I always enjoy watching this program every year, but I would never allow children to watch it with me because the show has several disturbing scenes.....
Shocking Violence - Snoopy's fight with a living lawn chair is unnecessarily graphic and bloody.
Disgusting Cannibalism - Woodstock The Bird eats turkey meat and enjoys it.
Lies, Deceit and Bodily Harm - Lucy tricks Charlie into trying to kick the football so he will fall and break his back. That little witch! I'm glad she was left out of the rest of the show.
I'm actually watching it right now. I have to go look it up on wiki because I can't recall when this was new. I think it's from the early seventies. All the kid's have different voices.
Yeah- my father mentioned the cannibalism thing one year when I was 13 or so. the other two points don;t really bother me, but it really is an odd story about how Peppermint Patty forces charlie Brown into throwing her a Thanksgiving dinner (and then complains about it). It's saved by having Marci call Patty out on it all (which I guess constitutes the moral).
Guaraldi's music for the Thanksgiving special is really distinctive from his work for, say, the Christmas special. Hipper, somehow. Definitely different and interesting.
Although there is an album with one track each from the Halloween and Thanlsgiving specials, both complete scores really need to be tracked down and released. I'd snap up a Halloween/Thanksgiving two-fer in a second.
One bizarre thing about the Peanuts specials (& animated films) for me was how come the adults are never seen? It's as if the kids have complete run of their households and neighborhoods with no adult authorities whatsoever. Then occasionally they "imply" an adult with that weird garbled noise.
Disgusting Cannibalism - Woodstock The Bird eats turkey meat and enjoys it.
Is Woodstock a turkey?!
Nope. Just one bird munching on the flesh of another. Some snakes prey upon other snakes. Some spiders prey upon other spiders. Is that technically cannibalism? Perhaps not since it's a different species but what the heck.
Disgusting Cannibalism - Woodstock The Bird eats turkey meat and enjoys it.
Is Woodstock a turkey?!
Nope. Just one bird munching on the flesh of another. Some snakes prey upon other snakes. Some spiders prey upon other spiders. Is that technically cannibalism? Perhaps not since it's a different species but what the heck.
If merely eating members of one's class (in the taxonomic sense, as opposed to socioeconomic or academic or some other such thing) qualified as cannibalism, we'd be cannibals for eating beef, pork, or other mammal meat.
