What's your least favorite of the big three Peanuts holiday specials

[Mike Daniels]

as in the Great Pumpkin, Thanksgiving and Christmas specials?

Although I will make every effort to see it each year (partly due to tradition), the Thanksgiving special is my least favorite due in part to the story.

I know Charlie Brown is a wishy-washy wimp, but he's a total doormat in this episode. First, he allows Peppermint Patty to hijack his Thanksgiving plans by inviting herself and friends over to a dinner that isn't even going to happen.

Second, he allows Peppermint Patty to give him grief over the lack of proper Thanksgiving food and thirdly, he then goes on to guilt grandmom into inviting everyone over to her house. Anyone with any spine would have told those ingrates to hit the road and to take their high horse with them.

The Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown Christmas are rightfully the classics they deserve to be. Compared to those two, the Thanksgiving episode is a poor relation.

[StopTheMorans]

1. pushpoll!

:evilgrin:

[WoodrowFan]

2. it's Ramadan Charlie Brown

tried wayyyy to hard to be multicultural.

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. But Franklin singing the praises of Elijah Muhammed? PURE GENIUS.

Get with the times, WoodrowFan.

[WoodrowFan]

7. historically inaccurate

it was Tom Paine in real life....

[trotsky]

3. I kinda liked the Thanksgiving one.

Mainly because a turkey day meal of pretzels, popcorn, and JELLYBEANS looked pretty damn good to me as a kid.

I don't care for the Christmas one because it's too religious. And no, Jesus is NOT "the reason for the season" - the winter solstice celebration predates Xianity by centuries. But whaddya going to do - these weren't exactly written during a time of multiculturalism.

[noonwitch]

4. Jesus is the reason for Christmas, and it is a Christmas special

I love the Peanuts Christmas special. It doesn't express any particularly sectarian bias, just points out the biblical story and bemoans the commercialization.

[trotsky]

11. As a member of a minority religious group,

it makes me uncomfortable to see the majority faith get yet more promotion in the mainstream media, no matter what the form.

[BearFlagDemocrat]

6. "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown"

Thanksgiving was the moment when CB specials jumped the shark. The Great Pumpkin was a classic, and the Xmas special had such catchy music that I find myself still humming "Christmas time is here" from time to time.

[obreaslan]

12. The Arbor day special, that's the one I was thinking of...

They were really stretching at that point.

If that was successful, what was next, "It's Flag day Charlie Brown" ?

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. "It's Latent Sexual Tension, Charlie Brown"

The one where he and Lucy finally do it behind the Psychiatrist's Booth.

Mind in the gutter this morning...

[Kire]

9. what about the one where they have a white water rafting race

that's my favorite

That Snoopy is a character!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

10. kick

[bif]

13. "It's the Hash Bash, Charlie Brown!"

You could tell it didn't take place in Ann Arbor. Cheesy animators didn't do their homework.