It's The Great Pumpkin!
The Great Pumpkin on DVD and VHS
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 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 best-known quote regarding Linus and the Great Pumpkin, originally from the comic strip but made famous by the TV special, is "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin."
The Great Pumpkin Games and Puzzles
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 the third prime time animated television special, based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.
It was the first Halloween special to be produced and animated by Bill Meléndez. Its initial broadcast took place on October 27, 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?
The Great Pumpkin Figures and Bobbleheads
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...
- Patterns for pumpkins and other things
- Patterns for Halloween and other occasions!
- Peanuts - Great Pumpkin
- Fun e-cards and desktop wallpapers from The Great Pumpkin.
- Not a fan of The Great Pumpkin? How about some pumpkin recipes?
- Everything pumpkin, from puree to souffle!
- Where to Buy Funkins - The Funkin Patch
- 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.
Get your Charlie Brown on!
More Peanuts apparel and accessories
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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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- Pmona Pmona Nov 9, 2009 @ 7:07 pm
- Remembering "It's A Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" brings back such fond memories. 5*
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- RollingLuggage RollingLuggage Nov 9, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
- Wonderful lens & Great information
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- KevinAndWinnie KevinAndWinnie Oct 25, 2009 @ 7:31 am
- That was a great lens!
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- NaturalVamp NaturalVamp Oct 23, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
- I am also waiting patiently for Charlie Brown's great pumpkin to appear on my television set dahling.
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- lasertek lasertek Oct 18, 2009 @ 7:46 pm
- Great lens! Watching the Great Pumpkin on Halloween night has been a tradition in my family. It's good to know other people find time to watch and share it to their children.
Do visit my lens if you got the time. Thanks
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- nukemdomis nukemdomis Oct 15, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
- This is such a classic piece. I remember watching this so many years ago and still can remember my emotions when watching this as a little one. Great work on your lens!
I've been building a Halloween related lens about free pumpkin carving patterns. I don't have any of the Peanuts gang yet so I might try to create them before October 31st. If you know of any that are online please come by and say hello.
Not another list of free Halloween pumpkin carving patterns
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- Theroosterguy0008 Theroosterguy0008 Oct 8, 2009 @ 11:34 am
- Very interesting article.
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- 2Eklectik 2Eklectik Oct 5, 2009 @ 4:26 pm
- My wife & I always looked forward to the Great Pumpkin when we were kids.. Great lens
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- happy-jack happy-jack Nov 28, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
- Thank you for this very fine work. How wonderful and kind you have been. The great pumpkin must have a place in its heart for you.
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- Aldric_Chang Aldric_Chang Nov 15, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
- What a fun lens hmsweaver :) 5 stars!
I am a cartoon producer myself and I've created 2 lenses based on cartoons I am producing at http://www.squidoo.com/sedodog and http://www.squidoo.com/katakune.
Would be grateful if you could hop over and tell me what you think of them :)
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