Peanuts Documentary (1985) (1 of 5)

[Ghostgirl7000]

The Flashbeagle song is so catchy

[butthead6318]

i miss that show

[JVcrow44]

Flashbeagle is BOSS.

[CamSTL]

I used to be a Joe Cool, then I became a FlashBeagle

[Metalgoddess]

omg ferg i love you so cute

[Metalgoddess]

thats amazing how they did the dance

[arthurisfun]

R.I.P Charles.m. Schulz (1922-2000)

[LexiAnnTweedy]

Awwwwww Fergie was so cute when she was little she's just amazing now I love you Fergie XO

[CrazySVUFan]

i love snoopy! He is just awesome! I am so going to be him for halloween this year.

[arthurisfun]

@CrazySVUFan thats soo cool i was thinking of being him too

[MrMichaelDogson]

so many great minds came together to make these strips and specials

[Geritopia]

Big earrings on that cel painter. Whoa!

[strudel89]

What a woeful scene to behold,this vince guaraldi taking a place that doesnt belong to him,he looks a lot more than ridiculous putting himself in schroeders place making him jealous in a disc cover from the person who hired him,i bet it wasnt schulz idea to have that design,hes so nice person he gave that boom that pleasure,It doesnt give him the right to make schulz put him in that place,he even looks like a pedophile seeking for lucy´s attention,im so glad hes nothing else but worms meal now

[dkcollins14]

I think the girl who did the voice of marcy also played on the tv show our house with chad allen.

[NamwobYnda83]

I think my mom and dad taped this for me when I was little, but I can't remember.

[TheKwacie]

5:34 omg fergie!



[liina000]

my right speaker is feeling lonely : (

[TheSpazz13]

At 5:34 that's Fergie from the Black eyed peas (in blue shirt at far right) Humble bigginings.

[murdochmikey]

@TheSpazz13

it's the most tasteful thing she's ever done.

[tippyttop]

did u know that Sally (in flash beagle and 4 other specials) is played by Fergie?? Interesting, huh?

[kc86er]

I would love to see another Peanuts TV special...but NOT in flash

[HellFireKane]

joe cool brings back memorys

[PhantomJerad]

To bad charles Died

[mrnhlman2010]

Does Desiree Goyette use her energy like Jem does, or what? :D

[heru1966]

Always LOVED the music in this, even as a child.

[Khultan]

 : )

[cntbzkt]

I watched The Peanuts religiously when I was a kid. Boy, does this bring back memories. =)

[TheSpazz13]

Fergie rocks. From Sally to Worldwide super star. We love you Stacy.

[heru1966]

Wonderful!

[Seattlecarnut]

Music has always been my favourite aspect of Peanuts shows. Whether it's Vince Guaraldi or David Benoit, jazz or rock, music has always been one of the most important part of a tv show, particularly animated cartoon shows.

[Seattlecarnut]

The music has always been my favourite aspect of Peanuts cartoons. Whether it's Vince Guaraldi or David Benoit, music is one of the important parts of Peanuts.

[pm41224]

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[lastunusedname]

I wish they would have shown Bill Melendez doing Snoopy's noises. That must be quite a sight.

The ex-Chuck with the baby kinda sounded like he was about to swear revenge when he said his career didn't work out.

[kryptonitebullet179]

R.I.P. Vince Guaraldi

[PolloBoy11]

Fergie at 5:34 playing Sally.

[Tacom4ster]

I think a saw one of these guys in the Walt Disney documentry

[rrpauldoran]

this is so cool to see.

thanks for posting it

i LOVED charlie brown as a child, and I still do now lol

[warriorsorochiman]

@1RichardHunt That's Joey Scarbury. He also had a no. 1 hit in 1981 with the theme to "The Greatest American Hero" TV show called "Believe It Or Not".

[warriorsorochiman]

@1RichardHunt It was Larry Finlayson who sung "Race For Your Life".

[Pretztailfan95]

The girl who plays Sally looks like she's older than the boy who plays Charlie Brown! O_o Wait, that's Fergy?

[ray2nyt]

Charles Chulz is a genius behind the Peanuts animation,

[twist58]

It would have been more amazing if Marine of "Flashdance" was rotoscoped with Snoopy in that one scene (a la 'Anchors Aweigh' with Gene Kelly), where they dance together.

[OolieMartha]

5:42 Stacy Ferguson. Yay

[kellynattico1]

teehee fergi. she was a cutie!!!!

[warriorsorochiman]

@kellynattico1 When us little boys had a crush on her. LOL

[RogerKaputnik]

I love Peanuts, but Flashbeagle...?

[OolieMartha]

when he goes up high he flies like a wild eagle. I had the tape.

[sempaischibi]

OMG it's Fergie!!! She's so cute.

[HIDEKIIZUMI]

とても可愛いです。

[interstateruler]

I can't read your writing. Are these symbol?

[gokinsmen]

The woman who did Lucy's voice still sounds "Lucy-esque" even in 1985!

[Hookedoncollies]

Aw, the little girl doing Marcie's voice is adorable.

[mrtelevision]

Her name was Keri Houlihan. She later

played Shannen Doherty's little sister

on Our House.

[vampirehunterme]

near thirty years later the 80's still haunt us.

[TherealRNO]

@vampirehunterme: And they rock for doing so.

[ForEverSnoopy]

I love the peanuts comic strips and show!

[bouncysmile]

i have a collection of peanuts comic books handed down from my bro. i loved reading them but the actual cartoon isnt as good as garfield

[hamzeeco]

so this is how the stone age was...

[zitalee3]

where can i learn how to dance like that?

[kryptonitebullet179]

R.I.P. Charles Schultz

[Misskayseeluvsu]

I love the flashbeagle song! It's very catchy and fun to dance to

[profesortutka]

amazing !

[ppg07863]

I love him. Snoopy was the first character I ever draw! ^_^ He is my idol. I wrote to him once before he died. Hallmark & Dorney Park is the only place to get snoopy stuff.We miss you Charles! Ya look like my Grandpa 80% true. Love you. Peanuts forever. I use to collect the comics in the papers.

[ECWnWWF]

using kids voices, explains why they had 50,000 different people voice the same character(s)...cause the kids who voice them eventually grow up.

[ToruKun1]

OMG, animation is fucking hard! DX I love how they've used kid voice actors all these years, it adds to the sincerity of the picture! :D (And embarrassingly enough, I could watch that Flashdancing scene all day! XD Rotoscoping is insane!!!)

[zitalee3]

when i listen to that song it reminds me of knotts berry farm.and that reminds me of me visiting my grandpa's house he lived near by it

[sommerssmith]

I recognize the girl on the right. It's Fergie. The same time she was in Kids Incorpated. I've known her since the mid 1980's.

[HeraldMB]

As soon as I saw her I thought "Hey, Kids Incorporated!" :D

[KatzBeatles]

i wonder if kids acually watched this documentery

[snupjeve]

some of us did. I saw this - I was about 10 at the time.

[HeraldMB]

I grew up with this documentary actually, it was one of the reasons I got interested in behinds the stuff stuff as a child. It's so great to finally see it again!

[zitalee2]

that's cool. i thought i was the only kid into that kind of stuff .

[HeraldMB]

Same here, I always felt different. I think if the Internet had been around back then I wouldn't have felt so weird, you know?

[TherealRNO]

@HeraldMB: Yeah. We who like the behind-the-scenes stuff wouldn't have felt so awkward when compared to those who just watch things merely to enjoy them (sure, we did that too, but we loved the backstage bits also, whereas many others--we thought--found them boring).

[gagbonkers2]

Awesome! This is good.

[zitalee3]

deseire goyette played nermal in garfield and friends

[tsaim03]

wow. i wish i had a taping of this. i knew i saw something with a choreographer doing the flashbeagle dance. it's exactly what i wanted to see again. thank you, siffil8. :)

[drumfreak87]

I guess with all the work that goes into it, it had better be good. Good thing the Peanuts cartoons always were.

[GypsyWytch13]

OMG that is so awesome the way they used the dancing from that human dancer and then were able to have Snoopy do it! I didn't realize it was all based on a real person dancing!

[alycat25]

I think it's so neat how they used to animate cartoons with all the tracers and sketchers and painters. Now it's all done by computer, which gives them alot more options, but doesn't seem to have the same loving touch

[scotpens]

Yes, this is a fascinating look at the way animated cartoons were done before the computer age. A lot of hand drawing still goes into today's feature-length animated films, but modern, cheaply made TV cartoons use computers to generate the backgrounds and much of the character movement. The result looks a bit cold and machine-like.

[zitalee2]

when i become an animator i'm gonna try to make traditionally animated cartoons

[Undetermined1986]

Amen.

[TherealRNO]

@scotpens:Yeah, and many of the programs lack the wit, charm, heart, and soul that made the old shows--which were for all ages, as opposed to being tailored towards one sole demographic like most programs these days--classic. ^-^

[MrEdwards95]

@scotpens At least the "machine-like" animation worked for 'Rolie Polie Olie.'

[nessisasquid]

@scotpens Saying the backgrounds and character movement are "generated" is a bit of a misnomer. These aspects still need the hand of a living person to come to fruition. Though I completely agree in the sentiment that television animation lacks the deep-rooted naturalism that can only be achieved through a pencil and paper.

[Marbles471]

@alycat25

Drawn animation is still drawn on paper, but cels have been replaced with digital coloring, which mimics the old process (but in my opinion looks less warm). That didn't happen overnight. Disney hasn't used cels for their feature films since 1990 ("Little Mermaid" was the last one to use them), but their TV shows still used cels until the late 90s, I think. Same for most other studios. I think the last TV show to give up cels and go digital was "Ed, Edd n' Eddy," in 2004.

[zitalee2]

@Marbles471 why did they all go digital? is it because it's faster, i can understand that with coloring since i don't like to color but still

[Marbles471]

@zitalee2

I'm tempted to say because it's faster and cheaper, but the thing is, the "cheaper" part wasn't always true. For most of the 90s the old cel process was less expensive than the coloring/compositing software that Disney started using for their features starting with "Rescuers Down Under." If it HAD been cheaper, TV animation would have gone digital much quicker than it did.

Even Disney's 90s shows were mostly still cels. So I'm not quite sure.

TODAY it's cheaper, no question.

[scoot1105]

I'm still wondering who does the voice of Charlie Brown's teacher!! "wah wah wa-WAHHHHHH!!"LOL

[GypsyWytch13]

lmao that was the way Charles Shultz made fun of how children heard grown ups: just jibberish.

[bookwoman53]

Hi. I've been told that the teacher's voice is provided by a trombone.

[TherealRNO]

@scoot1105: It was done via dialog and trumbone. A person would read the dialog and ask the trumbone player to coordinate the tones of the dialog with that of the musical scales of an instrument.

[phillyproduct125]

Hey, that's Stacy Ferguson (aka Fergie) as Sally!!!...That's right...She was the voice of Sally in It's Flashbeagle, Snoopy's Getting Married and The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show!!!

[luengaga1978]

It is sadly to know that Bill Melendez recently passed away. He made the voice of Snoopy

[xthelivingdreamx]

This cartoon started off with good music.

RIP

Vince Guaraldi

[donaldTfox]

LOL same guy singing from Schoolhouse Rock.

I'm just a bill, well I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill ;)

Conjunction Junction, what's your function ;)

[palmercomm]

Joey Scarbury did Schoolhouse Rock?!?!?!?

[TherealRNO]

@palmercomm: She's one of the lesser-knowns. In fact, Lauren Yohe--the daughter of SHR's creator--is the infamous "Darn, that's the end" girl in voice. Most recognize performers like the man who sang 'Conjunction Junction' & 'I am Just a Bill' or the lady behind 'Nouns', 'Adjectives', and other songs where her voice is easily picked up.

[Wildcock23]

Thanks soooooooo much for uploading!

[WouterJ]

When Charles Shulz died there were numerous tributes to him, Garfield for example came across Snoopy's doghouse and decided to lay on top of it. MAD magazine did a special in which things that never happened in the comic finally happened: Charlie Brown succesfully flying a kite, Schroeder kissing Lucy, Charlie Brown strangling Lucy and Snoopy put to sleep.

[RockAndRollSalinas]

Actually, Schroeder DID kiss Lucy (I only counted one time; I guess it was a 1988 comic strip). But I do know what you mean.

[grumpytosnowwhite]

I think a whole bunch of cartoonists paid tribute to him at the same time after he died.

[drumfreak87]

I remember that, but if I recall correctly, she had her eyes closed and when she opened them, Snoopy was there.  Cue her usual dog breath antics.

[SycrosD4]

Charles Schulz is such an inspiration to me. When his life as a cartoonist ended, his life ended. That's how I wanna go out.

[MrFlix1983]

NO WAY!!!! My Mom taped this when it was originally broadcast on CBS in 1985!!!! You sir, are a keeper of great memories! Thank you!!!

[Deathclipse]

heh so thats who sings it lol

[laurenhooba]

I love Snoopy.

[Levsomslav]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[blacksteel88]

This is my faviorate comic strip ever!

[billabongodrum]

yours and countless other millions of people

[Treemeadow]

this doco was a big part of my childhood!!! we had it on ape, and we'd watch it all the time! It helped my brother and I develop our strong appreciation for animation!

[redmustang03]

You'll see Fergie/Stacy Ferguson in 5:48 wearing the blue shirt with the white overalls.

[Misskayseeluvsu]

redmustang03, I thought that looked like her

[sillychick123]

i luv snoopy he is so cute!

[tonewinwy]

that was cool thanks for sharing it.