Now I admit it, from time to time you’ve seen me make a blog post title by picking some descriptive or just plain weird phrase and stick a comma-Charlie-Brown after it. It’s a cheap form of humor, but it can work. And you’re probably thinking that I’m doing that on this post.

If so, I’m glad to say that you’re wrong. There really is a Peanuts production called You May Live Underwater, Charlie Brown! It’s one of the filmstrips in the Charlie Brown’s Career Education Program that I mentioned before. The mailman brought me this and one other filmstrip in the series today, and you can bet that I’m glad to have ’em. (The punctuation of the title does vary between the filmstrip and the filmstrip’s guide booklet.)

The point of this story is not to establish that Charlie Brown has gills; it is to explain to kids in kindergarten through third grade that the jobs that they may have in the future may be jobs that don’t even exist today. It gives examples of jobs that existed in the past that technology has made obsolete, and Franklin suggests the possibility of underwater cities of the future, where Charlie Brown might be the first manager of an underwater baseball team.

Both this and the other filmstrip I received today (Where Do You Want To Live, Charlie Brown?) have plenty of Dolores, the filmstrip-only Peanuts character. She seems to come in second only to Charlie Brown in the number of lines she has and her screentime. She even gets to deliver one line in Spanish. These stories tend to be made up of the kids standing around and talking; the interesting visuals are all given to Snoopy (who should be saying more; after all, he’s had so many careers!)

With the addition of these two, the AAUGH.com Reference Library now has (insert sound of Nat counting on hands, then taking off his shoes to continue counting) three of these filmstrips. I suspect I will never have all 35. But I’m glad that I have these!

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