ABC recently aired the annual Halloween special, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. A bonus cartoon about a school election came after it, in part becauseย it furthered the Great Pumpkin mythology. There’s something in it for everyone: seeing Lucy in a witch mask, Linus and Sally waiting for the Great Pumpkin or maybe just Charlie Brown’s iconic line, “I got a rock.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tIhwITwhSg
Kids used to collect pet rocks, so maybe it’s one of those “aluminum Christmas tree” things going on, but it regardless painted Charlie as a classic down-on-his-luck everyman that is deep down inside all of us. Twitter sprouted out in nostalgia over the airing with the #GreatPumpkin hashtag. We even got posts from accounts officially associated with the Peanuts, like the comic strip that started it all! One can only wonder what will happen when it’s time for the Christmas special?
Seriously, I need stuff; can somebody get me the Great Pumpkin’s number?
"I got a rock" #GreatPumpkin pic.twitter.com/CzihTlVOKX
— PEANUTS (@Snoopy) October 30, 2017
when someone loves you like sally loves linus. #greatpumpkin pic.twitter.com/acLR2egut2
— Shamaa (@Shamaaheals) October 30, 2017
Do you believe in the #GreatPumpkin?
— PEANUTS (@Snoopy) October 30, 2017
This strip was published on October 27, 1959. #GreatPumpkin ๐ pic.twitter.com/k4qBZ3AlAI
— Charles M. Schulz Museum (@SchulzMuseum) October 27, 2017
Watching a Halloween classic โItโs the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brownโ makes my heart happy โค๏ธ#GreatPumpkin pic.twitter.com/nKB1fAX7K2
— Mary (@chopraxjonas) October 30, 2017
Party time! #GreatPumpkin pic.twitter.com/KlEO1nhopq
— PEANUTS (@Snoopy) October 30, 2017
"Peculiar thing about this document, it wasn't ever notarized" #GreatPumpkin pic.twitter.com/DL2HdcI5c4
— PEANUTS (@Snoopy) October 30, 2017
You blockhead! #GreatPumpkin pic.twitter.com/XrukvODIZ7
— ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐ถ๐น ๐พ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ค (@ReadInColour) October 30, 2017
"You kept me up all night waiting for the #GreatPumpkin and all that came was a beagle" pic.twitter.com/fKUoTTcKWn
— PEANUTS (@Snoopy) October 30, 2017
The World War I Flying Ace #GreatPumpkin pic.twitter.com/9GxFLrAZtd
— PEANUTS (@Snoopy) October 30, 2017
Only now do I think of dressing up like Snoopy for the big day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiSIQzwIPzQ