Peanuts First Animation (Ford, 1959)

[CeticWales]

Very disturbing

[Dragonrider1227]

Chocolate cigars? You couldn't do THAT today

[ths9090]

HOW COULD YOU,CHARLIE!!

[hotchefjcc]

at first i thought they were real cigars

[muybridge54]

Who did the animation on this? Was it Bill Melendez?

[wileyk209zback]

@muybridge54 Yep, it was definitely Bill Melendez

[adriennecraven]

thank you

[eugoldlareg]

I never knew this existed. . .

[MrRJBowman]

Why did there need to be little word balloons added to tell us what the names of the characters are? Does anyone looking at this video really need that?

[toopoable]

Lucy sounds like she's from the Bronx!

[h126the3rd]

I wish smoking cartoon characters were back... they are very funny!

Instead of those damn goverment dickholes making worthless ads about dangers,,, they should at least keep the sergeon general warnings!

[cuellar4500]

WTF!?

[SpartanForgeWorld300]

They gave Linus a cigar? WTF?

[MaleKim]

I can remember when Hartz made chocolate for dogs, with a commercial saying "Dogs love chocolate!" That was back in the 1960s, after this commercial.

[jaddison1112]

Hadn't ever seen this before, just an observation: This was 5 or 6 years before "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". The characters attitudes, voices and style are so much alike. ..... Charles Schultz had a very clear vision of his Peanuts kids in the newpapers and in animation, that is probably why they are beloved to this day .... Very cool .....

[StukInBuf]

Go on ahead, Lucy... smoke a peace pipe with good ol' Chuck.

[cuttersboi08]

Apparently we're all stupid enough to need captions to tell us who the characters were.

REALLY?!

[CyberLance26]

Lol i thought he was giving the little kids real cigars at first.

[markdpane]

Good thing those are made of chocolate.

[officialpeanuts]

anybody who does some or only Peanuts Gang vids?

[WyattSmits]

LMAO smoking 8 year olds.

LMAO, the 60's

[ThePoopcornMachine]

@WyattSmits

LMAO, chocolate cigars.

LMAO, you weren't paying attention.

[TheKwacie]

Oh nvm

[TheKwacie]

Cigars, seriously?

[StukInBuf]

I dabble in drawing the Peanuts folk as older, mature(repeat, mature) people.

One time, I drew a story with Peppermint Patty and Charlie Brown shooting darts in a bar. Later on, I drew her taking a smoke outside her house before inviting Chuck in.

And then later... I drew Chuck and Peppermint Patty as they were... okay, this would be "TV-MA" material.

[sarniatownreggae]

@StukInBuf

Are you familiar with Jason Yungbluth's comic book parody, Weapon Brown?

[crazyman123774]

espeacially snoopy

[crazyman123774]

linus sounds like a whole different person.. 0_0

[fromthesidelines]

This spot was directly adapted from one of Schulz's 1959 strips, where Charlie Brown passed out chocolate cigars upon the birth of his sister {Snoopy's resting on top of his doghouse in the last panel, one clenched between his teeth, thinking, "Not bad....he ought to have baby sisters more often!"}.

[ErichoTTA]

@fromthesidelines Yeah, they reference this actually.

[Milkman26789Z]

HE GAVE THE DOG CHOCOLATE?!?! D8

[Sismiques]

@Milkman26789Z

Not all dogs are allergic,but allot are.

[MrBigYum]

@Milkman26789Z You must D8 in Upton also..

[RabidKoala]

@Milkman26789Z Snoopy is going to have the squirts, eh?

[Heralde8]

Aw, Linus sounds like he's from New York, hehe. And Snoopy doing Groucho, excellent!

Eh big deal, they say they're chocolate cigars at the end, lol.

[beatleboy9020001]

WHY DOES CHARLIE BROWN HAVE CIGARS!?!?

[Manongjojo]

The left winger anti-smoking Nazi's would have a cow if they played that commercial these days. LOL

[dharmaseed]

Okay, was it necessary to put the names of the Peanuts characters in there, when this strip was popular all over the world?

[eva001a]

WOAH, THIS IS MORE CONTROVERSIAL THAN THE FLINTSTONES CIGARETTES COMMERCIAL.

...oh, wait, they're chocolate cigars. OK, then...(or are they?)

[AngeLBarraganJR]

@eva001a LOL Im sure that it was either choclate or bubble gum cigar but it was the 50s so who knows. LOL

[sserpent21]

WOW. And Nostalgia Critic was stunned when The Flintstones did cigerette commercials and those were animated adults. PEANUTS ARE 6 OR 8 YEARS OLD!

[sserpent21]

OKAY I listened again a little closer and they ARE chocolate. It's what I get for not listening a little closer.

[robsimone]

Oh...my...god...Are those cigars?

[Heegoop]

I think there chocolate cigars.

[Heegoop]

Boy it was nice to have a little Peanuts animation in the 50s but boy it would of been nice to have Peanuts specials in the 50s. I don't know why they waited til the 60s.

[timemetalhead]

lol jokes