Fan Page: The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show

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I think I am the victim of a slick marketing machine that forced me to love The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show. It was all planned just too perfectly...

It was early September, 1982. There was a huge kerfuffel in the Fidalgo Elementary School Library as the old, staunch, prim-n-proper Librarian (I kid you not her name was Phylis Ennis, her name tag read "P. Ennis") was promoted to the High School Library and we got our new, young, pretty Librarian who didn't have a Miss or a Missus or anything proper like that, she was just "Karen". Ahhhhhh, sweet Karen *siiiiigh*. Curly copper-red hair that cascaded down over her pretty peasant-style blouse on down to the flowy ankle-length peasant skirt which hung just above her Birkenstock sandals. She was the first "Hippy" I had ever seen and I was *pretty sure* I was in love with her but then she CLINCHED IT by releasing a ton of previously "Banned" books back in to our Library... most noticeably, about 50 different Charlie Brown & Snoopy "Pocket Books" from the 1970's that P. Ennis had declared were not "Real Books". And so I started reading those Charlie Brown books, usually checking out 3 at a time!

The very next school year, as soon as the new Saturday Morning Cartoons premiered, I was SHOCKED to find the Charlie Brown & Snoopy cartoon in the line-up! Karen had moved on to some other job and we had a new Librarian who let us keep the Charlie Brown books as well as bringing in several other controversial books (Choose Your Own Adventure!), and upon reflection I'm *pretty darned sure* that Karen was an agent of the King Features Syndicate, planted in our school to spread awareness and brand loyalty for their new animated Charlie Brown & Snoopy cartoon.
Please leave your own copper-red cascading curls of fond memories in the comments below, and if you haven't done so already please be sure to go and vote for this cartoon in our Best Cartoon of 1983 Poll!

Comments

[dark-weezing.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do remember this show, and I do have them on official VHS. Good stuff. It holds up well enough, 30 years later, but that's part of the charm of anything "Peanuts." (Except for 'Flashbeagle,' but we won't talk about that. Heh.)

Here's a fun fact: the singer Fergie, who does the Black Eyed Peas, voiced Lucy on this. Which amused me to no end, even though, I don't care for the band too much. Heh.