"It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown"
airs tonight on ABC, allowing us Americans to mark yet another holiday
by laughing at Linus's refusal to accept reality. (If you want to hang
on to your security blanket, fine. But believing in the Easter Beagle
given your high IQ? That's pretty borderline, kid.)
As
Peanuts cartoons go, "Easter Beagle" is a relatively decent one. I
mean, Marcie's perpetual confusion about how to dye Easter eggs is a
pure delight by itself. But as connoisseurs of all things Charlie Brown
well know, those animated specials started to dip swiftly in quality
not long after this one first aired in 1974.
So in order to
help you and your little ones appreciate the finer nuances of "It's the
Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown" -- and to make "A Charlie Brown
Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" look even more
genius than they already do -- I present the Five Peanuts TV Specials
That Never Should Have Been.
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