It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.
A Halloween special, it was the third Peanuts special (and second holiday-themed special, following A Charlie Brown Christmas) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez.
With autumn in full swing, the Peanuts gang prepares for Halloween. Linus and Lucy go out to the local pumpkin patch to find a pumpkin. Lucy selects the largest they can find, and makes Linus the one to get it back to the house. He becomes dismayed when it turns out Lucy is "going to kill it" to make a jack-o-lantern. After the opening credits, Snoopy helps Charlie Brown finish raking a pile of leaves. Linus jumps into the heap with a large lollipop. Then Lucy entices Charlie Brown to kick a football, with the usual results.
Linus is writing his yearly letter to the Great Pumpkin, despite Charlie Brown's disbelief, Snoopy's laughter, Patty's assurance that the Great Pumpkin is a fake, and even his own sister Lucy, who threatens to "pound" him. Only Sally, Charlie Brown's younger sister, smitten with Linus, supports him- until Charlie Brown takes her away, fearing Linus is corrupting her. Linus goes out to mail the letter, lassos the mailbox handle with his security blanket, and opens the box to waft in the letter. Charlie Brown gets invited to a Halloween party hosted by Violet. Neither Charlie Brown nor Lucy can believe his invitation: as he breaks out into a "happy dance," she assumes it is a mistake.
On Halloween night, the gang goes trick-or-treating, each with their own costume. Most dress as ghosts in simple white sheet costumes; Charlie Brown has "trouble with the scissors," leaving his costume full of holes Pig-Pen's trademark dust cloud makes him easy to identify. Lucy dresses as a witch, saying it is the opposite of her real personality. On the way, they stop at the pumpkin patch to jeer at Linus for missing the festivities as usual. Undeterred, Linus is convinced that the Great Pumpkin will come to his sincere pumpkin patch, and persuades Sally, acting almost entirely on her infatuation with Linus, to skip trick-or-treating and join him.
During "tricks or treats," the kids get their goodies (except for Charlie Brown, who gets nothing except rocks). After going back to the pumpkin patch to tease Linus and Sally, the gang goes to Violet's Halloween party. Violet and Lucy ask Charlie Brown to serve as their model, initially to his delight, then dismay as he learns the real reason why he was invited: the back of his round, bald head made the perfect surface to diagram potential jack-o'-lantern designs on it. Meanwhile, Snoopy, wearing his World War I flying ace costume, climbs aboard his doghouse (imagining it to be a fighter plane). After a fierce but losing battle with the unseen Red Baron, Snoopy makes his way across "the countryside" to crash the Halloween party. Sneaking into an apple bobbing tank, he accidentally kisses Lucy when she picks up an apple, disgusting her and sending her into a circling frenzy. Then he is entertained by Schroeder's playing of World War I tunes on his piano, though the sad songs make him cry. Embarrassed, Snoopy leaves.
Linus and Sally are still in the pumpkin patch. When Linus sees a mysterious shadowy figure (which turns out to be Snoopy) rising from the moonlit patch, he mistakes it for the Great Pumpkin and faints. When Linus wakes, Sally furiously yells at him for making her miss the Halloween festivities when Charlie Brown and the others come to get her. As they leave, Linus, still convinced that the Great Pumpkin will materialize, promises to put in a good word for them "if he comes." He then panics, as he had said if instead of when. At 4 a.m., Lucy realizes that Linus is not in his bed. She finds her brother in the pumpkin patch, shivering and half asleep. She brings him home, takes off his shoes, and puts him to bed.
The next morning, Charlie Brown and Linus lean against a wall and commiserate about the previous night. Charlie Brown attempts to console Linus by saying he has done stupid things in his life, too. A livid Linus vows that the Great Pumpkin will come to the pumpkin patch next year; Charlie Brown listens with an annoyed look on his face as Linus rants and the program ends.
A Halloween special, it was the third Peanuts special (and second holiday-themed special, following A Charlie Brown Christmas) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez.
With autumn in full swing, the Peanuts gang prepares for Halloween. Linus and Lucy go out to the local pumpkin patch to find a pumpkin. Lucy selects the largest they can find, and makes Linus the one to get it back to the house. He becomes dismayed when it turns out Lucy is "going to kill it" to make a jack-o-lantern. After the opening credits, Snoopy helps Charlie Brown finish raking a pile of leaves. Linus jumps into the heap with a large lollipop. Then Lucy entices Charlie Brown to kick a football, with the usual results.
Linus is writing his yearly letter to the Great Pumpkin, despite Charlie Brown's disbelief, Snoopy's laughter, Patty's assurance that the Great Pumpkin is a fake, and even his own sister Lucy, who threatens to "pound" him. Only Sally, Charlie Brown's younger sister, smitten with Linus, supports him- until Charlie Brown takes her away, fearing Linus is corrupting her. Linus goes out to mail the letter, lassos the mailbox handle with his security blanket, and opens the box to waft in the letter. Charlie Brown gets invited to a Halloween party hosted by Violet. Neither Charlie Brown nor Lucy can believe his invitation: as he breaks out into a "happy dance," she assumes it is a mistake.
On Halloween night, the gang goes trick-or-treating, each with their own costume. Most dress as ghosts in simple white sheet costumes; Charlie Brown has "trouble with the scissors," leaving his costume full of holes Pig-Pen's trademark dust cloud makes him easy to identify. Lucy dresses as a witch, saying it is the opposite of her real personality. On the way, they stop at the pumpkin patch to jeer at Linus for missing the festivities as usual. Undeterred, Linus is convinced that the Great Pumpkin will come to his sincere pumpkin patch, and persuades Sally, acting almost entirely on her infatuation with Linus, to skip trick-or-treating and join him.
During "tricks or treats," the kids get their goodies (except for Charlie Brown, who gets nothing except rocks). After going back to the pumpkin patch to tease Linus and Sally, the gang goes to Violet's Halloween party. Violet and Lucy ask Charlie Brown to serve as their model, initially to his delight, then dismay as he learns the real reason why he was invited: the back of his round, bald head made the perfect surface to diagram potential jack-o'-lantern designs on it. Meanwhile, Snoopy, wearing his World War I flying ace costume, climbs aboard his doghouse (imagining it to be a fighter plane). After a fierce but losing battle with the unseen Red Baron, Snoopy makes his way across "the countryside" to crash the Halloween party. Sneaking into an apple bobbing tank, he accidentally kisses Lucy when she picks up an apple, disgusting her and sending her into a circling frenzy. Then he is entertained by Schroeder's playing of World War I tunes on his piano, though the sad songs make him cry. Embarrassed, Snoopy leaves.
Linus and Sally are still in the pumpkin patch. When Linus sees a mysterious shadowy figure (which turns out to be Snoopy) rising from the moonlit patch, he mistakes it for the Great Pumpkin and faints. When Linus wakes, Sally furiously yells at him for making her miss the Halloween festivities when Charlie Brown and the others come to get her. As they leave, Linus, still convinced that the Great Pumpkin will materialize, promises to put in a good word for them "if he comes." He then panics, as he had said if instead of when. At 4 a.m., Lucy realizes that Linus is not in his bed. She finds her brother in the pumpkin patch, shivering and half asleep. She brings him home, takes off his shoes, and puts him to bed.
The next morning, Charlie Brown and Linus lean against a wall and commiserate about the previous night. Charlie Brown attempts to console Linus by saying he has done stupid things in his life, too. A livid Linus vows that the Great Pumpkin will come to the pumpkin patch next year; Charlie Brown listens with an annoyed look on his face as Linus rants and the program ends.