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"Joy to the world."

—Linus van Pelt

The 36th Peanuts TV Special, It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown originally aired on CBS on November 27, 1992.

The spiritual successor to A Charlie Brown Christmas, this special opts for a vignette format showing what sorts of antics the Peanuts characters get into effectually the holiday season. There'southward more of a focus on the secular aspects of Christmas, but some focus is still given to the religious aspects of it. Similarly to other vignette-style Peanuts specials, a majority of the stories ended up being adapted from the comic strip, and a substantial chunk of information technology was adapted from the series finale of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Bear witness in 1985.

It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Dark-brown is notable for existence the final Peanuts special to exist circulate on CBS. The next Peanuts special (1994'due south You lot're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown) aired on NBC, earlier they released 2 direct to video, ultimately returning to network Idiot box on ABC in 2000.

It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown contains examples of:

  • Art Evolution: A pocket-sized case. Equally this was the second special not to be animated completely in America (here being assisted by Wang Motion picture Productions in Taiwan, who previously animated Snoopy'southward Reunion), the blitheness and art are slightly different in this one and shifts between the usual Limited Blitheness style, and the more bouncy style of Wang.
  • Butt-Monkey: Bizarrely enough, it'southward Linus who suffers the most this special; not Charlie Brown. From being repeatedly cut off past Emerge, to beingness tricked past Woodstock and the Beagle Scouts, to Snoopy dressed equally Santa Claus jumpscaring him with a horn, to the three separate mishaps with his box sled.

    Linus: Here we get! We put it in fast-forward, and hither we become! (slides backwards) Fast-reverse...

  • Cartoonland Time: Peppermint Patty needs a refresher on what book she needs to read during Thanksgiving vacation, simply then Marcie reveals that they're already on Christmas vacation.
  • Christmas Creep: Ironically for a Christmas special, Charlie Brown, the one who was depressed over not knowing the true meaning of Christmas, attempts to sell Christmas wreaths door-to-door before information technology'southward even Thanksgiving.
  • Comically Missing the Bespeak:
    • When Charlie Chocolate-brown attempts to sell his Joe Garagiola-autographed baseball, one kid asks...
    • Peppermint Patty watches the BBC accommodation of A Tale of Two Cities then she doesn't take to worry about reading the book, but is left confused nigh the parts with the shampoo, the soap, and the java.

      Marcie: Those were the commercials, sir.

  • Exact Words: Sally asks Snoopy disguised as Santa where his helpers are. Cue three of the Beagle Scouts walking by belongings picket signs that say "HELP".
  • Failed a Spot Check: Marcie attempts to join in the standing during the hallelujah chorus of Handel's "Messiah", just she doesn't realize that she'due south standing on top of her foldable seat, causing her to be flipped backwards.
  • The Freelance Shame Squad: Sally accidentally saying "hockey stick" instead of "hark" during the pageant, which in return results in everyone in the theater laughing at her.
  • Freudian Slip: Sally, existence an angel for the school Christmas pageant, is instructed to say, "hark." When she's on stage, she accidentally says, "hockey stick," and nobody, not even her, knows why she said it. All the same, correct earlier she left to attend the pageant, she walked past Charlie Brown, who was holding a hockey stick himself.
  • In-Universe Factoid Failure: When Peppermint Patty is writing her essay on George Handel'southward "Messiah", neither her nor Marcie happen to know Handel's first name, leading her to guess that it's Joe.
  • Ironic Repeat: Co-ordinate to Linus, Lucy said last Christmas, "Why do we accept to be dainty to each other only on Christmas? Why tin can't we be nice to each other every solar day?" When she tries to forcefulness Linus to leave his television chair, he reminds her that she said that, causing Lucy to angrily storm off in defeat.
  • Lady Mondegreen: In-Universe. Based on the phrase, "Merry Christmas," Sally comes to the conclusion that the name of Santa Claus' wife is "Mary Christmas".
  • Never Learned to Read: Sally, writing a alphabetic character to Santa Claus, asks Charlie Brown, her own brother, how to spell his name. She gives up, addressing him as Sam, since she knows how to spell that.
  • Not Listening to Me, Are You?: After Emerge asks about the Truthful Pregnant of Christmas, Linus in one case over again attempts to recite Luke 2:8-14, but Sally keeps talking over him about meaningless tangents. Linus eventually decides to just give up.

    Sally: Is that it? I thought the Christmas story would exist longer than that.

  • One-Line Feet:
    • Peppermint Patty is worried that she'll stop upwardly flubbing her one line every bit a sheep, causing her to repeatedly say it out loud during other scenes. In one case it comes time for her to actually say it, she indeed flubs the line.
    • Likewise, Emerge practices her one line — "Hark!" — over and over, but when it's her turn, she blurts out "Hockey stick!" instead.
  • Playing a Tree: Peppermint Patty complains near having to play a sheep in the Christmas play.
  • Punny Proper noun: Harold Angel, who was cast in the Christmas pageant as a herald angel.
  • "Shaggy Domestic dog" Story: Charlie Chocolate-brown ends up selling his comic book collection in guild to purchase a pair of gloves for Peggy Jean. Lo and behold, equally he'southward purchasing the gloves, Peggy Jean spots him, and reveals that she got a pair of gloves for herself while shopping with her mother.
  • Vaudeville Hook: Marcie does this with her prop cane to Peppermint Patty after she messes up her line to the nth degree.

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