Charlie Brown Christmas Coca Cola Ending

[smileybone3010]

is anyone else a huge nerd like me and always queues up this video and plays it at the right time when you watch the special every year?

[nextg]

You have to wonder why, in later versions of this special, they didn't just replace the voiceover with the original, clean version of this song instead of having a cheap fade-out? Is that too much to ask? It's on CD, for crying out loud…

[spetragl]

Yes, No one seems to have a copy.

[Kuroneko388]

Isn't there another cocoa cola one where Snoopy throws Linus into a cocoa cola sign?

[mevtcc2]

Would you be able to upload this ending intact with the whole of the song? :)

[jtwith]

There's also a version where when they're throwing snowballs at the can on the fence, the can is a coke can. Now it's just a blank can :P

[jtwith]

lulz like every town has a coca cola factory

[jamestanzra]

They should of used the track from the CD it sounds really dumb fading out and showing the end with no music playing.

[maxwestcomics]

This was taken out because future sponsors and the home video companies wouldn't want to be advertising someone else's product.

[dookies]

this is why youtube was created!! awesome

[WDI2008]

Do you have the part where Linus crashes into the Coca Cola sign at the Beginning

[spetragl]

@WDI2008 No, I've been trying to find it for years.

But take a look at this, it's close: /watch?v=ehXab4NBl-M

You'll have to cut n paste youtube's URL in front of it.

[Nickfan001]

well now I know why I never heard the last pharse nowadays.

[TheTravisChannel]

This is probably the closet we will ever get to the original cut

[FlashMaster659]

spooky announcer :(

[Cloaytonem2]

COCA-COLA STOP BEING EVERYWHERE.

[a42n8cfo]

If you look closely in this final sequence of this first airing, the kids are singing and Snoopy is also singing and his lips are moving. That was also reanimated since Snoopy never actually speaks other than in thought balloons in the comic strip. the current animated version does not have Snoopy's lips moving. I saw this entire show at the Television Museum on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. It has all the product placement sequences, Linus crashing and Snoopy singing.

[hipnotop17]

1 person drinks diet pepsi

[eva001a]

1969?!

I'm surprised that you've managed to get this rare recording...

[TServo2049]

How did it look visually? The "The End" we see is always frozen, but it looks like the same sky and same snow...did it originally pan up while a Coke announcement appeared on screen, and THEN we had the "The End"?

[TServo2049]

Oh wait, I watched it and it's not frozen on current prints, never mind...it doesn't look like an edit...

[spetragl]

Right after it faded out, they quickly showed the Coca Cola logo and the announcer continued saying "It's the real thing, Coke". After that they showed the Dolly Madison logo.

[looneywoman]

They don't have that in the latest DVD-version, do they?

[RingtailStudios]

Not to my knowledge.

[14lanicup]

@looneywoman nope they took it all out

[TheComicfreak10]

@looneywoman sadly, no. it would've been very nice to have seen a second "uncut" version on a new dvd/bluray release

[TheTravisChannel]

Man, Id thought id never get to see this in my life

thanks for posting

[tapests]

Now what is next is that someone should put up the original airing.

[ihatemyuncle]

The only place I know of that botles Coke is Atlanta. Must be for them.

[kenjutsu34]

Coca Cola was first bottled in the state of Mississippi and it is bottled all over the US.

[jhwink]

Actually most states have at least one Coca-Cola bottling plant. There is one here in North Carolina in Charlotte

[ihatemyuncle]

lol ok i'm just going from the info I saw on Futurama where they visit the lost city of Atlanta, lol. Thanks for the fact JHWink

[wufpacker]

yup, I always say when you're going make a statement in a public place about something that you think is true, the best source around is cartoons, especially the always factually and historically correct futurama!!

Well done, sir!

[AarHan3]

I'll drink to that! ;-)

[misterfrias]

I really appreciate you posting this clip. I wholeheartedly agree with skinny6003. I would like to see the other Coke plugs in this show too!

[skinny6003]

Thanks for posting this! Like many others, I would love to see the original opening where Linus is thrown into the Coca-Cola sign, but that may never be since no one has found it yet. A person can always hope, though.

[kennydies31]

someone posted a video (now removed) that included adverts for CB specials. one advert from 65' showed the scene with Linus crashing into the billboard. all it said was DANGER. I don't know why they couldn't use that...

[TheCaledonianTwins]

It's on here again. Search "charlie brown promo"

[CrummyCurtis]

It is quite obvious that the "Brought to you by..." was directly imbedded over the singing. Modern technology can now filter out the announcement...so why hasn't ABC done it yet????

[TheBleuBlurr]

Can you give me an example of how modern technology can filter out the announcement? I was not aware that was possible, though fiction has demonstrated it many times. The problem, I think, is that the "brought to you by" was put on the same track and that is the only track to exist.

[slingblade65]

I think this is the only video with the original coca cola reference. I'd like to see the part where Linus knocks the Coke can off the fence with his blanket

[imanerd36]

Thank you, but if you don't mind me asking, How did you get this?

[spetragl]

The audio was recorded on a 7" Reel to Reel audio recorder hooked up to my TV speaker.

[imanerd36]

Thanks!

[CrummyCurtis]

On the original reel tape is there a sudden jump in the "Linus & Lucy" number that is prevelant in the current edition?

[spetragl]

Unfortunately Yes. This recording was made in 1969 and WCBS already started slicing and dicing.

[boisfilm]

they dont show this version anymore

[Vespiquen452]

They really need to! Maybe in 2010.....

[sgtbarone]

thats as american as you get

[del20nd]

This is very ironic, considering how the whole special is denouncing commercialism...

[Attmay]

Prior to the 1970s, sponsors would not buy individual spots, but would actually sponsor whole shows, and often their product would be the only thing seen advertised, and even in the credits as well (the original network credits for many sitcoms in the 1960s feature logos for sponsors embedded on the lower left hand side).

[14lanicup]

@del20nd tell me about it

[cbcurtis85]

@del20nd Exactly. 

[iceballerina88]

Perfect match. I love Peanuts and Coca Cola! :)

[Vespiquen452]

Hope you find the unseen Linus sequence!

[davidlee110]

NO, im talking about the Moive is first issued it in TV

[davidlee110]

is a 1965 isn't it?

[spetragl]

1965 was the year it was shown on CBS-TV.

The audio here is from 1969.

[CDCB]

Thanks to you, I have finally seen this for the first time.

[Jibiti]

Can you post the other Coca Cola scenes if you have them?

[j2tharome15]

I heard there's a few versions cut off as well due to the Coca-Cola placement. In the beginning Linus hit's a Coca-Cola can, and when they hit the cans of soda on the fence. Does anyone have those versions? BTW, it sounds like it's dubbed in.

[spetragl]

There have been a number of sponsors of the Charie Brown Christmas over the years. Dolly Madison was another I can remember that were dubbed over. This one in particular (from 1969) continued with "it's the real thing, Coke".

[CartoonCookie93]

and this special's on tonight. Too bad it's edited.

[colossus999]

Ah, does the commercialism never end?

[FartMaster4000]

lol just what I as thinking!

[tyshekka]

Wow, that was wrong!

[gameshowguy2000]

In addition, the current version has the Peanuts' gang's singing fade out.

[spetragl]

Yes, that's what's currently being sold on DVD. However if you could find a very old commerical copy of the VHS tape (from around 1985), the ending video is intact (with the audio muted).

Too bad the intro video with Snoopy flinging Linus into the Coke machine has been deleted.

That was pretty humerous to see.

[Marbles471]

Boy, what a mood killer that is! I'm glad they got rid of it, even though it wasn't for the right reasons.

[timfischer]

Awesome, where did you find this?

[spetragl]

Oh just a video recorded from WCBS Ch 2 NY a long long time ago.

[Marbles471]

Sure, but where did you find that video? Because nobody had video recording equipment in their homes in 1969. (Did they?) Far as I know, the very first VCRs didn't appear on the market until the late '70s.

[Attmay]

A lot of people hooked their audio tape recorders to the TV and made audio recordings before VCRs. There were U-matics as early as 1971.

[title26]

It probably came from a U-Matic.

[cwf1701]

or from a TV station that did some time shifting. back in the 1960s, some TV stations had primary and secondary affiliation. this could have been carried on a later day for WAPI (now WVTM) Birmingham for example (which had both NBC and CBS).

[title26]

true. Very good thinking.

[lambertman]

awesome find! do you have the full opening sequence?

[spetragl]

I'm still looking for it. I did see it once on TV a few years back, They ran a special of never before seen commercials. After Charlie brown is thrown into the tree, Linus is shown crashing into a Coca Cola sign.

BTW the ending I posted is not complete. About 15 years ago I accidentally deleted the last piece of the Coca-Cola ad. The announcer continued to say "It's the real thing, Coke!"