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 because 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?
https://twitter.com/Snoopy/status/924792539844136960
https://twitter.com/Shamaaheals/status/924794529353519104
https://twitter.com/Snoopy/status/924789476634910721
https://twitter.com/SchulzMuseum/status/923942379513450502
https://twitter.com/XO_PCStyle/status/924791451657129986
https://twitter.com/Snoopy/status/924793948685598726
https://twitter.com/Snoopy/status/924789150624165888
https://twitter.com/ReadInColour/status/924794728905879553
https://twitter.com/Snoopy/status/924794958523125760
https://twitter.com/Snoopy/status/924792906904457216
Only now do I think of dressing up like Snoopy for the big day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiSIQzwIPzQ
