Animated Peanuts

REVIEW: To Mom (and Dad), With Love

I managed to let the new Peanuts Mother’s Day special, Snoopy Presents: To Mom (and Dad), With Love, get right by me, because life was rather full about that time. So I caught up with it tonight, and I’m glad I did. The special features various Peanuts kids trying to …

Animated Peanuts

It’s a small thing in It’s The Small Things

I realize I should probably apologize for the lack of postings — when I realized that the posting before this was “it’s only a couple weeks to the next Peanuts special” and this posting is “well, I’ve watched the special a couple days after it’s release and…”, that proves a …

Animated Peanuts

New special just a couple weeks away

Here’s the trailer for It’s The Small Things, Charlie Brown, the new ecology-themed special coming to Apple TV+ an April 15.

Animated Peanuts

What is the title of Charlie Brown All-Stars?

Some of you may recall my frustration over the varying punctuation that has been used in presenting the title of Snoopy, Come Home. The 1966 TV special about baseball has much the same problem (if to a lesser degree, arguably), and it has been there from the very beginning. The …

Animated Peanuts

Charles “Chuck” Brown gets his own TV series

He’s a comics character. His real name is Charles Brown, though that’s not what he’s usually called (some call him Chuck). And according to this IGN article, he’s about to get his own animated series. But he’s not the round-headed kid that you may be thinking of. Kite-Man is a …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Christmas correction

Earlier, I announced that later this year Running Press would be issuing a kit with two a kit with two A Charlie Brown Christmas jigsaw puzzles and a 32-page book adaptation of the special. It turns out I was in error. The book enclosed will actually be a sticker book with …

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Jon Hamm saying “Snoopy”

There’s an ad for the streaming service Apple TV+ in which Mad Men star Jon Hamm, complaining about the actors who have Apple TV+ shows when he doesn’t,  says “Snoopy.” Twice. Thing is, I think that the shorter version of the ad that I’ve been running into on TV uses …

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Two deaths

Word is going around that Peter Robbins, who provided the voice of Charlie Brown in A Charlie Brown Christmas and other early specials, died from suicide last week. Robbins had a history of mental struggles, which had played itself out in drug use and earning some time in prison. He was …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Charlie Brown Disappointment

So I found a listing on eBay that offered four old issues of Children’s Digest, a magazine that reprinted and excerpted stories for kids. Included in the lot was the December 1970 issue. Well, I glommed on to that one, because with the cover announcement of “Peanuts” Feature: A CHARLIE …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

There will be a Christmas in 2022!

It’s the new year, and with a new year comes, of course a new Christmas, waiting just around the corner. Well, not around the near corner, but it’s somewhere around the far corner of the year, so we might as well be working toward it. Will this year bring us …