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| Oct 17th, 2007 09:29 AM | |
| mburbank |
Not kids, just Charlie Brown. For several years the special aired with the "I got a rock" scenes cut, as whichever network was running ti thought it was just too brutal. While this article was a lark, I think 'Peanuts' is one of the great newspaper comic strips, right up there with 'pogo' and 'Krazy Kat', and it's precisely because of it's entirely bleak outlook, softened only by CB's dogged determination to just keep going. When I was a kid, there was a week long piece that featured Lucy, in her role as the five cent therapist putting together a slide show of Charlie Browns faults. You never saw what the slides depicted, only CB's reactions. It was beyond brilliant. |
| Oct 17th, 2007 12:37 AM | |
| Obscurus Lupa | I think the real question is, who was giving out rocks to kids? |
| Oct 16th, 2007 10:01 PM | |
| Jeanette X |
That is pretty damn deep Max. I read that when that episode aired, children around the country started mailing boxes of Halloween candy addressed to Charlie Brown. I don't know if its true though. |
| Oct 16th, 2007 03:00 PM | |
| MarioRPG | The series was pretty much about whiny kids and there oddly intelligent dog. |
| Oct 16th, 2007 01:30 PM | |
| JediScum | I read some news nugget on AOL about this biography last week or so. Supposedly, the author of said bio interviewed Schutz's family and then blew the whole thing out of proportion. I posted about it in the toy and comic thread with a link to the AOL news story. |
| Oct 16th, 2007 01:05 PM | |
| mburbank | In coincidental news, a biography of Charles Schulz is about to come out today that focuses on what a downer he could be and how it was reflected in "Peanuts" which he himself said was a comic strip about hopelessness. |
| Oct 16th, 2007 12:26 PM | |
| MLE | I laughed really hard at this <3 |
| Oct 15th, 2007 05:03 PM | |
| MarioRPG | Maybe I'll actually pay attention to it this year. |
| Oct 15th, 2007 09:22 AM | |
| Blue Gularis | Utterly brilliant. |
| Oct 15th, 2007 06:51 AM | |
| Mockery |
NEW GRAB BAG: "A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF 'IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN'" You've all seen this classic Halloween special... now learn what it was really all about.  NEW GRAB BAG: "A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF 'IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN'" -by Max Burbank http://www.i-mockery.com/halloween/b...n-analysis.php Enjoy! |
