These kids live in the suburbs and have money. They should be able to afford something better than bed sheets.
LOL!
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 15, 2020 9:40 PM |
They’re not bedsheets, OP.
They’re Uncle Bottom’s caftans.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 15, 2020 9:43 PM |
It was the 60s OP. Suburbs were barely even a thing then.
You’re probably the fucker handing out rocks!!
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 15, 2020 9:44 PM |
Or one of Chrissy Metz’s ankle socks.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 15, 2020 9:44 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 15, 2020 9:44 PM |
All these kids should have been taken away from the parents and put in foster care.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 15, 2020 9:45 PM |
The suburbs circa 1960s wasn't about money. It was about having just enough to be comfortable.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 15, 2020 9:46 PM |
Didn't Violet host a Halloween orgy at the end?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 15, 2020 9:49 PM |
Lucy has money because she's a shrink.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 15, 2020 9:52 PM |
In MY day, only poor people had home made costumes for Halloween. WE purchased our costumes from the Ben Franklin Five and Dime.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 15, 2020 9:56 PM |
Those bed sheets probably cost more than a costume. There is no excuse for this bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 15, 2020 9:58 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 15, 2020 10:00 PM |
Helicopter parents hadn't been invented yet back in the '60s. Kids were on their own to make a costume.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 15, 2020 10:02 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 15, 2020 10:02 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 15, 2020 10:02 PM |
They may be children of Klansmen, OP.
Do you really know who your neighbors are? Well, do you?
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 15, 2020 10:06 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 15, 2020 10:11 PM |
R19 sorry you didn't have a free and fun childhood.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 15, 2020 10:12 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 15, 2020 10:14 PM |
Left alone (overnight) to possibly catch pneumonia in a pumpkin patch does not equal a free and fun childhood.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 15, 2020 10:15 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 15, 2020 10:16 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 15, 2020 10:18 PM |
R22 what is it with the likes of your kind of humorless, snarkfree, lamebrained heavy handed trolling on DL these days?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 15, 2020 10:19 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 15, 2020 10:20 PM |
There are no adults on Peanuts. Thus there are never chaperones. The only adults are inside and offscreen. Teacher and parent but off screen.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 15, 2020 10:22 PM |
Not so, r26. I always have kids ringing my doorbell well into the night. Maybe it depends where you live.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 15, 2020 10:23 PM |
Beth Jarret gave out candy apples to trick or treaters. I doubt this would fly today.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 15, 2020 10:30 PM |
OP hands out rocks for Halloween.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 15, 2020 10:33 PM |
Better than handing out toothbrushes.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 15, 2020 10:38 PM |
R28 I'm glad to hear that. But around here...it's pretty much the way I described it.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 15, 2020 10:45 PM |
R21 has a point. Why was CPS never called about Pigpen's personal hygene? That kid was being neglected at home!
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 15, 2020 10:55 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 15, 2020 10:56 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 15, 2020 10:57 PM |
Damn fat fingers - the signature was supposed to be “And 300 in tips for Christmas” It was a great job for a teenager.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 15, 2020 10:58 PM |
[quote] And 300 in tops
And 300 pounds too.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 15, 2020 11:08 PM |
I always thought the Peanuts kids lived in a small town, maybe somewhere in the Midwest, with houses far apart.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 15, 2020 11:11 PM |
Wasn't Violet's house all rundown and shit?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 15, 2020 11:15 PM |
They were a very high thread count, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 15, 2020 11:17 PM |
Which is precisely why store bought Halloween costumes would be cheaper.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 15, 2020 11:19 PM |
I see Charlie Brown wore a glory hole costume.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 15, 2020 11:25 PM |
Who’s Caspar the Ghost??
Did you buy your costume at Big Lots??
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 15, 2020 11:28 PM |
I wanna slap queens who pass out adult beverages to parents like it’s a fucking party night. Not every adult is a lush.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 15, 2020 11:28 PM |
I went trick or treating in my 20s circa 2000. I wore a costume and got lots of candy.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 15, 2020 11:30 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 15, 2020 11:30 PM |
Charlie Brown's father was a barber; they couldn't have had THAT much.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 15, 2020 11:34 PM |
Charlie Brown's mother was a call girl. They had plenty of money.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 15, 2020 11:35 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 15, 2020 11:38 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 15, 2020 11:42 PM |
We don't need to use the F word while talking about Charlie Brown!
by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 15, 2020 11:45 PM |
Maybe they’re kids of Orthodox Jews ?!?!?
by Anonymous | reply 52 | October 15, 2020 11:45 PM |
If there was any justice, Lucy would have hanged for torturing CB.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 15, 2020 11:48 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | October 15, 2020 11:51 PM |
Some kids don't even bother with costumes.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | October 15, 2020 11:54 PM |
R54, true sluts wear crocheted swim trunks.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | October 15, 2020 11:54 PM |
So basically R54, she raided her mom’s closet.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | October 15, 2020 11:55 PM |
I once left my daughter in a pumpkin patch R22, but she found her way back home.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 15, 2020 11:58 PM |
Most interesting thing I ever received when trick or treating was a half empty pack of cigarettes.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | October 15, 2020 11:58 PM |
Condoms! Condoms! Condoms!
by Anonymous | reply 60 | October 16, 2020 12:00 AM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 16, 2020 12:00 AM |
Didn't some guy kill a kid by poisoning his pixy stick?
by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 16, 2020 12:01 AM |
It's been ruined like most holidays. Sadly.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 16, 2020 1:54 AM |
In the 60s, the masks with the store-bought costumes were so uncomfortable I usually abandoned them halfway through my trick-or-treating.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | October 16, 2020 1:59 AM |
Forget the masks. Those horrible plastic jumpers were the worst.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | October 16, 2020 2:16 AM |
The parents never got psychiatric help for Charlie Brown. Fuck them.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | October 16, 2020 2:19 AM |
R66, excuse me? I famously offered low rates.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 16, 2020 2:22 AM |
R65, nothing like being a 5yo in the 80s in your Spider-man costume with that mask/costume reeking of toxic plastic
by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 16, 2020 2:22 AM |
Do you believe how much they want for those on eBay now?
by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 16, 2020 3:19 AM |
R69, don't tell me. It'll only piss me off that I never saved the countless co stumes I had.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 16, 2020 3:21 AM |
We should have saved all of our stuff.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 16, 2020 3:23 AM |
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. 👿
by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 16, 2020 8:23 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | October 16, 2020 1:12 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | October 16, 2020 1:12 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | October 16, 2020 1:20 PM |
How?
by Anonymous | reply 76 | October 16, 2020 1:23 PM |
The most natural, reflexive action, Rose, would be to throw them through the windows of the house that gave you rocks instead of candy.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | October 16, 2020 1:34 PM |
Charlie Brown is a wimp. No way would he take action with those rocks.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | October 16, 2020 9:36 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | October 16, 2020 9:43 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | October 16, 2020 9:54 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 16, 2020 10:01 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | October 16, 2020 11:42 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 17, 2020 12:13 AM |
"MY LIPS TOUCHED DOG LIPS!"
by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 17, 2020 12:19 AM |
Charlie Brown shoots up the place! A Mischief Night Special.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 17, 2020 12:44 AM |
R82, you’ve spent way too much time analyzing a cartoon.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | October 17, 2020 10:56 AM |
Tu puta madre, r87.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | October 18, 2020 1:11 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | October 18, 2020 1:55 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | October 18, 2020 4:29 AM |
It’s not going to be on ABC this year!
Only on AppleTV+.
Ain’t that some shit?
by Anonymous | reply 91 | October 21, 2020 10:53 AM |
R91 That is something The Supreme Court should address immediately!
by Anonymous | reply 92 | October 21, 2020 12:13 PM |
R91, also not available streaming at Amazon. Ditto A Charlie Brown Christmas - "currently unavailable to watch in your location."
by Anonymous | reply 93 | October 21, 2020 10:33 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | October 21, 2020 11:02 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | October 22, 2020 2:17 AM |
So Apple now has 10 shows instead of 9.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | October 22, 2020 3:31 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | October 22, 2020 4:27 AM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 98 | October 22, 2020 4:57 AM |
Charlie Brown’s dad is a barber. I’d say they have a tight budget.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | October 22, 2020 5:05 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | October 22, 2020 10:53 AM |
[quote] R91, also not available streaming at Amazon. Ditto A Charlie Brown Christmas - "currently unavailable to watch in your location."
by Anonymous | reply 101 | October 22, 2020 1:10 PM |
R101: AUGGGGGHHHHHHH!
by Anonymous | reply 102 | October 22, 2020 11:34 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | October 22, 2020 11:36 PM |
Almost time, motherfuckers. Get your candy and rocks ready.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | October 29, 2020 5:36 PM |
1960's parents: We put the paper cut outs in the window we got for 2 dollars, we carved several pumpkins, its almost dark, go out and play, knock on strangers doors, don't get lost.
Kid: But I am only 5 years old will you come with me?
Parent: You need to lean to act like an adult.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | October 29, 2020 5:49 PM |
[quote]My brother and I went trick or treating 3 years ago and we only got 25 tiny pieces of candy each
Years ago before everyone stopped trick or treating, my sister brought her tacky kids to Beverly Hills. Those little fuckers go full sized candy bars!
by Anonymous | reply 106 | October 29, 2020 5:52 PM |
I was born in 1959 and did my share of trick or treating and never saw anybody wear a ghost costume made out of a sheet with two eye holes in it in real life. Maybe they wore them between the world wars.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | October 29, 2020 5:54 PM |
My best friend and I fed his little brother chocolate Ex Lax one Hallows Eve thinking it was funny. They went back to their house later that night. From what I gather it wasn't funny the next day. Like, at all.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | October 29, 2020 5:55 PM |
Some people gave pennies instead of candy. I was never sure what to think about that.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | October 29, 2020 5:57 PM |
If you come to my door on Halloween night, I’ll give you candy. I don’t discriminate. Except this year. I run a Covid free household.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | October 29, 2020 6:07 PM |
I bet not, r108. Children can die that way.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | October 29, 2020 6:09 PM |
Forget Covid. Are you a nut-free, gluten-free, dairy-free household? Madesyein Kayleigh is allergic.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | October 29, 2020 6:10 PM |
In a reversal, the Charlie Brown Christmas Special will be shown on broadcast TV.
Childish Whores rejoice!
by Anonymous | reply 113 | November 23, 2020 1:07 PM |
[quote] 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.
Obviously not a gay dad.
Otherwise she would've said "I'm Gloria Grahame in 'The Bad and The Beautiful' I got a heart o' gold"
by Anonymous | reply 114 | November 23, 2020 1:34 PM |
[quote]Peppermint Patty (who invited herself, Marcie and Franklin to Charlie Brow's house for Thanksgiving Dinner)
If I remember correctly, she ordered the bread pudding at the end of dinner.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | November 23, 2020 9:40 PM |
Child of the 80s. Our mom would take our pillow cases of candy to her bedroom to check "for razor blades in the candy." She would return an hour later with a lot less candy. We didn't catch on until we were about 8 or 9.
(we went trick or treating in a crappy city alone, at night, never had any issues)
by Anonymous | reply 116 | November 24, 2020 1:03 AM |