audio and visual Peanuts

A couple quick notes, things sent in from readers:

AAUGH Blog reader Scott Microsoft is offering some free (digital) Christmas albums for folks who sign up for a thirty-day free trial of their “Groove Music Pass” service, and they include A Charlie Brown ChristmasHow the Grinch Stole ChristmasA Motown Christmas, and all the Justin Bieber Christmas you could want. I’m not signing up, because I already have A Charlie Brown Christmas and all the Justin Bieber Christmas music I want.

And AAUGH Blog Reader John points out that the first DVD for the current animated Peanuts run, the English translation of the short French cartoons, has been announced. Peanuts by Schulz: Snoopy Tales has two disks with three hours worth of material at a suggested price of $18.94, because people like to just make up silly numbers.

 

Animated Peanuts
We finally know how Charlie Brown did at the Super Bowl!

If you’ve never seen the 1994 Peanuts special You’re in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, well, you’re not alone. It aired only in 1994, linked to that year’s Super Bowl, on NBC, which had never before and has never since aired a Peanuts special. It has never been rerun, never …

Animated Peanuts
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 …

Animated Peanuts
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 …