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Scenes from 1965's "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
Francesco
Marciuliano
Charlie Brown is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas
Present and that bookie he’ll shoot to death at age 18.
After ice skating on the pond, the kids all take a break to enjoy
the product of the show’s original sponsor, Parliament Cigarettes.
Linus’s
“Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth peace, good will
toward men” quote from Luke 2:8—14 segues into “And
I shall strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger”
quote from Ezekial 25:17.
Snoopy rams
his nose into each kid’s crotch.
Lucy is arrested
for malpractice mid-pageant due to her highly unorthodox psychiatric
treatment of Beach Boy Brian Wilson.
Every single
character mispronounces “Chanukah.”
Schroeder beat-boxes
“Fur Elise” for a full 15 minutes.
Snoopy barks
at the vacuum cleaner.
Shermy repeatedly
goes off on extended rants about “the domino theory,”
“Red China” and “mutual assured destruction.”
A heretofore
unknown Peppermint Patty makes her very first animated appearance
under the name “Steve.”
Pig Pen is
removed from his neglectful parents and placed in a foster home.
Snoopy hacks
up a marble.
Charlie Brown’s
first action as pageant director is to subtitle the show “A
Gay Fantasia.”
The “rehearsal
dance” sequence ends—much like the “tree purchase”
and “catching snowflakes on the tongue” sequences—in
gunplay.
A stage light
falls on top of Sally, causing her to spend the remainder of the
episode speaking with an indecipherable French accent.
Snoopy gnaws
at some exposed wiring.
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