40 Years of A Charlie Brown Christmas

2005 marked the 40th anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Christmas", the longest-running animated television special in history. I have watched at least 20 of those half-hour presentations, beginning with the very first one. (The only reason I haven't seen more is that, for the past 25 years, we have rarely watched television at all.)

I know most of the lines to the show by heart. I have the DVD edition.

I love the ice skating scene and the scene where Lucy suggests to Charlie Brown "Maybe you have pantophobia". I wait for Lucy to prompt Shroeder about the importance of "presents for pretty girls...".

But I think the best part is at the end, when the children remove all of the decorations from Snoopy's doghouse, then decorate the pathetic tree Charlie Brown chose, causing it to stand up straight and gain fullness of branches in a magical Christmas moment.

Merry Christmas Charlie Brown!

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