about fury and a woman scorned, haven't you? Charlie Brown: Yes, I guess I have. Linus: Well, that's nothing compared to the fury of a woman who has been cheated out of tricks- or- treats. World War I: Snoopy famously costumes himself as a World War I Flying Ace, and seems to have been somehow transported into the 1. Halloween party is being held. Schroeder there plays him a medley of WWI era tunes.
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