Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales
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Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales is one of many prime-time animated TV specials, based on characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts. It originally aired on the ABC network in 2002.
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[edit] Synopsis
The special consist of a series of vignettes, each one starring a different member of the Peanuts gang in various Christmastime situations. The installments are as follows:
[edit] Happy Holidays from Snoopy
Snoopy unsuccessfully tries to get Lucy to ask him to join her in the skating show, but she's only interested in Schroeder. Later, he dresses up like Santa Claus to work as a bell-ringer. At one point, while dressed as Santa, he plays "Oh! Susanna" on the accordion, which Lucy comments "isn't very Christmasy." He also attempts to make peace with the ferocious cat who lives next door.
[edit] Yuletide Greetings from Linus
Linus tries to decide what kind of letter he should write to Santa and toys with the affections of the strange girl at school who keeps changing her name.
[edit] Season's Greetings from Sally
Sally decides to give everyone paper airplanes for Christmas and she discovers that "Samantha Claus" isn't real. Later, she decides to "fall down" a tree for Christmas ("I don't know how to cut down a Christmas tree. When I look at, I hope it'll just fall down.")
[edit] Peace on Earth from Lucy
Lucy struggles with being nice and tries to get Schroeder and Linus to buy her presents.
[edit] Merry Christmas from Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown and Sally prepare for Christmas together.
[edit] Voice Cast
Wesley Singerman: Charlie Brown
Hannah Leigh Dworkin: Sally Brown
Corey Padnos: Linus van Pelt
Bill Melendez: Snoopy and Woodstock
Lauren Schaffel: Jezebel/Susan/Lydia
Christopher Ryan Johnson: Schroeder
Tim Deters: Rerun van Pelt
[edit] Origin
Since airtime versus commercial has decreased since the 1960s, it became impossible for all of A Charlie Brown Christmas to be aired in a half-hour time slot. Thus, in order for it to be possible for all of the original special to be aired, it was given an hour block. However, this left about eighteen extra minutes, which this program was created to fill in.[citation needed] This special is also included as a bonus feature on the DVD for A Charlie Brown Christmas.
[edit] Trivia
- "O Tannenbaum" is played on the soundtrack when Sally goes out to "fall" down a tree. "O Tannenbaum" was played twice in the original A Charlie Brown Christmas, first when Charlie Brown and Linus went out to get a Christmas tree and later when Charlie Brown carried the scrawny tree to Snoopy's doghouse. As in the original special, the song is played on the piano.
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