It's The Great Pumpkin!
The Great Pumpkin on DVD and VHS
Watch "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Chapters 1 -3
"Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" Chapter 4
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Chapter 5
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Chapters 6 & 7
Quotes from the Great Pumpkin
(As Lucy cuts a pumpkin open with a knife and begins "gutting" it in order to make it into a jack-o'-lantern, causing Linus to flinch in horror) and say, "Oh! You didn't tell me you were going to kill it!"
Charlie Brown goes trick-or-treating in his ghost costume with far too many eye-holes ("I had a little trouble with the scissors"), and after each house when the kids announce what they got, he utters the famous sad line, "I got a rock."Linus: "We'll just sit here in the pumpkin patch, and you can see the Great Pumpkin with your OWN EYES."
Sally: "If you try to hold my hand, I'll slug you."
Sally, when she goes with Linus to the pumpkin patch, does not believe in The Great Pumpkin and says, "Welcome to the twentieth century".
The Great Pumpkin at a Glance
The Great Pumpkin is an unseen character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.
The Great Pumpkin is a holiday figure (comparable to Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny) that seems to exist only in the imagination of Linus van Pelt. Every year, Linus sits in a pumpkin patch (apparently the same one every year, though one year he and Snoopy were caught on a privately owned pumpkin patch, and perceived by the owner's daughter as crazy) on Halloween night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear. Invariably, the Great Pumpkin fails to appear, and a humiliated but undefeated Linus vows to wait for him again the following Halloween.
This premise was reworked by Schulz many times throughout the run of the Peanuts strip, and also forms the basis for the 1966 animated television special Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown''. The TV special was the source of the most famous quote regarding Linus and the Great Pumpkin: "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin."
The Great Pumpkin toys
Decorate your desktop with The Great Pumpkin
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Snoopy rises out of the pumpkin patch
Lucy bobs for apples and gets dog germs
The Halloween party
The gang goes trick-or-treating
Linus and Sally in the pumpkin patchThe Great Pumpkin books
Fun Facts on "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!"
I still look forward to seeing this special every year. It's one of those things that really takes me back to my childhood.
'''Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown''' is a critically-acclaimed animated television special, based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.
It was the third Peanuts special (and first Halloween special) to be produced and animated by Bill Meléndez. Its initial broadcast took place on October 27th, 1966 on the CBS network, preempting My Three Sons; CBS re-aired the special annually through 2000, with ABC picking up the rights beginning in 2001. The program was nominated for an Emmy award. It has been issued on home video several times, including a Remastered Deluxe Edition of the special released by Warner Home Video on September 2, 2008 with the bonus feature It's Magic, Charlie Brown which was released in 1981.http://www.dvdizzy.com/greatpumpkin.html
To celebrate its 40th Anniversary, a retrospective book was published in 2006 entitled, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic'' with the entire script, never-before-seen photographs, storyboard excerpts, and interviews with the original child actors who provided the voices of the Peanuts gang.
What do you think of the Great Pumpkin?
More Great Pumpkin stuff!
A nod to Charles Schulz, the man behind the Pumpkin
Thank you, Mr. Schulz!
Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 ? February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts comic strip.
More fun stuff related to pumpkins, Great and lesser...
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- Patterns for Halloween and other occasions!
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- These artificial pumpkins are great! They look real, and they never rot. You can use them indoors or outdoors, and they are carveable. The only thing is you can't put a real candle inside, because they will burn. Use a flashlight.
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pumpkin costumes for everyone!
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Share your most sincere thoughts on the Great Pumpkin!
Share your stories, thoughts, and memories on the Great Pumpkin, or even lesser pumpkins...
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Posted November 28, 2008
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Posted November 15, 2008
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Posted November 08, 2008
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Posted November 04, 2008
StephenC wrote...
I loved this show and always looked forward to it as a kid. Trick or Treating was good, safe, fun. Not the same. Pity.
Posted October 31, 2008
desertgrace wrote...
The Great Pumpkin is one of my favorites! This is a great lens! Love it!
Posted October 30, 2008
txbountyhunter wrote...
Brings me back to when I was a child, And I watched this cartoon around "Halloween" !! It was a great time in my life. Thanks for the walk down memory lane !!!
S.Doss
Posted October 27, 2008
GreenRevolution wrote...
Super Halloween lens! I love 'The Great Pumpkin' and we try to watch it every year. It's great fun, just like your lens! Nice work!
5*and Faved
Posted October 26, 2008
RentMyGarden wrote...
The Great Pumpkin is a Charles M. Shulz classic. ***** 5 stars!
Posted October 25, 2008
