Happiness is a Warm Blanket – cheap and free

I’ve just noticed that this year’s enjoyable new DVD release Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown has been marked way down to under seven bucks! That’s a good price for a good disk; there’s no second special on it, but remember this is a double-length feature, and there are a reasonable number of documentary featurettes.

But, if you don’t need special features, don’t mind ads, and don’t need to ever watch it again, the special will get its U.S. broadcast debut on Thursday night, at 8:30 in most areas, on Fox. I’ve checked and it is slotted for a full hour, so this won’t be some severely edited version. An 8:30 start means that it will overlap with the last few minutes of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (and all of The Mayflower Voyages) on ABC. The movie will be preceded by the new special Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (which I reckon I will skip, and thus never learn if they tackle just how one can have a “Christmas” in the years B.C.)  and will be followed by a rerun of last year’s Christmas episode of The Simpsons.

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Free Snoopy Weekend

Apple just announced that this weekend, you can watch all of their original programming for free (you will have to sign in for an account, but not a subscription.) This means The Snoopy Show, Snoopy in Space, Camp Snoopy, and the new Peanuts specials that were created for Apple should all be …

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RIP Willie Mays

Willie Mays has died. The baseball great lived until the age of 1993. “Why is that relevant to a Peanuts blog?” I hear of a few of you cry (though many of you know better.) Before Lee Mendelson had any connection to Peanuts, he made a documentary about Mays… and …

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Costco eases out of books

Membership-based store chain Costco has announced that they are backing out of carrying books as a year-round item, the New York Times reports. Those big tables filled with stacks of best-sellers and deluxe and kid-friendly titles will instead just be dragged out for the last third of the year, for …