Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown! Trailer (HD)

The official trailer for Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown! An all-new Peanuts special! Coming sometime in March

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[robertsfunny1995]

No offense but this isn't high quality.

[officialpeanuts]

@robertsfunny1995 Watch it in HD

[robertsfunny1995]

@officialpeanuts That's not going to change the fact that it's a recorded television.

[officialpeanuts]

@robertsfunny1995 You do know, that I was the first one on the whole Internet to upload a trailer for Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown?

[Marbles471]

Man. My reactions to this preview are so mixed. I'm amazed that they had the guts to go backwards to Schulz's 1960s drawing style, considering that anything "old" is considered toxic. And the color design is great---they were obviously looking at the earlier Mendolsen/Melendez specials, which IMO had much stronger color design than the later ones.

But I just can't get past the digital inking/coloring. It's SO sterile-looking, and with a style as homemade as Schulz's, it especially stands out.

[officialpeanuts]

@Marbles471 I think the 60's look was perfect for this special

[redmustang03]

It just felt kind of weird not having Bill Melendez doing Snoopy live instead using archival footage. This really the first one without Mendelson and Melendez since it first began in 1963. That makes me sad, but they did do a good job paying homage to the early 60's style of drawing, setting, characters, style of it. I'm just glad they were able to do one and got to see it. I mean I can watch Peanuts cartoons untilt he rest of my life.

[U1986NuclearGrounds]

I also understand that the special looks like something made in the 1960s, though I think the visuals were best in the 1980s. I cite Flashbeagle, the two Broadway specials, and Snoopy's Getting Married as my examples. But to be fair, I am happy that the traditional, hand-drawn format won't die out anytime soon. Especially in wake of those motion comics rendered in that horrible Flash.

In conclusion, loathe as I am to admit, this special did its various jobs well. Dig in, I guess.

[U1986NuclearGrounds]

Factoring out the tired need to maintain status quos, I can now safely confirm Peanuts as some purgatorial torture device. WE can grow, but the characters must remain the same in order to teach the following generation those very lessons...unless said need doesn't give them the wrong idea.

[U1986NuclearGrounds]

The back of the video box says, "Will Linus give up his blanket?" Of course not, dorks. Letting go of the past has never been one of this franchise's strongest points. No, it's one of its weakest. "Everybody has their own security blanket or other!" Is that really supposed to tell us readers and viewers something about ourselves? Apply it to our own lives and find the strength to grow out of it and move on and all that?

[U1986NuclearGrounds]

In short, despite the last detail being the main premise, this special also functions as a trip back in time for Peanuts fanatics; lovers of nostalgia; and a means to create new interest in the franchise particularly for new generations. Why, they even adapted the very first strip. I'm surprised they didn't also throw in Charlie's first black eye courtesy of Patty.

[U1986NuclearGrounds]

And so most of our favorite characters are back reenacting their tired, old routines: losing baseball games, with the ball knocking off most of Charlie's clothes; Pigpen's dirtiness; Lucy and Sally crushing respectively on Schroeder and Linus; Schroeder's love for piano and Beethoven; and the icing on THIS cake, Linus' obsession with his security blanket.