He's a Bully, Charlie Brown

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Charlie Brown challenges Joe Agate.

He's A Bully, Charlie Brown is a 2006 television special created by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez. It is based on a story from the Peanuts comic strips originally appearing in April 1995. He's a Bully was an idea Charles Schulz had pitched, and worked on before he died in February 2000. Schulz' working title for the special was "It's Only Marbles, Charlie Brown".

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Quotes
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

At home, Rerun van Pelt finds some old marbles his grandfather Felix kept in the attic. He then decides at camp that he wants to be a marbles champ. Joe Agate (played by Taylor Lautner), the bully, decides to play against Rerun on the false pretense of teaching him the game--and cheats him out of his marbles. Rerun complains to Charlie Brown, who isolates himself in his cabin with Snoopy teaching him how to play marbles until he learns how to get the marbles back from Joe.

Meanwhile, Peppermint Patty thinks Charlie Brown is Marcie's love interest. She is very jealous that they both go off to camp together while she has to stay home and go to summer school because of her poor grades (and Marcie's teasing Patty over the telephone about it makes Patty even more jealous). Patty hatches a plan to go to camp even though she should be in summer school.

On the last day of camp, everyone tensely watches as Joe and Charlie Brown compete. Joe wins and takes all of Charlie's marbles, but fortunately, Snoopy has two spares. Charlie Brown beats Joe and wins back the marbles for Rerun. Triumphant, Charlie Brown returns home and enjoys seeing Lucy's astonishment learning that he had been a hero to her youngest brother.

This special aired on ABC on 20 November 2006, following a repeat broadcast of 1973's A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. The storyline was an amalgamation of several different series of Peanuts strips; the "Joe Agate" storyline originally appeared in the strip in the late 1990s, and the story involving Peppermint Patty sneaking away from summer school to see Charlie Brown at camp was an adaptation of a series of strips from 1989.

[edit] Cast

Spencer Robert Scott - Charlie Brown
Stephanie Patton - Lucy van Pelt
Benjamin Bryan - Linus van Pelt
Rory Thost - Peppermint Patty
Jessica Gordon - Marcie
Sierra Marcoux - Sally Brown
Jimmy Bennett - Rerun van Pelt
Taylor Lautner - Joe Agate
Bill Melendez - Snoopy
Katie Fischer - Girl
Jolean Bejbe - Violet Gray
Paul Butcher - Boy

Directed by Lee Mendelson and Larry Leichliter
Produced by Bill Melendez
Screenplay written by Charles M. Schulz and Justine Fontes

[edit] Quotes

Joe Agate [to Snoopy]: Hey--who's this funny looking kid?

Lucy Van Pelt: This fear of going to camp is something you've got to overcome! Camp will be good for you. It'll teach you to stand on your own two feet.
Charlie Brown: What about you? Are you going to camp?
Lucy: And leave my good home?! Don't be ridiculous!

Peppermint Patty: [on the phone with Charlie Brown] Summer school, Chuck! They just told me I have to go to summer school. Can you believe it?
Marcie: Sir, ask him if he's going to camp.
Peppermint Patty: Marcie asks, are you going to camp with her and everyone else while I'm stuck in summer school? Well, are you, Chuck? Are you?
Charlie Brown: I'm sorry, all the phone lines in this half of the country have gone dead. [Hangs up]
Peppermint Patty: DON'T HANG UP ON ME, CHUCK!!!

Peppermint Patty: Why am I so dumb in school? Why can't I get better grades? Sometimes I think maybe I tore all the ligaments in my head.

Peppermint Patty: [on the phone] Hi, Marcie. Sorry to bother you at camp, but I was just sort of wondering how you and Chuck are doing.
Marcie: Don't stand so close, Charles, and you're squeezing my hand too hard! Just teasing you, sir...
Peppermint Patty: [is chewing on her receiver]

Peppermint Patty: [on the phone] Hi, Marcie. Just sort of checking in. Are you and Chuck having a good time at camp?
Marcie: Charles, I can't hear what she's saying if you keep nibbling on my ear!
Peppermint Patty: [is chewing on her phone cord] Errrrrrgh!!
Marcie: Just teasing you again, sir...

Peppermint Patty [about Marcie and Charlie's "love affair"]: My jealousy has overcome my reason.

Peppermint Patty: When you and Chuck were at camp, Marcie, did you do a lot of things together?
Marcie: Well, there was the moonlight walk.
Peppermint Patty: Moonlight walk!?! AAUGH!!
Marcie: It wasn't much of a walk... We just got started when Charles walked into a tree!