It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

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It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is one of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network in 1974. It was released to DVD on March 4, 2003.

The characters prepare for Easter morning, when, according to Linus, the "Easter Beagle" will arrive and hand out Easter eggs to everybody, in a scenario similar to that of the Great Pumpkin. Nobody believes him, and they all go on their way. Lucy schemes to find all the eggs in the annual Easter Egg Hunt by planting all the eggs and recording their positions; Snoopy and Woodstock search for a birdhouse for Woodstock; and Peppermint Patty and Marcie try to make Easter eggs, but Marcie instead fries, roasts, toasts, waffles, and finally makes soup from them. Fortunately for everybody (except Charlie Brown and Lucy), the Easter Beagle (played by Snoopy) arrives and hands out eggs (the ones Lucy planted for the egg hunt) to everyone. He runs out of eggs, so he gives Charlie Brown the basket.

1 Voice actors and their characters
2 Quotes
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Voice actors and their characters

Todd Barbee - Charlie Brown and Schroeder
Stephen Shea - Linus Van Pelt
Melanie Kohn - Lucy Van Pelt
Lynn Mortensen - Sally Brown
Bill Melendez - Snoopy and Woodstock
Linda Ercoli - Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt
James Ahrens - Marcie

[edit] Quotes

Schroeder (to Lucy): What's the matter with you? All you think about is "gimme, gimme, gimme; get, get, get"!

Lucy van Pelt (to Schroeder): That's called survival, baby.

Peppermint Patty: Marcie, you made egg soup!

Sally Brown: You were right, Linus. There really is an Easter Beagle.

Lucy van Pelt: Some Easter Beagle! He gave me my own egg!

Marcie: Now that we have Easter eggs, what do we do with them, sir?

Peppermint Patty: We eat them. We put a little salt on them, and we eat them.

Marcie: [eats her egg, still with the shell on] Tastes terrible, sir!

[edit] Trivia

The song that the music boxes play (and which Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Snoopy dance to) in the second scene in the mall is a classical piece written by Johann Sebastian Bach and entitled "Menuet from the Anna Magdalena Notebook (BWV Anh. 116.)." The song was also used in "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown".