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

Animated Peanuts

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 on DVD, never on streaming. It’s only home video release is a VHS tape that wasn’t even available at your local video store, you had to get it at a Shell gas station. This unavailability is presumably due to the wide range of NFL trademarks, not just in the title but peppered through the special.

But was that the end to Charlie Brown’s Super Bowl career? Apparently not… now he has a Super Bowl ring!

Oh, okay, the folks from FOCO are once again bribing, er, rewarding me for mentioning their new limited-edition bobbleheads (or is the plural bobbleshead?), this time a series of three, with Lucy, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy in Philadelphia Eagles gear, posed with the Super Bowl champion ring, which you can order (along with many other Peanuts bobbleshead) right here.

But hey, take another look at that VHS cover above. What team’s helmet are the birds wearing, and what team’s hat just got knocked off of Snoopy’s head. It’s the Phiadelphia Eagles, baybeeee!

(Signed, the AAUGH Blogger, who may not be a big football follower, but grew up in the Philly suburbs. Way to go, birds!)

Share the news!
Animated Peanuts
A Summer Musical: The Dolores Report

The animated special Peanuts: A Summer Musical is coming out on Friday, as discussed before. And yet here I am on Thursday, covering it. What sort of secret inside access did I have that let’s me do this? Easy, I live on the West Coast. It’s already Friday on the East …

Animated Peanuts
Dolores CONFIRMED!

That is genuinely Dolores, the obscure Latina Peanuts character from the filmstrips, in the new special that releases this coming Friday. I’ve had it confirmed by the director of the special, who is half Latin himself. He indicates that she will not be the only character of such heritage in …

Animated Peanuts
Officially, it’s a “Super Chubby”

When I reviewed the 2015 book adapting the TV special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, I had this to say: The book that’s titled It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (adaptation by Kara McMahon, art by Scott Jeralds) takes basically the whole special and simplifies everything. It briefly tells you that Charlie …