Friday, February 05, 2021

Snoopy+

 You people know I love love love me some Peanuts, and Snoopy is apparently killing it over at Apple+:

In some of the most widely watched Peanuts animated classics, Snoopy’s story has been the B-plot — his battle with the Red Baron is secondary to the main action in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and his entrance in a holiday decorating contest acts as sidebar to Charlie Brown’s yuletide angst in A Charlie Brown Christmas. But while Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and the rest are certainly featured in The Snoopy Show, Snoopy is indisputably the star, the A to everyone else’s B. That’s not only welcome, but maybe even needed right now. Unlike sad-boy Charlie Brown or the ever-irked Lucy, Snoopy lives his life the way so many of us wish we could: with unbridled joy and no limits.

First of all, that last line describing how Snoopy chooses to live his life if LOL funny. Secondly, I've always thought his B plot line in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown to be fucking whackadoodle:

A curiously overlooked part of It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is they decided to throw in a side plot involving what at its time had been the most harrowing event in human history.

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