The Great Fucking Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

LOL!

They’re not bedsheets, OP.

They’re Uncle Bottom’s caftans.

It was the 60s OP. Suburbs were barely even a thing then.

You’re probably the fucker handing out rocks!!

Or one of Chrissy Metz’s ankle socks.

Parents didn't spend a fortune on Halloween costumes in those days, OP, most of it was home made. People had common sense back then.

All these kids should have been taken away from the parents and put in foster care.

The suburbs circa 1960s wasn't about money. It was about having just enough to be comfortable.

Didn't Violet host a Halloween orgy at the end?

Lucy has money because she's a shrink.

This cunt can't allow anyone to be happy.

In MY day, only poor people had home made costumes for Halloween. WE purchased our costumes from the Ben Franklin Five and Dime.

Those bed sheets probably cost more than a costume. There is no excuse for this bullshit.

In my middle class neighborhood, 60's, early 70s, kids put a LOT of effort into home made costumes. They did it themselves or with with help of olds. There was a local parade for kids. Everyone enjoyed it. Some Halloweens there were 2 nights for trick or treating. I don't remember the reason anymore. The bedsheet Ghost was easy but it was RESPECTED because its effective and had some old kid punk cred. Teenagers a bit long in tooth would do it to still trick or treat. Parents got a kick out of that "who's in there?! You're not too old are you?!" everyone got candy anyway.

Helicopter parents hadn't been invented yet back in the '60s. Kids were on their own to make a costume.

R11 I grew up in the burbs in the 80s. My mom and I down on kids with cheap assed store bought Ben Cooper costumes from Walmart. My Halloween costumes were planned every summer and created by our family seamstress, Mrs Slagel. I would go in for begin primary fittings in late September.

They may be children of Klansmen, OP.

Do you really know who your neighbors are? Well, do you?

It was a simpler time.

Trick or treating with no parental supervision, walking miles to a Halloween party in the middle of nowhere, sitting alone in a pumpkin patch...wtf. These parents didn't give a shit.

R19 sorry you didn't have a free and fun childhood.

What makes you think they have money? They might live is a shitty part of town and go to a garbage school. They wear the same fucking clothes everyday. Pig Pen doesn’t even shower. They are trashy as hell.

Left alone (overnight) to possibly catch pneumonia in a pumpkin patch does not equal a free and fun childhood.

[quote] All these kids should have been taken away from the parents and put in foster care.

Wah womp womp wah womp, R6! Womp wha wha womp.

I don't think Charlie Brown lived in the fucking projects. Or even a trailer park. They lived in good homes. Even Snoopy had a nice house.

R22 what is it with the likes of your kind of humorless, snarkfree, lamebrained heavy handed trolling on DL these days?

R19 I grew up in the 1980s. The older (high school) kids looked after the younger ones, trick-or-treat was ALWAYS after dark, and we'd always be out for at least three or four hours. Of course, the "Peanuts" crew are around eight years old, with no supervision. So, that's definitely neglectful.

I feel sorry for kids these days. Trick-or-treat starts before dark, and is over in an hour and a half.

There are no adults on Peanuts. Thus there are never chaperones. The only adults are inside and offscreen. Teacher and parent but off screen.

Not so, r26. I always have kids ringing my doorbell well into the night. Maybe it depends where you live.

Beth Jarret gave out candy apples to trick or treaters. I doubt this would fly today.

OP hands out rocks for Halloween.

Better than handing out toothbrushes.

R28 I'm glad to hear that. But around here...it's pretty much the way I described it.

R21 has a point. Why was CPS never called about Pigpen's personal hygene? That kid was being neglected at home!

My grandmother made my costumes. I despised the storebought costumes that had the character's name incongruously on the chest. Like we had to read that a kid dressed as Caspar the Ghost was supposed to be Caspar the Ghost?

Like most kids I stopped trick or treating around 6th grade, but then in 8th I got an afternoon paper route - came home with a newspaper satchel full of candy each year all through High School.

Damn fat fingers - the signature was supposed to be “And 300 in tips for Christmas” It was a great job for a teenager.

[quote] And 300 in tops

And 300 pounds too.

I always thought the Peanuts kids lived in a small town, maybe somewhere in the Midwest, with houses far apart.

Wasn't Violet's house all rundown and shit?

They were a very high thread count, OP.

Which is precisely why store bought Halloween costumes would be cheaper.

I see Charlie Brown wore a glory hole costume.

Who’s Caspar the Ghost??

Did you buy your costume at Big Lots??

I wanna slap queens who pass out adult beverages to parents like it’s a fucking party night. Not every adult is a lush.

I went trick or treating in my 20s circa 2000. I wore a costume and got lots of candy.

Me and my sister used to trick-or-treat all night. With our homemade costumes. Now it's trunk or treat. The kids can be lazy and just go up to cars. Because nobody trusts their neighbors anymore. At least we walked for all our candy.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber; they couldn't have had THAT much.

Charlie Brown's mother was a call girl. They had plenty of money.

Bless my Auntie: in 1978, as a 4 year old, no one could convince me that boys could not dress as a sun flower. My auntie made me a corduroy cap with cardboard petals, and damn it if I didn't look great. My father was mortified, my mother was drunk, and I knew I wanted to make costumes, which I do.

Last year the kids that came to our house were dropped off, went to a couple of houses, and then went back the car and driven another twenty feet.

Then again, it was 28 degrees and there was fresh snow.

We don't need to use the F word while talking about Charlie Brown!

Maybe they’re kids of Orthodox Jews ?!?!?

If there was any justice, Lucy would have hanged for torturing CB.

Last year, a girl I estimated to be 12 years old came to my door wearing a mini skirt, a tube top and go-go boots. I asked her what she was.

"I'm a slut!"

Her dad must be so proud.

Some kids don't even bother with costumes.

R54, true sluts wear crocheted swim trunks.

So basically R54, she raided her mom’s closet.

I once left my daughter in a pumpkin patch R22, but she found her way back home.

Most interesting thing I ever received when trick or treating was a half empty pack of cigarettes.

Condoms! Condoms! Condoms!

In the ‘60s, there were plenty of store-bought costumes for Hallowe’en. There are some rose-colored memories here because I remember the displays of in all the drugstores and dime stores, and I remember most kids wearing them.

The funny thing is, I can't remember any costume I wore except the last one. I went as a hippie. It was a home-made costume, which stood out to me at the time because my previous costumes had come from the drugstore or Woolworth's. I don't remember how we made the long hair ... maybe that was a store-bought fright wig. I wore a sweatshirt with "Peace" and "Love" written on it, and a string of my mother's beads (no, not pearls).

Did I mention that it was 1967?

Didn't some guy kill a kid by poisoning his pixy stick?

It's been ruined like most holidays. Sadly.

In the 60s, the masks with the store-bought costumes were so uncomfortable I usually abandoned them halfway through my trick-or-treating.

Forget the masks. Those horrible plastic jumpers were the worst.

The parents never got psychiatric help for Charlie Brown. Fuck them.

R66, excuse me? I famously offered low rates.

R65, nothing like being a 5yo in the 80s in your Spider-man costume with that mask/costume reeking of toxic plastic

Do you believe how much they want for those on eBay now?

R69, don't tell me. It'll only piss me off that I never saved the countless co stumes I had.

We should have saved all of our stuff.

I'm 57 and Halloween was so fun back in the 60's & 70's. There wasn't a feeling of fear. Just hurry, get ready and hit as many houses as your feet would let you. One year we got almost a pillowcase full of candy. Ah the good old days. Our mom never put in much effort, other than to drive us around to neighborhoods with her cup of coffee. Then once we got home and emptied out our earnings, she would politely ask for payment and hold out her hand. I wanted to unload the Good n Plentys and peanut anythings, but made myself ask which she preferred. 👿

[quote] Charlie Brown's father was a barber; they couldn't have had THAT much.

You don’t know that! Chuck’s father was a legend in his field. Look at how good he cut Chuck’s hair.

[quote] Our mom never put in much effort, other than to drive us around to neighborhoods with her cup of coffee.

You’re old enough now to know. That wasn’t coffee.

Whoever thought it was funny to write that someone was handing out rocks (I don't know if that's authentic to Charles Schultz, or someone producing the television special) didn't really think it through. If you hand out rocks instead of candy to trick-or-treaters, anyone with sense would know how they're going to get used.

How?

The most natural, reflexive action, Rose, would be to throw them through the windows of the house that gave you rocks instead of candy.

Charlie Brown is a wimp. No way would he take action with those rocks.

CB didn't just have a cheesy homemade costume. It was usually badly made. Once, it was full of holes because "he had trouble with the scissors" and once he kept falling down because he had used a fitted sheet.

Peanuts in the '60s was funny, and not in a kid-like way. It was drawn as much for adults as for children and is still very appealing today.

R15, the woman in the photo with the sweater around her shoulders looks exactly like my aunt. She would go out like that, same haircut, glasses, arms folded, expression. I was taken aback. I guess it's an ironic look for aunts of that period.

Made me a little sad.

I can totally see Charlie Brown shooting up the school and blowing up his neighborhood. Everyone who gave him a rock would be rewarded with an exploding house.

[quote]No way would he take action with those rocks.

Perhaps not, R78. But Snoopy would. And Lucy for damn sure would.

I'm simply remarking that it's not realistic, even for the sake of being 'funny.' One cannot assume that some random adult in the neighborhood would give rocks to Charlie Brown (like they could reliably tell which costumed child that was) and 𝑡𝑜 𝑛𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒, as being the one child they could be certain would not throw them. It's been a few years since I watched the special, but didn't Charlie Brown complain that he kept getting given rocks, meaning that more houses were giving them out? Even if that's being done only to him as commentary on the poorness of his costume (multiple eye-holes), again, it invites retaliation. That's precisely what the 'trick' in 'trick-or-treat' means: if one isn't given a treat, then the offending house gets egged, or toilet paper draped over the house and trees, shoe polish on the car windows, crap in the mailbox, etc.. And if someone was mean and stupid enough to actually hand out rocks, they get them back through their windows.

Considering how 'monkey-see, monkey-do' people are, I'd be willing to bet that sometime across the nearly 54 years since the Peanuts Halloween Special aired, some idiots are bound to have handed out rocks to trick-or-treaters. And I'd also bet that some got broken windows out of it.

[quote]Beth Jarret gave out candy apples to trick or treaters. I doubt this would fly today.

She sure did, that's where she hid the rest of Conrad's Schick Super Blues.

"MY LIPS TOUCHED DOG LIPS!"

All about the Great Dolemite!

Charlie Brown shoots up the place! A Mischief Night Special.

R82, you’ve spent way too much time analyzing a cartoon.

Tu puta madre, r87.

Not really, R87. I've seen it probably once a year since it came out, and even supposing I missed a few times, that's still some fifty times. A few minutes thinking it over each time isn't much.

Schulz wanted Charlie Brown to get a rock at one house , but one of the producers (Melendez or Meldelson) suggested THREE rocks at different houses. Another producer wanted only one rock as well, but he was overruled.

It's considered by many to be the second-best Peanuts special after A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS.

It’s not going to be on ABC this year!

Only on AppleTV+.

Ain’t that some shit?

R91 That is something The Supreme Court should address immediately!

R91, also not available streaming at Amazon. Ditto A Charlie Brown Christmas - "currently unavailable to watch in your location."

R91 - it gets my vote for second best Peanuts special - it’s not as achingly bleak as the Christmas and Thanksgiving specials, so it falls down a bit there.

The Christmas specials is pretty bleak, isn't it? Charlie Browns opening lines are painful and true.

Why do you think the Thanksgiving Special is bleak, r94? Interesting that Lucy shows up at the very beginning to pull the football away, and never reappears.

So Apple now has 10 shows instead of 9.

My brother and I went trick or treating 3 years ago and we only got 25 tiny pieces of candy each. One elderly woman who was dressed as a witch poured a bowl of burnt unflavored popcorn into our pumpkin buckets. I'm surprised no-one egged her house.

It’s been many years since I’ve watched the Thanksgiving special, R95.

I guess I owe it á rewatching.

My childhood memories are of a meager ersatz Thanksgiving dinner consisting of popcorn. And that nobody was having much fun.

Have I misremembered?

Charlie Brown’s dad is a barber. I’d say they have a tight budget.

r98: Charlie Brown and Linus only know how to make popcorn and buttered toast. Peppermint Patty (who invited herself, Marcie and Franklin to Charlie Brow's house for Thanksgiving Dinner) is the only one who is pissed. It's pretty funny. And at the end all the kids go to Charlie Browns grandmother's place for a real Thanksgiving dinner. It's a pretty mellow special.

[quote] R91, also not available streaming at Amazon. Ditto A Charlie Brown Christmas - "currently unavailable to watch in your location."

R101: AUGGGGGHHHHHHH!

I don't think the parents gave any fucks. Not only does Chuck get a bag full of rocks, but those bitches draw all over his head. The parents do nothing about it.