Charlie Brown Specials

[Daniel]

Not noticeable in the stock photo, it's also translucent!

[Randall]

Oh, now we're talkin'!

[Daniel]

Regretfully, PBS does not have the rights to distribute the Peanuts specials this year. We’ll all have to watch for the Great Pumpkin in a different pumpkin patch this Halloween.

Hopefully another channel got them, if not it will really be the end of an era.

[Randall]

Only on AppleTV+.

[Ben]

…or disc!

[Daniel]

VHS too!

Hopefully Apple will at least offer them free like they initially did.

[gaastra]

Back when we still had non christmas prime time cartoon specials.

[Daniel]

Hopefully Apple will at least offer them free like they initially did.

Hallelujah they are! Apple has confirmed. Free viewing days for nonsubscribers:

"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" - October 28 through October 31
"A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" - November 23 through November 27
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" - December 22 through December 25

[Ben]

Good Apple!

[Daniel]

MeTV is commemorating Charles Schulz's 100th birthday this month with debuts of A Boy Named Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Come Home. What a treat!

[Daniel]

Today marks what would've been Charles Schulz's 100th birthday. What a beautiful legacy - joy, happiness, comfort, smiles and so much laughter. Happy birthday, Sparky! Nearly all comics today are paying tribute: Clickable.



So cool. The Baby Blues one.

[Randall]

What a wonderful tribute. No one is more deserving.

[Daniel]

More: Clickable



For Better or For Worse - aww.

[droosan]

Some of my favorite tribute strips for this day:

Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson

Heart of the City by Steenz

Rosebuds by Supr Dee

Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis & Shelley Pleger

Bizzaro by Dan Piraro & Wayno

.. but perhaps most amazing is Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau; the daily strip has been in 'reruns' for the past several years .. but today's strip (from 1997!) pays tribute to Schulz, all the same.


side note: it's really cool to see Reply All on a newspaper page (even if it's just the single-panel Reply All Lite spin-off). I thoroughly enjoy that strip .. though, other people around me often wonder why.

[Daniel]

Almost all the comic tributes are collected here and in color! Some are pretty clever, one of my favorites is the Macanudo strip.