Happiness is… a Charlie Brown special for every holiday. Whether it’s Valentine’s Day, Christmas, or even Arbor Day, the Peanuts gang is always really to ring in the occasion with their own brand of humor, topped off with a little beagle-and-bird antics.
While there are a total of 45 Peanuts specials to date, these 12 holiday specials showcase Charlie Brown, Lucy, Sally, Rerun, Snoopy, Woodstock, and their pals at their best.
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Happiness is… a Charlie Brown special for every holiday. Whether it’s Valentine’s Day, Christmas, or even Arbor Day, the Peanuts gang is always really to ring in the occasion with their own brand of humor, topped off with a little beagle-and-bird antics.
While there are a total of 45 Peanuts specials to date, these 12 holiday specials showcase Charlie Brown, Lucy, Sally, Rerun, Snoopy, Woodstock, and their pals at their best.
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Happiness is… a Charlie Brown special for every holiday. Whether it’s Valentine’s Day, Christmas, or even Arbor Day, the Peanuts gang is always really to ring in the occasion with their own brand of humor, topped off with a little beagle-and-bird antics.
While there are a total of 45 Peanuts specials to date, these 12 holiday specials showcase Charlie Brown, Lucy, Sally, Rerun, Snoopy, Woodstock, and their pals at their best.
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Charlie Brown’s biggest dilemma has nothing to do with a midnight kiss: He just needs to get through reading War and Peace.
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In one of the most well-known specials, aired every year since 1975, wishful Charlie Brown brings an empty briefcase to school to carry home all the Valentines he expects… and ends up leaving class with zero.
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Twice the love! A second Valentine’s Day special debuted two years after creator Charles Schulz’s death in 2000. The object of Charlie’s affection? The Little Red Haired Girl, of course.
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Who needs an Easter Bunny when you can have the Easter Beagle? Mix in some dye drama and it all makes for one eggs-cellent special.
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Poor little Sally. She was ready to get nautical to celebrate all the “ships sailing in to the arbor."
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More seasonal than holiday oriented, this special finds Lucy convincing the boys to go to camp… decades before there was glamping.
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One of the most storied specials celebrated its 50th anniversary last October — and Linus Van Pelt is still holding out hope for the Great Pumpkin’s arrival.
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Charlie Brown got political way back in the'70s with this episode, which aired right before the 1972 election.
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One thing to be thankful for: the endless amusement Lucy gets from pulling the football away from Charlie Brown time and time again.
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Good grief! The holidays may have been too much for Charlie Brown, but this special snagged the Outstanding Children’s Program Emmy the next year!
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By the '90s it was time for the Peanuts gang to revisit the holidays. The highlight? Sally writes a letter to Mrs. Claus, who she calls “Mary Christmas.” Another Christmas special, Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales, followed in 2002.
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New millennium, new character! Poor little Rerun Van Pelt suffers through numerous "B of the B Day” (Back of the Bike Days, when he has to sit on the back of his mom’s bike) — in hopes of getting the dog he so desperately wants.
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