Nov 27 2008
Popcultured Blast from the Past: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
I always loved the peanuts television specials when I was growing up, and I clearly remember watching “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” every year. I mean, who can forget Linus camping out in the pumpkin patch at Halloween time, looking for the fictitious Great Pumpkin? And the phrase “a Charlie Brown tree” is still popular today. Yep, I remember both of those specials very well and waited all year for them to air on CBS.
A lesser known Charlie Brown special (for me, anyway) is “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”. I don’t know why it’s lesser known. It came out in 1973, so I was plenty young enough to be into it. But I just don’t remember ever watching it. It certainly wasn’t an annual “event” in our house, like the other Peanuts specials were. I’ve seen the DVD version of “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” at Target, usually boxed with the other two, more famous, Charlie Brown specials.
In any event, “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” airs tonight on ABC. So after all these years, I plan to snuggle up with my kids and watch it tonight—and who knows, maybe it’ll be our new favorite holiday special!
