NEW GRAB BAG: "A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF 'IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN'"

[Mockery]

You've all seen this classic Halloween special... now learn what it was really all about.

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NEW GRAB BAG: "A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF 'IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN'" -by Max Burbank
http://www.i-mockery.com/halloween/bag/great-pumpkin-analysis.php

Enjoy!

[Blue Gularis]

Utterly brilliant.

[MarioRPG]

Maybe I'll actually pay attention to it this year.

[MLE]

I laughed really hard at this <3

[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.

[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.

[MarioRPG]

The series was pretty much about whiny kids and there oddly intelligent dog.

[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.

[Obscurus Lupa]

I think the real question is, who was giving out rocks to kids?

[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.