Nothing says Happy Easter like the 1974 television special “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown.”

It’s The Easter Beagle Charlie Brown

Happy Easter, all!

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Nothing says “Happy Valentine’s Day” like the 1975 Charlie Brown TV special “Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown.” Charlie pines for the little red-haired girl, to no avail. He watches with dismay as valentines come flooding in for his dog, Snoopy, while he does not receive a single one. At the end of the episode he does finally get his valentine - a used one given to him out of pity.

Poor Charlie.

I remember watching this special as a kid and relating to it - giving and receiving valentines at school was always an exciting but stressful experience. I would give valentines and candy hearts to everyone in my class, but for the boys I really liked I would carefully choose hearts that said “Hot Stuff” or “Call Me”. If I dared. And then I would wait expectantly in the hopes of receiving candy hearts with equally heartfelt expressions of love in return. Which of course never happened. My candy hearts always read “You’re Nice” or something lame like that. Sigh.

Thankfully I no longer have to worry about lame candy hearts or manufacturing 35 cards and cupcakes prior to the big day. This year, I got the best Valentine’s Day Card ever courtesy of Mr. RollerBlog.

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all!

I can’t imagine the holidays without a Charlie Brown special to mark the occasion. The Great Pumpkin, the sad little Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, the Easter Beagle… there’s even a Thanksgiving special. Tonight we settled in to watch the television classic A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, which originally aired in 1973.

I’m sure I have seen this special before but I honestly have no recollection of it. Peppermint Patty, who has a crush on Charlie Brown, invites herself over to Charlie Brown’s house for Thanksgiving Dinner along with some other friends. With the help of Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock, Charlie prepares a dinner of toast, popcorn, pretzels and jelly beans and serves it to his guests who are seated around a ping pong table. Yum!

Although I gotta tell you, I just can’t help but wondering… where are Charlie Brown’s parents? At the end of the episode Charlie and the gang travel to his grandmother’s house in the back of a station wagon… but who is driving the car? It’s incredibly mysterious. If you are wondering what Charlie Brown’s parents are up to you may want to check out ye110wbeard’s Land of Silly blog.

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