Its Christmastime Again Charlie Brown Script

I initially thought I might accept seen a fiddling fleck of this on Television set some time in the 2000's but, more than probable, I call up what I really saw was Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales, equally this hasn't been aired since before the annual Peanuts specials moved from CBS to ABC. Regardless, I've known for a long time that at that place are other Christmas-related Peanuts specials besides the classic one that started information technology all, but it wasn't until just a couple of weeks ago that I actually tracked them down to watch. Since I ever like to put up at least one review for Christmas, and I've already done both A Charlie Dark-brown Christmas and A Garfield Christmas Special, I figured at present would be the perfect time for this. This was the first Christmas-themed special to exist made since the original in 1965 and also marked the end of an era, as it was the concluding of them to premiere on CBS (the next one, 1994's You lot're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, debuted on NBC and after that, there wouldn't some other one made for television receiver until 2002), so it does have some historical importance, despite being one of the specials that few have heard of. Going into it, I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near the level of some of the classics of the 60's and 70's or to take the aforementioned emotional weight equally A Charlie Brown Christmas, but I also didn't expect it to be then scattered and utterly unremarkable either. This special not merely has virtually nothing in the way of a story, equally it's cobbled together from a number of different plots and vignettes from the comic strip, simply in that location's also nothing that makes it stand up out for any significant reason, good or bad, and, relieve for the concluding third of it, it'southward not all that funny either.

Like I said, there is no one story that makes upward this special; instead, it's a number of small-scale episodes strung together with no through-line other than the Christmas holiday. These include: Charlie Brown going effectually boondocks, trying to sell Christmas wreaths, even though it's not even Thanksgiving yet at that time; Peppermint Patty not liking the thought of having to read a book over Christmas vacation and her and Marcie attending a performance of Handel'south Messiah, which Patty writes near at school the side by side day; Snoopy acting equally a sidewalk Santa; Charlie Brown and Linus trying to explain to Emerge the true meaning of Christmas but getting nowhere with it; Charlie Dark-brown attempting to scrounge upwardly the $25 necessary to buy Peggy Jean a pair of gloves as a nowadays; and, salve for Charlie Brown and Linus, the kids participating in a Christmas play, which involves Patty stuck with playing a sheep and Emerge equally angel with one line that she, inevitably, manages to foul upward.

Despite existence in his mid-70'due south by this point, Bill Melendez continued to direct not only most of the Peanut specials, including this 1, but, that same year, he too co-directed Frosty Returns, the "sort of" sequel to the Rankin-Bass classic from the threescore's. He was still an active producer on both those he did straight and those he didn't, and the switch from made-for-television to straight-to-video was inappreciably a gene to him in that regard. It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown would be far from ane of his last projects, equally he would keep on working on both animated specials and fifty-fifty Peanuts-related video games, right up to his final years in the late 2000'southward.

Charlie Brown (voiced by Jamie E. Smith) is the focus of only a couple of the vignettes in this special and, in both, he has his usual run of bad luck. In the opening, he'due south attempting to sell Christmas wreaths door-to-door merely keeps running into problems: people either phone call him out on it non even being Thanksgiving still, slam the door in his face, take a wreath as a "free sample," or, in the case of Franklin, admonish him for adding to the over-commercialization of the holiday. Apparently, Charlie Brown's mental attitude towards that latter thought has changed significantly, equally when Franklin asks him if he doesn't get that that'due south what he's doing, he answers, "Not until I sell i." Emerge tries to assistance him but she ends upwards making things worse, first by exaggerating the quality of the wreaths and so beingness brutally honest nigh them when Charlie Brown gets onto her for her lying. Subsequently on, Charlie Brown tries to purchase Peggy Jean a pair of gloves as a present but, unfortunately for him, they toll $25, which he doesn't have. He goes through all sorts of trouble, selling his Joe Garagiola signed baseball and massive comic book collection (neither of which the local kids are impressed with), and does manage to get the money... only to and so detect that Peggy Jean has bought herself a pair of gloves. Non wanting to waste the gloves, he ends up giving them to Snoopy. In the other stories, he attempts to teach Sally the true meaning of Christmas, to no avail, and listens to her practice her lines when she's bandage every bit an angel in the school play. He's there for the operation, but leaves afterwards she blurts out "hockey stick" rather than,"Hark!", as she was supposed to and embarrasses herself badly.

Despite her brother at present beingness a bit more than affable to the idea of commercializing Christmas, Sally (voiced by Mindy Ann Martin) is all the same the one of the ii who doesn't know the true meaning of the holiday. When she offers to aid Charlie Chocolate-brown with selling the wreaths, she initially tries to practise then by lying, telling a potential customer that the wreaths, "Were made from the famous forests of Lebanon." But, when he admonishes her for it, she decides to be brutally honest at the adjacent house, request the potential customer, "Would you like to buy a Christmas wreath fabricated from some junky old branches my brother plant in a Christmas tree lot? You wouldn't, would you? I can't say I blame y'all." She then decides the wreaths need better packaging and attempts to sell them by bringing Snoopy along and hanging them on his nose. After, Sally is writing a theme for English course most the true meaning of Christmas and makes her feelings nearly it very articulate, every bit she writes that it'due south all nearly getting stuff, that, "Christmas is getting all you can get while the getting is practiced." Charlie Brown tries to tell her that she ways "giving" but she continually blows him off whenever he brings it upwardly. She then makes out a Christmas list for Santa Claus and, after admitting she doesn't know how to spell her own brother'southward proper name and puts downwardly "Sam" considering she knows how to spell that, she decides instead to write to Mrs. Claus, whom Charlie Brown tells her is sometimes referred to as Mary Christmas. Linus later tries to read to her the story of Christmas from the book of Luke but, every fourth dimension he tries, she ignores him and rattles on about having to shop for her brother. Somewhen, Linus gives up and Sally wonders, "Is that it? I ever thought the Christmas story was longer than that." Despite his better judgement, Linus continues trying to educate Emerge subsequently she complains well-nigh not understanding the song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, just gets nowhere with that as well. Finally, she's cast as an angel in the school play and feels she only has to say the line, "Hark," after which "Harold Affections" is to sing. She repeatedly rehearses and memorizes her line, right up to her moment in the play, only to say "hockey stick" and transport the audience into hysterics with laughter and getting everyone in the play aroused at her.

Peppermint Patty (voiced by Phillip Lucier) and Marcie (voiced past Lindsay Benesh) are the focus of the first story told after the credits. Patty is aggravated with having to read a book over Christmas holiday and, after calling Charlie Dark-brown for suggestions near how to get out of it, she thinks she'southward managed to exercise so past watching a picture show version of A Tale of Two Cities on Television receiver. However, she then says, "The just parts I didn't understand were the parts most the shampoo, soap, and the coffee," with Marcie informing her, "Those were the commercials, sir." In trying to become out of reading, Patty tells Marcie that her grandpa once told her that her head would fall off if she read too much, prompting Marcie to hold onto her caput while she reads, then, she builds a snowman, saying that if she doesn't, no 1 else will and he deserves the right to exist given life. Later, Patty has forgotten which vacation is coming upwardly, every bit she now thinks it's Thanksgiving, and when Marcie sets her straight, Patty wonders how she's supposed to read one book when she tin't remember the 1 she read for Thanksgiving, to which Marcie says, "Duck, sir. Easter is coming." Afterward that, the 2 of them attend a performance of Handel'southward Messiah, during which Marcie stands with everyone else during the hallelujah chorus, only to end upwardly folded up in the seat, with her anxiety sticking out behind the cushion. The next day at school, Patty is writing about the performance, only to acquire that neither she nor Marcie know what Handel's first proper name was. Taking a estimate, Patty puts downwardly "Joe Handel." When the school play rolls around, Patty opts to star as the Virgin Mary, merely to ignore Marcie when she tells her that she's already been bandage in the part and to learn about it in course from the teacher. As if she weren't already irked, she then finds out that she has to exist a sheep, and after takes it out on Charlie Brownish, calling him to ask if Mary e'er wore glasses and getting mad when he doesn't know what Mary she's referring to, making him wish he could be a wrong number for in one case. While Marcie does okay in her role, Patty is a complete mess in her sheep costume, both before and during the play: tripping over a curb on the way over to the theater, bleating and so loudly during a scene between Marcie and Franklin that the latter can't hear her, and, like Sally, bravado her "lines" and barking and meowing, causing the audition to outburst out laughing.

Those are the members of the Peanuts gang who have the almost to practise; anybody else's roles are either piddling more modest, incidental parts or cameos. Linus (voiced by John Christian Graas) appears at very showtime when he tries to get Sally to get sledding with him in a box down a snow-covered hillside, merely for her to decide against it and crusade him to fall over in it. He tries it again, only to fall backwards instead of going forwards, and when he finally gets it correct, he goes careening down the hill and ends up crashing beside a minor pine tree, the box landing atop information technology. As mentioned, Linus as well attempts to teach Sally most the true meaning of Christmas a couple of times merely gets nowhere with information technology, and he and Charlie Chocolate-brown attend the play and witness her epic fail firsthand. Yeah, as you might take noticed, this is an instance of Linus not being completely aggravated and annoyed past Emerge's presence, every bit he often is, fifty-fifty going equally far equally to walk her to the theater and eagerly wait for her moment. She, in turn, never fawns over him like usual. As for Lucy (voiced by Marnette Patterson), she has no role here at all. All she does is walk by and get annoyed by Snoopy when he's dressed up as a sidewalk Santa at one signal, suggest to Charlie Brown that he should sell Snoopy when he's trying to scrounge up the coin to buy Peggy Jean a gift, and, at the very finish, endeavor to force Linus to move out of a beanbag chair so she can sit in it, only for him to throw something she said before back at her, forcing her to stomp off in anger.

Franklin (voiced by Sean Mendelson) appears during the opening as ane of Charlie Chocolate-brown's potential customers for a wreath and tells him that he'south calculation to the over-commercialization of the holiday. He also appears in the Christmas play equally Gabriel and has a scene with Marcie, only for Peppermint Patty to blot out Marcie'south lines with her loud bleating. (Given that this special was produced correct later It's Spring Grooming, Charlie Brown, I'm only glad Franklin didn't do any rapping.) Violet (voiced past Deanna Tello) appears a couple of times, initially as the start person Charlie Brown tries to sell a wreath to, only for her to tell him it's not fifty-fifty Thanksgiving yet, and in the ane scene with Lucy and Snoopy. Deanna Tello also voices Patty, another would-exist customer who tells Charlie Brown the same thing, and Peggy Jean, whom I'd never heard of until I watched this and, therefore, I was utterly confused by the idea of Charlie Brown really existence lucky in having a girlfriend. I also didn't remember she was much of a girlfriend if she idea his proper name was "Browny Charles" merely then, I read up that she appeared in the comic strip before and when Charlie Brown met her at summer camp, he was and so flustered that he chosen himself that. I thought information technology was really kind of interesting that they would keep continuity with a story that wasn't actually adapted into animation itself. And Frieda (voiced past Brittany 1000. Thornton) appears as a wreath customer who swipes the one wreath right out of Charlie Brown's hands, proverb that she loves complimentary samples.

Sad to say but, if you lot're diehard fans of them, yous're not going to become your make full of Snoopy and Woodstock (voiced past Bill Melendez) here, as neither of them are focused on very much. In fact, Woodstock is never seen by himself only rather, with two or three other birds he's friends with, playing chamber music inside a snowman's lid and randomly dancing exterior with Snoopy, using candy-canes from Charlie Brown's Christmas tree as bodily canes. Snoopy, as I've already mentioned, likewise ends up having his nose used as a hanger for the wreaths past Sally and is also seen as a sidewalk Santa, who not just rings a bong but also has a small horn that toots loudly, much to Lucy's aggravation.

This is a prime number example of something, Peanuts special or otherwise, that has no business existing, as information technology's just 23 minutes of virtually nothing. On a technical level, it'south merely fine. It looks good plenty, with enough of nicely-fatigued, snow-covered exterior scenes, bright colors, and more than enough Christmas iconography, and being made in the 90's, it also sounds much better than many of the specials of the past, with the music existence especially well-washed. I also similar how it touches on ideas such as the irritation of having to practice schoolwork over a suspension and whatnot but, by the end of it, all you've done is watch a bunch of randomness with nothing to connect it other than the basic thought of Charlie Chocolate-brown and the gang having a number of misadventures around Christmastime. In that location's nothing incorrect with it having no real plot to speak of and only being a series of vignettes, as that can be used to describe a number of Peanuts-related textile, but since there's no main plot that it's all hanging from, which you lot ordinarily do get, you lot might find yourself wondering what the betoken of it all is. And every bit far every bit comedy goes, it's not all that funny, save for some moments during the play that do genuinely brand me express mirth, then it hardly can be called truly worthwhile in that regard, either. As usual, let'southward now go through it and see simply how vapid and random it is.

When it begins, you run into Linus pushing a cardboard box upwardly a snowy hill, with Emerge trailing behind him. Reaching the superlative, the two of them clamber into it and Linus tells Sally to lean forward and jiggle her feet so they can slide down the loma's other side. Sally, however, decides against it and crawls out, causing Linus to autumn forward in the box and face-found in the snow, to which she says, "If I'd have known you were only going that far, I would've stayed in." Linus then tries again by himself, pushing the box back up to the top of the colina and climbing in. He attempts to put it in "fast-forrad" merely it slides backwards this time and overturns on summit of him. The tertiary time he tries it, he manages to go bounding downwardly the hill'south right side but information technology ends up out of control and crashes at the lesser, the box landing on top of a pocket-size tree there. Lucy and Sally are continuing at that place and Lucy, ignoring the fact that her brother just almost killed himself, comments, "I call up they look better when they accept a footling star or an angel on meridian." It then switches to Charlie Brown, as he goes around trying to sell wreaths door to door. He first goes to Violet, who tells him that it'due south not even Thanksgiving yet and says that, by the time Christmas comes around, the needles volition be falling off. Charlie Brownish's advice? "Don't hang it near the turkey." He gets the same reaction when he tries to sell one to Patty, request her if she'd like to purchase a "Thanksgiving wreath" instead. After Franklin briefly lectures him almost adding to the over-commercialization of Christmas and Frieda takes ane of his wreaths equally a "sample," Charlie Brown laments that nobody has a harder time than him selling the wreaths, with the next person whose business firm he visits slamming the door on him with enough forcefulness to transport him hurtling backwards into the snowfall. That'due south when Sally, who thinks he's going later those "big holiday bucks" lends her aid. That leads to her trying to sell the wreaths with an outrageous lie, maxim they're made from the forests of Lebanon and adding, "If you buy 2, nosotros'll throw in an autographed photo of King Solomon." Of course, after Charlie Chocolate-brown gets onto her for this, Sally decides to be brutally honest about the wreaths at the next house, and when the door is slammed in their faces, she tells him, "Run across? Your way doesn't piece of work either!" Following that, Sally decides that the wreaths need better packaging and means to show them off, so she brings Snoopy with her to hang them on his big nose. After that, in that location'southward a moment where Linus passes by a snowman, when he hears what sounds like chamber music emitting from it, though he'due south unable to find where information technology'south coming from. Information technology turns out to be Woodstock, who's under the snowman's lid, and that leads into the opening credits.

After the credits, we get into the story with Peppermint Patty and her not liking having to read a book during Christmas holiday. She first complains about it to Charlie Brown over the phone, asking him if he knows how to get out of it, and then, she thinks she doesn't take to read the book, A Tale of Two Cities, because she only saw a picture show of it on TV, though she thought the commercials were part of it. She tells Marcie that she's afraid to read considering her grandfather said that her head would fall off if she read also much and Marcie offers to hold her caput from backside while she reads. She proceeds to procrastinate farther by building a snowman outside, with Marcie telling her she's weird for going on about how, as the snowman's creator, it's her duty to bring him to life. Finally, Patty randomly now thinks it'southward Thanksgiving vacation rather than Christmas and frets most she tin read something for the latter when she doesn't recall what she read for the former. Nosotros're not washed with her and Marcie yet, though, every bit they're and so attention a performance of George Handel's Messiah, with Marcie telling Patty that everyone stands during the section with the hallelujah chorus. Come that time, everyone is continuing and Marcie does the aforementioned, standing on her seat, merely to become caught up in the seat when the absorber flops dorsum on her. Patty grumbles about how Marcie ever embarrasses her, no matter where they go. The next twenty-four hour period at school, Patty is writing nigh the performance, when she asks Marcie about Handel'south beginning name. Marcie admits that she doesn't know it, forcing Patty to guess, and she decides to refer to him equally "Joe Handel." Following that, we see Snoopy dressed upwards as Santa Claus, ringing his bong like he's collecting for the needy. Lucy and Violet walk by him, the former lament how they're going to have to listen to the bell every time they walk by, while Violet wonders if he could make some other noise. Snoopy does just that, as he pulls out a toot-horn and squeezes it. Lucy comes back by, this time with Linus, and tells her blood brother to ignore Snoopy, when he toots at them and causes them to tumble into each other in surprise. Lucy then storms upwardly to Snoopy and accuses him of not being a existent Santa, which he retorts by shoving the tooter in her face up. She walks away, and Snoopy is now confronted by Emerge, who also accuses him of not being real. She asks him where all of his helpers are and and then, Woodstock and two of his friends walk by, each carrying a sign that reads "Aid." Sally responds to this with, "That'southward the dumbest thing I've ever seen!" Linus, once once again, hears music coming from a snowman, and this time, he lifts the hat up to see Woodstock and three of his friends playing chamber music underneath.

Next, we have Emerge writing her theme for English class on the true meaning of Christmas, only for Charlie Brown to see that she's writing about how information technology's all about the joy of getting. He tries to tell her that it's actually about "giving" but, both times, she ignores what he says, groaning, "Like, wow," the second fourth dimension, prompting him to walk away. After that is the moment where Emerge is making her Christmas list and, after her brother is stunned to learn she doesn't know how to spell his name, she quizzes him about Santa Claus and his wife, the latter of whom he tells her is sometimes called Mary Christmas. Sally decides to write to her instead, scribbling, "Congratulations on deciding to keep your own name." In the side by side scene, Snoopy takes a candy-cane from the tree and does a little number with it, twirling it similar a cane and dancing. Emerge notices that all of the tree's processed-canes are gone and Charlie Brownish tells her to await outside. When she does, she sees Snoopy, Woodstock, and two other birds dancing with the candy-canes. Sally so asks Linus to tell her the origin of Christmas, saying she doesn't come across what all the fuss is nigh, relieve for the notion of getting presents. Linus tries to read to her a passage from the 2d chapter of Luke (namely, the very ane he recited on stage in A Charlie Brownish Christmas) but, every time he starts reading, she cuts in, complaining about shopping, that she hasn't gotten Charlie Brown annihilation for Christmas even so, that she doesn't want to spend a lot of money, and she wonders if she could get him something for free. Linus collapses in the chair from exasperation and Emerge comments on how she thought in that location was more than to the story of Christmas. Following a fade to black, Emerge is nevertheless with Linus, when they hear the Twelve Days of Christmas playing over the radio. Sally comments that she hates that song and asks Linus what a calling bird is. He tells her that it's a blazon of partridge and reads a passage from Samuel I alluding to its significance. Sally'due south response? "If I go socks again for Christmas this twelvemonth, I'll go fifty-fifty more crazy!" Linus then tells her that he in one case read that Albert Schweitzer hated the idea of Christmas gifts because he didn't like having to write "thanks" notes, but Sally can asks is who Albert Schweitzer was. (Truth be told, I didn't know who that was, either.)

Charlie Chocolate-brown is in a store, asking about a pair of gloves for a girl he likes, merely when he's told that the gloves would cost $25, he asks if he could buy just a thumb instead. At home, he talks to Sally about information technology, who accuses him of beingness a cheapskate and suggests he put it on his credit card. He tells her doesn't have one and Sally says, "And so long, Peggy Jean." He then talks with Linus and Lucy about it, and while Linus tells him that Peggy Jean will like anything he gives her if she actually likes him, Lucy chimes in with, "If you don't give her exactly what she's expecting, she'll hate you for the rest of your life." After showing her the gloves, Lucy suggests that Charlie Brownish sell Snoopy, who blows a raspberry at her. Lucy so says, "I have it back. He'due south probably only worth 50 cents." Unable to go the money, Charlie Brown is content with just standing and looking at them in their glass instance, merely to be told that he's fogging up the glass. He and so tries to sell his baseball that'due south signed by Joe Garagiola, only for the kids to bear witness up at his booth to ask if it's the double-decker stop, if they can go modify for a dime, and if he has a Billy Jean Rex autograph instead. Adjacent, he decides to sell his comic book collection, which is quite extensive, and withal, a would-exist customer asks, "Are these all you have?" Despite these setbacks, Charlie Brown manages to go the $25 and is almost to buy the gloves, when Peggy Jean shows up and shows him a new pair of gloves she just bought for herself, much to his dismay. He later tells Linus what happened and that he decided not to give her something she already had; he gave them to Snoopy instead. (Side-not: I merely realized that he hadn't even so bought the gloves when Peggy Jean showed him the ones she just bought for herself. Why would he have a reason to nonetheless buy those he was planning on getting for her?)

Now, nosotros get to the last story, which revolves around the Christmas play, and for me, is where this special finally picks up after the chain of randomness information technology's been up to this point. Information technology really makes me wish that the unabridged special had been this story, as seeing the Peanuts characters deal with memorizing lines, being forced into parts they're not crazy about, and completely messing upwards during the actual performance is much more entertaining than merely about anything else nosotros have here. Some would contend that making the play the focus of the unabridged special would be stepping on the toes of A Charlie Brownish Christmas just, while the idea of their putting on a play was a big part of that story, it was also about and then much more, whereas this could take been an opportunity to merely take some dizzy fun with this plot. Plus, nosotros never got to see the actual play in that special just rather, merely the rehearsal, so information technology could have easily been its own thing.

In form, Peppermint Patty mentions to Marcie that she's going to ask their teacher if she can play Mary in the upcoming Christmas play, completely ignoring Marcie telling her multiple times that the instructor has already asked her to play the part, instead going on about how smashing she would be. She only learns the situation when she asks the instructor and, incredulously, she exclaims, "Mary never wore glasses!" Later, at habitation, she calls Charlie Brown to enquire him about information technology and, later getting irked when he doesn't know what Mary she's referring to, she complains about Marcie being able to play the office and that she's stuck playing a sheep, making Charlie Dark-brown regret having ever picked upwards the phone. Later on that, Sally announces to her brother that she's going to exist an angel in the play, telling him that she merely has to say, "Hark!", and so, according to the script, Harold Affections volition first to sing. She continuously memorizes and practices her line, dreading the possibility of forgetting information technology while out on stage. Charlie Brown suggests she could make upward something if she did forget, but when she puts "hey" out there equally a possible replacement, he tells her it's not very biblical. Finally, she asks him to look at the script while she recites her line i last time and he tells her that she has it, earlier heading out while wearing her affections wings. Equally she leaves, she tells her that he and Linus will be in the audience. (Incidentally, during all of these scenes betwixt them, Charlie Brown is messing around with a hockey stick for patently no reason. Keep that in heed when the play comes around.) While Linus walks Sally to the theater, she heads backstage when she gets there, and Linus and Charlie Brown take their seats, Marcie and Patty, dressed in her distressing-looking sheep costume, head in that location as well. Patty complains the whole way and trips and falls forward when they striking a adjourn. Marcie asks, "Slouching towards Bethlehem, huh, sir?", and Patty groans, "I can't stand it!"

In one case at the theater, Patty frets near how she can't call up her lines, with Marcie telling her that all she has to do is get, "Baa!" Patty wonders if Laurence Olivier always had trouble remembering his lines, while Emerge keeps practicing her line of, "Hark!" The play starts and Marcie and Franklin head out to do their first scene, leaving Patty behind to keep complaining about being stuck playing a sheep. In the scene, Franklin, playing Gabriel, says his lines to Marcie, only when she goes to do her dialogue, Patty, who'southward suddenly in the scene, baas and so loudly that Franklin then tells her, "I am Gabriel, Mary, and I couldn't hear you because of the sheep." They get plenty of applause for that, though, as the drapery draws dorsum. Backstage, Patty is notwithstanding fretting well-nigh not remembering her lines, with Marcie, again, having to tell her that she just has to go "baa." The next scene comes upwards and Marcie drags Patty out to the phase. She recites her line, "And there were shepherds in the field watching their flocks by night," but Patty gets so nervous, she forgets the blazon of animal she's supposed to exist and blurts out, "Woof! Meow! Moo! Whatever." The audience erupts into laughter and Patty, completely embarrassed, sings, "And a partridge in a pear tree," as Marcie drags her offstage with her shepherd'due south cane. In the audience, Charlie Brown and Linus wait for Sally's part, and information technology comes after the dancing sheep (which are kept off-screen). Sally walks out onto the stage, stands in the spotlight, but to say, "Hockey stick!" instead of, "Hark!", despite the fact that she had been memorizing that one line repeatedly backstage. While everyone else laughs at her, Charlie Brown and Linus are utterly confused as to why she simply said that.

Dorsum at home, Sally tin't over her massive goof, ranting to Charlie Dark-brown, "I said 'hockey stick!' Why did I say 'hockey stick?' All I had to say was 'hark,' and I said 'hockey stick!' I ruined the whole Christmas play! Everybody hates me! Moses hates me, Luke hates me, the Apostles detest me! All l of them!" Charlie Brown is so talking on the telephone with someone, telling them that he left after Sally's blunder, adding how she gets everything mixed upwards and that she idea someone named Harold Angel was going to sing. The doorbell rings and Charlie Brown answers information technology to find a red-haired kid continuing outside. The child says, "Hi. Is Emerge home? My proper name is Harold Affections." Yes, I'one thousand dead serious most that. The special ends with a random scene where Linus is watching Television receiver while sitting in a beanbag chair and Lucy tries to make him motion. They have this substitution: "Remember when we were siting around the Christmas tree, opening our presents? That'due south when you said it." "That'southward when I said what?" "It was beautiful. You said, 'Why practice we have to be overnice to each other only on Christmas? Why tin can't we be overnice to each other every day?'" Lucy storms off in irritation, as Linus intones, "Joy to the world."

The best affair this special has going for it is the music, which is made up of new versions of some of Vince Guaraldi's archetype themes, like Linus and Lucy and Christmastime is Here, done and arranged by David Benoit (information technology'due south really the get-go time Guaraldi'south music had been heard extensively since Information technology's Arbor Twenty-four hour period, Charlie Brown, the last one he equanimous before his death). Benoit also comes up with some pieces of his ain, including some subtle, instrumental versions of classic Christmas songs like Oh, Christmas Tree and Santa Claus is Comin' to Boondocks, equally well as a very squeamish and festive jazz arrangement for the opening credits, which really sounds like something yous would have expected Guaraldi himself to have composed. All of this cloth sounds very appropriate for a Peanuts drawing set around this time of year, with the reworkings of the classic themes sounding better than they have in a long time, and you could easily find yourself listening to it past itself.

It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Dark-brown is far from one of the worst Peanuts specials but it definitely ranks as ane of the most unimpressive or memorable. While it looks and sounds skilful, especially in regards to the music, and the vocalism acting for the characters is pretty spot on, there's zip near it that makes it stand up out, every bit information technology's just a series of random scenarios and stories that are strung together, with the only constant factor beingness that they take place around Christmastime. Relieve for the story of the Christmas play at the finish, which could have easily fabricated up an entire drawing in and of itself, it'due south not all that funny either, with some attempts at humour falling flat or making you go, "What?", like the Harold Angel gag at the end. All in all, it'due south completely harmless, and since information technology'due south only 23 minutes long, watching information technology volition inappreciably put a big dent in your schedule, but I would simply recommend it for the virtually diehard of Peanuts fans. Y'all'd really be much better off sticking with the archetype A Charlie Brown Christmas instead.

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