BB 11/23/15

Good afternoon Phoenix – it’s time for Movie Monday! This is the last Monday before Thanksgiving, so I saved the best for last.

We’ve all seen it – and will likely see it again.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving! Yes, technically, this isn’t a movie – it was a TV special, but it’s almost required Thanksgiving viewing, especially if there are children (or adults that refuse to grow up) in your household.

Plot: Peppermint Patty invites herself and her friends over to Charlie Brown's for Thanksgiving, and with Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock, he attempts to throw together a Thanksgiving dinner.

Trivia:

• Peppermint Patty and Marcie are voiced by male actors.

• Lucy appears only at the beginning of the film when she is playing football with Charlie Brown. She never appears for the rest of the movie.

• The only other Thanksgiving-related special in Peanuts media is "This is America, Charlie Brown", about the Pilgrims' voyage to Plymouth with all characters portraying the Pilgrims themselves.

Goofs:

• The sundaes on the table during dinner appear and disappear between scenes.

• The plates Snoopy set out when he initially set up the ping-pong table disappear in front of all guests except the first person he tosses a plate to when serving everyone.

• While Snoopy, Linus, and Charlie Brown are cooking the fake Thanksgiving meal, two bowls of pretzels are shown. They're the folded type. Later during the meal, they show pretzel sticks.

• As Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Linus are cooking the fake Thanksgiving dinner, we see a skillet on the back right burner as Snoopy spreads the butter on the toast constantly as it piles. In the next shot, the skillet has jumped to the front right burner.

Quote:

Linus van Pelt: In the year 1621, the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief Massasoit, who brought ninety of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food. Governor William Bradford and Captain Miles Standish were honored guests. Elder William Brewster, who was a minister, said a prayer that went something like this: 'We thank God for our homes and our food and our safety in a new land. We thank God for the opportunity to create a new world for freedom and justice."

Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt: Amen.

Have a fangtastic day my friends!

<3 Brock V"""V